Chapter 1
Chapter 1 Verse 1
1. In the beginning was the Word,[1] and the Word was with God,[2] and the Word was God.[3]
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2. He Himself existed in the beginning with God.
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3. All things came to be by Him; that is, apart from Him not even one thing that has come into being came to be.[4]
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4. In Him was life, and the Life was the Light of mankind.[5]
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5. Now the Light shines in the darkness,[6] and the darkness has not overcome it.[7]
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6. There was a man, sent from God, whose name was John.
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7. This man came as a witness to testify about the Light, so that all might believe through him.
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8. He himself was not the Light but was to testify about the Light—
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9. the true Light which illumines everyone who comes into the world.[8]
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10. He was in the world, the world that came into being by Him, yet the world did not know Him.
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11. He came to His own things, yet His own people did not receive Him.
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12. But, as many as did receive Him,[9] to them He gave the right to become children of God,[10] to those who believe into His name:[11]
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13. who were begotten, not by blood, nor by the desire of the flesh, nor by the will of a man,[12] but by God.[13]
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14. So the Word became flesh and lived among us, and we observed His glory, glory of an Only-begotten,[14] from the Father, full of grace and truth.
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15. John testified about Him and called out saying: “This is He of whom I said, ‘The One coming after me is now ahead of me, because He existed before I did.’”
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16. Now we have all received from His fullness, yes, grace upon grace.
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17. Because the Law was given through Moses;[15] the Grace and the Truth came through Jesus Christ.[16]
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18. No one has ever seen God. The Only-begotten Son,[17] who exists in the bosom of the Father, He has interpreted Him.[18]
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19. Now this is John’s testimony, when the Jews[19] sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, “Who are you?”
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20. He confessed, he did not deny but confessed, “I am not the Christ.”[20]
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21. So they asked him, “What then, are you Elijah?” And he says, “I am not.”[21] “Are you ‘the Prophet’?”[22] “No,” he answered.
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22. So they said to him: “Who are you?—so that we may give an answer to those who sent us. What do you say about yourself?”
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23. He said, “I am ‘the voice of one calling out: “Make the LORD’s road straight in the wilderness,”’ just as the prophet Isaiah said.”[23]
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24. Now those who had been sent were from the Pharisees.
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25. So they asked him saying, “Why then do you baptize if you are not the Christ, nor Elijah, nor ‘the Prophet’?”
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26. John answered them saying: “I baptize with water, but among you stands One whom you do not know.
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27. He is the One coming after me who is now ahead of me, whose sandal strap I am not worthy to loose.”
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28. These things happened in Bithabara,[24] across the Jordan, where John was baptizing.
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29. The next day John sees Jesus coming toward him and says: “Look! The Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world![25]
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30. This is He of whom I said, ‘After me comes a man who is now ahead of me, because He existed before I did.’[26]
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31. I did not know Him; but so that He should be revealed to Israel, that is why I came baptizing with water.”
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32. And John testified saying: “I observed the Spirit coming down like a dove out of heaven, and He rested upon Him.[27]
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33. Now I did not know Him,[28] but He who sent me to baptize with water, He said to me,[29] ‘The One upon whom you see the Spirit coming down and resting—this is He who baptizes with the Holy Spirit.’[30]
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34. So I have seen and testified that this is the Son of God.”[31]
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35. Again the next day John was standing with two of his disciples.
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36. And seeing Jesus walking by, he says, “Look, the Lamb of God!”
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37. The two disciples heard him speak, and they followed Jesus.
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38. So turning and observing them following[32] Jesus says to them, “What do you want?” So they said to Him, “Rabbi” (which translated means ‘Teacher’), “where are You staying?”
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39. He says to them, “Come and see.” So they went and saw where He was staying, and stayed with Him that day—it was about the tenth hour.[33]
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40. One of the two who heard John and followed Him was Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother.
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41. He first finds his own brother Simon and says to him, “We have found the Messiah” (which is translated ‘Christ’).
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42. And he led him to Jesus. Looking at him Jesus said, “You are Simon, the son of Jonah;[34] you will be called Cephas” (which is translated ‘Stone’).[35]
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43. The next day He decided to go to Galilee, so He finds Philip[36] and says to him, “Follow me.”
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44. (Now Philip was from Bethsaida, the hometown of Andrew and Peter.)
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45. Philip finds Nathanael and says to him, “We have found the One of whom Moses in the Law—and also the prophets—wrote: Jesus the son of Joseph, from Natsareth.”[37]
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46. So Nathanael said to him, “Can anything good come out of Natsareth?” Philip says to him, “Come and see!”[38]
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47. Jesus saw Nathanael coming toward Him and says about him, “There, a genuine Israelite in whom there is no deceit!”
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48. Nathanael says to Him, “From where do You know me?” Jesus answered and said to him, “Before Philip called you, while you were under the fig tree, I saw you.”
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49. In answer Nathanael says to Him: “Rabbi, You are the Son of God! You are the King of Israel!”[39]
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50. Jesus answered and said to him: “You believe because I said that I saw you under the fig tree? You will see greater than these.”[40]
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51. And He says to him, “I tell you (pl) most assuredly, later on you will see the heaven opened and the angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of the Man.”[41]
Chapter 2
Chapter 2 Verse 1
1. On the third day[1] a wedding took place in Cana of Galilee, and Jesus’ mother was there.
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2. Now both Jesus and His disciples had been invited to the wedding.[2]
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3. So when the wine had given out, Jesus’ mother says to Him, “They don’t have any wine!”
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4. Jesus says to her: “What is that to you and me, woman?[3] My time has not yet come.”[4]
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5. His mother says to the servants, “Do whatever He may tell you.”[5]
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6. (Now there were six stone waterpots set there, according to the purification rites of the Jews, containing 20 or 30 gallons each.)
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7. Jesus says to them, “Fill the pots with water.” So they filled them to the brim.[6]
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8. So He says to them, “Now, draw some out and take it to the master of ceremonies.” So they took it.
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9. Well, when the master of ceremonies tasted the water[7] that had become wine—he did not know where it came from, but the servants who had drawn the water knew—he calls the bridegroom
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10. and says to him: “Everybody serves the good wine first, then, when people are intoxicated, the inferior. You have kept the good wine until now!”
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11. This, the first of the miraculous signs, Jesus performed in Cana of Galilee and revealed His glory;[8] and His disciples believed into Him.
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12. After this He went down to Capernaum—He, His mother, His brothers, and His disciples—but they did not stay there many days.[9]
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13. Now the Jewish Passover was near, so Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
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14. And in the Temple He found people selling oxen and sheep and doves, also the moneychangers at work.
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15. When He had made a scourge out of cords, He drove all out of the temple, both the sheep and the oxen;[10] and as for the moneychangers, He overturned the tables and scattered the coins.
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16. And to the dove-sellers He said: “Get these things out of here! Stop turning my Father’s House into a marketplace!”
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17. Then His disciples remembered that it stands written, “Zeal for Your House consumes me.”[11]
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18. So the Jews answered and said to Him, “What sign do you show us, since you do these things?”[12]
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19. Jesus answered and said to them, “Destroy this temple,[13] and in three days I will raise it.”[14]
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20. So the Jews said, “It took forty-six years to build this temple, and you will raise it in three days?!”
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21. But He was speaking about the temple of His body.
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22. Therefore, when He was raised from among the dead His disciples remembered that He had said this; so they believed the Scripture, even the word that Jesus had spoken.[15]
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23. Now while He was in Jerusalem at the Passover, during the feast, many believed into His name, observing the signs that He was doing.[16]
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24. But as for Jesus Himself, He did not entrust Himself to them,[17] because He knew all men
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25. and that He had no need that anyone should testify about man, because He Himself knew what was in man.[18]
Chapter 3
Chapter 3 Verse 1
1. Now there was a man among the Pharisees whose name was Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews.
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2. The same went to Jesus at night and said to Him, “Rabbi, we know that you have come as a teacher from God, because no one can do these signs that you do unless God is with him.”
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3. Jesus answered and said to him,[1] “Most assuredly I say to you, unless someone is begotten from Above,[2] he is not able to see[3] the kingdom of God.”
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4. Nicodemus says to Him: “How can a man be begotten, being old? He can’t enter his mother’s womb a second time and be born, can he?”
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5. Jesus answered: “Most assuredly I say to you, unless someone is begotten by water[4] and Spirit he is not able to enter the kingdom of God.
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6. That which has been begotten by the flesh is flesh, and that which has been begotten by the Spirit is spirit.[5]
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7. Do not be perplexed that I said to you, ‘You (pl) need to be begotten from Above.’
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8. The wind blows where it wishes, and you (sg) hear its sound, but you do not know where it comes from or where it goes. So it is with everyone who has been begotten by the Spirit.”[6]
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9. Nicodemus answered and said to Him, “How can these things be?”[7]
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10. Jesus answered and said to Him: “You are the teacher of Israel,[8] yet you do not understand these things?
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11. Most assuredly I say to you, we speak what we know and testify to what we[9] have seen, but you (pl) do not receive our testimony.[10]
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12. If I have told you earthly things and you do not believe, how will you believe if I should tell you the heavenly?
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13. No one has gone up into Heaven except the One who came down out of Heaven —the Son of the Man, who is in Heaven.[11]
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14. Also, just as Moses lifted up the snake in the wilderness,[12] just so the Son of the Man must be lifted up,
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15. so that everyone who believes into Him should not be wasted,[13] but should have eternal life.
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16. Because God loved the world so much that He gave His only begotten Son, so that everyone who believes into Him should not be wasted, but should have eternal life.[14]
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17. For God did not send His Son into the world in order to condemn the world,[15] but so that the world might be saved through Him.
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18. The one believing into Him is not condemned, but the one not believing has already been condemned,[16] because he has not believed into the name[17] of the only begotten Son of God.
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19. “Now this is the basis for the condemning, that the Light has come into the world,[18] but the people loved the darkness rather than the Light, because their deeds were malignant.
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20. For whoever practices evil hates the Light and does not come to the Light, so that his deeds may not be exposed.[19]
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21. But whoever does the truth comes to the Light so that his deeds may be clearly seen, that they are done in God.”
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22. After these things Jesus, with His disciples, went into the Judean countryside, and there He spent time with them[20] and baptized.
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23. Now John also was baptizing in Aenon, near Salem, because there was plenty of water there.[21] And people were coming and being baptized;
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24. for John had not yet been thrown into prison.
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25. Then some of John’s disciples had an argument with a Judean about purification.
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26. So they came to John and said to him, “Rabbi, the One who was with you across the Jordan, about whom you have testified—well, here He is baptizing, and everyone is flocking to Him!”[22]
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27. John answered and said: “A person can receive nothing unless it has been given to him from Heaven.[23]
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28. You yourselves can testify that I said, ‘I am not the Christ, but I have been sent ahead of Him.’
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29. He who has the bride is the bridegroom, but the friend of the bridegroom, who stands by and hears him, has great joy at the bridegroom’s voice. So this my joy has been fulfilled.
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30. He must increase, but I must decrease.[24]
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31. “He who comes from Above is above all; he who is from the earth is earthly, and speaks of the earth. He who comes from Heaven[25] is above all.
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32. And to what He has seen and heard He testifies, yet no one receives His testimony.[26]
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33. The one who receives His testimony certifies that God is true.
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34. For He whom God sent speaks God’s words, because God does not give the Spirit by measure.[27]
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35. The Father loves the Son and has given all things into His hand.[28]
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36. The one believing into the Son has eternal life, but the one disobeying[29] the Son will not see the Life, but the wrath of God will remain upon him.”[30]
Chapter 4
Chapter 4 Verse 1
1. Now when Jesus[1] knew that the Pharisees[2] had heard, “Jesus is making and baptizing more disciples than John”
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2. (although Jesus Himself was not baptizing, but His disciples),
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3. He left Judea and went away into Galilee.[3]
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4. Now He needed to go through Samaria;[4]
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5. so He comes to a city of Samaria called Sychar, near the plot of land that Jacob gave to his son Joseph.[5]
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6. Now Jacob’s well was there; so Jesus, being worn out from the journey, sat as He was by the well. It was about 6 p.m.[6]
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7. A woman of Samaria comes to draw water. Jesus says to her, “Give me a drink.”
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8. (His disciples had gone into the town to buy food.)
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9. So the Samaritan woman says to Him, “How can you, being a Jew, ask a drink from me, being a Samaritan woman?” (for Jews do not associate with Samaritans).
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10. Jesus answered and said to her: “If you knew the gift of God, and who is the one saying to you, ‘Give me a drink,’ you would have asked him and he would have given you living water.”
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11. The woman says to Him: “Sir, you don’t even have a bucket, and the well is deep; so where do you get this living water?
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12. You aren’t greater than our father Jacob, are you? He gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did his sons and his livestock.”
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13. Jesus answered and said to her: “Everyone who drinks of this water will thirst again,
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14. but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never ever thirst;[7] rather, the water that I will give him will become in him a spring of water, welling up into eternal life.”[8]
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15. The woman says to Him, “Sir, give me this water! so that I may not thirst, nor come here to draw.”
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16. Jesus says to her, “Go, call your husband and come back here.”
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17. The woman answered and said, “I don’t have a husband.” Jesus says to her: “You stated correctly that you do not have a husband,
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18. because you have had five husbands, and the one you have now is no husband of yours. You spoke the truth there!”[9]
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19. The woman says to Him: “Sir, I perceive that you are a prophet.
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20. Our fathers worshipped on this mountain, while you (pl) say that the place where one must worship is in Jerusalem.”
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21. Jesus says to her: “Woman, believe me, a time is coming when neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem will you worship the Father.
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22. You [Samaritans] worship what you do not know; we [Jews] worship what we do know, because the salvation is from the Jews.[10]
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23. But the time is coming, in fact now is, when the genuine worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth. Really, because the Father is looking for such people to worship Him.[11]
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24. God is Spirit,[12] and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth.”
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25. The woman says to Him: “I know that Messiah is coming (who is called Christ). When He comes He will explain everything to us.”
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26. Jesus says to her, “I am He, the one who is talking with you!”[13]
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27. At that point His disciples arrived, and they were amazed that He was talking with a woman; yet no one said, ‘What do you want?”[14] or “Why are You talking with her?”
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28. So the woman left her water jar,[15] went her way into the town, and says to the men:
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29. “Come see a man who told me everything I ever did! Could this be the Messiah?”
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30. So out they went from the town and started toward Him.
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31. Now in the meantime the disciples were urging Him saying, “Rabbi, eat.”
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32. But He said to them, “I have food to eat that you do not know about.”
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33. So the disciples started saying to one another, “Could someone have brought Him something to eat?”
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34. Jesus says to them: “My food is to do the will of Him who sent me and to complete His work.[16]
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35. Do you not say, ‘There are four months before the harvest comes?’ Well I say, Look! Lift your eyes and observe the fields; they are white for harvest already!
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36. Now he who reaps receives pay and gathers fruit into eternal life,[17] so that both he who sows and he who reaps may rejoice together.
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37. Now the saying, ‘One is the sower and another the reaper,’ is true in this:
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38. I sent you to reap that for which you have not labored; others have labored and you have entered into their labors.”[18]
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39. Now many of the Samaritans from that city believed into Him because of the word of the woman, testifying that “He told me everything I ever did!”
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40. So when the Samaritans came to Him they urged Him to stay with them; and He did stay there two days.
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41. Many more believed through His own word,
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42. and they kept saying to the woman, “It is not just because of what you said that we believe, because we ourselves have heard Him,[19] and we know that this One is truly the Messiah,[20] the Savior of the world!”[21]
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43. So after the two days He departed from there and went on into Galilee.
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44. (For Jesus Himself testified that a prophet does not have honor in his own country.)[22]
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45. So when He came into Galilee the Galileans welcomed Him, having seen all the things that He did in Jerusalem, at the festival; for they too had gone to the festival.
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46. So Jesus went again to Cana of Galilee,[23] where He made the water wine. Now there was a certain royal official whose son was sick in Capernaum.
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47. When this man heard that Jesus had come out of Judea into Galilee, he went to Him and implored Him to come down and heal his son,[24] for he was about to die.
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48. So Jesus said to him, “Unless you people see signs and wonders you will not believe!”[25]
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49. The official says to Him, “Sir, come down before my child dies!”
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50. Jesus says to him, “Go; your son lives.” Well the man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him and off he went.
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51. Now while he was still going down his slaves met him and reported saying, “Your son lives!”
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52. So he inquired of them the hour in which he got better. And they said to him, “Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him.”[26]
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53. So the father knew that it was at the exact hour in which Jesus told him, “Your son lives.” Both he himself and his whole household believed.
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54. Again, coming out of Judea into Galilee, Jesus performed this second miraculous sign.[27]
Chapter 5
Chapter 5 Verse 1
1. After these things there was the[1] feast of the Jews, so Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
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2. Now in Jerusalem, by the Sheep Gate, there is a pool called Bethesda,[2] in Hebrew, which has five porches.[3]
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3. In them a large number of sick people were lying—blind, lame, paralyzed—waiting for the moving of the water;
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4. because an angel would go down from time to time into the pool and stir up the water[4]—then the first one to get in after the stirring of the water became well of whatever disease that was holding him.[5]
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5. Now there was a certain man there who had been sick for 38 years.[6]
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6. Seeing this man lying there and knowing that he had already been sick a long time, Jesus says to him, “Do you want to get well?”
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7. The sick man answered Him, “Sir, I have no man to throw[7] me into the pool when the water is stirred up, but while I am coming another gets in before me.”
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8. Jesus says to him, “Get up, pick up your pallet and walk!”
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9. Immediately the man became well and picked up his pallet and started to walk!
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10. But that day was a Sabbath, so the Jews said to the one who had been healed: “It’s the Sabbath! You aren’t allowed to carry the pallet.”
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11. He answered them: “The one who made me well—He said to me, ‘Pick up your pallet and walk.’”
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12. So they asked him, “Who is the man who said to you, ‘Pick up your pallet and walk’?”
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13. But the man who was cured did not know who it was, because Jesus had disappeared, there being a crowd in the place.[8]
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14. After these things Jesus found him in the temple and said to him: “See, you are well. Don’t sin any more, so that something worse doesn’t happen to you.”[9]
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15. The man went off and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had made him well.
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16. So because of this the Jews began persecuting Jesus and trying to kill Him,[10] because He was doing these things on the Sabbath.[11]
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17. But Jesus answered them, “Until now, my Father works, I also work.”[12]
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18. So because of this they wanted to kill Him all the more, because He was not only breaking the Sabbath but was even saying that God was His own Father, making Himself equal with God!
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19. Then Jesus answered and said to them: “Most assuredly I say to you, the Son is not able to do anything from Himself, except something He sees the Father doing; because whatever things He does, precisely these the Son also does.[13]
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20. For the Father loves[14] the Son and shows Him everything that He Himself is doing; and He will show Him greater works than these, so that you may marvel.
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21. Now just as the Father raises the dead and gives life, just so the Son also gives life to whom He wishes.
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22. In fact the Father does not judge anyone but has committed all the judging to the Son,[15]
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23. so that all will honor the Son just as they honor the Father.[16] Whoever does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent Him.[17]
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24. “Most assuredly I say to you that the one listening[18] to my word and believing on Him who sent me has eternal life; he will not go into judging but has moved out of the death into the Life.[19]
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25. “Most assuredly I say to you that a time is coming, and now is, when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of the God, and those who listen will live.[20]
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26. Because just as the Father has life in Himself, just so He gave to the Son also to have life in Himself;
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27. furthermore He gave Him the authority to pass judgment, because He is Son of Man.[21]
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28. Do not marvel at this, because a time is coming in which all those in the graves will hear His voice
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29. and will come out—those who did good things into the resurrection of life,[22] but those who practiced evil things into the resurrection of condemnation.
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30. I am not able to do anything from myself. As I hear, I judge, and my judging is just, because I do not seek my own will but the will of the Father who sent me.
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31. “If I testify about myself, my testimony is not valid.[23]
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32. There is another who testifies about me, and I know that the testimony that He gives about me is true.[24]
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33. You have sent to John and he has testified to the truth.
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34. Yet I do not accept the testimony from a man; but I say these things so that you may be saved.[25]
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35. That man was a burning, shining lamp, and for a time you were willing to be glad in his light.
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36. But I have a greater testimony than John’s, because the works that the Father gave me to complete—the very works that I am doing—they testify about me that the Father has sent me.[26]
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37. “Further, the Father who sent me has Himself testified about me. You have neither heard His voice nor seen His form at any time.
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38. Nor do you have His word abiding in you,[27] because you do not believe on the very one whom He sent.
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39. You examine the Scriptures because in them you think you have eternal life, yet they are the very ones that testify about me.
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40. But you are not willing to come to me so that you may have life.[28]
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41. “I do not accept glory from people.
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42. Rather I have come to know you,[29] that you do not have the love of God in you.
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43. I have come in my Father’s name and you do not receive me; should another come in his own name, him you will receive.[30]
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44. How can you believe, who receive glory from men[31] and do not seek the glory that comes from the only God?[32]
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45. “Do not suppose that I will accuse you before the Father. Moses is the one who accuses you, on whom you have set your hope.
Chapter 5 Verse 46
46. Because if you really believed Moses you would believe me, because he wrote about me.
Chapter 5 Verse 47
47. But since you do not believe his writings, how will you believe my sayings?”[33]
Chapter 6
Chapter 6 Verse 1
1. After these things Jesus went over the Sea of Galilee, or Tiberias.[1]
Chapter 6 Verse 2
2. And a huge crowd was following Him because they had seen His signs that He kept performing on the sick.[2]
Chapter 6 Verse 3
3. So Jesus went up on the mountain and sat down there with His disciples.[3]
Chapter 6 Verse 4
4. (Now the Passover, the feast of the Jews, was near.)[4]
Chapter 6 Verse 5
5. Then, raising His eyes and observing that a huge crowd was coming toward Him, Jesus says to Philip, “Where shall we buy bread so that these folks may eat?”[5]
Chapter 6 Verse 6
6. Now He said this to test him, for He Himself knew what He was about to do.
Chapter 6 Verse 7
7. Philip answered Him, “Two hundred denarii worth of bread[6] would not be enough for them, so that each of them could receive a little.”
Chapter 6 Verse 8
8. One of His disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother, says to Him,
Chapter 6 Verse 9
9. “There is a little boy here who has five loaves of barley bread and two small fish, but what are they for so many?”[7]
Chapter 6 Verse 10
10. Then Jesus said, “Make the people recline.” Now there was plenty of grass in the place; so the men reclined, about five thousand in number.
Chapter 6 Verse 11
11. Then Jesus took the loaves, and having given thanks He distributed them to the disciples, and the disciples[8] to those who were reclining; so too with the fish, as much as they wanted.
Chapter 6 Verse 12
12. So when they were full He says to His disciples, “Collect the leftover fragments so that nothing be wasted.”[9]
Chapter 6 Verse 13
13. So they collected and filled twelve baskets[10] with fragments from the five barley loaves that were left over from those who had eaten.
Chapter 6 Verse 14
14. Now then, having seen the miraculous sign that Jesus performed the men said, “This One really is the Prophet who is to come into the world.”
Chapter 6 Verse 15
15. So Jesus, perceiving that they were about to come and take Him by force to make Him king,[11] withdrew up the mountain again by Himself, alone.
Chapter 6 Verse 16
16. Now as evening came on His disciples had gone down to the sea,
Chapter 6 Verse 17
17. and getting into the boat they started to go across the sea toward Capernaum.[12] Well it had been dark for a while and Jesus had not come to them.[13]
Chapter 6 Verse 18
18. Further, the sea was being agitated by a strong wind blowing.
Chapter 6 Verse 19
19. Then, after they had rowed some three or four miles,[14] they see Jesus walking on the sea and coming near the boat; and they were afraid.
Chapter 6 Verse 20
20. But He said to them, “It is I; don’t be afraid!”[15]
Chapter 6 Verse 21
21. Then they wanted to receive Him into the boat,[16] and immediately the boat was at the land to which they were going.[17]
Chapter 6 Verse 22
22. The next day the crowd that had stayed on the other side of the sea,[18] having seen that there was no other boat there except the one into which His disciples had entered,[19] and that Jesus had not gotten into the boat with His disciples but only His disciples had gone away—
Chapter 6 Verse 23
23. although other boats had come from Tiberias,[20] near the place where they ate the bread after the Lord had given thanks—
Chapter 6 Verse 24
24. so when the crowd saw that neither Jesus nor His disciples were there, they got into the boats[21] and went to Capernaum, looking for Jesus.[22]
Chapter 6 Verse 25
25. When they found Him on another side[23] of the sea they said to Him, “Rabbi, when[24] did you get here?”
Chapter 6 Verse 26
26. Jesus answered them and said: “Most assuredly I say to you, you are not seeking me because you saw miraculous signs, but because you ate the bread and were filled.[25]
Chapter 6 Verse 27
27. Do not work for the food that wastes away but for the food that endures into life eternal, which the Son of the Man will give you;[26] because on Him God the Father has set His seal.”
Chapter 6 Verse 28
28. So they said to Him, “What should we do so that we may work the works of God?”[27]
Chapter 6 Verse 29
29. Jesus answered and said to them, “This is the work of God, that you believe into the One whom He sent.”[28]
Chapter 6 Verse 30
30. So they said to Him: “Well then, what sign are you going to do so we may see and believe you?[29] What are you going to perform?
Chapter 6 Verse 31
31. Our fathers ate the manna in the desert, just as it is written: ‘He gave them bread from Heaven to eat.’”[30]
Chapter 6 Verse 32
32. Then Jesus said to them: “Most assuredly I say to you, Moses did not give you the bread from Heaven, but my Father gives you the true bread from Heaven.
Chapter 6 Verse 33
33. For the bread of God is the One coming down out of Heaven and giving Life to the world.”[31]
Chapter 6 Verse 34
34. Then they said to Him, “Lord, give us this bread always.”[32]
Chapter 6 Verse 35
35. So Jesus said to them: “I am the bread of the Life. Whoever comes to me will never hunger, and whoever believes into me will never thirst.[33]
Chapter 6 Verse 36
36. But, as I told you, you have actually seen me, yet you do not believe.
Chapter 6 Verse 37
37. All that the Father gives me will come to me, and the one who comes to me I will not throw out;[34]
Chapter 6 Verse 38
38. because it is not to do my own will that I have come down out of Heaven,[35] but the will of the One who sent me.
Chapter 6 Verse 39
39. Now this is the will of the Father who sent me, that I should lose nothing out of all that He has given me, but should raise it[36] up at the last day.
Chapter 6 Verse 40
40. Again this is the will of Him who sent me, that everyone who ‘sees’ the Son and believes into Him may have eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.”[37]
Chapter 6 Verse 41
41. Then the Jews[38] started complaining about Him, because He said, “I am the bread that came down out of Heaven.”
Chapter 6 Verse 42
42. And they were saying: “Isn’t this Jesus the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know?[39] So how can he say, ‘I have come down out of Heaven’?”[40]
Chapter 6 Verse 43
43. So Jesus answered and said to them: “Stop complaining among yourselves.
Chapter 6 Verse 44
44. No one is able to come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him,[41] and I will raise him up at the last day.
Chapter 6 Verse 45
45. It is written in the prophets, ‘And they will all be taught by God.’[42] Therefore everyone who listens and learns from the Father comes to me.[43]
Chapter 6 Verse 46
46. (Not that anyone has seen the Father, except the One who is from God—He has seen the Father.)
Chapter 6 Verse 47
47. Most assuredly I say to you: the one believing into me[44] has eternal life.
Chapter 6 Verse 48
48. “I am the bread of the Life.[45]
Chapter 6 Verse 49
49. Your fathers ate manna in the desert, and they died.[46]
Chapter 6 Verse 50
50. This is the bread that comes down out of Heaven, so that anyone may eat of it and not die.[47]
Chapter 6 Verse 51
51. I am the living bread which came down out of Heaven. If anyone eats of this bread he will live forever. Actually, the bread that I will give is my flesh,[48] which I will give on behalf of the life of the world.”[49]
Chapter 6 Verse 52
52. At that the Jews started quarrelling among themselves, saying, “How can this man give us his flesh to eat?!”[50]
Chapter 6 Verse 53
53. So Jesus said to them: “Most assuredly I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of the Man and drink His blood, you do not have Life within yourselves.
Chapter 6 Verse 54
54. Whoever chews[51] my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life,[52] and I will raise him up at the last day.
Chapter 6 Verse 55
55. Really, my flesh is genuine food and my blood is genuine drink.
Chapter 6 Verse 56
56. Whoever chews my flesh and drinks my blood abides in me and I in him.[53]
Chapter 6 Verse 57
57. Just as the living Father sent me and I live because of the Father, so also the one who feeds[54] on me will live because of me.
Chapter 6 Verse 58
58. This is the bread that came down out of Heaven. Whoever feeds on this bread of mine will live forever (in contrast to your fathers who ate the manna and died).”[55]
Chapter 6 Verse 59
59. He said these things while teaching in a synagogue in Capernaum.
Chapter 6 Verse 60
60. Therefore, upon hearing this many from among His disciples said: “This word is hard! Who is able to hear it?”
Chapter 6 Verse 61
61. So Jesus, knowing in Himself that His disciples were complaining about this, said to them: “Does this offend you?
Chapter 6 Verse 62
62. What if you should see the Son of the Man going up to where He was at first?[56]
Chapter 6 Verse 63
63. The Spirit is the One who makes alive; the flesh does not benefit anything. The words that I speak to you are spirit, are Life.
Chapter 6 Verse 64
64. But there are some among you who do not believe.” (For Jesus knew from the start who they were who did not believe, and who was betraying Him.)
Chapter 6 Verse 65
65. And He said, “That is why I told you that no one can come to me unless it has been granted to him by my Father.”[57]
Chapter 6 Verse 66
66. From that time many of His disciples turned back and stopped going around with Him.[58]
Chapter 6 Verse 67
67. So Jesus said to the twelve, “You don’t want to go away too, do you?”
Chapter 6 Verse 68
68. So Simon Peter answered Him: “Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life.
Chapter 6 Verse 69
69. Further, we have come to believe and to know that you are the Christ, the Son of the Living God!”[59]
Chapter 6 Verse 70
70. He said to them: “Did I myself not choose you twelve? Yet one of you is a devil.”[60]
Chapter 6 Verse 71
71. He was referring to Judas Iscariot, son of Simon, for it was he who would betray Him, being one of the twelve.
Chapter 7
Chapter 7 Verse 1
1. After these things Jesus continued to move about in Galilee,[1] since He did not wish to move about in Judea because the Jews were wanting to kill Him.[2]
Chapter 7 Verse 2
2. Now the Jews’ Feast of Tabernacles was near.
Chapter 7 Verse 3
3. So His brothers said to Him: “Leave here and go up into Judea so your disciples also[3] may see the works that you are doing,
Chapter 7 Verse 4
4. because no one does anything in secret while he actually wants to be in evidence. Since you are doing these things, show yourself to the world!”
Chapter 7 Verse 5
5. For not even His brothers were believing into Him.[4]
Chapter 7 Verse 6
6. So Jesus says to them: “My time is not here yet, but your time is always available.[5]
Chapter 7 Verse 7
7. The world cannot hate you, but does hate me, because I testify about it that its works are malignant.[6]
Chapter 7 Verse 8
8. You guys go up to this feast; I am not going up yet[7] to this feast, because my time has not yet fully come.”
Chapter 7 Verse 9
9. So upon saying these things to them He stayed on in Galilee.[8]
Chapter 7 Verse 10
10. Now when His brothers had gone up to the feast, then He too went up, not openly but in secret like.
Chapter 7 Verse 11
11. So the Jews were looking for Him at the feast and saying, “Where is he?”
Chapter 7 Verse 12
12. And there was a lot of murmuring about Him among the crowds. Some were saying, “He is good”; others were saying, “On the contrary, he’s deceiving the people.”
Chapter 7 Verse 13
13. However, no one was talking openly about Him for fear of the Jews.
Chapter 7 Verse 14
14. Now when the feast was already half over Jesus went up into the temple and started to teach.
Chapter 7 Verse 15
15. And the Jews were marveling saying, “How is this man learned, not having been educated?”[9]
Chapter 7 Verse 16
16. So Jesus answered them and said: “What I teach is not mine, but His who sent me.[10]
Chapter 7 Verse 17
17. If anyone wants to do His will,[11] he will know concerning the teaching, whether it is from God or whether I am speaking on my own.
Chapter 7 Verse 18
18. Someone who speaks on his own is seeking his own glory; but He who seeks the glory of the One who sent Him, He is true, and there is no unrighteousness in Him.
Chapter 7 Verse 19
19. “Did not Moses give you the Law? And yet not one of you keeps the Law! Why do you want to kill me?”
Chapter 7 Verse 20
20. The crowd answered and said, “You must have a demon! Who wants to kill you?”[12]
Chapter 7 Verse 21
21. Jesus answered and said to them: “I did one work, and you all marvel.
Chapter 7 Verse 22
22. Consider this: Moses gave you circumcision (not that it comes from Moses, but from the patriarchs),[13] and you circumcise a man on the Sabbath.
Chapter 7 Verse 23
23. If a man receives circumcision on the Sabbath, so that the Law of Moses won’t be broken, are you angry at me because I made a whole man[14] well on the Sabbath?[15]
Chapter 7 Verse 24
24. Stop judging on the basis of appearances, but judge the righteous judgment.”
Chapter 7 Verse 25
25. Now some of the Jerusalemites were saying: “Isn’t this the man they are wanting to kill?
Chapter 7 Verse 26
26. Yet look! He is speaking openly and they are saying nothing to Him. Could it be true that the rulers know that this is really the Christ?
Chapter 7 Verse 27
27. On the other hand, we know where this man is from; but whenever the Christ comes nobody knows where He is from.”[16]
Chapter 7 Verse 28
28. So Jesus called out in the temple, teaching and saying: “You do know me, and you know where I am from. Yet I have not come on my own, but the One who sent me is true, whom you do not know.
Chapter 7 Verse 29
29. I do know Him because I am from Him, and He sent me.”[17]
Chapter 7 Verse 30
30. So they tried to arrest Him, yet no one laid a hand on Him because His hour had not yet come.
Chapter 7 Verse 31
31. Now many of the crowd were believing into Him, and they were saying, “Whenever the Christ comes He won’t perform more signs than these which this man has done, will He?”
Chapter 7 Verse 32
32. The Pharisees heard the crowd murmuring these things about Him, so the Pharisees and the chief priests sent operatives to arrest Him.
Chapter 7 Verse 33
33. Then Jesus said: “For a little while I am still with you, and then I go to the One who sent me.
Chapter 7 Verse 34
34. You will look for me and not find me; also, where I am you cannot come.”[18]
Chapter 7 Verse 35
35. So the Jews said among themselves: “Where does this fellow intend to go that we won’t find him? He doesn’t intend to go to the Dispersion among the Greeks and teach the Greeks, does he?
Chapter 7 Verse 36
36. What word is this that he spoke, ‘You will look for me and not find me’; also, ‘where I am you cannot come’?”
Chapter 7 Verse 37
37. Now on the last and most important day of the Feast, Jesus stood up and called out saying: “If anyone thirsts, let him come to me and drink.
Chapter 7 Verse 38
38. The one believing into me, just as the Scripture has said, out from his innermost being will flow rivers of living water.”[19]
Chapter 7 Verse 39
39. (Now He said this about the Spirit, whom those believing into Him were going to receive,[20] in that the Holy Spirit had not yet been given because Jesus had not yet been glorified.)
Chapter 7 Verse 40
40. So upon hearing this word many from the crowd began to say, “This One really is ‘the Prophet’!”
Chapter 7 Verse 41
41. Others were saying, “This One is the Christ!” Others were saying: “Surely the Christ isn’t coming out of Galilee, is He?
Chapter 7 Verse 42
42. Doesn’t the Scripture say that the Christ comes out of the seed of David and from the town of Bethlehem, where David was?”[21]
Chapter 7 Verse 43
43. So there developed a division in the crowd because of Him.
Chapter 7 Verse 44
44. Further, some of them were wanting to arrest Him, but no one laid a hand on Him.
Chapter 7 Verse 45
45. Then the operatives came to the chief priests and Pharisees, who said to them, “Why haven’t you brought him?”
Chapter 7 Verse 46
46. The operatives answered, “No man ever spoke like this man!”
Chapter 7 Verse 47
47. So the Pharisees answered them: “You haven’t been fooled too, have you?
Chapter 7 Verse 48
48. None of the rulers or the Pharisees have believed into him, have they?
Chapter 7 Verse 49
49. But this crowd that doesn’t know the law is accursed!”
Chapter 7 Verse 50
50. Nicodemus (the one who came to Him at night, being one of them) says to them,
Chapter 7 Verse 51
51. “Our law doesn’t judge a man before it hears him and knows what he is doing, does it?”
Chapter 7 Verse 52
52. They answered and said to him: “You aren’t from Galilee too, are you? Search and see that no prophet has ever arisen out of Galilee.”[22]
Chapter 7 Verse 53
53. So each one went to his own house.[23]
Chapter 8
Chapter 8 Verse 1
1. Jesus went to the Mount of Olives.[1]
Chapter 8 Verse 2
2. And at dawn He went again into the temple, and all the people were coming to Him; so sitting down He started to teach them.
Chapter 8 Verse 3
3. Then the scribes and the Pharisees bring to Him a woman caught in adultery; and placing her in the center
Chapter 8 Verse 4
4. they say to Him: “Teacher, we found this woman committing adultery, in the very act.
Chapter 8 Verse 5
5. Now in our law Moses commanded that such women are to be stoned;[2] so what do you say?”
Chapter 8 Verse 6
6. They said this to test Him, so that they might have an accusation against Him. But stooping down[3] Jesus began to write on the ground with His finger, taking no notice.
Chapter 8 Verse 7
7. But since they kept on asking Him, straightening up He said to them, “Let the one without sin among you throw the first stone at her.”
Chapter 8 Verse 8
8. And stooping down again He continued writing on the ground.[4]
Chapter 8 Verse 9
9. Now upon hearing this, and being convicted by their conscience, they began to go out one by one, starting with the older ones down to the least. So only Jesus was left, with the woman in the center.[5]
Chapter 8 Verse 10
10. So straightening up, and not seeing anyone except the woman, Jesus said to her: “Where are those accusers of yours? Has no one condemned you?”
Chapter 8 Verse 11
11. So she said, “No one, Lord.” Jesus said to her: “Neither do I condemn you.[6] Go, and from now on don’t sin any more!”
Chapter 8 Verse 12
12. Then Jesus spoke to them again,[7] saying: “I am the Light of the world. Whoever follows me will not walk around in the darkness,[8] but will have the light of the Life.”[9]
Chapter 8 Verse 13
13. So the Pharisees said to Him, “You are testifying about yourself; your testimony is not valid.”
Chapter 8 Verse 14
14. Jesus answered and said to them: “Even though I testify about myself, my testimony is valid, because I know where I came from and where I am going.[10] But you do not know where I come from or where I am going.
Chapter 8 Verse 15
15. You are judging according to the flesh; I am not judging anyone.
Chapter 8 Verse 16
16. Yet even if I do judge, my judging is valid, in that I am not alone in judging, but I and the Father who sent me are together.
Chapter 8 Verse 17
17. It is written precisely in your law that the testimony of two men is valid:
Chapter 8 Verse 18
18. I am one testifying concerning myself and the Father who sent me testifies concerning me.”
Chapter 8 Verse 19
19. Then they said to Him, “Where is your father?”[11] Jesus answered: “You know neither me nor my Father. If you knew me you would also know my Father.”
Chapter 8 Verse 20
20. Jesus spoke these words in the treasury, while teaching in the temple; yet no one arrested Him, because His time had not yet come.[12]
Chapter 8 Verse 21
21. Then Jesus said to them again: “I am going away, and you will look for me, and you will die in your sin. Where I am going you cannot come.”[13]
Chapter 8 Verse 22
22. So the Jews said, “He won’t kill himself, will he, since he says, ‘Where I am going you cannot come’?”[14]
Chapter 8 Verse 23
23. He said to them: “You are from below; I am from Above. You are of this world; I am not of this world.[15]
Chapter 8 Verse 24
24. That is why I told you that you will die in your sins, because if you do not believe that I am,[16] you will die in your sins.”[17]
Chapter 8 Verse 25
25. So they said to Him, “Who are you?” And Jesus said to them: “Just what I have been saying to you from the beginning.
Chapter 8 Verse 26
26. I have many things to say and to judge about you, but He who sent me is true, and what I myself have heard from Him—these things I say to the world.”[18]
Chapter 8 Verse 27
27. They did not understand that He was speaking to them about the Father.[19]
Chapter 8 Verse 28
28. Then Jesus said to them: “When you lift up the Son of the Man, then you will know that I am[20] and that I do nothing from myself; but just as my Father has taught me, these things I speak.
Chapter 8 Verse 29
29. And the One who sent me is with me. The Father has not left me alone, because I always do the things that please Him.”[21]
Chapter 8 Verse 30
30. While He was saying these things many believed into Him.
Chapter 8 Verse 31
31. So Jesus said to those Jews who had believed Him: “If you abide in my word, you really are my disciples;[22]
Chapter 8 Verse 32
32. and you will know the Truth, and the Truth will make you free.”[23]
Chapter 8 Verse 33
33. They answered and said to Him: “We are descendants of Abraham and have never been enslaved to anyone. How can you say, ‘You will be made free’?”[24]
Chapter 8 Verse 34
34. Jesus answered them: “I tell you most assuredly that everyone committing sin is a slave of sin.[25]
Chapter 8 Verse 35
35. Now the slave does not remain in the household forever; the son does remain forever.[26]
Chapter 8 Verse 36
36. Therefore, if the Son should make you free, you really will be free.
Chapter 8 Verse 37
37. I know that you are descendants of Abraham, but you are wanting to kill me because my word finds no place in you.[27]
Chapter 8 Verse 38
38. On my part, I speak what I have observed with my Father, while on your part you do what you have observed with your father.”[28]
Chapter 8 Verse 39
39. They answered and said to Him, “Our father is Abraham!” Jesus says to them: “If you were children of Abraham, you would do the works of Abraham;
Chapter 8 Verse 40
40. but now you are wanting to kill me, a man who has told you the truth which I heard from God.[29] This sort of thing Abraham did not do!
Chapter 8 Verse 41
41. You do the works of your father.” Then they said to Him, “We were not born of fornication;[30] we have one Father—God.”[31]
Chapter 8 Verse 42
42. So Jesus said to them: “If God were your Father, you would love me, because I came forth from God and I am here.[32] Further, I have not come on my own, but He sent me.
Chapter 8 Verse 43
43. Why don’t you understand what I say?—because you are not able to really hear my word.[33]
Chapter 8 Verse 44
44. You are of your father the devil,[34] and it is the desires of your father that you want to do. He was a murderer[35] from the beginning and has not stood in the truth, because there is no truth in him.[36] Whenever he speaks the lie he speaks from his own things, because he is a liar and the father of lying.[37]
Chapter 8 Verse 45
45. But since I speak the truth you do not believe me.
Chapter 8 Verse 46
46. Which of you convicts me of sin?[38] So if I speak the truth, why do you not believe me?
Chapter 8 Verse 47
47. The one who is of God hears God’s words; that is why you do not hear, because you are not of God.”[39]
Chapter 8 Verse 48
48. So the Jews answered and said to Him, “We say that you are a Samaritan and have a demon[40]—are we wrong?”
Chapter 8 Verse 49
49. Jesus answered: “I do not have a demon; rather, I honor my Father, while you dishonor me.
Chapter 8 Verse 50
50. Yet I do not seek my glory; there is One who seeks and judges.
Chapter 8 Verse 51
51. Most assuredly I say to you, if anyone should keep my word he will never ever see death.”[41]
Chapter 8 Verse 52
52. So the Jews said to Him: “Now we know that you have a demon! Abraham died and so did the prophets; yet you say, ‘If anyone should keep my word he will never ever taste death’!
Chapter 8 Verse 53
53. Surely you aren’t greater than our father Abraham, who died?[42] And the prophets are dead. Who do you make yourself out to be?”
Chapter 8 Verse 54
54. Jesus answered: “If I glorify myself, my glory is nothing. It is my Father who glorifies me, of whom you say, ‘He is our God.’[43]
Chapter 8 Verse 55
55. Yet you have not known Him, but I do know Him. And if I should say that I do not know Him I would be a liar just like you (pl);[44] but I do know Him and I keep His word.
Chapter 8 Verse 56
56. Your father Abraham was overjoyed to see my day;[45] yes, he saw it and rejoiced.”
Chapter 8 Verse 57
57. So the Jews said to Him, “You are not yet fifty years old,[46] and you have seen Abraham?!”
Chapter 8 Verse 58
58. Jesus said to them, “Most assuredly I say to you, before Abraham came to be, I AM!”[47]
Chapter 8 Verse 59
59. Then they picked up stones to throw at Him;[48] but Jesus was concealed[49] and went out of the temple, going through the middle of them; yes, that is how He got away!
Chapter 9
Chapter 9 Verse 1
1. Now as He was passing by He saw a man blind from birth.
Chapter 9 Verse 2
2. And His disciples asked Him saying, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, in that he was born blind?”[1]
Chapter 9 Verse 3
3. Jesus answered: “Neither this man nor his parents sinned, but so that the works of God might be displayed in him.[2]
Chapter 9 Verse 4
4. I[3] must accomplish the works of Him who sent me while it is day; night is coming when no one can work.
Chapter 9 Verse 5
5. While I am in the world, I am the Light of the world.”[4]
Chapter 9 Verse 6
6. Upon saying these things He spat on the ground and made mud with the saliva, and spread the mud on the blind man’s eyes.[5]
Chapter 9 Verse 7
7. And He said to him, “Go wash in the pool of Siloam” (which is translated, ‘Sent’). So he went and washed, and came away seeing!
Chapter 9 Verse 8
8. Then the neighbors and those who previously had seen that he was blind[6] started saying, “Isn’t this the man who sat begging?”
Chapter 9 Verse 9
9. Others said, “This is he”; still others, “He is like him.” He kept saying, “I’m the one!”
Chapter 9 Verse 10
10. So they said to him, “How were your eyes opened?”
Chapter 9 Verse 11
11. He answered and said: “A man called Jesus made mud and anointed my eyes and said to me, ‘Go to the pool of Siloam and wash.’ So when I went and washed, I saw!”
Chapter 9 Verse 12
12. Then they said to him, “Where is He?” He says, “I don’t know.”
Chapter 9 Verse 13
13. They bring the man who was formerly blind to the Pharisees.
Chapter 9 Verse 14
14. (Now it was a Sabbath when Jesus made the mud and opened his eyes.)[7]
Chapter 9 Verse 15
15. So once again the Pharisees also asked him how he had received his sight. So he said to them, “He put mud on my eyes, and I washed, and I see.”[8]
Chapter 9 Verse 16
16. Then some of the Pharisees said, “This man cannot be from God, because he does not keep the Sabbath,”[9] Others were saying, “How can a sinful man do such signs?” And there was a division among them.
Chapter 9 Verse 17
17. So they address the blind man again, “What do you say about him, in that he opened your eyes?” He said, “He is a prophet.”[10]
Chapter 9 Verse 18
18. However the Jews did not believe concerning him that he was blind and received sight until they summoned the parents of the one who had received sight.
Chapter 9 Verse 19
19. And they asked them saying: “Is this your son, whom you say was born blind? How then does he now see?”
Chapter 9 Verse 20
20. So his parents answered them and said: “We know that this is our son, and that he was born blind;
Chapter 9 Verse 21
21. but by what means 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.”
Chapter 9 Verse 22
22. His parents said these things because they feared the Jews, because the Jews had already agreed that if anyone confessed Him to be Christ he would be barred from the synagogue.[11]
Chapter 9 Verse 23
23. That is why his parents said, “He is of age; ask him.”
Chapter 9 Verse 24
24. So they summoned the man who had been blind a second time and said to him: “Give glory to God! We know that this man is a sinner.”
Chapter 9 Verse 25
25. So he answered and said: “That He is a sinner, I do not know. One thing I do know, that having been blind I now see!”[12]
Chapter 9 Verse 26
26. So they said to him again: “What did he do to you? How did he open your eyes?”[13]
Chapter 9 Verse 27
27. He answered them: “I already told you and you didn’t listen. Why do you want to hear it again? You don’t want to become His disciples too, do you?”
Chapter 9 Verse 28
28. They reviled him and said: “You are that fellow’s disciple, but we are Moses’ disciples.
Chapter 9 Verse 29
29. We know that God spoke to Moses; but this fellow—we don’t know where he’s from.”[14]
Chapter 9 Verse 30
30. The man answered and said to them: “Why, this is remarkable—you don’t know where He is from; yet He opened my eyes!
Chapter 9 Verse 31
31. Now we know that God doesn’t listen to sinners;[15] but if anyone is God-fearing and does His will, to him He listens.
Chapter 9 Verse 32
32. Since time began it was never heard that anyone opened the eyes of a person born blind.[16]
Chapter 9 Verse 33
33. If this man were not from God he would not be able to do anything.”
Chapter 9 Verse 34
34. They answered and said to him, “You were totally born in sins, and you are teaching us?” And they expelled him.[17]
Chapter 9 Verse 35
35. Jesus heard that they had expelled him, and finding him He said to him, “Do you believe into the Son of God?”[18]
Chapter 9 Verse 36
36. He answered and said, “And who is He, Lord, that I may believe into Him?”
Chapter 9 Verse 37
37. So Jesus said to him, “You have both seen Him and He is the One who is speaking with you.”
Chapter 9 Verse 38
38. So he said, “Lord, I believe!” And he worshipped Him.
Chapter 9 Verse 39
39. And Jesus said, “I came into this world for judgment, so that those who do not see may see, and those who ‘see’ may become blind.”[19]
Chapter 9 Verse 40
40. And some of the Pharisees who were with Him heard these words and said to Him, “We aren’t blind too, are we?”
Chapter 9 Verse 41
41. Jesus said to them: “If you were ‘blind’ you would not have sin. But now you say, ‘We see,’ so your sin remains.[20]
Chapter 10
Chapter 10 Verse 1
1. “Most assuredly I say to you, he who does not enter the sheepfold by the door, but climbs up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber.
Chapter 10 Verse 2
2. But he who enters by the door is a shepherd[1] of the sheep.
Chapter 10 Verse 3
3. To him the doorkeeper opens, and the sheep hear his voice; and he calls his own sheep by name and leads them out.
Chapter 10 Verse 4
4. And whenever he takes out his own sheep he goes ahead of them,[2] and the sheep follow him because they know his voice.
Chapter 10 Verse 5
5. But they will not follow a stranger; rather they will run away from him, because they do not know the voice of strangers.”
Chapter 10 Verse 6
6. Jesus gave them this illustration, but they did not understand what He was telling them.
Chapter 10 Verse 7
7. Then Jesus addressed them again: “Most assuredly I say to you, I am the door of the sheep.
Chapter 10 Verse 8
8. All who ever came before me are thieves and robbers,[3] but the sheep did not listen to them.[4]
Chapter 10 Verse 9
9. I am the door. If anyone enters by me, he will be saved,[5] and will go in and out and find pasture.[6]
Chapter 10 Verse 10
10. The thief comes only in order to steal, and to kill, and to destroy.[7] I have come so that they may have life, and have it abundantly.
Chapter 10 Verse 11
11. “I am the good shepherd.[8] The good shepherd lays down his life on behalf of the sheep.
Chapter 10 Verse 12
12. But the hired man, not being the shepherd and not owning the sheep, sees the wolf coming and abandons the sheep, and runs away; and the wolf snatches the sheep and scatters them.
Chapter 10 Verse 13
13. Now the hired man runs away because he is a hired man and it does not matter to him about the sheep.
Chapter 10 Verse 14
14. “I am the good shepherd, and I know my own sheep, and I am known by them.
Chapter 10 Verse 15
15. Just as the Father knows me, I also know the Father, and I lay down my life on behalf of the sheep.
Chapter 10 Verse 16
16. I also have other sheep, that are not of this fold;[9] I must bring them also, and they will listen to my voice; and there will be one flock, one shepherd.
Chapter 10 Verse 17
17. “Because of this the Father loves me, in that I lay down my life so that I may take it up again.
Chapter 10 Verse 18
18. No one takes it from me, but I lay it down of myself.[10] I have authority to lay it down, and I have authority to take it up again. This command I have received from my Father.”[11]
Chapter 10 Verse 19
19. Therefore there was another division among the Jews because of these words.
Chapter 10 Verse 20
20. Many of them were saying: “He has a demon and is raving mad. Why do you listen to him?”
Chapter 10 Verse 21
21. Others were saying: “These are not the sayings of someone who is demonized. A demon cannot open blind people’s eyes, can it?”[12]
Chapter 10 Verse 22
22. Now it was the Feast of Dedication in Jerusalem;[13] and it was winter.
Chapter 10 Verse 23
23. And Jesus was walking about in the temple,[14] in Solomon’s porch.
Chapter 10 Verse 24
24. Then the Jews surrounded Him and said to Him: “How long will you keep us in suspense? If you are the Christ, tell us plainly.”
Chapter 10 Verse 25
25. Jesus answered them: “I did tell you, and you do not believe.[15] The works that I do in my Father’s name—these testify concerning me.
Chapter 10 Verse 26
26. But you do not believe because you are not among my sheep, just like I told you.[16]
Chapter 10 Verse 27
27. My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.
Chapter 10 Verse 28
28. And I give them eternal life, and they will never ever be wasted; and no one will snatch them out of my hand.[17]
Chapter 10 Verse 29
29. My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all;[18] and no one is able to snatch out of my Father’s hand.
Chapter 10 Verse 30
30. I and the Father are one.”
Chapter 10 Verse 31
31. Therefore the Jews picked up stones[19] again to stone Him.
Chapter 10 Verse 32
32. Jesus answered them: “Many good works I have shown you from my Father. For which one of them are you stoning me?”
Chapter 10 Verse 33
33. The Jews answered Him saying, “It is not for a good work that we are stoning you, but for blasphemy; precisely because you, being a man, make yourself God!”
Chapter 10 Verse 34
34. Jesus answered them: “Is it not written in your law, ‘I said, you are gods’?[20]
Chapter 10 Verse 35
35. If He called them ‘gods’ to whom the Word of God came—and the Scripture cannot be broken[21]—
Chapter 10 Verse 36
36. do you say ‘You are blaspheming’ to the One the Father sanctified and sent into the world because I said, ‘I am God’s Son’?
Chapter 10 Verse 37
37. If I am not doing the works of my Father, do not believe me.
Chapter 10 Verse 38
38. But if I am doing them, even though you do not believe me, believe the works, so that you may know and believe that the Father is in me, and I in Him.”[22]
Chapter 10 Verse 39
39. So they tried again to seize Him, but He escaped from their hand.[23]
Chapter 10 Verse 40
40. He went away again across the Jordan, to the place where John was baptizing at first; and He remained there.
Chapter 10 Verse 41
41. And many came to Him and said, “Though John did not perform any sign, everything John said about this man was true.”
Chapter 10 Verse 42
42. And many of the people there believed into Him.[24]
Chapter 11
Chapter 11 Verse 1
1. Now a certain man, Lazarus of Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha, was sick.
Chapter 11 Verse 2
2. (It was the Mary who [later][1] anointed the Lord with myrrh and wiped His feet with her hair whose brother Lazarus was sick.)
Chapter 11 Verse 3
3. So the sisters sent to Him saying, “Lord, please, the one you love is sick!”
Chapter 11 Verse 4
4. Upon hearing it Jesus said, “This sickness is not unto death but for the glory of God, so that the Son of God may be glorified through it.”
Chapter 11 Verse 5
5. (Now Jesus loved[2] Martha and her sister and Lazarus.)
Chapter 11 Verse 6
6. So, when He heard that he was sick He stayed where He was two more days![3]
Chapter 11 Verse 7
7. Then after this He says to the disciples, “Let us go into Judea again.”[4]
Chapter 11 Verse 8
8. The disciples say to Him, “Rabbi, the Jews were just now trying to stone you, and you are going back there?”
Chapter 11 Verse 9
9. Jesus answered: “Are there not twelve hours in the day? If anyone walks during the day he doesn’t stumble, because he sees the light of this world.
Chapter 11 Verse 10
10. But if anyone walks in the night he does stumble, because the light is not in him.”[5]
Chapter 11 Verse 11
11. Having said these things He says to them, “Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep, but I am going in order to awaken him.”
Chapter 11 Verse 12
12. His disciples said to Him, “Lord, if he is sleeping he will get well.”
Chapter 11 Verse 13
13. But Jesus had spoken of his death, while they thought He was talking about natural sleep.
Chapter 11 Verse 14
14. So then Jesus said to them plainly: “Lazarus died.
Chapter 11 Verse 15
15. And I am glad for your sakes that I was not there, so that you may believe. But let us go to him.”[6]
Chapter 11 Verse 16
16. Then Thomas (called Twin) said to his fellow disciples, “Let’s us go too, so that we may die with Him.”[7]
Chapter 11 Verse 17
17. So when Jesus had come, He found that he had already been in the tomb four days.[8]
Chapter 11 Verse 18
18. (Now Bethany was near Jerusalem, about two miles away,
Chapter 11 Verse 19
19. and many of the Jews had joined the women around[9] Martha and Mary, to comfort them concerning their brother.)
Chapter 11 Verse 20
20. Then Martha, when she heard that Jesus was coming,[10] went to meet Him; but Mary remained sitting at home.[11]
Chapter 11 Verse 21
21. Then Martha said to Jesus: “Lord, if You had been here my brother would not have died.
Chapter 11 Verse 22
22. But even now I know that whatever You ask of God, God will give You.”
Chapter 11 Verse 23
23. Jesus says to her, “Your brother will rise again.”
Chapter 11 Verse 24
24. Martha says to Him, “I know that he will rise again in the resurrection at the last day.”
Chapter 11 Verse 25
25. Jesus said to her: “I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes into me, though he may die, will live;
Chapter 11 Verse 26
26. and everyone who both lives and believes into me will never ever die.[12] Do you believe this?”
Chapter 11 Verse 27
27. She says to Him, “Yes, Lord, I have come to believe that You are the Messiah, the Son of God, the One coming into the world.”[13]
Chapter 11 Verse 28
28. Having said these things she went and called her sister Mary, saying privately, “The Teacher is here and is calling you!”
Chapter 11 Verse 29
29. Upon hearing it she gets up quickly and goes to Him.
Chapter 11 Verse 30
30. (Now Jesus had not yet entered the village, but was in the place where Martha met Him.
Chapter 11 Verse 31
31. Then the Jews who were with her in the house, consoling her, when they saw Mary get up quickly and go out, they followed her saying, “She is going to the tomb to weep there.”)
Chapter 11 Verse 32
32. Then, when Mary came where Jesus was, upon seeing Him she fell at His feet, saying to Him, “Lord, if You had been here my brother would not have died!”[14]
Chapter 11 Verse 33
33. So when Jesus saw her crying, and the Jews who had come with her crying, He groaned in the spirit and was troubled.[15]
Chapter 11 Verse 34
34. And He said, “Where have you put him?” They say to Him, “Lord, come and see.”
Chapter 11 Verse 35
Chapter 11 Verse 36
36. So the Jews said, “See how he loved him!”
Chapter 11 Verse 37
37. But some of them said, “Couldn’t this man, who opened the eyes of the blind, have also kept this one from dying?”
Chapter 11 Verse 38
38. Then, groaning within Himself again, Jesus arrived at the tomb. Jesus raises Lazarus from the dead It was a cave, and a stone was lying against it.
Chapter 11 Verse 39
39. Jesus says, “Remove the stone!” Martha, the sister of the deceased, says to Him, “Lord, he already stinks; it’s been four days!”[17]
Chapter 11 Verse 40
40. Jesus says to her, “Did I not say to you that if you believe you will see the glory of God?”[18]
Chapter 11 Verse 41
41. Then they took away the stone from where the deceased was lying. Jesus raised His eyes and said: “Father, I thank You that You heard me.[19]
Chapter 11 Verse 42
42. I know that You always hear me, but I spoke for the sake of the crowd standing around, so that they may believe that You sent me.”[20]
Chapter 11 Verse 43
43. Upon saying these things He shouted with a loud voice,[21] “Lazarus, come out!”[22]
Chapter 11 Verse 44
44. And out the deceased came! Bound hand and foot with bandages,[23] and his face wrapped in a cloth. Jesus says to them, “Loose him and let him go.”[24]
Chapter 11 Verse 45
45. So many of the Jews who had come to Mary, and had seen what Jesus did, believed into Him.
Chapter 11 Verse 46
46. But some of them went off to the Pharisees and told them what Jesus had done.
Chapter 11 Verse 47
47. Then the chief priests and the Pharisees convened a council[25] and said: “What can we do? Because this man performs many miraculous signs;
Chapter 11 Verse 48
48. if we let him go on like this everybody will believe into him; and the Romans will come and take away both our place and our nation!”[26]
Chapter 11 Verse 49
49. But one of them, Caiaphas, being high priest that year, said to them: “You know nothing at all![27]
Chapter 11 Verse 50
50. Nor do you consider that it is advantageous for us[28] that one man should die on behalf of the people, rather than the whole nation perish!”
Chapter 11 Verse 51
51. (Now he did not say this on his own, but being high priest that year he prophesied that Jesus was about to die on behalf of the nation;[29]
Chapter 11 Verse 52
52. and not only on behalf of the nation, but also to gather into one all the scattered children of God.)[30]
Chapter 11 Verse 53
53. So from that day on they really plotted to kill Him.[31]
Chapter 11 Verse 54
54. Therefore Jesus no longer moved about openly among the Jews, but went away from there into the country near the wilderness, to a town called Ephraim; and He stayed there with His disciples.[32]
Chapter 11 Verse 55
55. Now the Jewish Passover was near, and many from the country went up to Jerusalem before the Passover in order to purify themselves.
Chapter 11 Verse 56
56. So they were looking for Jesus,[33] and as they stood in the temple they were saying to each other, “What do you think—that he won’t come to the feast at all?”
Chapter 11 Verse 57
57. Now the chief priests and the Pharisees had together issued an edict that if anyone knew where He was he should report it, so they could arrest Him.
Chapter 12
Chapter 12 Verse 1
1. Then, six days before the Passover, Jesus came to Bethany, where Lazarus was (the deceased whom He raised from the dead).
Chapter 12 Verse 2
2. So they gave a dinner for Him there—Martha was serving, while Lazarus was one of those reclining at the table with Him.
Chapter 12 Verse 3
3. Then Mary, bringing a pound of pure oil of nard, very costly, anointed Jesus’ feet, and wiped His feet with her hair![1] And the house was filled with the fragrance of the oil.
Chapter 12 Verse 4
4. Then one of His disciples, Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son (who was about to betray Him), said,
Chapter 12 Verse 5
5. “Why wasn’t this oil sold for 300 denarii[2] and given to the poor?”
Chapter 12 Verse 6
6. (Now he did not say this because the poor mattered to him, but because he was a thief and had the money-box; and used to pilfer what was put in it.)[3]
Chapter 12 Verse 7
7. So Jesus said: “Let her be; she has performed this with a view to my burial.
Chapter 12 Verse 8
8. For you always have the poor with you, but you do not always have me.”
Chapter 12 Verse 9
9. Then a large crowd of the Jews learned that He was there; and they came, not only because of Jesus but also to see Lazarus, whom He had raised from the dead.
Chapter 12 Verse 10
10. So the chief priests decided to kill Lazarus as well,[4]
Chapter 12 Verse 11
11. in that because of him many of the Jews were defecting and believing into Jesus.
Chapter 12 Verse 12
12. The next day a large crowd that had come to the feast,[5] when they heard[6] that Jesus was coming into Jerusalem,
Chapter 12 Verse 13
13. took branches from palm trees and went out to meet Him. And they started shouting: “Hosanna!” “Blessed is He who comes in the name of the LORD!”[7] “King of Israel!”[8]
Chapter 12 Verse 14
14. And finding a young donkey Jesus sat on it; just as it is written:
Chapter 12 Verse 15
15. “Fear no more, daughter of Zion. Look, your King is coming, sitting on a donkey’s colt!”[9]
Chapter 12 Verse 16
16. (Now His disciples did not understand these things at first; but when Jesus was glorified, then they remembered that these things were written about Him, and they had done them to Him.)[10]
Chapter 12 Verse 17
17. So the crowd that had been with Him when He called Lazarus out of the tomb and raised him from the dead continued to testify.
Chapter 12 Verse 18
18. That is also why the crowd met Him, because they heard that He had performed this sign.
Chapter 12 Verse 19
19. So the Pharisees said among themselves: “You can see that you are not making any difference! Just look, the world has gone off after Him!”
Chapter 12 Verse 20
20. Now there were some Greeks among those who went up to worship at the feast.[11]
Chapter 12 Verse 21
21. So these men approached Philip, who was from Bethsaida in Galilee, and requested of him saying, “Sir, we want to see Jesus.”[12]
Chapter 12 Verse 22
22. Philip goes and tells Andrew, and in turn Andrew and Philip tell Jesus.
Chapter 12 Verse 23
23. But Jesus answered them saying: “The hour has come for the Son of the Man to be glorified.[13]
Chapter 12 Verse 24
24. Most assuredly I say to you, if a grain of wheat, having fallen into the ground, does not die, it remains alone;[14] but if it dies it bears a lot of fruit.[15]
Chapter 12 Verse 25
25. The one ‘loving’ his life will waste it, and the one ‘hating’ his life, in this world, will preserve it into eternal life.[16]
Chapter 12 Verse 26
26. If anyone would serve me, let him follow me; and where I am, my servant will be too.[17] Further, if anyone serves me, the Father will honor him.[18]
Chapter 12 Verse 27
27. “Now my soul is distressed, and what should I say—’Father, rescue me from this hour’? But this is why I came to this hour—
Chapter 12 Verse 28
28. ‘Father, glorify your name!’” Then a Voice came out of Heaven, “I have both glorified it and will glorify it again!”
Chapter 12 Verse 29
29. So the crowd that was standing by and listening said that it had thundered. Others said, “An angel has spoken to Him.”[19]
Chapter 12 Verse 30
30. Jesus answered and said: “It was not for my sake that this Voice came, but for your sakes.
Chapter 12 Verse 31
31. Now is the judgment of this world; now the ruler of this world will be thrown out.[20]
Chapter 12 Verse 32
32. While I, if I be lifted up from the earth, I will draw all people to myself.”
Chapter 12 Verse 33
33. (Now He said this to indicate by what kind of death He was about to die.)[21]
Chapter 12 Verse 34
34. The people answered Him: “We have heard from the Law that the Messiah remains forever; and so how can you say, ‘The Son of the Man must be lifted up’? Who is this ‘the Son of the Man’?”[22]
Chapter 12 Verse 35
35. Then Jesus said to them: “The Light will be with you just a little longer. Walk while you have the light, so that darkness does not overtake you;[23] the one who walks in the darkness does not know where he is going.
Chapter 12 Verse 36
36. While you have the Light,[24] believe into the Light, so that you may become sons of light.”[25] Jesus said these things, and going away He was hidden from them.
Chapter 12 Verse 37
37. Although He had performed so many signs in their presence, they were not believing into Him;
Chapter 12 Verse 38
38. so that the word spoken by Isaiah the prophet should be fulfilled: “Lord, who has believed what we heard? And to whom has the arm of the LORD really been revealed?”[26]
Chapter 12 Verse 39
39. Therefore they were unable to believe, in that Isaiah said again:
Chapter 12 Verse 40
40. “He has blinded their eyes and hardened their hearts,[27] lest they should see with their eyes and understand with their hearts and should turn around, and I would heal them.”
Chapter 12 Verse 41
41. Isaiah said these things when[28] he saw His glory[29] and spoke concerning Him.
Chapter 12 Verse 42
42. Nevertheless, even among the rulers many believed into Him, but because of the Pharisees they did not confess Him, so they would not be expelled from the synagogue;[30]
Chapter 12 Verse 43
43. for they loved the praise of men more than the praise of God.[31]
Chapter 12 Verse 44
44. Jesus called out and said: “The one believing into me believes not into me but into Him who sent me.
Chapter 12 Verse 45
45. And the one seeing me sees Him who sent me.
Chapter 12 Verse 46
46. I, Light,[32] have come into the world so that everyone who believes into me will not remain in the darkness.[33]
Chapter 12 Verse 47
47. Also, if someone hears my words and does not believe, I do not judge him; because I did not come to judge the world but to save the world.[34]
Chapter 12 Verse 48
48. The one who rejects me and does not receive my sayings has that which judges him—the word that I have spoken, that is what will judge him on the last day;[35]
Chapter 12 Verse 49
49. because I have not spoken on my own, but the Father who sent me, He gave me a command, what I should say and what I should speak.
Chapter 12 Verse 50
50. And I know that His command is eternal life. So whatever I say, I say it just like the Father told me.”[36]
Chapter 13
Chapter 13 Verse 1
1. Now before the Feast of the Passover, Jesus, knowing that His hour had come that He should depart from this world to the Father, having loved His own who were in the world He loved them to the end.[1]
Chapter 13 Verse 2
2. And after supper[2] (the devil already having put it into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son, to betray Him),[3]
Chapter 13 Verse 3
3. Jesus, knowing that the Father had given everything into His hands,[4] and that He had come from God and was going to God,
Chapter 13 Verse 4
4. He gets up from the meal and lays aside His garments,[5] and taking a towel He tied it around Himself.
Chapter 13 Verse 5
5. Then He poured water into the basin[6] and began to wash the disciples’ feet and to dry them with the towel with which He was wrapped.[7]
Chapter 13 Verse 6
6. So He comes to Simon Peter, and he[8] says to Him, “Lord, you wash my feet?!”
Chapter 13 Verse 7
7. Jesus answered and said to him, “What I am doing you do not understand now, but you will know [by experience] after this.”[9]
Chapter 13 Verse 8
8. Peter says to Him, “You will never ever wash my feet!!”[10] Jesus answered him, “If I do not wash you, you have no part with me.”
Chapter 13 Verse 9
9. Simon Peter says to Him, “Lord, not only my feet, but also my hands and my head!”[11]
Chapter 13 Verse 10
10. Jesus says to him: “One who is bathed has no need except to wash his feet, but is clean all over. And you (pl) are clean, but not all of you.”
Chapter 13 Verse 11
11. (He knew who was betraying Him; that is why He said, “Not all of you are clean.”)
Chapter 13 Verse 12
12. So when Jesus had washed their feet and put His garments back on, He reclined again and said to them: “Do you know what I have done to you?
Chapter 13 Verse 13
13. You address me as ‘Teacher’ and ‘Lord’, and you speak correctly, because I am.
Chapter 13 Verse 14
14. So then, if I, Lord and Teacher, washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another’s feet.
Chapter 13 Verse 15
15. Because I have given you an example, so that you also should do just as I did to you.[12]
Chapter 13 Verse 16
16. “Most assuredly I say to you, a slave is not greater than his owner, neither is a messenger greater than the one who sent him.
Chapter 13 Verse 17
17. If you understand these things, you are blessed if you do them.[13]
Chapter 13 Verse 18
18. “I do not speak concerning all of you—I know whom I chose. But let the Scripture be fulfilled: ‘The one eating bread with me lifted up his heel against me.’[14]
Chapter 13 Verse 19
19. I am telling you now before it happens, so that when it does happen you will believe that I am.
Chapter 13 Verse 20
20. Most assuredly I say to you, he who receives whomever I send receives me,[15] and he who receives me receives Him who sent me.”
Chapter 13 Verse 21
21. Having said these things, Jesus was distressed in His spirit and testified saying, “Most assuredly I say to you, one of you will betray me!”
Chapter 13 Verse 22
22. So the disciples started looking at each other, at a loss as to whom He meant.[16]
Chapter 13 Verse 23
23. Now one of His disciples, whom Jesus loved, was reclining beside Jesus’ bosom.[17]
Chapter 13 Verse 24
24. So Simon Peter motions to him to inquire whom it might be that He was referring to.
Chapter 13 Verse 25
25. And leaning back against Jesus’ breast he says to Him, “Lord, who is it?”
Chapter 13 Verse 26
26. Jesus answers, “It is the one to whom I will give the piece of dunked bread.” And dunking the bread He gives it to Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son.
Chapter 13 Verse 27
27. And after the sop, then Satan entered into him.[18] Whereupon Jesus says to him, “What you are doing, do quickly!”[19]
Chapter 13 Verse 28
28. (Now none of those reclining at the table knew why He said this to him.
Chapter 13 Verse 29
29. Since Judas had the moneybox, some supposed that Jesus was telling him to buy what they needed for the feast, or to give something to the poor.)[20]
Chapter 13 Verse 30
30. So having received the sop, immediately he went out. And it was night.[21]
Chapter 13 Verse 31
31. When he had gone out Jesus says:[22] “Now the Son of the Man has been glorified, and God has been glorified in Him.
Chapter 13 Verse 32
32. Since God has been glorified in Him, God will also glorify Him with Himself, and He will do so presently.[23]
Chapter 13 Verse 33
33. “Little children, I am with you just a little longer. You will look for me, and as I said to the Jews, ‘Where I am going you cannot come,’ so now I say to you.
Chapter 13 Verse 34
34. “I give you a new commandment, that you love one another just as I have loved you[24]—that you also love one another.
Chapter 13 Verse 35
35. By this all will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”[25]
Chapter 13 Verse 36
36. Simon Peter says to Him, “Lord, where are you going?”[26] Jesus answered him, “Where I am going you cannot follow me now, but later you will follow me.”[27]
Chapter 13 Verse 37
37. Peter says to Him: “Lord, why can’t I follow you now? I will lay down my life for your sake!”
Chapter 13 Verse 38
38. Jesus answered him: “You will lay down your life for my sake? Most assuredly I say to you, no rooster can crow until you have denied me three times![28]
Chapter 14
Chapter 14 Verse 1
1. “Do not let your (pl) heart be distressed; you believe into God and you believe into me.[1]
Chapter 14 Verse 2
2. In my Father’s house are many dwellings[2] (otherwise I would have told you).[3] I am going away to prepare a place for you.
Chapter 14 Verse 3
3. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and take you to myself, so that where I am you may be also.[4]
Chapter 14 Verse 4
4. Now you know where I am going, and you know the way.”
Chapter 14 Verse 5
5. Thomas says to Him, “Lord, we don’t know where you are going, so how can we know the way?”[5]
Chapter 14 Verse 6
6. Jesus says to him: “I am the Way and the Truth and the Life. No one goes to the Father except through me.[6]
Chapter 14 Verse 7
7. If you had known me, you would have known my Father as well;[7] from now on you both know Him and have seen Him.”
Chapter 14 Verse 8
8. Philip says to Him, “Lord, show us the Father, and it is enough for us.”
Chapter 14 Verse 9
9. Jesus says to him: “Such a long time I have been with you, and you have not known me, Philip?[8] He who has seen me has seen the Father; so how can you say, ‘Show us the Father’?
Chapter 14 Verse 10
10. Don’t you believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me? The words that I speak to you I do not speak on my own; rather it is the Father who dwells in me who does the works.[9]
Chapter 14 Verse 11
11. Believe me that I am in the Father and the Father is in me; or else, believe me because of the works themselves.[10]
Chapter 14 Verse 12
12. “Most assuredly I say to you,[11] the one believing into me, he too will do the works that I do;[12] in fact he will do greater works than these,[13] because I am going to my Father.
Chapter 14 Verse 13
13. Further, whatever you (pl) may ask in my name,[14] that I will do, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son.
Chapter 14 Verse 14
14. If you ask anything in my name, I will do it!
Chapter 14 Verse 15
15. If you love me, keep my commandments.
Chapter 14 Verse 16
16. Also,[15] I will ask the Father and He will give you another Enabler,[16] so that He may stay with you throughout the age[17]
Chapter 14 Verse 17
17. —the Spirit of the Truth,[18] whom the world is unable to receive,[19] because it neither sees Him nor knows Him; but you do know Him, because He is staying with you and will be in you.[20]
Chapter 14 Verse 18
18. “I will not leave you orphans; I will come to you [shortly].[21]
Chapter 14 Verse 19
19. In a little while the world will no longer see me, but you will see me. Because I live you also will live.[22]
Chapter 14 Verse 20
20. In that day[23] you will know that I am in my Father, and you in me, and I in you.
Chapter 14 Verse 21
21. The one who has my commandments and keeps them, he is the one who loves me. Now the one who loves me will be loved by my Father; and I will love him, and reveal myself to him.[24]
Chapter 14 Verse 22
22. Judas (not the Iscariot) says to Him, “Lord, just how is it that You are going to reveal Yourself to us and not to the world?”
Chapter 14 Verse 23
23. Jesus answered and said to him: “If anyone loves me he will keep my word. So my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him.[25]
Chapter 14 Verse 24
24. The one who does not love me does not keep my words;[26] further, the word which you hear is not mine but the Father’s who sent me.
Chapter 14 Verse 25
25. “I have spoken these things to you while being with you.
Chapter 14 Verse 26
26. But the Enabler, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, He will teach you all things and remind you of everything I said to you.[27]
Chapter 14 Verse 27
27. “Peace I leave with you, my peace I give to you; it is not like the world gives that I give to you.[28] Do not let your heart be distressed or intimidated.[29]
Chapter 14 Verse 28
28. “You heard me say to you, ‘I am going away and I am coming back to you.’ If you loved me you would have been glad that I said, ‘I am going to the Father,’ because my Father is greater than I.[30]
Chapter 14 Verse 29
29. I have told you now, before it happens, so that when it does happen you may believe.
Chapter 14 Verse 30
30. “I will no longer talk much with you, because the ruler of the world is approaching;[31] actually, he has nothing in me.[32]
Chapter 14 Verse 31
31. Rather, I habitually do just as the Father commanded me, so that the world may know that I love the Father.[33] “Get up, let us leave here.[34]
Chapter 15
Chapter 15 Verse 1
1. “I am the vine, the true one,[1] and my Father is the vinedresser.
Chapter 15 Verse 2
2. Any branch in me which does not produce fruit He lifts up,[2] and every one producing fruit He prunes, so that it may produce more fruit.[3]
Chapter 15 Verse 3
3. You are already clean because of the word that I have spoken to you.[4]
Chapter 15 Verse 4
4. Abide in me and I in you.[5] Just as a branch is incapable of producing fruit by itself, except it remains in the vine, so neither can you unless you abide in me.
Chapter 15 Verse 5
5. “I am the vine, and you are the branches. The one who abides in me and I in him, he is the one who produces much fruit, because apart from me you are incapable of doing anything.[6]
Chapter 15 Verse 6
6. If anyone does not abide in me he is thrown out, like a branch, and dries up; well they gather such and throw them into the fire, and he is burned up.[7]
Chapter 15 Verse 7
7. If you abide in me and my sayings[8] abide in you, you will ask whatever you desire and it will happen for you.
Chapter 15 Verse 8
8. My Father is glorified by this: that you produce much fruit; and you will become disciples to me.[9]
Chapter 15 Verse 9
9. “Just as the Father has loved me, I also have loved you;[10] abide in my love.
Chapter 15 Verse 10
10. If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love,[11] just as I have kept my Father’s commandments and abide in His love.
Chapter 15 Verse 11
11. I have spoken these things to you so that my joy may remain in you, and that your joy may be made full.[12]
Chapter 15 Verse 12
12. This is my commandment, that you love one another just as I have loved you.[13]
Chapter 15 Verse 13
13. No one has greater love than this, that someone should lay down his life for his friends.[14]
Chapter 15 Verse 14
14. You are my friends if you do whatever I command you.
Chapter 15 Verse 15
15. “I no longer call you slaves, because a slave does not know what his owner is doing; rather I have called you friends, because I have made known to you everything that I heard from my Father.[15]
Chapter 15 Verse 16
16. It was not you who chose me but I who chose you, and I appointed you so that you should go and produce fruit, and that your fruit should endure, so that whatever you may ask the Father in my name He may give you.
Chapter 15 Verse 17
17. These things I command you so that you love one another.[16]
Chapter 15 Verse 18
18. “When the world hates you, you can be sure that it has hated me first.
Chapter 15 Verse 19
19. If you were of the world, the world would be fond of its own.[17] So because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, that is why the world hates you.[18]
Chapter 15 Verse 20
20. Remember the word that I said to you, ‘A slave is not greater than his owner.’[19] If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they kept my word, they will also keep yours.
Chapter 15 Verse 21
21. Now they will do all of these things to you because of my name, in that they do not know the One who sent me.
Chapter 15 Verse 22
22. If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not be having sin, but now they have no excuse for their sin.
Chapter 15 Verse 23
23. The one who hates me hates my Father too.
Chapter 15 Verse 24
24. If I had not done among them the works that no one else has done, they would not be having sin; but now they have both seen and hated both me and my Father.[20]
Chapter 15 Verse 25
25. However, this was so that the statement written in their law might be fulfilled, ‘They hated me without cause.’[21]
Chapter 15 Verse 26
26. “Now when the Enabler comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of the Truth who proceeds from the Father, He will testify concerning me.
Chapter 15 Verse 27
27. And you also will testify, because you have been with me from the beginning.[22]
Chapter 16
Chapter 16 Verse 1
1. “I have spoken these things to you to avoid your being caused to stumble[1]
Chapter 16 Verse 2
2. —they will excommunicate you; indeed, a time is coming when anyone who kills you will think he is offering God service![2]
Chapter 16 Verse 3
3. And they will do these things because they have not known either the Father or me.
Chapter 16 Verse 4
4. Now I have told you these things so that when the time comes you may remember that I told you about them; I did not tell you these things from the beginning because I was with you.[3]
Chapter 16 Verse 5
5. “Now then, I am going away to Him who sent me, yet none of you asks me, ‘Where are you going?’
Chapter 16 Verse 6
6. But because I have said these things to you, sorrow has filled your heart.
Chapter 16 Verse 7
7. Nevertheless I am telling you the truth: it is to your advantage that I go away, because if I do not go away the Enabler will not come to you, but if I do go I will send Him to you.[4]
Chapter 16 Verse 8
8. “Now when He comes he will convict the world about sin and about righteousness and about judgment:
Chapter 16 Verse 9
9. first about sin, because they do not believe into me;[5]
Chapter 16 Verse 10
10. then about righteousness, because I am going away to my Father and you will no longer see me;[6]
Chapter 16 Verse 11
11. then about judgment, because the ruler of this world has been judged.[7]
Chapter 16 Verse 12
12. “I still have many things to say to you but you cannot bear it now.[8]
Chapter 16 Verse 13
13. However, when He, the Spirit of the Truth, has come, He will guide you into all the truth; for He will not speak on His own, but He will speak whatever He hears.[9] He will also communicate to you the things that are coming.
Chapter 16 Verse 14
14. He will glorify me because He will take of what is mine and communicate it to you.
Chapter 16 Verse 15
15. All that the Father has is mine;[10] that is why I said that He takes from what is mine and will communicate it to you.
Chapter 16 Verse 16
16. “In just a little you will not see me, and in another little you will see me, because I am going to the Father.”[11]
Chapter 16 Verse 17
17. Then some of His disciples said among themselves: “What is this that He is telling us, ‘In just a little you will not see me, and in another little you will see me,’ and because ‘I am going to the Father’?”
Chapter 16 Verse 18
18. So they said: “What is this ‘little’ that He mentions? We do not know what He is talking about.”[12]
Chapter 16 Verse 19
19. Well Jesus knew that they were wanting to question Him and said to them: “Are you inquiring among yourselves about what I said, ‘In just a little you will not see me, and in another little you will see me’?
Chapter 16 Verse 20
20. Most assuredly I say to you that you will weep and lament, but the world will rejoice; you will become grieved,[13] but your grief will be turned into joy.[14]
Chapter 16 Verse 21
21. When a woman gives birth she has pain, because her time has come; but when the child is born she no longer remembers the anguish, for joy that a human being has been born into the world.
Chapter 16 Verse 22
22. So in your turn you are now experiencing grief, but I will see you again and your heart will rejoice, and no one will take your joy from you.
Chapter 16 Verse 23
23. In that day[15] you will not question me about anything. “Most assuredly I say to you that whatever you ask the Father in my name He will give you.
Chapter 16 Verse 24
24. Until now you have not asked anything in my name. Ask and you will receive, so that your joy may be made full.
Chapter 16 Verse 25
25. “I have told you these things using figures of speech, but a time is coming when I will no longer talk to you with figures of speech; rather I will tell you plainly about the Father.
Chapter 16 Verse 26
26. In that day you will ask in my name; I do not say to you that I will request the Father on your behalf,
Chapter 16 Verse 27
27. because the Father Himself is fond of you,[16] in that you have become fond of me and have believed that I came forth from God.
Chapter 16 Verse 28
28. I did come forth from the Father and have come into the world. I am leaving the world again[17] and am going to the Father.”
Chapter 16 Verse 29
29. His disciples say to Him: “Hey, now you are speaking plainly and using no figure of speech!
Chapter 16 Verse 30
30. Now we know that you know everything and don’t need anyone to question you.[18] By this we believe that you came forth from God.”[19]
Chapter 16 Verse 31
31. Jesus answered them: “Do you believe now, really?
Chapter 16 Verse 32
32. Listen, an hour is coming, actually it has already arrived, that you will be scattered, each to his own, and you will leave me alone.[20] Yet I am not alone, because the Father is with me.
Chapter 16 Verse 33
33. I have spoken these things to you so that in me you may have peace. In the world you have oppression;[21] but take heart, I have conquered the world!”[22]
Chapter 17
Chapter 17 Verse 1
1. Jesus spoke these things,[1] raising His eyes to Heaven and saying: For Himself “Father, the hour has come! Glorify Your Son, so that Your Son also may glorify You,
Chapter 17 Verse 2