The Gospel According to John

1 At the first there was the Word, and the Word was where God was, and the Word was God.

2 He was at the first where God was. 3 Everything was made by his agency, and not a thing that was made was made without his agency.

4 In him there was life, and the life was the light of men; 5 and the light is shining in the darkness, and the darkness has not taken it in.

6 There was a man sent from God whose name was John. 7 This man came for testimony, to testify about the light, that all might believe through him. 8 He was not the light but to testify about the light. 9 There was coming into the world the true light that lights every man. 10 He was in the world, and the world was made by his agency, and the world did not know him; 11 he came to what belonged to him, and those who belonged to him did not receive him. 12 But to as many as accepted him he gave the chance to become children of God, to those who believe in his name, 13 who were born not from blood nor from will of flesh nor from will of man, but from God.

14* And the Word became flesh and abode among us and we saw his glory, glory such as that of an only son from the Father, full of grace and truth. 15 John testifies of him and shouts “This was the one I spoke of when I said ‘He who is coming behind me has got ahead of me,’ because he was before I was,” 16 because out of his fullness all of us have had portions, and grace for grace. 17 For the law was given through Moses, grace and truth came in through Jesus Christ. 18* Nobody ever has seen God; an Only Born God, he who is in the Father’s bosom, he gave the account of him.

19 And this is John’s testimony, when the Jews sent priests and Levites to him from Jerusalem to ask him “Who are you?” 20 and he answered and made no denial. And he said “I am not the Messiah.” 21 And they asked him “Then what? are you Elijah?” and he said “I am not.” “Are you the prophet?” and he answered “No.” 22 So they said to him “Who are you? that we may give those who sent us an answer, what you say about yourself.” 23 He said “I am the voice of one calling out in the wilderness ‘Straighten out the Lord’s road,’ as the prophet Isaiah said.” 24 And they were sent from the Pharisees; 25 and they asked him “Then why do you baptize if you are not the Messiah nor Elijah nor the prophet?” 26 John answered “I baptize in water; in your midst stands he whom you do not know, 27 he who is coming behind me, whose shoestring I am not worthy to untie.”

28 This happened in Bethany beyond the Jordan, where John was baptizing. 29 The next day he saw Jesus coming toward him, and said “There is God’s lamb that takes away the world’s sin. 30 That is the one about whom I said ‘There is coming behind me a man who has got ahead of me,’ because he was before I was. 31 And I did not know him, but it was to have him disclosed to Israel that I came baptizing in water.” 32 And John testified “I have seen the Spirit coming down like a dove out of the sky, and it rested on him. 33 And I did not know him; but he who sent me to baptize in water, he said to me ‘The one on whom you see the Spirit come down and rest on him, he is the one that baptizes in Holy Spirit’; 34 and I have seen and have testified that this is the Son of God.”

35* The next day John was standing there again, and two of his disciples, 36 and he looked at Jesus walking along and said “There is God’s lamb”; 37 and the two disciples heard him speak, and followed Jesus. 38 And Jesus turned and saw them following him and said to them “What do you want?” and they said to him “Rabbi (which translated means Teacher), where are you staying?” 39 He said to them “Come and you shall see.” So they came and saw where he was staying, and stayed with him that day; it was about four o’clock.

40 Simon Peter’s brother Andrew was one of the two that heard from John and followed him; 41 he found his own brother Simon first and said to him “We have found the Messiah” (which means Anointed; translated into Greek it is Christ). 42 He brought him to Jesus; Jesus looked at him and said “You are Simon the son of John, you shall be called Cephas” (which means a rock; translated into Greek, the name is Peter). 43 The next day he wanted to go out to Galilee, and found Philip, and said to him “Follow me.” 44 And Philip was from Bethsaida, Andrew and Peter’s city.

45 Philip found Nathanael and said to him “We have found the one that Moses wrote of in the Law, and that the prophets wrote of, Jesus the son of Joseph from Nazareth”; 46 and Nathanael said to him “Can there be anything good out of Nazareth?” Philip said to him “Come and see.” 47 Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him and said of him “Here comes a genuine Israelite with no adulteration.” 48 Nathanael said to him “What have you known about me?” Jesus replied “Before Philip called you I saw you when you were under the fig-tree.” 49 Nathanael answered “Rabbi, you are the son of God, you are the king of Israel.” 50 Jesus replied “Because I said to you I saw you under the fig-tree do you believe? you shall see greater things than these,” 51 and said to him “Verily, verily I tell you, you and the rest shall see the heavens standing open and God’s angels going up and coming down to the Son of Man.”

2 And the next day but one there was a wedding at Cana in Galilee, and Jesus’s mother was there; 2 and Jesus too, and his disciples, were invited to the wedding. 3 And when they ran short of wine Jesus’s mother said to him “They have no wine”; 4* and Jesus said to her “What have you to do with my affairs, woman? the hour for me is not come yet.”

5 His mother said to the waiters “Whatever he says to you, do it.” 6 And there were six stone water-jars there, holding twenty or thirty gallons each, set out in accordance with the Jews’ rites of cleansing. 7 Jesus said to them “Fill the jars with water”; and they filled them clear up; 8 and he said to them “Now dip some out and take it to the toastmaster.” And they took it to him. 9 And when the toastmaster tasted the water, which had become wine, and did not know where it came from (but the waiters who had dipped the water out knew), the toastmaster called out to the bridegroom 10 “Everybody puts on the good wine first and the poorer when they get under the influence; you have kept the good wine till now.” 11 This, the first of the tokens, Jesus did at Cana in Galilee, and disclosed his glory, and his disciples believed in him. 12 After that he came down to Capernaum, he and his mother and his brothers and his disciples, and they stayed there not many days.

13 And the Jews’ passover was near, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. 14 And he found in the temple-precinct the sellers of cattle and sheep and pigeons and the money-changers in their seats, 15 and he made a whip out of bits of rope and drove them all out of the temple-precinct, and the sheep and the cattle, and spilled the money-changers’ coins and upset their tables, 16 and said to the pigeon-sellers “Get these away from here; do not make my Father’s house a market.” 17 His disciples remembered that it is written “Jealousy for thy house will eat me up.”

18 So the Jews replied “What token do you show us, that you are doing this?” 19 Jesus replied “Wreck this temple and I will set it up in three days.” 20 So the Jews said “It took forty-six years to build this temple, and will you set it up in three days?” 21 But he was speaking of the temple of his body; 22 so when he rose from the dead his disciples remembered that he said that, and believed the text of scripture and the word that Jesus had spoken.

23 And while he was in Judea at passover at the feast many believed in his name as they saw the tokens he was doing. 24 But Jesus himself did not trust himself to them, because he knew everybody 25 and did not need to have anybody testify about man, for he himself knew what was in man.

3 And there was a man who belonged to the Pharisees, whose name was Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews; 2 this man came to him by night and said to him “Rabbi, we know you have come from God as teacher; for nobody can do these tokens that you are doing if God is not with him.”

3* Jesus replied “Verily, verily I tell you, if a man is not born over, he cannot see the Reign of God.”

4 Nicodemus said to him “How can a man be born when he is old? can he get into his mother’s body a second time and be born?”

5* Jesus answered “Verily, verily I say to you, if one is not born from water and spirit he cannot get into the Reign of God. 6* What is born from the flesh is flesh and what is born from the spirit is spirit. 7* Do not wonder at my telling you ‘you must be born over.’ 8 The wind blows where it chooses, and you hear the sound of it but do not know where it comes from and where it is going. Anyone who is born from the spirit is like that.”

9 Nicodemus replied “How can those things be done?”

10 Jesus replied “Are you the teacher of Israel and do you not get the meaning of that? 11 Verily, verily, I tell you that we are speaking of what we know and testifying to what we have seen, and you are not receiving our testimony. 12 If I tell you the earthly side and you do not believe, how will you believe if I tell you the heavenly side? 13 And nobody has gone up to heaven but he who came down out of heaven, the Son of Man. 14 And as Moses raised the snake aloft in the desert, so the Son of Man must be raised aloft, 15 that everyone who believes in him may have eternal life. 16 For God so loved the world that he gave his only son that everyone who believes in him might not perish but have eternal life. 17 For God did not send the Son into the world to judge the world but in order to have the world saved through him. 18 He who believes in him is not judged; he who does not believe is already judged because he has not believed in the name of God’s only son. 19 And this is the judgment, that the light has come into the world and men loved the darkness rather than the light; for their doings were bad. 20 For anyone who is misbehaving hates the light and does not come to the light, that his doings may not be exposed; 21** but he who is doing as truth would have him comes to the light that his doings may be disclosed, because they are work done in God.”

22 After this Jesus and his disciples came into Judea, and he spent a while with them there and baptized. 23 And John too was baptizing at Enon near Salim, because there was much water there; and they came and had themselves baptized, 24 for John had not yet been thrown into prison.

25 So there came up an argument on the part of John’s disciples with a Jew about cleansing; 26 and they came to John and said to him “Rabbi, the one that was with you on the other side of the Jordan, the one you testified for—there he is baptizing and everybody is coming to him.”

27 John replied “A man cannot take anything if it is not given to him from heaven. 28 You yourselves bear me witness that I said I was not the Messiah, but that I had been sent before him. 29 The one who has the bride is bridegroom; but the bridegroom’s friend who stands and hears him is right joyous over the bridegroom’s voice; so this joy is mine in full measure. 30 He must grow, but I must dwindle. 31 He who comes from above is above all: he who is from the earth is a thing of earth and speaks things of earth; he who comes from heaven is above all. 32 What he has seen and heard, to that he testifies, and nobody accepts his testimony. 33 He who has accepted his testimony has set his seal to it that God is true; 34 for he whom God has sent speaks God’s words, for he does not give the Spirit by measure. 35 The Father loves the Son, and has given everything into his hand. 36* He who believes in the Son has eternal life; but he who disobeys the Son will not see life, but God’s anger rests on him.”

4 So when the Lord found that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John— 2 yet Jesus did not himself baptize, but his disciples— 3 he left Judea and went back to Galilee. 4 And he had to go through Samaria.

5 So he came to a city in Samaria called Sychar, near the piece of land Jacob gave to his son Joseph. 6 And there was a well there, Jacob’s well. So Jesus, being spent with travel, was sitting by the well in that condition; it was about twelve o’clock; 7 a woman of Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her “Let me have a drink”; 8 for his disciples had gone off to the city to buy food.

9 So the Samaritan woman said to him “How come you, a Jew, to ask me, a Samaritan woman, for a drink?” for the Jews do not associate with the Samaritans.

10 Jesus replied “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is that is saying to you ‘Let me have a drink,’ you would have asked him and he would have given you living water.”

11 She said to him “Sir, you have nothing to draw with and the well is deep; so where do you get the living water? 12 Do you amount to more than our father Jacob, who gave us the well, and drank from it himself, and his sons and his stock?”

13 Jesus replied “Anyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again; 14 but whoever drinks the water that I will give him shall have no thirst forevermore, but the water that I will give him shall become in him a fountain of gushing water to eternal life.”

15 The woman said to him “Sir, give me that water, that I may not be thirsty nor come over here to draw.”

16 He said to her “Go call your husband and come here.”

17 The woman replied “I have no husband.”

Jesus said to her “You are right in saying ‘I have no husband,’ 18 for you have had five husbands and the one you have now is no husband of yours; you have told the truth in that.”

19 The woman said to him “Sir, I see you are a prophet. 20 Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, and you say the place to worship in is at Jerusalem.”

21 Jesus said to her “Believe me, woman, there is a moment coming when you will not be worshiping the Father either on this mountain or at Jerusalem. 22 You worship what you do not know; we worship what we know, because salvation is of the Jews; 23 but there is a moment coming, and it is here now, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth—for the Father aims to have his worshipers such. 24* God is a spirit, and those who worship must worship in spirit and truth.”

25* The woman said to him “I know there is a Messiah coming” (the one who in Greek is called Christ); “when he comes he will tell us the whole story.”

26 Jesus said to her “It is I, I who am speaking to you.”

27 And upon that his disciples came, and wondered that he was talking with a woman; however, nobody said “What are you after?” or “Why are you talking with her?”

28 So the woman left her jar and went off to the city and said to the men 29 “Come see a man that told me everything I had done; do you suppose that is the Messiah?”

30 They came out of the city and were coming to him. 31* In the meantime the disciples asked him “Rabbi, eat something.”

32 But he said to them “I have a meal to eat that you do not know of.”

33 So the disciples said to each other “Did someone bring him something to eat?”

34 Jesus said to them “It is my food that I should do the will of the one who sent me and carry his work through. 35* You say, do you not, ‘Another four months and harvest comes’? here I am telling you, raise your eyes and look at the fields to see that they are white for harvest already. 36 The reaper gets pay and gathers fruit for eternal life, that together the sower and the reaper may be glad, 37 for in this matter the saying holds good that the sower is one man and the reaper another. 38 I sent you to reap what you have not labored on; others have labored and you have come into their labor.”

39 And out of that city many of the Samaritans believed in him because of the woman’s words as she testified “He told me everything I had done.” 40 So when the Samaritans came to him they asked him to stay with them, and he stayed there two days, 41 and many more believed because of his words 42 and said to the woman “We are no longer believing because of your talk, for we have heard for ourselves and know that this positively is the Savior of the World.”

43 But after the two days he went out from there to Galilee; 44 for Jesus himself attested that a prophet does not have honor in his hometown. 45 So when he came to Galilee the Galileans received him, having seen all the things he did at Jerusalem at the feast; for they too had been to the feast.

46 So he came again to Cana in Galilee, where he made the water wine. And there was a certain royal official whose son was sick at Capernaum; 47 this man heard that Jesus had come from Jerusalem to Galilee, and went to him and asked that he would come down and heal his son, for he was going to die. 48 So Jesus said to him “Unless you see tokens and wonders you will not believe”; 49 the official said to him “Sir, come down before my child dies.” 50 Jesus said to him “Go along, your son recovers”; the man believed the word Jesus gave him and went. 51 And when he was already coming down his servants met him saying his child was recovering. 52 So he inquired from them the hour at which he showed improvement; so they told him “The fever left him at one in the afternoon yesterday.” 53 So the father knew it was at that hour at which Jesus said to him “your son recovers,” and believed, he and his whole family. 54 This second token Jesus did again when he had come out of Judea to Galilee.

5 After this there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. 2 And at Jerusalem there is at the Sheep Gate a pool, the one spoken of in Hebrew as Bethzatha, with five porches; 3* in these were lying a multitude of the sick, blind, lame, atrophied. 4 —— 5 And there was a certain man there who had had thirty-eight years of his disease; 6 seeing him lying there, and finding that he had had a long time of it, Jesus said to him “Do you want to get well?”

7 The sick man answered him “Sir, I do not have a man to throw me into the pool when the water is disturbed, and while I am coming somebody else gets down ahead of me.”

8 Jesus said to him “Rise, take up your pallet, and walk.” 9 And at once the man became well and took up his pallet and walked.

And it was sabbath that day; 10 so the Jews said to the cured man “It is sabbath, and it is not lawful for you to carry your pallet.” 11 But he answered “The one that made me well, he said to me ‘Take up your pallet and walk.’” 12 They asked him “Who was the man that said to you ‘Take it up and walk’?” 13 But the cured man did not know who it was; for Jesus had slipped away, there being a crowd in the place.

14 After this Jesus found him in the temple-precinct and said to him “There, you have got well; do not sin anymore, so that you will not have something worse.” 15 The man went off and told the Jews it was Jesus that had made him well; 16 and because of that the Jews persecuted Jesus, since he had done that on a sabbath. 17 But he answered them “My Father is working till now, and I am working.” 18 So because of that the Jews tried the more to kill him since he was not only overriding the obligation of the sabbath but also calling God his father, claiming to be equal to God.

19 So Jesus replied “Verily, verily I tell you, the Son cannot do anything from himself unless he sees the Father do a thing; for what he does, that the Son likewise does. 20 For the Father loves the Son and shows him everything that he himself is doing, and will show him greater works than these for you to wonder at. 21 For as the Father raises the dead and gives life, so the Son too gives life to whom he will. 22 For the Father does not judge anyone either, but he has given all jurisdiction to the Son, 23 that all may honor the Son as they honor the Father. He who does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent him. 24 Verily, verily I tell you that he who hears my words and believes him who sent me has eternal life, and does not come under judgment but has passed from death to life. 25 Verily, verily I tell you that there is a moment coming, and it is here now, when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will come to life, 26 for as the Father has life in himself so he has given it to the Son to have life in himself; 27 and he has given him authority to administer judgment because he is Son of Man. 28 Do not wonder at this, because there is a moment coming at which all in the tombs will hear his voice 29 and pass out, those who have done what was good to resurrection of life, those who have misbehaved to resurrection of judgment. 30 I cannot do anything from myself: I pronounce judgment as I hear, and my judgment is just because I am not looking out for my will but for the will of the one that sent me.

31 “If I testify about myself, my testimony is not true; 32 there is another who testifies about me, and I know the testimony he gives about me is true. 33 You have sent to John and he has testified to the truth; 34 but I do not draw on a man for testimony, but am saying these things that you may be saved. 35 He was the lamp that burned and shone; and you were willing to jubilate in his light for a moment. 36 But I have greater testimony than John’s; for the works that the Father has given it to me to carry through, the very works that I am doing, testify about me that the Father has sent me. 37 And the Father who sent me, he has testified about me. You have never yet heard his voice nor seen his form, 38 and you do not have his word resting in you, because you do not believe him whom he sent. 39 You search through the scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life, and they are what testify about me, 40 and you are not willing to come to me to have life. 41 I do not accept glory from men; 42 but I know you as not having the love of God in you. 43 I have come in my Father’s name and you do not accept me; if another comes in his own name you will accept him. 44 How can you believe when you accept glory from each other and do not look out for the glory that comes from the only God? 45* Do not think I will accuse you to the Father; there is one who does accuse you, Moses, to whom you have pinned your hopes; 46 for if you believed Moses you would be believing me, for he wrote about me. 47 But if you do not believe his writings how will you believe my sayings?”

6 After this Jesus went off to the other side of the Sea of Galilee (of Tiberias). 2 And a great crowd followed him, because they saw the tokens he was doing on the sick. 3 And Jesus went up on the mountainside and sat there with his disciples. 4 And the passover, the Jews’ feast, was near.

5 So Jesus, raising his eyes and seeing the sight of a great crowd coming to him, said to Philip “Where shall we buy bread for these to eat?” 6 But he was saying this to test him; for he himself knew what he was going to do.

7 Philip answered him “Two hundred denarii worth of bread is not enough for them each to take a little bit.” 8 One of his disciples, Simon Peter’s brother Andrew, said to him 9 “There is a child here who has five barley cakes and two fish for relish; but what is that for so many?”

10 Jesus said “Have the men take their seats.” And there was much grass in the place; so the men took their seats, in number about five thousand. 11* So Jesus took the cakes and gave thanks and distributed to the men on the grass, similarly of the fish too, as much as they wanted. 12 And when they were filled he said to his disciples “Pick up the fragments that were left over so that there shall not be anything lost.” 13* So they did it, and filled twelve baskets with fragments that the eaters had had left over from the five barley cakes.

14 So the men, seeing the token he did, said “This positively is the prophet that was to come into the world.” 15 So Jesus, finding that they were going to come and seize him to make a king of him, withdrew to the mountainside again alone by himself. 16 And when it came evening his disciples went down to the sea 17 and got into a boat and were coming to Capernaum on the other side of the sea; and darkness had already come down and Jesus had not yet come to them, 18 and the sea was being stirred up as a high wind blew. 19 So they had rowed about three or four miles when they saw Jesus walking on the sea and getting near the boat, and they were afraid. 20 But he said to them “It is I, do not be afraid”; 21 so they were willing to take him into the boat, and at once the boat was at the land they were bound for.

22 The next day the crowd that was standing on the other side of the sea saw that there had been no other boat there but one, and that Jesus had not got into the boat with his disciples but the disciples had gone off alone. 23 But boats from Tiberias came near the place where they had eaten the bread after the Lord gave thanks; 24 so when the crowd saw that Jesus was not there, nor his disciples, they themselves went on board the boats and came to Capernaum looking for Jesus; 25 and, finding him on the other side of the sea, they said to him “Rabbi, when did you get here?” 26 Jesus replied to them “Verily, verily I tell you, you are looking for me not because you saw tokens but because you ate out of the bread and satisfied your appetites. 27 Work not for perishable food but for the food that lasts into eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you, for him the Father, God, sealed.”

28 So they said to him “What shall we do to do God’s work?” 29 Jesus replied to them “This is God’s work, for you to believe in the one he sent.” 30 So they said to him “Then what token do you do so that we may see and believe you? what do you do? 31 Our fathers ate the manna in the desert, as it says ‘He gave them bread from heaven to eat.’” 32 So Jesus said to them “Verily, verily I tell you, not Moses has given you the bread from heaven, but my Father is giving you the true bread from heaven; 33 for God’s bread is the bread that comes down from heaven and gives the world life.” 34 So they said to him “Sir, give us this bread always.”

35 Jesus said to them “I am the bread of life; he who comes to me shall not go hungry, and he who believes in me shall not go thirsty, ever; 36* but I told you you have even seen and do not believe. 37 Whatever the Father gives me will come to me; and I will not turn out the one who comes to me, 38 because I have come down from heaven not to do my will but the will of the one who sent me. 39 And this is the will of the one who sent me, that of whatever he has given me I should not lose any but should raise it on the Last Day. 40 For this is my Father’s will, that whoever sees the Son and believes in him should have eternal life and I should raise him on the Last Day.”

41 So the Jews complained of him because he said “I am the bread that came down from heaven,” 42 and said “Why, this is Jesus the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know; how is he saying now ‘I have come down from heaven’?”

43 Jesus replied to them “Do not complain to each other. 44* Nobody can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him and I shall raise him on the Last Day. 45 It says in the prophets ‘and they shall all be taught of God’; everyone who has heard from the Father and has learned comes to me; 46 not that anyone has seen the Father, except he who is from God, he has seen the Father.

47 “Verily, verily I tell you, he who believes has eternal life. 48 I am the bread of life. 49 Your fathers ate the manna in the desert and died; 50 this is the bread that comes down from heaven for a man to eat of and not die. 51 I am the living bread that came down from heaven; if one eats of this bread he will live forever; yes, and the bread that I will give is my flesh, for the life of the world.”

52 So the Jews wrangled with each other, saying “How can this man give us his flesh to eat?” 53 So Jesus said to them “Verily, verily I tell you, if you do not eat the Son of Man’s flesh and drink his blood you do not have life in you. 54 He who does feast on my flesh and drink my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him on the Last Day; 55 for my flesh is true food and my blood is true drink. 56 He who feasts on my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me, and I in him. 57 As the living Father sent me and I live because of the Father, he also who feasts on me will live too because of me. 58 This is the bread that came down from heaven, not as the fathers ate and died; he who feasts on this bread will live forever.”

59 This he said in a synagogue as he was teaching in Capernaum; 60 so many of his disciples, hearing it, said “These words come hard; who can listen to him?” 61 But Jesus, knowing in himself that his disciples were complaining about this, said to them “Does this stagger you? 62 so if you see the Son of Man go up where he was formerly— 63 The spirit is what gives life; the flesh is of no use; the words I have spoken to you are spirit and are life. 64 But there are some of you that do not believe.” For Jesus knew from the first who it was that did not believe and who it was that was to be the agent in his arrest. 65 And he said “That is why I have been saying to you that nobody can come to me unless it is given to him from the Father.”

66 At this many of his disciples backed off and no longer went about with him. 67 So Jesus said to the Twelve “Do you too mean to go?” 68 Simon Peter answered him “Sir, to whom shall we go? you have words of eternal life, 69 and for our part we do believe and know that you are God’s Holy One.” 70 Jesus answered them “Did I not choose you twelve? and one of you is a backbiter.” 71 He meant Judas the son of Simon an Iscariot; for he, one of the Twelve, was going to be the agent in his arrest.

7 And after this Jesus went about in Galilee; for he would not go about in Judea because the Jews were trying to kill him. 2 And the Jews’ Feast of Booths was near; 3 so his brothers said to him “Get away from here and go to Judea so that your disciples too will see your deeds that you do; 4 for nobody does anything in secret and tries to be personally a public figure. If you are doing these things, make yourself visible to the world.” 5 For even his brothers did not believe in him.

6 So Jesus said to them “My time is not come yet, but your time is always ready. 7 The world cannot hate you; but me it does hate, because I testify about it that its doings are bad. 8 Go up to the feast yourselves; I am not going up to this feast yet, because my time is not fully come.” 9 And, saying this to them, he stayed in Galilee. 10 But when his brothers had gone up to the feast, he too went up, not openly but as it were in secret.

11 So the Jews looked for him at the feast and said “Where is he?” 12 and there was a great deal of complaining about him in the crowds—some said “He is good,” others said “No, he misleads the crowd.” 13 However, nobody spoke publicly of him for fear of the Jews.

14 But when the feast was already at its middle Jesus went up to the temple-precinct and taught. 15 So the Jews wondered, saying “How is it this man knows books without having learned?”

16 So Jesus replied to them “My teaching is not mine, but his who sent me; 17 if one wants to do his will he will know about the teaching, whether it is from God or I am speaking from myself. 18 He who speaks from himself aims at his own glory; but he who aims at the glory of the one who sent him, he is true and there is no wrong in him. 19 Did not Moses give you the law? and no one of you lives up to the law. Why are you trying to kill me?”

20 The crowd answered “You are possessed; who is trying to kill you?”

21* Jesus replied to them “I did one deed and you are all wondering because of that. 22 Moses has given you circumcision (not that it is from Moses, but from the fathers), and on the sabbath you circumcise a man. 23 If a man receives circumcision on the sabbath in order that Moses’s law may not be slighted, are you exasperated with me because I made a whole man well on the sabbath? 24 Do not judge by appearances, but pass the just judgment.”

25 So some of the Jerusalemites said “Why, this is the one they are trying to kill; 26 and here he is speaking publicly and they are saying nothing to him—can it be that the rulers have positively found out that this is the Messiah? 27 But we know where this man is from; but when the Messiah comes nobody knows where he is from.” 28 So Jesus, as he was teaching in the temple-precinct, cried out “You both know me and know where I am from; and I have not come of myself, but the one who sent me is genuine—whom you do not know; 29 I know him, because I am from him and he sent me.” 30 So they meant to arrest him—and nobody laid a hand on him, because his hour had not come yet. 31 And of the crowd many believed in him and said “Will the Messiah, when he comes, do more tokens than this man has?”

32 The Pharisees heard the crowd voicing these thoughts about him, and the chief priests and the Pharisees sent officers to arrest him. 33 So Jesus said “I am to be with you a little while longer and go to the one that sent me; 34 you will look for me and not find me, and where I am you cannot come.” 35** So the Jews said to each other “Where is the man going, that we shall not find him? is he going to the colonies among the Greeks to teach the Greeks? 36* What is the idea of that that he said, ‘You will look for me and not find me, and where I am you cannot come’?”

37 And on the last day, the great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out “If anybody is thirsty, come to me and drink. 38 He who believes in me will, as the text said, have rivers of living water flowing out of his body.” 39 And this he said with reference to the Spirit which those who believed in him were to receive; for there was not yet any Spirit, because Jesus was not glorified yet.

40 So some of the crowd, hearing these words, said “This positively is the prophet.” 41 Others said “This is the Messiah”; but they said “Why, is the Messiah coming out of Galilee? 42 didn’t the text say the Messiah is to come of David’s blood, and from Bethlehem, the village where David was?” 43 So there came to be a split in the crowd over him; 44 and some of them wanted to arrest him, but nobody laid hands on him.

45 So the officers came to the chief priests and Pharisees, and these said to them “Why did you not bring him?” 46* The officers answered “No man ever spoke as this man speaks.” 47 So the Pharisees answered them “Are you misled too? 48 has any one of the rulers believed on him, or of the Pharisees? 49 but this crowd that do not know the law have a curse on them.”

50 Nicodemus, he who had come to him before, said to them, being one of them, 51 “Does your law pass judgment on a man without having first heard him and found out what he is doing?” 52 They replied to him “Are you too from Galilee? Look up and see that there does not arise a prophet from Galilee.”

John 7:53 and John 8:1-11 are printed at the end of John.

STORY OF A WOMAN CAUGHT IN ADULTERY

Not a part of any of the four gospels, but regarded as genuine gospel history. The verses are numbered as part of the seventh and eighth chapters of John.

53 And they went their ways, each to his home.

8 And Jesus went to the Mount of Olives. 2* And at daybreak he arrived in the temple-precinct again; and all the people were coming to him, and he had sat down and was teaching them. 3 And the scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman caught in adultery, and set her in the middle 4 and said to him “Teacher, this woman has been caught in the act of adultery. 5* And in the law Moses commanded us to stone such; so what do you say?” 6* But Jesus bent over and wrote something down on the ground with his finger. 7* But when they kept pressing the question on him he straightened up and said to them “For the first let the sinless one of you throw a stone at her” 8 and bent down again and wrote on the ground. 9* And they, hearing that, went out one by one, beginning with the oldest, and he was left alone, and the woman, who was in the middle. 10 And Jesus straightened up and said to her “Woman, where are they? did nobody condemn you?” 11 And she said “No, sir.” And Jesus said “Neither do I; go; no more sinning from now on.”

12 So Jesus spoke to them again, saying “I am the light of the world; he who follows me shall not walk in the dark, but have the light of life.”

13 So the Pharisees said to him “You are giving testimony about yourself—your testimony is not true.”

14 Jesus replied to them “Even if I am giving testimony about myself, my testimony is true, because I know where I came from and where I am going; but you do not know where I come from or where I am going. 15 You judge from the standpoint of the flesh. I do not judge anybody; 16 and if I do judge my judgment is true, because I am not alone but I and the one who sent me; 17 and it is written in your law too that two men’s testimony is true. 18 It is I that testify about myself, and the Father who sent me testifies about me.”

19 So they said to him “Where is your Father?” Jesus answered “You do not know either me or my Father; if you knew me you would know my Father too.” 20 These words he spoke in the treasury, teaching in the temple-precinct, and nobody arrested him because his hour had not come yet.

21 So he said to them again “I am going, and you will look for me and will die in your sins; where I am going you cannot come.”

22 So the Jews said “Will he kill himself, that he says ‘Where I am going you cannot come’?” 23 And he said to them “You belong to those below, I belong to those above; you are out of this world, I am not out of this world; 24 so I told you you would die in your sins, for if you do not believe I am the one, die in your sins you will.”

25* So they said to him “Who are you?”

Jesus said to them “. . . in the first place that I am even speaking to you. 26 I have much speaking and judging about you to do; but the one who sent me is truthful, and I speak into the world what I heard from him.”

27 They did not see that he meant the Father. 28 So Jesus said “When you raise the Son of Man aloft, then you will find out that I am the one and am doing nothing of myself, but as the Father instructed me, so I speak. 29 And the one who sent me is with me; he does not leave me alone, because I always do what is pleasing to him.”

30 As he spoke these words many believed in him. 31 So Jesus said to the Jews that had believed him “If you remain in my words you are really disciples of mine 32 and shall know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”

33 They answered back “We are Abraham’s descendants and have never yet been slaves to anybody; how is it you say ‘you will be set free’?”

34 Jesus answered “Verily, verily I tell you that everyone who commits sin is a slave of sin. 35 And the slave does not stay in the house forever; the son does. 36 So if the Son sets you free you will be really free. 37* I know you are Abraham’s descendants; but you are trying to kill me because my words do not find room in you. 38* I speak what I have seen in Father’s home; so do on your part what you heard from Father.”

39 They replied “Abraham is our father.”

Jesus said to them “If you are Abraham’s children, do Abraham’s deeds. 40 But now you are trying to kill me, a man that have spoken the truth to you, which I heard from God; Abraham did not do that. 41 You are doing your father’s deeds.”

They said to him “We were not born illegitimately; we have one father, God.”

42 Jesus said to them “If God were your father you would love me, for I went out from God and come from him; for I have not come of myself either, but he sent me. 43 Why do you not get the meaning of my talk? because you cannot hear my words. 44 You come of your father the Devil, and it is your father’s desires that you want to act out. He was a man-killer from the first, and did not keep his stand in the truth because there is no truth in him. When he speaks falsehood he speaks a thing of his own, because he is a liar and father of it. 45 And because I tell the truth you do not believe me. 46 Which of you convicts me of a sin? If I tell truth, why do you not believe me? 47 He who is from God hears God’s words; consequently it is because you are not from God that you do not hear.”

48 The Jews replied “Are we not right in saying you are a Samaritan and have a demon?”

49 Jesus answered “I do not have a demon; but I am honoring my Father and you are dishonoring me. 50 But I am not looking out for my glory; there is one who looks out and judges. 51 Verily, verily I tell you, if one keeps my words he shall not behold death forevermore.”

52 The Jews said to him “Now we know you have a demon. Abraham died, and the prophets, and you say ‘if one keeps my words he shall not taste death forevermore.’ 53 Are you greater than our father Abraham, who died? and the prophets died; whom are you claiming to be?”

54 Jesus answered “If I glorify myself there is nothing to my glory. It is my Father that glorifies me, who you say is your God, 55 and you do not know him. But I do know him; and if I say I do not know him I shall be a liar like you; but I know him and keep his words. 56 Your father Abraham exulted that he should see my day, and he saw it and was glad.”

57* So the Jews said to him “You are not yet fifty years old, and has Abraham seen you?”

58 Jesus said to them “Verily, verily I tell you, before there was an Abraham I am.”

59 So they picked up stones to throw at him. But Jesus was hidden, and went out of the temple-precinct.

9 And as he passed along he saw a man blind from birth. 2 And his disciples asked him “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he should be born blind?”

10 So they said to him “Then how were your eyes opened?” 11 He answered “The man known as Jesus made mud and rubbed it on my eyes and told me ‘go to Siloam and wash your face’; so I went and washed my face and had my eyesight back.” 12 And they said to him “Where is he?” He said “I do not know.”

13 So they brought him (the once blind man) to the Pharisees. 14 And the day on which Jesus made the mud and opened his eyes was sabbath. 15 So the Pharisees too asked him again how he recovered his sight. And he said to them “He put mud on my eyes, and I washed my face, and can see.” 16 So some of the Pharisees said “This man is not from God, because he does not keep the sabbath”; others said “How can a sinful man do such tokens?” and there was a split among them. 17 So they said to the blind man again “What do you say about him because he opened your eyes?” And he said “That he is a prophet.”

18 So the Jews did not believe about him that he had been blind and had recovered his sight until they had called his parents, the cured man’s, 19 and asked them “This is your son, who you say was born blind; then how is it he can see now?” 20 So his parents replied “We know that this is our son and that he was born blind; 21 but how it is he can see now we do not know, or who opened his eyes; we do not know, ask him; he is of age, he will speak for himself.” 22 This his parents said because they were afraid of the Jews; for the Jews had already agreed that if anybody acknowledged him as Messiah he should be excommunicated. 23 This was why his parents said “he is of age, he will speak for himself.”

24 So they called in for the second time the man who had been blind, and said to him “Give glory to God; we know that this man is sinful.” 25 So he answered “Whether he is sinful I do not know; one thing I do know, that I was blind and now can see.”

26 So they said to him “What did he do to you? how did he open your eyes?” 27 He answered “I told you already and you did not hear; what do you want to hear again for? do you too want to become disciples of him?” 28 And they abused him and said “You are a disciple of him, but we are disciples of Moses. 29 We know God has spoken to Moses, but as for this man we do not know where he comes from.”

30* The man replied “Now that is just what is remarkable, that you do not know where he comes from and he opened my eyes. 31 We know that God does not listen to sinners, but if one is religious and does his will, him he does listen to. 32 Since the beginning of time it was never heard that anybody had opened the eyes of a person born blind. 33 If this man were not from God he could not do anything.” 34 They replied “You were born all in sins, and are you teaching us?” and turned him out.

35 Jesus heard that they had turned him out, and found him and said to him “You believe on the Son of Man?” 36 He replied “And who is he, sir? so that I may believe in him.” 37 Jesus said to him “You have seen him, yes, and he is the one that is speaking with you.” 38 And he said “I believe, sir,” and did reverence to him. 39 And Jesus said “It was for a judgment I came into this world: that those who cannot see may see and those who can may become blind.”

40 Some of the Pharisees, those who were with him, heard this and said to him “Are we blind too?”

41 Jesus said to them “If you were blind you would not have any sin; but now you say ‘We can see’—your sin stands.

10 “Verily, verily I tell you, he who does not come into the fold of sheep through the door but climbs in elsewhere, that man is a thief and a robber; 2* but he who comes in through the door is shepherd of those sheep. 3 To him the doorkeeper opens, and the sheep hear his voice, and he calls his sheep by name and leads them out. 4 When he gets out all that are his, he goes before them, and the sheep follow him, because they know his voice; 5 but a man they do not belong to they will not follow but will run away from him, because they do not know the voices of men they do not belong to.”

6 This parable Jesus told them; but they did not know what the things he spoke to them meant. 7 So Jesus said again “Verily, verily I tell you that I am the door for the sheep. 8 All that came before me are thieves and robbers; but the sheep did not listen to them. 9* I am the door; anyone who enters through me will be safe and sound and go in and out and find pasturage. 10 The thief comes only to steal and kill and waste; I came that they may have life and plenty of it. 11 I am the good shepherd; the good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep. 12 The hired man, who is not actual shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, sees the wolf coming and leaves the sheep and runs, and the wolf carries them off and scatters them; 13 because he is a hired man and does not care about the sheep. 14 I am the good shepherd, and I know mine and mine know me, 15 as the Father knows me and I know the Father; and I lay down my life for the sheep. 16 And I have other sheep which do not belong to this fold; those too I must bring, and they will hear my voice, and there will come to be one flock, one shepherd.

17 “That is why the Father loves me, because I lay down my life, to take it again. 18 Nobody has deprived me of it, but I lay it down of my own accord. I am authorized to lay it down and I am authorized to take it again; I was given this commission by my Father.”

19 There came a split among the Jews again because of these words. 20 And many of them said “He has a demon-possession and is out of his head; why do you listen to him?” 21 others said “These words are not a possessed man’s; can a demon-possession open blind men’s eyes?”

22 At that time came the feast of the Dedication at Jerusalem; it was winter; 23 and Jesus was walking in the temple-precinct, in Solomon’s Porch. 24 So the Jews surrounded him and said to him “How long are you keeping us in suspense? if you are the Messiah, tell us frankly.” 25 Jesus answered them “I told you and you do not believe. The very deeds I am doing in my Father’s name testify about me; 26 but you do not believe because you are not sheep of mine. 27 My sheep listen to my voice, and I know them, and they follow me, 28 and I give them eternal life, and they shall not be lost forevermore, and no one will carry them off out of my hands. 29 My Father who has given to me is greatest of all things, and nobody can carry off out of the Father’s hands. 30 I and the Father are one.”

31 Again the Jews lifted stones to stone him. 32 Jesus answered “I showed you many good works from the Father; for which of them are you stoning me?”

33 The Jews answered “We are not stoning you in reference to a good work, but to a blasphemy and because you, being a man, are claiming to be God.”

34 Jesus answered “Is it not set down in your law ‘I said, You are gods’? 35 If he called those men gods, those who had had God’s word coming to them, and the text cannot be invalidated, 36 do you say of the one whom the Father consecrated and sent into the world ‘You are blaspheming’ because I said ‘I am God’s son’? 37 If I do not do my Father’s deeds, do not believe me; 38 but if I do, even if you do not believe me believe the deeds, that you may find out and know that the Father is in me and I am in the Father.”

39 So they again meant to arrest him; and he came out of their hands, 40 and went off across the Jordan again to the place where John had first been when he was baptizing, and stayed there; 41 and many came to him and said “John did not do any token, but everything John said about this man was true”; 42 and many believed in him there.

11 But there was a certain man who was sick, Lazarus from Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha. 2 And it was the Mary that put perfume on the Lord and wiped his feet off with her hair whose brother Lazarus was sick. 3 So the sisters sent word to him “Sir, the man you are fond of is sick!” 4 And when Jesus heard it he said “This sickness is not for death, but for God’s glory, that the Son of God may be glorified through it.” 5 And Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus.

6 So when he heard that he was sick what he did then was to stay two days in the place where he was; 7 then after that he said to the disciples “Let us go to Judea again.” 8 The disciples said to him “Rabbi, just now the Jews were meaning to kill you, and are you going there again?” 9 Jesus answered “There are twelve hours to a day, are there not? If one walks in the day he does not stub his toe, because he sees this world’s light; 10 but if one walks in the night he does, because he does not have the light in him.”

11 This he said, and after that he said to them “Our friend Lazarus has gone to rest, but I am on my way to wake him up.”

12 So the disciples said to him “Sir, if he is getting rest he will recover.” 13 But Jesus had been speaking of his death; but they thought he was speaking of the rest of sleep.

14 So then Jesus said to them plainly “Lazarus is dead, 15 and I am glad on your account, so that you may believe, that I was not there; but let us go to him.”

16 So Thomas, known as the Twin, said to his fellow-disciples “Let us go too, to die with him.”

17 So Jesus came and found him in the tomb, where he had been four days already.

18 And Bethany was near Jerusalem, rather more than a mile and a half off. 19 And many of the Jews had come to Mary and Martha’s to condole with them about their brother. 20 So Martha, when she heard that Jesus was coming, went and met him; but Mary was sitting in the house.

21 So Martha said to Jesus “Sir, if you had been here my brother would not have died; 22 and even now I know that whatever you ask God for, God will give to you.”

23 Jesus said to her “Your brother shall rise.”

24 Martha said to him “I know he will rise in the resurrection on the last day.”

25 Jesus said to her “I am Resurrection and Life; he who believes in me shall live even if he dies, 26 and anyone who lives and believes in me shall not die ever. Do you believe that?”

27 She said to him “Yes, sir: I am believing that you are the Messiah, the son of God, who was to come into the world.” 28 And, saying this, she went away and called her sister Mary privately, saying “The Teacher is here and is calling you.” 29 And she, when she heard, started up and came to him.

30 And Jesus had not yet come into the village, but was still at the place where Martha met him. 31 So the Jews that were in the house with her and were comforting her, seeing that Mary started up and went out, followed her, thinking she was going to the tomb to weep there.

32 So when Mary came where Jesus was, at seeing him she threw herself down at his feet, saying to him “Sir, if you had been here my brother would not have died.”

33* So Jesus, when he saw her weeping and saw the Jews that had come with her weeping, controlled himself with an effort and showed agitation, 34 and said “Where have you laid him?”

They said to him “Sir, come and see.”

35 Jesus wept. 36 So the Jews said “See how he loved him.” 37 But some of them said “Could not this man who opened the blind man’s eyes cause this man not to die too?”

40 Jesus said to her “Did I not tell you that if you believed you should see God’s glory?”

41 So they lifted the stone off. And Jesus raised his eyes upward and said “Father, I thank you that you heard me. 42 And I knew you always do hear me; but I said it because of the crowd standing around me, that they may believe that you sent me.”

43 And, having said this, he shouted in a loud voice “Lazarus, come out here!” 44 Out came the man that had died, with his feet and hands tied with strips of cloth and his face tied up in a handkerchief. Jesus said to them “Untie him and let him go.”

45 So a great many of the Jews, such as had come to Mary’s and witnessed what he did, believed in him; 46 but some of them went off to the Pharisees and told them the things Jesus had done. 47** So the chief priests and the Pharisees got together a Sanhedrin and said “What are we doing that this man is doing so many tokens? 48 if we let him go on like this everybody will believe in him, and the Romans will come and take away both our place and our nation.” 49 But one of them, a certain Caiaphas, being high priest that year, said to them “You folks do not know anything, 50 and you do not reflect that it is best for you to have one man die for the people and not the whole nation perish.” 51 And this he did not say of his own accord, but, being high priest that year, prophetically, that Jesus was to die for the nation, 52 and not only for the nation but to bring together God’s scattered children too into one.— 53 So from that day on they planned to kill him. 54 So Jesus no longer went about publicly among the Jews, but went away from there to the country near the desert, to a city called Ephraim, and stayed there with the disciples.

55 But it was near the Jews’ passover, and many from the country went up to Jerusalem before the passover to purify themselves. 56 So they looked for Jesus, and said as they stood together in the temple-precinct “What do you think? that he will not come to the feast?” 57 And the chief priests and the Pharisees had given orders that if anybody found out where he was he should give information, so that they might arrest him.

12 So Jesus came six days before the passover to Bethany, where Lazarus, whom Jesus raised from the dead, was. 2* So they gave a dinner for him there, and Martha waited on them, but Lazarus was one of those who were at the table with him.

3* So Mary took a pound of high-priced perfume, nard in pistachio oil, and rubbed Jesus’s feet and wiped his feet off with her hair; and the house was filled with the odor of the perfume. 4 And Judas the Iscariot, one of his disciples, the one who was going to be the agent in his arrest, 5 said “Why was this perfume not sold for three hundred denarii and given to poor people?” 6 (But he said this not because he cared about the poor, but because he was a thief, and, having the money-box, carried off what was dropped in.) 7 So Jesus said “Let her keep it for the day of my burial; 8 for you always have the poor with you, but you do not always have me.”

9 So the big crowd of the Jews found out that he was there, and they came not only because of Jesus but to see Lazarus too whom he raised from the dead. 10 And the chief priests planned to kill Lazarus too 11 because many of the Jews went because of him and believed in Jesus.

12 The following day the big crowd that had come to the feast, hearing that Jesus was coming into Jerusalem, 13 took the fronds of the palm trees and went out to meet him and shouted “Hosanna! blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord, and the king of Israel!” 14 And Jesus, having found a little donkey, mounted it, as it says 15 “Do not be afraid, daughter of Sion: here is your King coming to you, riding on an ass colt.” 16 These things the disciples did not find out in the first place; but when Jesus was glorified they remembered that it said these things of him and they had done these things to him.

17 So the crowd that had been with him when he called Lazarus out of the tomb and raised him from the dead bore witness. 18 It was because of this, too, that the crowd met him, because they heard that he had done this token. 19 So the Pharisees said to each other “You see you are doing no good: there is the world gone after him.”

20 And there were certain Greeks who were among those who came up to do reverence at the feast; 21 so these approached Philip, the one who came from Bethsaida in Galilee, and asked him “Sir, we wish to see Jesus.” 22 Philip came and told Andrew; Andrew and Philip came and told Jesus.

23 And Jesus answered them “The moment has come for the Son of Man to be glorified. 24 Verily, verily I tell you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies it is still itself alone; but if it dies it bears a great crop. 25 He who loves his life loses it, and he who hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life. 26 If one is serving me let him follow me, and where I am, there my servant too will be. If one serves me, the Father will honor him. 27 Now my soul is in a turmoil; and what shall I say? Father, save me from this moment—but it was on this account that I came to this moment; 28 Father, glorify your name.” So there came a voice out of the sky “I did, and will again.” 29 So the crowd that was standing there and heard said it had thundered; others said “An angel has spoken to him.”

30 Jesus replied “This voice did not come on my account but on yours. 31 Now is the judgment of this world; now the ruler of this world will be put out; 32 and I, if I am lifted off the earth, shall draw everybody to myself.” 33 (And this he said indicating what death he was to die.)

34 So the crowd answered him “We heard out of the Law that the Messiah stays forever, and how is it you say that the Son of Man must be lifted off? what Son of Man is this?”

13 But before the feast of the passover Jesus, knowing that his moment had come for passing from this world to the Father, having loved his own who were in the world, loved them to the last; 2 and, there coming a dinner when the Devil had already put it in the heart of Judas Iscariot the son of Simon to have him arrested, 3 he, knowing that the Father had put everything in his hands and that he had come out from God and was going to God, 4 rose from the dinner and laid off his clothes and took a towel and tied it round him as breech-cloth; 5 then he put water in the pitcher and began to wash the disciples’ feet and to wipe them off with the towel he had on.

6 So he came to Simon Peter. He said to him “Sir, are you washing my feet?”

7 Jesus replied “What I am doing you do not know now, but you will find out later.”

9 Simon Peter said to him “Sir, not only my feet but my hands and head too.”

10** Jesus said to him “He who has bathed has no need for washing except his feet, but is clean all of him; and you twelve are clean, but not all of you” 11 (for he knew the one that was to have him arrested; that was why he said “you are not all of you clean”).

12 So when he had washed their feet and had resumed his clothes and taken his place at the table again he said to them “Do you know what it is I have done to you? 13 You call me Teacher and Master, and you are right; for I am. 14 So if I the Teacher and Master washed your feet, you too are bound to wash each other’s feet; 15 for I gave you an example to have you too do as I did to you. 16 Verily, verily I tell you, a servant is not greater than his master, nor a representative than his sender. 17 If you know these things, happy are you if you do them. 18* I am not speaking of all of you; I know whom I chose; but it was in order that the text ‘He who was feeding on my bread raised his heel against me’ should be fulfilled. 19 From now on I tell you before the event, that when it takes place you may know that I am the one. 20 Verily, verily I tell you, he who accepts anyone I send is accepting me, and he who is accepting me is accepting the one who sent me.”

21 After saying these things Jesus showed agitation of spirit, and testified and said “Verily, verily I tell you that one of you will have me arrested.” 22 The disciples looked at each other, at a loss to know of whom he was speaking. 23 There was at the table, resting in Jesus’s bosom, one of his disciples whom Jesus loved; 24 so Simon Peter nodded to that one and said to him “Ask who it is he is speaking of.” 25 He, dropping back on Jesus’s breast from the position he was in, said to him “Sir, who is it?” 26* So Jesus answered “It is that one to whom I will give the piece of bread when I dip it in”; so he dipped the piece of bread in and gave it to Judas the son of Simon Iscariot; 27 and after the piece of bread, then Satan came into him. So Jesus said to him “Be quick about what you are doing.” 28 And none of those at the table knew what was the point of his saying this to him; 29 for some thought, since Judas had the money-box, Jesus was telling him “Buy what we need for the feast” or to give something to the poor.— 30 So he, after taking the piece of bread, went out at once. And it was night.

31 So when he had gone out Jesus said “Now the Son of Man is glorified, and God is glorified in him. 32 If God is glorified in him, God on his part will glorify him in himself and glorify him at once. 33 Children, I shall be with you little longer. You will look for me, and as I said to the Jews ‘where I am going you cannot come,’ so I say to you now. 34 I give you a new commandment, that you are to love each other: that as I loved you, you too are to love each other. 35 By this all will know that you are disciples of mine, if you have love for each other.”

37 Peter said to him “Sir, why cannot I follow you now? I will lay down my life for you.”

38 Jesus answered “You will lay down your life for me? verily, verily I tell you, not a cock will crow till you have disowned me three times.

14 “Let your hearts not be alarmed: trust in God and trust in me. 2 In my Father’s house there are many habitations; if not, I would have told you—because I go to get a place ready for you, 3 and if I go and get a place ready for you I come again and will take you home with me, that where I am you too may be. 4 And where I am going you know the way.”

5 Thomas said to him “Sir, we do not know where you are going; how do we know the way?”

6 Jesus said to him “I am the way, and the truth, and the life; nobody comes to the Father except through me. 7* If you knew me you would know my Father too. From now on you do know him and have seen him.”

8 Philip said to him “Sir, show us the Father and we are satisfied.”

9 Jesus said to him “I have been with you such a long time, and do you not know me, Philip? he who has seen me has seen the Father; how is it you are saying ‘show us the Father’? 10 Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me? the words that I say to you I do not say from myself, but the Father, abiding in me, is doing his work. 11 Take my word for it that I am in the Father and the Father is in me; or if not, believe because of the work itself. 12 Verily, verily I tell you, he who believes in me will himself do the work I do, and do greater things than these, because I am going to the Father, 13 and whatever you ask in my name, that I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. 14* If you ask me anything in my name I will do it.

15 “If you love me you will keep my commandments, 16 and I will request the Father and he will give you another spokesman to be with you forever, 17** the Spirit of Truth, which the world cannot receive because it does not perceive nor know it; you know it, because it stays with you and is in you.

18 “I will not leave you bereaved; I am coming to you. 19 A little longer, and the world no longer perceives me, but you do, because I am alive and you will be. 20 On that day you will know that I am in my Father and you are in me and I am in you. 21 He who has my commandments and keeps them, he is the one that loves me. And he who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and manifest myself to him.”

22 Judas, not the Iscariot, said to him “And what has happened, sir, that you are going to manifest yourself to us and not to the world?”

23 Jesus replied “If one loves me he will keep what I say; and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make a home with him. 24 He who does not love me does not keep the things I say; and the thing you hear me say is not my say, but the Father’s, who sent me.

25 “These words I have spoken to you while I remained with you; 26 but the Spokesman, the Holy Spirit that the Father will send in my name, he will teach you everything and remind you of everything that I said to you.

27 “Peace I leave to you; my peace I give you; it is not as the world gives that I give to you. Let your hearts not be alarmed nor daunted. 28 You heard me say to you ‘I am going, and coming to you.’ If you loved me you would be glad because I am going to my Father, because my Father is greater than I am. 29 And I have now been telling you before the things take place, in order that when they do you may believe.

30 “I shall not talk with you much more, for the ruler of the world is coming. And he has no hold on me, 31* but it is in order that the world may know that I love the Father, and as the Father commanded me, so I do. Up, let us be going from here.

15 “I am the true grapevine, and my Father is the farmer: 2 every branch on me that does not bear fruit he takes off, and every one that bears fruit he cleans up in order that it may bear more fruit. 3 You are clean already, because of the words I have spoken to you. 4 Remain in me and have me remain in you; as the branch cannot bear fruit from itself if it does not remain in the vine, no more can you if you do not remain in me. 5 I am the vine, you are the branches; it is just he who remains in me and has me remain in him that bears much fruit—because apart from me you cannot do anything. 6 If one does not remain in me he is thrown outside like a branch and dries up, and they gather them and throw them in the fire and they are burned. 7 If you do remain in me and my words remain in you, ask for what you will and you shall have it. 8 It is in this my Father is glorified, that you should bear a great crop of fruit and turn out to be disciples of mine. 9 As the Father loved me, so did I love you; remain in my love. 10* If you keep my commands, remain in my love you will, as I have kept my Father’s commands and am remaining in his love.

11 “I have had this talk with you so that my joy may be in you and your joy be in full measure. 12 This is my command, that you are to love each other as I loved you. 13 Nobody has a greater love than this, that one should lay down his life for his friends. 14 You are friends of mine if you do what I command you to. 15 I do not speak of you as servants any longer, because a servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have spoken of you as friends, because everything that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you. 16 It was not you that chose me, but I that chose you and made you such as to go ahead and bear fruit and have your fruit persist, to have the Father give you whatever you ask him for in my name.

17 “I am giving you these commands so that you may love each other. 18* If the world hates you, you know it has hated me before you. 19 If you belonged to the world, the world would love what was its own; but because you do not belong to the world but I picked you out of the world, for that reason the world hates you. 20 Remember the words that I said to you, ‘a servant is not greater than his master’: if they persecuted me, so they will you; if they kept my words, so they will yours. 21 But all this they will do to you on account of my name, because they do not know the one who sent me. 22 If I had not come and spoken to them they would not have any sin; but now they do not have any excuse for sin. 23 He who hates me is hating my Father too. 24 If I had not done among them the works that nobody else did, they would not have any sin; but now they have both seen and hated both me and my Father; 25 but it was so that the words written in their law should be fulfilled, ‘They hated me for nothing.’ 26 When the Spokesman comes whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of Truth that goes out from the Father’s presence, he will testify about me; 27 and you too testify, because you have been with me from the first.

16 “A little while and you are seeing no more of me, and again a little while and you will see me.”

17 So some of his disciples said to each other “What is this he is saying to us, ‘a little while and you are not seeing anything of me, and again a little while and you will see me’ and ‘because I am going to the Father’?” 18 So they said “What is this ‘little while’ he tells about? we do not know what he is driving at.”

19 Jesus knew they were wanting to ask him, and said to them “Is it about this you are discussing with each other, that I said ‘a little while and you will not see anything of me, and again a little while and you will see me’? 20 Verily, verily I tell you that you will weep and lament, but the world will rejoice; you will be grieved, but your grief will become joy. 21 When a woman is giving birth she feels grief because her time has come; but when she brings forth the child she no longer remembers the distress because of her gladness that a man has been born into the world. 22 So you too now feel grief, but I will see you again and your hearts will be glad, and your gladness nobody will take away from you. 23 And on that day you will ask nothing of me; verily, verily I tell you, if you ask the Father for anything he will give it to you in my name. 24 Up to now you have not asked for anything in my name; ask and you shall receive, that your gladness may be in full measure.

25 “In this talk with you I have spoken figuratively; a time is coming when I shall no longer speak figuratively to you but shall tell you plainly about the Father. 26 On that day you will ask in my name, and I do not tell you I will solicit the Father on your behalf, 27 for the Father himself loves you because you have loved me and have believed that I came out from the Father’s presence. 28 I came out of the Father and have come into the world; I am leaving the world again and going to the Father’s presence.”

29 His disciples said “There, now you are talking in plain language and not using any figure. 30 Now we know that you know everything and do not need to have anybody ask you; by this we believe that you came out from God.”

31 Jesus answered “You believe now? 32 here is a moment coming, and it has come, for you to scatter to look after your own interests and leave me alone; and I am not alone, because the Father is with me. 33 I have had this talk with you so that you may have peace in me. In the world you have distress; but courage, I have defeated the world.”

17 This talk Jesus gave, and raised his eyes toward heaven and said “Father, the moment has come; glorify your son that your son may glorify you, 2 as you gave him jurisdiction over all mortals that to all that you have given him he might give eternal life— 3 and this is what the eternal life is, that they should know you, the only true God, and the one whom you sent, Jesus Christ. 4 I glorified you on earth, carrying through the work you have given me to do; 5 now glorify me in turn, Father, alongside yourself with the glory that I did have alongside you before the world was.

20 “And I ask on behalf not only of these but also of those who by their telling put faith in me, 21 that they may all be one, as you, Father, are in me and I am in you; that they too may be in us, that the world may believe that you sent me. 22 And I have given to them the glory that you have given to me, that they may be one as we are one: 23 I in them and you in me, that they may stand perfected into one, that the world may know that it was you who sent me and you loved them as you did me.

24 “What you have given me, Father—I will that where I am they too be with me that they may see my glory which you have given to me because you loved me before the foundation of the world, 25 right-dealing Father; and the world did not know you, but I did, and these knew that it was you who sent me; 26 and I made known your name to them, and will make it known, that the love you had for me may be in them, and I in them.”

18 With that Jesus went out, with his disciples, across Kidron Arroyo, where there was a garden, which he and his disciples went into. 2 But Judas too, who was the agent in his arrest, knew about the place, because Jesus had often met with his disciples there. 3 So Judas got the cohort and some officers from the chief priests and from the Pharisees, and came there with lanterns and torches and weapons.

4 So Jesus, knowing everything that was coming upon him, went out and said to them “Whom are you looking for?”

6 So when he said to them “I am the one” they went backward and fell to the ground. 7 So he put the question to them again “Whom are you looking for?” and they said “Jesus the Nazarene.” 8 Jesus answered “I told you I am the one; so if you are looking for me, let these go off”— 9 so that the words he had said, “of those whom you had given to me I did not lose any,” should be fulfilled.

10 So Simon Peter, having a sword, drew it and hit the high priest’s slave and cut off his right ear. And the slave’s name was Malchus. 11 So Jesus said to Peter “Put the sword in its sheath; when the Father has given me a cup am I not to drink it?”

12 So the cohort and the military tribune and the Jews’ officers arrested Jesus and bound him, 13 and took him first to Hannas; for he was father-in-law to Caiaphas, who was high priest that year. 14 And Caiaphas was the one that had advised the Jews that it was “best to have one man die for the people.” 15 And Simon Peter and another disciple followed Jesus. And that disciple was acquainted with the high priest, and went in with Jesus into the high priest’s courtyard, 16 but Peter stood at the door outside. So the other disciple, the one that was acquainted with the high priest, went out and spoke to the doorwoman and brought Peter in. 17 So the girl that was doorwoman said to Peter “Are you one of this man’s disciples too?” He said “I am not.” 18 And the servants and the officers, having made a charcoal fire because it was cold, were standing and warming themselves; and Peter too was with them, standing and warming himself.

19 So the high priest asked Jesus about his disciples and about his teaching. 20 Jesus answered “I have spoken my words publicly to the world; I have always taught in synagogue and in the temple-precinct, where all the Jews come together, and have not spoken any word under cover. 21* Why do you ask me? ask those who have heard me what words I spoke to them; there they are, they know the things I said.”

22 But when he said this, one of the officers, who was standing by, gave Jesus a slap and said “Do you answer the high priest like that?” 23 Jesus answered him “If I spoke amiss, bring the charge of misspeaking; if rightly, what are you beating me for?”

24 —So Hannas sent him, bound, to Caiaphas the high priest.

25 But Simon Peter was standing and warming himself. So they said to him “Are you one of his disciples too?” He denied it and said “I am not.” 26 One of the high priest’s servants, a relative of the one whose ear Peter had cut off, said “Didn’t I see you in the garden with him?” 27 So Peter denied again—and at once a cock crowed.

28 So they took Jesus from Caiaphas to the praetorium. It was early in the morning; and they did not go in into the praetorium, that they might not be polluted but might eat the passover. 29 So Pilate came outside to them and said “What charges do you bring against this man?”

30* They replied “If the man had not committed a crime we should not have handed him over to you.”

33 So Pilate went in again into the praetorium and called Jesus and said to him “You are the King of the Jews?”

34 Jesus answered “Are you saying this of your own accord, or did others say it to you about me?”

35 Pilate answered “Am I a Jew? Your nation and the chief priests handed you over to me; what had you done?”

36 Jesus answered “My kingship does not belong to this world. If my kingship belonged to this world my subordinates would be making a fight to keep me from falling into the hands of the Jews; but in fact my kingship is not in this sphere.”

37 So Pilate said to him “Then you are a king?”

Jesus answered “As you say; I am a king. I was born for this and have come into the world for this, that I might testify to the truth; everyone who belongs to the truth listens to my voice.”

19 So then Pilate took Jesus and flogged him; 2 and the soldiers braided a wreath of thorns and set it on his head and put a purple cloak round him, 3 and came to him and said “Good morning, King of the Jews!” and gave him slaps. 4 And Pilate came outside again and said to them “Here, I am bringing him outside to you so that you may know that I do not find any case against him”; 5 so Jesus came outside wearing the thorn wreath and the purple cloak; and he said to them “There is the man!”

7 The Jews answered “We have a law, and according to the law he ought to die, because he claimed to be God’s son.”

8 So when Pilate heard those words he was all the more afraid, 9 and went in again into the praetorium and said to Jesus “Where do you come from?” but Jesus did not give him any answer. 10 So Pilate said to him “Do you not speak to me? do you not know that I have power to release you and have power to crucify you?”

11 Jesus answered “You would not have any power at all against me if it were not given to you from above; for this reason the one who handed me over to you has the greater sin.”

12 At that Pilate made a move to release him; but the Jews went to shouting “If you release this man you are no friend to Caesar; anyone who claims to be a king is opposing Caesar.”

23 So the soldiers, when they crucified Jesus, took his clothes and made four parts, a part for each soldier, and the tunic. But the tunic was seamless, woven work all the way from the top; 24 so they said to each other “Let us not tear it, but toss for it to decide who shall have it”—that the text might be fulfilled, “They divided my clothes among them and threw lots for my apparel.”

So those were the things the soldiers did. 25* But by Jesus’s cross were standing his mother and his mother’s sister, Mary the daughter of Clopas, and Mary the Magdalene. 26 So Jesus, seeing his mother and the disciple he loved standing beside her, said to his mother “Woman, there is your son”; 27 then he said to the disciple “There is your mother.” And from that moment the disciple took her into his home.

28* After that Jesus, knowing that everything was finished now, said “I am thirsty,” in order that the text might completely come true. 29** There was a dish standing there full of vinegar; so they stuck a sponge full of the vinegar on a pilum and put it to his mouth. 30 So when Jesus had had the vinegar he said “It is finished” and bowed his head and gave up his spirit.

31 So the Jews, since it was Friday, asked Pilate, in order that the bodies might not remain on the cross on the sabbath (for that sabbath was a great day) to have their legs broken and have them taken away. 32 So the soldiers came and broke the legs of the first, and of the other who was crucified with him; 33 but when in coming to Jesus they saw he had already died, they did not break his legs, 34 but one of the soldiers ran a pike into his side, and at once blood and water came out. 35 And the one who saw it has testified, and his testimony is authentic, and he himself knows he is speaking the truth, that you too may believe. 36 For these things took place so that the text “not a bone of his is to be broken” should be fulfilled. 37 And again another text says “they shall look toward him whom they pierced.”

38 And after this was done Joseph from Arimathea, who was a disciple of Jesus but had kept it hidden for fear of the Jews, asked Pilate that he might take away Jesus’s body; and Pilate gave permission. 39 And Nicodemus too, he who had in the first place come to Jesus by night, came bringing a mixture of myrrh and eaglewood, about a hundred pounds of it. 40 So they took Jesus’s body and tied it up in lawn sheets with the spices, as it is customary among the Jews to do in burying. 41 And in the place where he was crucified there was a garden, and in the garden a new tomb in which nobody had as yet been laid; 42 so, because of the Jews’ preparation day, they laid Jesus there because the tomb was nearby.

20 But on the first day of the week Mary the Magdalene came to the tomb in the early morning, while it was still dark, and saw the stone had been taken away from the tomb. 2 So she ran and came to Simon Peter and the other disciple whom Jesus loved, and said to them “They have taken the Lord away out of the tomb and we do not know where they have put him.” 3 So out went Peter, and the other disciple, and they came to the tomb. 4 And the two were running together, and the other disciple outran Peter and came to the tomb first, 5* and stooped and looked in and saw the sheets lying there, but he did not go in. 6* So Simon Peter too came following him, and went into the tomb; and he saw the sheets lying there, 7* and the handkerchief that had been over his head not lying with the sheets but wrapped round and round separately in its individual place. 8 So then the other disciple too went in, the one that had come to the tomb first, and he saw and believed. 9 For they did not yet know the text that said he must rise from the dead.

10 So the disciples went off home again. 11 But Mary was standing outside by the tomb weeping. So while she was weeping she stooped and looked into the tomb 12 and saw two angels in white sitting one at the head and one at the feet where Jesus’s body had lain; 13 and they said to her “Woman, why are you weeping?” She said to them “Because they have taken my Lord away and I do not know where they have put him.”

17* Jesus said to her “Do not touch me, for I have not yet gone up to my Father. But go to my brothers and tell them ‘I am going to my Father, your Father, my God, your God.’” 18 Mary the Magdalene came reporting to the disciples “I have seen the Lord” and that he had said these things to her.

24 But Thomas, one of the Twelve, known as the Twin, was not with them when Jesus came. 25 So the other disciples said to him “We have seen the Lord.” But he said to them “Unless I see in his hands the mark of the nails and put my finger into the mark of the nails and put my hand into his side I will not believe.” 26* And one week later the disciples were in there again, and Thomas with them; Jesus came while the doors were shut and stood in the middle of the company and said “Peace be to you.” 27* Then he said to Thomas “Bring on your finger and see about my hands, and bring your hand and put it into my side; and do not be a disbeliever but a believer.” 28 Thomas answered him “My Lord and my God!” 29* Jesus said to him “Because you have seen you have believed, have you? Happy are those who did not see and believed.”

30 Many more tokens Jesus did before the disciples, which are not written down in this book; 31 but these have been written down, in order that you may believe that Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of God, and that, believing, you may have life by his name.

21 After this Jesus made himself visible to the disciples again at the sea of Tiberias. And he did it thus: 2 There were together Simon Peter and Thomas known as the Twin and Nathanael of Cana in Galilee and the sons of Zebedee and two more of his disciples; 3 Simon Peter said to them “I am going fishing”; they said to him “We are coming too.” They went out and got into the boat, and in that night they caught nothing.

4 But when the morning was already breaking Jesus made his appearance standing on the beach; the disciples did not know, however, that it was Jesus. 5 So Jesus said to them “Boys, have you caught any?” They answered “No.” 6 But he said to them “Throw the net to the right of the boat and you will.” So they threw, and were not able to haul it in again because of the quantity of fish.

7 So the aforesaid disciple whom Jesus loved said to Peter “It is the Lord.” So Simon Peter, hearing that it was the Lord, tied his cape on as a loincloth, for he was naked, and threw himself into the sea. 8 But the other disciples came in the boat (for they were not far from the land, but about a hundred yards), dragging the netful of fish.

9 So when they stepped ashore they saw a bed of coals and a fish lying on it, and a cake of bread. 10 Jesus said to them “Bring some of the fish you have just caught.” 11* So Simon Peter went aboard and hauled the net ashore full of large fishes, a hundred and fifty-three of them; and, many as there were, the net did not tear. 12 Jesus said to them “Come and have breakfast.” The disciples did not any of them dare to challenge him with “Who are you?” knowing that it was the Lord. 13 Jesus came and took the bread and passed it to them, and the fish too. 14 This made the third time Jesus had made himself visible to the disciples since he rose from the dead.

19 This he said indicating by what sort of death he would glorify God. And with that he said to him “Follow me.”

20 Peter turned round and saw the disciple that Jesus loved following, the same who at the dinner leaned back on his breast and said “Sir, who is the one to have you arrested?” 21 So, seeing him, Peter said to Jesus “And how about him, sir?” 22 Jesus said to him “If I want him to stay till I come, what is it to you? follow me yourself.” 23* So this saying went out among the brothers, that that disciple was not to die. But Jesus did not say to him that he was not to die, but “If I want him to stay till I come.” 24 This is the disciple who testifies about these things and who wrote these things down; and we know that his testimony is true.

25 And there are many more things that Jesus did; if those are each one written down I do not think there will be room in the world itself for the books that are going to be written.

MARGINAL NOTES TO JOHN