A New Translation of
The Gospel
according to
John
Based on the Westcott and Hort Text of 1881 with references to the Papyrus fragments of the Chester Beatty collections, c. 3rd Century A.D. and the Sinaitic Manuscript of the 4th Century.
Some notes on this translation:
Thou vs. YOU: Many people today have a hard time understanding the Elizabethan usage of thou, thee, thy, etc. For this reason, we have chosen to avoid this archaic language. At the same time, we need to be able to fulfill the purpose of those words, which was to distinguish between a singular you and a plural YOU. Following the example of other translations, we have used all capital letters to indicate plural (more than one person addressed), and small letters to indicate singular (one person addressed).
Words in italics: Following the example of other translations, we have used italics for words that are not in the original text, but which are essential to the sense of the original when translated into English. Unlike other translations, however, we have NOT added words which alter the meaning of the original.
Words in (parentheses): These are not part of the biblical text, but are notes of explanation from the translator.
Man and Woman vs. Husband and Wife: Greek has no specific words for husband or wife, but uses the words man and woman, as do many other languages. We have translated the words man and woman as such, but in proper context, the readers should understand them to mean husband and wife.
Perfect vs. Complete: Many English versions use the word “perfect” both as a verb and as an adjective, to translate a particular Greek root. We have also used it occasionally, but it should be understood as perfect in the sense of “complete” and not in the sense of “without flaw.”
The Word: We need to understand what John meant by his use of the term “Word” in his first chapter. Jewish practice of the time forbid God’s Name to be written in any language other than Hebrew. (That is, YHVH, usually rendered as Jehovah or Yahweh in English.) Therefore, John, writing in Greek, couldn’t refer directly to Jehovah. In order to convey the meaning of Jehovah, he followed the practice of those who had translated the Old Testament into Aramaic. He used a “codeword” to mean Jehovah. The Aramaic translators used the word “Memra,” which means “Word,” to translate the Name. John did the same, using the Greek equivalent, which was Logos. In the first two verses of his Gospel, John “defined” his codeword, so that readers would understand that when he said “Word,” he was referring to the Name of God: Yahweh or Jehovah.
John 1
1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word pertained to God (or, by extension, “meant God”), and the Word was God.
2 This pertained to (or “meant”) God in the beginning.
3 All things came to be through him; and nothing came to be without him.
4 What came to be by him was life; and the life was the light of men.
5 And the light is shining in the darkness; and the darkness has not overtaken it.
6 There was a man, sent from God; his name was John.
7 This one came for a witness, so that he might bear witness about the light, so that all might believe through him.
8 He was not the light, but came so that he might bear witness about the light:
9 The true light, which enlightens every man, was coming into the world.
10 He was in the world, and the world came to be through him, and the world didn’t know him.
11 He came to his own, and his own didn’t receive him.
12 But as many as received him, he gave them the authority to become children of God, to those believing in his name:
13 who were born, not of blood, nor of the choice of flesh, nor of the choice of man, but of God.
14 And the Word became flesh, and lived among us and we beheld his glory, glory as of the only begotten from the Father, full of grace and truth.
15 John bears witness about him, and cried out, saying, “This was the one of whom I said, ‘The one coming after me has come to be before me: because he was before me.’
16 Because we all received from his fullness, and grace upon grace. ”
17 Because the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came to be through Jesus Christ.
18 No one has seen God at any time; the only God, who is in the bosom of the Father, he has revealed him. (revealed: or explained or unfolded)
19 And this is the testimony of John, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to him so that they might ask him, ‘Who are you?’
20 And he admitted, and didn’t deny; and he acknowledged, ‘I am not the Christ.’
21 And they asked him, ‘What then? 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, so that we might give an answer to those who sent us? What are you saying about yourself?’
23 He said, “I’m the voice of one crying in the wilderness, ‘Make straight the way of the Lord,’ as said Isaiah the prophet.”
24 And those who had been sent from the Pharisees.
25 And they asked him, and said to him, ‘Then why are you baptizing, if you are not the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the prophet?’
26 John answered them, saying, ‘I am baptizing in water; but one is standing in the midst of YOU whom YOU do not know,
27 the one coming after me, whose sandal strap I am not worthy to loosen.’
28 These things happened in Bethany across the Jordan, where John was baptizing.
29 On the next day he sees Jesus coming toward him, and says, “See the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!
30 This is the one about whom I said, ‘A man is coming after me who has come to be before me, because he was before me.’
31 And I hadn’t known him; but for this reason I came baptizing in water, so that he might be revealed to Israel.”
32 And John testified, saying, “I have seen the Spirit descending like a dove out of heaven; and it remained upon him.
33 And I had not known him: but the one who sent me to baptize in water, that one said to me, ‘Upon whomever you see the Spirit descending, and remaining upon him, this is the one who baptizes in the Holy Spirit.’
34 And I have seen, and have testified that this is the Son of God.”
35 Again on the next day John was standing, and two of his disciples;
36 and having looked at Jesus walking around, said, ‘See the Lamb of God!’
37 And the two disciples heard him speaking, and they followed Jesus.
38 But Jesus turned, and saw them following, and said to them, ‘What are YOU looking for?’ And they said to him, ‘Rabbi --which is to say, being translated, Teacher--, where are you staying?’
39 He said to them, ‘Come, and YOU will see.’ So they came and saw where he was staying; and they remained with him that day. It was about the tenth hour. (4 pm)
40 One of the two who heard John, and followed him, was Andrew, Simon Peter's brother.
41 He found his own brother Simon first, and said to him, ‘We have found the Messiah --which is, being translated, Christ--.’ (Messiah and Christ mean “anointed one.”)
42 He brought him to Jesus. Jesus looked at him, and said, ‘You are Simon the son of John: you will be called Cephas --which is translated Peter--.’ (that is, rock)
43 On the next day he wanted to go out into Galilee, and he found Philip: and Jesus said to him, ‘Follow me.’
44 Now Philip was from Bethsaida, from the city of Andrew and Peter.
45 Philip found Nathanael, and said to him, ‘We have found him, of whom Moses in the law, and the prophets, wrote: Jesus the son of Joseph from Nazareth.’
46 And Nathanael said to him, ‘Can anything good come out of Nazareth?’ Philip said to him, ‘Come and see.’
47 Jesus saw Nathanael coming toward him, and said about him, ‘See an Israelite in whom is truly no deceit!’
48 Nathanael said to him, ‘Where do you know me from?’ Jesus answered and said to him, ‘Before Philip called you, when you were under the fig tree, I saw you.’
49 Nathanael answered him, ‘Rabbi, you are the Son of God; you are King of Israel!’
50 Jesus answered and said to him, ‘Because I said to you, that I saw you under the fig tree, you believe? You will see greater things than these!’
51 And he said to him, ‘Amen, amen, I am saying to YOU, YOU will see the heaven opened, and the angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of man.’
John 2
1 And the third day there was a marriage in Cana of Galilee; and the mother of Jesus was there:
2 and Jesus was also invited, and his disciples, to the marriage.
3 And when they ran out of wine, the mother of Jesus said to him, ‘They have no wine.’
4 And Jesus says to her, ‘Woman, what is that to me and you? My hour hasn’t come yet.’
5 His mother says to the servants, ‘Whatever he says to YOU, do.’
6 Now there were six stone water jars sitting there, according to the Jews' manner of purification, each able to hold two or three liquid measures.
7 Jesus says to them, ‘Fill the water jars with water.’ And they filled them to the top.
8 And he says to them, ‘Now draw some out, and bring it to the director of the feast.’ And they brought it.
9 But when the director of the feast tasted the water, having become wine, and didn’t know where it was from --but the servants who had drawn the water knew--, the director of the feast calls the bridegroom,
10 and says to him, ‘Every man puts out the good wine first; and when they have gotten drunk, the inferior; you’ve kept the good wine until now.’
11 This beginning of signs Jesus did in Cana of Galilee, and manifested his glory; and his disciples believed in him.
12 After this, he went down to Capernaum, he, and his mother and siblings, and his disciples; and they remained there not many days.
13 And the Passover of the Jews was near, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
14 And in the temple he found those selling oxen and sheep and doves, and the moneychangers sitting:
15 and having made a whip of ropes, he threw them all out of the temple, with the sheep and the oxen; and he poured out the moneychangers' coins, and overturned the tables;
16 and to those selling the doves he said, ‘Get these things out of here; don’t make my Father's house a house of merchandise!’
17 His disciples remembered that it had been written, ‘The zeal of your house will eat me up.’
18 Therefore, the Jews answered and said to him, ‘What sign are you showing to us, since you are doing these things?’
19 Jesus answered and said to them, ‘Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.’
20 So the Jews said, ‘This temple was built over forty-six years, and you will raise it up in three days?’
21 But he was talking about the temple of his body.
22 So when he was raised from the dead, his disciples remembered that he was saying this; and they believed the scripture, and the word which Jesus had said.
23 Now when he was in Jerusalem at the Passover, during the feast, many believed in his name, seeing his signs which he was doing.
24 But Jesus himself did not commit himself to them, because he knew them all,
25 and because he had no need that anyone should bear witness about man; for he knew what was in man.
John 3
1 Now there was a man of the Pharisees, Nicodemus was his name, a ruler of the Jews:
2 this one came to him by night, and said to him, ‘Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God; for no one could do these signs that you do, unless God is with him.’
3 Jesus answered and said to him, ‘Amen, amen, I am saying to you, unless one is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.’
4 Nicodemus says to him, ‘How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter into his mother's womb a second time, and be born?’
5 Jesus answered, ‘Amen, amen, I am saying to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God!
6 What is born of the flesh is flesh; and what is born of the Spirit is spirit.
7 So don’t wonder because I said unto you, YOU must be born again.
8 The wind (or “Spirit.” The words for “wind” and “spirit” are identical in Greek and Hebrew.) blows where it wants, and you hear the sound of it, but don’t know where it comes from, and where it is going: so is every one who is born of the Spirit.’
9 Nicodemus answered and said to him, ‘How can these things happen?’
10 Jesus answered and said to him, ‘You are the teacher of Israel, and you don’t know these things?
11 Amen, amen, I am saying to you, we speak what we know, and bear witness of what we have seen; and YOU don’t receive our testimony.
12 If I told YOU earthly things and YOU don’t believe, how will YOU believe if I tell YOU heavenly things?
13 And no one has ascended into heaven, except the one who descended out of heaven, the Son of man, who is in heaven. (Some manuscripts omit the last four words.)
14 And just as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so the Son of man must be lifted up;
15 so that everyone believing in him may have everlasting life.
16 For God so loved the world, that he gave the only begotten Son, so that everyone believing in him might not perish, but may have everlasting life.
17 For God didn’t send the Son into the world to judge the world; but so that the world should be saved through him.
18 The one believing in him is not judged: the one not believing has already been judged, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.
19 And this is the judgment, that the light has come into the world, and the men loved the darkness rather than the light, for their works were evil.
20 For everyone practicing evil hates the light, and doesn’t come to the light, so that his works might not be rebuked.
21 But the one doing the truth comes to the light, so that his works should be made manifest, that they have been worked in God.’
22 After these things Jesus and his disciples came into the land of Judea; and he spent time with them there, and was baptizing.
23 And John was also baptizing in Aenon near Salim, because there was much water there: and they came, and were baptized.
24 For John had not yet been thrown into prison.
25 Therefore a question came up from John's disciples with a Jew about purification.
26 And they came to John, and said to him, ‘Rabbi, the one who was with you on the other side of Jordan, to whom you have borne witness, see, this one is baptizing, and they are all coming to him.’
27 John answered and said, ‘A man can receive nothing, unless it has been given to him from heaven.
28 YOU YOURSELVES bear me witness, that I said, I am not the Christ, but, that I have been sent before him.
29 The one having the bride is the bridegroom: but the friend of the bridegroom, the one who stood and heard him, rejoices greatly because of the bridegroom's voice: Therefore, this joy of mine has been fulfilled.
30 He must increase, but I must decrease.
31 The one coming from above is above all: the one who is from the earth is from the earth, and he speaks from the earth: the one coming from heaven is above all.
32 What he has seen and heard, of this he bears witness; and no one receives his testimony.
33 The one who has received his testimony has attested that God is true. (“attested” literally, “sealed,” as with a signet ring or stamp of approval.)
34 For whom God sent is speaking the words of God: for he does not give the Spirit by measure.
35 The Father loves the Son, and has given all things into his hand.
36 The one believing in the Son has everlasting life; but the one disobeying the Son will not see life, but the wrath of God remains on him.’
John 4
1 Now when the Lord knew that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John
2 --although Jesus himself wasn’t baptizing, but his disciples--,
3 he left Judea, and went into Galilee again.
4 But it was necessary for him pass through Samaria.
5 So he comes into a city of Samaria, called Sychar, near to the piece of land that Jacob gave to his son Joseph:
6 and Jacob's well was there. Jesus therefore, being tired from his journey, sat thus on the well. It was about the sixth hour. (noon)
7 A woman of Samaria comes to draw water: Jesus says to her, ‘Give me a drink.’
8 For his disciples had gone off into the city to buy food.
9 So the Samaritan woman says to him, ‘How are you, being a Jew, asking a drink from me, being a Samaritan woman?’ --For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.--
10 Jesus answered and said to her, ‘If you had known the gift of God, and who is saying to you, Give me a drink, you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.’
11 She says to him, ‘Sir, you have no bucket, and the well is deep: so from where do you have this living water?
12 Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well, and drank from it himself, and his sons, and his cattle?’
13 Jesus answered and said to her, ‘Everyone drinking from this water will get thirsty again:
14 but whoever drinks from the water that I shall give to him will never get thirsty again; but the water that I shall give to him will become a well of water in him gushing up into everlasting life.’
15 The woman says to him, ‘Sir, give me this water, so that I may not get thirsty, nor come here to draw.’
16 He says to her, ‘Go, call your man, and come here.’
17 The woman answered and said to him, ‘I have no man.’ Jesus says to her, ‘You said well, I have no man:
18 for you had five men; and he whom you have now is not your man: this you have said truly.’
19 The woman says to him, ‘Sir, I see that you are a prophet.
20 Our fathers worshipped in this mountain; and YOU say that in Jerusalem is the place where it is necessary to worship.’
21 Jesus says to her, ‘Woman, believe me, that an hour is coming, when neither in this mountain, nor in Jerusalem, YOU will worship the Father.
22 YOU worship what YOU have not known: we worship what we have known; because salvation is from the Jews.
23 But an hour is coming, and is now, when the true worshippers will worship the Father in spirit and truth: for the Father is seeking such to be worshiping him.
24 God is a Spirit: and those worshiping him must worship in spirit and truth.’
25 The woman says to him, ‘I know that Messiah is coming, the one called Christ. When he comes, he will tell us all things.’
26 Jesus says to her, ‘I am, the one speaking to you.’
27 And at this point, his disciples came, and they wondered because he was speaking with a woman; but no one said, ‘What are you looking for?’ or, ‘Why are you speaking with her?’
28 So the woman left her water jar, and went away into the city, and says to the people,
29 ‘Come see a man, who told me all the things that I did: Could this be the Christ?’
30 They came out of the city, and were coming to him.
31 In the meantime, the disciples were asking him, saying, ‘Rabbi, eat.’
32 But he said to them, ‘I have food to eat which YOU do not know.’
33 So the disciples were saying to one another, ‘Has anyone brought him something to eat?’
34 Jesus says to them, ‘My food is to do the will of the one who sent me, and to finish his work.
35 Don’t YOU say, There are yet four months, and the harvest comes? Look, I am saying to YOU, Lift up YOUR eyes, and see the fields, that they are already white for harvest.
36 The one harvesting receives a reward, and gathers fruit into everlasting life, so that the one sowing and the one harvesting may rejoice together.
37 For in this the saying is true: one sows, and another reaps.
38 I sent YOU to reap what YOU have not labored: others have labored, and YOU have entered into their labor.’
39 And from that city many of the Samaritans believed in him because of the word of the woman testifying, ‘He told me all the things that I did.’
40 So when the Samaritans came to him, they asked him to remain with them: and he stayed there two days.
41 And many more believed because of his word;
42 and they were saying to the woman, ‘We don’t believe just because of your speaking any more: for we have heard for ourselves, and we know that this is truly the Savior of the world.’
43 And after the two days he went out from there into Galilee.
44 For Jesus himself testified, that a prophet has no honor in his own country.
45 So when he came into Galilee, the Galileans received him, having seen all the things that he did in Jerusalem at the festival: for they also went to the festival.
46 So he came again into Cana of Galilee, where he made the water wine. And there was a certain noble, whose son was sick in Capernaum.
47 Having heard that Jesus was coming from Judea into Galilee, he went to him, and requested that he would come down, and heal his son; for he was about to die.
48 Therefore, Jesus said to him, ‘Unless YOU see signs and wonders, YOU will by no means believe.’
49 The noble says to him, ‘Sir, come down before my little boy dies.’
50 Jesus says to him, ‘Go; your son lives.’ The man believed the word that Jesus said to him, and he went.
51 But as he was already going down, his slaves met him, saying that his boy was living.
52 So he inquired of them the hour when he had recovered. So they said to him, ‘The fever left him yesterday at the seventh hour.’ (1 pm)
53 So the father knew that it was at that hour in which Jesus said to him, ‘your son lives.’ And he believed, he and his whole household.
54 This is again the second sign that Jesus did, having come out of Judea into Galilee.
John 5
1 After these things there was a festival of the Jews; and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
2 Now in Jerusalem by the sheep gate there is a pool, which is called in Hebrew Bethesda, having five colonnades.
3 In these lay a multitude of the sick, blind, lame, withered, --waiting for the moving of the water.—(“waiting for the moving, etc.” These words, as well as the following verse, are omitted in some manuscripts.)
4 for an angel of the Lord went down at certain times into the pool, and troubled the water: then, after the troubling of the waters, whoever stepped in first was made whole, from whatever disease he was held.
5 And a certain man was there, who had been thirty eight years in his infirmity.
6 Jesus, having seen him lying down, and knowing that he had already been there a long time, he says to him, ‘Do you want to be well?’
7 The sick man answered him, ‘Sir, I have no man to put me into the pool when the water is troubled; but while I am coming, another steps down before me.’
8 Jesus says to him, ‘Get up, pick up your bed, and walk.’
9 And immediately the man became well, and picked up his bed and walked. But it was the Sabbath on that day.
10 So the Jews said to the one who was cured, ‘It’s the Sabbath, and it is not lawful for you to pick up your bed.’
11 But he answered them, “The one who made me well, that one said to me, ‘Pick up your bed, and walk.’”
12 They asked him, “Who is the man who said to you, ‘Pick up and walk?’”
13 But the one who was healed didn’t know who it was; for Jesus had slipped out of the crowd that was in the place.
14 Afterward, Jesus finds him in the temple, and said to him, ‘See, you have become well: don’t sin anymore, so that nothing worse should happen to you.’
15 The man went away, and told the Jews that Jesus was the one who had made him well.
16 And for this reason the Jews persecuted Jesus, because he was doing these things on the Sabbath.
17 But he answered them, ‘My Father is working until now, and I am working.’
18 So for this reason, the Jews sought even more to kill him, because not only was he breaking the Sabbath, but also called God his own Father, making himself equal to God.
19 So Jesus answered and said to them, ‘Amen, amen, I am saying to YOU, the Son can do nothing from himself, except what he sees the Father doing: for whatever things he does, the Son also does these things likewise.
20 For the Father loves the Son, and shows him everything that he is doing: and greater works than these he will show him, so that YOU may wonder.
21 For just as the Father raises the dead and makes them alive, so the Son also makes alive whom he wants.
22 For neither is the Father judging anyone, but he has given all the judgment to the Son;
23 so that all may honor the Son, just as they honor the Father. The one not honoring the Son is not honoring the Father who sent him.
24 Amen, amen, I am saying to YOU, that the one hearing my word, and believing the one who sent me, has everlasting life, and is not coming into judgment, but has passed over from death into life.
25 Amen, amen, I am saying to YOU, that an hour is coming, and is now, when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God; and those having heard will live.
26 For just as the Father has life in himself, so also he gave to the Son to have life in himself:
27 and he gave him authority to execute judgment, because he is a son of man.
28 Do not wonder at this: because an hour is coming, in which all who are in the tombs will hear his voice,
29 and will come out; those having done good, into resurrection of life; those having practiced evil, into resurrection of judgment.
30 I can do nothing from myself: as I hear, I judge: and my judgment is righteous; because I am not seeking my own will, but the will of the one who sent me.
31 If I testify about myself, my testimony is not true.
32 It is another who is testifying about me; and I know that the testimony which he testifies about me is true.
33 YOU have sent to John, and he has borne witness to the truth.
34 But the testimony which I am receiving is not from man: however I am saying these things so that YOU might be saved.
35 He was the burning and shining lamp; and YOU were willing to jump for joy in his light for an hour.
36 But the witness I have is greater than John’s; for the works which the Father has given me to accomplish, the very works that I am doing, are a testimony about me, that the Father has sent me.
37 And the Father who sent me, he has borne witness about me. YOU have neither heard his voice at any time, nor seen his form.
38 And YOU do not have his word remaining in YOU: because whom he sent, him YOU don’t believe.
39 YOU search the scriptures, because YOU think that in them YOU have eternal life; and those are the ones testifying about me;
40 and YOU don’t want to come to me, so that YOU may have life.
41 I am not receiving glory from men.
42 But I know YOU, that YOU don’t have the love of God in YOURSELVES.
43 I have come in my Father's name, and YOU don’t receive me: if another should come in his own name, that one YOU will receive.
44 How can YOU believe, receiving glory from one another, but the glory from the only God YOU aren’t seeking?
45 Don’t think that I will accuse YOU to the Father: Moses is the one accusing YOU, in whom YOU have hoped.
46 For if YOU believed Moses, YOU would believe me; for he wrote about me.
47 But if YOU don’t believe his writings, how will YOU believe my words?’
John 6
1 After these things Jesus went off to the other side of the sea of Galilee, or Tiberias.
2 And a large crowd was following him, because they saw the signs he was doing on those who were sick.
3 But Jesus went up into the mountain, and was sitting there with his disciples.
4 Now the Passover, the festival of the Jews, was at hand.
5 So Jesus, lifting up his eyes, and seeing that a large crowd was coming to him, says to Philip, ‘Where might we buy bread, so that these might eat?’
6 But he said this testing him: for he knew what he was about to do.
7 Philip answered him, ‘Two hundred denarii worth of bread would not be enough for them, that each one might get a little.’
8 One of his disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter's brother, says to him,
9 ‘There is a little boy here, having five barley loaves and two fish: but what are these for so many?’
10 Jesus said, ‘Make the men get down.’ (Literally, “recline,” the normal posture for eating at the time.) Now there was a lot of grass in the place. So the men got down; the number was about five thousand.
11 So Jesus took the loaves; and having given thanks, he distributed to those reclining; likewise also of the fish, as much as they wanted.
12 And when they were filled, he says to his disciples, ‘Gather up the leftover fragments, so that nothing should be lost.’
13 So they gathered them up, and filled twelve baskets with fragments from the five barley loaves, which were leftover from those who had eaten.
14 So the men, having seen the sign which he did, were saying, ‘This is truly the prophet who is coming into the world!’
15 Now Jesus, knowing that they were about to come and seize him so that they might make him king, withdrew again into the mountain himself alone.
16 And when evening came, his disciples went down to the sea;
17 and having gotten into a boat, and were going across the sea to Capernaum. And it was already dark, and Jesus had not yet come to them.
18 And the sea was swelling greatly by a great wind blowing.
19 So when they had rowed about twenty-five or thirty stadia (maybe 3 or 4 miles), they see Jesus walking on the sea, and coming near the boat: and they were afraid.
20 But he says to them, ‘I am; don’t be afraid.’
21 They were willing therefore to receive him into the boat: and immediately the boat was at the land to which they were going.
22 On the next day, the crowd that had stood on the other side of the sea saw that there was no other boat there, except one, and that Jesus had not gotten into the boat with his disciples, but that his disciples went away alone.
23 --and boats from the sea of Tiberias usually came in near the place where they ate the bread after the Lord had given thanks--
24 So when the crowd saw that Jesus wasn’t there, nor his disciples, they got into the boats, and came to Capernaum, seeking Jesus.
25 And having found him on the other side of the sea, they said to him, ‘Rabbi, when did you get here?’
26 Jesus answered them and said, ‘Amen, amen, I am saying to YOU, YOU are seeking me, not because YOU saw signs, but because YOU ate of the loaves, and were filled.
27 Do not work for the food that perishes, but for the food which remains into everlasting life, which the Son of man will give to YOU: for God, the Father, has sealed him.’
28 So they said to him, ‘What may we do, so that we may work the works of God?’
29 Jesus answered and said to them, ‘This is the work of God, that YOU may believe in him whom he sent.’
30 So they said to him, “Then what sign are you doing, so that we might see, and might believe you? What are you working?
31 Our fathers ate the manna in the wilderness; as it is written, ‘He gave them bread out of heaven to eat.’”
32 So Jesus said to them, ‘Amen, amen, I am saying to YOU, Moses didn’t give YOU the bread out of heaven; but my Father is giving YOU the true bread out of heaven.
33 For the bread of God is the one coming down out of heaven and giving life to the world.’
34 So they said to him, ‘Lord, give us this bread always!’
35 Jesus said to them, ‘I am the bread of life: the one coming to me will by no means hunger, and the one believing in me will by no means ever thirst.
36 But I said to YOU, that YOU have even seen me, and don’t believe.
37 All which the Father gives me will come to me; and the one coming to me I will by no means throw out.
38 Because I have come down from heaven, not to do my own will, but the will of the one who sent me.
39 And this is the will of the one who sent me, that I should not lose any of all that he has given me, but should raise it up on the last day.
40 For this is the will of my Father, that every one seeing the Son, and believing in him, may have everlasting life; and I will raise him up on the last day.’
41 Therefore the Jews were murmured about him, because he said, ‘I am the bread which came down out of heaven.’
42 And they said, “Isn’t this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How does he now say, ‘I am come down out of heaven’?”
43 Jesus answered and said to them, “Don’t murmur with one another.
44 No one can come to me, unless the Father who sent me should draw him: and I will raise him up on the last day.
45 It is written in the prophets, ‘And they will all be taught of God.’ Every one who has heard from the Father, and has learned, comes to me.
46 Not that any one has seen the Father, except the one who is from God, he has seen the Father.
47 Amen, amen, I am saying to YOU, the one who believes has everlasting life.
48 I am the bread of life.
49 YOUR fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died.
50 This is the bread coming down out of heaven, so that anyone may eat of it, and not die.
51 I am the living bread which came down out of heaven: if any one should eat of this bread, he will live for ever; and now the bread which I will give is my flesh for the sake of the life of the world.”
52 The Jews therefore were arguing toward one another, saying, ‘How can this one give us his flesh to eat?’
53 So Jesus said to them, ‘Amen, amen, I am saying to YOU, unless YOU eat the flesh of the Son of man and drink his blood, YOU do not have life in YOURSELVES.
54 The one eating my flesh and drinking my blood has eternal life: and I will raise him up on the last day.
55 For my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink.
56 The one eating my flesh and drinking my blood remains in me, and I in him.
57 Just as the living Father sent me, and I live through the Father; so the one eating me will also live through me.
58 This is the bread which came down out of heaven: not as the fathers ate and died; the one eating this bread shall live for ever.’
59 He said these things in the synagogue, teaching in Capernaum.
60 Therefore, many of his disciples, having heard, said, ‘This is a hard saying; who can hear it?’
61 But Jesus, knowing in himself that his disciples were murmuring about this, said to them, ‘Does this trip YOU up?
62 Then what if YOU should see the Son of man ascending to where he was before?
63 It is the spirit that makes alive; the flesh is of no benefit at all: the words that I have spoken to YOU are spirit, and are life.
64 But there are some of YOU who don’t believe.’ For Jesus had known from the beginning which ones were not believing, and who it was that was going to betray him.
65 And he said, ‘For this reason I have said to YOU that no one can come to me, unless it has been given to him from the Father.’
66 Because of this, many of his disciples went back, and didn’t walk with him anymore.
67 So Jesus said to the twelve, ‘Don’t YOU want to go away, too?’
68 Simon Peter answered him, ‘Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of everlasting life.
69 And we have believed and know that you are the Holy One of God.’
70 Jesus answered them, ‘Didn’t I choose YOU, the twelve? And one of YOU is a devil!’
71 Now he was speaking of Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot, for he, one of the twelve, was going to betray him.
John 7
1 And after these things, Jesus walked in Galilee: for he didn’t want to walk in Judea, because the Jews were seeking to kill him.
2 Now the festival of the Jews, the festival of tabernacles (i.e., Sukkoth), was near.
3 So his brothers said to him, ‘Leave here, and go into Judea, so that your disciples will also see your works that you are doing.
4 For nobody does anything in secret, while seeking publicity for himself. If you are doing these things, show yourself to the world.’
5 For not even his brothers believed in him.
6 So Jesus says to them, ‘My time has not yet come; but YOUR time is always ready.
7 The world cannot hate YOU; but it hates me, because I testify about it, that its works are evil.
8 YOU go up to the festival. I’m not going up to this festival yet; because my time is not yet fulfilled.’
9 And having said these things unto them, he remained in Galilee.
10 But when his brothers went up to the festival, then he also went up, not publicly, but as in secret.
11 The Jews therefore were looking for him at the festival, and were saying, ‘Where is he?’
12 And there was much murmuring about him among the crowds: some were saying, ‘He is good;’ others said, ‘No, but he is deceiving the crowd.’
13 But no one spoke publicly about him for fear of the Jews.
14 But when it was already the middle of the festival, Jesus went up into the temple, and was teaching.
15 The Jews therefore were wondering, saying, ‘How does this man know the Writings, not having learned?’ (The “Writings: This is one of the divisions of the Old Testament recognized by the Jews. The other two were the Law or Torah, and the Prophets. Only scholars of the time would have had knowledge of the Writings.)
16 So Jesus answered them and said, ‘My teaching is not mine, but of the one who sent me.
17 If any one is willing to do his will, he will know about the teaching, whether it is from God, or whether I am speaking from myself.
18 The one speaking from himself is seeking his own glory: but the one seeking the glory of the one who sent him, this one is true, and unrighteousness is not in him.
19 Didn’t Moses give YOU the law? And none of YOU is doing the law. Why are YOU seeking to kill me?’
20 The crowd answered, ‘You have a demon! Who is seeking to kill you?’
21 Jesus answered and said to them, ‘I did one work, and YOU are all wondering.
22 For this reason, Moses has given YOU circumcision --not that it is from Moses, but from the fathers-- and YOU circumcise a man on the Sabbath.
23 If a man receives circumcision on the Sabbath, so that the law of Moses should not be broken, are YOU full of bile because I made a man completely whole on the Sabbath?
24 Don’t judge according to outward appearance, but judge the righteous judgment.’
25 Therefore, some of them from Jerusalem were saying, ‘Isn’t this whom they are seeking to kill?
26 And see, he is speaking publicly, and they’re saying nothing to him. Do the rulers truly know that this is the Christ?
27 But we know this one, where he is from: but when the Christ comes, no one knows where he is from.’
28 So Jesus cried out in the temple, teaching and saying, ‘YOU both know me, and know where I am from; and I have not come from myself, but the one who sent me is true, whom YOU do not know.
29 I know him; because I am from him, and he sent me.’
30 So they were seeking to catch him: but no one laid a hand on him, because his hour had not yet come.
31 But out of the crowd many believed in him; and they were saying, ‘When the Christ comes, will he do more signs than those which this one did?’
32 The Pharisees heard the crowd murmuring these things about him; and the chief priests and the Pharisees sent assistants to catch him.
33 So Jesus said, ‘I am with YOU a little while longer, and then I am going to the one who sent me.
34 YOU will look for me, and will not find me: and where I am, YOU cannot come.’
35 So the Jews said to themselves, “Where is this man going to go that we won’t find him? Is he going to go into the Diaspora of the Greeks, to teach the Greeks? (Diaspora: Jews dispersed among other nations.)
36 What is this word that he said, ‘YOU will look for me, and will not find me; and where I am, YOU cannot come’?”
37 But on the last, great day of the festival, Jesus stood and cried out, saying, “If any one is thirsty, let him come to me and drink.
38 The one believing in me, as the scripture said, ‘rivers of living water will flow from his abdomen.’” (Abdomen: literally “hollow” or “cavity.” Usually understood to mean belly, abdomen, or in women, womb.)
39 But he said this about the Spirit, which those who believed in him were going to receive. -- for the Spirit was not given yet, because Jesus was not yet glorified.
40 Some of the crowd therefore, having heard these words, were saying, ‘This is truly the prophet!’
41 Others were saying, ‘This is the Christ.’ But some were saying, ‘Does the Christ come out of Galilee?
42 Didn’t the scripture say that the Christ comes from the seed of David, and from Bethlehem, the village where David was?’
43 So a division occurred in the crowd because of him.
44 And some of them wanted to take him; but no one laid hands on him.
45 So the assistants came to the chief priests and Pharisees; and they said to them, ‘Why didn’t YOU bring him?’
46 The assistants answered, ‘No man ever spoke like that!’
47 So the Pharisees answered them, ‘Have YOU also been deceived?
48 Have any of the rulers believed on him, or of the Pharisees?
49 But this crowd which doesn’t know the law is accursed.’
50 Nicodemus says to them –the one who came to him previously, being one of them--,
51 ‘Does our law judge the man, unless it first hears from him and knows what he is doing?’
52 They answered and said to him, ‘Are you from Galilee, too? Search, and see that no prophet is raised up from Galilee.’
53 And they went each to his own house, (This verse is omitted in some manuscripts.)
John 8
(Verses 1-11 are omitted in some manuscripts)
1 but Jesus went to the mount of Olives.
2 But at daybreak, he came again into the temple, and all the people were coming to him; and he sat down, and was teaching them.
3 And the scribes and the Pharisees bring a woman caught in adultery; and having stood her in the midst,
4 say to him, ‘Teacher, this woman has been caught in the very act of committing adultery.
5 Now in the law, Moses commanded us to stone such women: so what do you say?’
6 But they were saying this, testing him, so that they might have evidence to accuse him. But Jesus, having bent down, was writing on the ground with his finger.
7 But when they continued asking him, he straightened up, and said to them, ‘Let the sinless one among YOU throw a stone at her first.’
8 And again having bent down, he was writing on the ground.
9 But they, having heard it, went out one by one, starting from the oldest, and he was left alone, and the woman, being in the midst.
10 And having straightened up, Jesus said to her, ‘Woman, where are they? No one condemned you?’
11 And she said, ‘No one, Sir.’ And Jesus said, ‘Neither do I condemn you. Go; from now on don’t sin anymore.’
12 So Jesus spoke to them again, saying, ‘I am the light of the world: the one following me will not walk in the darkness, but will have the light of life.’
13 So the Pharisees said to him, ‘You are bearing witness about yourself; your testimony is not true.’
14 Jesus answered and said to them, ‘Even if I am bearing witness about myself, my testimony is true, because I know where I came from, and where I am going; but YOU don’t know where I come from, or where I am going.
15 YOU are judging according to the flesh; I am not judging anyone.
16 And even if I am judging, my judgment is true, because I am not alone, but I and the Father who sent me.
17 And even in YOUR own law it is written, that the testimony of two men is true.
18 I am one bearing witness about myself; the Father who sent me is also bearing witness about me.’
19 So they said to him, ‘Where is your father?’ Jesus answered, ‘YOU know neither me, nor my Father: if YOU knew me, YOU would have know my Father also.’
20 He spoke these words in the treasury, teaching in the temple: and no one took him; because his hour had not come yet.
21 So he said to them again, ‘I am going away, and YOU will look for me, and will die in YOUR sin. Where I am going, YOU cannot come.’
22 So the Jews were saying, “Will he kill himself, because he says, ‘Where I am going, YOU cannot come’?”
23 And he said to them, ‘YOU are from below; I am from above: YOU are of this world; I am not of this world.
24 I said therefore to YOU, that YOU will die in YOUR sins: for unless YOU believe that I am, YOU will die in YOUR sins.’
25 So they were saying to him, ‘Who are you?’ Jesus said to them, ‘The beginning, even though I am speaking to YOU.
26 I have many things to speak and to judge about YOU: but the one who sent me is true; and what I heard from him, these things I am speaking to the world.’
27 They didn’t realize that he was speaking to them as the Father.
28 So Jesus said, ‘When YOU have lifted up the Son of man, then YOU will know that I am, and I am doing nothing from myself, but as the Father taught me, I am speaking these things.
29 And the one who sent me is with me; he has not left me alone, because I am always doing the things that are pleasing to him.’
30 As he was speaking these things, many believed in him.
31 So Jesus said to those Jews that had believed him, ‘If YOU remain in my word, YOU are truly my disciples;
32 and YOU will know the truth, and the truth will set YOU free.’
33 They answered to him, “We are Abraham's seed, and have never been slaves to any one. How are you saying, ‘YOU will be set free’?”
34 Jesus answered them, ‘Amen, amen, I am saying to YOU, every one committing sin is the slave of sin.
35 And the slave doesn’t remain in the house forever: the son remains for ever.
36 So if the Son shall set YOU free, YOU will really be free.
37 I know that YOU are Abraham's seed: but YOU are seeking to kill me, because my word finds no place in YOU.
38 I am speaking the things I have seen from the Father: and YOU are also doing the things YOU heard from YOUR father.’
39 They answered and said to him, ‘Our father is Abraham.’ Jesus says to them, ‘If YOU are Abraham's children, do the works of Abraham.
40 But now YOU are seeking to kill me, a man who has told YOU the truth which I heard from God: Abraham didn’t do this.
41 YOU are doing the works of YOUR father.’ They said to him, ‘We were not born from fornication; we have one Father: God.’
42 Jesus said to them, ‘If God were YOUR Father, YOU would love me: for I came out of God and am here; for I didn’t come from myself, either, but he sent me.
43 Why don’t YOU recognize my speech? Is it because YOU can’t hear my word?
44 YOU are of YOUR father the devil, and YOU want to do YOUR father’s desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, and has not stood in the truth, because truth is not in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own, because he is a liar, and the father of it.
45 But because I am telling the truth, YOU don’t believe me.
46 Which of YOU convicts me of sin? If I am speaking truth, why don’t YOU believe me?
47 The one who is of God hears the words of God: for this reason YOU don’t hear them, because YOU are not of God.’
48 The Jews answered and said to him, ‘Aren’t we right in saying that 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 seeking my own glory: there is one seeking and judging.
51 Amen, amen, I am saying to YOU, if anyone keeps my word, he shall never see death.’
52 The Jews said to him, “Now we know that you have a demon. Abraham died, and the prophets; and you say, ‘If anyone keeps my word, he shall never taste of death.’
53 Are you greater than our father Abraham, who died? And the prophets died. Who are you making yourself?’
54 Jesus answered, ‘If I glorify myself, my glory is nothing: my Father is the one glorifying me, whom YOU say is YOUR God;
55 and YOU don’t know him, but I know him; and if I should say that I don’t know him, I would be a liar like YOU. But I do know him, and am keeping his word.
56 YOUR father Abraham jumped for joy to see my day; and he saw it, and rejoiced.’
57 Then the Jews said to him, ‘You aren’t yet fifty years old, and you’ve seen Abraham?’
58 Jesus said to them, ‘Amen, amen, I am saying to YOU, before Abraham was, I am.’
59 So they picked up stones to throw at him: but Jesus hid, and went out of the temple.
John 9
1 And passing by, he saw a man blind from birth.
2 And his disciples asked him, saying, ‘Rabbi, who sinned, this man, or his parents, that he should be born blind?’
3 Jesus answered, ‘Neither this man sinned, nor his parents: but that the works of God might be shown in him.
4 We must work the works of the one who sent me while it is day: night is coming, when no one can work.
5 When I am in the world, I am the light of the world.’
6 Having said these things, he spit on the ground, and made clay from the saliva, and put his clay on the man’s eyes,
7 and he said to him, ‘Go, wash in the pool of Siloam.’ --which is translated “Sent”-- So he went off, and he washed, and came back seeing.
8 Therefore, the neighbors, and those who saw him before, that he was a beggar, were saying, ‘Isn’t this the one who sat and begged?’
9 Others were saying, ‘It’s him.’ Others were saying, ‘No, but he is like him.’ He said, ‘I am him.’
10 So they were saying to him, ‘Then how were your eyes opened?’
11 He answered, “The man who is called Jesus made clay, and anointed my eyes, and he said to me, ‘Go to Siloam, and wash.’ So I went off and washed, I saw.”
12 And they said to him, ‘Where is he?’ He says, ‘I don’t know.’
13 They bring him, the one who used to be blind, to the Pharisees.
14 Now it was the Sabbath on the day when Jesus made the clay, and opened his eyes.
15 So the Pharisees also asked him again how he could see. And he said to them, ‘He put clay on my eyes, and I washed, and I see.’
16 Therefore, some of the Pharisees were saying, ‘This man is not from God, because he doesn’t keep the Sabbath.’ But others were saying, ‘How can a sinner man do such signs?’ And there was division among them.
17 So they say to the blind man again, ‘What do you say about him, since he opened your eyes?’ And he said, ‘He is a prophet.’
18 So the Jews didn’t believe about him, that he was blind, and had could see, until they called the parents of the one who could see,
19 and asked them, saying, ‘Is this YOUR son, whom YOU are saying was born blind? Then how is he seeing now?’
20 So his parents answered and said, ‘We know that this is our son, and that he was born blind:
21 but how he is seeing now, we don’t know; or who opened his eyes, we don’t know. Ask him; he is of age; he will speak for himself.’
22 His parents said these things because they feared the Jews: for the Jews had already agreed that if any one should profess him to be Christ, he should be put out of the synagogue.
23 For this reason his parents said, ‘He is of age; ask him.’
24 So they called for the man who was blind a second time, and said to him, ‘Give glory to God: we know that this man is a sinner.’
25 So he answered, ‘Whether he is a sinner, I don’t know. I know one thing: that I was blind; now I see.’
26 So they said to him, ‘What did he do to you? How did he open your eyes?’
27 He answered them, ‘I already told YOU, and YOU didn’t hear; why do YOU want to hear it again? Do YOU also want to become his disciples?’
28 And they berated him, and said, ‘You are his disciple; but we are disciples of Moses.
29 We know that God has spoken to Moses: but this one, we don’t know where he’s from.’
30 The man answered and said to them, ‘Now the miracle in this is that YOU don’t know where he’s from, and he opened my eyes!
31 We know that God doesn’t hear sinners: but if anyone is a worshipper of God, and does his will, he hears this one.
32 From eternity it was never heard that anyone opened the eyes of a man born blind.
33 If this man were not from God, he could do nothing.’
34 They answered and said to him, ‘You were altogether born in sins, and you’re teaching us?!’ And they threw him out.
35 Jesus heard that they had threw him out; and having found him, he said, ‘Do you believe in the Son of man?’ (Some versions say “Son of God.”)
36 He answered and said, ‘And who is he, Sir, that I may believe in him?’
37 Jesus said to him, ‘You have both seen him, and he is the one speaking with you.’
38 And he said, ‘Lord, I believe.’ And he worshipped him.
39 And Jesus said, ‘I came into this world for judgment, so that those not seeing may see; and those seeing should become blind.’
40 Those of the Pharisees who were with him heard these things, and said to him, ‘Are we also blind?’
41 Jesus said to them, “If YOU were blind, YOU would have no sin: but now YOU are saying, ‘We see’: YOUR sin remains.”
John 10
1 ‘Amen, amen, I am saying to YOU, the one who doesn’t enter into the sheepfold through the door, but climbs up some other way, that one is a thief and a robber.
2 But the one entering in through the door is the shepherd of the sheep.
3 The doorman opens to him; and the sheep hear his voice: and he calls his own sheep by name, and leads them out.
4 When he has brought all his own out, he goes before them, and the sheep follow him, because they know his voice.
5 But they will not follow a stranger, but will flee from him, because they don’t know the voice of strangers.’
6 Jesus told them this parable, but they didn’t understand what it was that he was saying to them.
7 So Jesus said to them again, ‘Amen, amen, I am saying to YOU, I am the door of the sheep.
8 All who came before me are thieves and robbers: but the sheep didn’t hear them.
9 I am the door; if anyone should enter through me, he will be saved, and will go in and go out, and will find pasture.
10 The thief doesn’t come, except to steal, and kill, and destroy: I came so that they may have life, and may have it abundantly.
11 I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.
12 But the hired hand, not being a shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, sees the wolf coming, and leaves the sheep, and flees, and the wolf snatches them, and scatters them.
13 He flees because he is a hired hand, and it doesn’t matter to him about the sheep.
14 I am the good shepherd; and I know mine, and mine know me,
15 just 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 are not of this fold: I must bring them also, and they will hear my voice: and they will become one flock, one shepherd.
17 For this reason the Father loves me, because I lay down my life, so that I may take it again.
18 No one takes it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have authority to lay it down, and I have authority to take it again. I received this commandment from my Father.’
19 A division occurred again among the Jews because of these words.
20 And many of them were saying, ‘He has a demon, and is insane; why do YOU listen to him?’
21 Others were saying, ‘These are not the sayings of a demoniac. Can a demon open the eyes of the blind?’
22 And it was the feast of the dedication (Chanukah) in Jerusalem; it was winter,
23 and Jesus was walking in the temple in Solomon's colonnade.
24 So the Jews encircled him, and were saying to him, ‘How long will you keep us in suspense? If you are the Christ, tell us plainly.’
25 Jesus answered them, ‘I told YOU, and YOU don’t believe: the works that I am doing in my Father's name, these bear witness about me.
26 But YOU don’t believe, because YOU are not of my sheep.
27 My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me:
28 and I give them everlasting life; and they will not ever perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand.
29 My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all; and no one is able to snatch them out of the Father's hand.
30 I and the Father are one. (“one” Greek word is “hen,” and implies “one thing” or “one person,” depending on context.)
31 The Jews picked up stones again to stone him.
32 Jesus answered them, ‘I showed YOU many good works from the Father; for which of those works are YOU stoning me?’
33 The Jews answered him, ‘We are not stoning you for a good work, but for blasphemy; and because you, being a man, are making yourself God.’
34 Jesus answered them, “Isn’t it written in YOUR law, ‘I said, YOU are gods’?
35 If he called them gods, to whom the word of God came, and the scripture cannot be broken,
36 YOU are saying of him, whom the Father sanctified and sent into the world, ‘You’re blaspheming’; because I said, ‘I am God’s Son’?
37 If I’m not doing the works of my Father, don’t believe me.
38 But if I am doing them, even though YOU may not believe me, believe the works: so that YOU may know and understand that the Father is in me, and I in the Father.’
39 So they sought again to take hold of him: and he went out of their hand.
40 And he went away again across the Jordan into the place where John was baptizing the first time; and he remained there.
41 And many came to him; and they were saying, ‘John indeed did no sign: but all that John said about this man was true.’
42 And many believed in him there.
John 11
1 Now a certain man was sick, Lazarus of Bethany, from the village of Mary and her sister Martha.
2 Mary was the one who anointed the Lord with ointment, and dried his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick.
3 So the sisters sent to him, saying, ‘Lord, see, the one whom you love is sick.’
4 But Jesus, having heard it, said, ‘This sickness is not to death, but for the glory of God, so that the Son of God might be glorified through it.’
5 Now Jesus loved Martha, and her sister, and Lazarus.
6 However, when he heard that he was sick, then he in fact remained two days in the place where he was.
7 Then after this, he says to the disciples, ‘Let’s go into Judea again.’
8 The disciples are saying to him, ‘Rabbi, now the Judeans were seeking to stone you; and you’re going there again?’
9 Jesus answered, ‘Aren’t there twelve hours in the day? If anyone walks in the day, he doesn’t stumble, because he sees the light of this world.
10 But if anyone walks in the night, he stumbles, because the light is not in him.’
11 He said these things: and after this, he says to them, ‘Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep; but I am going, so that I might awaken him out of sleep.’
12 So the disciples said to him, ‘Lord, if he has fallen asleep, he will get well.’
13 But Jesus had spoken about his death: but they thought that he was talking about taking rest in sleep.
14 So then Jesus said to them plainly, ‘Lazarus died.
15 And I am glad for YOUR sakes that I was not there, so that YOU may believe; but let us go to him.’
16 So Thomas, who is called Didymus (“Twin”), said to his fellow-disciples, ‘Let us go too, so that we might die with him.’
17 So when Jesus came, he found that he had been in the tomb four days already.
18 Now Bethany was near Jerusalem, about fifteen stadia off; (about 2 miles)
19 and many of the Jews had come to Martha and Mary, to console them about their brother.
20 Therefore, Martha, when she heard that Jesus was coming, met him: but Mary was sitting in the house.
21 So Martha said to Jesus, ‘Lord, if you were here, my brother would not have died.
22 And now I know that whatever you might ask God, God will give you.’
23 Jesus says to her, ‘Your brother will rise.’
24 Martha says to him, ‘I know that he shall rise in the resurrection on the last day.’
25 Jesus said to her, ‘I am the resurrection, and the life! The one believing in me, even if he should die, he will live;
26 and everyone living and believing in me will never die. Do you believe this?’
27 She says to him, ‘Yes, Lord: I have believed that you are the Christ, the Son of God, the one coming into the world.’
28 And having said this, she went off, and called her sister Mary, secretly, saying, ‘The Teacher is here, and is calling for you.’
29 And she, when she heard it, got up quickly, and went to him.
30 But Jesus had not yet come into the village, but was still in the place where Martha met him.
31 So the Jews who were with her in the house, and were consoling her, having seen Mary, that she stood up quickly and went out, followed her, thinking that she was going to the tomb to weep there.
32 So Mary, when she reached where Jesus was, and saw him, fell down at his feet, saying to him, ‘Lord, if you were here, my brother would not have died.’
33 So Jesus, when he saw her weeping, and the Jews who came with her weeping, he groaned in the spirit, and was troubled,
34 and said, ‘Where have YOU put him?’ They said to him, ‘Lord, come and see.’
35 Jesus wept.
36 Therefore the Jews said, ‘See how he loved him!’
37 But some of them said, ‘Couldn’t this man, who opened the eyes of the blind man, have also made it so that this man should not die?’
38 So Jesus, again groaning in himself, comes to the tomb. Now it was a cave, and a stone was lying against it.
39 Jesus says, ‘Take away the stone.’ Martha, the sister of him that was dead, says to him, ‘Lord, he smells already; it’s been four days.’
40 Jesus says to her, ‘Didn’t I tell you that, if you believe, you will see the glory of God?’
41 So they took away the stone. And Jesus lifted up his eyes, and said, ‘Father, I thank you that you heard me.
42 But I know that you always hear me: but because of the crowd standing around I said it, so that they should believe that you sent me.’
43 And having said these things, he cried out with a loud voice, ‘Lazarus, come out!’
44 The one who was dead came out, bound hand and foot with winding-sheets; and his face was bound about with a cloth. Jesus says to them, ‘Loose him, and let him go.’
45 So many of the Jews who had come to Mary and had seen what he did, believed in him.
46 But some of them went off to the Pharisees, and told them what Jesus did.
47 So the chief priests and the Pharisees gathered the Sanhedrin, and were saying, ‘What do we do, because this man is doing many signs?
48 If we leave him alone this way, everyone will believe in him: and the Romans will come and take away both our place and our nation.’
49 But a certain one of them, Caiaphas, being high priest that year, said to them, ‘YOU know nothing at all,
50 nor are YOU considering that it is better for YOU that one man should die for the people, and that the whole nation shouldn’t perish.’
51 But he didn’t say this from himself: but, being high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus was going to die for the nation;
52 and not for the nation only, but that he might also gather together into one the children of God who are scattered abroad.
53 So from that day on, they took counsel so that they might kill him.
54 Therefore, Jesus no longer walked openly among the Jews, but went out from there into the country near to the wilderness, into a city called Ephraim; and he remained there with the disciples.
55 Now the Passover of the Jews was near: and many went up to Jerusalem out of the country before the Passover, in order to purify themselves.
56 So they were looking for Jesus, and were saying with one another, standing in the temple, ‘What do YOU think? That he won’t come to the festival?’
57 Now the chief priests and the Pharisees had given orders, that if anyone knew where he was, he should disclose it, that they might seize him.
John 12
1 So Jesus, six days before Passover, came to Bethany, where Lazarus was, whom Jesus raised from the dead.
2 Therefore they made supper there for him: and Martha was serving; and Lazarus was one of those reclining at the table with him.
3 So Mary, having taken a pound of very expensive perfumed oil of genuine nard, anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his feet with her hair: and the house was filled with the scent of the perfumed oil.
4 But Judas Iscariot, one of his disciples, the one who was going to betray him, says,
5 ‘Why wasn’t this ointment sold for three hundred denarii, and given to the poor?’
6 But he said this, not because he cared about the poor; but because he was a thief, and having the money box, was taking out what was put into it.
7 So Jesus said, ‘Leave her alone; she’s doing this in observance of the day of my burial.
8 For the poor YOU always have with YOU; but YOU do not always have me.’
9 Now a great crowd of the Jews learned that he was there: and they came, not only for Jesus' sake, but that they might also see Lazarus, whom he raised from the dead.
10 But the chief priests took counsel that they might also kill Lazarus;
11 because many of the Jews were going away because of him, and were believing in Jesus.
12 On the next day the great crowd that had come to the festival, having heard that Jesus was coming into Jerusalem,
13 took the branches of the palm trees, and went out to meet him, and were crying out, ‘Hosanna! (Hebrew: “Hosha na” – “please save!”) Blessed is the one coming in the name of the Lord, and the King of Israel.’
14 And Jesus, having found a young donkey, sat down on it; as it is written,
15 ‘Do not fear, daughter of Zion: Look, your King is coming, sitting on a donkey’s colt.’
16 At first, his disciples didn’t understand these things: but when Jesus was glorified, then they remembered that these things had been written about him, and that they did these things to him.
17 So the crowd that was with him when he called Lazarus out of the tomb, and raised him from the dead, was bearing witness.
18 For this reason also the crowd met him, because they heard that he had done this sign.
19 So the Pharisees said to themselves, ‘YOU see YOU’re accomplishing nothing! See, the world has gone off after him!’
20 Now there were some Greeks among those who came up to worship at the festival:
21 so these came to Philip, who was from Bethsaida of Galilee, and were questioning him, saying, ‘Sir, we would like to see Jesus.’
22 Philip comes and tells Andrew: Andrew comes, and Philip, and they tell Jesus.
23 And Jesus answers them, saying, ‘The hour has come, that the Son of man might be glorified.
24 Amen, amen, I am saying to YOU, unless a grain of wheat, having fallen into the earth, should die, it remains alone; but if it should die, it bears much fruit.
25 The one loving his life loses it; and the one hating his life in this world will safeguard it into everlasting life.
26 If any one will serve me, let him follow me; and where I am, there will my servant be also: if any one will serve me, the Father will honor him.
27 Now my soul is troubled; and what should I say? Father, save me from this hour? But for this reason I came to this hour.
28 Father, glorify your name!’ So a voice came out of heaven: ‘I have both glorified it, and will glorify it again!’
29 Therefore, the crowd standing by, having heard it, was saying, ‘It thundered.’ Others were saying, ‘An angel has spoken to him.’
30 Jesus answered and said, ‘This voice hasn’t occurred for my sake, but for YOUR sakes.
31 Now is the judgment of this world: now the ruler of this world will be thrown out.
32 And if I should be lifted up from the earth, I will draw all people to myself.’
33 But he was saying this, signifying what kind of death he was going to die.
34 So the crowd answered him, ‘We heard from the law that the Christ remains for ever: and how are you saying that the Son of man must be lifted up? Who is this Son of man?’
35 So Jesus said to them, ‘The light is among YOU just a little while longer. Walk while YOU have the light, so that darkness doesn’t overtake YOU: and the one walking in the darkness doesn’t know where he is going.
36 While YOU have the light, believe in the light, so that YOU might become sons of light.’ Jesus said these things, and having gone off, he hid from them.
37 But though he had done so many signs before them, they still didn’t believe in him:
38 so that the word of Isaiah the prophet might be fulfilled, which he said, ‘Lord, who has believed our report? And to whom was the arm of the Lord revealed?’
39 For this reason they couldn’t believe, because Isaiah said again,
40 ‘He has blinded their eyes, and he hardened their heart, so that they might not see with their eyes, and understand with their heart, and should turn, and I should heal them.’
41 Isaiah said these things because he saw his glory; and he spoke about him.
42 All the same, however, many of the rulers believed in him; but because of the Pharisees they did not admit it, so that they might not be put out of the synagogue;
43 for they loved the glory of men more than the glory of God.
44 And Jesus cried out and said, ‘The one believing in me, isn’t believing in me, but in the one who has sent me.
45 And the one looking at me is looking at the one who has sent me.
46 I have come as a light into the world, so that everyone believing in me should not remain in the darkness.
47 And if anyone should hear my words, and not keep them, I am not judging him: for I didn’t come to judge the world, but to save the world.
48 The one rejecting me, and not receiving my words, has one judging him: the word that I spoke, that word will judge him on the last day,
49 because I didn’t speak from myself; but the one who sent me, the Father, he has given me a commandment, what I should say, and what I should speak.
50 And I know that his commandment is everlasting life. So what I am speaking, just as the Father has spoken to me, so I am speaking.’
John 13
1 Now before the feast of the Passover, Jesus, knowing that his hour had come that he should move out of this world to the Father, having loved his own who were in the world, loved them to the end.
2 And during supper, the devil having already put into the heart of Judas, son of Simon Iscariot, to betray him,
3 he (Jesus), knowing that the Father had given all into his hands, and that he came out from God, and was going to God,
4 gets up from supper, and sets aside his garments; and having taken a towel, he wrapped it around himself.
5 Then he pours water into the basin, and began washing the disciples' feet, and wiping them off with the towel with which he was girded.
6 So he comes to Simon Peter. He says to him, ‘Lord, are you washing my feet?!’
7 Jesus answered and said to him, ‘Right now you don’t know what I’m doing; but you will understand after these things.’
8 Peter says to him, ‘You won’t ever wash my feet!’ Jesus answered him, ‘If I don’t wash you, you have no part with me.’
9 Simon Peter says to him, ‘Lord, not my feet only, but also my hands and my head!’
10 Jesus says to him, ‘The one who has been bathed needs only to wash the feet, but is entirely clean: and YOU are clean, but not all of you.’
11 For he knew the one betraying him; for this reason he said, ‘YOU are not all clean.’
12 So when he had washed their feet, and taken his garments, and reclined at the table again, he said to them, “Do YOU know what I have done to YOU?
13 YOU call me ‘the Teacher’, and ‘the Lord’, and YOU are speaking rightly; for so I am.
14 So if I, the Lord and the Teacher, washed YOUR feet, YOU also ought to wash one another's feet.
15 For I have given YOU an example, that just as I did to YOU, YOU may also do.
16 Amen, amen, I am saying to YOU, a slave is not greater than his lord; nor an apostle greater than the one who sent him.
17 If YOU know these things, YOU are blessed if YOU do them.
18 I’m not talking about all of YOU: I know whom I chose: but in order that the scripture might be fulfilled: ‘The one eating my bread lifted up his heel against me.’
19 From right now, I am telling YOU before it happens, so that, when it does happen, YOU may believe that I am.
20 Amen, amen, I am saying to YOU, the one receiving anyone I send, is receiving me; and the one receiving me, is receiving the one who sent me.’
21 Jesus, having said these things, became troubled in the spirit, and testified, and said, ‘Amen, amen, I am saying to YOU, that one of YOU will betray me.’
22 The disciples were looking at one another, being at a loss about whom he was talking.
23 One of his disciples was reclining at the table in Jesus' bosom, whom Jesus loved.
24 So Simon Peter nods to him, and says to him, ‘Tell us who it is of whom he is speaking.’
25 He, having leaned back on Jesus' breast, says to him, ‘Lord, who is it?’
26 So Jesus answers, ‘It is he, for whom I will dip the morsel, and give it him.’ So having dipped the morsel, he takes it and gives it to Judas, son of Simon Iscariot.
27 And after the morsel, then entered Satan into him. So Jesus says to him, ‘What you are doing, do more quickly.’
28 But no one reclining at the table knew why he said this to him.
29 For some were thinking, that since Judas had the money box, Jesus was saying to him, ‘Buy what we need for the festival’ or, that he should give something to the poor.
30 So having received the morsel, he went out immediately. And it was night.
31 Now, when he went out, Jesus says, “Now the Son of man is glorified, and God is glorified in him;
32 and God will glorify him in himself, and he will glorify him at once.
33 Little children, only a little while longer I am with YOU. YOU will look for me: and just as I said to the Jews, ‘Where I am going, YOU cannot come’ so I am saying to YOU right now.
34 I am giving YOU a new commandment, that YOU love one another; just as I loved YOU, that YOU also love one another.
35 By this all will know that YOU are my disciples, if YOU have love among one another.”
36 Simon Peter says to him, ‘Lord, where are you going?’ Jesus answered, ‘Where I’m going, you can’t follow me now; but you will follow later.’
37 Peter says to him, ‘Lord, why can’t I follow you right now? I will lay down my life for you!’
38 Jesus answers, ‘Will you lay down your life for me? Amen, amen, I am saying to you, the rooster will not crow, until you have denied me three times.’
John 14
1 ‘Don’t let YOUR heart be troubled: believe in God, and believe in me.
2 In my Father's house are many mansions; and if not, I would have told YOU, because I’m going to prepare a place for YOU.
3 And if I go and prepare a place for YOU, I’m coming again, and I’ll take YOU to myself, so that where I am, YOU may be also.
4 And where I’m going, YOU know the way.’
5 Thomas says to him, ‘Lord, we don’t know where you’re going; how do we know the way?’
6 Jesus says to him, ‘I am the way, and the truth, and the life: no one is coming to the Father, except through me.
7 If YOU had known me, YOU would have known my Father also: from right now YOU do know him, and have seen him.’
8 Philip says to him, ‘Lord, show us the Father, and it’s enough for us.’
9 Jesus says to him, “I’m with YOU all this time, and you don’t know me, Philip?! The one who has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’?
10 Don’t you believe that I am in the Father, and the Father is in me? The words that I am saying to YOU I don’t speak from myself: but the Father staying in me is doing his works.
11 Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father in me. But if not, believe for the very works' sake.
12 Amen, amen, I am saying to YOU, the one believing in me, the works that I am doing he will also do, and he will do greater than these; because I’m going to the Father.
13 And whatever YOU should ask in my name, this I will do, so that the Father might be glorified in the Son.
14 If YOU should ask me anything in my name, this I will do.
15 If YOU love me, YOU will keep my commandments.
16 And I will ask the Father, and he will give YOU another Comforter, so that he may be with YOU for ever:
17 the Spirit of truth, which the world cannot receive, because it doesn’t see him, nor know him: YOU know him, because he is staying with YOU, and is in YOU.
18 I will not leave YOU parentless: I am coming to YOU.
19 A little while longer, and the world won’t see me anymore; but YOU will see me: because I live, YOU will live also.
20 In that day, YOU will know that I am in my Father, and YOU in me, and I in YOU.
21 The one having my commandments, and keeping them, that is the one who loves me: and the one who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him, and will show myself to him.”
22 Judas, not Iscariot, says to him, ‘Lord, what has happened that you are going to show yourself to us, and not to the world?’
23 Jesus answered and said to him, “If anyone loves me, he will keep my word: and my Father will love him, and we will come to him, and will make our home with him.
24 The one who doesn’t love me, doesn’t keep my words: and the word which YOU are hearing is not mine, but the Father's who sent me.
25 I have said these things to YOU, while I am remaining with YOU.
26 But the Comforter, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach YOU all things, and will remind YOU of all that I said to YOU.
27 I am leaving YOU peace: I am giving YOU my peace. I’m not giving to YOU the way the world gives. Don’t let YOUR heart be troubled, nor let it be fearful.
28 YOU heard that I said to YOU, ‘I’m going away, and I’m coming to YOU.’ If YOU loved me, YOU would have rejoiced, because I’m going to the Father: because the Father is greater than I.
29 And now I have told YOU before it happens, so that, when it does happen, YOU should believe.
30 I will not speak much more with YOU, for the ruler of the world is coming: and he has nothing in me;
31 but so that the world should know that I love the Father, and just as the Father gave me commandment, so I’m doing. Get up; let’s go from here.’
John 15
1 “I am the true vine, and my Father is the farmer.
2 Every branch in me not bearing fruit, he takes it away: and every one bearing fruit, he prunes it, so that it may bear more fruit.
3 YOU are already pruned through the word which I have spoken to YOU.
4 Remain in me, and I in YOU. Just as the branch cannot bear fruit from itself, unless it remains in the vine, so neither can YOU, unless YOU remain in me.
5 I am the vine, YOU are the branches: The one remaining in me, and I in him, this one bears much fruit: because apart from me YOU can do nothing.
6 If anyone doesn’t remain in me, he is thrown out like a branch, and is dried up; and they gather them, and throw them into the fire, and they are burned.
7 If YOU remain in me, and my words remain in YOU, ask whatever YOU will, and it will happen for YOU.
8 In this my Father is glorified, that YOU bear much fruit and YOU become my disciples.
9 Just as the Father loved me, I also loved YOU: remain in my love.
10 If YOU keep my commandments, YOU will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father's commandments, and remain in his love.
11 I have said these things to YOU, so that my joy may be in YOU, and YOUR joy may be made full.
12 This is my commandment, that YOU love one another, just as I have loved YOU.
13 No one has greater love than this, that anyone lay down his life for his friends.
14 YOU are my friends, if YOU do the things which I command YOU.
15 I no longer call YOU slaves, because the slave doesn’t know what his lord is doing: but I have called YOU friends, because all things that I heard from my Father, I have made known to YOU.
16 YOU didn’t choose me, but I chose YOU, and appointed YOU, so that YOU may go and bear fruit, and YOUR fruit may remain: so that whatever YOU might ask the Father in my name, he might give to YOU.
17 These things I command YOU, that YOU may love one another.
18 If the world hates YOU, YOU know that it has hated me before YOU.
19 If YOU were of the world, the world would love its own: but because YOU are not of the world, but I chose YOU out of the world, because of this the world hates YOU.
20 Remember the word that I said to YOU, ‘A slave is not greater than his lord’. If they persecuted me, they will also persecute YOU; if they kept my word, they will keep YOURS too.
21 But they will do all these things to YOU for my name's sake, because they don’t know the one who sent me.
22 If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have had sin: but now they have no excuse for their sin.
23 The one hating me hates my Father too.
24 If I had not done among them the works which no one else did, they would not have had sin: but now they have both seen and hated both me and my Father.
25 But this is so that the word may be fulfilled, which is written in their law, ‘They hated me for no reason.’
26 But when the Comforter has come, whom I will send to YOU from the Father, the Spirit of truth, which comes out of the Father, he will testify about me:
27 and YOU also testify, because YOU were with me from the beginning.”
John 16
1 “I have said these things to YOU, so that YOU might not be caused to stumble.
2 They will put YOU out of the synagogues. In fact, the hour is coming, that anyone who kills YOU will think he is offering religious service to God!
3 And they will do these things, because they have not known the Father, nor me.
4 But I have said these things to YOU, so that when their hour comes, YOU may remember that I told YOU about them. But I didn’t say these things to YOU from the beginning, because I was with YOU.
5 But now I’m going to the one who sent me; and none of YOU is asking me, ‘Where are you going?’
6 But because I have said these things to YOU, sadness has filled YOUR heart.
7 Nevertheless I’m telling YOU the truth: It is better for YOU that I go away; for if I don’t go away, the Comforter would not come to YOU; but if I do go, I will send him to YOU.
8 And having come, he will convict the world about sin, and about righteousness, and about judgment:
9 and certainly about sin, because they don’t believe in me;
10 and about righteousness, because I’m going to the Father, and YOU won’t see me anymore;
11 and about judgment, because the ruler of this world has been judged.
12 I still have many things to say to YOU, but YOU can’t bear them right now.
13 But when he, the Spirit of truth, comes, he will guide YOU into all the truth: for he won’t speak from himself; but whatever things he hears, he will speak: and he will declare to YOU the things that are coming.
14 He will glorify me, because he shall take from mine, and will declare it to YOU.
15 All things, whatever the Father has, are mine: because of this I said that he takes from mine, and will declare it to YOU.
16 A little while, and YOU won’t see me anymore; and again a little while, and YOU will see me.”
17 So some of his disciples said to one another, “What is this that he’s saying to us, ‘A little while, and YOU won’t see me anymore; and again a little while, and YOU will see me’ and, ‘Because I’m going to the Father’?”
18 So they were saying, “What is this that he’s saying, ‘A little while’? We don’t know what he’s saying.”
19 Jesus knew that they wanted to ask him, and he said to them, “Are YOU inquiring with one another about this, because I said, ‘A little while, and YOU won’t see me anymore; and again a little while, and YOU will see me.’?
20 Amen, amen, I am saying to YOU, that YOU will weep and mourn, but the world will rejoice: YOU will be sad, but YOUR sadness will be turned into joy.
21 A woman has sadness when she is in labor, because her hour has come: but when she has given birth to a little boy, she no longer remembers the anguish, because of the joy that a man was born into the world.
22 So YOU also have sadness now: but I will see YOU again, and YOUR heart will rejoice, and no one will take YOUR joy away from YOU.
23 And in that day YOU will ask me nothing. Amen, amen, I am saying to YOU, if YOU should ask the Father for anything, he will give it to YOU in my name.
24 Until now, YOU have asked for nothing in my name: Ask, and YOU will receive, so that YOUR joy may be made full.
25 I have said these things to YOU in parables: the hour is coming when I will no longer speak to YOU in parables, but I will tell YOU about the Father plainly.
26 In that day YOU will ask in my name: and I’m not saying to YOU that I will request the Father about YOU;
27 for the Father himself loves YOU, because YOU have loved me, and have believed that I came out from the Father.
28 I came out from the Father, and have come into the world: again, I am leaving the world, and I’m going to the Father.”
29 His disciples say, ‘See, now you’re speaking plainly, and aren’t telling any parable.
30 Now we know that you know all things, and have no need that anyone should question you: by this we believe that you came out from God.’
31 Jesus answered them, ‘Do YOU believe now?
32 Look, the hour is coming, and has come, that YOU will be scattered, each to his own, and YOU will leave me alone: but I am not alone, because the Father is with me.
33 I have said these things to YOU, so that YOU may have peace in me. In the world YOU have tribulation; but take courage: I have conquered the world!’
John 17
1 Jesus said these things, and lifting up his eyes to heaven, said, ‘Father, the hour has come; glorify your Son, so that the son may glorify you:
2 just as you gave him authority over all flesh, so that to all whom you have given him, he will give everlasting life.
3 And this is life everlasting, that they may know you, the only true God, and whom you sent out, Jesus Christ.
4 I glorified you on the earth, having completed the work which you have given me to do.
5 And now, Father, you glorify me with yourself with the glory which I had with you before the world was.
6 I made your name known to the men whom you gave me out of the world: they were yours, and you gave them to me; and they have kept your word.
7 Now they know that all things you gave me are from you,
8 because I have given them the words which you gave to me; and they received them, and they truly knew that I came out from you, and they believed that you sent me.
9 I’m praying for them: I’m not praying for the world, but for those whom you have given me, because they are yours:
10 and all that is mine is yours, and yours is mine: and I have been glorified in them.
11 And I am no longer in the world, and they are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, watch over them in your name which you have given to me, so that they may be one, just as we.
12 While I was with them, I watched over them in your name which you have given to me: and I guarded them, and not one of them perished, except the son of destruction, so that the scripture might be fulfilled.
13 But now I’m coming to you; and I’m saying these things in the world, so that they may have my joy made full in themselves.
14 I have given them your word; and the world hated them, because they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.
15 I’m not praying that you should take them out of the world, but that you should watch over them because of the evil one.
16 They are not of the world just as I am not of the world.
17 Sanctify them in the truth: your word is truth.
18 Just as you sent me into the world, I also sent them into the world.
19 And I am sanctifying myself for them, so that they also may be sanctified in truth.
20 But I’m not only praying about these, but also for those believing in me through their word;
21 that they may all be one; just as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be in us: so that the world may believe that you sent me.
22 And I have given them the glory which you have given me, so that they may be one, just as we are one;
23 I in them, and you in me, so that they may be perfected into one, so that the world may know that you sent me, and loved them, just as you loved me.
24 Father, I would also like those whom you have given me to be with me where I am, so that they may see my glory, which you have given me, because you loved me before the founding of the world.
25 Righteous Father, the world didn’t know you, but I knew you; and these knew that you sent me;
26 and I made your name known to them, and I will make it known, so that the love with which you loved me may be in them, and I in them.
John 18
1 Jesus, having said these things, came out with his disciples across the brook Kidron, where there was a garden, into which he entered, he and his disciples.
2 But Judas, who betrayed him, also knew the place, because Jesus had met there with his disciples many times.
3 So Judas, having taken the squad of officers from both the chief priests and the Pharisees, comes there with lanterns and torches and weapons.
4 Then Jesus, knowing all the things that were coming upon him, came out, and sa