In the beginning, the Word already existed.
The Word was with God...
and the Word was God.
From the very beginning,
the Word was with God.
Through him God made all things.
Not one thing in all creation
was made without him.
The Word was the source of life...
and this life brought light to people.
The light shines in the darkness...
and the darkness has never put it out.
God sent his messenger...
a man named John...
who came to tell people about the light...
so that all should hear the message
and believe.
He himself was not the light.
He came to tell about the light.
This was the real light...
the light that comes into the world
and shines on all people.
The Word was in the world...
and though God made the world
through him...
yet the world did not recognize him.
He came to his own country...
but his own people did not receive him.
Some, however, did receive him
and believed in him...
so he gave them the right
to become God's children.
They did not become God's children
by natural means...
that is, by being born
as the children of a human father.
God himself...
was their father.
The Word became a human being...
and full of grace and truth, lived among us.
We saw his glory...
the glory which he received
as the Father's only Son.
John spoke about him.
This is the one
I was talking about when I said:
"He comes after me...
"but he is greater than I am...
"because he existed before I was born!"
Out of the fullness of his grace,
he has blessed us all...
giving us one blessing after another.
God gave the Law through Moses...
but grace and truth...
came through Jesus Christ.
No one has ever seen God.
The only Son, who is the same as God...
and is at the Father's side...
he has made him known.
The Jewish authorities in Jerusalem
sent some priests and Levites to John.
Who are you?
John did not refuse to answer,
but spoke out openly and clearly.
-l am not the Messiah.
-Who are you then?
-Are you Elijah?
-No, I'm not.
-Are you the Prophet?
-No.
Then tell us who you are.
We have to take an answer back
to those who sent us.
What do you say about yourself?
John answered
by quoting the prophet, Isaiah.
"I am the voice of someone
shouting in the desert:
"'Make a straight path
for the Lord to travel!"'
The messengers, who had been sent
by the Pharisees, then asked John:
If you are not the Messiah,
nor Elijah, nor the Prophet...
why do you baptize?
I baptize with water.
But among you
stands the one you do not know.
He is coming after me.
But I am not good enough...
even to untie his sandals.
All this happened in Bethany,
on the east side of the Jordan River...
where John was baptizing.
The next day,
John saw Jesus coming to him.
There is the Lamb of God...
who takes away the sin of the world.
This is the one I was talking about
when I said:
"A man is coming after me...
"but he is greater than I am,
because he existed before I was born."
I did not know who he would be.
But I came baptizing with water...
in order to make him known
to the people of lsrael.
And John gave this testimony:
I saw the Spirit come down,
like a dove from heaven, and stay on him.
I still did not know that he was the one.
But God...
who sent me to baptize with water,
had said to me:
"You will see the Spirit come down
and stay on a man.
"He is the one
who baptizes with the Holy Spirit. "
I have seen it, and I tell you...
that he is the Son of God.
The next day, John was standing there
again with two of his disciples...
when he saw Jesus walking by.
There is the Lamb of God.
The two disciples heard him say this...
and went with Jesus.
Jesus turned, saw them following him.
What are you looking for?
Where do you live, Rabbi?
This word means "teacher. "
Come and see.
It was then about 4:00 in the afternoon...
so they went with him
and saw where he lived...
and spent the rest of that day with him.
One of them was Andrew...
Simon Peter's brother.
At once, he found his brother Simon.
We have found the Messiah.
This word means "Christ. "
Come.
Then he took Simon to Jesus.
Jesus looked at him.
Your name is Simon, son of John...
but you will be called Cephas.
This is the same as Peter,
and means "a rock. "
The next day,
Jesus decided to go to Galilee.
He found Philip...
and said to him:
Come with me.
Philip was from Bethsaida,
the town where Andrew and Peter lived.
Philip found Nathanael.
We have found the one whom
Moses wrote about in the Book of the Law...
and whom the prophets also wrote about.
He is Jesus, son of Joseph, from Nazareth.
-Can anything good come from Nazareth?
-Come and see.
When Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him,
he said about him:
"Here is a real Israelite. "
There is nothing false in him.
How do you know me?
I saw you when you were under the fig tree
before Philip called you.
Teacher...
you are the Son of God.
You are the King of lsrael.
Do you believe just because I told you
I saw you when you were under the fig tree?
You will see much greater things than this.
I am telling you the truth.
You will see heaven open...
and God's angels going up
and coming down on the Son of Man.
Two days later, there was a wedding
in the town of Cana in Galilee.
Jesus' mother was there...
and Jesus and his disciples
had also been invited to the wedding.
When the wine had given out...
Jesus' mother said to him,
"They are out of wine. "
Madam...
what do you have to do with this?
My time has not yet come.
Do whatever he tells you.
The Jews have rules about ritual washing...
and for this purpose,
six stone water jars were there...
each one large enough
to hold between 20 and 30 gallons.
Fill these jars with water.
They filled them to the brim.
Now draw some water out,
and take it to the man in charge of the feast.
They took him the water,
which now had turned into wine...
and he tasted it.
He did not know
where this wine had come from...
but, of course, the servants
who had drawn out the water knew.
So he called the bridegroom.
Everyone else serves the best wine first,
and after the guests have drunk a lot...
he serves the ordinary wine.
But you have kept the best wine until now.
Jesus performed this first miracle
in Cana in Galilee.
There he revealed his glory,
and his disciples believed in him.
After this, Jesus and his mother, brothers,
and disciples...
went to Capernaum
and stayed there a few days.
It was almost time for the Passover Festival,
so Jesus went to Jerusalem.
There, in the Temple...
he found people selling cattle,
sheep and pigeons...
and also the moneychangers
sitting at their tables.
So he made a whip from cords and
drove all the animals out of the Temple...
both the sheep and the cattle.
He overturned the tables
of the moneychangers...
and scattered their coins.
And he ordered those who sold pigeons:
Take them out of here!
Stop making my Father's house
a marketplace!
His disciples remembered
that the scripture says:
"My devotion to your house, O God,
burns in me like a fire. "
The Jewish authorities came back at him
with a question:
What miracle can you perform to show us
that you have the right to do this?
Tear down this temple,
and in three days I will build it again.
Are you going to build it again
in three days?
It has taken 46 years to build this temple.
But the temple Jesus was speaking about...
was his body.
So when he was raised from death...
his disciples remembered
that he had said this...
and they believed the scripture,
and what Jesus had said.
While Jesus was in Jerusalem
during the Passover Festival...
many believed in him
as they saw the miracles he performed.
But Jesus did not trust himself to them,
because he knew them all.
There was no need for anyone
to tell him about them...
because he himself knew
what was in their hearts.
There was a Jewish leader
named Nicodemus...
who belonged to the party of the Pharisees.
One night, he went to Jesus.
Rabbi, we know...
that you are a teacher sent by God.
No one could perform the miracles
you are doing, unless God were with him.
I am telling you the truth.
No one can see the kingdom of God...
without being born again.
How can a grown man be born again?
He certainly cannot enter his mother's womb
and be born a second time.
I am telling you the truth.
No one can enter the kingdom of God
without being born of water and the Spirit.
A person is born physically
of human parents...
but is born spiritually of the Spirit.
Do not be surprised because I tell you
that you must all be born again.
The wind blows wherever it wishes.
You hear the sound it makes...
but you do not know where it comes from,
or where it is going.
It is like that with everyone
who is born of the Spirit.
How can this be?
You are a great teacher in lsrael...
and you don't know this?
I am telling you the truth.
We speak of what we know,
and report what we have seen.
Yet none of you is willing
to accept our message.
You do not believe me when I tell you
about the things of this world.
How will you ever believe me, then,
when I tell you about the things of heaven?
And no one has ever gone up to heaven...
except the Son of Man,
who came down from heaven.
As Moses lifted up the bronze snake
on a pole in the desert...
in the same way,
the Son of Man must be lifted up...
so that everyone who believes in him
may have eternal life.
For God loved the world so much
that He gave his only Son...
so that everyone who believes in him
may not die, but have eternal life.
For God did not send his Son into the world
to be its judge, but to be its savior.
Those who believe in the Son
are not judged.
But those who do not believe
have already been judged...
because they have not believed
in God's only Son.
This is how the judgment works:
The light has come into the world...
but people love the darkness
rather than the light...
because their deeds are evil.
Those who do evil things hate the light
and will not come to the light...
because they do not want their evil deed
to be shown up.
But those who do what is true
come to the light...
in order that the light may show
that what they did was in obedience to God.
After this, Jesus and his disciples
went to the province of Judea...
where he spent some time with them,
and baptized.
John also was baptizing in Aenon...
not far from Salim...
because there was plenty of water
in that place.
People were going to him,
and he was baptizing them.
This was before John
had been put in prison.
Some of John's disciples
began arguing with a Jew...
about the matter of ritual washing.
Teacher...
you remember the man who was with you
on the east side of Jordan...
the one you spoke about?
He is baptizing now,
and everyone's going to him.
No one can have anything
unless God gives it.
You yourselves are my witnesses,
that I said:
"I am not the Messiah,
but I have been sent ahead of him."
The bridegroom is the one to whom
the bride belongs.
but the bridegroom's friend...
who stands by and listens, is glad
when he hears the bridegroom's voice.
This is how my own happiness
is made complete.
He must become more important
while I become less important.
He who comes from above
is greater than all.
He who is from the earth
belongs to the earth...
and speaks about earthly matters...
but he who comes from heaven is above all.
He tells what he has seen and heard...
yet no one accepts his message.
But whoever accepts his message...
confirms by this that God is truthful.
The one whom God has sent
speaks God's words...
because God gives him
the fullness of his Spirit.
The Father loves his Son,
and has put everything in his power.
Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life.
Whoever disobeys the Son
will not have life...
but will remain under God's punishment.
The Pharisees heard that Jesus was winning
and baptizing more disciples than John.
Actually, Jesus himself did not
baptize anyone. Only his disciples did.
So when Jesus heard what was being said...
he left Judea and went back to Galilee.
On his way there,
he had to go through Samaria.
In Samaria,
he came to a town named Sychar...
which was not far from the field
that Jacob had given to his son, Joseph.
Jacob's well was there...
and Jesus, tired out by the trip...
sat down by the well.
It was about noon.
A Samaritan woman
came to draw some water.
Give me a drink of water.
His disciples had gone into town
to buy food.
You're a Jew, and I'm a Samaritan.
So how can you ask me for a drink?
Jews will not use the same cups and bowls
that Samaritans use.
If you only knew what God gives...
and who it is that is asking you for a drink,
you would ask him...
and he would give you life-giving water.
Sir, you don't have a bucket,
and the well is deep.
Where would you get that life-giving water?
It was our ancestor Jacob
who gave us this well.
He and his children and his flocks
all drank from it.
You don't claim to be greater than Jacob,
do you?
Those who drink this water
will get thirsty again...
but those who drink the water
that I give them will never be thirsty again.
The water that I will give them
will become, in them, a spring...
which will provide them with
life-giving water, and give them eternal life.
Sir, give me that water.
Then I will never be thirsty again...
nor will I have to come here to draw water.
Go and call your husband, and come back.
I don't have a husband.
You're right when you say
you don't have a husband.
You've been married to five men...
and the man you live with now
is not really your husband.
You've told me the truth.
I see you are a prophet, sir.
My Samaritan ancestors worshipped God
on this mountain...
but you Jews say that Jerusalem is the place
where we should worship God.
Believe me, woman...
a time will come when people won't worship
the Father either on this mountain...
or in Jerusalem.
You Samaritans do not really know
whom you worship.
But we Jews know whom we worship...
because it is from the Jews
that salvation comes.
But the time is coming...
and is already here...
when, by the power of God's Spirit...
people will worship the Father
as he really is...
offering him the true worship that he wants.
God is Spirit.
And only by the power of his Spirit...
can people worship him as he really is.
I know that the Messiah will come.
And when he comes,
he will tell us everything.
I am he.
I, who am talking with you.
At that moment, Jesus' disciples returned...
and they were greatly surprised
to find him talking with a woman.
But none of them said to her,
"What do you want?"
Or asked him,
"Why are you talking with her?"
Then the woman left her water jar
and went back to the town.
Come and see the man who told me
everything I have ever done.
Could he be the Messiah?
So they left the town, and went to Jesus.
In the meantime,
the disciples were begging Jesus:
"Teacher, have something to eat!"
But he answered:
I have food to eat
that you know nothing about.
So the disciples
started asking among themselves:
"Could somebody have brought him food?"
My food is to obey the will
of the one who sent me...
and to finish the work he gave me to do.
You have a saying,
"Four more months, and then the harvest."
But I tell you, take a good look at the fields.
The crops are now ripe
and ready to be harvested.
The one who reaps the harvest is being paid
and gathers the crops for eternal life.
So the one who plants
and the one who reaps will be glad together.
For the saying is true.
Someone plants, someone else reaps.
I have sent you to reap a harvest
in a field where you did not work.
Others worked there...
and you profit from their work.
Many of the Samaritans in that town
believed in Jesus...
because the woman had said,
"He told me everything I have ever done. "
So when the Samaritans came to him...
they begged him to stay with them...
and Jesus stayed there two days.
Many more believed because of
his message, and they told the woman:
"We believe now,
not because of what you said...
"but because we ourselves have heard him...
"and we know
that he really is the Savior of the world. "
After spending two days there...
Jesus left, and went to Galilee.
For he himself had said:
"Prophets are not respected
in their own country. "
When he arrived in Galilee,
the people there welcomed him...
because they had gone
to the Passover Festival in Jerusalem...
and had seen everything that he had done
during the festival.
Then Jesus went back to Cana in Galilee...
where he had turned the water into wine.
A government official was there,
whose son was sick in Capernaum.
When he heard that Jesus had come
from Judea to Galilee...
he went to him...
and asked him to go to Capernaum...
and heal his son, who was about to die.
None of you will ever believe
unless you see miracles and wonders.
Sir, come with me...
before my child dies.
Go.
Your son will live.
The man believed Jesus' words and went.
On his way home,
his servants met him with the news.
Your boy is going to live!
He asked them what time it was
when his son got better.
It was 1:00 yesterday afternoon
when the fever left him!
Then the father remembered that it was
at that very hour when Jesus had told him:
Your son will live.
So he and all his family believed.
This was the second miracle...
that Jesus performed
after coming from Judea to Galilee.
After this, Jesus went to Jerusalem
for a religious festival.
Near the Sheep Gate in Jerusalem,
there is a pool with five porches.
In Hebrew, it is called Bethzatha.
A large crowd of sick people
were lying on the porches...
the blind, the lame, and the paralyzed.
A man was there
who had been sick for 38 years.
Jesus saw him lying there...
and he knew that the man had been sick
for such a long time.
Do you want to get well?
Sir, I don't have anyone here to put me
in the pool when the water is stirred up.
While I'm trying to get in,
someone else gets there first.
Get up.
Pick up your mat and walk.
Immediately, the man got well.
He picked up his mat...
and started walking.
The day this happened was a Sabbath...
so the Jewish authorities
told the man who had been healed:
This is a Sabbath, and it is against our law
for you to carry your mat.
The man who made me well
told me to pick up my mat and walk.
Who is the man who told you to do this?
But the man who had been healed
did not know who Jesus was...
for there was a crowd in that place,
and Jesus had slipped away.
Afterwards, Jesus found him in the Temple.
You're well now...
so stop sinning...
or something worse may happen to you.
Then the man left...
and told the Jewish authorities
that it was Jesus who had healed him.
So they began to persecute Jesus...
because he had done this healing
on a Sabbath.
Jesus answered them:
My Father is always working.
And l, too, must work.
This saying made the Jewish authorities
all the more determined to k*ll him.
Not only had he broken the Sabbath law...
but he had said
that God was his own Father...
and, in this way,
had made himself equal with God.
So Jesus answered them:
I tell you the truth!
The Son can do nothing on his own!
He does only what he sees his Father doing!
What the Father does, the Son also does.
For the Father loves the Son...
and shows him all that he himself is doing.
He will show him even greater things
to do than this, and you will all be amazed!
Just as the Father raises the dead
and gives them life...
in the same way,
the Son gives life to those he wants to.
Nor does the Father himself judge anyone.
He has given his Son
the full right to judge...
so that all will honor the Son
in the same way as they honor the Father.
Whoever does not honor the Son
does not honor the Father who sent him.
I am telling you the truth!
Those who hear my words
and believe in him who sent me...
have eternal life.
They will not be judged,
but have already passed from death to life.
I am telling you the truth.
The time is coming.
The time has already come...
when the dead will hear
the voice of the Son of God.
And those who hear it will come to life.
Just as the Father is, himself,
the source of life...
in the same way, he has made his Son
to be the source of life.
And he has given the Son the right to judge,
because he is...
the Son of Man!
Do not be surprised at this.
The time is coming when all the dead will
hear his voice and come out of their graves.
Those who have done good
will rise and live.
And those who have done evil...
will rise and be condemned.
I can do nothing on my own authority!
I judge only as God tells me,
so my judgment is right...
because I am not trying to do what I want,
but only what he who sent me wants!
If I testify on my own behalf...
what I say is not to be accepted
as real proof.
But there is someone else
who testifies on my behalf.
And I know that
what he says about me is true.
John is the one
to whom you sent your messengers.
And he spoke on behalf of the truth.
It is not that I must have a human witness...
I say this only in order that
you may be saved!
John was like a lamp, burning and shining...
and you were willing, for a while,
to enjoy his light.
But I have a witness on my behalf...
which is even greater than the witness
that John gave.
What I do...
that is, the deeds my Father gave me to do...
these speak on my behalf
and show that the Father has sent me.
And the Father who sent me
also testifies on my behalf.
You have never heard his voice
or seen his face...
and you do not keep his message
in your hearts...
for you do not believe
in the one whom he sent.
You study the Scriptures,
because you think that in them...
you will find eternal life!
And these very scriptures speak about me!
Yet you are not willing to come to me
in order to have life.
I am not looking for human praise.
But I know what kind of people you are.
And I know that you have no love for God
in your hearts.
I have come with my Father's authority,
but you have not received me.
When, however, someone comes
with his own authority, you will receive him.
You like to receive praise
from one another...
but you do not try to win praise
from the one who alone is God!
How, then, can you believe me?
Do not think, however, that I am the one
who will accuse you to my Father.
Moses, in whom you have put your hope,
is the very one who will accuse you.
If you had really believed Moses,
you would've believed me...
because he wrote about me.
But since you do not believe what he wrote,
how can you believe what I say?
After this, Jesus went across Lake Galilee...
or Lake Tiberias, as it is also called.
A large crowd followed him...
because they had seen his miracles
of healing the sick.
Jesus went up a hill
and sat down with his disciples.
The time for the Passover Festival was near.
Jesus looked around and saw
that a large crowd was coming to him.
Where can we buy enough food
to feed all these people?
He said this to test Philip.
Actually, he already knew what he would do.
For everyone to have even a little...
it would take more than 200 silver coins
to buy enough bread.
Another one of his disciples, Andrew,
who was Simon Peter's brother, said:
There is a boy here who has
five loaves of barley bread and two fish.
But they will certainly not be enough
for all these people.
Make the people sit down.
There was a lot of grass there...
so all the people sat down.
There were about 5,000 men.
Jesus took the bread...
gave thanks to God...
and distributed it
to the people who were sitting there.
He did the same with the fish...
and they all had as much as they wanted.
When they were all full,
he said to his disciples:
Gather the pieces left over.
Let us not waste a bit.
So they gathered them all
and filled 12 baskets...
with the pieces left over from the five
barley loaves which the people had eaten.
Seeing this miracle that Jesus
had performed, the people there said:
"Surely this is the Prophet...
"who was to come into the world!"
Jesus knew that they were about
to come and seize him...
in order to make him king by force.
So he went off again to the hills by himself.
When evening came,
Jesus' disciples went down to the lake...
got into a boat...
and went back across the lake
towards Capernaum.
Night came on,
and Jesus still had not come to them.
By then a strong wind was blowing
and stirring up the water.
The disciples had rowed
about three or four miles...
when they saw Jesus...
walking on the water...
coming near the boat...
and they were terrified.
Don't be afraid.
It is I.
Then they willingly took him into the boat...
and immediately the boat reached land...
at the place they were heading for.
Next day, the crowd which had stayed
on the other side of the lake...
realized that there had been
only one boat there.
They knew that Jesus had not gone in it
with his disciples...
but that they had left without him.
Other boats, which were from Tiberias,
came to shore near the place...
where the crowd had eaten
the bread after the Lord had given thanks.
When the crowd saw
that Jesus was not there, nor his disciples...
they got into those boats
and went to Capernaum, looking for him.
When the people found Jesus on
the other side of the lake, they said to him:
"Teacher, when did you get here?"
I am telling you the truth.
You are looking for me because
you ate the bread and had all you wanted...
not because you understood my miracles.
Do not work for food that spoils.
Instead, work for the food
that lasts for eternal life.
This is the food
the Son of Man will give you...
because God, the Father,
has put his mark of approval on him.
What can we do in order to do
what God wants us to do?
What God wants you to do
is to believe in the one he sent.
What miracle will you perform
so that we may see it and believe you?
What will you do?
Our ancestors ate manna in the desert,
just as the scripture says:
"He gave them bread from heaven to eat."
I am telling you the truth.
What Moses gave you
was not the bread from heaven.
It is my Father who gives you
the real bread from heaven.
For the bread that God gives
is he who comes down from heaven...
and gives life to the world.
Sir, give us this bread.
Give us this bread always.
I am the bread of life!
Those who come to me
will never be hungry.
Those who believe in me
will never be thirsty.
Now I told you that you have seen me,
but will not believe.
Everyone whom my Father gives me
will come to me.
I will never turn away
anyone who comes to me...
because I have come down from heaven
to do not my own will...
but the will of him who sent me.
And it is the will of him who sent me...
that I should not lose any
of all those he has given me...
but that I should raise them all to life
on the last day!
For what my Father wants...
is that all who see the Son
and believe in him should have eternal life.
And I will raise them to life on the last day.
The people started grumbling about him,
because he said:
"I am the bread
that came down from heaven. "
This man...
is Jesus, son of Joseph, isn't he?
We know his father and mother!
How, then, does he now say
he came down from heaven?
Stop grumbling among yourselves!
People cannot come to me unless
the Father who sent me draws them to me!
And I will raise them to life on the last day.
The prophets wrote:
"Everyone will be taught by God."
Anyone who hears the Father
and learns from him comes to me.
This does not mean
that anyone has seen the Father.
He who is from God
is the only one who has seen the Father.
I am telling you the truth.
He who believes...
has eternal life.
I am the bread of life!
Your ancestors ate manna in the desert,
but they d*ed.
But the bread that comes down from heaven
is of such a kind...
that whoever eats it will not die.
I am the living bread
that came down from heaven!
If you eat this bread, you will live forever!
The bread that I will give you is my flesh...
which I give so that the world may live!
This started an angry argument
among them.
How can this man give us his flesh to eat?
I am telling you the truth.
If you do not eat the flesh of the Son of Man
and drink his blood...
you will not have life in yourselves!
Those who eat my flesh and drink my blood
have eternal life...
and I will raise them to life on the last day.
For my flesh is the real food,
my blood is the real drink!
Those who eat my flesh and drink my blood
live in me...
and I live in them.
The living Father sent me...
and because of him I live also.
In the same way, whoever eats me
will live because of me.
This, then, is the bread
that came down from heaven.
It is not like the bread
that your ancestors ate, but then later d*ed.
Those who eat this bread...
will live forever.
Jesus said this as he taught
in the synagogue in Capernaum.
Many of his followers heard this and said:
"This teaching is too hard.
Who can listen to it?"
Without being told, Jesus knew
that they were grumbling about this.
Does this make you want to give up?
Suppose, then...
that you should see the Son of Man go back
up to the place where he was before?
What gives life is God's Spirit.
Human power is of no use at all.
The words I have spoken to you
bring God's life-giving Spirit.
Yet some of you...
do not believe.
Jesus knew from the very beginning
who were the ones that would not believe...
and which one would betray him.
This is the very reason I told you...
that no people can come to me...
unless the Father makes it possible
for them to do so.
Because of this, many of Jesus' followers...
turned back
and would not go with him anymore.
And you...
would you also like to leave?
Lord, to whom would we go?
You have the words that give eternal life.
And now we believe and know...
that you are the Holy One...
who has come from God.
I chose the 12 of you, didn't I?
Yet one of you is a devil.
He was talking about Judas,
the son of Simon lscariot.
For Judas, even though he was
one of the 12 disciples...
was going to betray him.
After this, Jesus traveled in Galilee.
He did not want to travel in Judea...
because the Jewish authorities there
were wanting to k*ll him.
The time for the Festival of Shelters
was near...
so Jesus' brothers said to him:
"Leave this place and go to Judea...
"so that your followers will see
the things that you are doing. "
People don't hide what they're doing
if they want to be well known.
Since you are doing these things,
let the whole world know about you.
Not even his brothers believed in him.
The right time for me has not yet come.
Any time is right for you.
The world cannot hate you,
but it hates me...
because I keep telling it
that its ways are bad.
You go on to the festival.
I am not going to this festival...
because the right time has not come for me.
He said this, and then stayed on in Galilee.
After his brothers had gone to the festival,
Jesus also went.
However, he did not go openly, but secretly.
The Jewish authorities were looking for him
at the Festival.
"Where is he?" they asked.
There was much whispering about him
in the crowd.
"He is a good man, " some people said.
"No, " others said...
"he fools the people. "
But no one talked about him openly...
because they were afraid
of the Jewish authorities.
The Festival was nearly half over...
when Jesus went to the Temple
and began teaching.
The Jewish authorities
were greatly surprised.
How does this man know so much...
when he has never been to school?
What I teach is not my own teaching,
but it comes from God, who sent me.
Those willing to do
what God wants will know...
whether what I teach comes from God,
or whether I speak on my own authority.
Those who speak on their own authority
are trying to gain glory for themselves.
But he who wants glory
for the one who sent him is honest...
and there is nothing false in him.
Moses gave you the Law, didn't he?
But not one of you obeys the Law.
Why are you trying to k*ll me?
You have a demon in you.
Who is trying to k*ll you?
I performed one miracle,
and you were all surprised.
Moses ordered you
to circumcise your sons...
although it was not Moses
but your ancestors who started it.
And so, you circumcise a boy
on the Sabbath.
If a boy is circumcised on the Sabbath
so that Moses' Law is not broken...
why are you angry with me...
because I made a man completely well
on the Sabbath?
Stop judging by external standards...
and judge by true standards.
Some of the people of Jerusalem said:
"lsn't this the man
the authorities are trying to k*ll?
"Look, he is talking in public,
and they say nothing against him.
"Can it be that they really know
that he is the Messiah?
"But when the Messiah comes,
no one will know where he is from.
"And we all know
where this man comes from. "
As Jesus taught in the Temple,
he said in a loud voice:
Do you really know me...
and know where I am from?
I have not come on my own authority.
He who sent me, however, is truthful.
You do not know him, but I know him...
because I come from him, and he sent me.
Then they tried to seize him...
but no one laid a hand on him,
because his hour had not yet come.
But many in the crowd believed in him.
When the Messiah comes, will he perform
more miracles than this man has?
The Pharisees heard the crowd
whispering these things about Jesus...
so they and the chief priests
sent some guards to arrest him.
I shall be with you a little while longer...
and then I shall go away
to him who sent me.
You will look for me,
but you will not find me...
because you cannot go where I will be.
The Jewish authorities
said among themselves:
"Where is he about to go
so that we shall not find him?"
Will he go to the Greek cities,
where our people live and teach the Greeks?
He says that we will look for him...
but will not find him...
and that we cannot go where he will be.
What does he mean?
On the last and most important day
of the festival...
Jesus stood up and said in a loud voice:
Whoever is thirsty should come to me,
and whoever believes in me should drink.
As the scripture says:
"Streams of life-giving water
will pour out from his side."
Jesus said this about the Spirit...
which those who believed in him
were going to receive.
At that time,
the Spirit had not yet been given...
because Jesus had not been raised to glory.
Some of the people in the crowd
heard him say this.
This man is really the Prophet!
The Messiah will not come from Galilee!
The scripture says that the Messiah
will be a descendant of King David...
and will be born in Bethlehem,
the town where David lived.
So there was a division in the crowd
because of Jesus.
Some wanted to seize him...
but no one laid a hand on him.
When the guards went back...
the chief priests and Pharisees asked them:
Why did you not bring him?
Nobody has ever talked the way
this man does.
Did he fool you, too?
Have you ever known one of the authorities
or one Pharisee to believe in him?
This crowd does not know
the Law of Moses.
So they are under God's curse.
One of the Pharisees there was Nicodemus,
the man who had gone to see Jesus before.
According to our Law, we cannot
condemn people before hearing them...
and finding out what they have done.
Are you also from Galilee?
Study the scriptures...
and you will learn
that no prophet ever comes from Galilee.
Then everyone went home...
but Jesus went to the Mount of Olives.
Early the next morning,
he went back to the Temple.
All the people gathered round him,
and he sat down and began to teach them.
The teachers of the Law and the Pharisees...
brought in a woman
who had been caught committing adultery...
and they made her stand before them all.
Teacher...
this woman was caught in the very act
of committing adultery!
In our Law, Moses commanded...
that such a woman must be stoned to death.
Now, what do you say?
They said this to trap Jesus,
so that they could accuse him.
But he bent over
and wrote on the ground with his finger.
As they stood there asking him questions...
he straightened up.
Whichever one of you
has committed no sin...
may throw the first stone at her.
Then he bent over again
and wrote on the ground.
When they heard this,
they all left, one by one...
the older ones first.
Jesus was left alone
with the woman still standing there.
He straightened up.
Where are they?
Is there no one left to condemn you?
No one, sir.
Well, then...
I do not condemn you either.
Go...
but do not sin again.
Jesus spoke to the Pharisees again.
I am the light of the world.
Who follows me will have the light of life
and will never walk in darkness.
Now you are testifying on your own behalf!
-What you say proves nothing!
-No.
Even though I do testify on my own behalf,
what I say is true...
because I know where I came from
and where I am going.
You do not know where I came from
or where I'm going.
You make judgments in a purely human way.
I pass judgment on no one.
But if I were to do so,
my judgment would be true...
because I am not alone in this.
The Father who sent me is with me.
It is written in your Law...
that when two witnesses agree...
what they say is true.
I testify on my own behalf...
and the Father who sent me
also testifies on my behalf.
Where is your "Father"?
You know neither me nor my Father.
If you knew me,
you would know my Father also.
Jesus said all this
as he taught in the Temple...
in the room
where the offering boxes were placed.
And no one arrested him...
because his hour had not come.
I will go away, and you will look for me...
but you will die in your sins.
You cannot go where I am going.
He says that we cannot go
where he is going.
Does this mean that he will k*ll himself?
You belong to this world here below...
but I come from above.
You are from this world,
but I am not from this world.
That is why I told you
that you will die in your sins.
And you will die in your sins...
if you do not believe that "I Am Who I Am."
Who are you?
What I have told you
from the very beginning.
I have much to say about you...
much to condemn you for.
The one who sent me, however, is truthful...
and I tell the world only
what I have heard from him.
They did not understand that Jesus
was talking to them about the Father.
When you lift up the Son of Man,
you will know...
that "l Am Who I Am."
Then you will know
that I do nothing on my own authority...
but I say only
what the Father has instructed me to say.
And he who sent me is with me.
He has not left me alone...
because I always do what pleases him.
Many who heard Jesus say these things
believed in him.
If you obey my teaching,
you are really my disciples.
You will know the truth,
and the truth will set you free.
We are the descendants of Abraham,
and we have never been anybody's slaves.
What do you mean, then,
by saying, "You will be free"?
I am telling you the truth.
Everyone who sins is a sl*ve of sin.
A sl*ve does not belong
to a family permanently...
but a son belongs there forever.
If the Son sets you free,
then you will be really free.
I know you are Abraham's descendants.
Yet you are trying to k*ll me
because you will not accept my teaching.
I talk about what my Father has shown me...
but you do what your father has told you!
Our father is Abraham.
If you really were Abraham's children,
you would do the same things that he did!
All I have ever done
is to tell you the truth I heard from God...
yet you are trying to k*ll me.
Abraham did nothing like this.
You are doing what your father did.
God Himself is the only Father we have...
and we are his true children.
If God really were your father...
you would love me
because I came from God...
and now I am here.
I did not come on my own authority...
but He sent me!
Why do you not understand what I say?
It is because you cannot bear to listen
to my message.
You are the children of your father,
the Devil...
and you want to follow
your father's desires!
From the very beginning,
he was a m*rder*r...
and has never been on the side of truth...
because there is no truth in him!
When he tells a lie,
he is only doing what is natural to him...
because he is a liar and the father of all lies!
But I tell the truth...
and that is why you do not believe me.
Which one of you can prove
that I am guilty of sin?
If I tell the truth,
then why do you not believe me?
He who comes from God
listens to God's words.
You, however, are not from God...
and that is why you will not listen.
Were we not right in saying
that you are a Samaritan...
and have a demon in you?
I have no demon.
I honor my Father, but you dishonor me.
I am not seeking honor for myself.
But there is one who is seeking it,
and who judges in my favor.
I am telling you the truth!
Whoever obeys my teaching will never die!
Now we know for sure
that you have a demon.
Abraham d*ed, and the prophets d*ed...
yet you say that whoever obeys
your teaching will never die.
Our father Abraham d*ed.
You do not claim
to be greater than Abraham, do you?
And the prophets also d*ed.
Who do you think you are?
If I were to honor myself,
that honor would be worth nothing.
The one who honors me is my Father,
the very one you say is your God!
You have never known him, but I know him.
If I were to say I do not know him...
I would be a liar like you,
but I do know him, and I obey his Word.
Your father Abraham rejoiced...
that he was to see the time of my coming.
He saw it and was glad.
You are not even 50 years old,
and you have seen Abraham?
I am telling you the truth.
Before Abraham was born...
"I am."
Stone him!
Then they picked up stones
to throw at him...
but Jesus hid himself and left the Temple.
As Jesus was walking along,
he saw a man who had been born blind.
Teacher...
whose sin caused him to be born blind?
Was it his own, or his parents' sin?
His blindness has nothing to do
with his sins or his parents' sins.
He is blind so that God's power
might be seen at work in him.
As long as it is day...
we must keep on doing the work
of him who sent me.
Night is coming...
when no one can work.
While I am in the world...
I am the light for the world.
After he said this,
Jesus spat on the ground...
and made some mud with the spittle.
He rubbed the mud on the man's eyes.
Go and wash your face
in the pool of Siloam.
This name means "Sent. "
So the man went, washed his face...
and came back seeing.
His neighbors, then, and the people who
had seen him begging before this asked:
"lsn't this the man
who used to sit and beg?"
-He is the one.
-No, he isn't. He just looks like him.
I am the man.
How is it that you can now see?
The man called Jesus made some mud,
rubbed it on my eyes...
and told me to go to Siloam
and wash my face.
So I went, and as soon as I washed...
I could see.
-Where is he?
-I don't know.
Then they took to the Pharisees
the man who had been blind.
The day that Jesus made the mud and
cured him of his blindness was a Sabbath.
The Pharisees then asked the man again
how he had received his sight.
He put some mud on my eyes...
I washed my face, and now I can see.
The man who did this cannot be from God,
for he does not obey the Sabbath law.
How could a man who is a sinner
perform such miracles as these?
And there was division among them.
You say he cured you of your blindness.
What do you say about him?
He is a prophet!
The Jewish authorities, however,
were not willing to believe...
that he had been blind and could now see
until they called his parents.
Is this your son?
You say that he was born blind.
How is it, then, that he can now see?
We know that he is our son,
and we know that he was born blind.
But we don't know how it is
that he is now able to see...
nor do we know who cured him
of his blindness.
Ask him.
He is old enough,
and he can answer for himself.
His parents said this because
they were afraid of the Jewish authorities...
who had already agreed
that anyone who said he believed...
that Jesus was the Messiah
would be expelled from the synagogue.
That is why his parents said,
"He is old enough. Ask him. "
A second time, they called back
the man who had been born blind.
Promise before God
that you will tell the truth.
We know that this man who cured you
is a sinner.
I do not know if he is a sinner or not.
One thing I do know.
I was blind...
and now I see.
What did he do to you?
How did he cure you of your blindness?
I have already told you,
and you would not listen.
Why do you want to hear it again? Maybe
you, too, would like to be his disciples?
They insulted him and said:
You are that fellow's disciple,
but we are Moses' disciples!
We know that God spoke to Moses!
As for that fellow, however,
we do not even know where he comes from.
What a strange thing that is.
You do not know where he comes from,
but he cured me of my blindness.
We know
that God does not listen to sinners.
He does listen to people who respect him
and do what he wants them to do.
Since the beginning of the world...
nobody has heard of anyone
giving sight to a person born blind.
Unless this man came from God,
he would not be able to do a thing!
You were born and brought up in sin...
and you are trying to teach us?
And they expelled him from the synagogue.
When Jesus heard what had happened,
he found the man.
Do you believe in the Son of Man?
Tell me who he is, sir,
so that I can believe in him.
You have already seen him...
and he is the one
who is talking with you now.
I believe, Lord.
And he knelt down before Jesus.
I came to this world to judge...
so that the blind should see...
and those who see should become blind.
Some Pharisees who were there with him
heard him say this and asked him:
Surely you don't mean
that we are blind, too?
If you were blind,
then you would not be guilty.
But since you claim that you can see...
this means that you are still guilty.
I am telling you the truth!
The man who does not enter the sheep pen
by the gate...
but climbs in some other way
is a thief and a robber!
The man who goes in through the gate
is the shepherd of the sheep.
The gatekeeper opens the gate for him.
The sheep hear his voice
as he calls his own sheep by name...
and he leads them out.
When he has brought them out...
he goes ahead of them, and the sheep
follow him because they know his voice.
They will not follow someone else.
lnstead they will run away
from such a person...
because they do not know his voice.
Jesus told them this parable,
but they did not understand what he meant.
So Jesus said again:
I am telling you the truth.
I am the gate for the sheep.
All others who came before me
are thieves and robbers...
but the sheep did not listen to them.
I am the gate.
Those who come in by me will be saved.
They will come in and go out
and find pasture.
The thief comes only in order
to steal, k*ll, and destroy.
I have come in order
that you might have life.
Life in all its fullness.
I am the good shepherd,
who is willing to die for the sheep.
When the hired man, who is not a shepherd
and does not own the sheep...
sees a wolf coming...
he leaves the sheep and runs away.
So the wolf snatches the sheep
and scatters them.
The hired man runs away
because he is only a hired man...
and does not care about the sheep.
I am the good shepherd.
As the Father knows me,
and I know the Father...
in the same way I know my sheep,
and they know me.
And I am willing to die for them.
There are other sheep which belong to me...
that are not in this sheep pen.
I must bring them, too.
They will listen to my voice...
and they will become one flock
with one shepherd.
The Father loves me...
because I am willing to give up my life
in order that I may receive it back again.
No one takes my life away from me.
I give it up of my own free will.
I have the right to give it up...
and I have the right to take it back.
This is what my Father
has commanded me to do.
Again there was division among the people
because of these words.
-He has a demon!
-He is crazy!
-Why do you listen to him?
-A man with a demon cannot talk like this!
How could a demon give sight
to blind people?
It was winter...
and the Festival of the Dedication of the
Temple was being celebrated in Jerusalem.
Jesus was walking in Solomon's Porch
in the Temple...
when the people gathered round him.
How long are you going
to keep us in suspense?
Tell us the plain truth. Are you the Messiah?
I have already told you,
but you would not believe me.
The deeds I do by my Father's authority
speak on my behalf.
But you will not believe...
for you are not my sheep.
My sheep listen to my voice.
I know them, and they follow me.
I give them eternal life,
and they shall never die.
No one can snatch them away from me.
What my Father has given me
is greater than everything...
and no one can snatch them away
from the Father's care.
The Father and I are one.
Blasphemy! Stone him!
Then the people again picked up stones
to throw at him.
I have done many good deeds
in your presence...
which the Father gave me to do.
For which one of these
do you want to stone me?
We do not want to stone you
because of any good deeds...
but because of your blasphemy!
You are only a man,
but you are trying to make yourself God!
It is written in your own Law...
that God said, "You are gods."
We know that what the scripture says
is true forever...
and God called those people gods...
the people to whom his message was given.
As for me, the Father chose me
and sent me into the world.
How, then, can you say that I blaspheme...
because I said that I am the Son of God?
Do not believe me, then, if I am not doing
the things my Father wants me to do.
But if I do them,
even though you do not believe me...
you should at least believe my deeds...
in order that you may know,
once and for all...
that the Father is in me...
and that I am in the Father.
Blasphemy!
Once more, they tried to seize Jesus,
but he slipped out of their hands.
Jesus then went back again
across the Jordan River...
to the place
where John had been baptizing...
and he stayed there.
Many people came to him.
"John performed no miracles, " they said...
"but everything he said
about this man was true. "
And many people there believed in him.
A man named Lazarus,
who lived in Bethany, became sick.
Bethany was the town
where Mary and her sister Martha lived.
This Mary was the one
who poured the perfume on the Lord's feet...
and wiped them with her hair.
It was her brother, Lazarus, who was sick.
The sisters sent Jesus a message:
"Lord, your dear friend is sick. "
When Jesus heard it, he said:
"The final result of this sickness
will not be the death of Lazarus.
"This has happened in order
to bring glory to God...
"and it will be the means
by which the Son of God will receive glory. "
Jesus loved Martha, and her sister,
and Lazarus.
Yet when he received the news
that Lazarus was sick...
he stayed where he was for two more days.
Then he said to his disciples,
"Let us go back to Judea. "
Teacher, just a short time ago,
the people there wanted to stone you...
and are you planning to go back?
A day has 1 2 hours, doesn't it?
So those who walk in broad daylight
do not stumble...
for they see the light of this world.
But if they walk
during the night, they stumble...
because they have no light.
Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep...
but I will go and wake him up.
If he is asleep, Lord, he will get well.
Jesus meant that Lazarus had d*ed...
but they thought he meant natural sleep.
So Jesus told them plainly:
Lazarus is dead.
But for your sake...
I am glad that I was not with him...
so that you will believe.
Let us go to him.
Thomas, called the Twin,
said to his fellow disciples:
Let us all go along with the Teacher,
so that we may die with him!
When Jesus arrived, he found that Lazarus
had been buried four days before.
Bethany was less than two miles
from Jerusalem...
and many Judeans had come
to see Martha and Mary...
to comfort them about their brother's death.
When Martha heard that Jesus was coming,
she went out to meet him...
but Mary stayed in the house.
If you had been here, Lord...
my brother would not have d*ed.
But I know that even now...
God will give you whatever you ask him for.
Your brother will rise to life.
I know that he will rise to life
on the last day.
I am the resurrection and the life.
Those who believe in me will live...
even though they die.
And those who live and believe in me...
will never die.
Do you believe this?
Yes, Lord.
I do believe that you are the Messiah...
the Son of God,
who is to come into the world.
After Martha said this...
she went back
and called her sister Mary privately.
The Teacher is here...
and is asking for you.
When Mary heard this,
she got up and hurried out to meet him.
Jesus had not yet arrived in the village...
but was still in the place
where Martha had met him.
The people who were in the house
with Mary, comforting her...
followed her
when they saw her get up and hurry out.
They thought that she was going
to the grave to weep there.
Mary arrived where Jesus was, and
as soon as she saw him, she fell at his feet.
Lord...
if you had been here...
my brother would not have d*ed.
Jesus saw her weeping...
and he saw how the people with her
were weeping also.
His heart was touched,
and he was deeply moved.
Where have you buried him?
Come and see, Lord.
Jesus wept.
"See how much he loved him, "
the people said.
But some of them said:
"He gave sight to the blind man, didn't he?
"Could he not have kept Lazarus
from dying?"
Deeply moved once more,
Jesus went to the tomb...
which was a cave
with a stone placed at the entrance.
Take the stone away.
There will be a bad smell, Lord.
He has been buried four days.
Didn't I tell you that you would see
God's glory if you believed?
They took the stone away.
Jesus looked up.
I thank you, Father, that you listen to me.
I know that you always listen to me...
but I say this for the sake
of the people here...
so that they will believe that you sent me.
After he had said this,
he called out in a loud voice:
Lazarus...
come out!
He came out...
his hands and feet
wrapped in grave clothes...
and with a cloth round his face.
Untie him, and let him go.
Many of the people who had come
to visit Mary saw what Jesus did...
and they believed in him.
But some of them returned to the Pharisees
and told them what Jesus had done.
So the Pharisees and the chief priests
met with the Council and said:
"What shall we do?"
Look at all the miracles
this man is performing!
If we let him go on in this way,
everyone will believe in him...
and the Roman authorities will take action
and destroy our temple and our nation!
One of them, named Caiaphas,
who was High Priest that year, said:
What fools you are!
Don't you realize...
that it is better for you
to have let one man die for the people...
instead of having
the whole nation destroyed?
Actually, he did not say this
of his own accord.
Rather, as he was High Priest that year...
he was prophesying that Jesus
was going to die for the Jewish people...
and not only for them,
but also to bring together into one body...
all the scattered people of God.
From that day on, the Jewish authorities
made plans to k*ll Jesus.
So Jesus did not travel openly in Judea, but
left, and went to a place near the desert...
to a town named Ephraim,
where he stayed with his disciples.
The time for the Passover Festival
was near...
and many people went up from the country
to Jerusalem...
to perform the ritual of purification
before the festival.
They were looking for Jesus...
and as they gathered in the Temple,
they asked one another:
"What do you think? Surely, he will not
come to the Festival, will he?"
The chief priests and the Pharisees
had given orders...
that if anyone knew where Jesus was,
he must report it...
so that they could arrest him.
Six days before the Passover...
Jesus went to Bethany,
the home of Lazarus...
the man he had raised from death.
They prepared a dinner for him there,
which Martha helped serve.
Lazarus was one of those
who were sitting at the table with Jesus.
Then Mary took a whole pint
of a very expensive perfume...
made of pure nard...
poured it on Jesus' feet...
and wiped them with her hair.
The sweet smell of the perfume
filled the whole house.
One of Jesus' disciples, Judas Iscariot...
the one who was going to betray him, said:
Why wasn't this perfume sold...
for 300 silver coins...
and the money...
given to the poor?
He said this not because
he cared about the poor...
but because he was a thief.
He carried the money bag
and would help himself from it.
Leave her alone.
Let her keep what she has
for the day of my burial.
You will always have poor people with you...
but you will not always have me.
A large number of people
heard that Jesus was in Bethany...
so they went there, not only
because of Jesus, but also to see Lazarus...
whom Jesus had raised from death.
So the chief priests made plans
to k*ll Lazarus, too...
because, on his account, many Jews
were rejecting them and believing in Jesus.
The next day, the large crowd
that had come to the Passover Festival...
heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem.
So they took branches of palm trees
and went out to meet him, shouting:
"Praise God! God bless him
who comes in the name of the Lord!
"God bless the King of lsrael!"
Jesus found a donkey and rode on it,
just as the scripture says:
"Do not be afraid, city of Zion!
"Here comes your King,
riding on a young donkey. "
His disciples did not understand this
at the time...
but when Jesus had been raised to glory...
they remembered
that the scripture said this about him...
and that they had done this for him.
The people who had been with Jesus...
when he called Lazarus out of the grave
and raised him from death...
had reported what had happened.
That was why the crowd met him...
because they heard
he had performed this miracle.
The Pharisees then said to one another:
You see, we are not succeeding at all!
Look, the whole world is following him!
Some Greeks were among those...
who had gone to Jerusalem
to worship during the festival.
They went to Philip...
he was from Bethsaida in Galilee, and said:
"Sir, we want to see Jesus. "
Philip went and told Andrew...
and the two of them went and told Jesus.
The hour has now come for the Son of Man
to receive great glory.
I am telling you the truth.
A grain of wheat remains
no more than a single grain...
unless it is dropped into the ground
and dies.
If it does die...
then it produces many grains.
Those who love their own life will lose it.
Those who hate their own life in this world
will keep it for life eternal.
Whoever wants to serve me
must follow me...
so that my servant
will be with me where I am.
And my Father will honor anyone
who serves me.
Now my heart is troubled. What shall I say?
Shall I say, "Father, do not let this hour
come upon me"?
But that is why I came...
so that I might go through
this hour of suffering.
Father...
bring glory to Your name.
Then a voice spoke from heaven:
"I have brought glory to it,
and I will do so again. "
The crowd standing there heard the voice,
and some of them said it was thunder...
while others said, "An angel spoke to him. "
It was not for my sake that this voice spoke,
but for yours.
Now is the time for this world to be judged.
Now the ruler of this world
will be overthrown.
When I am lifted up from the earth...
I will draw everyone to me.
In saying this, he indicated
the kind of death he was going to suffer.
Our Law tells us
that the Messiah will live forever.
How then can you say
that the Son of Man must be lifted up?
Who is this Son of Man?
The light will be among you a little longer.
Continue on your way
while you have the light...
so that the darkness
will not come upon you!
For the one who walks in the dark
does not know where he is going.
Believe in the light, then, while you have it...
so that you will be the people of the light!
After Jesus said this,
he went off and hid himself from them.
Even though he had performed
all these miracles in their presence...
they did not believe in him...
so that what the prophet lsaiah had said
might come true:
"Lord, who believed the message we told?
"To whom did the Lord reveal his power?"
And so, they were not able to believe,
because lsaiah also said:
"God has blinded their eyes
and closed their minds...
"so that their eyes would not see,
and their minds would not understand...
"and they would not turn to me," says God...
"for me to heal them. "
Isaiah said this because
he saw Jesus' glory and spoke about him.
Even then, many of the Jewish authorities
believed in Jesus...
but because of the Pharisees,
they did not talk about it openly...
so as not to be expelled
from the synagogue.
They loved human approval
rather than the approval of God.
Jesus said in a loud voice:
Whoever believes in me
believes not only in me...
but also in him who sent me.
Whoever sees me
sees also him who sent me.
I have come into the world as light...
so that everyone who believes in me
should not remain in the darkness.
If people hear my message
and do not obey it...
I will not judge them.
I came not to judge the world,
but to save it.
Those who reject me
and do not accept my message...
have one who will judge them.
The words I have spoken
will be their judge on the last day.
This is true because I have not spoken
on my own authority.
But the Father who sent me...
has commanded me
what I must say and speak.
And I know that his command
brings eternal life.
What I say, then,
is what the Father has told me to say.
It was now the day
before the Passover Festival.
Jesus knew that the hour had come
for him to leave this world...
and go to the Father.
He had always loved those in the world
who were his own...
and he loved them to the very end.
Jesus and his disciples were at supper.
The Devil had already put into the heart
of Judas, the son of Simon lscariot...
the thought of betraying Jesus.
Jesus knew that
the Father had given him complete power.
He knew that he had come from God
and was going to God.
So he rose from the table,
took off his outer garment...
and tied a towel round his waist.
Then he poured some water
into a washbasin...
and began to wash the disciples' feet...
and dry them
with the towel round his waist.
He came to Simon Peter.
Are you going to wash my feet, Lord?
You do not understand now
what I am doing...
but you will understand later.
Never, at any time, will you wash my feet.
If I do not wash your feet...
you will no longer be my disciple.
Lord...
do not wash only my feet, then.
Wash my hands and head, too.
Those who have taken a bath
are completely clean...
and do not need to wash themselves...
except for their feet.
All of you are clean.
All, except one.
Jesus already knew
who was going to betray him.
That is why he said,
"All of you, except one, are clean. "
After Jesus had washed their feet...
he put his outer garment back on
and returned to his place at the table.
Do you understand
what I have just done to you?
You call me Teacher and Lord...
and it is right that you should do so,
because that is what I am.
l, your Lord and Teacher,
have just washed your feet.
You, then, should wash one another's feet.
I have set an example for you...
so that you will do
just what I have done for you.
I am telling you the truth.
No slaves are greater than their master...
and no messengers are greater
than the one who sent them.
Now that you know this truth...
how happy you will be
if you put it into practice.
I am not talking about all of you.
I know those I have chosen.
But the scripture must come true that says:
"The man who shared my food
turned against me."
I tell you this now before it happens...
so that when it does happen,
you will believe that "l Am Who I Am."
I am telling you the truth.
Whoever receives anyone I send
receives me also...
and whoever receives me
receives him who sent me.
After Jesus had said this...
he was deeply troubled
and declared openly:
I am telling you the truth.
One of you is going to betray me.
The disciples looked at one another,
completely puzzled about whom he meant.
One of the disciples,
the one whom Jesus loved...
was sitting next to Jesus.
Simon Peter motioned to him.
Ask him whom he is talking about.
So that disciple
moved closer to Jesus' side.
Who is it, Lord?
I will dip some bread in the sauce
and give it to him.
He is the man.
So he took a piece of bread, dipped it...
and gave it to Judas,
the son of Simon lscariot.
As soon as Judas took the bread,
Satan entered into him.
Hurry, and do what you must.
None of the others at the table understood
why Jesus said this to him.
Since Judas was
in charge of the money bag...
some of the disciples thought
that Jesus had told him...
to go and buy
what they needed for the festival...
or to give something to the poor.
Judas accepted the bread
and went out at once.
It was night.
After Judas had left, Jesus said:
Now the Son of Man's glory is revealed.
Now God's glory is revealed through him.
And if God's glory is revealed through him...
then God will reveal the glory
of the Son of Man in himself.
And he will do so at once.
My children...
I shall not be with you very much longer.
You will look for me, but I tell you now
what I told the Jewish authorities:
You cannot go where I am going.
And now I give you a new commandment:
Love one another.
As I have loved you,
so you must love one another.
If you have love for one another...
then everyone will know
that you are my disciples.
Where are you going, Lord?
You cannot follow me now
where I am going...
but later you will follow me.
Lord, why can't I follow you now?
I am ready to die for you.
Are you really ready to die for me?
I am telling you the truth.
Before the rooster crows, you will say
three times that you do not know me.
Do not be worried and upset.
Believe in God...
and believe, also, in me.
There are many rooms
in my Father's house...
and I am going to prepare a place for you.
I would not tell you this if it were not so.
And after I go and prepare a place for you,
I will come back and take you to myself...
so that you will be where I am.
You know the way that leads
to the place where I am going.
Lord, we do not know
where you are going...
so how can we know the way to get there?
I am the way...
the truth, and the life.
No one goes to the Father except by me.
Now that you have known me,
you will know my Father also.
And from now on,
you do know him, and you have seen him.
Lord...
show us the Father.
That is all we need.
For a long time, I have been with you all.
Yet you do not know me, Philip?
Whoever has seen me has seen the Father.
Why, then, do you say,
"Show us the Father"?
Do you not believe, Philip, that I am
in the Father and the Father is in me?
The words I have spoken to you
do not come from me.
The Father, who remains in me,
does his own work.
Believe me when I say that I am in the Father
and the Father is in me.
If not, believe because of the things I do.
I am telling you the truth.
Those who believe in me will do what I do.
Yes, they will do even greater things...
because I am going to the Father.
And I will do whatever you ask for
in my name...
so that the Father's glory
will be shown through the Son.
If you ask me for anything in my name...
I will do it.
If you love me,
you will obey my commandments.
I will ask the Father,
and he will give you another Helper...
who will stay with you forever.
He is the Spirit
who reveals the truth about God.
The world cannot receive him,
because it cannot see him or know him.
But you know him,
because he remains with you and is in you.
When I go, you will not be left all alone.
I will come back to you.
In a little while,
the world will see me no more...
but you will see me.
And because I live, you also will live.
When that day comes...
you will know that I am in my Father,
and that you are in me, just as I am in you.
Those who accept my commandments
and obey them are the ones who love me.
My Father will love those who love me.
I, too, will love them
and reveal myself to them.
Judas, not Judas lscariot, said:
Lord, how can it be that you will
reveal yourself to us and not to the world?
Those who love me will obey my teaching.
My Father will love them, and my Father
and I will come to them and live with them.
Those who do not love me
do not obey my teaching.
The teaching you have heard is not mine,
but comes from the Father who sent me.
I have told you this while I am still with you.
The Helper, the Holy Spirit,
whom the Father will send in my name...
will teach you everything and
make you remember all that I have told you.
Peace is what I leave with you.
It is my own peace that I give you.
I do not give it as the world does.
Do not be worried and upset.
Do not be afraid.
You heard me say to you,
"I am leaving, but I will come back to you."
If you loved me, you would be glad
that I am going to the Father...
for he is greater than l.
I have told you this now
before it all happens...
so that when it does happen,
you will believe.
I cannot talk with you much longer...
because the ruler of this world is coming.
He has no power over me,
but the world must know...
that I love the Father, and that is why
I do everything as he commands me.
Come, let us go from this place.
I am the real vine,
and my Father is the gardener.
He breaks off every branch in me
that does not bear fruit...
and he prunes every branch
that does bear fruit...
so that it will be clean and bear more fruit.
You have been made clean already
by the teaching I have given you.
Remain united to me...
and I will remain united to you.
A branch cannot bear fruit by itself.
It can do so only if it remains on the vine.
In the same way, you cannot bear fruit
unless you remain in me.
I am the vine, and you are the branches.
Those who remain in me, and I in them,
will bear much fruit...
for you can do nothing without me.
Those who do not remain in me
are thrown out like a branch and dry up.
Such branches are gathered up
and thrown into the fire...
where they are b*rned.
If you remain in me
and my words remain in you...
then you will ask for anything you wish,
and you shall have it.
My Father's glory is shown
by your bearing much fruit...
and in this way, you become my disciples.
I love you, just as the Father loves me.
Remain in my love.
If you obey my commands,
you will remain in my love...
just as I have obeyed my Father's
commands, and remain in his love.
I have told you this
so that my joy may be in you...
and that your joy may be complete.
My commandment is this:
Love one another, just as I love you.
The greatest love you can have
for your friends is to give your life for them.
And you are my friends
if you do what I command you.
I do not call you servants any longer...
because servants don't know,
what is their master doing!
lnstead, I call you friends, because I have
told you everything I heard from my Father.
You did not choose me.
I chose you...
and appointed you
to go and bear much fruit...
the kind of fruit that endures.
And so...
the Father will give you
whatever you ask of him in my name.
This, then, is what I command you:
Love one another.
If the world hates you...
just remember that it has hated me first.
If you belonged to the world,
then the world would love you as its own.
But I chose you from this world,
and you do not belong to it.
That is why the world hates you.
Remember what I told you.
"Slaves are not greater than their master. "
If people persecuted me,
they will persecute you, too.
If they obeyed my teaching,
they will obey yours, too.
But they will do all this to you
because you are mine...
for they do not know the One who sent me.
They would not have been guilty of sin
if I had not come and spoken to them.
As it is, they no longer have
any excuse for their sin.
Whoever hates me hates my Father also.
They would not have been guilty of sin...
if I had not done among them
the things that no one else ever did.
As it is, they have seen what I did...
and they hate both me and my Father.
This, however, was bound to happen...
so that what is written in their Law
may come true:
"They hated me for no reason at all. "
The Helper will come...
the Spirit who reveals the truth about God
and who comes from the Father.
I will send him to you from the Father,
and he will speak about me.
And you, too, will speak about me...
because you have been with me
from the very beginning.
I have told you this
so that you will not give up your faith.
You will be expelled from the synagogues...
and the time will come
when those who k*ll you...
will think that by doing this
they are serving God.
People will do these things to you...
because they have not known
either the Father or me.
But I have told you this...
so that when the time comes
for them to do these things...
you will remember what I told you.
I did not tell you these things
at the beginning, for I was with you.
But now I am going to him who sent me...
yet none of you asks me where I am going.
And now that I have told you,
your hearts are full of sadness.
But I am telling you the truth.
It is better for you that I go away.
Because if I do not go,
the Helper will not come to you.
But if I do go away,
then I will send him to you.
And when he comes,
he will prove to the people of the world...
that they are wrong about sin,
and about what is right...
and about God's judgment.
They are wrong about sin
because they do not believe in me.
They are wrong about what is right...
because I am going to the Father
and you will not see me anymore.
And they are wrong about judgment...
because the ruler of this world...
has already been judged.
I have much more to tell you...
but now, it would be too much
for you to bear.
When, however, the Spirit comes,
who reveals the truth about God...
he will lead you into all the truth.
He will not speak on his own authority,
but he will speak of what he hears...
and will tell you of things to come.
He will give me glory, because he will
take what I say and tell it to you.
All that my Father has is mine.
That is why I said that the Spirit will take
what I give him and tell it to you.
In a little while,
you will not see me anymore.
And then, a little while later,
you will see me.
Some of his disciples asked
among themselves, "What does this mean?
"He tells us that in a little while,
we will not see him...
"and then a little while later,
we will see him.
"and he also says, 'It is because
I am going to the Father.'
"What does this 'a little while' mean?
"We don't know what he is talking about. "
Jesus knew
that they wanted to question him.
I said, "In a little while,
you will not see me...
"and then, a little while later,
you will see me."
Is this what you are asking about
among yourselves?
I am telling you the truth.
You will cry and weep,
but the world will be glad.
You will be sad,
but your sadness will turn into gladness.
When a woman is about to give birth, she is
sad because her hour of suffering has come.
But when the baby is born,
she forgets her suffering...
because she is happy
that a baby has been born into the world.
That is how it is with you.
Now you are sad...
but I will see you again, and your hearts
will be filled with gladness...
the kind of gladness
that no one can take away from you.
When that day comes,
you will not ask me for anything.
I am telling you the truth.
The Father will give you
whatever you ask of him in my name.
Until now, you have not asked for anything
in my name.
Ask, and you will receive...
so that your happiness may be complete.
I have used figures of speech
to tell you these things.
But the time will come
when I will not do so...
but will speak to you plainly
about the Father.
When that day comes,
you will ask him in my name.
And I do not say
that I will ask him on your behalf...
for the Father himself loves you.
He loves you because you love me
and have believed that I came from God.
I did come from the Father,
and I came into the world...
and now I am leaving the world
and going to the Father.
Then his disciples said to him...
"Now you are speaking plainly
without using figures of speech.
"We know now that you know everything.
"You do not need to have someone
ask you questions.
"This makes us believe
that you came from God. "
Do you believe now?
The time is coming, it is already here...
when all of you will be scattered,
each of you to your own home...
and I will be left all alone.
But I am not really alone,
because the Father is with me.
I have told you this so that
you will have peace by being united to me.
The world will make you suffer.
But be brave.
I have defeated the world.
After Jesus finished saying this,
he looked up to heaven and said:
Father...
the hour has come.
Give glory to your Son...
so that the Son may give glory to you.
For you gave him authority over all people...
so that he might give eternal life
to all those you gave him.
And eternal life means to know you,
the only true God...
and to know Jesus Christ, whom you sent.
I have shown your glory on Earth.
I have finished the work you gave me to do.
Father...
give me glory in your presence now...
the same glory I had with you
before the world was made.
I have made you known
to those you gave me out of the world.
They belonged to you,
and you gave them to me.
They have obeyed your word...
and now they know that everything
you gave me comes from you.
I gave them the message that you gave me,
and they received it.
They know that it is true
that I came from you...
and they believe that you sent me.
I pray for them.
I do not pray for the world,
but for those you gave me...
for they belong to you.
All I have is yours...
and all you have is mine.
And my glory is shown through them.
And now I am coming to you.
I am no longer in the world,
but they are in the world.
Holy Father, keep them safe
by the power of your name...
the name you gave me...
so that they may be one...
just as you and I are one.
While I was with them, I kept them safe
by the power of your name...
the name you gave me.
I protected them,
and not one of them was lost...
except the man who was bound to be lost,
so that the Scripture might come true.
And now, I am coming to you,
and I say these things in the world...
so that they may have my joy in their hearts
in all its fullness.
I gave them your message,
and the world hated them...
because they do not belong to the world,
just as I do not belong to the world.
I do not ask you
to take them out of the world...
but I do ask you to keep them safe
from the Evil One.
Just as I do not belong to the world,
they do not belong to the world.
Dedicate them to yourself
by means of the truth.
Your Word is truth.
I sent them into the world,
just as you sent me into the world.
And for their sake,
I dedicate myself to you...
in order that they, too,
may be truly dedicated to you.
I pray not only for them, but also for those
who believe in me because of their message.
I pray that they may all be one.
Father...
may they be in us,
just as you are in me and I am in you.
May they be one, so that the world
will believe that you sent me.
I gave them the same glory you gave me...
so that they may be one,
just as you and I are one...
I in them, and you in me...
so that they may be completely one...
in order that the world may know
that you sent me...
and that you love them as you love me.
Father, you have given them to me...
and I want them to be with me where I am...
so that they may see my glory,
the glory you gave me...
for you loved me
before the world was made.
Righteous Father...
the world does not know you,
but I know you...
and these know that you sent me.
I made you known to them,
and I will continue to do so...
in order that the love you have for me
may be in them...
and so that I also may be in them.
After Jesus had said this prayer...
he left with his disciples
and went across Kidron Brook.
There was a garden in that place...
and Jesus and his disciples went in.
Judas, the traitor, knew where it was...
because many times
Jesus had met there with his disciples.
So Judas went to the garden,
taking with him a group of Roman soldiers...
and some temple guards
sent by the chief priests and the Pharisees.
They were armed,
and carried lanterns and torches.
Jesus knew everything
that was going to happen to him...
so he stepped forward and asked them:
-Who is it you are looking for?
-Jesus of Nazareth.
Judas, the traitor,
was standing there with them...
when Jesus said to them:
I am he.
They moved back and fell to the ground.
Again Jesus asked them:
Who is it you are looking for?
Jesus of Nazareth.
I have already told you that I am he.
If, then, you are looking for me...
let these others go.
He said this so that
what he had said might come true:
"Father, I have not lost
even one of those you gave me. "
Simon Peter, who had a sword, drew it
and struck the High Priest's sl*ve...
cutting off his right ear.
The name of the sl*ve was Malchus.
Put your sword back in its place!
Do you think that I will not drink the cup
of suffering which my Father has given me?
Then the Roman soldiers,
with their commanding officer...
and the Jewish guards arrested Jesus...
tied him up...
and took him first to Annas.
He was the father-in-law of Caiaphas,
who was High Priest that year.
It was Caiaphas who had advised
the Jewish authorities...
that it was better
that one man should die for all the people.
Simon Peter and another disciple
followed Jesus.
That other disciple was well known
to the High Priest...
so he went with Jesus into the courtyard
of the High Priest's house...
while Peter stayed outside by the gate.
Then the other disciple went back out,
spoke to the girl at the gate...
and brought Peter inside.
Aren't you also one of the disciples
of that man?
No, I am not.
It was cold, so the servants and guards
had built a charcoal fire...
and were standing around it,
warming themselves.
So Peter went over and stood with them,
warming himself.
The High Priest questioned Jesus
about his disciples and about his teaching.
Jesus answered:
I have always spoken publicly to everyone.
All my teaching was done...
in the synagogues and in the Temple,
where all the people come together.
I have never said anything in secret.
Why, then, do you question me?
Question the people who heard me.
Ask them what I told them.
They know what I said.
How dare you talk like that
to the High Priest?
If I have said anything wrong...
tell everyone here what it was.
But if I am right in what I have said...
why do you hit me?
Then Annas sent him, still tied up,
to Caiaphas, the High Priest.
Peter was still standing there,
keeping himself warm.
So the others said to him:
"Aren't you also one
of the disciples of that man?"
No, I am not.
But Peter denied it.
One of the High Priest's slaves...
a relative of the man
whose ear Peter had cut off, spoke up.
-Didn't I see you with him in the garden?
-No.
And at once, a rooster crowed.
Early in the morning...
Jesus was taken from Caiaphas' house
to the governor's palace.
The Jewish authorities
did not go inside the palace...
for they wanted
to keep themselves ritually clean...
in order to be able to eat the Passover meal.
So Pilate went outside to them and asked:
What do you accuse this man of?
We would not have brought him to you
if he had not committed a crime.
Then you yourselves take him
and try him according to your own law.
We are not allowed to put anyone to death.
This happened in order to make come true
what Jesus had said...
when he indicated
the kind of death he would die.
Pilate went back into the palace
and called Jesus.
Are you the King of the Jews?
Does this question come from you...
or have others told you about me?
Do you think I am a Jew?
It was your own people and the chief priests
who handed you over to me.
What have you done?
My kingdom does not belong to this world.
If my kingdom belonged to this world...
my followers would fight to keep me from
being handed over to the Jewish authorities.
No. My kingdom does not belong here.
-Are you a king, then?
-You say that I am a king.
I was born and came into the world
for this one purpose...
to speak about the truth.
Whoever belongs to the truth listens to me.
And what is truth?
Then Pilate went back outside
to the people and said to them:
I cannot find any reason
to condemn him. But....
According to the custom you have...
I always set free a prisoner for you
during the Passover!
Do you want me to set free for you
"the King of the Jews"?
No!
They answered him with a shout:
Give us Barabbas!
Barabbas was a bandit.
Then Pilate took Jesus
and had him whipped.
The soldiers made a crown
out of thorny branches...
and put it on his head.
Then they put a purple robe on him
and came to him and said:
"Long live the King of the Jews!"
And they went up and slapped him.
Pilate went back out once more
and said to the crowd:
Look, I will bring him out here to you...
to let you see that I cannot find
any reason to condemn him.
Look, here is the man.
So Jesus came out...
wearing the crown of thorns
and the purple robe.
Crucify him!
You take him, then, and crucify him.
I find no reason to condemn him.
We have a law that says he ought to die...
because he claimed to be the Son of God!
When Pilate heard this,
he was even more afraid.
He went back into the palace
and asked Jesus:
Where do you come from?
But Jesus did not answer.
You will not speak to me?
Remember, I have the authority
to set you free...
and also to have you crucified.
You have authority over me...
only because it was given to you by God.
So the man who handed me over to you...
is guilty of a worse sin.
When Pilate heard this,
he tried to find a way to set Jesus free.
If you set him free,
that means you are not the Emperor's friend.
Anyone who claims to be a king
is a rebel against the Emperor.
When Pilate heard these words,
he took Jesus outside...
and sat down on the judge's seat
in the place called "The Stone Pavement. "
In Hebrew, the name is Gabbatha.
It was then almost noon
of the day before the Passover.
Pilate said to the people:
Here is your king.
k*ll him!
Crucify him!
Do you want me to crucify your king?
The only king we have is the Emperor.
Then Pilate handed Jesus over to them
to be crucified.
So they took charge of Jesus.
He went out, carrying his cross...
and came to "The Place of the Skull, "
as it is called.
In Hebrew, it is called Golgotha.
There they crucified him.
And they also crucified two other men...
one on each side, with Jesus between them.
Pilate wrote a notice
and had it put on the cross:
"Jesus of Nazareth, the King of the Jews"
is what he wrote.
Many people read it...
because the place
where Jesus was crucified...
was not far from the city.
The notice was written
in Hebrew, Latin, and Greek.
The Chief Priest said to Pilate:
"Do not write 'The King of the Jews,'
but rather:
"This man said, 'I am King of the Jews."'
What I have written stays written.
After the soldiers had crucified Jesus,
they took his clothes...
and divided them into four parts,
one part for each soldier.
They also took the robe...
which was made of one piece
of woven cloth without any seams in it.
The soldiers said to one another:
"Let's not tear it,
let's throw dice to see who will get it. "
This happened in order
to make the scripture come true:
"They divided my clothes among themselves
and gambled for my robe. "
And this is what the soldiers did.
Standing close to Jesus' cross
were his mother...
his mother's sister, Mary,
the wife of Clopas...
and Mary Magdalene.
Jesus saw his mother
and the disciple he loved...
standing there.
He is your son.
Then he said to the disciple:
She is your mother.
From that time,
the disciple took her to live in his home.
Jesus knew that by now
everything had been completed...
and in order to make
the Scripture come true, he said:
I am thirsty.
A bowl was there, full of cheap wine...
so a sponge was soaked in the wine,
put on a stalk of hyssop...
and lifted up to his lips.
Jesus drank the wine.
It is finished.
Then he bowed his head
and gave up his spirit.
Then the Jewish authorities asked Pilate...
to allow them to break the legs
of the men who had been crucified...
and to take the bodies down
from the crosses.
They requested this because it was Friday...
and they did not want the bodies
to stay on the crosses on the Sabbath...
since the coming Sabbath
was especially holy.
So the soldiers went and broke the legs
of the first man...
and then of the other man
who had been crucified with Jesus.
But when they came to Jesus,
they saw that he was already dead...
so they did not break his legs.
One of the soldiers, however,
plunged his spear into Jesus' side...
And at once blood...
and water poured out.
The one who saw this happen
has spoken of it...
so that you may also believe.
What he said is true,
and he knows that he speaks the truth.
This was done
to make the Scripture come true:
"Not one of his bones will be broken. "
And there is another scripture that says:
"People will look at him,
whom they pierced. "
After this, Joseph,
who was from the town of Arimathea...
asked Pilate if he could take Jesus' body.
Joseph was a follower of Jesus,
but in secret...
because he was afraid
of the Jewish authorities...
Pilate told him he could have the body...
so Joseph went and took it away.
Nicodemus, who at first had gone
to see Jesus at night...
went with Joseph...
taking with him
about 100 pounds of spices...
a mixture of myrrh and aloe.
The two men took Jesus' body
and wrapped it in linen cloths...
with the spices...
according to the Jewish custom
of preparing a body for burial.
There was a garden in the place
where Jesus had been put to death...
and in it there was a new tomb,
where no one had ever been buried.
Since it was the day before the Sabbath...
and because the tomb was close by...
they placed Jesus' body there.
Early on Sunday morning,
while it was still dark...
Mary Magdalene went to the tomb...
and saw that the stone
had been taken away from the entrance.
She went running to Simon Peter
and the other disciple, whom Jesus loved.
They have taken the Lord from the tomb,
and we don't know where they have put him.
Then Peter and the other disciple
went to the tomb.
The two of them were running...
but the other disciple ran faster than Peter
and reached the tomb first.
He bent over and saw the linen cloths...
but he did not go in.
Behind him came Simon Peter...
and he went straight into the tomb.
He saw the linen cloths lying there...
and the cloth
which had been around Jesus' head.
It was not lying with the linen cloths,
but was rolled up by itself.
Then the other disciple,
who had reached the tomb first also went in.
He saw and believed.
They still did not understand the Scripture
which said he must rise from death.
Then the disciples went back home.
Mary stood crying outside the tomb.
While she was still crying,
she bent over and looked in the tomb...
and saw two angels there dressed in white...
sitting where the body of Jesus had been...
one at the head, the other at the feet.
"Woman, why are you crying?"
they asked her.
They have taken my Lord away...
and I do not know where they have put him.
Then she turned around
and saw Jesus standing there...
but she did not know that it was Jesus.
Woman, why are you crying?
Who is it that you are looking for?
She thought he was the gardener,
so she said to him:
If you took him away, sir...
tell me where you have put him,
and I will go and get him.
Mary.
She turned toward him and said in Hebrew:
Rabboni!
This means "Teacher. "
Do not hold on to me...
because I have not yet gone
back up to the Father.
But go to my brothers and tell them
I am returning to Him who is my Father...
and their Father...
my God and their God.
So Mary Magdalene went and told
the disciples that she had seen the Lord...
and related to them what he had told her.
It was late that Sunday evening...
and the disciples were gathered together
behind locked doors...
because they were afraid
of the Jewish authorities.
Then Jesus came and stood among them.
Peace be with you.
After saying this,
he showed them his hands and his side.
The disciples were filled with joy
at seeing the Lord.
Jesus said to them again:
Peace be with you.
As the Father sent me, so I send you.
Then he breathed on them.
Receive the Holy Spirit.
If you forgive people's sins,
they are forgiven.
If you do not forgive them...
they are not forgiven.
One of the twelve disciples, Thomas,
called the Twin...
was not with them when Jesus came.
So the other disciples told him,
"We have seen the Lord. "
Unless I see the scars of the nails
in his hands...
and put my finger on those scars,
and my hand in his side...
I will not believe.
A week later,
the disciples were together again indoors...
and Thomas was with them.
The doors were locked,
but Jesus came and stood among them.
Peace be with you.
Put your finger here, and look at my hands.
Then reach out your hand
and put it in my side.
Stop your doubting and believe.
My Lord, and my God.
Do you believe because you see me?
How happy are those
who believe without seeing me.
In his disciples' presence,
Jesus performed many other miracles...
which are not written down in this book.
But these have been written...
in order that you may believe
that Jesus is the Messiah...
the Son of God...
and that through your faith in him,
you may have life.
After this, Jesus appeared once more
to his disciples...
at Lake Tiberias.
This is how it happened:
Simon Peter, Thomas, called the Twin...
Nathanael, the one from Cana in Galilee,
the sons of Zebedee...
and two other disciples of Jesus
were all together.
Simon Peter said to the others:
-l am going fishing.
-We will come with you.
"We will come with you, " they told him.
So they went out in a boat,
but all that night they did not catch a thing.
As the sun was rising,
Jesus stood at the water's edge...
but the disciples did not know
that it was Jesus.
Young men, haven't you caught anything?
Not a thing!
Throw your net out on the right side
of the boat, and you will catch some.
So they threw the net out...
and could not pull it back in...
because they had caught so many fish.
The disciple whom Jesus loved
said to Peter:
It is the Lord.
When Peter heard that it was the Lord...
he wrapped his outer garment around him,
for he had taken his clothes off...
and jumped into the water.
The other disciples came to shore
in the boat, pulling the net full of fish.
They were not very far from land,
about a hundred yards away.
When they stepped ashore...
they saw a charcoal fire there
with fish on it and some bread.
Bring some of the fish you have just caught.
Simon Peter went aboard
and dragged the net ashore full of big fish...
Even though there were so many,
still the net did not tear.
Come, and eat.
None of the disciples dared ask him,
"Who are you?"
Because they knew it was the Lord.
So Jesus went over, took the bread,
and gave it to them...
he did the same with the fish.
This, then, was the third time
Jesus appeared to his disciples...
after he was raised from death.
After they had eaten,
Jesus said to Simon Peter:
Simon, son of John...
do you love me more than these others do?
Yes, Lord, you know that I love you.
Take care of my lambs.
A second time Jesus said to him:
Simon, son of John, do you love me?
Yes, Lord, you know that I love you.
Take care of my sheep.
A third time, Jesus said:
Simon, son of John...
do you love me?
Peter became sad...
because Jesus asked him the third time:
"Do you love me?"
And so he said to him:
Lord...
you know everything.
You know that I love you.
Take care of my sheep.
I am telling you the truth.
When you were young...
you used to get ready
and go anywhere you wanted to.
But when you are old,
you will stretch out your hands...
and someone else will tie you up
and take you where you don't want to go.
In saying this, Jesus was indicating
the way in which Peter would die...
and bring glory to God.
Then Jesus said to him:
Follow me.
Peter turned around and saw behind him
that other disciple whom Jesus loved...
the one who had leaned close to Jesus
at the meal and had asked:
"Lord, who is going to betray you?"
When Peter saw him, he asked:
Lord, what about this man?
If I want him to live until I come,
what is that to you?
So a report spread among the followers
of Jesus that this disciple would not die.
But Jesus did not say he would not die.
He said, "lf I want him to live until I come,
what is that to you?"
He is the disciple
who spoke of these things...
the one who also wrote them down...
and we know that what he said is true.
Now, there are many other things
that Jesus did.
If they were all written down one by one,
I suppose that the whole world...
could not hold the books
that would be written.
Visual Bible, The Gospel of John (2003)
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