The Gospel of JOHN
The Modern Young's Literal Translation© 2005
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CHAPTER 1
1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God;
2 this one was in the beginning with God;
3 all things did happen through Him, and without Him not even one thing happened that had happened.
4 In Him was life, and the life was the light of men,
5 and the light in the darkness did shine, and the darkness did not perceive it.
6 There came a man -- having been sent from God -- whose name [is] John,
7 this one came for testimony, that he might testify about the Light, that all might believe through him;
8 that one was not the Light, but -- that he might testify about the Light.
9 He was the true Light, which does enlighten every man, coming to the world;
10 in the world He was, and the world through Him was made, and the world did not know Him:
11 to His own things He came, and His own people did not receive Him;
12 but as many as did receive Him to them He gave authority to become sons of God -- to those believing in His name,
13 who -- not of blood nor of a will of flesh, nor of a will of man but -- of God were begotten.
14 And the Word became flesh, and did tabernacle among us, and we beheld His glory, glory as of an only begotten of a father, full of grace and truth.
15 John does testify concerning Him, and has cried, saying, `This was He of whom I said, He who is coming after me, has come before me, for He was before me;'
16 and out of His fullness did we all receive, and grace over-against grace;
17 for the law was given through Moses, the grace and the truth did come through Jesus Christ;
18 no one has ever seen God; the only begotten Son, who is on the bosom of the Father -- he did declare.
19 And this is the testimony of John, when the Jews sent the priests and Levites out of Jerusalem, that they might question him, `Who are you?'
20 and he confessed and did not deny, and confessed -- `I am not the Christ.'
21 And they questioned him, `What then? Are you Elijah?' and he said, `I am not.' -- `Are you the prophet?' and he answered, `No.'
22 They then said to him, `Who are you, that we may give an answer to those sending us? what do you say concerning yourself?'
23 He said, `I [am] a voice of one crying in the wilderness: Make straight the way of the Lord, as said Isaiah the prophet.'
24 And those sent were of the Pharisees,
25 and they questioned him and said to him, `Why, then, do you baptize, if you are not the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the prophet?'
26 John answered them, saying, `I baptize with water, but in midst of you He has stood whom you have not known, this one it is who is coming after me, who has been before me,
27 of whom I am not worthy that I may loose the cord of His sandal.'
28 These things came to pass in Bethabara, beyond the Jordan, where John was baptizing,
29 on the morning John saw Jesus coming unto him, and said, `Behold, the Lamb of God, who is taking away the sin of the world;
30 this is He concerning whom I said, After me does come a man, who has come before me, because He was before me:
31 and I knew Him not, but, that He might be made known to Israel, because of this I came baptizing with the water.
32 And John testified, saying -- `I have seen the Spirit coming down, as a dove, out of heaven, and it remained on Him;
33 and I did not know Him, but He who sent me to baptize with water, He said to me, On whomsoever you may see the Spirit coming down, and remaining on Him, this is He who is baptizing with the Holy Spirit;
34 and I have seen, and have testified, that this is the Son of God.'
35 On the morning, again, John was standing, and two of his disciples,
36 and having looked on Jesus walking, he said, `Behold, the Lamb of God;'
37 and the two disciples heard him speaking, and they followed Jesus.
38 And Jesus having turned, and having beheld them following, said to them, `What do you seek?' and they said to them, `Rabbi, (which is, being interpreted, Teacher,) where do you stay?'
39 He said to them, `Come and see;' they came, and saw where He did stay, and they remained with Him that day and the hour was about the tenth.
40 Andrew, the brother of Simon Peter, was one of the two who heard from John, and followed Him;
41 this one did first find his own brother Simon, and said to him, `We have found the Messiah,' (which is, being interpreted, The Anointed,)
42 and he brought him unto Jesus: and having looked upon him, Jesus said, `You are Simon, the son of Jonas, you shall be called Cephas,' (which is interpreted, A rock.)
43 On the morning, He desired to go forth to Galilee, and He found Philip, and said to him, `Be following Me.'
44 And Philip was from Bethsaida, of the city of Andrew and Peter;
45 Philip found Nathanael, and said to him, `Him of whom Moses wrote in the Law, and the prophets, we have found, Jesus the son of Joseph, who [is] from Nazareth;'
46 and Nathanael said to him, `Is any good thing able to come from Nazareth?' Philip said to him, `Come and see.'
47 Jesus saw Nathanael coming unto Him, and He said concerning him, `Behold, truly an Israelite, in whom guile is not;'
48 Nathanael said to him, `Where do You know me from?' Jesus answered and said to him, `Before Philip's calling you -- you being under the fig-tree -- I saw you.'
49 Nathanael answered and said to him, `Rabbi, You are the Son of God, You are the king of Israel.'
50 Jesus answered and said to him, `Because I said to you, I saw you under the fig-tree, you do believe; you shall see greater things than these;'
51 and He said to him, `Truly, truly, I say to you, from now on you shall see the heaven opened, and the messengers of God going up and coming down upon the Son of Man.'
CHAPTER 2
1 And the third day a marriage happened in Cana of Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there,
2 and Jesus was also called, and His disciples, to the marriage;
3 and wine having run out, the mother of Jesus said unto Him, ` They have no wine;'
4 Jesus said to her, `What - is it to me and to you, woman? My hour is not yet come.'
5 His mother said to the servants, `Do whatever He may say to you.'
6 And there were there six water-jugs of stone, placed according to the purifying of the Jews, each holding two or three measures.
7 Jesus said to them, `Fill the water-jugs with water;' and they filled them -- unto the brim;
8 and He said to them, `Draw out, now, and bring it to the director of the apartment;' and they brought it.
9 And as the director of the apartment tasted the water become wine, and did not know where it was from, (but the ministrants knew, who have drawn the water,) the director of the feast did call the bridegroom,
10 and said to him, `Every man, at first sets out the good wine; and when they may have drunk freely, then the inferior; you did keep the good wine till now.'
11 This beginning of the signs did Jesus in Cana of Galilee, and revealed His glory, and His disciples believed in Him;
12 after this He went down to Capernaum, He, and His mother, and His brethren, and His disciples; and there they remained not many days.
13 And the Passover of the Jews was near, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem,
14 and He found in the temple those selling oxen, and sheep, and doves, and the money-changers sitting,
15 and having made a whip of small cords, He put all forth out of the temple, also the sheep, and the oxen; and He poured out the coins of the money-changers, and the tables he overthrew,
16 and to those selling the doves He said, `Take these things from here; make not the house of My Father a house of merchandise.'
17 And His disciples remembered that it is written, `The zeal of Your house did eat Me up;'
18 the Jews then answered and said to Him, `What sign do You show to us -- that You do these things?'
19 Jesus answered and said to them, `Destroy this sanctuary, and in three days I will raise it up.'
20 The Jews, consequently, said, `Forty and six years was this sanctuary in building, and will You raise it up in three days?'
21 but He spoke concerning the sanctuary of His body;
22 when, then, He was raised out of the dead, His disciples remembered that He said this to them, and they believed the Writing, and the word that Jesus said.
23 And as He was in Jerusalem, in the Passover, in the feast, many believed in His name, beholding His signs that He was doing;
24 and Jesus Himself was not trusting Himself to them, because of His knowing all [men],
25 and because He had no need that any should testify concerning man, for He Himself was knowing what was in man.
CHAPTER 3
1 And there was a man of the Pharisees, Nicodemus his name, a ruler of the Jews,
2 this one came unto Him by night, and said to Him, `Rabbi, we have known that You have come from God -- a teacher, for no one is able to do these signs that You do, if God may not be with Him.'
3 Jesus answered and said to him, `Truly, truly, I say to you, If any one may not be born from above, he is not able to see the reign of God;'
4 Nicodemus said unto Him, `How is a man able to be born, being old? is he able to enter into the womb of his mother a second time, and to be born?'
5 Jesus answered, `Truly, truly, I say to you, If any one may not be born of water, and the Spirit, he is not able to enter into the reign of God;
6 that which has been born of the flesh is flesh, and that which has been born of the Spirit is spirit.
7 `You may not wonder that I said to you, It is necessary for you to be born from above;
8 the Spirit will blow where He desires, and His voice you do hear, but you have not known from where He comes, and where He goes; thus is every one who has been born of the Spirit.'
9 Nicodemus answered and said to him, `How are these things able to happen?'
10 Jesus answered and said to him, `You are the teacher of Israel -- and these things you do not know!
11 `Truly, truly, I say to you - We speak of what we know, and we testify of what we have seen, and you do not receive our testimony;
12 if I speak to you of the earthly things, and you do not believe, how, if I shall speak to you of the heavenly things, will you believe?
13 and no one has gone up to the heaven, except He who came down out of the heaven -- the Son of Man who is in the heaven.
14 `And as Moses did lift up the serpent in the wilderness, so it is necessary for the Son of Man to be lifted up,
15 that every one who is believing in Him may not perish, but may have life age-during,
16 for God did so love the world, that He gave His Son -- the only begotten, that every one who is believing in Him may not perish, but may have life age-during.
17 For God did not send His Son to the world that He may judge the world, but that the world may be saved through Him;
18 he who is believing in Him is not judged, but he who is not believing has been judged already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.
19 `And this is the judgment, that the light had come to the world, and men did love the darkness rather than the light, for their works were evil;
20 for every one who is doing wicked things hates the light, and do not come unto the light, that his works may not be detected;
21 but he who is doing the truth does come to the light, that his works may be made known, that they have been worked in God.'
22 After these things came Jesus and His disciples to the land of Judea, and there He did stay with them, and was baptizing;
23 and John was also baptizing in Aenon, near to Salem, because there were many waters there, and they were coming and were being baptized --
24 for John was not yet cast into the prison --
25 there arose then a question from the disciples of John with [some] Jews about purifying,
26 and they came unto John, and said to him, `Rabbi, He who was with you beyond the Jordan, to whom you did testify, behold, this one is baptizing, and all are coming unto Him.'
27 John answered and said, `A man is not able to receive anything, if it has not been given Him from the heaven;
28 you yourselves do testify to me that I said, I am not the Christ, but, that I am having been sent before Him;
29 he who is having the bride is bridegroom, and the friend of the bridegroom, who is standing and hearing him, with joy does rejoice because of the voice of the bridegroom; this, then, my joy has been fulfilled.
30 ` It is necessary for Him to increase, and me to become less;
31 He who is coming from above is above all; he who is from the earth, from the earth he is, and from the earth he speaks; He who is coming from the heaven is above all.
32 `And He does testify of what He has seen and heard, and none received His testimony;
33 he who is receiving His testimony did seal that God is true;
34 for He whom God sent speaks the sayings of God; for God does not give the Spirit by measure;
35 the Father does love the Son, and has given all things into His hand;
36 he who is believing in the Son, has life age-during; and he who is not believing the Son, shall not see life, but the wrath of God does remain upon him.'
CHAPTER 4
1 When therefore the Lord knew that the Pharisees heard that Jesus did make and baptize more disciples than John,
2 (though indeed Jesus Himself was not baptizing, but His disciples,)
3 He left Judea and went away again to Galilee,
4 and it was needful for Him to go through Samaria.
5 He came, therefore, to a city of Samaria, called Sychar, near to the place that Jacob gave to Joseph his son;
6 and there was there a well of Jacob. Jesus consequently having been weary from the journeying, was sitting thus on the well; it was as it were the sixth hour;
7 there came a woman out of Samaria to draw water. Jesus said to her, `Give Me to drink;'
8 for His disciples were gone away to the city, that they may buy foods;
9 the Samaritan woman consequently said to Him, `How do You, being a Jew, ask drink from me, being a Samaritan woman?' for Jews have no dealing with Samaritans.
10 Jesus answered and said to her, `If you had known the gift of God, and who it is who is saying to you, Give Me to drink, you would have asked Him, and He would have given you living water.'
11 The woman said to Him, `Sir, You have not even a vessel to draw with, and the well is deep; where, then, have You the living water?
12 Are You greater than our father Jacob, who did give us the well, and himself did drink out of it, and his sons, and his cattle?'
13 Jesus answered and said to her, `Every one who is drinking of this water shall thirst again;
14 but whoever may drink of the water that I will give him, may not thirst -- to the age; and the water that I will give him shall become in him a well of water, springing up to life age-during.'
15 The woman said unto Him, `Sir, give me this water, that I may not thirst, nor come here to draw.'
16 Jesus said to her, `Go, call your husband, and come here;'
17 the woman answered and said, `I have not a husband.' Jesus said to her, `Well did you say -- A husband I have not;
18 for five husbands you have had, and, now, he whom you have is not your husband; this have you said truly.'
19 The woman said to Him, `Sir, I perceive that You are a prophet;
20 our fathers in this mountain did worship, and You -- You say that in Jerusalem is the place where it needful to worship.'
21 Jesus said to her, `Woman, believe Me, that there does come an hour, when neither in this mountain, nor in Jerusalem, shall you worship the Father;
22 you worship what you have not known; we worship what we have known, because the salvation is of the Jews;
23 but, there comes an hour, and it is now, when the true worshippers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father also does seek such to worship Him;
24 God [is] a Spirit, and those worshipping Him, it is needful to worship in spirit and truth.'
25 The woman said to Him, `I have known that Messiah does come, who is called Christ, when that one may come, He will tell us all things;'
26 Jesus said to her, `I am [He], who am speaking to you.'
27 And upon this came His disciples, and were wondering that He was speaking with a woman, no one, however, said, `What do You seek?' or `Why do You speak with her?'
28 The woman then left her water-jug, and went away to the city, and said to the men,
29 `Come, see a man, who told me all things -- as many as I did; is this the Christ?'
30 They went forth for that reason out of the city, and were coming unto Him.
31 And in the meanwhile His disciples were asking Him, saying, `Rabbi, eat;'
32 and He said to them, `I have food to eat that you have not known.'
33 The disciples then said one to another, `Did any one bring Him anything to eat?'
34 Jesus said to them, `My food is, that I may do the will of Him who sent Me, and may finish His work;
35 do not say that it is yet four months, and the harvest comes; behold, I say to you, Lift up your eyes, and see the fields, that they are white unto harvest already.
36 `And he who is reaping does receive a reward, and does gather fruit to life age-during, that both he who is sowing and he who is reaping may rejoice together;
37 for in this the saying is the true one, that one is the sower and another the reaper.
38 I sent you to reap that on which you have not labored; others labored, and you have entered into their labor.
39 And from that city many believed in Him, of the Samaritans, because of the word of the woman testifying, -- `He told me all things -- as many as I did.'
40 When, then, the Samaritans came unto Him, they were asking Him to remain with them, and He remained there two days;
41 and many more did believe because of His word,
42 and said to the woman -- `No more because of your speaking do we believe; for we ourselves have heard and known that this is truly the Savior of the world -- the Christ.'
43 And after the two days He went forth from there, and went away to Galilee,
44 for Jesus Himself testified that a prophet in His own country shall not have honor;
45 when then, He came to Galilee, the Galileans received Him, having seen all things that He did in Jerusalem in the feast -- for they also went to the feast.
46 Jesus came, therefore, again to Cana of Galilee, where He made the water wine, and there was a certain courtier, whose son was ailing in Capernaum,
47 he, having heard that Jesus is come out of Judea to Galilee, went away unto Him, and was asking Him that he may come down and may heal his son, for he was about to die.
48 Jesus then said unto him, `If you do not see signs and wonders, you will not believe.'
49 The courtier said unto Him, `Sir, come down before my child die;'
50 Jesus said to him, `Be going on; your son does live.' And the man believed the word that Jesus said to him, and was going on,
51 and he now going down, his servants met him, and told, saying -- `Your child does live;'
52 he inquired then of them the hour in which he became better, and they said to him -- `Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him;'
53 then the father knew that [it was] in that hour in which Jesus said to him -- `Your son does live,' and he himself believed, and his whole house;
54 this again a second sign did Jesus, having come out of Judea to Galilee.
CHAPTER 5
1 After these things there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem,
2 and there is in Jerusalem by the sheep-[gate] a pool that is called in Hebrew Bethesda, having five porches,
3 in these were lying a great multitude of the ailing, blind, lame, withered, waiting for the moving of the water,
4 for a messenger at a set time was going down in the pool, and was troubling the water, then the first having gone in after the troubling of the water, became whole of whatever sickness he was held.
5 and there was a certain man there being in ailment thirty and eight years,
6 Jesus having seen him lying, and having known that he is already a long time, He said to him, `Do you wish to become whole?'
7 The ailing man answered Him, `Sir, I have no man, that, when the water may be troubled, he may put me into the pool, and while I am coming, another does go down before me.'
8 Jesus said to him, `Rise, take up your couch, and be walking;'
9 and immediately the man became whole, and he took up his couch, and was walking, and it was a sabbath on that day,
10 the Jews then said to him that had been healed, `It is a sabbath; it is not lawful to you to take up the couch.'
11 He answered them, `He who made me whole -- that one said to me, Take up your couch, and be walking;'
12 they questioned him, then, `Who is the man who is saying to you, Take up your couch and be walking?'
13 But he that was healed had not known who He is, for Jesus did move away, a multitude being in the place.
14 After these things, Jesus found him in the temple, and said to him, `Behold, you have become whole; sin no more, for fear that something worse may happen to you.'
15 The man went away, and told the Jews that it is Jesus who made him whole,
16 and because of this were the Jews persecuting Jesus, and seeking to kill Him, because these things He was doing on a sabbath.
17 And Jesus answered them, `My Father does work until now, and I work;'
18 because of this, then, were the Jews seeking the more to kill Him, because not only was He breaking the sabbath, but He also called God His own Father, making Himself equal to God.
19 Jesus therefore responded and said to them, `Truly, truly, I say to you, The Son is not able to do anything of Himself, if He may not see the Father doing anything; for whatever things He may do, these also the Son in like manner does;
20 for the Father does love the Son, and does show to Him all things that He Himself does; and He will show Him greater works than these, that you may wonder.
21 `For, as the Father does raise the dead, and does make alive, so also the Son does make alive whom He wills;
22 for neither does the Father judge any one, but all the judgment He has given to the Son,
23 that all may honor the Son according as they honor the Father; he who is not honoring the Son, does not honor the Father who sent Him.
24 `Truly, truly, I say to you -- He who is hearing My word, and is believing Him who sent Me, has life age-during, and to judgment he does not come, but has passed out of the death to the life.
25 `Truly, truly, I say to you -- There comes an hour, and it is now, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God, and those having heard shall live;
26 for, as the Father has life in Himself, so He gave also to the Son to have life in Himself,
27 and He gave Him authority also to do judgment, because He is Son of Man.
28 `Wonder not at this, because there does come an hour in which all those in the tombs shall hear His voice,
29 and they shall come forth; those who did the good things to a rising again of life, and those who practiced the evil things to a rising again of judgment.
30 `I am not able of Myself to do anything; according as I hear I judge, and My judgment is righteous, because I seek not My own will, but the will of the Father who sent Me.
31 `If I testify concerning Myself, My testimony is not true;
32 there is another who is testifying concerning Me, and I have known that the testimony that he does testify concerning Me is true;
33 you have sent unto John, and he has testified to the truth.
34 `But I do not receive testimony from man, but these things I say that you may be saved;
35 he was the burning and shining lamp, and you did will to be glad, for an hour, in his light.
36 `But I have the testimony greater than John's, for the works that the Father gave Me, that I might finish them, the works themselves that I do, they testify concerning Me, that the Father has sent Me.
37 `And the Father who sent Me Himself has testified concerning Me; you have neither heard His voice at any time, nor have you seen His appearance;
38 and you have not His word remaining in you, because whom He sent, Him you do not believe.
39 `You search the Writings, because you think to have life age-during in them, and these are they that are testifying concerning Me;
40 and you do not will to come unto Me, that you may have life;
41 I do not receive glory from man,
42 but I have known you, that you have not the love of God in yourselves.
43 `I have come in the name of My Father, and you do not receive Me; if another may come in his own name, him you will receive;
44 how are you able -- you -- to believe, receiving glory from one another, and you seek not the glory that [is] from God alone?
45 `Do not think that I will accuse you unto the Father; there is who is accusing you, Moses -- in whom you have hoped;
46 for if you were believing Moses, you would have been believing Me, for he wrote concerning Me;
47 but if you believe not his writings, how shall you believe My sayings?'
CHAPTER 6
1 After these things Jesus went away beyond the sea of Galilee (of Tiberias),
2 and there was following Him a great multitude, because they were seeing His signs that He was doing on the ailing;
3 and Jesus went up to the mount, and He was sitting there with His disciples,
4 and the Passover was near, the feast of the Jews.
5 Jesus then having lifted up [His] eyes and having seen that a great multitude did come to Him, said unto Philip, `From where shall we buy loaves, that these may eat?' --
6 and this he said, trying him, for He Himself had known what He was about to do.
7 Philip answered Him, `Two hundred denaries' worth of loaves are not sufficient to them, that each of them may receive some little;'
8 one of His disciples -- Andrew, the brother of Simon Peter -- said to Him,
9 `There is one little lad here who has five barley loaves, and two fishes, but these -- what are they to so many?'
10 And Jesus said, `Make the men to sit down;' and there was much grass in the place, the men then sat down, in number, as it were, five thousand,
11 and Jesus took the loaves, and having given thanks He distributed to the disciples, and the disciples to those reclining, in like manner, also of the little fishes as much as they wished.
12 And when they were filled, He said to His disciples, `Gather together the broken pieces that are over, that nothing may be lost;'
13 they gathered together, consequently, and filled twelve hand-baskets with broken pieces, from the five barley loaves that were over to those having eaten.
14 The men, then, having seen the sign that Jesus did, said -- `This is truly the Prophet, who is coming to the world;'
15 Jesus, for that reason, having known that they are about to come, and to take Him by force that they may make Him king, retired again to the mountain Himself alone.
16 And when evening came, His disciples went down to the sea,
17 and having entered into the boat, they were going over the sea to Capernaum, and darkness had already come, and Jesus had not come unto them,
18 the sea also -- a great wind blowing -- was being raised,
19 having pushed onwards, for that reason, about twenty-five or thirty furlongs, they behold Jesus walking on the sea, and coming near to the boat, and they were afraid;
20 and He said to them, `I am [He], be not afraid;'
21 they were willing then to receive Him into the boat, and immediately the boat came unto the land to which they were going.
22 On the morrow, the multitude that was standing on the other side of the sea, having seen that there was no other little boat there except one -- that into which His disciples entered -- and that Jesus went not in with His disciples into the little boat, but His disciples went away alone,
23 (and other little boats came from Tiberias, near the place where they did eat the bread, the Lord having given thanks),
24 when for that reason the multitude saw that Jesus is not there, nor His disciples, they also themselves did enter into the boats, and came to Capernaum seeking Jesus;
25 and having found Him on the other side of the sea, they said to Him, `Rabbi, when did You come here?'
26 Jesus answered them and said, `Truly, truly, I say to you, You seek Me, not because you saw signs, but because you did eat of the loaves, and were satisfied;
27 work not for the food that is perishing, but for the food that is remaining to life age-during, which the Son of Man will give to you, for Him did the Father seal -- [even] God.'
28 They said for that reason unto Him, `What may we do that we may work the works of God?'
29 Jesus answered and said to them, `This is the work of God, that you may believe in Him whom He did send.'
30 They said for that reason to Him, `What sign, then, do You, that we may see and may believe You? what do You work?
31 our fathers did eat the manna in the wilderness, according as it is having been written, Bread out of the heaven He gave them to eat.'
32 Jesus, consequently, said to them, `Truly, truly, I say to you, Moses did not give you the bread out of the heaven; but My Father does give you the true bread out of the heaven;
33 for the bread of God is that which is coming down out of the heaven, and giving life to the world.'
34 They said, for that reason, unto Him, `Sir, always give us this bread.'
35 And Jesus said to them, `I am the bread of the life; he who is coming unto Me may not hunger, and he who is believing in Me may not thirst -- at any time;
36 but I said to you, that you also have seen Me, and you believe not;
37 all that the Father does give to Me will come unto Me; and him who is coming unto Me, I may in no wise cast without,
38 because I have come down out of the heaven, not that I may do My will, but the will of Him who sent Me.
39 `And this is the will of the Father who sent Me, that all that He has given to Me I may not lose of it, but may raise it up in the last day;
40 and this is the will of Him who sent Me, that every one who is beholding the Son, and is believing in Him, may have life age-during, and I will raise him up in the last day.'
41 The Jews, for that reason, were murmuring at Him, because He said, `I am the bread that came down out of the heaven;'
42 and they said, `Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we have known? how then says this one -- Out of the heaven I have come down?'
43 Jesus answered, for that reason, and said to them, `Murmur not one with another;
44 no one is able to come unto Me, if the Father who sent Me may not draw him, and I will raise him up in the last day;
45 it is having been written in the prophets, And they shall be all taught of God; every one for that reason who heard from the Father, and learned, comes to Me;
46 not that any one has seen the Father, except He who is from God, He has seen the Father.
47 `Truly, truly, I say to you, He who is believing in Me, has life age-during;
48 I am the bread of the life;
49 your fathers did eat the manna in the wilderness, and they died;
50 this is the bread that out of the heaven is coming down, that any one may eat of it, and not die.
51 `I am the living bread that came down out of the heaven; if any one may eat of this bread he shall live -- to the age; and the bread also that I will give is My flesh, that I will give for the life of the world.'
52 The Jews, consequently, were striving with one another, saying, `How is this one able to give us [His] flesh to eat?'
53 Jesus, for that reason, said to them, `Truly, truly, I say to you, If you may not eat the flesh of the Son of Man, and may not drink His blood, you have no life in yourselves;
54 he who is eating My flesh, and is drinking My blood, has life age-during, and I will raise him up in the last day;
55 for My flesh truly is food, and My blood truly is drink;
56 he who is eating My flesh, and is drinking My blood, does remain in Me, and I in him.
57 `According as the living Father sent Me, and I live because of the Father, he also who is eating Me, even that one shall live because of Me;
58 this is the bread that came down out of the heaven; not as your fathers did eat the manna, and died; he who is eating this bread shall live -- to the age.'
59 These things He said in a synagogue, teaching in Capernaum;
60 many, consequently, of His disciples having heard, said, `This word is hard; who is able to hear it?'
61 And Jesus having known in Himself that His disciples are murmuring about this, said to them, `Does this stumble you?
62 if then you may behold the Son of Man going up where He was before?
63 the spirit it is that is giving life; the flesh does not profit anything; the sayings that I speak to you are spirit, and they are life;
64 but there are certain of you who do not believe;' for Jesus had known from the beginning who they are who are not believing, and who is he who will deliver Him up,
65 and He said, `Because of this I have said to you -- No one is able to come unto Me, if it may not have been given him from My Father.'
66 From this [time] many of His disciples went away backward, and were no more walking with Him,
67 Jesus, for that reason, said to the twelve, `Do you also wish to go away?'
68 Simon Peter, for that reason, answered Him, `Sir, unto whom shall we go? You have sayings of life age-during;
69 and we have believed, and we have known, that you are the Christ, the Son of the living God.'
70 Jesus answered them, `Did not I choose you -- the twelve? and of you -- one is a devil.
71 And he spoke of Judas, Simon's [son], Iscariot, for he was about to deliver Him up, being one of the twelve.
CHAPTER 7
1 And Jesus was walking after these things in Galilee, for He did not wish to walk in Judea, because the Jews were seeking to kill Him,
2 and the feast of the Jews was near -- that of tabernacles --
3 His brethren, for that reason, said unto Him, `Remove from here, and go away to Judea, that Your disciples also may behold Your works that You do;
4 for no one does anything in secret, and himself seeks to be in public; if You do these things -- reveal Yourself to the world;'
5 for not even were His brethren believing in Him.
6 Jesus, for that reason, said to them, `My time is not yet present, but your time is always ready;
7 the world is not able to hate you, but Me it does hate, because I testify concerning it that its works are evil.
8 You -- go you up to this feast; I do not yet go up to this feast, because My time has not yet been fulfilled;'
9 and saying these things to them, He remained in Galilee.
10 And when His brethren went up, then also He Himself went up to the feast, not obviously, but as in secret;
11 the Jews, for that reason, were seeking Him, in the feast, and said, `Where is that one?'
12 and there was much murmuring about Him among the multitudes, some indeed said -- `He is good;' and others said, `No, but He leads astray the multitude;'
13 no one, however, was speaking freely about Him, through fear of the Jews.
14 And it being now the middle of the feast, Jesus went up to the temple, and He was teaching,
15 and the Jews were wondering, saying, `How has this one known letters -- not having learned?'
16 Jesus answered them and said, `My teaching is not Mine, but His who sent Me;
17 if any one may will to do His will, he shall know concerning the teaching, whether it is of God, or -- I do speak from Myself.
18 `He who is speaking from himself does seek his own glory, but He who is seeking the glory of Him who sent Him, this one is true, and unrighteousness is not in Him;
19 has not Moses given you the law? and none of you does the law; why do you seek to kill Me?'
20 The multitude answered and said, `You have a demon, who does seek to kill you?'
21 Jesus answered and said to them, `One work I did, and you all wonder,
22 because of this, Moses has given you the circumcision -- not that it is of Moses, but of the fathers -- and on a sabbath you circumcise a man;
23 if a man does receive circumcision on a sabbath that the law of Moses may not be broken, are you angry with Me that I made a man all whole on a sabbath?
24 judge not according to appearance, but the righteous judgment judge.'
25 Certain, for that reason, of the Jerusalemites said, `Is not this He whom they are seeking to kill?
26 and, behold, He does speak freely, and they say nothing to Him; did the rulers at all know truly that this is truly the Christ?
27 but this one -- we have known from where He is; and the Christ, when He does come, no one does know from where He is.'
28 Jesus cried, for that reason, in the temple, teaching and saying, `You have both known Me, and you have known from where I am; and I have not come of Myself, but He who sent Me is true, whom you have not known;
29 and I have known Him, because I am from Him, and He did send Me.'
30 They were seeking, for that reason, to seize Him, and no one laid the hand on Him, because His hour had not yet come,
31 and many out of the multitude did believe in Him, and said -- `The Christ -- when He may come -- will He do more signs than these that this one did?'
32 The Pharisees heard the multitude murmuring these things concerning Him, and the Pharisees and the chief priests sent officers that they may take Him;
33 Jesus, for that reason, said to them, `Yet a little time I am with you, and I go away unto Him who sent Me;
34 you will seek Me, and you shall not find; and where I am, you are not able to come.'
35 The Jews, for that reason, said among themselves, `Where is this one about to go that we shall not find Him? -- is He about to go to the dispersion of the Greeks? and to teach the Greeks;
36 what is this word that He said, You will seek Me, and you shall not find? and, Where I am, you are not able to come?'
37 And in the last, the great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, `If any one does thirst, let him come unto Me and drink;
38 he who is believing in Me, according as the Writing said, Out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water;'
39 and this He said of the Spirit, which those believing in Him were about to receive; for not yet was the Holy Spirit, because Jesus was not yet glorified.
40 Many, consequently out of the multitude, having heard the word, said, `This is truly the Prophet;'
41 others said, `This is the Christ;' and others said, `Why, does the Christ come out of Galilee?
42 Did not the Writing say, that out of the seed of David, and from Bethlehem -- the village where David was -- the Christ does come?'
43 A division, for that reason, arose among the multitude because of Him.
44 And certain of them were willing to seize Him, but no one laid hands on Him;
45 the officers came, for that reason, unto the chief priests and Pharisees, and they said to them, `Why did you not bring Him?'
46 The officers answered, `Never so spoke man -- as this man.'
47 The Pharisees, consequently, answered them, `Have you also been led astray?
48 did any one out of the rulers believe in Him? or out of the Pharisees?
49 but this multitude, that is not knowing the law, is accursed.'
50 Nicodemus said unto them -- he who came unto Him by night -- being one of them,
51 `Does our law judge the man, if it may not hear from Him first, and know what He does?'
52 They answered and said to Him, `Are you also out of Galilee? search and see, that a prophet out of Galilee has not risen;'
53 and each one went on to his house, but Jesus went on to the mount of the Olives.
CHAPTER 8
1 And at dawn He came again to the temple,
2 and all the people were coming unto Him, and having sat down, He was teaching them;
3 and the scribes and the Pharisees bring unto Him a woman having been taken in adultery, and having set her in the midst,
4 they say to Him, `Teacher, this woman was taken in the very crime -- committing adultery,
5 and in the law, Moses did command us that such be stoned; You, consequently, what do You say?'
6 and this they said, trying Him, that they might have to accuse Him. And Jesus, having stooped down, with the finger He was writing on the ground,
7 and when they continued asking Him, having bent Himself back, He said unto them, `The sinless of you -- let him cast the first stone at her;'
8 and again having stooped down, He was writing on the ground,
9 and they having heard, and being convicted by the conscience, were going forth one by one, having begun from the elders -- unto the last; and Jesus was left alone, and the woman standing in the midst.
10 And Jesus having bent Himself back, and having seen no one but the woman, said to her, `Woman, where are those -- your accusers? did no one pass sentence upon you?'
11 and she said, `No one, Sir;' and Jesus said to her, `Neither do I pass sentence on you; be going on, and no more sin.'
12 Again, consequently, Jesus spoke to them, saying, `I am the light of the world; he who is following Me shall not walk in the darkness, but he shall have the light of the life.'
13 The Pharisees, for that reason, said to Him, `You do testify of Yourself, Your testimony is not true;'
14 Jesus answered and said to them, `And if I testify of Myself -- My testimony is true, because I have known from where I came, and where I go, and you -- you have not known from where I come, or where I go.
15 `You do judge according to the flesh; I do not judge any one,
16 and even if I do judge My judgment is true, because I am not alone, but I and the Father who sent Me;
17 and also in your law it has been written, that the testimony of two men are true;
18 I am [one] who is testifying of Myself, and the Father who sent Me does testify of Me.'
19 They said, for that reason, to Him, `Where is Your father?' Jesus answered, `You have neither known Me nor My Father: if you had known Me, you would have known My Father also.'
20 These sayings Jesus spoke in the treasury, teaching in the temple, and no one seized Him, because His hour had not yet come;
21 consequently said Jesus again to them, `I go away, and you will seek Me, and in your sin you shall die; where I go away, you are not able to come.'
22 The Jews, for that reason, said, `Will He kill Himself, because He says, Where I go away, you are not able to come?'
23 and He said to them, `You are from beneath, I am from above; you are of this world, I am not of this world;
24 I said, for that reason, to you, that you shall die in your sins, for if you may not believe that I am [He], you shall die in your sins.'
25 They said, for that reason, to Him, `You -- who are You?' and Jesus said to them, `Even what I did speak of to you at the beginning;
26 I have many things to speak concerning you and to judge, but He who sent Me is true, and I -- what things I heard from Him -- these I say to the world.'
27 They knew not that He spoke to them of the Father;
28 Jesus, for that reason, said to them, `When you may lift up the Son of Man then you will know that I am [He]; and of Myself I do nothing, but according as My Father did teach me, these things I speak;
29 and He who sent Me is with Me; the Father did not leave Me alone, because I always do the things pleasing to Him.'
30 As He is speaking these things, many believed in Him;
31 Jesus, for that reason, said unto the Jews who believed in Him, `If you may remain in My word, truly you are My disciples, and you shall know the truth,
32 and the truth shall make you free.'
33 They answered Him, `We are the seed of Abraham; and we have been servants to no one at any time; how do you say -- You shall become free?'
34 Jesus answered them, `Truly, truly, I say to you -- Every one who is committing sin, is a servant of the sin,
35 and the servant does not remain in the house -- to the age, the Son does remain -- to the age;
36 if then the Son may make you free, in reality you shall be free.
37 `I have known that you are seed of Abraham, but you seek to kill Me, because My word has no place in you;
38 I -- do speak that which I have seen with My Father, and you, for that reason, that which you have seen with your father -- you do.'
39 They answered and said to Him, `Our father is Abraham;' Jesus said to them, `If you were children of Abraham, you would be doing the works of Abraham;
40 and now, you seek to kill Me -- a man who has spoken to you the truth I heard from God; this Abraham did not;
41 you do the works of your father.' They said, for that reason, to Him, `We have not been born of whoredom; we have one Father -- God;'
42 Jesus then said to them, `If God were your father, you would be loving Me, for I came forth from God, and am come; for I have neither come of Myself, but He sent Me;
43 why do you not know My speech? because you are not able to hear My word.
44 `You are of a father -- the devil, and the desires of your father you will to do; he was a man-slayer from the beginning, and he has not stood in the truth, because there is no truth in him; when one may speak the falsehood, he speaks of his own, because he is a liar -- also his father.
45 `And because I say the truth, you do not believe Me.
46 Who of you does convict Me of sin? and if I speak truth, why do you not believe Me?
47 he who is of God, the sayings of God he does hear; because of this you do not hear, because you are not of God.'
48 The Jews, for that reason, answered and said to Him, `Do we not say well, that you are a Samaritan, and have a demon?'
49 Jesus answered, `I have not a demon, but I honor My Father, and you dishonor Me;
50 and I do not seek My own glory; there is who is seeking and is judging;
51 truly, truly, I say to you, If any one may keep My word, he may not see death -- to the age.'
52 The Jews, consequently, said to Him, `Now we have known that You have a demon; Abraham did die, and the prophets, and You do say, If any one may keep My word, he shall not taste of death -- to the age!
53 Are You greater than our father Abraham, who died? and the prophets died; whom do You make Yourself?'
54 Jesus answered, `If I glorify Myself, My glory is nothing; it is My Father who is glorifying Me, of whom you say that He is your God;
55 and you have not known Him, and I have known Him, and if I say that I have not known Him, I shall be like you -- speaking falsely; but I have known Him, and I keep His word;
56 Abraham, your father, was glad that he might see My day; and he saw, and did rejoice.'
57 The Jews, for that reason, said unto Him, `You are not yet fifty years old, and You have seen Abraham?'
58 Jesus said to them, `Truly, truly, I say to you, Before Abraham's coming -- I am;'
59 they took up, for that reason, stones that they may cast at Him, but Jesus hid Himself, and went forth out of the temple, going through the midst of them, and so passed by.
CHAPTER 9
1 And passing by, He saw a man blind from birth,
2 and His disciples asked Him, saying, `Rabbi, who did sin, this one or his parents, that he should be born blind?'
3 Jesus answered, `Neither did this one sin nor his parents, but that the works of God may be revealed in him;
4 it is required of Me to be working the works of Him who sent Me while it is day; night does come, when no one is able to work: --
5 when I am in the world, I am a light of the world.'
6 Saying these things, He spat on the ground, and made clay of the spittle, and rubbed the clay on the eyes of the blind man, and said to him,
7 `Go away, wash at the pool of Siloam,' which is, interpreted, Sent he went away, for that reason, and did wash, and came seeing;
8 the neighbors, consequently, and those seeing him before, that he was blind, said, `Is not this he who is sitting and begging?'
9 others said -- `This is he;' and others -- `He is like to him;' he himself said, -- `I am [he].'
10 They said, consequently, to him, `How were your eyes opened?'
11 he answered and said, `A man called Jesus made clay, and rubbed my eyes, and said to me, Go away to the pool of Siloam, and wash; and having gone away and having washed, I received sight;'
12 they said, for that reason, to him, `Where is that one?' he said, `I have not known.'
13 They bring him who once [was] blind to the Pharisees,
14 and it was a sabbath when Jesus made the clay, and opened his eyes.
15 Again, consequently, the Pharisees also were asking him how he received sight, and he said to them, ` He did put clay upon my eyes, and I did wash -- and I see.'
16 Of the Pharisees, for that reason, certain said, `This man is not from God, because he does not keep the sabbath;' others said, `How is a man -- a sinful one -- able to do such signs?' and there was a division among them.
17 They said to the blind man again, `You -- what do you say of Him -- that He opened your eyes?'
18 and he said -- `He is a prophet.' The Jews, for that reason, did not believe concerning him that he was blind and did receive sight, until that they called the parents of him who received sight,
19 and they asked them, saying, `Is your son, of whom you say that he was born blind? how then now does he see?'
20 His parents answered them and said, `We have known that this is our son, and that he was born blind;
21 and how he now sees, we have not known; or who opened his eyes, we have not known; himself is of age, ask him; he himself shall speak concerning himself.'
22 These things said his parents, because they were afraid of the Jews, for already had the Jews agreed together, that if any one may confess Him -- Christ, he may be put out of the synagogue;
23 because of this his parents said -- `He is of age, ask him.'
24 They called, for that reason, a second time the man who was blind, and they said to him, `Give glory to God, we have known that this man is a sinner;'
25 he answered, consequently, and said, `If he be a sinner -- I have not known, one thing I have known, that, being blind, now I see.'
26 And they said to him again, `What did He to you? how did He open your eyes?'
27 He answered them, `I told you already, and you did not hear; why do you wish to hear again? do you also wish to become His disciples?'
28 They reviled him, for that reason, and said, `You are His disciple, and we are Moses' disciples;
29 we have known that God had spoken to Moses, but this one -- we have not known from where He is.'
30 The man answered and said to them, `Why, in this is a wonderful thing, that you have not known from where He is, and He opened my eyes!
31 and we have known that God does not hear sinners, but, if any one may be a worshipper of God, and may do His will, He does hear him;
32 it was not heard from the age, that any one did open eyes of one who has been born blind;
33 if this one were not from God, he were not able to do anything.'
34 They answered and said to him, ` You were born altogether in sins, and you do teach us!' and they cast him forth without.
35 Jesus heard that they cast him forth without, and having found him, He said to him, `Do you believe in the Son of God?'
36 he answered and said, `Who is He, sir, that I may believe in Him?'
37 And Jesus said to him, `You have both seen Him, and He who is speaking with you is He;'
38 and he said, `I believe, sir,' and bowed before Him.
39 And Jesus said, `For judgment I did come to this world, that those not seeing may see, and those seeing may become blind.'
40 And those of the Pharisees who were with Him heard these things, and they said to Him, `Are we also blind?'
41 Jesus said to them, `If you were blind, you were not having had sin, but now you say -- We see, for that reason your sin does remain.
CHAPTER 10
1 `Truly, truly, I say to you, He who is not entering through the door to the fold of the sheep, but is going up from another side, that one is a thief and a robber;
2 and he who is entering through the door is shepherd of the sheep;
3 to this one the doorkeeper does open, and the sheep hear his voice, and he does call his own sheep by name, and does lead them forth;
4 and when he may put forth his own sheep, he goes on before them, and the sheep follow him, because they have known his voice;
5 and a stranger they will not follow, but will flee from him, because they have not known the voice of strangers.'
6 This similitude spoke Jesus to them, and they knew not what the things were that He was speaking to them;
7 For that reason Jesus said again to them, `Truly, truly, I say to you -- I am the door of the sheep;
8 all, as many as came before Me, are thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not hear them;
9 I am the door, if any one may come in through Me, he shall be saved, and he shall come in, and go out, and find pasture.
10 `The thief does not come, except that he may steal, and kill, and destroy; I came that they may have life, and may have [it] abundantly.
11 `I am the good shepherd; the good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep;
12 and the hireling, and not being a shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, does behold the wolf coming, and does leave the sheep, and does flee; and the wolf catches them, and scatters the sheep;
13 and the hireling does flee because he is an hireling, and is not caring for the sheep.
14 `I am the good shepherd, and I know My [sheep], and am known by Mine,
15 according as the Father does know Me, and I know the Father, and I lay down My life for the sheep,
16 and I have other sheep that are not of this fold, these also it is necessary for me to bring, and My voice they will hear, and there shall become one flock -- one shepherd.
17 `Because of this does the Father love Me, because I lay down My life, that again I may take it;
18 no one does take it from Me, but I lay it down of Myself; I have authority to lay it down, and I have authority to take it again; this command I received from My Father.'
19 Consequently, again, there came a division among the Jews, because of these words,
20 and many of them said, `He has a demon, and is mad, why do you hear Him?'
21 others said, `These sayings are not those of a demoniac; is a demon able to open blind men's eyes?'
22 And the dedication in Jerusalem came, and it was winter,
23 and Jesus was walking in the temple, in the porch of Solomon,
24 the Jews, consequently, came round about Him, and said to Him, `Till when do You hold our soul in suspense? if You are the Christ, tell us freely.'
25 Jesus answered them, `I told you, and you do not believe; the works that I do in the name of My Father, these testify concerning Me;
26 but you do not believe, for you are not of My sheep,
27 according as I said to you: My sheep do hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me,
28 and I give to them life age-during, and they shall not perish -- to the age, and no one shall pluck them out of My hand;
29 My Father, who has given to Me, is greater than all, and no one is able to pluck out of the hand of My Father;
30 I and the Father are one.'
31 For that reason, again, did the Jews take up stones that they may stone Him;
32 Jesus answered them, `Many good works did I show you from My Father; because of which work of them do you stone Me?'
33 The Jews answered Him, saying, `We do not stone you for a good work, but for speaking evil, and because You, being a man, do make Yourself God.'
34 Jesus answered them, `Is it not having been written in your law: I said, you are gods?
35 if He did call them gods unto whom the word of God came, (and the Writing is not able to be broken,)
36 of Him whom the Father did sanctify, and send to the world, do you say -- You speak evil, because I said, I am the Son of God?
37 if I do not the works of My Father, do not believe Me;
38 and if I do, even if you may not believe Me, the works believe, that you may know and may believe that the Father [is] in Me, and I in Him.'
39 For that reason they were seeking again to seize Him, and He went forth out of their hand,
40 and went away again to the other side of the Jordan, to the place where John was at first baptizing, and remained there,
41 and many came unto Him, and said -- `John, indeed, did no sign, and all things, as many as John said about this one were true;'
42 and many did believe in Him there.
CHAPTER 11
1 And there was a certain one ailing, Lazarus, from Bethany, of the village of Mary and Martha her sister --
2 and it was Mary who did anoint the Lord with ointment, and did wipe his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was ailing --
3 for that reason the sisters sent unto Him, saying, `Sir, behold, he whom You do love is ailing;'
4 and Jesus having heard, said, `This ailment is not unto death, but for the glory of God, that the Son of God may be glorified through it.'
5 And Jesus was loving Martha, and her sister, and Lazarus,
6 when, for that reason, He heard that he is ailing, then indeed He remained in the place in which He was two days,
7 then after this, He said to the disciples, `We may go to Judea again;'
8 the disciples say to Him, `Rabbi, now the Jews were seeking to stone You, and again You do go there!'
9 Jesus answered, `Are there not twelve hours in the day? if any one may walk in the day, he does not stumble, because the light of this world he does see;
10 and if any one may walk in the night, he stumbles, because the light is not in him.'
11 These things He said, and after this He said to them, `Lazarus our friend has fallen asleep, but I go on that I may awake him;'
12 for that reason His disciples said, `Sir, if he has fallen asleep, he will be saved;'
13 but Jesus had spoken about his death, but they thought that He spoke about the repose of sleep.
14 Then, for that reason, Jesus said to them freely, `Lazarus has died;
15 and I rejoice, for your sake, (that you may believe,) that I was not there; but we may go to him;'
16 consequently said Thomas, who is called Didymus, to the fellow-disciples, `We may go -- we also, that we may die with Him,'
17 Jesus, consequently, having come, found him having been in the tomb four days already.
18 And Bethany was near to Jerusalem, about fifteen furlongs off,
19 and many of the Jews had come unto Martha and Mary, that they might comfort them concerning their brother;
20 Martha, for that reason, when she heard that Jesus did come, met Him, and Mary kept sitting in the house.
21 Martha, consequently, said unto Jesus, `Sir, if You had been here, my brother would not have died;
22 but even now, I have known that whatever You may ask of God, God will give to You;'
23 Jesus said to her, `Your brother shall rise again.'
24 Martha said to Him, `I have known that he will rise again, in the rising again in the last day;'
25 Jesus said to her, `I am the rising again, and the life; he who is believing in Me, even if he may die, shall live;
26 and every one who is living and believing in Me shall not die -- to the age;
27 believe you this?' she said to Him, `Yes, sir, I have believed that You are the Christ, the Son of God, who is coming to the world.'
28 And having said these things, she went away, and called Mary her sister privately, saying, `The Teacher is present, and does call you;'
29 she, when she heard, rose up quickly, and did come to Him;
30 and Jesus had not yet come to the village, but was in the place where Martha met Him;
31 the Jews, consequently, who were with her in the house, and were comforting her, having seen Mary that she rose up quickly and went forth, followed her, saying -- `She does go away to the tomb, that she may weep there.'
32 Mary, consequently, when she came where Jesus was, having seen Him, fell at His feet, saying to Him, `Sir, if You had been here, my brother would not have died;'
33 Jesus, for that reason, when He saw her weeping, and the Jews who came with her weeping, did groan in the spirit, and troubled Himself, and He said,
34 `Where have you laid him?' they say to Him, `Sir, come and see;'
35 Jesus wept.
36 The Jews, for that reason, said, `Behold, how He was loving him!'
37 and certain of them said, `Was not this one, who did open the eyes of the blind man, able to cause that also this one might not have died?'
38 Jesus, for that reason, again groaning in Himself, came to the tomb, and it was a cave, and a stone was lying upon it,
39 Jesus said, `Take you away the stone;' the sister of him who had died -- Martha -- said to Him, `Sir, already he stinks, for he is four days dead;'
40 Jesus said to her, `Said I not to you, that if you may believe, you shall see the glory of God?'
41 They took away, for that reason, the stone where the dead was laid, and Jesus lifted His eyes upwards, and said, `Father, I thank You, that You did hear Me;
42 and I knew that You always do hear Me, but, because of the multitude that is standing by, I said [it], that they may believe that You did send Me.'
43 And saying these things, He cried out with a loud voice, `Lazarus, come forth;'
44 and he who died came forth, being bound feet and hands with grave-clothes, and his face was bound about with a napkin; Jesus said to them, `Loose him, and allow to go.'
45 Many, for that reason, of the Jews who came unto Mary, and beheld what Jesus did, believed in Him;
46 but certain of them went away unto the Pharisees, and told them what Jesus did;
47 the chief priests, for that reason, and the Pharisees, gathered together a sanhedrim, and said, `What may we do? because this man does many signs?
48 if we may leave Him alone thus, all will believe in Him; and the Romans will come, and will take away both our place and nation.'
49 and a certain one of them, Caiaphas, being chief priest of that year, said to them, `You have not known anything,
50 nor reason that it is good for us that one man may die for the people, and not the whole nation perish.'
51 And this he said not of himself, but being chief priest of that year, he did prophesy that Jesus was about to die for the nation,
52 and not for the nation only, but that also the children of God, who have been scattered abroad, He may gather together into one.
53 From that day, therefore, they took counsel together that they may kill Him;
54 Jesus, for that reason, was no more freely walking among the Jews, but went away from there to the region near the wilderness, to a city called Ephraim, and there He delayed with His disciples.
55 And the Passover of the Jews was near, and many went up to Jerusalem out of the country before the Passover, that they might purify themselves;
56 they were seeking, for that reason, Jesus, and said one with another, standing in the temple, `What does appear to you -- that He may not come to the feast?'
57 and both the chief priests and the Pharisees had given a command, that if any one may know where He is, he may show [it], so that they may seize Him.
CHAPTER 12
1 Jesus, consequently, six days before the Passover, came to Bethany, where Lazarus was, who had died, whom He raised out of the dead;
2 they made, for that reason, to Him a supper there, and Martha was ministering, and Lazarus was one of those reclining together (at meat) with Him;
3 Mary, for that reason, having taken a pound of ointment of spikenard, of great price, anointed the feet of Jesus and did wipe His feet with her hair, and the house was filled from the fragrance of the ointment.
4 For that reason one of His disciples said -- Judas Iscariot, of Simon, who is about to deliver Him up --
5 `Why was not this ointment sold for three hundred denaries, and given to the poor?'
6 and he said this, not because he was caring for the poor, but because he was a thief, and had the bag, and what things he was carrying were put in.
7 Jesus, for that reason, said, `Allow her; she has kept it for the day of My embalming,
8 for the poor you have always with yourselves, and you have not Me always.'
9 A great multitude, for that reason, of the Jews knew that He is there, and they came, not because of Jesus only, but that they may see Lazarus also, whom He raised out of the dead;
10 and the chief priests took counsel, that they may kill Lazarus also,
11 because on account of him many of the Jews were going away, and were believing in Jesus.
12 On the morrow, a great multitude that came to the feast, having heard that Jesus did come to Jerusalem,
13 took the branches of the palms, and went forth to meet him, and were crying, `Hosanna, blessed [is] He who is coming in the name of the Lord -- the king of Israel;'
14 and Jesus having found a young ass did sit upon it, according as it is written,
15 `Fear not, daughter of Sion, behold, your king does come, sitting on an ass' colt.'
16 And His disciples did not know these things at the first, but when Jesus was glorified, then they remembered that these things were having been written about Him, and these things they did to Him.
17 The multitude, consequently, who are with Him, were testifying that He called Lazarus out of the tomb, and did raise him out of the dead;
18 because of this also did the multitude meet Him, because they heard of His having done this sign,
19 the Pharisees, for that reason, said among themselves, `You see that you do not gain anything, behold, the world did go after Him.'
20 And out of those coming up there were certain Greeks that they may worship in the feast,
21 these then came near to Philip, who [is] from Bethsaida of Galilee, and were asking him, saying, `Sir, we wish to see Jesus;'
22 Philip came and told Andrew, and again Andrew and Philip tell Jesus.
23 And Jesus responded to them, saying, `The hour has come that the Son of Man may be glorified;
24 truly, truly, I say to you, if the grain of the wheat, having fallen to the earth, may not die, itself remains alone; and if it may die, it does bear much fruit;
25 he who is loving his life shall lose it, and he who is hating his life in this world -- to life age-during shall keep it;
26 if any one may minister to Me, let him follow Me, and where I am, there also My ministrant shall be; and if any one may minister to Me -- the Father will honor him.
27 `Now My soul has been troubled, and what? shall I say -- Father, save Me from this hour? -- but because of this I came to this hour;
28 Father, glorify Your name.' There came, therefore, a voice out of the heaven, `I both glorified, and again I will glorify [it];'
29 the multitude, consequently, having stood and heard, were saying that there had been thunder; others said, `A messenger has spoken to Him.'
30 Jesus answered and said, `Not because of Me has this voice come, but because of you;
31 now is a judgment of this world, now shall the ruler of this world be cast forth;
32 and I, if I may be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto Myself.'
33 And this he said signifying by what death He was about to die;
34 the multitude answered Him, `We heard out of the law that the Christ does remain -- to the age; and how do you say, That it is necessary for the Son of Man to be lifted up? who is this -- the Son of Man?'
35 Jesus, for that reason, said to them, `Yet a little time is the light with you; walk while you have the light, that darkness may not overtake you; and he who is walking in the darkness has not known where he goes;
36 while you have the light, believe in the light, that sons of light you may become.' These things spoke Jesus, and having gone away, He was hid from them,
37 yet He having done so many signs before them, they were not believing in Him,
38 that the word of Isaiah the prophet might be fulfilled, which he said, `Lord, who gave credence to our report? and the arm of the Lord -- to whom was it revealed?'
39 Because of this they were not able to believe, that again Isaiah said,
40 `He has blinded their eyes, and hardened their heart, that they might not see with the eyes, and understand with the heart, and turn back, and I might heal them;'
41 these things said Isaiah, when he saw His glory, and spoke of him.
42 Still, however, also did many out of the rulers believe in Him, but because of the Pharisees they were not confessing, that they might not be put out of the synagogue,
43 for they loved the glory of men more than the glory of God.
44 And Jesus cried and said, `He who is believing in Me, does not believe in Me, but in Him who sent Me;
45 and he who is beholding Me, does behold Him who sent Me;
46 I have come as a light to the world, that every one who is believing in Me -- may not remain in the darkness;
47 and if any one may hear My sayings, and not believe, I -- I do not judge him, for I came not that I might judge the world, but that I might save the world.
48 `He who is rejecting Me, and not receiving My sayings, has one who is judging him, the word that I spoke, that will judge him in the last day,
49 because I spoke not from Myself, but the Father who sent Me, He did give Me a command, what I may say, and what I may speak,
50 and I have known that His command is life age-during; what, for that reason, I speak, according as the Father has said to Me, so I speak.'
CHAPTER 13
1 And before the feast of the Passover, Jesus knowing that His hour had come, that He may remove out of this world unto the Father, having loved His own who [are] in the world -- to the end He loved them.
2 And supper being come, the devil already having put [it] into the heart of Judas of Simon, Iscariot, that he may deliver Him up,
3 Jesus knowing that the Father has given to Him all things -- into [His] hands, and that He came forth from God, and unto God He goes,
4 did rise from the supper, and did lay down His garments, and having taken a towel, He girded Himself;
5 afterward He put water into the basin, and began to wash the feet of His disciples, and to wipe with the towel with which He was being girded.
6 He came, consequently, unto Simon Peter, and that one said to Him, `Sir, You -- do You wash my feet?'
7 Jesus answered and said to Him, `That which I do you have not known now, but you shall know after these things;'
8 Peter said to Him, `You may not wash my feet -- to the age.' Jesus answered him, `If I may not wash you, you have no part with Me;'
9 Simon Peter said to Him, `Sir, not my feet only, but also the hands and the head.'
10 Jesus said to him, `He who has been bathed has no need save to wash his feet, but he is clean altogether; and you are clean, but not all;'
11 for He knew him who is delivering Him up; because of this He said, `You are not all clean.'
12 When, consequently, He washed their feet, and took His garments, having reclined (at meat) again, He said to them, `Do you know what I have done to you?
13 you call Me, The Teacher and The Lord, and you say well, for I am;
14 if then I did wash your feet -- the Lord and the Teacher -- you also ought to wash one another's feet.
15 `For an example I gave to you, that, according as I did to you, you also may do;
16 truly, truly, I say to you, a servant is not greater than his lord, nor an apostle greater than He who sent him;
17 if these things you have known, happy are you, if you may do them;
18 not concerning you all do I speak; I have known whom I chose for Myself; but that the Writing may be fulfilled: He who is eating the bread with me, did lift up his heel against Me.
19 `From this time I tell you, before its coming to pass, that, when it may come to pass, you may believe that I am [He];
20 truly, truly, I say to you, he who is receiving whomsoever I may send, does receive Me; and he who is receiving Me, does receive Him who sent Me.'
21 These things having said, Jesus was troubled in the spirit, and did testify, and said, `Truly, truly, I say to you, that one of you will deliver Me up;'
22 the disciples were looking, for that reason, one at another, doubting concerning whom He spoke.
23 And there was one of His disciples reclining (at meat) in the bosom of Jesus, whom Jesus was loving;
24 Simon Peter, then, did beckon to this one, to inquire who He may be concerning whom He spoke,
25 and that one having leant back on the breast of Jesus, responded to Him, `Sir, who is it?'
26 Jesus answered, `That one it is to whom I, having dipped the morsel, shall give it;' and having dipped the morsel, He gave [it] to Judas of Simon, Iscariot.
27 And after the morsel, then the Adversary entered into that one, Jesus, for that reason, said to him, `What you do -- do quickly;'
28 and none of those reclining at meat knew for what intent He said this to him,
29 for certain were thinking, since Judas had the bag, that Jesus said to him, `Buy what we have need of for the feast;' or that he may give something to the poor;
30 having received, for that reason, the morsel, that one immediately went forth, and it was night.
31 When, for that reason, he went forth, Jesus said, `Now was the Son of Man glorified, and God was glorified in Him;
32 if God was glorified in Him, God also will glorify Him in Himself; yes, immediately He will glorify Him.
33 `Little children, yet a little am I with you; you will seek Me, and, according as I said to the Jews -- Where I go away, you are not able to come, to you also I do say [it] now.
34 `A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another; according as I did love you, that you also love one another;
35 in this shall all know that you are My disciples, if you may have love one to another.'
36 Simon Peter said to Him, `Sir, where do You go away?' Jesus answered him, `Where I go away, you are not able now to follow Me, but afterward you shall follow Me.'
37 Peter said to Him, `Sir, why am I not able to follow You now? I will lay down my life for You;'
38 Jesus answered him, `You will lay down your life for Me! truly, truly, I say to you, a cock will not crow till you may deny Me three times.'
CHAPTER 14
1 `Let not your heart be troubled, believe in God, also believe in Me;
2 in the house of My Father are many mansions; and if not, I would have told you; I go on to prepare a place for you;
3 and if I go on and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and will receive you unto Myself, that you may also be where I am;
4 and you have known where I go away, and you have known the way.'
5 Thomas said to Him, `Sir, we have not known where You go away, and how are we able to know the way?'
6 Jesus said to him, `I am the way, and the truth, and the life, no one does come unto the Father, if not through Me;
7 if you had known Me, you would have known My Father also, and from this time you have known Him, and have seen Him.'
8 Philip said to Him, `Sir, show the Father to us, and it is enough for us;'
9 Jesus said to him, `So long time am I with you, and you have not known Me, Philip? he who has seen Me has seen the Father; and how do you say, Show the Father to us?
10 Believe you not that I [am] in the Father, and the Father is in Me? the sayings that I speak to you, I speak not from Myself, and the Father who is abiding in Me, Himself does the works;
11 believe Me, that I [am] in the Father, and the Father in Me; and if not, because of the works themselves, believe Me.
12 `Truly, truly, I say to you, he who is believing in Me, the works that I do -- that one also shall do, and greater than these he shall do, because I go on to My Father;
13 and whatever you may ask in My name, I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son;
14 if you ask anything in My name I will do [it].
15 `If you love Me, keep My commands,
16 and I will ask the Father, and He will give another Comforter to you, that He may remain with you -- to the age;
17 the Spirit of truth, whom the world is not able to receive, because it does not behold Him, nor know Him, and you know Him, because He does remain with you, and shall be in you.
18 `I will not leave you bereaved, I come unto you;
19 yet a little, and the world does behold Me no more, and you behold Me, because I live, and you shall live;
20 in that day you shall know that I [am] in My Father, and you in Me, and I in you;
21 he who is having My commands, and is keeping them, that one it is who is loving Me, and he who is loving Me shall be loved by My Father, and I will love him, and will reveal Myself to him.'
22 Judas said to Him, (not the Iscariot), `Sir, what has come to pass, that You are about to reveal Yourself to us, and not to the world?'
23 Jesus answered and said to him, `If any one may love Me, he will keep My word, and My Father will love him, and We will come unto him, and We will make abode with him;
24 he who is not loving Me, does not keep My words; and the word that you hear is not Mine, but the Father's who sent Me.
25 ` I have spoken these things to you, remaining with you,
26 and the Comforter, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things, and remind you of all things that I said to you.
27 `Peace I leave to you; my peace I give to you, not according as the world does give do I give to you; let not your heart be troubled, nor let it be afraid;
28 you heard that I said to you -- I go away, and I come unto you; if you did love Me, you would have rejoiced that I said -- I go on to the Father, because My Father is greater than I.
29 `And now I have said [it] to you before it come to pass, that when it may come to pass, you may believe;
30 I will no more talk much with you, for the ruler of this world does come, and in Me he has nothing;
31 but that the world may know that I love the Father, and according as the Father gave Me command so I do; arise, we may go from here.
CHAPTER 15
1 `I am the true vine, and My Father is the husbandman;
2 every branch in Me not bearing fruit, He does take it away, and every one bearing fruit, He does cleanse by pruning it, that it may bear more fruit;
3 already you are clean, because of the word that I have spoken to you;
4 remain in Me, and I in you, as the branch is not able to bear fruit of itself, if it may not remain in the vine, so neither you, if you may not remain in Me.
5 `I am the vine, you the branches; he who is remaining in Me, and I in him, this one does bear much fruit, because apart from Me you are not able to do anything;
6 if any one may not remain in Me, he was cast forth without as the branch, and was withered, and they gather them, and cast to fire, and they are burned;
7 if you may remain in Me, and My sayings may remain in you, whatever you may wish you shall ask, and it shall be done to you.
8 `In this was My Father glorified, that you may bear much fruit, and you shall become My disciples.
9 According as the Father did love Me, I also loved you, remain in My love;
10 if you may keep My commandments, you shall remain in My love, according as I have kept the commands of My Father, and do remain in His love;
11 these things I have spoken to you, that My joy may remain in you, and your joy may be full.
12 `This is My command, that you love one another, according as I did love you;
13 no one has greater love than this, that any one may lay down his life for his friends;
14 you are my friends, if you may do whatever I command you;
15 no more do I call you servants, because the servant has not known what his lord does, and I have called you friends, because all things that I heard from My Father, I did make known to you.
16 `You did not choose out Me, but I chose out you, and did appoint you, that you might go away, and might bear fruit, and your fruit might remain, that whatever you may ask of the Father in My name, He may give you.
17 `These things I command you, that you love one another;
18 if the world does hate you, you know that it has hated Me before you;
19 if you were of the world, the world would have been loving its own, and because you are not of the world -- but I chose out of the world -- because of this the world hates you.
20 `Remember the word that I said to you, A servant is not greater than his lord; if they did persecute Me, they will persecute you also; if they did keep My word, they will keep yours also;
21 but they will do all these things to you, because of My name, because they have not known Him who sent Me;
22 if I had not come and spoken to them, they were not having sin; but now they have no pretext for their sin.
23 `He who is hating Me, does hate My Father also;
24 if I did not do the works among them that no other have done, they were not having sin, and now they have both seen and hated both Me and My Father;
25 but -- that the word may be fulfilled that was written in their law -- They hated Me without a cause.
26 `And when the Comforter may come, whom I will send to you from the Father -- the Spirit of truth, who does come forth from the Father, He will testify of Me;
27 and you also do testify, because you are with Me from the beginning.
CHAPTER 16
1 ` I have spoken these things to you, that you may not be stumbled,
2 they will put you out of the synagogues; but an hour does come, that every one who has killed you, may think to offer service unto God;
3 and they will do these things to you, because they did not know the Father, nor Me.
4 `But I have spoken these things to you, that when the hour may come, you may remember them, that I said [them] to you, and I did not say these things to you from the beginning, because I was with you;
5 and now I go away to Him who sent Me, and none of you does ask Me, Where do You go?
6 but because I have said these things to you, the sorrow has filled your heart.
7 `But I tell you the truth; it is better for you that I go away, for if I may not go away, the Comforter will not come unto you, and if I go on, I will send Him unto you;
8 and having come, He will convict the world concerning sin, and concerning righteousness, and concerning judgment;
9 concerning sin indeed, because they do not believe in Me;
10 and concerning righteousness, because I go away unto My Father, and no more do you behold Me;
11 and concerning judgment, because the ruler of this world has been judged.
12 `I have many things to say to you yet, but you are not able to bear [them] now;
13 and when He may come -- the Spirit of truth -- He will guide you to all the truth, for He will not speak from Himself, but as many things as He will hear He will speak, and He will tell you the coming things;
14 He will glorify Me, because He will take of Mine, and will tell to you.
15 `All things, as many as the Father has, are Mine; because of this I said, That He will take of Mine, and will tell to you;
16 a little while, and you do not behold Me, and again a little while, and you shall see Me, because I go away unto the Father.'
17 For that reason [some] of His disciples said one to another, `What is this that He said to us, A little while, and you do not behold Me, and again a little while, and you shall see Me, and, Because I go away unto the Father?'
18 they said then, `What is this He said -- the little while? we have not known what He said.'
19 Jesus, for that reason, knew that they were wishing to ask Him, and He said to them, `Concerning this do you seek one with another, because I said, A little while, and you do not behold Me, and again a little while, and you shall see Me?
20 truly, truly, I say to you, that you shall weep and lament, and the world will rejoice; and you shall be sorrowful, but your sorrow will become joy.
21 `The woman, when she may bear, has sorrow, because her hour did come, and when she may bear the child, no more does she remember the anguish, because of the joy that a man was born to the world.
22 `And you, for that reason, now, indeed, have sorrow; and again I will see you, and your heart shall rejoice, and no one does take your joy from you,
23 and in that day you will question Me nothing; truly, truly, I say to you, as many things as you may ask of the Father in My name, He will give you;
24 till now you did ask nothing in My name; ask, and you shall receive, that your joy may be full.
25 `These things in similitudes I have spoken to you, but there comes an hour when I will speak to you no more in similitudes, but freely of the Father, will tell you.
26 `In that day, you will make request in My name, and I do not say to you that I will ask the Father for you,
27 for the Father Himself does love you, because you have loved Me, and you have believed that I came forth from God;
28 I came forth from the Father, and have come to the world; again I leave the world, and go on unto the Father.'
29 His disciples say to Him, `Behold, You do speak freely now, and You speak no similitude;
30 now we have known that You have known all things, and have no need that any one do question You; in this we believe that You did come forth from God.'
31 Jesus answered them, `Now do you believe? behold, there does come an hour,
32 and now it has come, that you may be scattered, each to his own things, and you may leave Me alone, and I am not alone, because the Father is with Me;
33 these things I have spoken to you, that you may have peace in Me, in the world you shall have tribulation, but take courage -- I have overcome the world.'
CHAPTER 17
1 These things spoke Jesus, and lifted up His eyes to the heaven, and said -- `Father, the hour has come, glorify Your Son, that Your Son also may glorify You,
2 according as You did give to Him authority over all flesh, that -- all that You have given to Him -- He may give to them life age-during;
3 and this is the life age-during, that they may know You, the only true God, and Him whom You did send -- Jesus Christ;
4 I did glorify You on the earth, I did finish the work that You have given Me, that I may do [it].
5 `And now, glorify Me, You Father, with Yourself, with the glory that I had before the world was, with You;
6 I did reveal Your name to the men whom You have given to Me out of the world; Yours they were, and to Me You have given them, and Your word they have kept;
7 now they have known that all things, as many as You have given to Me, are from You,
8 because the sayings that You have given to Me, I have given to them, and they themselves received, and have known truly, that I came forth from You, and they did believe that You did send Me.
9 `I ask in regard to them; I do not ask in regard to the world, but in regard to those whom You have given to Me, because they are Yours,
10 and all Mine are Yours, and Yours [are] Mine, and I have been glorified in them;
11 and no more am I in the world, and these are in the world, and I come unto You. Holy Father, keep them in Your name, whom You have given to me, that they may be one as We;
12 when I was with them in the world, I was keeping them in Your name; those whom You have given to Me I did guard, and none of them was destroyed, except the son of the destruction, that the Writing may be fulfilled.
13 `And now I come unto You, and I speak these things in the world, that they may have My joy fulfilled in themselves;
14 I have given Your word to them, and the world did hate them, because they are not of the world, as I am not of the world;
15 I do not ask that You may take them out of the world, but that You may keep them out of the evil.
16 `Of the world they are not, as I am not of the world;
17 sanctify them in Your truth, Your word is truth;
18 as You did send Me to the world, I also did send them to the world;
19 and for them do I sanctify Myself, that they also themselves may be sanctified in truth.
20 `And I do not ask in regard to these alone, but also in regard to those who shall be believing, through their word, in Me;
21 that they all may be one, as You Father [are] in Me, and I in You; that they also may be one in us, that the world may believe that You did send Me.
22 `And I, the glory that You have given to Me, have given to them, that they may be one as We are one;
23 I in them, and You in Me, that they may be perfected into one, and that the world may know that You did send Me, and did love them as You did love Me.
24 `Father, those whom You have given to Me, I will that where I am they also may be with Me, that they may behold My glory that You did give to Me, because You did love Me before the foundation of the world.
25 `Righteous Father, also the world did not know You, and I knew You, and these have known that You did send Me,
26 and I made Your name known to them, and will make known, that the love with which You loved Me may be in them, and I in them.'
CHAPTER 18
1 Having said these things, Jesus went forth with His disciples beyond the brook of Kedron, where was a garden, into which He entered, Himself and His disciples,
2 and Judas also, who delivered Him up, had known the place, because many times did Jesus assemble there with His disciples.
3 Judas, for that reason, having taken the band and officers out of the chief priests and Pharisees, did come there with torches and lamps, and weapons;
4 Jesus, for that reason, knowing all things that are coming upon Him, having gone forth, said to them, `Whom do you seek?'
5 they answered Him, `Jesus the Nazarene;' Jesus said to them, `I am [He];' -- and Judas who delivered Him up was standing with them; --
6 when, consequently, He said to them -- `I am [He],' they went away backward, and fell to the ground.
7 Again, for that reason, He questioned them, `Whom do you seek?' and they said, `Jesus the Nazarene;'
8 Jesus answered, `I said to you that I am [He]; if, then, you seek Me, allow these to go away;'
9 that the word might be fulfilled that He said -- `Those whom You have given to Me, I did not lose even one of them.'
10 Simon Peter, consequently, having a sword, drew it, and struck the chief priest's servant, and cut off his right ear -- and the name of the servant was Malchus --
11 Jesus, for that reason, said to Peter, `Put the sword into the sheath; the cup that the Father has given to Me, may I not drink it?'
12 The band, consequently, and the captain, and the officers of the Jews, took hold on Jesus, and bound Him,
13 and they led Him away to Annas first, for he was father-in-law of Caiaphas, who was chief priest of that year,
14 and Caiaphas was he who gave counsel to the Jews, that it is good for one man to perish for the people.
15 And following Jesus was Simon Peter, and the other disciple, and that disciple was known to the chief priest, and he entered with Jesus to the hall of the chief priest,
16 and Peter was standing at the door without, for that reason the other disciple who was known to the chief priest went forth, and he spoke to the female keeping the door, and he brought in Peter.
17 Then said the maid keeping the door to Peter, `Are you also of the disciples of this man?' he said, `I am not;'
18 and the servants and the officers were standing, having made a fire of coals, because it was cold, and they were warming themselves, and Peter was standing with them, and warming himself.
19 The chief priests, consequently, questioned Jesus concerning His disciples, and concerning His teaching;
20 Jesus answered him, `I spoke freely to the world, I did always teach in a synagogue, and in the temple, where the Jews do always come together; and in secret I spoke nothing;
21 why do you question Me? question those having heard what I spoke to them; behold, these have known what I said.'
22 And He having said these things, one of the officers standing by did give Jesus a slap, saying, `Thus do You answer the chief priest?'
23 Jesus answered him, `If I spoke ill, testify concerning the ill; and if well, why do you strike Me?'
24 Annas then sent Him bound to Caiaphas the chief priest.
25 And Simon Peter was standing and warming himself, they said then to him, `Are you also of His disciples?' he denied, and said, `I am not.'
26 One of the servants of the chief priest, being kinsman of him whose ear Peter cut off, said, `Did I not see you in the garden with him?'
27 again, consequently, Peter denied, and immediately a cock crowed.
28 They led, consequently, Jesus from Caiaphas to the praetorium, and it was early, and they themselves did not enter into the praetorium, that they might not be defiled, but that they might eat the Passover;
29 Pilate, for that reason, went forth unto them, and said, `What accusation do you bring against this man?'
30 they answered and said to him, `If He were not an evil doer, we would not have delivered Him to you.'
31 Pilate, for that reason, said to them, `Take you Him -- you -- and judge Him according to your law;' the Jews, for that reason, said to him, `It is not lawful to us to put any one to death;'
32 that the word of Jesus might be fulfilled which He said, signifying by what death He was about to die.
33 Pilate, for that reason, entered into the praetorium again, and called Jesus, and said to Him, `You are the King of the Jews?'
34 Jesus answered him, `From yourself do you say this? or did others say it to you about Me?'
35 Pilate answered, `Am I a Jew? your nation, and the chief priests did deliver You up to me; what did You?'
36 Jesus answered, `My kingdom is not of this world; if My kingdom were of this world, My officers would have struggled that I might not be delivered up to Jews; but now My kingdom is not from here.'
37 Pilate, for that reason, said to Him, `Are You then a king?' Jesus answered, `You do say [it]; because I am a king, for this I have been born, and for this I have come to the world, that I may testify to the truth; every one who is of the truth, does hear My voice.'
38 Pilate said to Him, `What is truth?' and having said this, again he went forth unto the Jews, and said to them, `I do find no fault in Him;
39 and you have a custom that I shall release to you one in the Passover; will you, for that reason, [that] I shall release to you the king of the Jews?'
40 for that reason they all cried out again, saying, `Not this one -- but Barabbas;' and Barabbas was a robber.
CHAPTER 19
1 Then, for that reason, did Pilate take Jesus and scourge [Him],
2 and the soldiers having braided a crown of thorns, did place [it] on His head, and a purple garment they put around Him,
3 and said, `Hail! the king of the Jews;' and they were giving Him slaps.
4 Pilate, consequently, again went forth without, and said to them, `Behold, I do bring Him to you without, that you may know that I find no fault in Him;'
5 Jesus, for that reason, came forth without, bearing the thorny crown and the purple garment; and he said to them, `Behold, the man!'
6 When, consequently, the chief priests and the officers did see Him, they cried out, saying, `Crucify, crucify;' Pilate said to them, `Take you Him -- you, and crucify; for I find no fault in Him;'
7 the Jews answered him, `We have a law, and according to our law He ought to die, for He made Himself Son of God.'
8 When, for that reason, Pilate heard this word, he was the more afraid,
9 and entered again to the praetorium, and said to Jesus, `From where are You?' and Jesus gave him no answer.
10 Pilate, therefore, said to Him, `You do not speak to me? have You not known that I have authority to crucify You, and I have authority to release You?'
11 Jesus answered, `You would have no authority against Me, if it were not having been given you from above; because of this, he who is delivering Me up to you has greater sin.'
12 From this [time] was Pilate seeking to release Him, and the Jews were crying out, saying, `If you may release this one, you are not a friend of Caesar; every one making himself a king, does speak against Caesar.'
13 Pilate, for that reason, having heard this word, brought Jesus without -- and he sat down upon the tribunal -- to a place called, `Pavement,' and in Hebrew, Gabbatha;
14 and it was the preparation of the Passover, and as it were the sixth hour, and he said to the Jews, `Behold, your king!'
15 and they cried out, `Take away, take away, crucify Him;' Pilate said to them, ` Shall I crucify your king?' the chief priests answered, `We have no king except Caesar.'
16 Then, for that reason, he delivered Him up to them, that He may be crucified, and they took Jesus and led [Him] away,
17 and bearing His cross, He went forth to the place called [Place] of a Skull, which is called in Hebrew Golgotha;
18 where they crucified Him, and two others with Him, on this side, and on that side, and Jesus in the midst.
19 And Pilate also wrote a title, and put [it] on the cross, and it was written, `Jesus the Nazarene, the king of the Jews;'
20 this title, consequently, many of the Jews read, because the place was near to the city where Jesus was crucified, and it was having been written in Hebrew, in Greek, in Roman.
21 The chief priests of the Jews said, for that reason, to Pilate, `Write not -- The king of the Jews, but that one said, I am king of the Jews;'
22 Pilate answered, `What I have written, I have written.'
23 The soldiers, consequently, when they did crucify Jesus, took His garments, and made four parts, to each soldier a part, also the coat, and the coat was seamless, from the top woven throughout,
24 they said, for that reason, to one another, `We may not rend it, but cast a lot for it, whose it shall be;' that the Writing might be fulfilled, that is saying, `They divided My garments to themselves, and upon My raiment they did cast a lot;' the soldiers, for that reason, indeed, did these things.
25 And there stood by the cross of Jesus His mother, and His mother's sister, Mary of Cleopas, and Mary the Magdalene;
26 Jesus, consequently, having seen [His] mother, and the disciple standing by, whom He was loving, He said to His mother, `Woman, behold, your son;'
27 afterward He said to the disciple, `Behold, your mother;' and from that hour the disciple took her to his own [home].
28 After this, Jesus knowing that all things now have been finished, that the Writing may be fulfilled, said, `I thirst;'
29 a vessel, consequently, was placed full of vinegar, and they having filled a sponge with vinegar, and having put [it] around a hyssop stalk, did put [it] to His mouth;
30 when, consequently, Jesus received the vinegar, He said, `It has been finished;' and having bowed the head, gave up the spirit.
31 The Jews, consequently, that the bodies might not remain on the cross on the sabbath, since it was the preparation, (for that sabbath day was a great one,) asked of Pilate that their legs may be broken, and they taken away.
32 The soldiers, for that reason, came, and of the first indeed they did break the legs, and of the other who was crucified with Him,
33 and having come to Jesus, when they saw Him already having been dead, they did not break His legs;
34 but one of the soldiers with a spear did pierce His side, and immediately there came forth blood and water;
35 and he who had seen had testified, and his testimony is true, and that one had known that he spoke true things, that you also may believe.
36 For these things came to pass, that the Writing may be fulfilled, `A bone of Him shall not be broken;'
37 and again another Writing said, `They shall look to Him whom they did pierce.'
38 And after these things did Joseph of Arimathea -- being a disciple of Jesus, but concealed, through the fear of the Jews -- ask of Pilate, that he may take away the body of Jesus, and Pilate gave leave; he came, for that reason, and took away the body of Jesus,
39 and Nicodemus also came -- who came unto Jesus by night at the first -- bearing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, as it were, a hundred pounds.
40 They took, consequently, the body of Jesus, and bound it with linen clothes with the spices, according as it was the custom of the Jews to prepare for burial;
41 and there was a garden in the place where He was crucified, and in the garden a new tomb, in which no one was yet laid;
42 there, for that reason, because of the preparation of the Jews, because the tomb was near, they laid Jesus.
CHAPTER 20
1 And on the first of the sabbaths, Mary the Magdalene did come early (there being yet darkness) to the tomb, and she saw the stone having been taken away out of the tomb,
2 she ran, for that reason, and came unto Simon Peter, and unto the other disciple whom Jesus was loving, and said to them, `They took away the Lord out of the tomb, and we have not known where they laid Him.'
3 Peter, for that reason, went forth, and the other disciple, and they were coming to the tomb,
4 and the two were running together, and the other disciple did run forward more quickly than Peter, and came first to the tomb,
5 and having stooped down, saw the linen clothes lying, yet, indeed, he entered not.
6 Simon Peter, for that reason, came, following him, and he entered into the tomb, and beheld the linen clothes lying,
7 and the napkin that was upon His head, not lying with the linen clothes, but apart, having been folded up, in one place;
8 then, consequently, entered also the other disciple who came first unto the tomb, and he saw, and did believe;
9 for not yet did they know the Writing, that it was necessary for Him to rise again out of the dead.
10 The disciples consequently went away again unto their own friends,
11 and Mary was standing near the tomb, weeping without; as she was weeping, then, she stooped down to the tomb, and beheld two messengers in white, sitting,
12 one at the head, and one at the feet, where the body of Jesus had been laid.
13 And they say to her, `Woman, why do you weep?' she said to them, `Because they took away my Lord, and I have not known where they laid Him;'
14 and these things having said, she turned backward, and saw Jesus standing, and she had not known that it is Jesus.
15 Jesus said to her, `Woman, why do you weep? whom do you seek;' she, supposing that He is the gardener, said to Him, `Sir, if You did carry Him away, tell me where You did lay Him, and I will take Him away;'
16 Jesus said to her, `Mary!' having turned, she said to Him, `Rabbouni;' that is to say, `Teacher.'
17 Jesus said to her, `Be not touching Me, for I have not yet ascended unto My Father; and be going on to My brethren, and say to them, I ascend unto My Father, and your Father, and to My God, and to your God.'
18 Mary the Magdalene came, telling to the disciples that she had seen the Lord, and [that] He said these things to her.
19 It being, consequently, evening, on that day, the first of the sabbaths, and the doors having been shut where the disciples were assembled, through fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in the midst, and said to them, `Peace to you;'
20 and this having said, He showed them His hands and side; the disciples, for that reason, rejoiced, having seen the Lord.
21 Jesus, for that reason, said to them again, `Peace to you; according as the Father has sent He, I also send you;'
22 and this having said, He breathed on [them], and said to them, `Receive the Holy Spirit;
23 if of any you may loose the sins, they are loosed to them; if of any you may retain, they have been retained.'
24 And Thomas, one of the twelve, who is called Didymus, was not with them when Jesus came;
25 the other disciples, for that reason, said to him, `We have seen the Lord;' and he said to them, `If I may not see the mark of the nails in His hands, and may put my finger to the mark of the nails, and may put my hand to His side, I will not believe.'
26 And after eight days, again His disciples were within, and Thomas with them; Jesus came, the doors having been shut, and He stood in the midst, and said, `Peace to you!'
27 then He said to Thomas, `Bring your finger here, and see My hands, and bring your hand, and put [it] to My side, and become not unbelieving, but believing.'
28 And Thomas answered and said to Him, `My Lord and my God;'
29 Jesus said to him, `Because you have seen Me, Thomas, you have believed; happy those not having seen, and having believed.'
30 Many indeed, consequently, other signs also did Jesus before His disciples, that are not written in this book;
31 and these have been written that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing you may have life in His name.'
CHAPTER 21
1 After these things did Jesus reveal himself again to the disciples on the sea of Tiberias, and He did reveal Himself thus:
2 There were together Simon Peter, and Thomas who is called Didymus, and Nathanael from Cana of Galilee, and the [sons] of Zebedee, and two others of His disciples.
3 Simon Peter said to them, `I go away to fish;' they say to him, `We go -- we also -- with you;' they went forth and entered into the boat immediately, and on that night they caught nothing.
4 And morning being now come, Jesus stood at the shore, yet indeed the disciples did not know that it is Jesus;
5 Jesus, consequently, said to them, `Lads, have you any meat?'
6 they answered Him, `No;' and He said to them, `Cast the net at the right side of the boat, and you shall find;' they cast, for that reason, and no longer were they able to draw it, from the multitude of the fishes.
7 That disciple, for that reason, whom Jesus was loving said to Peter, `It is the Lord!' Simon Peter, for that reason, having heard that it is the Lord, did gird on the outer coat, (for he was naked,) and did cast himself into the sea;
8 and the other disciples came by the little boat, for they were not far from the land, but as it were about two hundred cubits off, dragging the net of the fishes;
9 when, for that reason, they came to the land, they behold a fire of coals lying, and a fish lying on it, and bread.
10 Jesus said to them, `Bring you from the fishes that you caught now;'
11 Simon Peter went up, and drew the net up on the land, full of great fishes, an hundred fifty and three, and though they were so many, the net was not rent.
12 Jesus said to them, `Come you, dine;' and none of the disciples was venturing to inquire of Him, `Who are You?' knowing that it is the Lord;
13 Jesus, for that reason, did come and take the bread and give to them, and the fish in like manner;
14 this [is] now a third time Jesus was revealed to His disciples, having been raised from the dead.
15 When, consequently, they dined, Jesus said to Simon Peter, `Simon, [son] of Jonas, do you love Me more than these?' he said to Him, `Yes, Lord; You have known that I dearly love You;' He said to him, `Feed My lambs.'
16 He said to him again, a second time, `Simon, [son] of Jonas, do you love Me?' he said to Him, `Yes, Lord; You have known that I dearly love You;' He said to him, `Tend My sheep.'
17 He said to him the third time, `Simon, [son] of Jonas, do you dearly love Me?' Peter was grieved that He said to him the third time, `Do you dearly love Me?' and he said to Him, `Lord, You have known all things; You do know that I dearly love You.' Jesus said to him, `Feed My sheep;
18 truly, truly, I say to you, When you were younger, you were girding yourself and were walking where you did will, but when you may be old, you shall stretch forth your hands, and another will gird you, and shall carry [you] where you do not will;'
19 and this He said, signifying by what death he shall glorify God; and having said this, He said to him, `Be following Me.'
20 And Peter having turned about did see the disciple whom Jesus was loving following, (who also reclined in the supper on His breast, and said, `Sir, who is he who is delivering You up?')
21 Peter having seen this one, said to Jesus, `Lord, and what of this one?'
22 Jesus said to him, `If I will him to remain till I come, what -- to you? be you following Me.' This word, for that reason, went forth to the brethren that that disciple would not die,
23 yet Jesus did not say to him, that he would not die, but, `If I will him to remain till I come, what -- to you?'
24 this is the disciple who is testifying concerning these things, and he wrote these things, and we have known that his testimony is true.
25 And there are also many other things -- as many as Jesus did -- which, if they may be written one by one, I think not even the world itself to have place for the books written. Amen.
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