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In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God,
and the Word was God. 2 He was in the beginning with God. 3 All things came into
being through him, and without him not one thing came into being. What has come
into being 4 in him was life, and the life was the light of all people. 5 The
light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not overcome it. 6 There was
a man sent from God, whose name was John. 7 He came as a witness to testify to
the light, so that all might believe through him. 8 He himself was not the
light, but he came to testify to the light. 9 The true light, which enlightens
everyone, was coming into the world. 10 He was in the world, and the world came
into being through him; yet the world did not know him. 11 He came to what was
his own, and his own people did not accept him. 12 But to all who received him,
who believed in his name, he gave power to become children of God, 13 who were
born, not of blood or of the will of the flesh or of the will of man, but of
God. 14 And the Word became flesh and lived among us, and we have seen his
glory, the glory as of a father's only son, full of grace and truth. 15 John
testified to him and cried out, "This was he of whom I said, 'He who comes after
me ranks ahead of me because he was before me.'") 16 From his fullness we have
all received, grace upon grace. 17 The law indeed was given through Moses; grace
and truth came through Jesus Christ. 18 No one has ever seen God. It is God the
only Son, who is close to the Father's heart, who has made him known. 19 This is
the testimony given by John when the Jews sent priests and Levites from
Jerusalem to ask him, "Who are you?" 20 He confessed and did not deny it, but
confessed, "I am not the Messiah." 21 And they asked him, "What then? Are you
Elijah?" He said, "I am not." "Are you the prophet?" He answered, "No." 22 Then
they said to him, "Who are you? Let us have an answer for those who sent us.
What do you say about yourself?" 23 He said, "I am the voice of one crying out
in the wilderness, 'Make straight the way of the Lord,'" as the prophet Isaiah
said. 24 Now they had been sent from the Pharisees. 25 They asked him, "Why then
are you baptizing if you are neither the Messiah, nor Elijah, nor the prophet?"
26 John answered them, "I baptize with water. Among you stands one whom you do
not know, 27 the one who is coming after me; I am not worthy to untie the thong
of his sandal." 28 This took place in Bethany across the Jordan where John was
baptizing. 29 The next day he saw Jesus coming toward him and declared, "Here is
the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world! 30 This is he of whom I
said, 'After me comes a man who ranks ahead of me because he was before me.' 31
I myself did not know him; but I came baptizing with water for this reason, that
he might be revealed to Israel." 32 And John testified, "I saw the Spirit
descending from heaven like a dove, and it remained on him. 33 I myself did not
know him, but the one who sent me to baptize with water said to me, 'He on whom
you see the Spirit descend and remain is the one who baptizes with the Holy
Spirit.' 34 And I myself have seen and have testified that this is the Son of
God." 35 The next day John again was standing with two of his disciples, 36 and
as he watched Jesus walk by, he exclaimed, "Look, here is the Lamb of God!" 37
The two disciples heard him say this, and they followed Jesus. 38 When Jesus
turned and saw them following, he said to them, "What are you looking for?" They
said to him, "Rabbi" (which translated means Teacher), "where are you staying?"
39 He said to them, "Come and see." They came and saw where he was staying, and
they remained with him that day. It was about four o'clock in the afternoon. 40
One of the two who heard John speak and followed him was Andrew, Simon Peter's
brother. 41 He first found his brother Simon and said to him, "We have found the
Messiah" (which is translated Anointed). 42 He brought Simon to Jesus, who
looked at him and said, "You are Simon son of John. You are to be called Cephas"
(which is translated Peter). 43 The next day Jesus decided to go to Galilee. He
found Philip and said to him, "Follow me." 44 Now Philip was from Bethsaida, the
city of Andrew and Peter. 45 Philip found Nathanael and said to him, "We have
found him about whom Moses in the law and also the prophets wrote, Jesus son of
Joseph from Nazareth." 46 Nathanael said to him, "Can anything good come out of
Nazareth?" Philip said to him, "Come and see." 47 When Jesus saw Nathanael
coming toward him, he said of him, "Here is truly an Israelite in whom there is
no deceit!" 48 Nathanael asked him, "Where did you get to know me?" Jesus
answered, "I saw you under the fig tree before Philip called you." 49 Nathanael
replied, "Rabbi, you are the Son of God! You are the King of Israel!" 50 Jesus
answered, "Do you believe because I told you that I saw you under the fig tree?
You will see greater things than these." 51 And he said to him, "Very truly, I
tell you, you will see heaven opened and the angels of God ascending and
descending upon the Son of Man."
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On the third day there was a wedding in Cana of Galilee, and the
mother of Jesus was there. 2 Jesus and his disciples had also been invited to
the wedding. 3 When the wine gave out, the mother of Jesus said to him, "They
have no wine." 4 And Jesus said to her, "Woman, what concern is that to you and
to me? My hour has not yet come." 5 His mother said to the servants, "Do
whatever he tells you." 6 Now standing there were six stone water jars for the
Jewish rites of purification, each holding twenty or thirty gallons. 7 Jesus
said to them, "Fill the jars with water." And they filled them up to the brim. 8
He said to them, "Now draw some out, and take it to the chief steward." So they
took it. 9 When the steward tasted the water that had become wine, and did not
know where it came from (though the servants who had drawn the water knew), the
steward called the bridegroom 10 and said to him, "Everyone serves the good wine
first, and then the inferior wine after the guests have become drunk. But you
have kept the good wine until now." 11 Jesus did this, the first of his signs,
in Cana of Galilee, and revealed his glory; and his disciples believed in him.
12 After this he went down to Capernaum with his mother, his brothers, and his
disciples; and they remained there a few days. 13 The Passover of the Jews was
near, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. 14 In the temple he found people selling
cattle, sheep, and doves, and the money changers seated at their tables. 15
Making a whip of cords, he drove all of them out of the temple, both the sheep
and the cattle. He also poured out the coins of the money changers and
overturned their tables. 16 He told those who were selling the doves, "Take
these things out of here! Stop making my Father's house a marketplace!" 17 His
disciples remembered that it was written, "Zeal for your house will consume me."
18 The Jews then said to him, "What sign can you show us for doing this?" 19
Jesus answered them, "Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it
up." 20 The Jews then said, "This temple has been under construction for
forty-six years, and will you raise it up in three days?" 21 But he was speaking
of the temple of his body. 22 After he was raised from the dead, his disciples
remembered that he had said this; and they believed the scripture and the word
that Jesus had spoken. 23 When he was in Jerusalem during the Passover festival,
many believed in his name because they saw the signs that he was doing. 24 But
Jesus on his part would not entrust himself to them, because he knew all people
25 and needed no one to testify about anyone; for he himself knew what was in
everyone.
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Now there was a Pharisee named Nicodemus, a leader of the Jews. 2 He
came to Jesus by night and said to him, "Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher
who has come from God; for no one can do these signs that you do apart from the
presence of God." 3 Jesus answered him, "Very truly, I tell you, no one can see
the kingdom of God without being born from above." 4 Nicodemus said to him, "How
can anyone be born after having grown old? Can one enter a second time into the
mother's womb and be born?" 5 Jesus answered, "Very truly, I tell you, no one
can enter the kingdom of God without being born of water and Spirit. 6 What is
born of the flesh is flesh, and what is born of the Spirit is spirit. 7 Do not
be astonished that I said to you, 'You must be born from above.' 8 The wind
blows where it chooses, and you hear the sound of it, but you do not know where
it comes from or where it goes. So it is with everyone who is born of the
Spirit." 9 Nicodemus said to him, "How can these things be?" 10 Jesus answered
him, "Are you a teacher of Israel, and yet you do not understand these things?
11 "Very truly, I tell you, we speak of what we know and testify to what we have
seen; yet you do not receive our testimony. 12 If I have told you about earthly
things and you do not believe, how can you believe if I tell you about heavenly
things? 13 No one has ascended into heaven except the one who descended from
heaven, the Son of Man. 14 And just as Moses lifted up the serpent in the
wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up, 15 that whoever believes in him
may have eternal life. 16 "For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son,
so that everyone who believes in him may not perish but may have eternal life.
17 "Indeed, God did not send the Son into the world to condemn the world, but in
order that the world might be saved through him. 18 Those who believe in him are
not condemned; but those who do not believe are condemned already, because they
have not believed in the name of the only Son of God. 19 And this is the
judgment, that the light has come into the world, and people loved darkness
rather than light because their deeds were evil. 20 For all who do evil hate the
light and do not come to the light, so that their deeds may not be exposed. 21
But those who do what is true come to the light, so that it may be clearly seen
that their deeds have been done in God." 22 After this Jesus and his disciples
went into the Judean countryside, and he spent some time there with them and
baptized. 23 John also was baptizing at Aenon near Salim because water was
abundant there; and people kept coming and were being baptized 24 --John, of
course, had not yet been thrown into prison. 25 Now a discussion about
purification arose between John's disciples and a Jew. 26 They came to John and
said to him, "Rabbi, the one who was with you across the Jordan, to whom you
testified, here he is baptizing, and all are going to him." 27 John answered,
"No one can receive anything except what has been given from heaven. 28 You
yourselves are my witnesses that I said, 'I am not the Messiah, but I have been
sent ahead of him.' 29 He who has the bride is the bridegroom. The friend of the
bridegroom, who stands and hears him, rejoices greatly at the bridegroom's
voice. For this reason my joy has been fulfilled. 30 He must increase, but I
must decrease." 31 The one who comes from above is above all; the one who is of
the earth belongs to the earth and speaks about earthly things. The one who
comes from heaven is above all. 32 He testifies to what he has seen and heard,
yet no one accepts his testimony. 33 Whoever has accepted his testimony has
certified this, that God is true. 34 He whom God has sent speaks the words of
God, for he gives the Spirit without measure. 35 The Father loves the Son and
has placed all things in his hands. 36 Whoever believes in the Son has eternal
life; whoever disobeys the Son will not see life, but must endure God's wrath.
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Now when Jesus learned that the Pharisees had heard, "Jesus is
making and baptizing more disciples than John" 2 --although it was not Jesus
himself but his disciples who baptized-- 3 he left Judea and started back to
Galilee. 4 But he had to go through Samaria. 5 So he came to a Samaritan city
called Sychar, near the plot of ground that Jacob had given to his son Joseph. 6
Jacob's well was there, and Jesus, tired out by his journey, was sitting by the
well. It was about noon. 7 A Samaritan woman came to draw water, and Jesus said
to her, "Give me a drink." 8 (His disciples had gone to the city to buy food.) 9
The Samaritan woman said to him, "How is it that you, a Jew, ask a drink of me,
a woman of Samaria?" (Jews do not share things in common with Samaritans.) 10
Jesus answered her, "If you knew the gift of God, and who it is that is saying
to you, 'Give me a drink,' you would have asked him, and he would have given you
living water." 11 The woman said to him, "Sir, you have no bucket, and the well
is deep. Where do you get that living water? 12 Are you greater than our
ancestor Jacob, who gave us the well, and with his sons and his flocks drank
from it?" 13 Jesus said to her, "Everyone who drinks of this water will be
thirsty again, 14 but those who drink of the water that I will give them will
never be thirsty. The water that I will give will become in them a spring of
water gushing up to eternal life." 15 The woman said to him, "Sir, give me this
water, so that I may never be thirsty or have to keep coming here to draw
water." 16 Jesus said to her, "Go, call your husband, and come back." 17 The
woman answered him, "I have no husband." Jesus said to her, "You are right in
saying, 'I have no husband'; 18 for you have had five husbands, and the one you
have now is not your husband. What you have said is true!" 19 The woman said to
him, "Sir, I see that you are a prophet. 20 Our ancestors worshiped on this
mountain, but you say that the place where people must worship is in Jerusalem."
21 Jesus said to her, "Woman, believe me, the hour is coming when you will
worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem. 22 You worship
what you do not know; we worship what we know, for salvation is from the Jews.
23 But the hour is coming, and is now here, when the true worshipers will
worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father seeks such as these to
worship him. 24 God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit
and truth." 25 The woman said to him, "I know that Messiah is coming" (who is
called Christ). "When he comes, he will proclaim all things to us." 26 Jesus
said to her, "I am he, the one who is speaking to you." 27 Just then his
disciples came. They were astonished that he was speaking with a woman, but no
one said, "What do you want?" or, "Why are you speaking with her?" 28 Then the
woman left her water jar and went back to the city. She said to the people, 29
"Come and see a man who told me everything I have ever done! He cannot be the
Messiah, can he?" 30 They left the city and were on their way to him. 31
Meanwhile the disciples were urging him, "Rabbi, eat something." 32 But he said
to them, "I have food to eat that you do not know about." 33 So the disciples
said to one another, "Surely no one has brought him something to eat?" 34 Jesus
said to them, "My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to complete his
work. 35 Do you not say, 'Four months more, then comes the harvest'? But I tell
you, look around you, and see how the fields are ripe for harvesting. 36 The
reaper is already receiving wages and is gathering fruit for eternal life, so
that sower and reaper may rejoice together. 37 For here the saying holds true,
'One sows and another reaps.' 38 I sent you to reap that for which you did not
labor. Others have labored, and you have entered into their labor." 39 Many
Samaritans from that city believed in him because of the woman's testimony, "He
told me everything I have ever done." 40 So when the Samaritans came to him,
they asked him to stay with them; and he stayed there two days. 41 And many more
believed because of his word. 42 They said to the woman, "It is no longer
because of what you said that we believe, for we have heard for ourselves, and
we know that this is truly the Savior of the world." 43 When the two days were
over, he went from that place to Galilee 44 (for Jesus himself had testified
that a prophet has no honor in the prophet's own country). 45 When he came to
Galilee, the Galileans welcomed him, since they had seen all that he had done in
Jerusalem at the festival; for they too had gone to the festival. 46 Then he
came again to Cana in Galilee where he had changed the water into wine. Now
there was a royal official whose son lay ill in Capernaum. 47 When he heard that
Jesus had come from Judea to Galilee, he went and begged him to come down and
heal his son, for he was at the point of death. 48 Then Jesus said to him,
"Unless you see signs and wonders you will not believe." 49 The official said to
him, "Sir, come down before my little boy dies." 50 Jesus said to him, "Go; your
son will live." The man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him and started on
his way. 51 As he was going down, his slaves met him and told him that his child
was alive. 52 So he asked them the hour when he began to recover, and they said
to him, "Yesterday at one in the afternoon the fever left him." 53 The father
realized that this was the hour when Jesus had said to him, "Your son will
live." So he himself believed, along with his whole household. 54 Now this was
the second sign that Jesus did after coming from Judea to Galilee.
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After this there was a festival of the Jews, and Jesus went up to
Jerusalem. 2 Now in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate there is a pool, called in
Hebrew Beth-zatha, which has five porticoes. 3 In these lay many
invalids--blind, lame, and paralyzed. 4 5 One man was there who had been ill for
thirty-eight years. 6 When Jesus saw him lying there and knew that he had been
there a long time, he said to him, "Do you want to be made well?" 7 The sick man
answered him, "Sir, I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is
stirred up; and while I am making my way, someone else steps down ahead of me."
8 Jesus said to him, "Stand up, take your mat and walk." 9 At once the man was
made well, and he took up his mat and began to walk. Now that day was a sabbath.
10 So the Jews said to the man who had been cured, "It is the sabbath; it is not
lawful for you to carry your mat." 11 But he answered them, "The man who made me
well said to me, 'Take up your mat and walk.'" 12 They asked him, "Who is the
man who said to you, 'Take it up and walk'?" 13 Now the man who had been healed
did not know who it was, for Jesus had disappeared in the crowd that was there.
14 Later Jesus found him in the temple and said to him, "See, you have been made
well! Do not sin any more, so that nothing worse happens to you." 15 The man
went away and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had made him well. 16
Therefore the Jews started persecuting Jesus, because he was doing such things
on the sabbath. 17 But Jesus answered them, "My Father is still working, and I
also am working." 18 For this reason the Jews were seeking all the more to kill
him, because he was not only breaking the sabbath, but was also calling God his
own Father, thereby making himself equal to God. 19 Jesus said to them, "Very
truly, I tell you, the Son can do nothing on his own, but only what he sees the
Father doing; for whatever the Father does, the Son does likewise. 20 The Father
loves the Son and shows him all that he himself is doing; and he will show him
greater works than these, so that you will be astonished. 21 Indeed, just as the
Father raises the dead and gives them life, so also the Son gives life to
whomever he wishes. 22 The Father judges no one but has given all judgment to
the Son, 23 so that all may honor the Son just as they honor the Father. Anyone
who does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent him. 24 Very
truly, I tell you, anyone who hears my word and believes him who sent me has
eternal life, and does not come under judgment, but has passed from death to
life. 25 "Very truly, I tell you, the hour is coming, and is now here, when the
dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will live. 26 For
just as the Father has life in himself, so he has granted the Son also to have
life in himself; 27 and he has given him authority to execute judgment, because
he is the Son of Man. 28 Do not be astonished at this; for the hour is coming
when all who are in their graves will hear his voice 29 and will come out--those
who have done good, to the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil,
to the resurrection of condemnation. 30 "I can do nothing on my own. As I hear,
I judge; and my judgment is just, because I seek to do not my own will but the
will of him who sent me. 31 "If I testify about myself, my testimony is not
true. 32 There is another who testifies on my behalf, and I know that his
testimony to me is true. 33 You sent messengers to John, and he testified to the
truth. 34 Not that I accept such human testimony, but I say these things so that
you may be saved. 35 He was a burning and shining lamp, and you were willing to
rejoice for a while in his light. 36 But I have a testimony greater than John's.
The works that the Father has given me to complete, the very works that I am
doing, testify on my behalf that the Father has sent me. 37 And the Father who
sent me has himself testified on my behalf. You have never heard his voice or
seen his form, 38 and you do not have his word abiding in you, because you do
not believe him whom he has sent. 39 "You search the scriptures because you
think that in them you have eternal life; and it is they that testify on my
behalf. 40 Yet you refuse to come to me to have life. 41 I do not accept glory
from human beings. 42 But I know that you do not have the love of God in you. 43
I have come in my Father's name, and you do not accept me; if another comes in
his own name, you will accept him. 44 How can you believe when you accept glory
from one another and do not seek the glory that comes from the one who alone is
God? 45 Do not think that I will accuse you before the Father; your accuser is
Moses, on whom you have set your hope. 46 If you believed Moses, you would
believe me, for he wrote about me. 47 But if you do not believe what he wrote,
how will you believe what I say?"
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) After this Jesus went to the other side of the Sea of Galilee, also
called the Sea of Tiberias. 2 A large crowd kept following him, because they saw
the signs that he was doing for the sick. 3 Jesus went up the mountain and sat
down there with his disciples. 4 Now the Passover, the festival of the Jews, was
near. 5 When he looked up and saw a large crowd coming toward him, Jesus said to
Philip, "Where are we to buy bread for these people to eat?" 6 He said this to
test him, for he himself knew what he was going to do. 7 Philip answered him,
"Six months' wages would not buy enough bread for each of them to get a little."
8 One of his disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter's brother, said to him, 9 "There is
a boy here who has five barley loaves and two fish. But what are they among so
many people?" 10 Jesus said, "Make the people sit down." Now there was a great
deal of grass in the place; so they sat down, about five thousand in all. 11
Then Jesus took the loaves, and when he had given thanks, he distributed them to
those who were seated; so also the fish, as much as they wanted. 12 When they
were satisfied, he told his disciples, "Gather up the fragments left over, so
that nothing may be lost." 13 So they gathered them up, and from the fragments
of the five barley loaves, left by those who had eaten, they filled twelve
baskets. 14 When the people saw the sign that he had done, they began to say,
"This is indeed the prophet who is to come into the world." 15 When Jesus
realized that they were about to come and take him by force to make him king, he
withdrew again to the mountain by himself. 16 When evening came, his disciples
went down to the sea, 17 got into a boat, and started across the sea to
Capernaum. It was now dark, and Jesus had not yet come to them. 18 The sea
became rough because a strong wind was blowing. 19 When they had rowed about
three or four miles, they saw Jesus walking on the sea and coming near the boat,
and they were terrified. 20 But he said to them, "It is I; do not be afraid." 21
Then they wanted to take him into the boat, and immediately the boat reached the
land toward which they were going. 22 The next day the crowd that had stayed on
the other side of the sea saw that there had been only one boat there. They also
saw that Jesus had not got into the boat with his disciples, but that his
disciples had gone away alone. 23 Then some boats from Tiberias came near the
place where they had eaten the bread after the Lord had given thanks. 24 So when
the crowd saw that neither Jesus nor his disciples were there, they themselves
got into the boats and went to Capernaum looking for Jesus. 25 When they found
him on the other side of the sea, they said to him, "Rabbi, when did you come
here?" 26 Jesus answered them, "Very truly, I tell you, you are looking for me,
not because you saw signs, but because you ate your fill of the loaves. 27 Do
not work for the food that perishes, but for the food that endures for eternal
life, which the Son of Man will give you. For it is on him that God the Father
has set his seal." 28 Then they said to him, "What must we do to perform the
works of God?" 29 Jesus answered them, "This is the work of God, that you
believe in him whom he has sent." 30 So they said to him, "What sign are you
going to give us then, so that we may see it and believe you? What work are you
performing? 31 Our ancestors ate the manna in the wilderness; as it is written,
'He gave them bread from heaven to eat.'" 32 Then Jesus said to them, "Very
truly, I tell you, it was not Moses who gave you the bread from heaven, but it
is my Father who gives you the true bread from heaven. 33 For the bread of God
is that which comes down from heaven and gives life to the world." 34 They said
to him, "Sir, give us this bread always." 35 Jesus said to them, "I am the bread
of life. Whoever comes to me will never be hungry, and whoever believes in me
will never be thirsty. 36 But I said to you that you have seen me and yet do not
believe. 37 Everything that the Father gives me will come to me, and anyone who
comes to me I will never drive away; 38 for I have come down from heaven, not to
do my own will, but the will of him who sent me. 39 And this is the will of him
who sent me, that I should lose nothing of all that he has given me, but raise
it up on the last day. 40 This is indeed the will of my Father, that all who see
the Son and believe in him may have eternal life; and I will raise them up on
the last day." 41 Then the Jews began to complain about him because he said, "I
am the bread that came down from heaven." 42 They were saying, "Is not this
Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How can he now say,
'I have come down from heaven'?" 43 Jesus answered them, "Do not complain among
yourselves. 44 No one can come to me unless drawn by the Father who sent me; and
I will raise that person up on the last day. 45 It is written in the prophets,
'And they shall all be taught by God.' Everyone who has heard and learned from
the Father comes to me. 46 Not that anyone has seen the Father except the one
who is from God; he has seen the Father. 47 Very truly, I tell you, whoever
believes has eternal life. 48 I am the bread of life. 49 Your ancestors ate the
manna in the wilderness, and they died. 50 This is the bread that comes down
from heaven, so that one may eat of it and not die. 51 I am the living bread
that came down from heaven. Whoever eats of this bread will live forever; and
the bread that I will give for the life of the world is my flesh." 52 The Jews
then disputed among themselves, saying, "How can this man give us his flesh to
eat?" 53 So Jesus said to them, "Very truly, I tell you, unless you eat the
flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you. 54 Those
who eat my flesh and drink my blood have eternal life, and I will raise them up
on the last day; 55 for my flesh is true food and my blood is true drink. 56
Those who eat my flesh and drink my blood abide in me, and I in them. 57 Just as
the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father, so whoever eats me
will live because of me. 58 This is the bread that came down from heaven, not
like that which your ancestors ate, and they died. But the one who eats this
bread will live forever." 59 He said these things while he was teaching in the
synagogue at Capernaum. 60 When many of his disciples heard it, they said, "This
teaching is difficult; who can accept it?" 61 But Jesus, being aware that his
disciples were complaining about it, said to them, "Does this offend you? 62
Then what if you were to see the Son of Man ascending to where he was before? 63
It is the spirit that gives life; the flesh is useless. The words that I have
spoken to you are spirit and life. 64 But among you there are some who do not
believe." For Jesus knew from the first who were the ones that did not believe,
and who was the one that would betray him. 65 And he said, "For this reason I
have told you that no one can come to me unless it is granted by the Father." 66
Because of this many of his disciples turned back and no longer went about with
him. 67 So Jesus asked the twelve, "Do you also wish to go away?" 68 Simon Peter
answered him, "Lord, to whom can we go? You have the words of eternal life. 69
We have come to believe and know that you are the Holy One of God." 70 Jesus
answered them, "Did I not choose you, the twelve? Yet one of you is a devil." 71
He was speaking of Judas son of Simon Iscariot, for he, though one of the
twelve, was going to betray him.
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After this Jesus went about in Galilee. He did not wish to go about
in Judea because the Jews were looking for an opportunity to kill him. 2 Now the
Jewish festival of Booths was near. 3 So his brothers said to him, "Leave here
and go to Judea so that your disciples also may see the works you are doing; 4
for no one who wants to be widely known acts in secret. If you do these things,
show yourself to the world." 5 (For not even his brothers believed in him.) 6
Jesus said to them, "My time has not yet come, but your time is always here. 7
The world cannot hate you, but it hates me because I testify against it that its
works are evil. 8 Go to the festival yourselves. I am not going to this
festival, for my time has not yet fully come." 9 After saying this, he remained
in Galilee. 10 But after his brothers had gone to the festival, then he also
went, not publicly but as it were in secret. 11 The Jews were looking for him at
the festival and saying, "Where is he?" 12 And there was considerable
complaining about him among the crowds. While some were saying, "He is a good
man," others were saying, "No, he is deceiving the crowd." 13 Yet no one would
speak openly about him for fear of the Jews. 14 About the middle of the festival
Jesus went up into the temple and began to teach. 15 The Jews were astonished at
it, saying, "How does this man have such learning, when he has never been
taught?" 16 Then Jesus answered them, "My teaching is not mine but his who sent
me. 17 Anyone who resolves to do the will of God will know whether the teaching
is from God or whether I am speaking on my own. 18 Those who speak on their own
seek their own glory; but the one who seeks the glory of him who sent him is
true, and there is nothing false in him. 19 "Did not Moses give you the law? Yet
none of you keeps the law. Why are you looking for an opportunity to kill me?"
20 The crowd answered, "You have a demon! Who is trying to kill you?" 21 Jesus
answered them, "I performed one work, and all of you are astonished. 22 Moses
gave you circumcision (it is, of course, not from Moses, but from the
patriarchs), and you circumcise a man on the sabbath. 23 If a man receives
circumcision on the sabbath in order that the law of Moses may not be broken,
are you angry with me because I healed a man's whole body on the sabbath? 24 Do
not judge by appearances, but judge with right judgment." 25 Now some of the
people of Jerusalem were saying, "Is not this the man whom they are trying to
kill? 26 And here he is, speaking openly, but they say nothing to him! Can it be
that the authorities really know that this is the Messiah? 27 Yet we know where
this man is from; but when the Messiah comes, no one will know where he is
from." 28 Then Jesus cried out as he was teaching in the temple, "You know me,
and you know where I am from. I have not come on my own. But the one who sent me
is true, and you do not know him. 29 I know him, because I am from him, and he
sent me." 30 Then they tried to arrest him, but no one laid hands on him,
because his hour had not yet come. 31 Yet many in the crowd believed in him and
were saying, "When the Messiah comes, will he do more signs than this man has
done?" 32 The Pharisees heard the crowd muttering such things about him, and the
chief priests and Pharisees sent temple police to arrest him. 33 Jesus then
said, "I will be with you a little while longer, and then I am going to him who
sent me. 34 You will search for me, but you will not find me; and where I am,
you cannot come." 35 The Jews said to one another, "Where does this man intend
to go that we will not find him? Does he intend to go to the Dispersion among
the Greeks and teach the Greeks? 36 What does he mean by saying, 'You will
search for me and you will not find me' and' Where I am, you cannot come'?" 37
On the last day of the festival, the great day, while Jesus was standing there,
he cried out, "Let anyone who is thirsty come to me, 38 and let the one who
believes in me drink. As the scripture has said, 'Out of the believer's heart
shall flow rivers of living water.'" 39 Now he said this about the Spirit, which
believers in him were to receive; for as yet there was no Spirit, because Jesus
was not yet glorified. 40 When they heard these words, some in the crowd said,
"This is really the prophet." 41 Others said, "This is the Messiah." But some
asked, "Surely the Messiah does not come from Galilee, does he? 42 Has not the
scripture said that the Messiah is descended from David and comes from
Bethlehem, the village where David lived?" 43 So there was a division in the
crowd because of him. 44 Some of them wanted to arrest him, but no one laid
hands on him. 45 Then the temple police went back to the chief priests and
Pharisees, who asked them, "Why did you not arrest him?" 46 The police answered,
"Never has anyone spoken like this!" 47 Then the Pharisees replied, "Surely you
have not been deceived too, have you? 48 Has any one of the authorities or of
the Pharisees believed in him? 49 But this crowd, which does not know the
law--they are accursed." 50 Nicodemus, who had gone to Jesus before, and who was
one of them, asked, 51 "Our law does not judge people without first giving them
a hearing to find out what they are doing, does it?" 52 They replied, "Surely
you are not also from Galilee, are you? Search and you will see that no prophet
is to arise from Galilee." 53 Then each of them went home,
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while Jesus went to the Mount of Olives. 2 Early in the morning he
came again to the temple. All the people came to him and he sat down and began
to teach them. 3 The scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman who had been
caught in adultery; and making her stand before all of them, 4 they said to him,
"Teacher, this woman was caught in the very act of committing adultery. 5 Now in
the law Moses commanded us to stone such women. Now what do you say?" 6 They
said this to test him, so that they might have some charge to bring against him.
Jesus bent down and wrote with his finger on the ground. 7 When they kept on
questioning him, he straightened up and said to them, "Let anyone among you who
is without sin be the first to throw a stone at her." 8 And once again he bent
down and wrote on the ground. 9 When they heard it, they went away, one by one,
beginning with the elders; and Jesus was left alone with the woman standing
before him. 10 Jesus straightened up and said to her, "Woman, where are they?
Has no one condemned you?" 11 She said, "No one, sir." And Jesus said, "Neither
do I condemn you. Go your way, and from now on do not sin again." 12 Again Jesus
spoke to them, saying, "I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will
never walk in darkness but will have the light of life." 13 Then the Pharisees
said to him, "You are testifying on your own behalf; your testimony is not
valid." 14 Jesus answered, "Even if I testify on my own behalf, my testimony is
valid because I know where I have come from and where I am going, but you do not
know where I come from or where I am going. 15 You judge by human standards; I
judge no one. 16 Yet even if I do judge, my judgment is valid; for it is not I
alone who judge, but I and the Father who sent me. 17 In your law it is written
that the testimony of two witnesses is valid. 18 I testify on my own behalf, and
the Father who sent me testifies on my behalf." 19 Then they said to him, "Where
is your Father?" Jesus answered, "You know neither me nor my Father. If you knew
me, you would know my Father also." 20 He spoke these words while he was
teaching in the treasury of the temple, but no one arrested him, because his
hour had not yet come. 21 Again he said to them, "I am going away, and you will
search for me, but you will die in your sin. Where I am going, you cannot come."
22 Then the Jews said, "Is he going to kill himself? Is that what he means by
saying, 'Where I am going, you cannot come'?" 23 He said to them, "You are from
below, I am from above; you are of this world, I am not of this world. 24 I told
you that you would die in your sins, for you will die in your sins unless you
believe that I am he." 25 They said to him, "Who are you?" Jesus said to them,
"Why do I speak to you at all? 26 I have much to say about you and much to
condemn; but the one who sent me is true, and I declare to the world what I have
heard from him." 27 They did not understand that he was speaking to them about
the Father. 28 So Jesus said, "When you have lifted up the Son of Man, then you
will realize that I am he, and that I do nothing on my own, but I speak these
things as the Father instructed me. 29 And the one who sent me is with me; he
has not left me alone, for I always do what is pleasing to him." 30 As he was
saying these things, many believed in him. 31 Then Jesus said to the Jews who
had believed in him, "If you continue in my word, you are truly my disciples; 32
and you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free." 33 They answered
him, "We are descendants of Abraham and have never been slaves to anyone. What
do you mean by saying, 'You will be made free'?" 34 Jesus answered them, "Very
truly, I tell you, everyone who commits sin is a slave to sin. 35 The slave does
not have a permanent place in the household; the son has a place there forever.
36 So if the Son makes you free, you will be free indeed. 37 I know that you are
descendants of Abraham; yet you look for an opportunity to kill me, because
there is no place in you for my word. 38 I declare what I have seen in the
Father's presence; as for you, you should do what you have heard from the
Father." 39 They answered him, "Abraham is our father." Jesus said to them, "If
you were Abraham's children, you would be doing what Abraham did, 40 but now you
are trying to kill me, a man who has told you the truth that I heard from God.
This is not what Abraham did. 41 You are indeed doing what your father does."
They said to him, "We are not illegitimate children; we have one father, God
himself." 42 Jesus said to them, "If God were your Father, you would love me,
for I came from God and now I am here. I did not come on my own, but he sent me.
43 Why do you not understand what I say? It is because you cannot accept my
word. 44 You are from your father the devil, and you choose to do your father's
desires. He was a murderer from the beginning and does not stand in the truth,
because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks according to his own
nature, for he is a liar and the father of lies. 45 But because I tell the
truth, you do not believe me. 46 Which of you convicts me of sin? If I tell the
truth, why do you not believe me? 47 Whoever is from God hears the words of God.
The reason you do not hear them is that you are not from God." 48 The Jews
answered him, "Are we not right in saying that you are a Samaritan and have a
demon?" 49 Jesus answered, "I do not have a demon; but I honor my Father, and
you dishonor me. 50 Yet I do not seek my own glory; there is one who seeks it
and he is the judge. 51 Very truly, I tell you, whoever keeps my word will never
see death." 52 The Jews said to him, "Now we know that you have a demon. Abraham
died, and so did the prophets; yet you say, 'Whoever keeps my word will never
taste death.' 53 Are you greater than our father Abraham, who died? The prophets
also died. Who do you claim to be?" 54 Jesus answered, "If I glorify myself, my
glory is nothing. It is my Father who glorifies me, he of whom you say, 'He is
our God,' 55 though you do not know him. But I know him; if I would say that I
do not know him, I would be a liar like you. But I do know him and I keep his
word. 56 Your ancestor Abraham rejoiced that he would see my day; he saw it and
was glad." 57 Then the Jews said to him, "You are not yet fifty years old, and
have you seen Abraham?" 58 Jesus said to them, "Very truly, I tell you, before
Abraham was, I am." 59 So they picked up stones to throw at him, but Jesus hid
himself and went out of the temple.
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As he walked along, he saw a man blind from birth. 2 His disciples
asked him, "Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?"
3 Jesus answered, "Neither this man nor his parents sinned; he was born blind so
that God's works might be revealed in him. 4 We must work the works of him who
sent me while it is day; night is coming when no one can work. 5 As long as I am
in the world, I am the light of the world." 6 When he had said this, he spat on
the ground and made mud with the saliva and spread the mud on the man's eyes, 7
saying to him, "Go, wash in the pool of Siloam" (which means Sent). Then he went
and washed and came back able to see. 8 The neighbors and those who had seen him
before as a beggar began to ask, "Is this not the man who used to sit and beg?"
9 Some were saying, "It is he." Others were saying, "No, but it is someone like
him." He kept saying, "I am the man." 10 But they kept asking him, "Then how
were your eyes opened?" 11 He answered, "The man called Jesus made mud, spread
it on my eyes, and said to me, 'Go to Siloam and wash.' Then I went and washed
and received my sight." 12 They said to him, "Where is he?" He said, "I do not
know." 13 They brought to the Pharisees the man who had formerly been blind. 14
Now it was a sabbath day when Jesus made the mud and opened his eyes. 15 Then
the Pharisees also began to ask him how he had received his sight. He said to
them, "He put mud on my eyes. Then I washed, and now I see." 16 Some of the
Pharisees said, "This man is not from God, for he does not observe the sabbath."
But others said, "How can a man who is a sinner perform such signs?" And they
were divided. 17 So they said again to the blind man, "What do you say about
him? It was your eyes he opened." He said, "He is a prophet." 18 The Jews did
not believe that he had been blind and had received his sight until they called
the parents of the man who had received his sight 19 and asked them, "Is this
your son, who you say was born blind? How then does he now see?" 20 His parents
answered, "We know that this is our son, and that he was born blind; 21 but we
do not know how it is that now he sees, nor do we know who opened his eyes. Ask
him; he is of age. He will speak for himself." 22 His parents said this because
they were afraid of the Jews; for the Jews had already agreed that anyone who
confessed Jesus to be the Messiah would be put out of the synagogue. 23
Therefore his parents said, "He is of age; ask him." 24 So for the second time
they called the man who had been blind, and they said to him, "Give glory to
God! We know that this man is a sinner." 25 He answered, "I do not know whether
he is a sinner. One thing I do know, that though I was blind, now I see." 26
They said to him, "What did he do to you? How did he open your eyes?" 27 He
answered them, "I have told you already, and you would not listen. Why do you
want to hear it again? Do you also want to become his disciples?" 28 Then they
reviled him, saying, "You are his disciple, but we are disciples of Moses. 29 We
know that God has spoken to Moses, but as for this man, we do not know where he
comes from." 30 The man answered, "Here is an astonishing thing! You do not know
where he comes from, and yet he opened my eyes. 31 We know that God does not
listen to sinners, but he does listen to one who worships him and obeys his
will. 32 Never since the world began has it been heard that anyone opened the
eyes of a person born blind. 33 If this man were not from God, he could do
nothing." 34 They answered him, "You were born entirely in sins, and are you
trying to teach us?" And they drove him out. 35 Jesus heard that they had driven
him out, and when he found him, he said, "Do you believe in the Son of Man?" 36
He answered, "And who is he, sir? Tell me, so that I may believe in him." 37
Jesus said to him, "You have seen him, and the one speaking with you is he." 38
He said, "Lord, I believe." And he worshiped him. 39 Jesus said, "I came into
this world for judgment so that those who do not see may see, and those who do
see may become blind." 40 Some of the Pharisees near him heard this and said to
him, "Surely we are not blind, are we?" 41 Jesus said to them, "If you were
blind, you would not have sin. But now that you say, 'We see,' your sin remains.
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"Very truly, I tell you, anyone who does not enter the sheepfold by
the gate but climbs in by another way is a thief and a bandit. 2 The one who
enters by the gate is the shepherd of the sheep. 3 The gatekeeper opens the gate
for him, and the sheep hear his voice. He calls his own sheep by name and leads
them out. 4 When he has brought out all his own, he goes ahead of them, and the
sheep follow him because they know his voice. 5 They will not follow a stranger,
but they will run from him because they do not know the voice of strangers." 6
Jesus used this figure of speech with them, but they did not understand what he
was saying to them. 7 So again Jesus said to them, "Very truly, I tell you, I am
the gate for the sheep. 8 All who came before me are thieves and bandits; but
the sheep did not listen to them. 9 I am the gate. Whoever enters by me will be
saved, and will come in and go out and find pasture. 10 The thief comes only to
steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life, and have it
abundantly. 11 "I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for
the sheep. 12 The hired hand, who is not the shepherd and does not own the
sheep, sees the wolf coming and leaves the sheep and runs away--and the wolf
snatches them and scatters them. 13 The hired hand runs away because a hired
hand does not care for the sheep. 14 I am the good shepherd. I know my own and
my own know me, 15 just as the Father knows me and I know the Father. And I lay
down my life for the sheep. 16 I have other sheep that do not belong to this
fold. I must bring them also, and they will listen to my voice. So there will be
one flock, one shepherd. 17 For this reason the Father loves me, because I lay
down my life in order to take it up again. 18 No one takes it from me, but I lay
it down of my own accord. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take
it up again. I have received this command from my Father." 19 Again the Jews
were divided because of these words. 20 Many of them were saying, "He has a
demon and is out of his mind. Why listen to him?" 21 Others were saying, "These
are not the words of one who has a demon. Can a demon open the eyes of the
blind?" 22 At that time the festival of the Dedication took place in Jerusalem.
It was winter, 23 and Jesus was walking in the temple, in the portico of
Solomon. 24 So the Jews gathered around him and said to him, "How long will you
keep us in suspense? If you are the Messiah, tell us plainly." 25 Jesus
answered, "I have told you, and you do not believe. The works that I do in my
Father's name testify to me; 26 but you do not believe, because you do not
belong to my sheep. 27 My sheep hear my voice. I know them, and they follow me.
28 I give them eternal life, and they will never perish. No one will snatch them
out of my hand. 29 What my Father has given me is greater than all else, and no
one can snatch it out of the Father's hand. 30 The Father and I are one." 31 The
Jews took up stones again to stone him. 32 Jesus replied, "I have shown you many
good works from the Father. For which of these are you going to stone me?" 33
The Jews answered, "It is not for a good work that we are going to stone you,
but for blasphemy, because you, though only a human being, are making yourself
God." 34 Jesus answered, "Is it not written in your law, 'I said, you are gods'?
35 If those to whom the word of God came were called 'gods'--and the scripture
cannot be annulled-- 36 can you say that the one whom the Father has sanctified
and sent into the world is blaspheming because I said, 'I am God's Son'? 37 If I
am not doing the works of my Father, then do not believe me. 38 But if I do
them, even though you do not believe me, believe the works, so that you may know
and understand that the Father is in me and I am in the Father." 39 Then they
tried to arrest him again, but he escaped from their hands. 40 He went away
again across the Jordan to the place where John had been baptizing earlier, and
he remained there. 41 Many came to him, and they were saying, "John performed no
sign, but everything that John said about this man was true." 42 And many
believed in him there.
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Now a certain man was ill, Lazarus of Bethany, the village of Mary
and her sister Martha. 2 Mary was the one who anointed the Lord with perfume and
wiped his feet with her hair; her brother Lazarus was ill. 3 So the sisters sent
a message to Jesus, "Lord, he whom you love is ill." 4 But when Jesus heard it,
he said, "This illness does not lead to death; rather it is for God's glory, so
that the Son of God may be glorified through it." 5 Accordingly, though Jesus
loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus, 6 after having heard that Lazarus was
ill, he stayed two days longer in the place where he was. 7 Then after this he
said to the disciples, "Let us go to Judea again." 8 The disciples said to him,
"Rabbi, the Jews were just now trying to stone you, and are you going there
again?" 9 Jesus answered, "Are there not twelve hours of daylight? Those who
walk during the day do not stumble, because they see the light of this world. 10
But those who walk at night stumble, because the light is not in them." 11 After
saying this, he told them, "Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep, but I am going
there to awaken him." 12 The disciples said to him, "Lord, if he has fallen
asleep, he will be all right." 13 Jesus, however, had been speaking about his
death, but they thought that he was referring merely to sleep. 14 Then Jesus
told them plainly, "Lazarus is dead. 15 For your sake I am glad I was not there,
so that you may believe. But let us go to him." 16 Thomas, who was called the
Twin, said to his fellow disciples, "Let us also go, that we may die with him."
17 When Jesus arrived, he found that Lazarus had already been in the tomb four
days. 18 Now Bethany was near Jerusalem, some two miles away, 19 and many of the
Jews had come to Martha and Mary to console them about their brother. 20 When
Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went and met him, while Mary stayed at
home. 21 Martha said to Jesus, "Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not
have died. 22 But even now I know that God will give you whatever you ask of
him." 23 Jesus said to her, "Your brother will rise again." 24 Martha said to
him, "I know that he will rise again in the resurrection on the last day." 25
Jesus said to her, "I am the resurrection and the life. Those who believe in me,
even though they die, will live, 26 and everyone who lives and believes in me
will never die. Do you believe this?" 27 She said to him, "Yes, Lord, I believe
that you are the Messiah, the Son of God, the one coming into the world." 28
When she had said this, she went back and called her sister Mary, and told her
privately, "The Teacher is here and is calling for you." 29 And when she heard
it, she got up quickly and went to him. 30 Now Jesus had not yet come to the
village, but was still at the place where Martha had met him. 31 The Jews who
were with her in the house, consoling her, saw Mary get up quickly and go out.
They followed her because they thought that she was going to the tomb to weep
there. 32 When Mary came where Jesus was and saw him, she knelt at his feet and
said to him, "Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died." 33
When Jesus saw her weeping, and the Jews who came with her also weeping, he was
greatly disturbed in spirit and deeply moved. 34 He said, "Where have you laid
him?" They said to him, "Lord, come and see." 35 Jesus began to weep. 36 So the
Jews said, "See how he loved him!" 37 But some of them said, "Could not he who
opened the eyes of the blind man have kept this man from dying?" 38 Then Jesus,
again greatly disturbed, came to the tomb. It was a cave, and a stone was lying
against it. 39 Jesus said, "Take away the stone." Martha, the sister of the dead
man, said to him, "Lord, already there is a stench because he has been dead four
days." 40 Jesus said to her, "Did I not tell you that if you believed, you would
see the glory of God?" 41 So they took away the stone. And Jesus looked upward
and said, "Father, I thank you for having heard me. 42 I knew that you always
hear me, but I have said this for the sake of the crowd standing here, so that
they may believe that you sent me." 43 When he had said this, he cried with a
loud voice, "Lazarus, come out!" 44 The dead man came out, his hands and feet
bound with strips of cloth, and his face wrapped in a cloth. Jesus said to them,
"Unbind him, and let him go." 45 Many of the Jews therefore, who had come with
Mary and had seen what Jesus did, believed in him. 46 But some of them went to
the Pharisees and told them what he had done. 47 So the chief priests and the
Pharisees called a meeting of the council, and said, "What are we to do? This
man is performing many signs. 48 If we let him go on like this, everyone will
believe in him, and the Romans will come and destroy both our holy place and our
nation." 49 But one of them, Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, said to
them, "You know nothing at all! 50 You do not understand that it is better for
you to have one man die for the people than to have the whole nation destroyed."
51 He did not say this on his own, but being high priest that year he prophesied
that Jesus was about to die for the nation, 52 and not for the nation only, but
to gather into one the dispersed children of God. 53 So from that day on they
planned to put him to death. 54 Jesus therefore no longer walked about openly
among the Jews, but went from there to a town called Ephraim in the region near
the wilderness; and he remained there with the disciples. 55 Now the Passover of
the Jews was near, and many went up from the country to Jerusalem before the
Passover to purify themselves. 56 They were looking for Jesus and were asking
one another as they stood in the temple, "What do you think? Surely he will not
come to the festival, will he?" 57 Now the chief priests and the Pharisees had
given orders that anyone who knew where Jesus was should let them know, so that
they might arrest him.
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Six days before the Passover Jesus came to Bethany, the home of
Lazarus, whom he had raised from the dead. 2 There they gave a dinner for him.
Martha served, and Lazarus was one of those at the table with him. 3 Mary took a
pound of costly perfume made of pure nard, anointed Jesus' feet, and wiped them
with her hair. The house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume. 4 But
Judas Iscariot, one of his disciples (the one who was about to betray him),
said, 5 "Why was this perfume not sold for three hundred denarii and the money
given to the poor?" 6 (He said this not because he cared about the poor, but
because he was a thief; he kept the common purse and used to steal what was put
into it.) 7 Jesus said, "Leave her alone. She bought it so that she might keep
it for the day of my burial. 8 You always have the poor with you, but you do not
always have me." 9 When the great crowd of the Jews learned that he was there,
they came not only because of Jesus but also to see Lazarus, whom he had raised
from the dead. 10 So the chief priests planned to put Lazarus to death as well,
11 since it was on account of him that many of the Jews were deserting and were
believing in Jesus. 12 The next day the great crowd that had come to the
festival heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem. 13 So they took branches of
palm trees and went out to meet him, shouting, "Hosanna! Blessed is the one who
comes in the name of the Lord-- the King of Israel!" 14 Jesus found a young
donkey and sat on it; as it is written: 15 "Do not be afraid, daughter of Zion.
Look, your king is coming, sitting on a donkey's colt!" 16 His disciples did not
understand these things at first; but when Jesus was glorified, then they
remembered that these things had been written of him and had been done to him.
17 So the crowd that had been with him when he called Lazarus out of the tomb
and raised him from the dead continued to testify. 18 It was also because they
heard that he had performed this sign that the crowd went to meet him. 19 The
Pharisees then said to one another, "You see, you can do nothing. Look, the
world has gone after him!" 20 Now among those who went up to worship at the
festival were some Greeks. 21 They came to Philip, who was from Bethsaida in
Galilee, and said to him, "Sir, we wish to see Jesus." 22 Philip went and told
Andrew; then Andrew and Philip went and told Jesus. 23 Jesus answered them, "The
hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified. 24 Very truly, I tell you,
unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains just a single
grain; but if it dies, it bears much fruit. 25 Those who love their life lose
it, and those who hate their life in this world will keep it for eternal life.
26 Whoever serves me must follow me, and where I am, there will my servant be
also. Whoever serves me, the Father will honor. 27 "Now my soul is troubled. And
what should I say--' Father, save me from this hour'? No, it is for this reason
that I have come to this hour. 28 Father, glorify your name." Then a voice came
from heaven, "I have glorified it, and I will glorify it again." 29 The crowd
standing there heard it and said that it was thunder. Others said, "An angel has
spoken to him." 30 Jesus answered, "This voice has come for your sake, not for
mine. 31 Now is the judgment of this world; now the ruler of this world will be
driven out. 32 And I, when I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all people
to myself." 33 He said this to indicate the kind of death he was to die. 34 The
crowd answered him, "We have heard from the law that the Messiah remains
forever. How can you say that the Son of Man must be lifted up? Who is this Son
of Man?" 35 Jesus said to them, "The light is with you for a little longer. Walk
while you have the light, so that the darkness may not overtake you. If you walk
in the darkness, you do not know where you are going. 36 While you have the
light, believe in the light, so that you may become children of light." After
Jesus had said this, he departed and hid from them. 37 Although he had performed
so many signs in their presence, they did not believe in him. 38 This was to
fulfill the word spoken by the prophet Isaiah: "Lord, who has believed our
message, and to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?" 39 And so they
could not believe, because Isaiah also said, 40 "He has blinded their eyes and
hardened their heart, so that they might not look with their eyes, and
understand with their heart and turn-- and I would heal them." 41 Isaiah said
this because he saw his glory and spoke about him. 42 Nevertheless many, even of
the authorities, believed in him. But because of the Pharisees they did not
confess it, for fear that they would be put out of the synagogue; 43 for they
loved human glory more than the glory that comes from God. 44 Then Jesus cried
aloud: "Whoever believes in me believes not in me but in him who sent me. 45 And
whoever sees me sees him who sent me. 46 I have come as light into the world, so
that everyone who believes in me should not remain in the darkness. 47 I do not
judge anyone who hears my words and does not keep them, for I came not to judge
the world, but to save the world. 48 The one who rejects me and does not receive
my word has a judge; on the last day the word that I have spoken will serve as
judge, 49 for I have not spoken on my own, but the Father who sent me has
himself given me a commandment about what to say and what to speak. 50 And I
know that his commandment is eternal life. What I speak, therefore, I speak just
as the Father has told me."
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Now before the festival of the Passover, Jesus knew that his hour
had come to depart from this world and go to the Father. Having loved his own
who were in the world, he loved them to the end. 2 The devil had already put it
into the heart of Judas son of Simon Iscariot to betray him. And during supper 3
Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands, and that he
had come from God and was going to God, 4 got up from the table, took off his
outer robe, and tied a towel around himself. 5 Then he poured water into a basin
and began to wash the disciples' feet and to wipe them with the towel that was
tied around him. 6 He came to Simon Peter, who said to him, "Lord, are you going
to wash my feet?" 7 Jesus answered, "You do not know now what I am doing, but
later you will understand." 8 Peter said to him, "You will never wash my feet."
Jesus answered, "Unless I wash you, you have no share with me." 9 Simon Peter
said to him, "Lord, not my feet only but also my hands and my head!" 10 Jesus
said to him, "One who has bathed does not need to wash, except for the feet, but
is entirely clean. And you are clean, though not all of you." 11 For he knew who
was to betray him; for this reason he said, "Not all of you are clean." 12 After
he had washed their feet, had put on his robe, and had returned to the table, he
said to them, "Do you know what I have done to you? 13 You call me Teacher and
Lord--and you are right, for that is what I am. 14 So if I, your Lord and
Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another's feet. 15
For I have set you an example, that you also should do as I have done to you. 16
Very truly, I tell you, servants are not greater than their master, nor are
messengers greater than the one who sent them. 17 If you know these things, you
are blessed if you do them. 18 I am not speaking of all of you; I know whom I
have chosen. But it is to fulfill the scripture, 'The one who ate my bread has
lifted his heel against me.' 19 I tell you this now, before it occurs, so that
when it does occur, you may believe that I am he. 20 Very truly, I tell you,
whoever receives one whom I send receives me; and whoever receives me receives
him who sent me." 21 After saying this Jesus was troubled in spirit, and
declared, "Very truly, I tell you, one of you will betray me." 22 The disciples
looked at one another, uncertain of whom he was speaking. 23 One of his
disciples--the one whom Jesus loved--was reclining next to him; 24 Simon Peter
therefore motioned to him to ask Jesus of whom he was speaking. 25 So while
reclining next to Jesus, he asked him, "Lord, who is it?" 26 Jesus answered, "It
is the one to whom I give this piece of bread when I have dipped it in the
dish." So when he had dipped the piece of bread, he gave it to Judas son of
Simon Iscariot. 27 After he received the piece of bread, Satan entered into him.
Jesus said to him, "Do quickly what you are going to do." 28 Now no one at the
table knew why he said this to him. 29 Some thought that, because Judas had the
common purse, Jesus was telling him, "Buy what we need for the festival"; or,
that he should give something to the poor. 30 So, after receiving the piece of
bread, he immediately went out. And it was night. 31 When he had gone out, Jesus
said, "Now the Son of Man has been glorified, and God has been glorified in him.
32 If God has been glorified in him, God will also glorify him in himself and
will glorify him at once. 33 Little children, I am with you only a little
longer. You will look for me; and as I said to the Jews so now I say to you,
'Where I am going, you cannot come.' 34 I give you a new commandment, that you
love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. 35
By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one
another." 36 Simon Peter said to him, "Lord, where are you going?" Jesus
answered, "Where I am going, you cannot follow me now; but you will follow
afterward." 37 Peter said to him, "Lord, why can I not follow you now? I will
lay down my life for you." 38 Jesus answered, "Will you lay down your life for
me? Very truly, I tell you, before the cock crows, you will have denied me three
times.
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"Do not let your hearts be troubled. Believe in God, believe also
in me. 2 In my Father's house there are many dwelling places. If it were not so,
would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you? 3 And if I go and
prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself, so that
where I am, there you may be also. 4 And you know the way to the place where I
am going." 5 Thomas said to him, "Lord, we do not know where you are going. How
can we know the way?" 6 Jesus said to him, "I am the way, and the truth, and the
life. No one comes to the Father except through me. 7 If you know me, you will
know my Father also. From now on you do know him and have seen him." 8 Philip
said to him, "Lord, show us the Father, and we will be satisfied." 9 Jesus said
to him, "Have I been with you all this time, Philip, and you still do not know
me? Whoever has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, 'Show us the
Father'? 10 Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me?
The words that I say to you I do not speak on my own; but the Father who dwells
in me does his works. 11 Believe me that I am in the Father and the Father is in
me; but if you do not, then believe me because of the works themselves. 12 Very
truly, I tell you, the one who believes in me will also do the works that I do
and, in fact, will do greater works than these, because I am going to the
Father. 13 I will do whatever you ask in my name, so that the Father may be
glorified in the Son. 14 If in my name you ask me for anything, I will do it. 15
"If you love me, you will keep my commandments. 16 And I will ask the Father,
and he will give you another Advocate, to be with you forever. 17 This is the
Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor
knows him. You know him, because he abides with you, and he will be in you. 18
"I will not leave you orphaned; I am coming to you. 19 In a little while the
world will no longer see me, but you will see me; because I live, you also will
live. 20 On that day you will know that I am in my Father, and you in me, and I
in you. 21 They who have my commandments and keep them are those who love me;
and those who love me will be loved by my Father, and I will love them and
reveal myself to them." 22 Judas (not Iscariot) said to him, "Lord, how is it
that you will reveal yourself to us, and not to the world?" 23 Jesus answered
him, "Those who love me will keep my word, and my Father will love them, and we
will come to them and make our home with them. 24 Whoever does not love me does
not keep my words; and the word that you hear is not mine, but is from the
Father who sent me. 25 "I have said these things to you while I am still with
you. 26 But the Advocate, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name,
will teach you everything, and remind you of all that I have said to you. 27
Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. I do not give to you as the
world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled, and do not let them be afraid.
28 You heard me say to you, 'I am going away, and I am coming to you.' If you
loved me, you would rejoice that I am going to the Father, because the Father is
greater than I. 29 And now I have told you this before it occurs, so that when
it does occur, you may believe. 30 I will no longer talk much with you, for the
ruler of this world is coming. He has no power over me; 31 but I do as the
Father has commanded me, so that the world may know that I love the Father.
Rise, let us be on our way.
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"I am the true vine, and my Father is the vinegrower. 2 He removes
every branch in me that bears no fruit. Every branch that bears fruit he prunes
to make it bear more fruit. 3 You have already been cleansed by the word that I
have spoken to you. 4 Abide in me as I abide in you. Just as the branch cannot
bear fruit by itself unless it abides in the vine, neither can you unless you
abide in me. 5 I am the vine, you are the branches. Those who abide in me and I
in them bear much fruit, because apart from me you can do nothing. 6 Whoever
does not abide in me is thrown away like a branch and withers; such branches are
gathered, thrown into the fire, and burned. 7 If you abide in me, and my words
abide in you, ask for whatever you wish, and it will be done for you. 8 My
Father is glorified by this, that you bear much fruit and become my disciples. 9
As the Father has loved me, so I have loved you; abide in my love. 10 If you
keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father's
commandments and abide in his love. 11 I have said these things to you so that
my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be complete. 12 "This is my
commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. 13 No one has
greater love than this, to lay down one's life for one's friends. 14 You are my
friends if you do what I command you. 15 I do not call you servants any longer,
because the servant does not know what the master is doing; but I have called
you friends, because I have made known to you everything that I have heard from
my Father. 16 You did not choose me but I chose you. And I appointed you to go
and bear fruit, fruit that will last, so that the Father will give you whatever
you ask him in my name. 17 I am giving you these commands so that you may love
one another. 18 "If the world hates you, be aware that it hated me before it
hated you. 19 If you belonged to the world, the world would love you as its own.
Because you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the
world--therefore the world hates you. 20 Remember the word that I said to you,
'Servants are not greater than their master.' If they persecuted me, they will
persecute you; if they kept my word, they will keep yours also. 21 But they will
do all these things to you on account of my name, because they do not know him
who sent me. 22 If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have sin;
but now they have no excuse for their sin. 23 Whoever hates me hates my Father
also. 24 If I had not done among them the works that no one else did, they would
not have sin. But now they have seen and hated both me and my Father. 25 It was
to fulfill the word that is written in their law, 'They hated me without a
cause.' 26 "When the Advocate comes, whom I will send to you from the Father,
the Spirit of truth who comes from the Father, he will testify on my behalf. 27
You also are to testify because you have been with me from the beginning.
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"I have said these things to you to keep you from stumbling. 2 They
will put you out of the synagogues. Indeed, an hour is coming when those who
kill you will think that by doing so they are offering worship to God. 3 And
they will do this because they have not known the Father or me. 4 But I have
said these things to you so that when their hour comes you may remember that I
told you about them. "I did not say these things to you from the beginning,
because I was with you. 5 But now I am going to him who sent me; yet none of you
asks me, 'Where are you going?' 6 But because I have said these things to you,
sorrow has filled your hearts. 7 Nevertheless I tell you the truth: it is to
your advantage that I go away, for if I do not go away, the Advocate will not
come to you; but if I go, I will send him to you. 8 And when he comes, he will
prove the world wrong about sin and righteousness and judgment: 9 about sin,
because they do not believe in me; 10 about righteousness, because I am going to
the Father and you will see me no longer; 11 about judgment, because the ruler
of this world has been condemned. 12 "I still have many things to say to you,
but you cannot bear them now. 13 When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide
you into all the truth; for he will not speak on his own, but will speak
whatever he hears, and he will declare to you the things that are to come. 14 He
will glorify me, because he will take what is mine and declare it to you. 15 All
that the Father has is mine. For this reason I said that he will take what is
mine and declare it to you. 16 "A little while, and you will no longer see me,
and again a little while, and you will see me." 17 Then some of his disciples
said to one another, "What does he mean by saying to us, 'A little while, and
you will no longer see me, and again a little while, and you will see me'; and
'Because I am going to the Father'?" 18 They said, "What does he mean by this' a
little while'? We do not know what he is talking about." 19 Jesus knew that they
wanted to ask him, so he said to them, "Are you discussing among yourselves what
I meant when I said, 'A little while, and you will no longer see me, and again a
little while, and you will see me'? 20 Very truly, I tell you, you will weep and
mourn, but the world will rejoice; you will have pain, but your pain will turn
into joy. 21 When a woman is in labor, she has pain, because her hour has come.
But when her child is born, she no longer remembers the anguish because of the
joy of having brought a human being into the world. 22 So you have pain now; but
I will see you again, and your hearts will rejoice, and no one will take your
joy from you. 23 On that day you will ask nothing of me. Very truly, I tell you,
if you ask anything of the Father in my name, he will give it to you. 24 Until
now you have not asked for anything in my name. Ask and you will receive, so
that your joy may be complete. 25 "I have said these things to you in figures of
speech. The hour is coming when I will no longer speak to you in figures, but
will tell you plainly of the Father. 26 On that day you will ask in my name. I
do not say to you that I will ask the Father on your behalf; 27 for the Father
himself loves you, because you have loved me and have believed that I came from
God. 28 I came from the Father and have come into the world; again, I am leaving
the world and am going to the Father." 29 His disciples said, "Yes, now you are
speaking plainly, not in any figure of speech! 30 Now we know that you know all
things, and do not need to have anyone question you; by this we believe that you
came from God." 31 Jesus answered them, "Do you now believe? 32 The hour is
coming, indeed it has come, when you will be scattered, each one to his home,
and you will leave me alone. Yet I am not alone because the Father is with me.
33 I have said this to you, so that in me you may have peace. In the world you
face persecution. But take courage; I have conquered the world!"
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After Jesus had spoken these words, he looked up to heaven and
said, "Father, the hour has come; glorify your Son so that the Son may glorify
you, 2 since you have given him authority over all people, to give eternal life
to all whom you have given him. 3 And this is eternal life, that they may know
you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent. 4 I glorified you
on earth by finishing the work that you gave me to do. 5 So now, Father, glorify
me in your own presence with the glory that I had in your presence before the
world existed. 6 "I have made your name known to those whom you gave me from the
world. They were yours, and you gave them to me, and they have kept your word. 7
Now they know that everything you have given me is from you; 8 for the words
that you gave to me I have given to them, and they have received them and know
in truth that I came from you; and they have believed that you sent me. 9 I am
asking on their behalf; I am not asking on behalf of the world, but on behalf of
those whom you gave me, because they are yours. 10 All mine are yours, and yours
are mine; and I have been glorified in them. 11 And now I am no longer in the
world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, protect
them in your name that you have given me, so that they may be one, as we are
one. 12 While I was with them, I protected them in your name that you have given
me. I guarded them, and not one of them was lost except the one destined to be
lost, so that the scripture might be fulfilled. 13 But now I am coming to you,
and I speak these things in the world so that they may have my joy made complete
in themselves. 14 I have given them your word, and the world has hated them
because they do not belong to the world, just as I do not belong to the world.
15 I am not asking you to take them out of the world, but I ask you to protect
them from the evil one. 16 They do not belong to the world, just as I do not
belong to the world. 17 Sanctify them in the truth; your word is truth. 18 As
you have sent me into the world, so I have sent them into the world. 19 And for
their sakes I sanctify myself, so that they also may be sanctified in truth. 20
"I ask not only on behalf of these, but also on behalf of those who will believe
in me through their word, 21 that they may all be one. As you, Father, are in me
and I am in you, may they also be in us, so that the world may believe that you
have sent me. 22 The glory that you have given me I have given them, so that
they may be one, as we are one, 23 I in them and you in me, that they may become
completely one, so that the world may know that you have sent me and have loved
them even as you have loved me. 24 Father, I desire that those also, whom you
have given me, may be with me where I am, to see my glory, which you have given
me because you loved me before the foundation of the world. 25 "Righteous
Father, the world does not know you, but I know you; and these know that you
have sent me. 26 I made your name known to them, and I will make it known, so
that the love with which you have loved me may be in them, and I in them."
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After Jesus had spoken these words, he went out with his disciples
across the Kidron valley to a place where there was a garden, which he and his
disciples entered. 2 Now Judas, who betrayed him, also knew the place, because
Jesus often met there with his disciples. 3 So Judas brought a detachment of
soldiers together with police from the chief priests and the Pharisees, and they
came there with lanterns and torches and weapons. 4 Then Jesus, knowing all that
was to happen to him, came forward and asked them, "Whom are you looking for?" 5
They answered, "Jesus of Nazareth." Jesus replied, "I am he." Judas, who
betrayed him, was standing with them. 6 When Jesus said to them, "I am he," they
stepped back and fell to the ground. 7 Again he asked them, "Whom are you
looking for?" And they said, "Jesus of Nazareth." 8 Jesus answered, "I told you
that I am he. So if you are looking for me, let these men go." 9 This was to
fulfill the word that he had spoken, "I did not lose a single one of those whom
you gave me." 10 Then Simon Peter, who had a sword, drew it, struck the high
priest's slave, and cut off his right ear. The slave's name was Malchus. 11
Jesus said to Peter, "Put your sword back into its sheath. Am I not to drink the
cup that the Father has given me?" 12 So the soldiers, their officer, and the
Jewish police arrested Jesus and bound him. 13 First they took him to Annas, who
was the father-in-law of Caiaphas, the high priest that year. 14 Caiaphas was
the one who had advised the Jews that it was better to have one person die for
the people. 15 Simon Peter and another disciple followed Jesus. Since that
disciple was known to the high priest, he went with Jesus into the courtyard of
the high priest, 16 but Peter was standing outside at the gate. So the other
disciple, who was known to the high priest, went out, spoke to the woman who
guarded the gate, and brought Peter in. 17 The woman said to Peter, "You are not
also one of this man's disciples, are you?" He said, "I am not." 18 Now the
slaves and the police had made a charcoal fire because it was cold, and they
were standing around it and warming themselves. Peter also was standing with
them and warming himself. 19 Then the high priest questioned Jesus about his
disciples and about his teaching. 20 Jesus answered, "I have spoken openly to
the world; I have always taught in synagogues and in the temple, where all the
Jews come together. I have said nothing in secret. 21 Why do you ask me? Ask
those who heard what I said to them; they know what I said." 22 When he had said
this, one of the police standing nearby struck Jesus on the face, saying, "Is
that how you answer the high priest?" 23 Jesus answered, "If I have spoken
wrongly, testify to the wrong. But if I have spoken rightly, why do you strike
me?" 24 Then Annas sent him bound to Caiaphas the high priest. 25 Now Simon
Peter was standing and warming himself. They asked him, "You are not also one of
his disciples, are you?" He denied it and said, "I am not." 26 One of the slaves
of the high priest, a relative of the man whose ear Peter had cut off, asked,
"Did I not see you in the garden with him?" 27 Again Peter denied it, and at
that moment the cock crowed. 28 Then they took Jesus from Caiaphas to Pilate's
headquarters. It was early in the morning. They themselves did not enter the
headquarters, so as to avoid ritual defilement and to be able to eat the
Passover. 29 So Pilate went out to them and said, "What accusation do you bring
against this man?" 30 They answered, "If this man were not a criminal, we would
not have handed him over to you." 31 Pilate said to them, "Take him yourselves
and judge him according to your law." The Jews replied, "We are not permitted to
put anyone to death." 32 (This was to fulfill what Jesus had said when he
indicated the kind of death he was to die.) 33 Then Pilate entered the
headquarters again, summoned Jesus, and asked him, "Are you the King of the
Jews?" 34 Jesus answered, "Do you ask this on your own, or did others tell you
about me?" 35 Pilate replied, "I am not a Jew, am I? Your own nation and the
chief priests have handed you over to me. What have you done?" 36 Jesus
answered, "My kingdom is not from this world. If my kingdom were from this
world, my followers would be fighting to keep me from being handed over to the
Jews. But as it is, my kingdom is not from here." 37 Pilate asked him, "So you
are a king?" Jesus answered, "You say that I am a king. For this I was born, and
for this I came into the world, to testify to the truth. Everyone who belongs to
the truth listens to my voice." 38 Pilate asked him, "What is truth?" After he
had said this, he went out to the Jews again and told them, "I find no case
against him. 39 But you have a custom that I release someone for you at the
Passover. Do you want me to release for you the King of the Jews?" 40 They
shouted in reply, "Not this man, but Barabbas!" Now Barabbas was a bandit.
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Then Pilate took Jesus and had him flogged. 2 And the soldiers wove
a crown of thorns and put it on his head, and they dressed him in a purple robe.
3 They kept coming up to him, saying, "Hail, King of the Jews!" and striking him
on the face. 4 Pilate went out again and said to them, "Look, I am bringing him
out to you to let you know that I find no case against him." 5 So Jesus came
out, wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe. Pilate said to them, "Here
is the man!" 6 When the chief priests and the police saw him, they shouted,
"Crucify him! Crucify him!" Pilate said to them, "Take him yourselves and
crucify him; I find no case against him." 7 The Jews answered him, "We have a
law, and according to that law he ought to die because he has claimed to be the
Son of God." 8 Now when Pilate heard this, he was more afraid than ever. 9 He
entered his headquarters again and asked Jesus, "Where are you from?" But Jesus
gave him no answer. 10 Pilate therefore said to him, "Do you refuse to speak to
me? Do you not know that I have power to release you, and power to crucify you?"
11 Jesus answered him, "You would have no power over me unless it had been given
you from above; therefore the one who handed me over to you is guilty of a
greater sin." 12 From then on Pilate tried to release him, but the Jews cried
out, "If you release this man, you are no friend of the emperor. Everyone who
claims to be a king sets himself against the emperor." 13 When Pilate heard
these words, he brought Jesus outside and sat on the judge's bench at a place
called The Stone Pavement, or in Hebrew Gabbatha. 14 Now it was the day of
Preparation for the Passover; and it was about noon. He said to the Jews, "Here
is your King!" 15 They cried out, "Away with him! Away with him! Crucify him!"
Pilate asked them, "Shall I crucify your King?" The chief priests answered, "We
have no king but the emperor." 16 Then he handed him over to them to be
crucified. So they took Jesus; 17 and carrying the cross by himself, he went out
to what is called The Place of the Skull, which in Hebrew is called Golgotha. 18
There they crucified him, and with him two others, one on either side, with
Jesus between them. 19 Pilate also had an inscription written and put on the
cross. It read, "Jesus of Nazareth, the King of the Jews." 20 Many of the Jews
read this inscription, because the place where Jesus was crucified was near the
city; and it was written in Hebrew, in Latin, and in Greek. 21 Then the chief
priests of the Jews said to Pilate, "Do not write, 'The King of the Jews,' but,
'This man said, I am King of the Jews.'" 22 Pilate answered, "What I have
written I have written." 23 When the soldiers had crucified Jesus, they took his
clothes and divided them into four parts, one for each soldier. They also took
his tunic; now the tunic was seamless, woven in one piece from the top. 24 So
they said to one another, "Let us not tear it, but cast lots for it to see who
will get it." This was to fulfill what the scripture says, "They divided my
clothes among themselves, and for my clothing they cast lots." 25 And that is
what the soldiers did. Meanwhile, standing near the cross of Jesus were his
mother, and his mother's sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene. 26
When Jesus saw his mother and the disciple whom he loved standing beside her, he
said to his mother, "Woman, here is your son." 27 Then he said to the disciple,
"Here is your mother." And from that hour the disciple took her into his own
home. 28 After this, when Jesus knew that all was now finished, he said (in
order to fulfill the scripture), "I am thirsty." 29 A jar full of sour wine was
standing there. So they put a sponge full of the wine on a branch of hyssop and
held it to his mouth. 30 When Jesus had received the wine, he said, "It is
finished." Then he bowed his head and gave up his spirit. 31 Since it was the
day of Preparation, the Jews did not want the bodies left on the cross during
the sabbath, especially because that sabbath was a day of great solemnity. So
they asked Pilate to have the legs of the crucified men broken and the bodies
removed. 32 Then the soldiers came and broke the legs of the first and of the
other who had been crucified with him. 33 But when they came to Jesus and saw
that he was already dead, they did not break his legs. 34 Instead, one of the
soldiers pierced his side with a spear, and at once blood and water came out. 35
(He who saw this has testified so that you also may believe. His testimony is
true, and he knows that he tells the truth.) 36 These things occurred so that
the scripture might be fulfilled, "None of his bones shall be broken." 37 And
again another passage of scripture says, "They will look on the one whom they
have pierced." 38 After these things, Joseph of Arimathea, who was a disciple of
Jesus, though a secret one because of his fear of the Jews, asked Pilate to let
him take away the body of Jesus. Pilate gave him permission; so he came and
removed his body. 39 Nicodemus, who had at first come to Jesus by night, also
came, bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, weighing about a hundred pounds. 40
They took the body of Jesus and wrapped it with the spices in linen cloths,
according to the burial custom of the Jews. 41 Now there was a garden in the
place where he was crucified, and in the garden there was a new tomb in which no
one had ever been laid. 42 And so, because it was the Jewish day of Preparation,
and the tomb was nearby, they laid Jesus there.
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Early on the first day of the week, while it was still dark, Mary
Magdalene came to the tomb and saw that the stone had been removed from the
tomb. 2 So she ran and went to Simon Peter and the other disciple, the one whom
Jesus loved, and said to them, "They have taken the Lord out of the tomb, and we
do not know where they have laid him." 3 Then Peter and the other disciple set
out and went toward the tomb. 4 The two were running together, but the other
disciple outran Peter and reached the tomb first. 5 He bent down to look in and
saw the linen wrappings lying there, but he did not go in. 6 Then Simon Peter
came, following him, and went into the tomb. He saw the linen wrappings lying
there, 7 and the cloth that had been on Jesus' head, not lying with the linen
wrappings but rolled up in a place by itself. 8 Then the other disciple, who
reached the tomb first, also went in, and he saw and believed; 9 for as yet they
did not understand the scripture, that he must rise from the dead. 10 Then the
disciples returned to their homes. 11 But Mary stood weeping outside the tomb.
As she wept, she bent over to look into the tomb; 12 and she saw two angels in
white, sitting where the body of Jesus had been lying, one at the head and the
other at the feet. 13 They said to her, "Woman, why are you weeping?" She said
to them, "They have taken away my Lord, and I do not know where they have laid
him." 14 When she had said this, she turned around and saw Jesus standing there,
but she did not know that it was Jesus. 15 Jesus said to her, "Woman, why are
you weeping? Whom are you looking for?" Supposing him to be the gardener, she
said to him, "Sir, if you have carried him away, tell me where you have laid
him, and I will take him away." 16 Jesus said to her, "Mary!" She turned and
said to him in Hebrew, "Rabbouni!" (which means Teacher). 17 Jesus said to her,
"Do not hold on to me, because I have not yet ascended to the Father. But go to
my brothers and say to them, 'I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my
God and your God.'" 18 Mary Magdalene went and announced to the disciples, "I
have seen the Lord"; and she told them that he had said these things to her. 19
When it was evening on that day, the first day of the week, and the doors of the
house where the disciples had met were locked for fear of the Jews, Jesus came
and stood among them and said, "Peace be with you." 20 After he said this, he
showed them his hands and his side. Then the disciples rejoiced when they saw
the Lord. 21 Jesus said to them again, "Peace be with you. As the Father has
sent me, so I send you." 22 When he had said this, he breathed on them and said
to them, "Receive the Holy Spirit. 23 If you forgive the sins of any, they are
forgiven them; if you retain the sins of any, they are retained." 24 But Thomas
(who was called the Twin), one of the twelve, was not with them when Jesus came.
25 So the other disciples told him, "We have seen the Lord." But he said to
them, "Unless I see the mark of the nails in his hands, and put my finger in the
mark of the nails and my hand in his side, I will not believe." 26 A week later
his disciples were again in the house, and Thomas was with them. Although the
doors were shut, Jesus came and stood among them and said, "Peace be with you."
27 Then he said to Thomas, "Put your finger here and see my hands. Reach out
your hand and put it in my side. Do not doubt but believe." 28 Thomas answered
him, "My Lord and my God!" 29 Jesus said to him, "Have you believed because you
have seen me? Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have come to believe."
30 Now Jesus did many other signs in the presence of his disciples, which are
not written in this book. 31 But these are written so that you may come to
believe that Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of God, and that through believing
you may have life in his name.
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After these things Jesus showed himself again to the disciples by
the Sea of Tiberias; and he showed himself in this way. 2 Gathered there
together were Simon Peter, Thomas called the Twin, Nathanael of Cana in Galilee,
the sons of Zebedee, and two others of his disciples. 3 Simon Peter said to
them, "I am going fishing." They said to him, "We will go with you." They went
out and got into the boat, but that night they caught nothing. 4 Just after
daybreak, Jesus stood on the beach; but the disciples did not know that it was
Jesus. 5 Jesus said to them, "Children, you have no fish, have you?" They
answered him, "No." 6 He said to them, "Cast the net to the right side of the
boat, and you will find some." So they cast it, and now they were not able to
haul it in because there were so many fish. 7 That disciple whom Jesus loved
said to Peter, "It is the Lord!" When Simon Peter heard that it was the Lord, he
put on some clothes, for he was naked, and jumped into the sea. 8 But the other
disciples came in the boat, dragging the net full of fish, for they were not far
from the land, only about a hundred yards off. 9 When they had gone ashore, they
saw a charcoal fire there, with fish on it, and bread. 10 Jesus said to them,
"Bring some of the fish that you have just caught." 11 So Simon Peter went
aboard and hauled the net ashore, full of large fish, a hundred fifty-three of
them; and though there were so many, the net was not torn. 12 Jesus said to
them, "Come and have breakfast." Now none of the disciples dared to ask him,
"Who are you?" because they knew it was the Lord. 13 Jesus came and took the
bread and gave it to them, and did the same with the fish. 14 This was now the
third time that Jesus appeared to the disciples after he was raised from the
dead. 15 When they had finished breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, "Simon son
of John, do you love me more than these?" He said to him, "Yes, Lord; you know
that I love you." Jesus said to him, "Feed my lambs." 16 A second time he said
to him, "Simon son of John, do you love me?" He said to him, "Yes, Lord; you
know that I love you." Jesus said to him, "Tend my sheep." 17 He said to him the
third time, "Simon son of John, do you love me?" Peter felt hurt because he said
to him the third time, "Do you love me?" And he said to him, "Lord, you know
everything; you know that I love you." Jesus said to him, "Feed my sheep. 18
Very truly, I tell you, when you were younger, you used to fasten your own belt
and to go wherever you wished. But when you grow old, you will stretch out your
hands, and someone else will fasten a belt around you and take you where you do
not wish to go." 19 (He said this to indicate the kind of death by which he
would glorify God.) After this he said to him, "Follow me." 20 Peter turned and
saw the disciple whom Jesus loved following them; he was the one who had
reclined next to Jesus at the supper and had said, "Lord, who is it that is
going to betray you?" 21 When Peter saw him, he said to Jesus, "Lord, what about
him?" 22 Jesus said to him, "If it is my will that he remain until I come, what
is that to you? Follow me!" 23 So the rumor spread in the community that this
disciple would not die. Yet Jesus did not say to him that he would not die, but,
"If it is my will that he remain until I come, what is that to you?" 24 This is
the disciple who is testifying to these things and has written them, and we know
that his testimony is true. 25 But there are also many other things that Jesus
did; if every one of them were written down, I suppose that the world itself
could not contain the books that would be written.
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