The Good News According to
John
1:1 ¶ | At the Beginning the Word already was:
| The Word was with God; | And the Word was God.
1:2 ¶ | He was with God at the Beginning;
3 | It was through him that everything began,
| And not a single thing began apart from him. | That
which began
4 in him was Life itself; | That Life was the
Light of mankind;
5 | And that Light
has been shining in the darkness, | And the darkness has never overpowered it.
1:6 ¶ | There appeared, with a message from
God, a man whose name was John;
7 | He came to bear testimony—to testify to
the Light, | That every one, through him, might come
to believe in it.
8 | Not that he was the Light, | But his part
was to testify to the Light.
1:9 ¶ | That Light was the true Light, which
enlightens every man on his coming into the world.
10 | He was already in the world; | Through him the world began, | Yet the world did not
recognize him.
12 | But to all who did he gave the right to
become children of God— | To those who believe in him.
13 | It was not to natural conception, nor to
human instincts, nor to any man’s choice, | But to God himself, that they owed
this Life.
15 | (John himself bears testimony to him; he
cried—for the words were his— | ‘The One who was to Come after me is now in
advance of me, | For he was already before me’);
16 | Indeed, out of his abundance we have
every one received a share, | Yes, mercy upon mercy;
17 | For, while the
Law was given through Moses, | Mercy and truth came through Jesus
20 He owned, without attempting to deny it, he
owned that he was not the
21 “What then? are
you Elijah?” they asked. “No,” he said, “I am not.” “Are you the Prophet?”
“No,” he answered.
22 “Who then are you?” they continued; “tell
us, that we may have some answer to give to those who have sent us. What do you
say about yourself?”
24 This deputation had come from the
Pharisees;
25 and their next question was:
“Why then are you baptizing, if you are not the
26 “I am baptizing in water,” was John’s
answer, “but there is standing among you one whom you do not know,
27 who is, indeed, coming after me; but I am
not worthy even to undo his shoe.”
28 All this took place at
30 It was of him that I spoke when I said,
‘After me there is coming a man who is now in advance of me, for he was already
before me.’
31 I did not myself know him, but it is in
order that he may be made known to
32 John also bore this testimony— “I have seen
the Spirit coming down from the sky like a dove, and it remained upon him.
33 I did not myself know him, but he who sent
me to baptize in water, he himself said to me, ‘The one on whom you see the
Spirit coming down and remaining—he is the one who baptizes in the holy
Spirit.’
34 I have seen this myself, and have borne my
testimony to his being the Son of God.”
36 when, looking at Jesus as he was walking,
he exclaimed: “There is the Lamb of God!”
37 The two disciples heard him say this, and
followed Jesus.
38 Presently Jesus turned round, and saw them
following. “What are you
looking for?” he asked.
“Rabbi,” they answered (or “Teacher,” as we should say), “where are you staying?”
39 “Come, and you shall see,” he replied. So they went, and saw where he was staying, and spent
that day with him. It was then about four in the afternoon.
40 One of the two that heard what John said
and followed Jesus was Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother.
41 The first thing he did
was to find his own brother Simon, and say to him: “We have found the Messiah!”
(a word
which means ‘
42 Andrew then brought him to Jesus. Fixing
his eyes on him, Jesus said: “You
are Simon, the son of John; you shall be called Cephas” (or ‘Peter,’ which means ‘Rock’).
44 Philip was from
45 He found Nathanael
and said to him: “We have found him of whom Moses wrote in the Law, and of whom
the Prophets also wrote. It is Jesus of Nazareth, Joseph’s son!”
46 “Can anything good come out of
47 Jesus saw Nathanael
coming towards him, and remarked: “Here is a true Israelite, who has no deceit in him!”
48 “How is it that you know me?” Nathanael asked. “Even before Philip called you,” Jesus replied, “when
you were under the fig tree, I saw you.”
49 “Rabbi,” Nathanael
exclaimed, “you are the Son of God, you are King of Israel!”
50 “Do you believe in me,” Jesus asked,
“because I told you that I saw you under the fig tree? You shall see greater
things than that!
51 Believe me,” he added, “you shall all see Heaven wide open, and the angels of God
going up and coming down upon the Son of Man.”
2:1 ¶ Two days after this there was a wedding
at
2 Jesus himself, too, was invited, with his
disciples.
3 The wine ran short, so his mother said to
him: “They have no wine left.”
4 “What
do you want with me?” Jesus answered; “my
time has not come yet.”
5 His mother said to the servants: “Do
whatever he tells you.”
6 There were six stone water-jars standing
there, as required by the Jews’ regulations as to ‘purification.’ They each
held twenty or thirty gallons.
7 “Fill the water-jars with water,” Jesus said to the servants. When they had filled them up to the
brim,
8 he said to them: “Now take some out, and carry it to the
Master of the Feast.” The
servants did so.
9 And when the Master of the Feast had tasted
the water which had now become wine, without knowing where it had come
from—though the servants who had taken out the water knew—he called the
bridegroom
10 and said to him: “Every one else puts his
good wine on the table first, and his poorer wine as soon as the guests have
drunk deeply; but you have kept back the good wine till now!”
11 This sign of his mission, which Jesus gave
at
14 In the Temple Courts he found those who
were selling bullocks, sheep, and pigeons, and the bankers seated there.
15 So he made a whip of cord, and drove all
the sheep and bullocks out of the Temple Courts. He scattered the bankers’
money, and overturned their tables,
16 and said to the pigeon-dealers: “Take these things away. Do not turn my
Father’s House into a market-house.”
17 His disciples recollected that Scripture
said— | ‘Zeal for thy House will consume me.’
18 Upon this the Jews asked Jesus: “What sign
are you going to show us, since you act in this way?”
19 “Destroy this temple,” was his answer,
“and I will raise it in three days.”
20 “This Temple,” the Jews replied, “has been
building for forty-six years, and are you going to ‘raise it in three days’?”
21 But Jesus was speaking of his body as a
temple.
22 Afterwards, when he had risen from the
dead, his disciples recollected that he had said this; and they believed the
words of Scripture, and what Jesus had said.
23 ¶ When Jesus was at
24 But Jesus, for his part, did not trust
himself to them, since he could read every heart,
25 and because he had no need for others to
tell him about any man; for he could of himself read what there was in a man.
3:1 ¶ There was a Pharisee named Nicodemus,
who was a leading man among the Jews.
2 This man went to Jesus by night, and said to
him: “Rabbi, we know that you are a Teacher come from God; for no one could
give such signs as you are giving, unless God was with him.”
3 “Believe me,” Jesus
replied, “unless a man is born
over again, he cannot see the
4 “How can a man,” Nicodemus asked, “be born
when he is old? Can he enter his mother’s womb again, and be born?”
5 “Believe me,” Jesus
answered, “unless a man owes
his birth to water and Spirit, he cannot enter the
6 All that owes
its birth to human nature alone is only human, and all that owes its birth to
the Spirit is spiritual.
7 Do not be
surprised at my telling you that you all need to be born over again.
8 The wind blows
where it wills, and you can hear the sound of it, but you do not know where it
comes from, or where it goes; it is the same with every one that owes his birth
to the Spirit.”
9 “How can that be?” asked Nicodemus.
10 “What! You a teacher of
11 Believe me, we
speak of what we know, and bear testimony about what we have seen; and yet you
do not accept our testimony.
12 If, when I tell
you about earthly things, you do not believe me, how will you believe me if I
tell you about heavenly things?
13 There is no one
gone up to Heaven, except the one who came down from Heaven—the Son of Man
himself.
14 And as Moses
lifted up the serpent in the desert, so has the Son of Man to be lifted up;
15 that every one
who believes in him may have enduring Life.”
17 For God did not send his Son into the world
to condemn it, but for the world to be saved through him.
18 Those who believe in him escape
condemnation, while those who do not believe in him are already condemned, on
the ground of their not having believed in God’s only Son.
19 Their condemnation lies in this, that
though the Light has come into the world, men liked the darkness more than the
Light, because their actions were wicked.
20 Indeed all who are living wrongly hate the
light, and will not come to it, for fear their actions should be exposed;
21 but those who act up to the truth come to
the light, that their actions may be shown to have been done in reliance upon
God.
23 John, too, was baptizing at Aenon near Salim, because there
were many streams there; and people were constantly coming and being baptized.
24 (For John had not yet
been imprisoned.)
25 A discussion arose between some of John’s disciples
and a Jew on the subject of ‘purifications,’
26 and when John’s disciples returned to him,
they said: “Rabbi, the man who was with you on the other side of the
27 This was John’s answer— “A man can receive
nothing except as enabled to do so from Heaven.
28 You are witnesses yourselves that I said
that I was not the
29 It is the bridegroom who has the bride; but
the bridegroom’s friend, who stands by and listens to him, is happy indeed when
he hears his voice. This is the happiness which I have experienced to the full.
30 He must become greater, and I less.”
32 It is about what he has seen and about what
he heard that he bears his testimony, and yet no one accepts it.
33 Those who do so attest the fact that God is
true.
34 God’s Messenger gives us God’s own
teaching, for God does not limit the gift of the Spirit.
35 The Father loves his Son, and has put
everything in his hands.
36 Those who believe in the Son have enduring
Life, while those who reject the Son will not even see the Life, but they
remain under God’s displeasure.
4:1 ¶ Now the Master heard that the Pharisees
had been told that he was making and baptizing more disciples than John
2 (though it was not Jesus himself, but his
disciples, who baptized).
3 When he heard this, he left
4 He had to pass through
5 and in doing so, he came to a town there
called Shechem, near the plot of land that Jacob gave
to his son Joseph.
6 Jacob’s Spring was there, and Jesus, being
tired after his journey, sat down, just as he was, close to it. It was then
about mid-day.
7 A woman of
8 his disciples having gone
into the town to buy provisions.
10 “If you
knew of the gift of God,” Jesus replied, “and
who it is that is asking you to give him some water, you would have asked him,
and he would have given you living water.”
11 “You have no bucket, Sir, and the well is
deep,” she said; “where have you got that ‘living water’ from?
12 Surely you are not greater than our
ancestor Jacob who gave us the well, and used to drink from it himself, and his
sons, and his cattle too!”
13 “All who drink of this water,” Jesus replied,
“will be thirsty again;
14 but whoever once
drinks of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty any more; but
the water that I will give him will become a spring of water within him,
welling up for enduring Life.”
15 “Give me this water, Sir,” said the woman,
“so that I may not be thirsty, nor yet have to come all the way here to draw
water.”
16 “Go and call your husband,” Jesus said, “and
then come here.”
17 “I have no husband,” the woman answered. “You are right in saying that you have no
husband,” replied Jesus,
18 “for you have
had five husbands, and the man that you are now living with is not your
husband; in saying that, you have spoken the truth.”
19 “I see, Sir, that you are a Prophet,” the
woman said.
20 “It was on this mountain
that our ancestors worshipped; and yet you Jews say that the proper place for
worship is in
21 “Trust me,” Jesus
replied, “a time is coming when
it will not be on this mountain or in
22 You Samaritans
worship what you do not know; we worship what we do know, because salvation
comes from the Jews.
23 But a time is
coming, and indeed is already here, when the true worshippers will worship the
Father spiritually, with true insight; for such is the worship that the Father
desires.
24 God is Spirit;
and those who worship him must worship spiritually, with true insight.”
25 “I know,” the woman answered, “that the
Messiah, who is called the
26 “I am the Messiah,” Jesus
said to her, “I who am speaking
to you.”
28 So the woman left her pitcher behind, and
went back to the town, and said to the people:
29 “Come and see somebody who has told me
everything that I have ever done; can he possibly be the
30 The people set out from the town on their
way to see Jesus.
32 “I
have food to eat,” he answered, “which you know
nothing about.”
33 “Surely no one has brought him anything to
eat!” the disciples said to one another.
34 “My food,” Jesus
replied, “is to do the will of him
who sent me, and to complete the work he has given me to do.
35 Do you not say
that it still wants four months to harvest? Why, look up, and see how white the
fields are for harvest!
36 Already the
reaper is receiving wages and gathering in a crop for enduring Life, so that sower and reaper may rejoice together.
37 For here the
proverb holds good—‘One sows, another reaps.’
38 I have sent you
to reap a crop on which you have spent no labour;
others have laboured, and you are having the benefit of
their labour.”
4:39 ¶ Many from that town came to believe in
Jesus—Samaritans though they were—on account of what the woman said, when she
declared, ‘He has told me everything that I have ever done.’
40 When these Samaritans had come to Jesus, they
begged him to stay with them, and he did stay two days there.
41 And many more came to believe in him on
account of what he said himself;
42 and they said to the woman: “It is no
longer because of your talk that we believe in him; for we have heard him
ourselves and are sure that he really is the Saviour
of the world.”
44 for he himself
declared that ‘a Prophet gets
no honour in his own country.’
45 When he reached
47 When this man heard that Jesus had returned
from
48 Jesus answered: “Unless you all see signs and wonders, you
will never believe in me.”
49 “Do come down, Sir,” said the officer,
“before my child dies.”
50 “You can go,” Jesus
answered; “your son is alive
and well.” The man believed
what Jesus said to him, and went;
51 and he was already on his way down, when
his servants met him, and told him that his boy was alive and well.
52 So he asked them at what time he began to
get better. “It was yesterday, about
53 The father knew by this that it had left
him at the very time that Jesus had said to him, ‘Your son is alive and well’; and he himself believed in Jesus, and all
his household too.
5:1 ¶ Sometime after
this there was a Jewish Festival; so Jesus went up to
2 There is at
3 In these colonnades a large number of
invalids were lying—some blind, some lame, and some crippled.
5 One man who was there had been an invalid
for thirty-eight years.
6 Jesus saw the man lying there, and finding
that he had been in this state a long time, said to him: “Do you want to get well?”
7 “I have no one, Sir,” the invalid answered,
“to put me into the Bath when there is a movement of the water, and while I am
getting to it, some one else steps down before me.”
8 “Get up,” Jesus
said, “take your mat and walk.”
9a Immediately the man got well, and took his
mat and began walking.
5:9b ¶ Now it was the Sabbath.
10 So the Jews said to the man who had been
cured: “This is the Sabbath; you must not carry your mat.”
11 “The man who made me well,” he answered,
“told me to take my mat and walk.”
12 “Who was it,” they asked, “that told you to
do this?”
13 But the man who had been cured did not know
who it was; for Jesus had moved away, as there was a crowd there.
14 Afterwards, Jesus found the man in the
Temple Courts, and said to him: “You are well now; do not go on sinning, for fear of something worse
befalling you.”
15 The man went away, and told the Jews that
it was Jesus who had made him well.
16 And that was why the Jews began to
persecute Jesus—because he did things like this on the Sabbath.
17 Jesus explained: “My Father has gone on working to the
present moment; I go on working too.”
18 This made the Jews all the more eager to
kill him, because not only was he doing away with the Sabbath, but he actually
called God his own Father—putting himself on an equality with God.
19 So Jesus gave this further explanation: “The Son, believe me, cannot do anything of
himself; he only does what he sees the Father doing; for whatever the Father
does, the Son does also.
20 The Father
loves his Son, and shows him everything that he is doing; and he will show him
greater things still—to your astonishment.
21 For just as the
Father raises the dead and gives them Life, so also the Son gives Life to
whomever he pleases.
22 Indeed the
Father does not judge any one, but has entrusted the work of judging entirely
to his Son,
23 so that
everybody may honour the Son, just as they honour the Father. Those who do not honour
the Son are not honouring the Father who sent him.
24 I assure you,
those who listen to my teaching and believe him who sent me have enduring Life,
and do not come under condemnation, but have already passed out of Death into
Life.
25 I assure you, a
time is coming, and is already here, when the Dead will listen to the voice of
the Son of God, and when those who listen will live.
26 For just as the
Father has life within himself, so he has given his Son Life, that he too may
have it within himself.
27 And because he
is man, he has also given him authority to act as judge.
28 Do not be surprised
at this; for the time is coming when all who are in their graves will hear his
voice,
29 and will come
out—those that have acted rightly rising to Life, and those that have lived
wrongly rising for condemnation.
30 I cannot do
anything of myself; it is as I am taught that I judge; and the judgement I pass is just, because my aim is not to do my
own will, but the will of him who sent me.
32 it is another
who bears testimony to me, and I know that the testimony which he bears to me
is trustworthy.
33 You have
yourselves sent to John, and he has testified to the Truth.
34 But the
testimony which I receive is not from man; I am only saying this for your
salvation.
35 He was the Lamp
that was burning and shining, and you were ready to rejoice, for a time, in his
light.
36 But the
testimony which I have is of greater weight than John’s; for the things which
the Father has given me to carry out—the very things which I am doing—are proof
that I have come with a message from the Father.
37 The Father who
has sent me has himself, too, borne testimony to me. You have never either
listened to his voice, or seen his form;
38 and you have not
his teaching always in mind, for you do not believe his Messenger.
39 You search the
Scriptures because you suppose that you find in them enduring Life; and though
it is those very Scriptures that bear testimony to me,
40 you refuse to
come to me to have Life.
41 I do not, in
any case, receive honour from men,
42 but I know this
of you, that you have not the love of God in your hearts.
43 I have come in
my Father’s name, and you do not receive me; if another comes in his own name,
you will receive him.
44 How can you
possibly believe in me when you receive honour from
one another, while you do not try to obtain the honour
which comes from the only God?
45 Do not suppose
that I shall accuse you to the Father; your accuser is Moses, on whom you have
been resting your hopes.
46 If you believed
Moses, you would have believed me, for it was about me that Moses wrote;
47 but if you do
not believe his writings, how will you believe my words?”
6:1 ¶ Afterwards Jesus crossed the
2 A great crowd of people, however, followed
him, because they saw the signs of his mission in his work among those who were
ill.
3 Jesus walked up the hill, and sat down there
with his disciples.
4 It was near the time of the Jewish Festival
of the Passover.
5 On looking up, and noticing that a great
crowd was coming towards 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 meant to do.
7 “Twenty pounds’ worth of bread is not
enough,” Philip answered, “for each of them to have a little.”
8 “There is a boy here,” said Andrew, another
of his disciples, Simon Peter’s brother,
9 “who has five barley loaves and two fishes;
but what is that for so many?”
10 “Make the people sit down,” Jesus said. There was plenty of grass at the spot; so the men
among them sat down—about five thousand in number—
11 after which Jesus took the loaves, and
having given thanks, gave them round to those who had seated themselves, and
the same with the fish, giving the people as much of these as they wanted.
12 When they were satisfied, Jesus said to his
disciples: “Pick up the pieces
that are to spare, so that nothing may be wasted.”
13 The disciples did so, and loaded twelve
baskets with the pieces of the five barley loaves, which were to spare after
all had had enough.
15 So having discovered that they were
intending to come and carry him off to make him King, Jesus retired again to
the hill quite alone.
17 and getting into a boat, began to cross to
18 the lake, too, was getting rough, for a
strong wind was blowing.
19 When they had rowed three or four miles,
they caught sight of Jesus walking on the water and getting near the boat; and
they were afraid.
20 But Jesus said to them: “It is I; do not be
afraid!”
21 After this, they were willing to take him
into the boat; and the boat at once arrived off the shore, at the place for
which they had been making.
23 Some boats, however, had come from Tiberias close to the spot where they ate the bread after
the Master had given thanks.
24 So, next day, when the people saw that
Jesus was not there, or his disciples either, they themselves got into the
boats, and went to
25 They found him on the other side of the
lake, and said: “When did you come here, Rabbi?”
26 “I tell you,”
answered Jesus, “it is not on
account of the signs which you saw that you are looking for me, but because you
had plenty of bread to eat.
27 Do not work for perishable food, but work for that which lasts, and
is food for enduring Life. This the Son of Man will give you, for it is upon
him that the Father—God himself—has set the seal of his approval.”
28 “How,” they asked, “are we to do the things
that God would have us do?”
29 “The thing God would have you do,” Jesus answered, “is to believe in God’s Messenger.”
30 “What sign, then, are you giving, which we
may see, and so believe you? What is the work you are doing?” they asked.
31 “Our ancestors had manna to eat in the desert,
for Scripture says—‘He gave them bread from Heaven to eat.’ ”
32 “Believe me,”
Jesus replied, “Moses did not
give you the bread from Heaven, but my Father does give you the true Bread from
Heaven;
33 for the Bread God gives is that which comes down from Heaven, and
gives Life to the world.”
34 “Master,” they said, “give us that Bread
always!”
35 “I myself am the Life-giving Bread,” Jesus said to them; “those that come to me will never be hungry, and those that believe
in me will never be thirsty any more.
36 But, as I have said already, you have actually seen me, and yet you
do not believe in me.
37 All whom the Father gives me will come to me; and no one who comes
to me will I ever turn away.
38 I have come down from Heaven—not to do my own will, but the will of
him who sent me;
39 and his will is this—that I should not lose one of all those whom he
has given me, but should raise them from death at the Last Day.
40 For it is the will of my Father that every one who sees the Son, and
believes in him, should have enduring Life; and then I myself will raise him
from death at the Last Day.”
42 “Is not this Jesus, Joseph’s son,” they
asked, “whose father and mother we know? How is it that he says now that he has
come down from Heaven?”
43 “Do not find fault with me among yourselves,” said Jesus in reply.
44 “No one can come to me, unless the Father who sent me draws him to
me; and then I will myself raise him from death at the Last Day.
45 It is said in the Prophets—‘And they shall all be taught by God.’
All who are instructed by the Father and learn from him come to me.
46 Not that any one has seen the Father, with the exception of the one
who is from God; he has seen the Father.
47 I assure you, those who believe in me have enduring Life.
48 I myself am the Life-giving Bread.
49 Your forefathers had manna to eat in the desert, and yet died.
50 The Bread that comes down from Heaven is such that any one may eat
of it, and never die.
51 I myself am the living Bread that has come down from Heaven. If any
one eats of this Bread, he will live for ever; yes, and the Bread which I will
give is my flesh, which I will give for the Life of the world.”
53 “Believe me,”
Jesus answered, “unless you eat
the flesh of the Son of Man, and drink his blood, you have not Life within you.
54 Those who take my flesh for their food, and drink my blood, have
enduring Life; and I will raise them from death at the Last Day.
55 For my flesh is true food, and my blood true drink.
56 Those who take my flesh for their food, and drink my blood, are
always in union with me, and I with them.
57 As the living Father made me his Messenger, and as I live because
the Father does, so those who take me for their food will live because I do.
58 Such then is the Bread that has come down from Heaven—not such as
your forefathers ate, and yet died; those who take this Bread for their food
will live for ever.”
59 All this Jesus said in a Synagogue, when he
was teaching in
6:60 ¶ On hearing it, many of his disciples
said: “This is harsh saying! Who can bear to listen to it?”
61 But Jesus, conscious that his disciples
were finding fault with it, said to them: “Is this a hindrance to you?
62 What then if you should see the Son of Man going up to where he was
before?
63 It is the Spirit that gives Life; mere flesh is of no avail. The
truths that I have been teaching you are spiritual and life-giving;
64 yet there are some of you who do not believe them.” Jesus knew from the first who they were
that did not believe, and who it was that would betray him;
65 and he added: “This is why I told you that no one can come
to me, unless enabled to do so by the Father.”
6:66 ¶ In consequence of this many of his
disciples drew back, and did not go about with him any longer.
67 So Jesus said to the Twelve: “Do you also wish to leave me?”
68 “To whom shall we go, Master?” Simon Peter
answered. “Your teaching leads to enduring Life;
69 and we have learnt to believe and are sure
that you are the Holy One of God.”
70 “Did not I myself choose you to be the Twelve?” Jesus replied; “and yet, even of you, one is an enemy.”
71 He meant Judas, the son of Simeon Iscariot,
who was about to betray him, though he was one of the Twelve.
7:1 ¶ After this,
Jesus went about in
2 The time of the Jewish Feast of Tabernacles
being near,
3 his brothers said to him: “You should leave
this part of the country, and go into
4 For no one does a
thing privately when his aim is to be widely known. Since you do these things,
you should show yourself publicly to the world.”
5 For even his brothers did not believe in
him.
6 “My time,” Jesus
answered, “is not come yet, but
your time is here always.
7 The world cannot hate you, but it does hate me, because I testify
that its ways are wicked.
8 Go up to the Festival yourselves; I am not going up to it yet,
because the time for me to do so has not quite come.”
9 After telling them this, he still stayed on
in
11 The Jews were looking for him at the
Festival and asking where he was;
13 No one, however, spoke freely about him for
fear of the Jews.
15 The Jews were astonished. “How has this man
got his learning, when he has never studied?” they asked.
16 In reply, Jesus said: “My teaching is not my own; it is his who
sent me.
17 If any one has the will to do God’s will, he will find out whether
my teaching is from God, or whether I speak on my own authority.
18 A man who speaks on his own authority is eager for honour for himself; but a man who is eager for the honour of him that sent him is sincere, and there is
nothing false about him.
19 Was not it Moses who gave you the Law? Yet none of you obey it! Why
are you eager to put me to death?”
20 “You must be possessed!” the people
exclaimed. “Who is eager to put you to death?”
21 “There was one thing I did,” replied Jesus, “at
which you are all still wondering.
22 This is why Moses has instituted circumcision among you—not that it
began with him, but with our ancestors—and why you circumcise even on a
Sabbath.
23 When a man receives circumcision on a Sabbath to prevent the Law of
Moses being broken, how can you be angry with me for making a man sound and
well on a Sabbath?
24 Do not judge by appearances; judge justly.”
26 Yet here he is, speaking out boldly, and
they do not say anything to him! Is it possible that our leading men have
really discovered that he is the
27 Yet we know where this man is from; but
when the
28 So Jesus, as he was teaching in the Temple
Courts, raised his voice, and said: “Yes; you know me, and you know where I am from. Yet I have not come
on my own authority, but he who sent me is trustworthy; and him you do not
know.
29 For myself, I do know him, for it is from him that I have come, and
I am his Messenger.”
30 This made them eager to arrest him; but no
one touched him, for his time was not come yet.
31 Many of the people, however, believed in
him. “When the
33 on which Jesus said: “I shall be with you but a little longer,
and then I am going to him who sent me.
34 You will look for me, and you will not find me; and you will not be
able to go where I shall be.”
35 “Where is he going,” the Jews asked one
another, “that we shall not find him? Will he go to our countrymen scattered
among the Greeks, and teach the Greeks?
36 What does he mean by saying, ‘You will look for me, and you will not find
me; and you will not be able to go where I shall be’?”
38 From the heart of those who believe in me will flow, as is said in Scripture,
rivers of living water.”
39 (By this he meant the Spirit, which those
who had believed in him were to receive; for the Spirit had not yet come,
because Jesus had not yet been exalted.)
40 Some of the people, when they heard these
words, exclaimed: “This is certainly the Prophet!”,
41 others: “This is the
42 Is it not said in Scripture that it is of
the race of David, and from
43 So there was a division of opinion among
the people on his account;
44 some of them wanted to arrest him, but yet
no one touched him.
46 “No man has ever spoken as he does!” they
answered.
47 “What! have you been led astray too?” the
Pharisees replied.
48 “Have any of our leading men believed in
him, or any of the Pharisees?
49 As for these people who do not know the
Law—they are cursed.”
50 But one of their number, Nicodemus, who had
formerly visited Jesus, said to them:
51 “Does our Law pass judgement
on a man without first giving him a hearing, and finding out what he has been doing?”
52 “Are you also from
8:1 except Jesus, who went to the
2 But he went again into the Temple Courts early
in the morning, where all the people came to him; and he sat down and taught
them.
3 Presently, however, the Rabbis and Pharisees
brought a woman who had been caught in adultery, and placed her in the middle
of the Court,
4 and said to Jesus: “Teacher, this woman was
found in the very act of adultery.
5 Now Moses, in the Law, commanded us to stone
such women to death; what do you say?”
6 They said this to test him, in order to have
a charge to bring against him. But Jesus stooped down, and wrote on the ground
with his finger.
7 However, as they continued asking him, he
raised himself, and said: “Let
the man among you who has never done wrong throw the first stone at her.”
8 And again he stooped down, and wrote on the
ground.
9 When they heard that, they went out one by
one, beginning with the eldest; and Jesus was left alone with the woman in the
middle of the Court.
10 Raising himself, Jesus said to her: “Woman, where are they? Did no one condemn
you?”
11 “No one, Master,” she answered. “Neither do I condemn you,” said Jesus; “go, and never sin again.”]
13 “You are bearing testimony to yourself!”
the Pharisees exclaimed; “your testimony is not trustworthy.”
14 “Even if I do so,”
answered Jesus, “my testimony
is trustworthy; for I know where I came from, and where I am going; but you do
not know where I come from, or where I am going.
15 You are judging by appearances; I am not judging any one.
16 Yet even if I were to judge, my decisions would be trustworthy;
because I am not alone, but I have with me the Father who sent me.
17 Why, in your own Law it is said that the testimony of two persons is
trustworthy.
18 I, who bear testimony to myself, am one, and the Father who sent me
is the second.”
19 “Where is your father, then?” they asked. “You do not know either me or my Father,” Jesus replied; “if you had known me, you would have known
my Father too.”
20 These statements were made by Jesus in the
Treasury, while he was teaching in the Temple Courts. Yet no one arrested him,
for his time had not then come.
22 “Is he going to kill himself,” the Jews
exclaimed, “that he says that we cannot go where he is going?”
23 “You,” Jesus
added, “are from below, I am
from above; you are of this present world, I am not;
24 and so I told you that you would die in your sins, for unless you
believe that I am what I say, you will die in your sins.”
25 “Who are you?” they asked. “Why ask the very thing about which I have
been speaking to you all along?” said Jesus.
26 “I have still much that concerns you to speak of and to pass judgement on; yet he who sent me is trustworthy, and the
things I speak of to the world are only those which I have learnt from him.”
27 They did not understand that he meant the
Father.
28 So Jesus added: “When you have lifted up the Son of Man,
then you will understand that I am what I say, and that I do nothing of myself,
but that I speak just as the Father has taught me.
29 Moreover, he who sent me is with me; he has not left me alone; for I
always do what pleases him.”
30 As he was speaking in this way, many
believed in him.
32 and you will find out the Truth, and the Truth will set you free.”
33 “We are descendants of Abraham,” was their
answer, “and have never yet been in slavery to any one. What do you mean by
saying ‘you will be set free’?”
34 “Believe me,”
Jesus replied, “all who sin are
slaves to sin.
35 Now a slave does not remain in the home always; but a son does.
36 So if the Son sets you free, then you will be free without doubt.
37 I know that you are descendants of Abraham; yet you are eager to put
me to death, because my teaching finds no place in your hearts.
38 I tell you only what I have myself seen when in the presence of the
Father. Your part therefore is to do what you have learnt from the Father.”
39 “Our father is Abraham,” was their answer. “If you are Abraham’s children,” Jesus answered, “do what Abraham did.
40 But, as it is, you are eager to put me to death—a man who has told
you the Truth as he heard it from God. Abraham did not act in that way.
41 You are doing what your own father does.” “We are not bastards,” they said, “we
have one Father—God himself.”
42 “If God were your Father,” Jesus replied, “you
would love me, for I came out of God himself, and am now here; nor have I come
of myself, but I am his Messenger.
43 Why is it that you do not understand what I say? It is because you
cannot bear to listen to my Message.
44 As for you, you are children of your father the Devil, and you are
determined to do what your father loves to do. He was a murderer from the first,
and has no place in the truth, because there is no truth in him. Whenever he
lies, he is doing what is natural to him; because he is a liar, and the father
of lying.
45 But, as for me, it is because I speak the truth to you that you do
not believe me.
46 Which of you can convict me of sin? Why then do you not believe me,
if I am speaking truth?
47 God’s children listen to God’s teaching; the reason why you do not
listen is because you are not God’s children.”
48 “Are not we right, after all,” the Jews
replied, “in saying that you are a Samaritan, and are possessed?”
49 “I am not possessed,” Jesus answered, “but
I am showing reverence for my Father; and yet you have no reverence for me.
50 Not that I am eager for honour for myself;
there is one who is eager for my honour, and he
decides.
51 Believe me, if any one lays my Message to heart, he will never
really die.”
52 “Now we are sure that you are possessed,”
the Jews replied. “Abraham died, and so did the Prophets; and yet you say, ‘If any one lays my Message to heart, he
will never die.’
53 Are you greater than our ancestor Abraham,
who died? And the Prophets died too. Whom do you make yourself out to be?”
54 “If I do honour to myself,” Jesus answered, “such honour
counts for nothing. It is my Father who does me honour—and
you say that he is your God;
55 and yet you have not learnt to know him; but I know him; and if I
were to say that I do not, I should be a liar like you; but I do know him, and
I lay his Message to heart.
56 Your ancestor Abraham rejoiced that he would see my day; and he did
see it, and was glad indeed.”
57 “You are not fifty years old yet,” the Jews
exclaimed, “and have you seen Abraham?”
58 “Believe me,”
Jesus replied, “before Abraham
was born I was already what I am.”
59 At this they took up stones to throw at
him; but Jesus hid himself, and left the Temple Courts.
9:1 ¶ Jesus, in passing, noticed a man who had
been blind from his birth.
2 “Rabbi,” the disciples asked, “who was it
that sinned, this man or his parents, that he should have been born blind?”
3 “It was not that the man sinned, or his parents either,” Jesus replied; “but he was born blind that what God is
doing might be exhibited in his case.
4 We must do what he who sent me is doing, while it is day; night is
coming, when no one can do anything.
5 As long as I am in the world, I am the Light of the world.”
6 Saying this, Jesus spat on the ground, made
paste with the saliva, and put it on the man’s eyes.
7 “Go,” he said, “and wash your eyes in the Bath of Siloam” (a word which means ‘Messenger’). So the
man went and washed his eyes, and returned able to see.
9:8 ¶ Upon this the neighbours,
and those who had formerly known him by sight as a beggar, exclaimed: “Is not
this the man who used to sit and beg?”
9a “Yes, it is” some said; while others said:
“No, but he is like him.”
9:9b ¶ He himself said: “I am the man.”
10 “How did you get your sight, then?” they
asked.
11 “The man they call Jesus,” he answered,
“made paste, and anointed my eyes, and said to me, ‘Go to Siloam and wash your eyes.’ So I went and washed my eyes, and gained
my sight.”
12 “Where is he?” they asked. “I do not know,”
he answered.
14 Now it was a Sabbath when Jesus made the
paste and gave him his sight.
15 So the man was again questioned—this time
by the Pharisees—as to how he had gained his sight. “He put paste on my eyes,”
he answered, “and I washed them, and I can see.”
16 “The man is not from God,” said some of the
Pharisees, “for he does not keep the Sabbath.” “How is it possible,” retorted
others, “for a bad man to give signs like this?” So there was a division of
opinion among them.
17 They again questioned the man: “What do you
yourself say about him, now that he has given you your sight?” “He is a
Prophet,” the man replied.
19 and questioned them. “Is this your son, who
you say was born blind?” they asked. “If so, how is it that he can see now?”
20 “We know that this is our son,” the parents
answered, “and we know that he was born blind;
21 but how it is that he can see now we do not
know; nor do we know who it was that gave him his sight. Ask him himself—he is
old enough—he will tell you about himself.”
22 His parents spoke in this way because they
were afraid of the Jews; for the Jews had already agreed that, if any one
should acknowledge Jesus as the
23 This was why his parents said, ‘He is old
enough; ask him himself.’
24 So the Jews again called the man who had
been blind, and said to him: “Give the honour of your
cure to God; we know that this is a bad man.”
25 “I do not know about his being a bad man,”
he replied; “one thing I do know, that although I was blind, I can see now.”
26 “What did he do to you?” they asked. “How
did he give you your sight?”
27 “I told you just now,” he answered, “and
you did not listen. Why do you want to hear it again? You, surely, do not want
to become his disciples?”
28 “You are his disciple,” they retorted
scornfully; “but we are disciples of Moses.
29 We know that God spoke to Moses; but as for
this man, we do not know where he comes from.”
30 “Well,” the man replied, “this is very
strange; you do not know where he comes from, and yet he has given me my sight!
31 We know that God never listens to bad men,
but when a man is religious and does God’s will, God listens to him.
32 Since the world began, such a thing was
never heard of as any one giving sight to a person born blind.
33 If this man had not been from God, he could
not have done anything at all.”
34 “You,” they retorted, “were born totally
depraved; and is it for you to teach us?” So they put him out.
36 “Who is he, Master,” he replied, “so that I
may believe in him.”
37 “You have already seen him,” Jesus said; “and
he it is who is now speaking to you.”
38 “Then, Master, I do believe,” the man said,
bending low before him;
39 and Jesus added: “I came into this world to carry out God’s
decisions, in order that those that cannot see may see, and that those that can
see may become blind.”
40 Hearing this, some of the Pharisees who
were with him said: “Then are we blind too?”
41 “If you had been blind,” Jesus replied, “you
would have had no sin to answer for; but as it is, you say, ‘We can see’; so
your sin remains.
10:1 ¶ Believe me, any one who does not go into the sheepfold through the
door, but climbs up at some other place, is undoubtedly a thief and a robber;
2 but the man who goes
in through the door is shepherd to the sheep.
3 For him the
watchman opens the door; and the sheep listen to his voice; and he calls his
own sheep by name, and leads them out.
4 When he has got
his own sheep all out, he walks in front of them, and the sheep follow him,
because they know his voice.
5 They will never
follow a stranger, but will run away from him; because they do not know a
stranger’s voice.”
10:6 ¶ Jesus gave them this illustration; yet
they did not understand of what he was speaking.
10:7 ¶ So he continued: “I, believe me, am the Door for the sheep.
8 All who came
before me are thieves and robbers; but the sheep did not listen to them.
9 I am the Door;
those who go in through me will be safe, and they will go in and come out and
find pasture.
10 The thief only
comes to steal, and kill, and destroy; I have come that they may have Life, and
may have it in abundance.
11 I am the Good
Shepherd. A good shepherd lays down his life for his sheep.
12 A hired man who
is not the shepherd, and does not own the sheep, when he sees a wolf coming,
leaves them, and runs away; then the wolf catches them, and scatters the flock.
13 It is because
he is only a hired man that he does this, and because he does not care about
the sheep.
14 I am the Good
Shepherd; and I know my sheep, and my sheep 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 besides, which do not belong to this fold; I must lead those also, and
they will listen to my voice; and they will become one flock under one
Shepherd.
17 This is why the
Father loves me, because I lay down my life—to receive it again.
18 No one takes it
from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have authority to lay it down, and I
have authority to receive it again. This is the command which I received from
my Father.”
20 Many of them said: “He is possessed and is
mad; why do you listen to him?”
21 Others said: “This is not the teaching of
one who is possessed by an evil spirit. Can an evil spirit give sight to the
blind?”
23 and Jesus was walking in the Temple Courts,
in the Colonnade of Solomon,
24 when the Jews came round him, and said:
“How long are you going to keep us in suspense? If you really are the
25 “I have told you so,” Jesus replied, “and
you do not believe me. All the things that I am doing by my Father’s authority
bear testimony to me.
26 You, however,
do not believe me, because you are not among my sheep.
27 My sheep listen
to my voice; I know them, and they follow me;
28 and I give them
enduring Life, and they shall never be lost; nor shall any one snatch them out
of my hands.
29 What my Father
has entrusted to me is of more importance than all else; and no one can snatch
anything out of my Father’s hands.
30 The Father and
I are one.”
31 The Jews again armed themselves with
stones, to throw at him.
32 Seeing this, Jesus said: “I have done in your presence many good
actions, which were due to the Father; which of them would you stone me for?”
33 “It is not for any good action that we stone
you,” the Jews answered, “but for blasphemy; and because you, who are only a
man, make yourself out to be God.”
34 “Are there not,” Jesus
replied, “these words in your
Law—‘I said “Ye are gods” ’?
35 If those to
whom God’s words were addressed were said to be ‘gods’—and Scripture cannot be
set aside—
36 do you say of
one whom the Father has consecrated and made his Messenger to the world ‘You
are blasphemous,’ because I said ‘I am God’s Son’?
37 If I am not
doing the things my Father is doing, do not believe me;
38 but if I am
doing them, even though you do not believe me, believe what these things show;
so that you may learn, and continue to learn, that the Father is in union with
me, and I with the Father.”
39 This made the Jews again eager to arrest
him; but he escaped their hands.
41 during which many people
came to see him. “John gave no sign of his mission,” they said; “but
everything that he said about this man was true.”
42 And many learnt to believe in him in that
place.
11:1 ¶ Now a man named Lazarus of Bethany was
lying ill; he belonged to the same village as Mary and her sister Martha.
2 This Mary, whose brother Lazarus was ill,
was the Mary who anointed the Master with perfume, and wiped his feet with her
hair.
3 The sisters sent a message to Jesus to tell
him that his friend was ill.
4 On hearing it, Jesus said: “This illness is not to end in death, but is
for the honour of God, in order that the Son of God
may win honor through it.”
5 Martha, and her sister, and Lazarus were
very dear to Jesus.
6 Yet when he heard of the illness of Lazarus,
he still stayed two days in the place where he was.
7 Then, after that, he said to his disciples: “Let us go to
8 “Rabbi,” they replied, “the Jews were but
just now eager to stone you; and are you going there again?”
9 “Are not there twelve hours in the day?” answered Jesus; “now if any one travels by day, he does not
stumble, because he can see the light of the sun;
10 but if any one
travels by night, he stumbles, because he has not the light.”
11 When he had said this, he added: “Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep; but I am going there to
wake him.”
12 “If he has fallen asleep, Master, he will
get well,” said the disciples.
13 But Jesus meant that he was dead; they,
however, supposed that he was speaking of natural sleep.
14 Then he said to them plainly: “Lazarus is dead;
15 and I am glad
for your sakes that I was not there, so that you may learn to believe in me.
But let us go to him.”
16 At this, Thomas, who was called ‘The Twin,’
said to his fellow-disciples: “Let us go too, so that we may die with him.”
18
19 a number of the Jews had come there to
condole with Martha and Mary about their brother.
20 When Martha heard that Jesus was coming,
she went to meet him; but Mary remained sitting in the house.
21 “Master,” Martha said to Jesus, “if you had
been here, my brother would not have died!
22 Even now, I know that God will grant you
whatever you ask him.”
23 “Your brother shall rise to life,” Jesus said.
24 “I know that he will,” Martha replied, “at
the resurrection at the Last Day.”
25 “I myself,” Jesus
said, “am the Resurrection and
the Life. Those that believe in me, though they die, will live;
26 and all who are
alive and believe in me will never die at all. Do you believe this?”
27 “Yes, Master,” she answered; “I have learnt
to believe that you are the
29 As soon as Mary heard that, she got up
quickly, and went to meet him.
30 Jesus had not yet come into the village,
but was still at the place where Martha met him.
31 So the Jews who were in the house with
Mary, condoling with her, when they saw her get up quickly and go out, followed
her, under the impression that she was going to the tomb to weep there.
32 When Mary came where Jesus was, and saw
him, she threw herself at his feet. “Master,” she exclaimed, “if you had been
here, I should not have lost my brother!”
33 When Jesus saw her in tears, as well as the
Jews who had come with her, he groaned deeply, and became greatly agitated.
34 “Where have you buried him?” he asked. “Come and see, Master,” they answered.
35 Jesus burst into tears.
36 “How he must have loved him!” the Jews
exclaimed;
37 but some of them said: “Could not this man
who gave sight to the blind man have also prevented Lazarus from dying?”
39 “Move the stone away,” said Jesus. “Master,” said Martha, the sister of the dead man,
“by this time the smell must be offensive, for this is the fourth day since his
death.”
40 “Did I not tell you,” Jesus replied,
“that if you would believe in me, you should see the glory of God?”
41 So they moved the stone away; and Jesus,
with uplifted eyes, said: “Father,
I thank thee that thou hast heard my prayer;
42 for myself, I
knew that thou always hearest me; but it is for the
sake of the people standing round me that I say this, so that they may believe
that I am thy Messenger.”
43 After saying this, Jesus called out loudly:
“Lazarus, come here.”
44 The dead man walked out, wrapped hand and
foot in a winding-sheet; his face, too, had been wrapped in a cloth. “Set him free,” Jesus said, “and let him go.”
46 Some of them, however, went to the
Pharisees, and told them all that he had done.
48 If we let him alone like this, everybody
will believe in him; and the Romans will come and will rob us of our
49 One of them, however, named Caiaphas, who was High Priest that year, said to them: “You
know nothing about it.
50 You do not consider that it is for your
advantage that one man should die for the people, instead of the whole nation
being destroyed.”
51 Now he did not say this of his own accord;
but as High Priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus was to die for the
nation—
52 and not for the nation only, but that he
might also unite in one body the Children of God now scattered far and wide.
53 So from that day they plotted to put Jesus
to death.
55 But the Jewish Festival of the Passover was
near; and numbers of people had gone up from the country to
56 So they looked for Jesus there, and said to
one another, as they stood in the Temple Courts: “What do you think? Do you
think he will not come to the Festival?”
12:1 ¶ Six days before the Passover, Jesus
came to
2 There a supper was given in his honour, Martha waiting at table, and Lazarus being one of
the guests.
3 Mary took a pound of choice spikenard
perfume of great value, and anointed the feet of Jesus with it, and then wiped
them with her hair, the whole house being filled with the scent of the perfume.
4 One of the disciples, Judas Iscariot, who
was about to betray Jesus, asked:
5 “Why was not this perfume sold for thirty pounds,
and the money given to the poor?”
6 He did not say this, however, because he
cared about the poor, but because he had charge of the purse and was a thief,
and used to take what was put in it.
7 “Let her alone,”
said Jesus, “so that she may
keep it for the day of my burial.
8 You always have the poor with you, but you will not always have me.”
12:9 ¶ Now great
numbers of the Jews found out that Jesus was at
10 The Chief Priests, however, plotted to put
Lazarus, as well as Jesus, to death,
11 because it was owing to him that many of
the Jews had left them, and were becoming believers in Jesus.
13 took some of the branches of the palm
trees, and went out to meet him, shouting aloud as they went: | “ ‘God bless him! | Blessed is the One who Comes in the name
of the Lord’— | Even the King of Israel!”
14 Jesus, having found a young ass, seated
himself on it, in accordance with the passage of Scripture—
15 | ‘Fear not, Daughter of Zion; | Behold,
thy King is coming to thee, | Sitting on the foal of an ass.’
16 ¶ His disciples did not understand all this
at first; but when Jesus had entered on his glory, then they remembered that
these things had been said in Scripture about him, and that they had done these
things to him.
17 Meanwhile the people who were with him,
when he called Lazarus out of the tomb and raised him from the dead, were
telling every one about it.
18 This, indeed, was why the crowd met
him—because people had heard that he had given this sign of his mission.
19 So the Pharisees said to one another: “You
see that you are gaining nothing! Why, all the world has run after him!”
21 who went to Philip of Bethsaida
in
22 Philip went and told Andrew, and then
together they went and told Jesus.
23 This was his reply— “The time is come for the Son of Man to
enter on his glory.
24 Believe me,
unless a grain of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it remains solitary;
but if it dies, it becomes very fruitful.
25 Those who love
their lives lose them; while those who hate their lives in the present world
will preserve them for enduring Life.
26 If any one is
serving me, he must follow me; and where I am, my servant will be. If any one
is serving me, my Father will honour him.
27 Now I am
troubled at heart, and what can I say? Father, bring me safe out of this time
of trial—yet it was for this very reason that I came to this time—
28 Father, honour thine own name.” At this there came a voice from the sky,
which said: “I have already honoured it, and I will honour it again.”
29 The crowd of bystanders, who heard the
sound, exclaimed: “That was thunder!” Others said: “It was an angel speaking to
him.”
30 “It was not for my sake that the voice came,” Jesus said, “but for yours.
31 This world is
now on its trial. The Spirit that rules it will now be driven out;
32 and I, when I
am lifted up from the earth, will draw all men to myself.”
33 By these words he indicated what kind of
death he was going to die.
34 “We have learnt from the Law,” the people
replied, “that the ‘
35 “It is only a little while longer,” Jesus answered, “that you will have the Light among you.
Travel on while you have the Light, so that darkness may not overtake you; for
those who travel in the darkness do not know where they is going.
36a While you still
have the Light, believe in it, so that you may become truly enlightened”
12:36b ¶ Having said this, Jesus went away,
and hid himself from them.
37 But though Jesus had given so many signs of
his mission before their eyes, they still did not believe in him,
38 in fulfilment of
the words of the Prophet Isaiah, where he says— | ‘Lord, who has believed our
report? | And to whom has the might of the Lord been revealed?’
39 The reason why they were unable to believe
is given by Isaiah elsewhere, in these words—
40 | ‘He has blinded their eyes, | And blunted
their mind, | So that they should not see with their eyes, | And understand
with their mind, and turn— | And then I should cure them.’
41 Isaiah said this, because he saw
42 Yet for all this, even among the leading
men there were many who came to believe in Jesus; but on account of the
Pharisees they did not acknowledge it, for fear they should be expelled from
their Synagogues;
43 for they valued the praise of men more than
that of God.
45 and those who
see me see him who sent me.
46 I have come as
a Light into the world, so that all who believe in me may not remain in the
darkness.
47 If any one
hears my teaching and pays no attention to it, it is not I who judge him; for I
have not come to judge the world, but to save it.
48 Those who
reject me, and disregard my teaching, have a judge already—the very Message
which I have delivered will itself be their judge at the Last Day.
49 For I have not
delivered it on my own authority; but the Father, who sent me, has himself
given me his command as to what I should say, and what message I should
deliver.
50 Moreover, I
know that enduring Life lies in what he commands. So, whatever I say, I only
say what the Father has told me.”
13:1 ¶ Before the Passover Festival began,
Jesus knew that the time had come for him to leave the world and go to the
Father; but he had loved those who were his own in the world, and he loved them
to the last.
13:2 ¶ The Devil had already put the thought
of betraying Jesus into the mind of Judas Iscariot, the son of Simeon; and at
supper,
3 Jesus—knowing that the Father had put
everything into his hands, and that he had come from God, and was returning to
God—
4 got up from his place, and taking off his
upper garments, tied a towel round his waist.
5 He then poured some water into the basin,
and began to wash the disciples’ feet, and to wipe them with the towel which
was tied round him.
6 When he came to Simon Peter, Peter said:
“You, Master! Are you going to wash my feet?”
7 “You cannot understand now what I am doing,” replied Jesus, “but you will learn by and by.”
8 “You shall never wash my feet!” Peter
exclaimed. “Unless I do wash
you,” Jesus answered, “you have nothing in common with me.”
9 “Then, Master, not my feet only,” exclaimed
Simon Peter, “but my hands and head too.”
10 “Those who have bathed,” replied Jesus, “have
no need to wash, unless it be their feet, but are altogether clean; and you,” he said to the disciples, “are clean, but not every one of you.”
11 For he knew who was going to betray him,
and that was why he said that they were not every one of them clean.
12 When he had washed their feet, and had put
on his upper garments and taken his place, he spoke to them again. “Do you understand what I have been doing to
you?” he asked.
13 “You
call me ‘the Teacher’ and ‘the Master,’ and you are right, for I am both.
14 If I, then—‘the
Master’ and ‘the Teacher’—have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one
another’s feet;
15 for I have
given you an example, so that you may do just as I have done to you.
16 A servant,
believe me, is not greater than his master, nor yet a messenger than the man
who sends him.
17 Now that you
know these things, you will be happy if you do them.
18 I am not
speaking about all of you. I know whom I have chosen; but this is in
fulfillment of the words of Scripture— | ‘He that is eating my bread | Has
lifted his heel against me.’
19 For the future
I shall tell you of things before they take place, so that when they do, you
may believe that I am what I say.
20 Those, I assure
you, who receive any one that I send are receiving me; and those who receive me
are receiving him who sent me.”
22 The disciples looked at one another, wondering
whom he meant.
23 Next to Jesus, in the place on his right
hand, was one of his disciples, who was very dear to
him.
24 Simon Peter made signs to that disciple,
and whispered: “Tell me who it is that he means.”
25 Being in the position in which he was, this
disciple leant back on Jesus’ shoulder, and asked him: “Who is it, Master?”
26 “It is
the one,” answered Jesus, “to
whom I shall give a piece of bread after dipping it.” And
when Jesus had dipped the piece of bread, he took it and gave it to Judas, the
son of Simeon Iscariot;
27 and it was then, after he had received it,
that Satan took possession of him. So Jesus said to him: “Do what you are going to do at once.”
28 No one at table understood why he said this
to Judas.
29 Some thought, as Judas kept the purse, that
Jesus meant that he was to buy some things needed for the Festival, or to give
something to the poor.
30 After taking the piece of bread, Judas
immediately went out. It was then night.
32 and God will in
himself honour him—and that immediately.
34 I give you a
new commandment—Love one another; love one another just as I have loved you.
35 It is by this
that every one will recognize you as my disciples—by the love you bear one
another.”
36 “Where are you going, Master?” Peter asked.
“I am going where you cannot
now follow me,” Jesus
answered, “but you shall follow
me later.”
37 “Why cannot I follow you now, Master?”
asked Peter. “I will lay down my life for you.”
38 “Will you lay down your life for me?” Jesus replied. “Believe me, the cock will not crow till you have disowned me three
times.
14:1 ¶ Do not any of you be disheartened. Believe in God, and believe in me,
too.
2 In my Father’s
house there are many rooms. If it had not been so, I should have told you; I am
going to prepare a place for you.
3 And if I do go
and prepare it, I shall return, and will take you to be with me, so that you
may be where I am;
4 and you know the
way to the place where I am going.”
5 “We do not know where you are going,
Master,” said Thomas, “so how can we know the way?”
6 “I myself,” Jesus
answered, “am the Way, the
Truth, and the Life; no one ever comes to the Father except through me.
7 If you had
recognized me, you would have known my Father too; for the future, however, you
will recognize him; indeed you have already seen him.”
8 “Master, show us the Father,” said Philip,
“and we shall be satisfied.”
9 “Have I been all this time among you,” Jesus said, “and yet you, Philip, have not recognized me? Those who have
seen me have seen the Father, so how can you still say, ‘Show us the Father’?
10 Do you not
believe that I am in union with the Father, and the Father with me? The truths
which I tell you are not given on my own authority; but it is the Father who,
being always in union with me, is doing these things himself.
11 Believe me,” he said to them all, “when I say that I am in union with the Father and the Father with me,
or else believe me on account of these very things which you see.
13
Whatever you ask as my followers, I will do, so that the Father may be honoured in the Son.
14 If you ask
anything as my followers, I will do it.
16 and I will ask
the Father, and he will give you another Helper, to be with you always—
17 I mean the
Spirit of Truth. The world cannot receive this Spirit because it does not see
him or recognize him, but you recognize him, because he is always with you, and
is within you.
18 I will not leave
you bereaved; I will come to you.
19 In a little
while the world will see me no more, but you will still see me, because I am
always living and you will be living also.
20 At that time
you will recognize that I am in union with the Father,
and you with me, and I with you.
21 It is those who
have my commands and lay them to heart that love me; and those who love me will
be loved by my Father, and I, too, will love them, and will reveal myself to
them.”
22 “What has happened, Master,” said Judas (not
Judas Iscariot), “that you are going to reveal yourself to us, and not to the
world?”
23 “Whoever loves me,” Jesus
answered, “will lay my teaching
to heart; and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our
home with him.
24 Those who do
not love me will not lay my teaching to heart; and the teaching you are
listening to is not my own, but that of the Father who sent me.
26 but the
Helper—the holy Spirit whom the Father will send to represent me—will teach you
everything, and will remind you of everything that I have said to you.
27 And now I leave
you a blessing; it is my own blessing that I give you. I do not give to you as
the world gives. Do not be disheartened, or dismayed.
28 You heard me
say that I was going away and would return to you. If you loved me you would
have been glad that I was going to the Father, because the Father is greater
than I.
29 So I have told
you now before it happens, that when it does, you may still believe in me.
30 I shall not
talk with you much more, for the Spirit that rules the world is coming. Not
that he has anything in common with me;
31 but he is
coming that the world may see that I love the Father, and that I do just as the
Father commanded me. Come, let us be going.
15:1 ¶ I am the True Vine, and my Father is the
Vine-grower.
2 He removes any
of my branches that do not bear fruit, and cleans every branch that does, that
it may bear still more.
3 You are already
clean because of the teaching that I have given you.
4 Remain united to
me and I will remain united to you. As a branch cannot bear fruit of itself,
unless it remain united to the vine; no more can you,
unless you remain united to me.
5 I am the Vine,
you are the branches. Those that remain united to me while I remain united to
them are those who bear fruit plentifully; for you can do nothing apart from
me.
6 Any one who does
not remain united to me is thrown away, as a branch would be, and withers up.
Such branches are collected and thrown into the fire, and are burnt.
7 If you remain
united to me, and my teaching remains in your hearts,
ask whatever you wish, and you shall have it.
8 It is by your
bearing fruit plentifully, and so showing yourselves my disciples, that my Father
is honoured.
9 As the Father
has loved me, so have I loved you; keep in my love always.
10 If you lay my
commands to heart, you will keep in my love; just as I have laid the Father’s
commands to heart and always keep in his love.
11 I have told you
all this so that my own happiness may be yours, and
that your happiness may be complete.
12 This is the
command I give you—Love one another, as I have loved you.
13 No one can give
greater proof of love than by laying down his life for his friends.
14 And you are my
friends, if you do what I command you.
15 I no longer
call you ‘servants,’ because a servant does not know what his master is doing;
but I have given you the name of ‘friends,’ because I have made known to you
everything that I learnt from my Father.
16 It was not you
who chose me, but I who chose you, and I sent you to go and bear fruit—fruit
that should be lasting, so that the Father might grant you whatever you ask as
my followers.
18 If the world
hates you, do not forget that it has first hated me.
19 If you belonged
to the world, the world would love what was its own; but because you do not
belong to it, but I have chosen you out of it—that is why the world hates you.
20 Remember what I
said to you—‘A servant is not greater than his master.’ If they have persecuted
me, they will also persecute you; if they have laid my teaching to heart, they
will lay yours to heart too.
21 But they will
do all this to you on my account, because they do not know him who sent me.
22 If I had not
come and spoken to them, they would have had no sin to answer for; but as it
is, they have no excuse for their sin.
23 Those who hate
me hate my Father too.
24 If I had not
done among them such things as no one else ever did, they would have had no sin
to answer for; but as it is, they have both seen and hated both me and my
Father.
25 And so is
fulfilled what is said in their Law—‘They hated me without cause.’
26 But when the Helper
comes, whom I will send to you from the Father—I mean the Spirit of Truth, who
comes from the Father—he will bear testimony to me;
27 yes, and you
also are to bear testimony, because you have been with me from the first.
16:1 ¶ I have spoken to you in this way so that you may not falter.
2 They will expel you from
their Synagogues; indeed the time is coming when any one who kills you will
think that he is making an offering to God.
3 They will do
this, because they have not learnt to know the Father, or even me.
4 But I
have spoken to you of these things that, when the time for them comes, you may
remember that I told you about them myself. I did not tell you all this at
first, because I was with you.
5 Now, however, I
am returning to him who sent me; and yet not one of you asks me where I am
going,
6 although your hearts are full of sorrow at all that I have been
saying to you.
7 Yet I am only
telling you the truth. It is for your good that I am going away. Otherwise the
Helper will never come to you, but if I leave you, I will send him to you.
8 And he, when he
comes, will bring conviction to the world about Sin, and about Righteousness,
and about Judgement;
9 about Sin, as
proved by men not believing in me;
10 about
Righteousness, as proved by my going to the Father, and your
not seeing me any longer;
11 about Judgement, as proved by the judgement
passed upon the Spirit that rules this world.
12 I have still
much to say to you, but you cannot bear it at present.
13 But when he—the
Spirit of Truth—comes, he will guide you into the whole Truth; for he will not
speak on his own authority, but will speak all that he learns; and he will tell
you of the things that are coming.
14 He will honour me; because he will take of what is mine, and will
tell it to you.
15 Everything that
the Father has is mine; that is why I say that he takes of what is mine, and
will tell it to you.
17 At this some of his disciples said to one another: “What does
he mean by saying to us, ‘In a
little while you will no longer see me, and then in a little while you will see
me indeed’; and by saying, ‘Because I am going to the Father’?
18 What does he mean by, ‘In a little while’?”
they kept saying; “we do not know what he is speaking about.”
19 Jesus noticed that they were wanting to ask
him a question, and said: “Are
you trying to find out from one another what I meant by saying, ‘In a little
while you will no longer see me; and then in a little while you will see me
indeed’?
20 Believe me, you
will weep and mourn, but the world will be happy; you will be sorrowful, but
your sorrow will turn to happiness.
21 A woman in labour is sorry that her time has come; but no sooner is
the child born, than she forgets her trouble in her happiness that another life
has been brought into the world.
22 You, in the
same way, are sorry now; but I shall see you again, and your hearts will be
happy, and no one will rob you of your happiness.
23 And at that
time you will not ask any questions of me; believe me, if you ask the Father
for anything, he will grant it to you as my followers.
24 So far, you
have not asked for anything as my followers; ask, and you will have, so that
your happiness may be complete.
25 I have spoken
to you of all this in figurative language; a time is coming, however, when I
shall not speak any longer to you in such language, but shall tell you about
the Father in plain words.
26 You will ask,
at that time, as my followers; and I do not say that I will intercede with the
Father for you;
27 for the Father loves you himself, because you have loved me, and have
believed that I came from beside the Father.
28 I did come out
of the Father, and have come into the world; and further, I am leaving the
world, and going to the Father.”
29 “Now,” exclaimed the disciples, “you are using plain words, and
not speaking figuratively at all.
30 Now we are sure that you know everything,
and need not wait for any one to question you. This makes us believe that you
did come from God.”
31 “Do you believe that already?” Jesus
answered.
32 “Listen! a time is coming—indeed it has already come—when you are to
be scattered, each going his own way, leaving me alone; and yet I am not alone,
because the Father is with me.
33 I have spoken
to you in this way, so that in me you may find peace. In the world you will
find trouble; yet take courage! I have conquered the world.”
17:1 ¶ After speaking
thus, Jesus raised his eyes heavenwards, and said: “Father, the time has come; honour thy Son,
so that thy Son may honour thee.
2 Thou gavest him power over all mankind, so that he should give
enduring Life to all those whom thou hast given him.
3 And this
enduring Life is to know thee as the only true God, and thy Messenger, Jesus,
as the
4 I have honoured thee on earth by completing the work which thou
hast given me to do;
5 and now do thou honour me, Father, at thy own side, with the honour which I had beside thee before the world began.
6 ¶ I have
revealed thee to the men whom thou gavest me from the
world; they were thy own, and thou gavest them to me;
and they have laid thy Message to heart.
7 They recognize
now that everything that thou gavest me was from
thee;
8 for I have given
them the teaching which thou gavest me, and they
received it, and clearly understood that it was from beside thee that I came,
and they believed that I was thy Messenger.
9 I intercede for
them; I am not interceding for the world, but for those whom thou hast given
me, for they are thy own—
10 as indeed all
that is mine is thine, and all that is thine is mine— and I am honoured
in them.
11 Now I am to be
in this world no longer, but they are still in it, and I am coming to be with
thee. Holy Father, keep them in the knowledge of thyself which thou hast given
me, so that they may be one, as we are.
12 While with
them, I kept them in that knowledge, and I have protected
them; and not one of them has been lost, except the one who was sure to be
lost—in fulfilment of Scripture.
13 But now I am
coming to be with thee; and I am speaking thus while still in the world, so
that they may have my own happiness, in all its fullness, in their hearts.
14 I have given
them thy Message; and the world hated them, because they do not belong to it
any more than I.
15 I do not ask
thee to take them away from the world, but to keep them away from Evil.
16 They do not
belong to the world any more than I.
17 Make them
devoted to the Truth; the Message thou sendest is
Truth.
18 Just as I am
thy Messenger to the world, so they are my Messengers to it.
19 And it is for
their sakes that I am devoting myself, so that they also may be truly devoted.
21 that they all
may be one—that just as thou, Father, art in union with me and I with thee, so
they also may be in union with us—and so the world may believe that I was thy
Messenger.
22 I have given
them the honour which thou hast given me, that they
may be one just as we are—
23 I in union with
them and thou with me—that so they may be perfectly
one, and thus the world may know that I was thy Messenger, and that thou hast
loved them just as thou hast loved me.
24 Father, my
desire for all those whom thou hast given me is that they may be with me where
I shall be, so that they may see the honour which
thou has given me; for thou didst love me before the beginning of the world.
25 O righteous
Father, though the world did not know thee, I knew thee; and these men knew me
to be thy Messenger.
26 I have made
thee known to them, and will do so still; so that such love as thou hast to me
may be in their hearts, as I myself will be.”
18:1 ¶ When Jesus had said this, he went out
with his disciples and crossed the brook Kidron to a
place where there was a garden, into which he and his disciples went.
2 The place was well known to Judas, the
betrayer, for Jesus and his disciples had often met there.
3 So Judas, who had obtained the soldiers of
the Roman garrison, and some constables from the Chief Priests and Pharisees,
came there with lanterns, torches, and weapons.
4 Jesus, aware of all that was coming upon
him, went to meet them, and said to them: “Who is it that you are looking for?”
5 “Jesus of
6 When Jesus said, ‘I am he,’ they drew back and fell to the ground.
7 So he again asked who they were looking for,
and they answered: “Jesus of Nazareth.”
8 “I have already told you that I am he,” Jesus replied, “so if you are looking for me, allow these men
to go.”
18:9 ¶ This was in fulfilment of his words—‘Of those whom thou hast given me I have not lost one.’
11 Jesus, however, said to Peter: “Sheathe your sword. Shall I not drink the
cup which the Father has given me?”
13 and took him first of all to Annas. Annas was the
father-in-law of Caiaphas, who was High Priest that
year.
14 It was Caiaphas
who had counselled the Jews, that
it was for their advantage that one man should die for the people.
16 while Peter stood outside by the door.
Presently the other disciple—the one well-known to the High Priest—went out and
spoke to the portress, and brought Peter in.
17 But she said to Peter: “Are not you one of
this man’s disciples too?” “No, I am not,” he said.
18 The servants and constables were standing
round a charcoal fire (which they had made because it was cold), and they were
warming themselves. Peter, too, was with them, standing and warming himself.
20 “For my part,”
Jesus answered, “I have spoken
to all the world openly. I always taught in some
Synagogue, or in the Temple Courts, places where all the Jews assemble, and I
never spoke of anything in secret.
21 Why put these
questions to me? Question those who have listened to me as to what I have
spoken about to them. They must know what I said.”
22 When Jesus said this, one of the
constables, who was standing near, gave him a blow with his hand. “Do you
answer the High Priest like that?” he exclaimed.
23 “If I said anything wrong, give evidence about it,” Jesus replied; “but if not, why do you strike me?”
24 Annas sent him in
chains to Caiaphas the High Priest.
26 One of the High Priest’s servants, a
relation of the man whose ear Peter had struck off, asked Peter: “Did not I
myself see you with him in the garden?”
27 Peter again denied it; and at that moment a
cock crowed.
29 So Pilate came outside to speak to them.
“What charge do you bring against this man?” he asked.
30 “If he had not been a criminal, we should
not have handed him over to you,” they answered.
31 “Take him yourselves,” said Pilate, “and
try him by your own Law.” “We have no power to put any one to death,” the Jews
replied—
32 in fulfilment of
what Jesus had said when alluding to the kind of death he was going to die.
34 “Is that a suggestion of your own?” Jesus replied, “or have other people said that to you
about me?”
35 “Do you take me for a Jew?” was Pilate’s
answer. “It is your own nation and the Chief Priests who have handed you over
to me. What is it that you have done?”
36 “My Kingdom,”
replied Jesus, “is not one of the world’s kingdoms. If it had been so, my servants
would have been fighting hard to prevent my being handed over to the Jews; but,
as it is, my Kingdom is nothing of that kind.”
37 “So you are a King after all!” Pilate
exclaimed. “Yes, I am a King,
as you say,” Jesus answered. “I was born for this,
I have come into the world for this—to bear testimony to the Truth. Every one
who is on the side of Truth listens to my voice.”
38a “Truth! what is
that?” exclaimed Pilate.
18:38b ¶ After saying this, he went out to the
Jews again, and said: “For my part, I find nothing with which he can be
charged.
39 It is, however, the custom for me to grant
you the release of one man at the Passover Festival. Do you wish for the
release of the King of the Jews?”
40 “No, not him,” they shouted again, “but Barabbas!” This Barabbas was a
robber.
19:1 ¶ After that,
Pilate took Jesus and had him flogged.
2 The soldiers made a crown with some thorns
and put it on his head and threw a purple robe round him.
3 They kept coming up to him and saying: “Long
live the King of the Jews!”—giving him blow after blow
with their hands.
4 Pilate again came outside, and said to the
people: “Look! I am bringing him out to you, so that you may know that I find
nothing with which he can be charged.”
5 So Jesus came outside, wearing the crown of
thorns and the purple robe; and Pilate said to them: “Look, here is the man!”
6 When the Chief Priests and the constables
saw him, they shouted: “Crucify him! Crucify him!” “Take him yourselves and
crucify him,” said Pilate. “For my part, I find nothing with which he can be
charged.”
7 “But we,” the Jews
replied, “have a Law, under which he deserves death for making himself out to
be the Son of God.”
19:8 ¶ When Pilate heard what they said, he
became still more alarmed;
10 So Pilate said to him: “Do you refuse to
speak to me? Do not you know that I have power to release you, and have power
to crucify you?”
11 “You would have no power over me at all,” answered Jesus, “if it had not been given you from above;
and for that reason the man who handed me over to you has the greater sin to
answer for.”
12 After that, Pilate was anxious to release
him; but the Jews shouted: “If you release that man, you are no friend of the
Emperor’s! Any one who makes himself out to be a King is setting himself
against the Emperor!”
19:13 ¶ On hearing what they said, Pilate
brought Jesus out, and took his seat upon the Bench at a place called ‘The
Stone Pavement,’ in Hebrew ‘Gabbatha.’
14 It was the Passover Preparation Day, and it
was about
15 They, however, shouted: “Kill him! Kill
him! Crucify him!” “Am I to crucify your King?” exclaimed Pilate. “We have no
King but the Emperor,” the Chief Priests replied;
16a whereupon Pilate handed
Jesus over to them to be crucified.
19:16b ¶ So they took Jesus;
17 and he went out, carrying the cross for himself, to the place that is called, after a skull, ‘
18 There they crucified him, and two others
with him—one on each side, and Jesus in the middle.
19 Pilate had a notice, too, written, and put
up over the cross. It ran—‘JESUS OF N
20 This notice was read by many of the Jews,
because the part of the city where Jesus was crucified was near by; and the
notice was written in Hebrew, in Latin, and in Greek.
22 But Pilate answered: “What I have written,
I have written.”
24 So they said to one another: “Do not let us
tear it, but let us draw for it, to settle whose it is to be.” This was in fulfilment of the words of Scripture— | ‘They
shared my clothes between them, | And over my clothing they cast lots.’ This
was what the soldiers did.
25 Meanwhile, near the cross of Jesus were
standing his mother and his mother’s sister, as well as Mary the wife of Clopas and Mary of Magdala.
26 When Jesus saw his mother, and the disciple
who was very dear to him, standing near, he said to his mother: “There is your son.”
27 Then he said to that disciple: “There is your mother.” And from that time the disciple took her
to live with him.
29 There was a bowl standing there full of
common wine; so they put a sponge soaked in the wine on the end of a
hyssop-stalk, and held it up to his mouth.
30 When Jesus had received the wine, he
exclaimed: “All is finished!” Then, bending his head, he resigned his
spirit to God.
32 Accordingly the soldiers came and broke the
legs of the first man, and then those of the other who had been crucified with
him;
33 but on going up to Jesus, seeing that he
was already dead, they did not break his legs.
34 One of the soldiers, however, pierced his
side with a lance, and blood and water immediately flowed from it.
35 This is the testimony of one who actually
saw it—and his testimony is trustworthy, and he knows that he is speaking the
truth—and it is given in order that you also may be convinced.
36 For all this took place in fulfilment of the words of Scripture— | “Not one of its
bones shall be broken.”
37 And another passage also says— | “They will
look upon him whom they pierced.”
19:38 ¶ After this, Joseph of Ramah, a
disciple of Jesus—but a secret one, owing to his fear of the Jews—begged
Pilate’s permission to remove the body of Jesus. Pilate gave him leave; so
Joseph went and removed the body.
39 Nicodemus, too—the man who had formerly
visited Jesus by night—came with a roll of myrrh and aloes, weighing nearly a
hundred pounds.
40 They took the body of Jesus, and wound it
in linen with the spices, according to the Jewish way of burial.
41 At the place where Jesus had been crucified
there was a garden, and in the garden a newly-made tomb in which no one had
ever been laid.
42 And so, because of its being the
Preparation Day, and as the tomb was close at hand, they laid Jesus there.
20:1 ¶ On the first
day of the week, early in the morning, while it was still dark, Mary of Magdala went to the tomb, and noticed that the stone had
been removed.
2 So she came running to Simon Peter and to
that other disciple who was dear to Jesus, and said to them: “They have taken
away the Master out of the tomb, and we do not know where they have laid him!”
20:3 ¶ Upon this,
Peter set out with that other disciple—to go to the tomb.
4 The two began running together; but the
other disciple ran faster than Peter, and reached the tomb first.
5 Stooping down he
saw the linen wrappings lying on the ground, but did not go inside.
6 Presently Simon Peter came following behind
him, and went inside the tomb. There he perceived the linen wrappings lying on
the ground,
7 and the cloth which had been over Jesus’
head, not lying with the wrappings, but rolled up on one side separately.
8 Then the other disciple, who had reached the
tomb first, went inside too, and he himself saw and was convinced.
9 For they were not even then familiar with
the passage of Scripture which says that Jesus had to rise from the dead.
10 The disciples then returned to their
companions.
12 and perceived two angels in white sitting
there, one where the head of Jesus, and the other where his feet, had been
lying.
13 “Why are you sobbing?” asked the angels.
“They have taken my Master away,” she answered, “and I do not know where they
have laid him.”
14 After saying this, she turned round, and
perceived Jesus standing there, but did not know it was he.
15 “Why
are you weeping?
Who is it that you are looking for?” he asked her. Supposing him to be the gardener, Mary answered:
“If it was you, Sir, who carried him away, tell me where you have laid him, and
I will take him away myself.”
16 “Mary!” said
Jesus. She turned round, and exclaimed in Hebrew: “Rabboni!”
(or, as we should say, ‘Teacher’).
17 “Do not touch me,”
Jesus said; “I have not yet
gone up to the Father. But go to my Brothers, and tell them that I am going up
to him who is my Father and their Father, my God and their God.”
18 Mary of Magdala
went and told the disciples that she had seen the Master, and that he had said
this to her.
20:19 ¶ In the evening of the same day—the
first day of the week—after the doors of the room, where the disciples were,
had been shut for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood among them and gave
them his blessing;
20 after which he showed
them his hands and his side. The disciples were delighted at seeing the
Master.
21 After blessing them again, Jesus said: “As the Father has made me his Messenger, so
I am sending you.”
22 When he had said this, he breathed on them,
and said: “Receive the holy
Spirit;
23 if you forgive
any one’s sins, they are forgiven them; and if you do not forgive them, they
are not forgiven.”
25 so the rest of the disciples began telling
him that they had seen the Master. “Unless I see the marks of the nails in his
hands,” he exclaimed, “and put my finger into the marks, and put my hand into
his side, I will never believe it.”
27 Then he said to Thomas: “Place your finger here, and examine my
hands; and place your hand here, and put it into my side; and do not be an
unbeliever, but a believer.”
28 In answer to this, Thomas exclaimed: “My
Master, and my God!”
29 “Is it because you have seen me that you have believed?” Jesus said. “Happy are those who have not seen, and yet
have believed!”
31 but these have been recorded that you may
believe that Jesus is the
21:1 ¶ Later on, Jesus showed himself again to
the disciples. It was by the
2 Simon Peter, Thomas, called ‘The Twin,’ Nathanael of Cana in Galilee, Zebediah’s sons, and two other disciples of Jesus, were all
together,
3 when Simon Peter said: “I am going fishing.”
“We will come too,” said the others. They went out and got into the boat, but
caught nothing that night.
4 Just as day was breaking, Jesus came and
stood on the beach; but the disciples did not know it was he.
5 “My children,” he
said, “have you any fish?” “No,” they answered.
6 “Cast your net on the right-hand side of the boat,” he said, “and you will find some.” They did so, and now they could not haul it in on account of the
quantity of fish in it.
7 Upon this, the disciple who was very dear to
Jesus said to Peter: “It is the Master!” When Simon Peter heard that it was the
Master, he fastened his coat round him (for he had taken it off), and threw
himself into the lake.
8 But the rest of the disciples came in the
boat (for they were only about a hundred yards from shore), dragging in the net
full of fish.
9 When they had come ashore, they found a
charcoal fire ready laid with some fish on it, and some bread.
10 “Bring some of the fish which you have just caught,” said Jesus.
11 So Simon Peter got into the boat and hauled
the net to shore full of large fish, a hundred and fifty-three of them; and
yet, although there were so many, the net had not been torn.
12 “Come and have breakfast,” said Jesus. Not one of the disciples ventured to ask him who he was, knowing it was the Master.
13 Jesus went and took the bread and gave it
to them, and the fish too.
14 This made the third time that Jesus showed
himself to the disciples after he had risen from the dead.
16 Then, a second time, Jesus asked: “Simon, son of John, are
you devoted to me?” “Yes,
Master,” he answered, “you know that I love you.” “Be a shepherd to my sheep,” said Jesus.
17 The third time, Jesus said to him: “Simon, son of John, do you love me?” Peter was pained at his third question
being ‘Do you love me?’; and exclaimed: “Master, you know
everything! You can tell that I do love you.” “Feed my sheep,” said Jesus.
18 “Believe
me,” he continued, “when you were young, you
used to put on your own girdle, and walk wherever you wished; but when you have
grown old, you will have to hold out your hands, while some one else will put
on your girdle, and take you where you do not wish.”
19 Jesus said this to show the kind of death
by which Peter was to honour God; after saying it he
added: “Follow me.”
21 Seeing him, Peter said to Jesus: “Master,
what about this man?”
22 “If I were to choose that he should wait till I come,” answered Jesus, “what has that to do with you? Follow me
yourself.”
23 Consequently the report spread among the
Brethren that that disciple was not to die; but Jesus did not say that he was
not to die, but said, “If I
were to choose that he should wait till I come, what has that to do with you?”