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John
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In the
beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
{2} He was with God in the beginning. {3} Through him all
things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made.
{4} In him was life, and that life was the light of men. {5}
The light shines in the darkness, but the darkness has not understood
it. {6} There came a man who was sent from God; his name was
John. {7} He came as a witness to testify concerning that light,
so that through him all men might believe. {8} He himself was not
the light; he came only as a witness to the light. {9} The true
light that gives light to every man was coming into the world. {10}
He was in the world, and though the world was made through him, the
world did not recognise him. {11} He came to that which was his
own, but his own did not receive him. {12} Yet to all who
received him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to
become children of God-- {13} children born not of natural
descent, nor of human decision or a husband's will, but born of God.
{14} The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have
seen his glory, the glory of the One and Only, who came from the Father,
full of grace and truth. {15} John testifies concerning him. He
cries out, saying, "This was he of whom I said, 'He who comes after me
has surpassed me because he was before me.'" {16} From the
fullness of his grace we have all received one blessing after another.
{17} For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came
through Jesus Christ. {18} No one has ever seen God, but God the
One and Only, who is at the Father's side, has made him known. {19}
Now this was John's testimony when the Jews of Jerusalem sent
priests and Levites to ask him who he was. {20} He did not fail
to confess, but confessed freely, "I am not the Christ." {21}
They asked him, "Then who are you? Are you Elijah?" He said, "I am not."
"Are you the Prophet?" He answered, "No." {22} Finally they said,
"Who are you? Give us an answer to take back to those who sent us. What
do you say about yourself?" {23} John replied in the words of
Isaiah the prophet, "I am the voice of one calling in the desert, 'Make
straight the way for the Lord.'" {24} Now some Pharisees who had
been sent {25} questioned him, "Why then do you baptise if you
are not the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the Prophet?" {26} "I baptise
with water," John replied, "but among you stands one you do not know.
{27} He is the one who comes after me, the thongs of whose sandals I
am not worthy to untie." {28} This all happened at Bethany on the
other side of the Jordan, where John was baptizing. {29} The next
day John saw Jesus coming toward him and said, "Look, the Lamb of God,
who takes away the sin of the world! {30} This is the one I meant
when I said, 'A man who comes after me has surpassed me because he was
before me.' {31} I myself did not know him, but the reason I came
baptizing with water was that he might be revealed to Israel." {32}
Then John gave this testimony: "I saw the Spirit come down from
heaven as a dove and remain on him. {33} I would not have known
him, except that the one who sent me to baptise with water told me, 'The
man on whom you see the Spirit come down and remain is he who will
baptise with the Holy Spirit.' {34} I have seen and I testify
that this is the Son of God." {35} The next day John was there
again with two of his disciples. {36} When he saw Jesus passing
by, he said, "Look, the Lamb of God!" {37} When the two disciples
heard him say this, they followed Jesus. {38} Turning around,
Jesus saw them following and asked, "What do
you want?" They said, "Rabbi" (which means Teacher), "where are
you staying?" {39} "Come," he
replied, "and you will see." So they
went and saw where he was staying, and spent that day with him. It was
about the tenth hour. {40} Andrew, Simon Peter's brother, was one
of the two who heard what John had said and who had followed Jesus.
{41} The first thing Andrew did was to find his brother Simon and
tell him, "We have found the Messiah" (that is, the Christ). {42}
And he brought him to Jesus. Jesus looked at him and said,
"You are Simon son of John. You will be called
Cephas" (which, when translated, is Peter). {43} The next
day Jesus decided to leave for Galilee. Finding Philip, he said to him,
"Follow me." {44} Philip, like
Andrew and Peter, was from the town of Bethsaida. {45} Philip
found Nathanael and told him, "We have found the one Moses wrote about
in the Law, and about whom the prophets also wrote--Jesus of Nazareth,
the son of Joseph." {46} "Nazareth! Can anything good come from
there?" Nathanael asked. "Come and see," said Philip. {47} When
Jesus saw Nathanael approaching, he said of him,
"Here is a true Israelite, in whom there is
nothing false." {48} "How do you know me?" Nathanael
asked. Jesus answered, "I saw you while you
were still under the fig tree before Philip called you." {49}
Then Nathanael declared, "Rabbi, you are the Son of God; you are the
King of Israel." {50} Jesus said, "You
believe because I told you I saw you under the fig tree. You shall see
greater things than that." {51} He then added,
"I tell you the truth, you shall see heaven
open, and the angels of God ascending and descending on the Son of Man." |
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John
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On
the third day a wedding took place at Cana in Galilee. Jesus' mother was
there, {2} and Jesus and his disciples had also been invited to
the wedding. {3} When the wine was gone, Jesus' mother said to
him, "They have no more wine." {4} "Dear
woman, why do you involve me?" Jesus replied.
"My time has not yet come." {5}
His mother said to the servants, "Do whatever he tells you." {6}
Nearby stood six stone water jars, the kind used by the Jews for
ceremonial washing, each holding from twenty to thirty gallons. {7}
Jesus said to the servants, "Fill the jars
with water"; so they filled them to the brim. {8} Then he
told them, "Now draw some out and take it to the
master of the banquet." They did so, {9} and the master of
the banquet tasted the water that had been turned into wine. He did not
realise where it had come from, though the servants who had drawn the
water knew. Then he called the bridegroom aside {10} and said,
"Everyone brings out the choice wine first and then the cheaper wine
after the guests have had too much to drink; but you have saved the best
till now." {11} This, the first of his miraculous signs, Jesus
performed at Cana in Galilee. He thus revealed his glory, and his
disciples put their faith in him. {12} After this he went down to
Capernaum with his mother and brothers and his disciples. There they
stayed for a few days. {13} When it was almost time for the
Jewish Passover, Jesus went up to Jerusalem. {14} In the temple
courts he found men selling cattle, sheep and doves, and others sitting
at tables exchanging money. {15} So he made a whip out of cords,
and drove all from the temple area, both sheep and cattle; he scattered
the coins of the money changers and overturned their tables. {16}
To those who sold doves he said, "Get these out
of here! How dare you turn my Father's house into a market!"
{17} His disciples remembered that it is written: "Zeal for your
house will consume me." {18} Then the Jews demanded of him, "What
miraculous sign can you show us to prove your authority to do all this?"
{19} Jesus answered them, "Destroy this
temple, and I will raise it again in three days." {20} The
Jews replied, "It has taken forty-six years to build this temple, and
you are going to raise it in three days?" {21} But the temple he
had spoken of was his body. {22} After he was raised from the
dead, his disciples recalled what he had said. Then they believed the
Scripture and the words that Jesus had spoken. {23} Now while he
was in Jerusalem at the Passover Feast, many people saw the miraculous
signs he was doing and believed in his name. {24} But Jesus would
not entrust himself to them, for he knew all men. {25} He did not
need man's testimony about man, for he knew what was in a man. |
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John 3 |
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Now
there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a member of the Jewish
ruling council. {2} He came to Jesus at night and said, "Rabbi,
we know you are a teacher who has come from God. For no one could
perform the miraculous signs you are doing if God were not with him."
{3} In reply Jesus declared, "I tell you the
truth, no one can see the kingdom of God unless he is born again."
{4} "How can a man be born when he is old?" Nicodemus asked. "Surely
he cannot enter a second time into his mother's womb to be born!" {5}
Jesus answered, "I tell you the truth, no
one can enter the kingdom of God unless he is born of water and the
Spirit. {6} Flesh gives birth to
flesh, but the Spirit gives birth to spirit. {7}
You should not be surprised at my saying, 'You
must be born again.' {8} The wind
blows wherever it pleases. You hear its sound, but you cannot tell where
it comes from or where it is going. So it is with everyone born of the
Spirit." {9} "How can this be?" Nicodemus asked. {10}
"You are Israel's teacher," said
Jesus, "and do you not understand these things?
{11} I tell you the truth, we speak of what
we know, and we testify to what we have seen, but still you people do
not accept our testimony. {12} I
have spoken to you of earthly things and you do not believe; how then
will you believe if I speak of heavenly things? {13}
No one has ever gone into heaven except the one
who came from heaven--the Son of Man. {14}
Just as Moses lifted up the snake in the desert,
so the Son of Man must be lifted up, {15}
that everyone who believes in him may have
eternal life. {16} "For God so
loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes
in him shall not perish but have eternal life. {17}
For God did not send his Son into the world to
condemn the world, but to save the world through him. {18}
Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but
whoever does not believe stands condemned already because he has not
believed in the name of God's one and only Son. {19}
This is the verdict: Light has come into the
world, but men loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were
evil. {20} Everyone who does evil
hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that his
deeds will be exposed. {21} But
whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen
plainly that what he has done has been done through God." {22}
After this, Jesus and his disciples went out into the Judean
countryside, where he spent some time with them, and baptised. {23}
Now John also was baptizing at Aenon near Salim, because there was
plenty of water, and people were constantly coming to be baptised.
{24} (This was before John was put in prison.) {25} An
argument developed between some of John's disciples and a certain Jew
over the matter of ceremonial washing. {26} They came to John and
said to him, "Rabbi, that man who was with you on the other side of the
Jordan--the one you testified about--well, he is baptizing, and everyone
is going to him." {27} To this John replied, "A man can receive
only what is given him from heaven. {28} You yourselves can
testify that I said, 'I am not the Christ but am sent ahead of him.'
{29} The bride belongs to the bridegroom. The friend who attends the
bridegroom waits and listens for him, and is full of joy when he hears
the bridegroom's voice. That joy is mine, and it is now complete.
{30} He must become greater; I must become less. {31} "The
one who comes from above is above all; the one who is from the earth
belongs to the earth, and speaks as one from the earth. The one who
comes from heaven is above all. {32} He testifies to what he has
seen and heard, but no one accepts his testimony. {33} The man
who has accepted it has certified that God is truthful. {34} For
the one whom God has sent speaks the words of God, for God gives the
Spirit without limit. {35} The Father loves the Son and has
placed everything in his hands. {36} Whoever believes in the Son
has eternal life, but whoever rejects the Son will not see life, for
God's wrath remains on him." |
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John 4 |
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The
Pharisees heard that Jesus was gaining and baptizing more disciples than
John, {2} although in fact it was not Jesus who baptised, but his
disciples. {3} When the Lord learned of this, he left Judea and
went back once more to Galilee. {4} Now he had to go through
Samaria. {5} So he came to a town in Samaria called Sychar, near
the plot of ground Jacob had given to his son Joseph. {6} Jacob's
well was there, and Jesus, tired as he was from the journey, sat down by
the well. It was about the sixth hour. {7} When a Samaritan woman
came to draw water, Jesus said to her, "Will you
give me a drink?" {8} (His disciples had gone into the
town to buy food.) {9} The Samaritan woman said to him, "You are
a Jew and I am a Samaritan woman. How can you ask me for a drink?" (For
Jews do not associate with Samaritans.) {10} Jesus answered her,
"If you knew the gift of God and who it is that
asks you for a drink, you would have asked him and he would have given
you living water." {11} "Sir," the woman said, "you have
nothing to draw with and the well is deep. Where can you get this living
water? {12} Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us
the well and drank from it himself, as did also his sons and his flocks
and herds?" {13} Jesus answered,
"Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, {14}
but whoever drinks the water I give him will
never thirst. Indeed, the water I give him will become in him a spring
of water welling up to eternal life." {15} The woman said
to him, "Sir, give me this water so that I won't get thirsty and have to
keep coming here to draw water." {16} He told her,
"Go, call your husband and come back."
{17} "I have no husband," she replied. Jesus said to her,
"You are right when you say you have no husband.
{18} The fact is, you have had five
husbands, and the man you now have is not your husband. What you have
just said is quite true." {19} "Sir," the woman said, "I
can see that you are a prophet. {20} Our fathers worshiped on
this mountain, but you Jews claim that the place where we must worship
is in Jerusalem." {21} Jesus declared,
"Believe me, woman, a time is coming when you will worship the Father
neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem. {22}
You Samaritans worship what you do not know; we
worship what we do know, for salvation is from the Jews. {23}
Yet a time is coming and has now come when
the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for
they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks. {24}
God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship
in spirit and in truth." {25} The woman said, "I know that
Messiah" (called Christ) "is coming. When he comes, he will explain
everything to us." {26} Then Jesus declared,
"I who speak to you am he." {27}
Just then his disciples returned and were surprised to find him talking
with a woman. But no one asked, "What do you want?" or "Why are you
talking with her?" {28} Then, leaving her water jar, the woman
went back to the town and said to the people, {29} "Come, see a
man who told me everything I ever did. Could this be the Christ?"
{30} They came out of the town and made their way toward him.
{31} Meanwhile his disciples urged him, "Rabbi, eat something."
{32} But he said to them, "I have food to
eat that you know nothing about." {33} Then his disciples
said to each other, "Could someone have brought him food?" {34}
"My food," said Jesus,
"is to do the will of him who sent me and to
finish his work. {35} Do you not
say, 'Four months more and then the harvest'? I tell you, open your eyes
and look at the fields! They are ripe for harvest. {36}
Even now the reaper draws his wages, even now he
harvests the crop for eternal life, so that the sower and the reaper may
be glad together. {37} Thus the
saying 'One sows and another reaps' is true. {38}
I sent you to reap what you have not worked for.
Others have done the hard work, and you have reaped the benefits of
their labour." {39} Many of the Samaritans from that town
believed in him because of the woman's testimony, "He told me everything
I ever did." {40} So when the Samaritans came to him, they urged
him to stay with them, and he stayed two days. {41} And because
of his words many more became believers. {42} They said to the
woman, "We no longer believe just because of what you said; now we have
heard for ourselves, and we know that this man really is the Savior of
the world." {43} After the two days he left for Galilee. {44}
(Now Jesus himself had pointed out that a prophet has no honor in
his own country.) {45} When he arrived in Galilee, the Galileans
welcomed him. They had seen all that he had done in Jerusalem at the
Passover Feast, for they also had been there. {46} Once more he
visited Cana in Galilee, where he had turned the water into wine. And
there was a certain royal official whose son lay sick at Capernaum.
{47} When this man heard that Jesus had arrived in Galilee from
Judea, he went to him and begged him to come and heal his son, who was
close to death. {48} "Unless you people
see miraculous signs and wonders," Jesus told him,
"you will never believe." {49} The
royal official said, "Sir, come down before my child dies." {50}
Jesus replied, "You may go. Your son will live."
The man took Jesus at his word and departed. {51} While he
was still on the way, his servants met him with the news that his boy
was living. {52} When he inquired as to the time when his son got
better, they said to him, "The fever left him yesterday at the seventh
hour." {53} Then the father realised that this was the exact time
at which Jesus had said to him, "Your son will
live." So he and all his household believed. {54} This was
the second miraculous sign that Jesus performed, having come from Judea
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John
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Some
time later, Jesus went up to Jerusalem for a feast of the Jews. {2}
Now there is in Jerusalem near the Sheep Gate a pool, which in
Aramaic is called Bethesda and which is surrounded by five covered
colonnades. {3} Here a great number of disabled people used to
lie--the blind, the lame, the paralyzed. {4} {5} One who was
there had been an invalid for thirty-eight years. {6} When Jesus
saw him lying there and learned that he had been in this condition for a
long time, he asked him, "Do you want to get
well?" {7} "Sir," the invalid replied, "I have no one to
help me into the pool when the water is stirred. While I am trying to
get in, someone else goes down ahead of me." {8} Then Jesus said
to him, "Get up! Pick up your mat and walk."
{9} At once the man was cured; he picked up his mat and walked. The
day on which this took place was a Sabbath, {10} and so the Jews
said to the man who had been healed, "It is the Sabbath; the law forbids
you to carry your mat." {11} But he replied, "The man who made me
well said to me, 'Pick up your mat and walk.'"
{12} So they asked him, "Who is this fellow who told you to pick it
up and walk?" {13} The man who was healed had no idea who it was,
for Jesus had slipped away into the crowd that was there. {14}
Later Jesus found him at the temple and said to him,
"See, you are well again. Stop sinning or
something worse may happen to you." {15} The man went away
and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had made him well. {16}
So, because Jesus was doing these things on the Sabbath, the Jews
persecuted him. {17} Jesus said to them,
"My Father is always at his work to this very day, and I, too, am
working." {18} For this reason the Jews tried all the
harder to kill him; not only was he breaking the Sabbath, but he was
even calling God his own Father, making himself equal with God. {19}
Jesus gave them this answer: "I tell you the
truth, the Son can do nothing by himself; he can do only what he sees
his Father doing, because whatever the Father does the Son also does.
{20} For the Father loves the Son and shows
him all he does. Yes, to your amazement he will show him even greater
things than these. {21} For just
as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, even so the Son gives
life to whom he is pleased to give it. {22}
Moreover, the Father judges no one, but has
entrusted all judgment to the Son, {23}
that all may honor the Son just as they honor
the Father. He who does not honor the Son does not honor the Father, who
sent him. {24} "I tell you the
truth, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal
life and will not be condemned; he has crossed over from death to life.
{25} I tell you the truth, a time is coming
and has now come when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God and
those who hear will live. {26} For
as the Father has life in himself, so he has granted the Son to have
life in himself. {27} And he has
given him authority to judge because he is the Son of Man.
{28} "Do not be amazed at this, for a time
is coming when all who are in their graves will hear his voice
{29} and come out--those who have done good
will rise to live, and those who have done evil will rise to be
condemned. {30} By myself I can do
nothing; I judge only as I hear, and my judgment is just, for I seek not
to please myself but him who sent me. {31}
"If I testify about myself, my testimony is not
valid. {32} There is another who
testifies in my favor, and I know that his testimony about me is valid.
{33} "You have sent to John and he has
testified to the truth. {34} Not
that I accept human testimony; but I mention it that you may be saved.
{35} John was a lamp that burned and gave
light, and you chose for a time to enjoy his light. {36}
"I have testimony weightier than that of John.
For the very work that the Father has given me to finish, and which I am
doing, testifies that the Father has sent me. {37}
And the Father who sent me has himself testified
concerning me. You have never heard his voice nor seen his form,
{38} nor does his word dwell in you, for you
do not believe the one he sent. {39}
You diligently study the Scriptures because you
think that by them you possess eternal life. These are the Scriptures
that testify about me, {40} yet
you refuse to come to me to have life. {41}
"I do not accept praise from men, {42}
but I know you. I know that you do not have
the love of God in your hearts. {43}
I have come in my Father's name, and you do not
accept me; but if someone else comes in his own name, you will accept
him. {44} How can you believe if
you accept praise from one another, yet make no effort to obtain the
praise that comes from the only God ? {45}
"But do not think I will accuse you before the
Father. Your accuser is Moses, on whom your hopes are set.
{46} If you believed Moses, you would
believe me, for he wrote about me. {47}
But since you do not believe what he wrote, how
are you going to believe what I say?" |
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John
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Some
time after this, Jesus crossed to the far shore of the Sea of Galilee
(that is, the Sea of Tiberias), {2} and a great crowd of people
followed him because they saw the miraculous signs he had performed on
the sick. {3} Then Jesus went up on a mountainside and sat down
with his disciples. {4} The Jewish Passover Feast was near.
{5} When Jesus looked up and saw a great crowd coming toward him, he
said to Philip, "Where shall we buy bread for
these people to eat?" {6} He asked this only to test him,
for he already had in mind what he was going to do. {7} Philip
answered him, "Eight months' wages would not buy enough bread for each
one to have a bite!" {8} Another of his disciples, Andrew, Simon
Peter's brother, spoke up, {9} "Here is a boy with five small
barley loaves and two small fish, but how far will they go among so
many?" {10} Jesus said, "Have the people
sit down." There was plenty of grass in that place, and the men
sat down, about five thousand of them. {11} Jesus then took the
loaves, gave thanks, and distributed to those who were seated as much as
they wanted. He did the same with the fish. {12} When they had
all had enough to eat, he said to his disciples,
"Gather the pieces that are left over. Let nothing be wasted."
{13} So they gathered them and filled twelve baskets with the pieces
of the five barley loaves left over by those who had eaten. {14}
After the people saw the miraculous sign that Jesus did, they began to
say, "Surely this is the Prophet who is to come into the world." {15}
Jesus, knowing that they intended to come and make him king by
force, withdrew again to a mountain by himself. {16} When evening
came, his disciples went down to the lake, {17} where they got
into a boat and set off across the lake for Capernaum. By now it was
dark, and Jesus had not yet joined them. {18} A strong wind was
blowing and the waters grew rough. {19} When they had rowed three
or three and a half miles, they saw Jesus approaching the boat, walking
on the water; and they were terrified. {20} But he said to them,
"It is I; don't be afraid." {21}
Then they were willing to take him into the boat, and immediately the
boat reached the shore where they were heading. {22} The next day
the crowd that had stayed on the opposite shore of the lake realised
that only one boat had been there, and that Jesus had not entered it
with his disciples, but that they had gone away alone. {23} Then
some boats from Tiberias landed near the place where the people had
eaten the bread after the Lord had given thanks. {24} Once the
crowd realised that neither Jesus nor his disciples were there, they got
into the boats and went to Capernaum in search of Jesus. {25}
When they found him on the other side of the lake, they asked him,
"Rabbi, when did you get here?" {26} Jesus answered,
"I tell you the truth, you are looking for me,
not because you saw miraculous signs but because you ate the loaves and
had your fill. {27} Do not work
for food that spoils, but for food that endures to eternal life, which
the Son of Man will give you. On him God the Father has placed his seal
of approval." {28} Then they asked him, "What must we do
to do the works God requires?" {29} Jesus answered,
"The work of God is this: to believe in the one
he has sent." {30} So they asked him, "What miraculous
sign then will you give that we may see it and believe you? What will
you do? {31} Our forefathers ate the manna in the desert; as it
is written: 'He gave them bread from heaven to eat.'" {32} Jesus
said to them, "I tell you the truth, it is not
Moses who has given 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 he who comes down from
heaven and gives life to the world." {34} "Sir," they
said, "from now on give us this bread." {35} Then Jesus declared,
"I am the bread of life. He who comes to me will
never go hungry, and he who believes in me will never be thirsty.
{36} But as I told you, you have seen me and
still you do not believe. {37} All
that the Father gives me will come to me, and whoever comes to me I will
never drive away. {38} For I have
come down from heaven not to do my will but to do the will of him who
sent me. {39} And this is the will
of him who sent me, that I shall lose none of all that he has given me,
but raise them up at the last day. {40}
For my Father's will is that everyone who looks
to the Son and believes in him shall have eternal life, and I will raise
him up at the last day." {41} At this the Jews began to
grumble about him because he said, "I am the
bread that came down from heaven." {42} They said, "Is
this not Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How
can he now say, 'I came down from heaven'?"
{43} "Stop grumbling among yourselves,"
Jesus answered. {44} "No one can
come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him, and I will raise him
up at the last day. {45} It is
written in the Prophets: 'They will all be taught by God.' Everyone who
listens to the Father and learns from him comes to me. {46}
No one has seen the Father except the one
who is from God; only he has seen the Father. {47}
I tell you the truth, he who believes has
everlasting life. {48} I am the
bread of life. {49} Your
forefathers ate the manna in the desert, yet they died. {50}
But here is the bread that comes down from
heaven, which a man may eat and not die. {51}
I am the living bread that came down from
heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. This bread
is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world."
{52} Then the Jews began to argue sharply among themselves, "How can
this man give us his flesh to eat?" {53} Jesus said to them,
"I tell you the truth, unless you eat the flesh
of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you.
{54} Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my
blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.
{55} For my flesh is real food and my blood
is real drink. {56} Whoever eats
my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me, and I in him. {57}
Just as the living Father sent me and I live
because of the Father, so the one who feeds on me will live because of
me. {58} This is the bread that
came down from heaven. Your forefathers ate manna and died, but he who
feeds on this bread will live forever." {59} He said this
while teaching in the synagogue in Capernaum. {60} On hearing it,
many of his disciples said, "This is a hard teaching. Who can accept
it?" {61} Aware that his disciples were grumbling about this,
Jesus said to them, "Does this offend you?
{62} What if you see the Son of Man ascend
to where he was before! {63} The
Spirit gives life; the flesh counts for nothing. The words I have spoken
to you are spirit and they are life. {64}
Yet there are some of you who do not believe."
For Jesus had known from the beginning which of them did not
believe and who would betray him. {65} He went on to say,
"This is why I told you that no one can come to
me unless the Father has enabled him." {66} From this time
many of his disciples turned back and no longer followed him. {67}
"You do not want to leave too, do you?"
Jesus asked the Twelve. {68} Simon Peter answered him,
"Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life. {69}
We believe and know that you are the Holy One of God." {70}
Then Jesus replied, "Have I not chosen you, the
Twelve? Yet one of you is a devil!" {71} (He meant Judas,
the son of Simon Iscariot, who, though one of the Twelve, was later to
betray him.) |
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John 7 |
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After
this, Jesus went around in Galilee, purposely staying away from Judea
because the Jews there were waiting to take his life. {2} But
when the Jewish Feast of Tabernacles was near, {3} Jesus'
brothers said to him, "You ought to leave here and go to Judea, so that
your disciples may see the miracles you do. {4} No one who wants
to become a public figure acts in secret. Since you are doing these
things, show yourself to the world." {5} For even his own
brothers did not believe in him. {6} Therefore Jesus told them,
"The right time for me has not yet come; for you
any time is right. {7} The world
cannot hate you, but it hates me because I testify that what it does is
evil. {8} You go to the Feast. I
am not yet going up to this Feast, because for me the right time has not
yet come." {9} Having said this, he stayed in Galilee.
{10} However, after his brothers had left for the Feast, he went
also, not publicly, but in secret. {11} Now at the Feast the Jews
were watching for him and asking, "Where is that man?" {12} Among
the crowds there was widespread whispering about him. Some said, "He is
a good man." Others replied, "No, he deceives the people." {13}
But no one would say anything publicly about him for fear of the Jews.
{14} Not until halfway through the Feast did Jesus go up to the
temple courts and begin to teach. {15} The Jews were amazed and
asked, "How did this man get such learning without having studied?"
{16} Jesus answered, "My teaching is not my
own. It comes from him who sent me. {17}
If anyone chooses to do God's will, he will find
out whether my teaching comes from God or whether I speak on my own.
{18} He who speaks on his own does so to
gain honor for himself, but he who works for the honor of the one who
sent him is a man of truth; there is nothing false about him.
{19} Has not Moses given you the law? Yet
not one of you keeps the law. Why are you trying to kill me?"
{20} "You are demon-possessed," the crowd answered. "Who is trying
to kill you?" {21} Jesus said to them, "I
did one miracle, and you are all astonished. {22}
Yet, because Moses gave you circumcision (though
actually it did not come from Moses, but from the patriarchs), you
circumcise a child on the Sabbath. {23}
Now if a child can be circumcised on the Sabbath
so that the law of Moses may not be broken, why are you angry with me
for healing the whole man on the Sabbath? {24}
Stop judging by mere appearances, and make a
right judgment." {25} At that point some of the people of
Jerusalem began to ask, "Isn't this the man they are trying to kill?
{26} Here he is, speaking publicly, and they are not saying a word
to him. Have the authorities really concluded that he is the Christ ?
{27} But we know where this man is from; when the Christ comes, no
one will know where he is from." {28} Then Jesus, still teaching
in the temple courts, cried out, "Yes, you know
me, and you know where I am from. I am not here on my own, but he who
sent me is true. You do not know him, {29}
but I know him because I am from him and he sent
me." {30} At this they tried to seize him, but no one laid
a hand on him, because his time had not yet come. {31} Still,
many in the crowd put their faith in him. They said, "When the Christ
comes, will he do more miraculous signs than this man?" {32} The
Pharisees heard the crowd whispering such things about him. Then the
chief priests and the Pharisees sent temple guards to arrest him.
{33} Jesus said, "I am with you for only a
short time, and then I go to the one who sent me. {34}
You will look 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 cannot find him?
Will he go where our people live scattered among the Greeks, and teach
the Greeks? {36} What did he mean when he said,
'You will look for me, but you will not find
me,' and' Where I am, you cannot come'?"
{37} On the last and greatest day of the Feast, Jesus stood and said
in a loud voice, "If anyone is thirsty, let him
come to me and drink. {38} Whoever
believes in me, as the Scripture has said, streams of living water will
flow from within him." {39} By this he meant the Spirit,
whom those who believed in him were later to receive. Up to that time
the Spirit had not been given, since Jesus had not yet been glorified.
{40} On hearing his words, some of the people said, "Surely this man
is the Prophet." {41} Others said, "He is the Christ." Still
others asked, "How can the Christ come from Galilee? {42} Does
not the Scripture say that the Christ will come from David's family and
from Bethlehem, the town where David lived?" {43} Thus the people
were divided because of Jesus. {44} Some wanted to seize him, but
no one laid a hand on him. {45} Finally the temple guards went
back to the chief priests and Pharisees, who asked them, "Why didn't you
bring him in?" {46} "No one ever spoke the way this man does,"
the guards declared. {47} "You mean he has deceived you also?"
the Pharisees retorted. {48} "Has any of the rulers or of the
Pharisees believed in him? {49} No! But this mob that knows
nothing of the law--there is a curse on them." {50} Nicodemus,
who had gone to Jesus earlier and who was one of their own number,
asked, {51} "Does our law condemn anyone without first hearing
him to find out what he is doing?" {52} They replied, "Are you
from Galilee, too? Look into it, and you will find that a prophet does
not come out of Galilee." {53} Then each went to his own home. |
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John 8 |
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But
Jesus went to the Mount of Olives. {2} At dawn he appeared again
in the temple courts, where all the people gathered around him, and he
sat down to teach them. {3} The teachers of the law and the
Pharisees brought in a woman caught in adultery. They made her stand
before the group {4} and said to Jesus, "Teacher, this woman was
caught in the act of adultery. {5} In the Law Moses commanded us
to stone such women. Now what do you say?" {6} They were using
this question as a trap, in order to have a basis for accusing him. But
Jesus bent down and started to write on the ground with his finger.
{7} When they kept on questioning him, he straightened up and said
to them, "If any one of you is without sin, let
him be the first to throw a stone at her." {8} Again he
stooped down and wrote on the ground. {9} At this, those who
heard began to go away one at a time, the older ones first, until only
Jesus was left, with the woman still standing there. {10} Jesus
straightened up and asked her, "Woman, where are
they? Has no one condemned you?" {11} "No one, sir," she
said. "Then neither do I condemn you,"
Jesus declared. "Go now and leave your life of
sin." {12} When Jesus spoke again to the people, he said,
"I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me
will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life."
{13} The Pharisees challenged him, "Here you are, appearing as your
own witness; your testimony is not valid." {14} Jesus answered,
"Even if I testify on my own behalf, my
testimony is valid, for I know where I came from and where I am going.
But you have no idea where I come from or where I am going.
{15} You judge by human standards; I pass
judgment on no one. {16} But if I
do judge, my decisions are right, because I am not alone. I stand with
the Father, who sent me. {17} In
your own Law it is written that the testimony of two men is valid.
{18} I am one who testifies for myself; my
other witness is the Father, who sent me." {19} Then they
asked him, "Where is your father?" "You do not
know me or my Father," Jesus replied. "If
you knew me, you would know my Father also." {20} He spoke
these words while teaching in the temple area near the place where the
offerings were put. Yet no one seized him, because his time had not yet
come. {21} Once more Jesus said to them,
"I am going away, and you will look for me, and you will die in your
sin. Where I go, you cannot come." {22} This made the Jews
ask, "Will he kill himself? Is that why he says,
'Where I go, you cannot come'?" {23} But he continued,
"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; if
you do not believe that I am the one I claim to be, you will
indeed die in your sins." {25} "Who are you?" they asked.
"Just what I have been claiming all along,"
Jesus replied. {26} "I have much
to say in judgment of you. But he who sent me is reliable, and what I
have heard from him I tell the world." {27} They did not
understand that he was telling them about his Father. {28} So
Jesus said, "When you have lifted up the Son of
Man, then you will know that I am the one I claim to be and that
I do nothing on my own but speak just what the Father has taught me.
{29} The one who sent me is with me; he has
not left me alone, for I always do what pleases him." {30}
Even as he spoke, many put their faith in him. {31} To the Jews
who had believed him, Jesus said, "If you hold
to my teaching, you are really my disciples. {32}
Then you will know the truth, and the truth will
set you free." {33} They answered him, "We are Abraham's
descendants and have never been slaves of anyone. How can you say that
we shall be set free?" {34} Jesus replied,
"I tell you the truth, everyone who sins is a
slave to sin. {35} Now a slave has
no permanent place in the family, but a son belongs to it forever.
{36} So if the Son sets you free, you will
be free indeed. {37} I know you
are Abraham's descendants. Yet you are ready to kill me, because you
have no room for my word. {38} I
am telling you what I have seen in the Father's presence, and you do
what you have heard from your father." {39} "Abraham is
our father," they answered. "If you were
Abraham's children," said Jesus, "then
you would do the things Abraham did. {40}
As it is, you are determined to kill me, a man who has told you the truth
that I heard from God. Abraham did not do such things. {41}
You are doing the things your own father
does." "We are not illegitimate children," they protested. "The
only Father we have is God himself." {42} Jesus said to them,
"If God were your Father, you would love me, for
I came from God and now am here. I have not come on my own; but he sent
me. {43} Why is my language not
clear to you? Because you are unable to hear what I say. {44}
You belong to your father, the devil, and
you want to carry out your father's desire. He was a murderer from the
beginning, not holding to the truth, for there is no truth in him. When
he lies, he speaks his native language, for he is a liar and the father
of lies. {45} Yet because I tell
the truth, you do not believe me! {46}
Can any of you prove me guilty of sin? If I am
telling the truth, why don't you believe me? {47}
He who belongs to God hears what God says. The
reason you do not hear is that you do not belong to God." {48}
The Jews answered him, "Aren't we right in saying that you are a
Samaritan and demon-possessed?" {49} "I
am not possessed by a demon," said Jesus,
"but I honor my Father and you dishonor me. {50}
I am not seeking glory for myself; but there is
one who seeks it, and he is the judge. {51}
I tell you the truth, if anyone keeps my word,
he will never see death." {52} At this the Jews exclaimed,
"Now we know that you are demon-possessed! Abraham died and so did the
prophets, yet you say that if anyone keeps your word, he will never
taste death. {53} Are you greater than our father Abraham? He
died, and so did the prophets. Who do you think you are?" {54}
Jesus replied, "If I glorify myself, my glory
means nothing. My Father, whom you claim as your God, is the one who
glorifies me. {55} Though you do
not know him, I know him. If I said I did not, I would be a liar like
you, but I do know him and keep his word. {56}
Your father Abraham rejoiced at the thought of
seeing my day; he saw it and was glad." {57} "You are not
yet fifty years old," the Jews said to him, "and you have seen Abraham!"
{58} "I tell you the truth," Jesus
answered, "before Abraham was born, I am!"
{59} At this, they picked up stones to stone him, but Jesus hid
himself, slipping away from the temple grounds. |
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John 9 |
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As he
went 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} "Neither this man nor his
parents sinned," said Jesus, "but this
happened so that the work of God might be displayed in his life.
{4} As long as it is day, we must do the
work of him who sent me. Night is coming, when no one can work.
{5} While I am in the world, I am the light
of the world." {6} Having said this, he spit on the
ground, made some mud with the saliva, and put it on the man's eyes.
{7} "Go," he told him,
"wash in the Pool of Siloam" (this word
means Sent). So the man went and washed, and came home seeing. {8}
His neighbors and those who had formerly seen him begging asked,
"Isn't this the same man who used to sit and beg?" {9} Some
claimed that he was. Others said, "No, he only looks like him." But he
himself insisted, "I am the man." {10} "How then were your eyes
opened?" they demanded. {11} He replied, "The man they call Jesus
made some mud and put it on my eyes. He told me to go to Siloam and
wash. So I went and washed, and then I could see." {12} "Where is
this man?" they asked him. "I don't know," he said. {13} They
brought to the Pharisees the man who had been blind. {14} Now the
day on which Jesus had made the mud and opened the man's eyes was a
Sabbath. {15} Therefore the Pharisees also asked him how he had
received his sight. "He put mud on my eyes," the man replied, "and I
washed, and now I see." {16} Some of the Pharisees said, "This
man is not from God, for he does not keep the Sabbath." But others
asked, "How can a sinner do such miraculous signs?" So they were
divided. {17} Finally they turned again to the blind man, "What
have you to say about him? It was your eyes he opened." The man replied,
"He is a prophet." {18} The Jews still did not believe that he
had been blind and had received his sight until they sent for the man's
parents. {19} "Is this your son?" they asked. "Is this the one
you say was born blind? How is it that now he can see?" {20} "We
know he is our son," the parents answered, "and we know he was born
blind. {21} But how he can see now, or who opened his eyes, we
don't know. Ask him. He is of age; he will speak for himself." {22}
His parents said this because they were afraid of the Jews, for
already the Jews had decided that anyone who acknowledged that Jesus was
the Christ would be put out of the synagogue. {23} That was why
his parents said, "He is of age; ask him." {24} A second time
they summoned the man who had been blind. "Give glory to God, " they
said. "We know this man is a sinner." {25} He replied, "Whether
he is a sinner or not, I don't know. One thing I do know. I was blind
but now I see!" {26} Then they asked him, "What did he do to you?
How did he open your eyes?" {27} He answered, "I have told you
already and you did not listen. Why do you want to hear it again? Do you
want to become his disciples, too?" {28} Then they hurled insults
at him and said, "You are this fellow's disciple! We are disciples of
Moses! {29} We know that God spoke to Moses, but as for this
fellow, we don't even know where he comes from." {30} The man
answered, "Now that is remarkable! You don't know where he comes from,
yet he opened my eyes. {31} We know that God does not listen to
sinners. He listens to the godly man who does his will. {32}
Nobody has ever heard of opening the eyes of a man born blind. {33}
If this man were not from God, he could do nothing." {34} To
this they replied, "You were steeped in sin at birth; how dare you
lecture us!" And they threw him out. {35} Jesus heard that they
had thrown him out, and when he found him, he said,
"Do you believe in the Son of Man?"
{36} "Who is he, sir?" the man asked. "Tell me so that I may believe
in him." {37} Jesus said, "You have now
seen him; in fact, he is the one speaking with you." {38}
Then the man said, "Lord, I believe," and he worshiped him. {39}
Jesus said, "For judgment I have come into this
world, so that the blind will see and those who see will become blind."
{40} Some Pharisees who were with him heard him say this and asked,
"What? Are we blind too?" {41} Jesus said,
"If you were blind, you would not be guilty of
sin; but now that you claim you can see, your guilt remains. |
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John
10 |
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"I tell you the truth, the man who does not enter the sheep pen by the
gate, but climbs in by some other way, is a thief and a robber.
{2}
The man who enters by the gate is the shepherd of his sheep.
{3}
The watchman opens the gate for him, and the sheep listen to his voice.
He calls his own sheep by name and leads them out.
{4}
When he has brought out all his own, he goes on ahead of them, and his
sheep follow him because they know his voice.
{5}
But they will never follow a stranger; in fact, they will run away from
him because they do not recognise a stranger's voice."
{6}
Jesus
used this figure of speech, but they did not understand what he was
telling them. {7} Therefore Jesus said again,
"I tell you the truth, I am the gate for the
sheep. {8} All who ever came
before me were thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not listen to
them. {9} I am the gate; whoever
enters through me will be saved. He will come in and go out, and find
pasture. {10} The thief comes only
to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and
have it to the full. {11} "I am
the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.
{12} The hired hand is not the shepherd who
owns the sheep. So when he sees the wolf coming, he abandons the sheep
and runs away. Then the wolf attacks the flock and scatters it.
{13} The man runs away because he is a hired
hand and cares nothing for the sheep. {14}
"I am the good shepherd; 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
that are not of this sheep pen. I must bring them also. They too will
listen to my voice, and there shall be one flock and one shepherd.
{17} The reason my Father loves me is that I
lay down my life--only to take it up again. {18}
No one takes it from me, but I lay it down of my
own accord. I have authority to lay it down and authority to take it up
again. This command I received from my Father." {19} At
these words the Jews were again divided. {20} Many of them said,
"He is demon-possessed and raving mad. Why listen to him?" {21}
But others said, "These are not the sayings of a man possessed by a
demon. Can a demon open the eyes of the blind?" {22} Then came
the Feast of Dedication at Jerusalem. It was winter, {23} and
Jesus was in the temple area walking in Solomon's Colonnade. {24}
The Jews gathered around him, saying, "How long will you keep us in
suspense? If you are the Christ, tell us plainly." {25} Jesus
answered, "I did tell you, but you do not
believe. The miracles I do in my Father's name speak for me,
{26} but you do not believe because you are
not my sheep. {27} My sheep listen
to my voice; I know them, and they follow me. {28}
I give them eternal life, and they shall never
perish; no one can snatch them out of my hand. {29}
My Father, who has given them to me, is greater
than all ; no one can snatch them out of my Father's hand.
{30} I and the Father are one."
{31} Again the Jews picked up stones to stone him, {32} but
Jesus said to them, "I have shown you many great
miracles from the Father. For which of these do you stone me?"
{33} "We are not stoning you for any of these," replied the Jews,
"but for blasphemy, because you, a mere man, claim to be God." {34}
Jesus answered them, "Is it not written in
your Law, 'I have said you are gods'? {35}
If he called them 'gods,' to whom the word of
God came--and the Scripture cannot be broken-- {36}
what about the one whom the Father set apart as
his very own and sent into the world? Why then do you accuse me of
blasphemy because I said, 'I am God's Son'? {37}
Do not believe me unless I do what my Father
does. {38} But if I do it, even
though you do not believe me, believe the miracles, that you may know
and understand that the Father is in me, and I in the Father."
{39} Again they tried to seize him, but he escaped their grasp.
{40} Then Jesus went back across the Jordan to the place where John
had been baptizing in the early days. Here he stayed {41} and
many people came to him. They said, "Though John never performed a
miraculous sign, all that John said about this man was true." {42}
And in that place many believed in Jesus. |
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John 11 |
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Now a
man named Lazarus was sick. He was from Bethany, the village of Mary and
her sister Martha. {2} This Mary, whose brother Lazarus now lay
sick, was the same one who poured perfume on the Lord and wiped his feet
with her hair. {3} So the sisters sent word to Jesus, "Lord, the
one you love is sick." {4} When he heard this, Jesus said,
"This sickness will not end in death. No, it is
for God's glory so that God's Son may be glorified through it."
{5} Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus. {6} Yet
when he heard that Lazarus was sick, he stayed where he was two more
days. {7} Then he said to his disciples,
"Let us go back to Judea." {8} "But Rabbi," they said, "a
short while ago the Jews tried to stone you, and yet you are going back
there?" {9} Jesus answered, "Are there
not twelve hours of daylight? A man who walks by day will not stumble,
for he sees by this world's light. {10}
It is when he walks by night that he stumbles,
for he has no light." {11} After he had said this, he went
on to tell them, "Our friend Lazarus has fallen
asleep; but I am going there to wake him up." {12} His
disciples replied, "Lord, if he sleeps, he will get better." {13}
Jesus had been speaking of his death, but his disciples thought he meant
natural sleep. {14} So then he told them plainly,
"Lazarus is dead, {15}
and for your sake I am glad I was not there, so
that you may believe. But let us go to him." {16} Then
Thomas (called Didymus) said to the rest of the disciples, "Let us also
go, that we may die with him." {17} On his arrival, Jesus found
that Lazarus had already been in the tomb for four days. {18}
Bethany was less than two miles from Jerusalem, {19} and many
Jews had come to Martha and Mary to comfort them in the loss of their
brother. {20} When Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went
out to meet him, but Mary stayed at home. {21} "Lord," Martha
said to Jesus, "if you had been here, my brother would not have died.
{22} But I know that even now God will give you whatever you ask."
{23} Jesus said to her, "Your brother will
rise again." {24} Martha answered, "I know he will rise
again in the resurrection at the last day." {25} Jesus said to
her, "I am the resurrection and the life. He who
believes in me will live, even though he dies; {26}
and whoever lives and believes in me will never
die. Do you believe this?" {27} "Yes, Lord," she told him,
"I believe that you are the Christ, the Son of God, who was to come into
the world." {28} And after she had said this, she went back and
called her sister Mary aside. "The Teacher is here," she said, "and is
asking for you." {29} When Mary heard this, she got up quickly
and went to him. {30} Now Jesus had not yet entered the village,
but was still at the place where Martha had met him. {31} When
the Jews who had been with Mary in the house, comforting her, noticed
how quickly she got up and went out, they followed her, supposing she
was going to the tomb to mourn there. {32} When Mary reached the
place where Jesus was and saw him, she fell at his feet and said, "Lord,
if you had been here, my brother would not have died." {33} When
Jesus saw her weeping, and the Jews who had come along with her also
weeping, he was deeply moved in spirit and troubled. {34}
"Where have you laid him?" he asked.
"Come and see, Lord," they replied. {35} Jesus wept. {36}
Then 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} Jesus, once more deeply moved, came to the
tomb. It was a cave with a stone laid across the entrance. {39}
"Take away the stone," he said. "But,
Lord," said Martha, the sister of the dead man, "by this time there is a
bad odor, for he has been there four days." {40} Then Jesus said,
"Did I not tell you that if you believed, you
would see the glory of God?" {41} So they took away the
stone. Then Jesus looked up and said, "Father, I
thank you that you have heard me. {42}
I knew that you always hear me, but I said this
for the benefit of the people standing here, that they may believe that
you sent me." {43} When he had said this, Jesus called in
a loud voice, "Lazarus, come out!"
{44} The dead man came out, his hands and feet wrapped with strips
of linen, and a cloth around his face. Jesus said to them,
"Take off the grave clothes and let him go." {45} Therefore
many of the Jews who had come to visit Mary, and had seen what Jesus
did, put their faith in him. {46} But some of them went to the
Pharisees and told them what Jesus had done. {47} Then the chief
priests and the Pharisees called a meeting of the Sanhedrin. "What are
we accomplishing?" they asked. "Here is this man performing many
miraculous signs. {48} If we let him go on like this, everyone
will believe in him, and then the Romans will come and take away both
our place and our nation." {49} Then one of them, named Caiaphas,
who was high priest that year, spoke up, "You know nothing at all!
{50} You do not realise that it is better for you that one man die
for the people than that the whole nation perish." {51} He did
not say this on his own, but as high priest that year he prophesied that
Jesus would die for the Jewish nation, {52} and not only for that
nation but also for the scattered children of God, to bring them
together and make them one. {53} So from that day on they plotted
to take his life. {54} Therefore Jesus no longer moved about
publicly among the Jews. Instead he withdrew to a region near the
desert, to a village called Ephraim, where he stayed with his disciples.
{55} When it was almost time for the Jewish Passover, many went up
from the country to Jerusalem for their ceremonial cleansing before the
Passover. {56} They kept looking for Jesus, and as they stood in
the temple area they asked one another, "What do you think? Isn't he
coming to the Feast at all?" {57} But the chief priests and
Pharisees had given orders that if anyone found out where Jesus was, he
should report it so that they might arrest him. |
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John 12 |
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Six
days before the Passover, Jesus arrived at Bethany, where Lazarus lived,
whom Jesus had raised from the dead. {2} Here a dinner was given
in Jesus' honor. Martha served, while Lazarus was among those reclining
at the table with him. {3} Then Mary took about a pint of pure
nard, an expensive perfume; she poured it on Jesus' feet and wiped his
feet with her hair. And the house was filled with the fragrance of the
perfume. {4} But one of his disciples, Judas Iscariot, who was
later to betray him, objected, {5} "Why wasn't this perfume sold
and the money given to the poor? It was worth a year's wages." {6}
He did not say this because he cared about the poor but because he
was a thief; as keeper of the money bag, he used to help himself to what
was put into it. {7} "Leave her alone,"
Jesus replied. "It was intended
that she should save this perfume for the
day of my burial. {8} You will
always have the poor among you, but you will not always have me."
{9} Meanwhile a large crowd of Jews found out that Jesus was there
and came, not only because of him but also to see Lazarus, whom he had
raised from the dead. {10} So the chief priests made plans to
kill Lazarus as well, {11} for on account of him many of the Jews
were going over to Jesus and putting their faith in him. {12} The
next day the great crowd that had come for the Feast heard that Jesus
was on his way to Jerusalem. {13} They took palm branches and
went out to meet him, shouting, "Hosanna! " "Blessed is he who comes in
the name of the Lord!" "Blessed is the King of Israel!" {14}
Jesus found a young donkey and sat upon it, as it is written, {15}
"Do not be afraid, O Daughter of Zion; see, your king is coming,
seated on a donkey's colt." {16} At first his disciples did not
understand all this. Only after Jesus was glorified did they realise
that these things had been written about him and that they had done
these things to him. {17} Now the crowd that was with him when he
called Lazarus from the tomb and raised him from the dead continued to
spread the word. {18} Many people, because they had heard that he
had given this miraculous sign, went out to meet him. {19} So the
Pharisees said to one another, "See, this is getting us nowhere. Look
how the whole world has gone after him!" {20} Now there were some
Greeks among those who went up to worship at the Feast. {21} They
came to Philip, who was from Bethsaida in Galilee, with a request.
"Sir," they said, "we would like to see Jesus." {22} Philip went
to tell Andrew; Andrew and Philip in turn told Jesus. {23} Jesus
replied, "The hour has come for the Son of Man
to be glorified. {24} I tell you
the truth, unless a kernel of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it
remains only a single seed. But if it dies, it produces many seeds.
{25} The man who loves his life will lose
it, while the man who hates his life in this world will keep it for
eternal life. {26} Whoever serves
me must follow me; and where I am, my servant also will be. My Father
will honor the one who serves me. {27}
"Now my heart is troubled, and what shall I say?
'Father, save me from this hour'? No, it was for this very reason I came
to this hour. {28} Father, glorify
your name!" Then a voice came from heaven, "I have glorified it,
and will glorify it again." {29} The crowd that was there and
heard it said it had thundered; others said an angel had spoken to him.
{30} Jesus said, "This voice was for your
benefit, not mine. {31} Now is the
time for judgment on this world; now the prince of this world will be
driven out. {32} But I, when I am
lifted up from the earth, will draw all men to myself." {33}
He said this to show the kind of death he was going to die. {34}
The crowd spoke up, "We have heard from the Law that the Christ will
remain forever, so how can you say, 'The Son of
Man must be lifted up'? Who is this 'Son of Man'?" {35}
Then Jesus told them, "You are going to have the
light just a little while longer. Walk while you have the light, before
darkness overtakes you. The man who walks in the dark does not know
where he is going. {36} Put your
trust in the light while you have it, so that you may become sons of
light." When he had finished speaking, Jesus left and hid himself
from them. {37} Even after Jesus had done all these miraculous
signs in their presence, they still would not believe in him. {38}
This was to fulfill the word of Isaiah the prophet: "Lord, who has
believed our message and to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?"
{39} For this reason they could not believe, because, as Isaiah says
elsewhere: {40} "He has blinded their eyes and deadened their
hearts, so they can neither see with their eyes, nor understand with
their hearts, nor turn--and I would heal them." {41} Isaiah said
this because he saw Jesus' glory and spoke about him. {42} Yet at
the same time many even among the leaders believed in him. But because
of the Pharisees they would not confess their faith for fear they would
be put out of the synagogue; {43} for they loved praise from men
more than praise from God. {44} Then Jesus cried out,
"When a man believes in me, he does not believe
in me only, but in the one who sent me. {45}
When he looks at me, he sees the one who sent
me. {46} I have come into the
world as a light, so that no one who believes in me should stay in
darkness. {47} "As for the person
who hears my words but does not keep them, I do not judge him. For I did
not come to judge the world, but to save it. {48}
There is a judge for the one who rejects me and
does not accept my words; that very word which I spoke will condemn him
at the last day. {49} For I did
not speak of my own accord, but the Father who sent me commanded me what
to say and how to say it. {50} I
know that his command leads to eternal life. So whatever I say is just
what the Father has told me to say." |
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John 13 |
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It
was just before the Passover Feast. Jesus knew that the time had come
for him to leave this world and go to the Father. Having loved his own
who were in the world, he now showed them the full extent of his love.
{2} The evening meal was being served, and the devil had already
prompted Judas Iscariot, son of Simon, to betray Jesus. {3} Jesus
knew that the Father had put all things under his power, and that he had
come from God and was returning to God; {4} so he got up from the
meal, took off his outer clothing, and wrapped a towel around his waist.
{5} After that, he poured water into a basin and began to wash his
disciples' feet, drying them with the towel that was wrapped around him.
{6} He came to Simon Peter, who said to him, "Lord, are you going to
wash my feet?" {7} Jesus replied, "You do
not realise now what I am doing, but later you will understand."
{8} "No," said Peter, "you shall never wash my feet." Jesus
answered, "Unless I wash you, you have no part
with me." {9} "Then, Lord," Simon Peter replied, "not just
my feet but my hands and my head as well!" {10} Jesus answered,
"A person who has had a bath needs only to wash
his feet; his whole body is clean. And you are clean, though not every
one of you." {11} For he knew who was going to betray him,
and that was why he said not every one was clean. {12} When he
had finished washing their feet, he put on his clothes and returned to
his place. "Do you understand what I have done
for you?" he asked them. {13} "You
call me 'Teacher' and 'Lord,' and rightly so, for that is what I am.
{14} Now that I, your Lord and Teacher, have
washed your feet, you also should wash one another's feet.
{15} I have set you an example that you should do as I have done for you.
{16} I tell you the truth, no servant is
greater than his master, nor is a messenger greater than the one who
sent him. {17} Now that you know
these things, you will be blessed if you do them. {18}
"I am not referring to all of you; I know those
I have chosen. But this is to fulfill the scripture: 'He who shares my
bread has lifted up his heel against me.' {19}
"I am telling you now before it happens, so that
when it does happen you will believe that I am He. {20}
I tell you the truth, whoever accepts anyone I
send accepts me; and whoever accepts me accepts the one who sent me."
{21} After he had said this, Jesus was troubled in spirit and
testified, "I tell you the truth, one of you is
going to betray me." {22} His disciples stared at one
another, at a loss to know which of them he meant. {23} One of
them, the disciple whom Jesus loved, was reclining next to him. {24}
Simon Peter motioned to this disciple and said, "Ask him which one
he means." {25} Leaning back against Jesus, he asked him, "Lord,
who is it?" {26} Jesus answered, "It is
the one to whom I will give this piece of bread when I have dipped it in
the dish." Then, dipping the piece of bread, he gave it to Judas
Iscariot, son of Simon. {27} As soon as Judas took the bread,
Satan entered into him. "What you are about to
do, do quickly," Jesus told him, {28} but no one at the
meal understood why Jesus said this to him. {29} Since Judas had
charge of the money, some thought Jesus was telling him to buy what was
needed for the Feast, or to give something to the poor. {30} As
soon as Judas had taken the bread, he went out. And it was night.
{31} When he was gone, Jesus said, "Now is
the Son of Man glorified and God is glorified in him. {32}
If God is glorified in him, God will glorify the
Son in himself, and will glorify him at once. {33}
"My children, I will be with you only a little
longer. You will look for me, and just as I told the Jews, so I tell you
now: Where I am going, you cannot come. {34}
"A new command I give you: Love one another. As
I have loved you, so you must love one another. {35}
By this all men will know that you are my
disciples, if you love one another." {36} Simon Peter
asked him, "Lord, where are you going?" Jesus replied,
"Where I am going, you cannot follow now, but
you will follow later." {37} Peter asked, "Lord, why can't
I follow you now? I will lay down my life for you." {38} Then
Jesus answered, "Will you really lay down your
life for me? I tell you the truth, before the rooster crows, you will
disown me three times! |
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John 14 |
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"Do not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God ; trust also in me.
{2}
In my Father's house are many rooms; if it were not so, I would have
told you. I am going there to prepare a place for you.
{3}
And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you
to be with me that you also may be where I am.
{4}
You know the way to the place where I am going."
{5}
Thomas said to him, "Lord, we don't know where you are going, so how can
we know the way?" {6} Jesus answered, "I
am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except
through me. {7} If you really knew
me, you would know my Father as well. From now on, you do know him and
have seen him." {8} Philip said, "Lord, show us the Father
and that will be enough for us." {9} Jesus answered:
"Don't you know me, Philip, even after I have
been among you such a long time? Anyone who has seen me has seen the
Father. How can you say, 'Show us the Father'? {10}
Don't you believe that I am in the Father, and
that the Father is in me? The words I say to you are not just my own.
Rather, it is the Father, living in me, who is doing his work.
{11} Believe me when I say that I am in the
Father and the Father is in me; or at least believe on the evidence of
the miracles themselves. {12} I
tell you the truth, anyone who has faith in me will do what I have been
doing. He will do even greater things than these, because I am going to
the Father. {13} And I will do
whatever you ask in my name, so that the Son may bring glory to the
Father. {14} You may ask me for
anything in my name, and I will do it. {15}
"If you love me, you will obey what I command.
{16} And I will ask the Father, and he will
give you another Counselor to be with you forever-- {17}
the Spirit of truth. The world cannot accept
him, because it neither sees him nor knows him. But you know him, for he
lives with you and will be in you. {18}
I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to
you. {19} Before long, the world
will not see me anymore, but you will see me. Because I live, you also
will live. {20} On that day you
will realise that I am in my Father, and you are in me, and I am in you.
{21} Whoever has my commands and obeys them,
he is the one who loves me. He who loves me will be loved by my Father,
and I too will love him and show myself to him." {22} Then
Judas (not Judas Iscariot) said, "But, Lord, why do you intend to show
yourself to us and not to the world?" {23} Jesus replied,
"If anyone loves me, he will obey my teaching.
My Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with
him. {24} He who does not love me
will not obey my teaching. These words you hear are not my own; they
belong to the Father who sent me. {25}
"All this I have spoken while still with you.
{26} But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit,
whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things and will
remind you of everything I have said to you. {27}
Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I
do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be
troubled and do not be afraid. {28}
"You heard me say, 'I am going away and I am
coming back to you.' If you loved me, you would be glad that I am going
to the Father, for the Father is greater than I. {29}
I have told you now before it happens, so that
when it does happen you will believe. {30}
I will not speak with you much longer, for the
prince of this world is coming. He has no hold on me, {31}
but the world must learn that I love the Father
and that I do exactly what my Father has commanded me. "Come now; let us
leave. |
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John 15 |
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"I am the true vine, and my Father is the gardener.
{2}
He cuts off every branch in me that bears no fruit, while every branch
that does bear fruit he prunes so that it will be even more fruitful.
{3}
You are already clean because of the word I have spoken to you.
{4}
Remain in me, and I will remain in you. No branch can bear fruit by
itself; it must remain in the vine. Neither can you bear fruit unless
you remain in me.
{5}
"I am the vine; you are the branches. If a man remains in me and I in
him, he will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing.
{6}
If anyone does not remain in me, he is like a branch that is thrown away
and withers; such branches are picked up, thrown into the fire and
burned.
{7}
If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask whatever you wish,
and it will be given you.
{8}
This is to my Father's glory, that you bear much fruit, showing
yourselves to be my disciples.
{9}
"As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Now remain in my love.
{10}
If you obey my commands, you will remain in my love, just as I have
obeyed my Father's commands and remain in his love.
{11}
I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and that your joy may
be complete.
{12}
My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you.
{13}
Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his
friends.
{14}
You are my friends if you do what I command.
{15}
I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his
master's business. Instead, I have called you friends, for everything
that I learned from my Father I have made known to you.
{16}
You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you to go and bear
fruit--fruit that will last. Then the Father will give you whatever you
ask in my name.
{17}
This is my command: Love each other.
{18}
"If the world hates you, keep in mind that it hated me first.
{19}
If you belonged to the world, it would love you as its own. As it is,
you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world.
That is why the world hates you.
{20}
Remember the words I spoke to you: 'No servant is greater than his
master.' If they persecuted me, they will persecute you also. If they
obeyed my teaching, they will obey yours also.
{21}
They will treat you this way because of my name, for they do not know
the One who sent me.
{22}
If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not be guilty of sin.
Now, however, they have no excuse for their sin.
{23}
He who hates me hates my Father as well.
{24}
If I had not done among them what no one else did, they would not be
guilty of sin. But now they have seen these miracles, and yet they have
hated both me and my Father.
{25}
But this is to fulfill what is written in their Law: 'They hated me
without reason.'
{26}
"When the Counselor comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, the
Spirit of truth who goes out from the Father, he will testify about me.
{27}
And you also must testify, for you have been with me from the beginning. |
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John 16 |
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"All this I have told you so that you will not go astray.
{2}
They will put you out of the synagogue; in fact, a time is coming when
anyone who kills you will think he is offering a service to God.
{3}
They will do such things because they have not known the Father or me.
{4}
I have told you this, so that when the time comes you will remember that
I warned you. I did not tell you this at first because I was with you.
{5}
"Now I am going to him who sent me, yet none of you asks me, 'Where are
you going?'
{6}
Because I have said these things, you are filled with grief.
{7}
But I tell you the truth: It is for your good that I am going away.
Unless I go away, the Counselor will not come to you; but if I go, I
will send him to you.
{8}
When he comes, he will convict the world of guilt in regard to sin and
righteousness and judgment:
{9}
in regard to sin, because men do not believe in me;
{10}
in regard to righteousness, because I am going to the Father, where you
can see me no longer;
{11}
and in regard to judgment, because the prince of this world now stands
condemned.
{12}
"I have much more to say to you, more than you can now bear.
{13}
But when he, the Spirit of truth, comes, he will guide you into all
truth. He will not speak on his own; he will speak only what he hears,
and he will tell you what is yet to come.
{14}
He will bring glory to me by taking from what is mine and making it
known to you.
{15}
All that belongs to the Father is mine. That is why I said the Spirit
will take from what is mine and make it known to you.
{16}
"In a little while you will see me no more, and then after a little
while you will see me."
{17}
Some
of his disciples said to one another, "What does he mean by saying,
'In a little while you will see me no more, and
then after a little while you will see me,' and'
Because I am going to the Father'?"
{18} They kept asking, "What does he mean by 'a little while'? We
don't understand what he is saying." {19} Jesus saw that they
wanted to ask him about this, so he said to them,
"Are you asking one another what I meant when I
said, 'In a little while you will see me no more, and then after a
little while you will see me'? {20}
I tell you the truth, you will weep and mourn
while the world rejoices. You will grieve, but your grief will turn to
joy. {21} A woman giving birth to
a child has pain because her time has come; but when her baby is born
she forgets the anguish because of her joy that a child is born into the
world. {22} So with you: Now is
your time of grief, but I will see you again and you will rejoice, and
no one will take away your joy. {23}
In that day you will no longer ask me anything.
I tell you the truth, my Father will give you whatever you ask in my
name. {24} Until now you have not
asked for anything in my name. Ask and you will receive, and your joy
will be complete. {25} "Though I
have been speaking figuratively, a time is coming when I will no longer
use this kind of language but will tell you plainly about my Father.
{26} In that day you will ask in my name. I
am not saying that I will ask the Father on your behalf. {27}
No, 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 entered the world;
now I am leaving the world and going back to the Father." {29}
Then Jesus' disciples said, "Now you are speaking clearly and
without figures of speech. {30} Now we can see that you know all
things and that you do not even need to have anyone ask you questions.
This makes us believe that you came from God." {31}
"You believe at last!" Jesus answered.
{32} "But a time is coming, and has come,
when you will be scattered, each to his own home. You will leave me all
alone. Yet I am not alone, for my Father is with me. {33}
"I have told you these things, so that in me you
may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I
have overcome the world." |
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John 17 |
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After
Jesus said this, he looked toward heaven and prayed:
"Father, the time has come. Glorify your Son,
that your Son may glorify you. {2}
For you granted him authority over all people
that he might give eternal life to all those you have given him.
{3} Now this is eternal life: that they may
know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent.
{4} I have brought you glory on earth by
completing the work you gave me to do. {5}
And now, Father, glorify me in your presence
with the glory I had with you before the world began. {6}
"I have revealed you to those whom you gave me
out of the world. They were yours; you gave them to me and they have
obeyed your word. {7} Now they
know that everything you have given me comes from you. {8}
For I gave them the words you gave me and they
accepted them. They knew with certainty that I came from you, and they
believed that you sent me. {9} I
pray for them. I am not praying for the world, but for those you have
given me, for they are yours. {10}
All I have is yours, and all you have is mine.
And glory has come to me through them. {11}
I will remain in the world no longer, but they
are still in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, protect
them by the power of your name--the name you gave me--so that they may
be one as we are one. {12} While I
was with them, I protected them and kept them safe by that name you gave
me. None has been lost except the one doomed to destruction so that
Scripture would be fulfilled. {13}
"I am coming to you now, but I say these things
while I am still in the world, so that they may have the full measure of
my joy within them. {14} I have
given them your word and the world has hated them, for they are not of
the world any more than I am of the world. {15}
My prayer is not that you take them out of the
world but that you protect them from the evil one. {16}
They are not of the world, even as I am not of
it. {17} Sanctify them by the
truth; your word is truth. {18} As
you sent me into the world, I have sent them into the world.
{19} For them I sanctify myself, that they
too may be truly sanctified. {20}
"My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe
in me through their message, {21}
that all of them may be one, Father, just as you 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} I have given them
the glory that you gave me, that they may be one as we are one:
{23} I in them and you in me. May they be
brought to complete unity to let the world know that you sent me and
have loved them even as you have loved me. {24}
"Father, I want those you have given me to be
with me where I am, and to see my glory, the glory you have given me
because you loved me before the creation of the world. {25}
"Righteous Father, though the world does not know you, I know you, and they
know that you have sent me. {26}
I have made you known to them, and will continue to make you known in order
that the love you have for me may be in them and that I myself may be in
them." |
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John 18 |
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When he
had finished praying, Jesus left with his disciples and crossed the
Kidron Valley. On the other side there was an olive grove, and he and
his disciples went into it. {2} Now Judas, who betrayed him, knew
the place, because Jesus had often met there with his disciples. {3}
So Judas came to the grove, guiding a detachment of soldiers and
some officials from the chief priests and Pharisees. They were carrying
torches, lanterns and weapons. {4} Jesus, knowing all that was
going to happen to him, went out and asked them,
"Who is it you want?" {5} "Jesus of Nazareth," they
replied. "I am he," Jesus said. (And
Judas the traitor was standing there with them.) {6} When Jesus
said, "I am he," they drew back and fell
to the ground. {7} Again he asked them,
"Who is it you want?" And they said, "Jesus of Nazareth." {8}
"I told you that I am he," Jesus
answered. "If you are looking for me, then let
these men go." {9} This happened so that the words he had
spoken would be fulfilled: "I have not lost one
of those you gave me." {10} Then Simon Peter, who had a
sword, drew it and struck the high priest's servant, cutting off his
right ear. (The servant's name was Malchus.) {11} Jesus commanded
Peter, "Put your sword away! Shall I not drink
the cup the Father has given me?" {12} Then the detachment
of soldiers with its commander and the Jewish officials arrested Jesus.
They bound him {13} and brought him first 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 would be good if
one man died for the people. {15} Simon Peter and another
disciple were following Jesus. Because this disciple was known to the
high priest, he went with Jesus into the high priest's courtyard,
{16} but Peter had to wait outside at the door. The other disciple,
who was known to the high priest, came back, spoke to the girl on duty
there and brought Peter in. {17} "You are not one of his
disciples, are you?" the girl at the door asked Peter. He replied, "I am
not." {18} It was cold, and the servants and officials stood
around a fire they had made to keep warm. Peter also was standing with
them, warming himself. {19} Meanwhile, the high priest questioned
Jesus about his disciples and his teaching. {20}
"I have spoken openly to the world,"
Jesus replied. "I always taught in synagogues or
at the temple, where all the Jews come together. I said nothing in
secret. {21} Why question me? Ask
those who heard me. Surely they know what I said." {22}
When Jesus said this, one of the officials nearby struck him in the
face. "Is this the way you answer the high priest?" he demanded. {23}
"If I said something wrong," Jesus
replied, "testify as to what is wrong. But if I
spoke the truth, why did you strike me?" {24} Then Annas
sent him, still bound, to Caiaphas the high priest. {25} As Simon
Peter stood warming himself, he was asked, "You are not one of his
disciples, are you?" He denied it, saying, "I am not." {26} One
of the high priest's servants, a relative of the man whose ear Peter had
cut off, challenged him, "Didn't I see you with him in the olive grove?"
{27} Again Peter denied it, and at that moment a rooster began to
crow. {28} Then the Jews led Jesus from Caiaphas to the palace of
the Roman governor. By now it was early morning, and to avoid ceremonial
uncleanness the Jews did not enter the palace; they wanted to be able to
eat the Passover. {29} So Pilate came out to them and asked,
"What charges are you bringing against this man?" {30} "If he
were not a criminal," they replied, "we would not have handed him over
to you." {31} Pilate said, "Take him yourselves and judge him by
your own law." "But we have no right to execute anyone," the Jews
objected. {32} This happened so that the words Jesus had spoken
indicating the kind of death he was going to die would be fulfilled.
{33} Pilate then went back inside the palace, summoned Jesus and
asked him, "Are you the king of the Jews?" {34}
"Is that your own idea," Jesus asked,
"or did others talk to you about me?"
{35} "Am I a Jew?" Pilate replied. "It was your people and your
chief priests who handed you over to me. What is it you have done?"
{36} Jesus said, "My kingdom is not of this
world. If it were, my servants would fight to prevent my arrest by the
Jews. But now my kingdom is from another place." {37} "You
are a king, then!" said Pilate. Jesus answered,
"You are right in saying I am a king. In fact, for this reason I was
born, and for this I came into the world, to testify to the truth.
Everyone on the side of truth listens to me." {38} "What
is truth?" Pilate asked. With this he went out again to the Jews and
said, "I find no basis for a charge against him. {39} But it is
your custom for me to release to you one prisoner at the time of the
Passover. Do you want me to release 'the king of the Jews'?" {40}
They shouted back, "No, not him! Give us Barabbas!" Now Barabbas had
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Then
Pilate took Jesus and had him flogged. {2} The soldiers twisted
together a crown of thorns and put it on his head. They clothed him in a
purple robe {3} and went up to him again and again, saying,
"Hail, king of the Jews!" And they struck him in the face. {4}
Once more Pilate came out and said to the Jews, "Look, I am bringing him
out to you to let you know that I find no basis for a charge against
him." {5} When Jesus came out wearing the crown of thorns and the
purple robe, Pilate said to them, "Here is the man!" {6} As soon
as the chief priests and their officials saw him, they shouted,
"Crucify! Crucify!" But Pilate answered, "You take him and crucify him.
As for me, I find no basis for a charge against him." {7} The
Jews insisted, "We have a law, and according to that law he must die,
because he claimed to be the Son of God." {8} When Pilate heard
this, he was even more afraid, {9} and he went back inside the
palace. "Where do you come from?" he asked Jesus, but Jesus gave him no
answer. {10} "Do you refuse to speak to me?" Pilate said. "Don't
you realise I have power either to free you or to crucify you?" {11}
Jesus answered, "You would have no power
over me if it were not given to 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 set Jesus free, but the Jews kept
shouting, "If you let this man go, you are no friend of Caesar. Anyone
who claims to be a king opposes Caesar." {13} When Pilate heard
this, he brought Jesus out and sat down on the judge's seat at a place
known as the Stone Pavement (which in Aramaic is Gabbatha). {14}
It was the day of Preparation of Passover Week, about the sixth hour.
"Here is your king," Pilate said to the Jews. {15} But they
shouted, "Take him away! Take him away! Crucify him!" "Shall I crucify
your king?" Pilate asked. "We have no king but Caesar," the chief
priests answered. {16} Finally Pilate handed him over to them to
be crucified. So the soldiers took charge of Jesus. {17} Carrying
his own cross, he went out to the place of the Skull (which in Aramaic
is called Golgotha). {18} Here they crucified him, and with him
two others--one on each side and Jesus in the middle. {19} Pilate
had a notice prepared and fastened to the cross. It read: JESUS OF
NAZARETH, THE KING OF THE JEWS. {20} Many of the Jews read this
sign, for the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city, and the
sign was written in Aramaic, Latin and Greek. {21} The chief
priests of the Jews protested to Pilate, "Do not write 'The King of the
Jews,' but that this man claimed to be king of the Jews." {22}
Pilate answered, "What I have written, I have written." {23} When
the soldiers crucified Jesus, they took his clothes, dividing them into
four shares, one for each of them, with the undergarment remaining. This
garment was seamless, woven in one piece from top to bottom. {24}
"Let's not tear it," they said to one another. "Let's decide by lot who
will get it." This happened that the scripture might be fulfilled which
said, "They divided my garments among them and cast lots for my
clothing." So this is what the soldiers did. {25} Near the cross
of Jesus stood his mother, his mother's sister, Mary the wife of Clopas,
and Mary Magdalene. {26} When Jesus saw his mother there, and the
disciple whom he loved standing nearby, he said to his mother,
"Dear woman, here is your son," {27}
and to the disciple, "Here is your mother."
From that time on, this disciple took her into his home. {28}
Later, knowing that all was now completed, and so that the Scripture
would be fulfilled, Jesus said, "I am thirsty."
{29} A jar of wine vinegar was there, so they soaked a sponge in it,
put the sponge on a stalk of the hyssop plant, and lifted it to Jesus'
lips. {30} When he had received the drink, Jesus said,
"It is finished." With that, he bowed his
head and gave up his spirit. {31} Now it was the day of
Preparation, and the next day was to be a special Sabbath. Because the
Jews did not want the bodies left on the crosses during the Sabbath,
they asked Pilate to have the legs broken and the bodies taken down.
{32} The soldiers therefore came and broke the legs of the first man
who had been crucified with Jesus, and then those of the other. {33}
But when they came to Jesus and found that he was already dead, they
did not break his legs. {34} Instead, one of the soldiers pierced
Jesus' side with a spear, bringing a sudden flow of blood and water.
{35} The man who saw it has given testimony, and his testimony is
true. He knows that he tells the truth, and he testifies so that you
also may believe. {36} These things happened so that the
scripture would be fulfilled: "Not one of his bones will be broken,"
{37} and, as another scripture says, "They will look on the one they
have pierced." {38} Later, Joseph of Arimathea asked Pilate for
the body of Jesus. Now Joseph was a disciple of Jesus, but secretly
because he feared the Jews. With Pilate's permission, he came and took
the body away. {39} He was accompanied by Nicodemus, the man who
earlier had visited Jesus at night. Nicodemus brought a mixture of myrrh
and aloes, about seventy-five pounds. {40} Taking Jesus' body,
the two of them wrapped it, with the spices, in strips of linen. This
was in accordance with Jewish burial customs. {41} At the place
where Jesus was crucified, there was a garden, and in the garden a new
tomb, in which no one had ever been laid. {42} Because it was the
Jewish day of Preparation and since the tomb was nearby, they laid Jesus
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Early
on the first day of the week, while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene
went to the tomb and saw that the stone had been removed from the
entrance. {2} So she came running to Simon Peter and the other
disciple, the one Jesus loved, and said, "They have taken the Lord out
of the tomb, and we don't know where they have put him!" {3} So
Peter and the other disciple started for the tomb. {4} Both were
running, but the other disciple outran Peter and reached the tomb first.
{5} He bent over and looked in at the strips of linen lying there
but did not go in. {6} Then Simon Peter, who was behind him,
arrived and went into the tomb. He saw the strips of linen lying there,
{7} as well as the burial cloth that had been around Jesus' head.
The cloth was folded up by itself, separate from the linen. {8}
Finally the other disciple, who had reached the tomb first, also went
inside. He saw and believed. {9} (They still did not understand
from Scripture that Jesus had to rise from the dead.) {10} Then
the disciples went back to their homes, {11} but Mary stood
outside the tomb crying. As she wept, she bent over to look into the
tomb {12} and saw two angels in white, seated where Jesus' body
had been, one at the head and the other at the foot. {13} They
asked her, "Woman, why are you crying?" "They have taken my Lord away,"
she said, "and I don't know where they have put him." {14} At
this, she turned around and saw Jesus standing there, but she did not
realise that it was Jesus. {15} "Woman,"
he said, "why are you crying? Who is it
you are looking for?" Thinking he was the gardener, she said,
"Sir, if you have carried him away, tell me where you have put him, and
I will get him." {16} Jesus said to her,
"Mary." She turned toward him and cried out in Aramaic, "Rabboni!"
(which means Teacher). {17} Jesus said,
"Do not hold on to me, for I have not yet returned to the Father. Go
instead to my brothers and tell them, 'I am returning to my Father and
your Father, to my God and your God.'" {18} Mary Magdalene
went to the disciples with the news: "I have seen the Lord!" And she
told them that he had said these things to her. {19} On the
evening of that first day of the week, when the disciples were together,
with the doors 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 side. The
disciples were overjoyed when they saw the Lord. {21} Again Jesus
said, "Peace be with you! As the Father has sent
me, I am sending you." {22} And with that he breathed on
them and said, "Receive the Holy Spirit.
{23} If you forgive anyone his sins, they
are forgiven; if you do not forgive them, they are not forgiven."
{24} Now Thomas (called Didymus), one of the Twelve, was not with
the disciples when Jesus came. {25} So the other disciples told
him, "We have seen the Lord!" But he said to them, "Unless I see the
nail marks in his hands and put my finger where the nails were, and put
my hand into his side, I will not believe it." {26} A week later
his disciples were in the house again, and Thomas was with them. Though
the doors were locked, Jesus came and stood among them and said,
"Peace be with you!" {27} Then he
said to Thomas, "Put your finger here; see my
hands. Reach out your hand and put it into my side. Stop doubting and
believe." {28} Thomas said to him, "My Lord and my God!"
{29} Then Jesus told him, "Because you have
seen me, you have believed; blessed are those who have not seen and yet
have believed." {30} Jesus did many other miraculous signs
in the presence of his disciples, which are not recorded in this book.
{31} But these are written that you may believe that Jesus is the
Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his
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Afterward Jesus appeared again to his disciples, by the Sea of Tiberias.
It happened this way: {2} Simon Peter, Thomas (called Didymus),
Nathanael from Cana in Galilee, the sons of Zebedee, and two other
disciples were together. {3} "I'm going out to fish," Simon Peter
told them, and they said, "We'll go with you." So they went out and got
into the boat, but that night they caught nothing. {4} Early in
the morning, Jesus stood on the shore, but the disciples did not realise
that it was Jesus. {5} He called out to them,
"Friends, haven't you any fish?" "No,"
they answered. {6} He said, "Throw your
net on the right side of the boat and you will find some." When
they did, they were unable to haul the net in because of the large
number of fish. {7} Then the disciple whom Jesus loved said to
Peter, "It is the Lord!" As soon as Simon Peter heard him say, "It is
the Lord," he wrapped his outer garment around him (for he had taken it
off) and jumped into the water. {8} The other disciples followed
in the boat, towing the net full of fish, for they were not far from
shore, about a hundred yards. {9} When they landed, they saw a
fire of burning coals there with fish on it, and some bread. {10}
Jesus said to them, "Bring some of the fish you
have just caught." {11} Simon Peter climbed aboard and
dragged the net ashore. It was full of large fish, 153, but even with so
many the net was not torn. {12} Jesus said to them,
"Come and have breakfast." None of the
disciples dared ask him, "Who are you?" They knew it was the Lord.
{13} Jesus came, took the bread and gave it to them, and did the
same with the fish. {14} This was now the third time Jesus
appeared to his disciples after he was raised from the dead. {15}
When they had finished eating, Jesus said to Simon Peter,
"Simon son of John, do you truly love me more
than these?" "Yes, Lord," he said, "you know that I love you."
Jesus said, "Feed my lambs." {16}
Again Jesus said, "Simon son of John, do you
truly love me?" He answered, "Yes, Lord, you know that I love
you." Jesus said, "Take care of my sheep."
{17} The third time he said to him, "Simon
son of John, do you love me?" Peter was hurt because Jesus asked
him the third time, "Do you love me?" He
said, "Lord, you know all things; you know that I love you." Jesus said,
"Feed my sheep. {18}
I tell you the truth, when you were younger you
dressed yourself and went where you wanted; but when you are old you
will stretch out your hands, and someone else will dress you and lead
you where you do not want to go." {19} Jesus said this to
indicate the kind of death by which Peter would glorify God. Then he
said to him, "Follow me!" {20}
Peter turned and saw that the disciple whom Jesus loved was following
them. (This was the one who had leaned back against Jesus at the supper
and had said, "Lord, who is going to betray you?") {21} When
Peter saw him, he asked, "Lord, what about him?" {22} Jesus
answered, "If I want him to remain alive until I
return, what is that to you? You must follow me." {23}
Because of this, the rumor spread among the brothers that this disciple
would not die. But Jesus did not say that he would not die; he only
said, "If I want him to remain alive until I
return, what is that to you?" {24} This is the disciple
who testifies to these things and who wrote them down. We know that his
testimony is true. {25} Jesus did many other things as well. If
every one of them were written down, I suppose that even the whole world
would not have room for the books that would be written. |
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