Chapter VIII: Front Matter (8)

(36)And while they were speaking these things, he himself stood in the midst of them, and says to them: Peace be to you. (37)But they were terrified and affrighted, and supposed that they beheld a spirit. (38)And he said to them: Why are ye troubled? And wherefore do thoughts arise in your hearts? (39)See my hands and my feet, that it is I myself. Handle me, and see; for a spirit has not flesh and bones, as ye see me have. (40)And having said this, he showed them his hands and his feet. (41)And while they yet believed not for joy, and wondered, he said to them: Have ye here anything to eat? (42)And they gave him a piece of a broiled fish, and of a honeycomb. (43)And he took, and ate it before them. (44)And he said to them: These are my words which I spoke to you, while I was yet with you, that all things must be fulfilled, which are written in the law of Moses, and the prophets, and psalms, concerning me. (45)Then he opened their understanding, that they might understand the Scriptures. (46)And he said to them: Thus it is written, that the Christ should suffer, and should rise from the dead on the third day; (47)and that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name among all the nations, beginning at Jerusalem. (48)Ye are witnesses of these things.

(49)And, behold, I send forth the promise of my Father upon you. But do ye tarry in the city, until ye are endued with power from on high.

(50)And he led them out as far as to Bethany; and lifting up his hands, he blessed them. (51)And it came to pass, while he blessed them, that he parted from them, and was borne up into heaven. (52)And they, having worshiped him, returned to Jerusalem with great joy; (53)and were continually in the temple, praising and blessing God.

THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO JOHN.

I.

IN the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. (2)The same was in the beginning with God. (3)All things were made by him[1:3]; and without him was nothing made that has been made. (4)In him was life; and the life was the light of men. (5)And the light shines in the darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.

(6)There was a man sent from God, whose name was John. (7)The same came for witness, to bear witness of the light, that through him all might believe. (8)He was not the light; but [came] to bear witness of the light. (9)There was the true light, which lights every man that comes into the world. (10)He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not. (11)He came to his own, and his own received him not. (12)But as many as received him, to them he gave power to become children of God, to those who believe on his name; (13)who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.

(14)And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us[1:14]; and we beheld his glory, a glory as of the only begotten from the Father, full of grace and truth.

(15)John bore witness of him; and cried, saying: This was he of whom I said, He that comes after me is preferred before me, because he was before me[1:15]. (16)Because out of his fullness we all received, and grace for grace. (17)For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ. (18)No one has ever seen God; the only begotten Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, he declared him.

(19)And this is the witness of John, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him: Who art thou? (20)And he confessed, and denied not; and he confessed: I am not the Christ. (21)And they asked him: What then? Art thou Elijah? And he says: I am not. Art thou the Prophet? And he answered: No. (22)They said therefore to him: Who art thou? that we may give an answer to those who sent us. What sayest thou of thyself? (23)He said: I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness: Make straight the way of the Lord, as said Isaiah the prophet.

(24)And they who were sent were of the Pharisees. (25)And they asked him, and said to him: Why then dost thou immerse, if thou art not the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the Prophet? (26)John answered them, saying: I immerse in water. There stands one in the midst of you, whom ye know not; (27)he who comes after me, the latchet of whose sandal I am not worthy to loose.

(28)These things took place in Bethany beyond the Jordan, where John was immersing.

(29)On the morrow, he sees Jesus coming to him, and says: Behold the Lamb of God, that takes away the sin of the world! (30)This is he of whom I said: After me comes a man who is preferred before me; because he was before me[1:30]. (31)And I knew him not; but that he might be made manifest to Israel, for this I came immersing in water.

(32)And John bore witness, saying: I have seen the Spirit descending as a dove out of heaven, and it abode upon him. (33)And I knew him not; but he who sent me to immerse in water, the same said to me: Upon whom thou shalt see the Spirit descending, and abiding on him, the same is he who immerses in the Holy Spirit. (34)And I have seen, and have borne witness, that this is the Son of God.

(35)Again, on the morrow, John was standing, and two of his disciples; (36)and looking upon Jesus as he walked, he says: Behold the Lamb of God! (37)And the two disciples heard him speak, and they followed Jesus. (38)And Jesus turning, and beholding them following, says to them: What seek ye? They said to him: Rabbi (which interpreted means, Teacher), where dost thou abide? (39)He says to them: Come, and ye shall see. They came and saw where he abode; and they abode with him that day. It was about the tenth hour.

(40)Andrew, the brother of Simon Peter, was one of the two who heard it from John, and followed him. (41)He first finds his brother Simon, and says to him: We have found the Messiah, which is interpreted, Christ. (42)And he brought him to Jesus. Jesus, beholding him, said: Thou art Simon the son of Jonah; thou shalt be called Cephas, which is interpreted, Peter[1:42].

(43)On the morrow he would go forth into Galilee. And he finds Philip; and Jesus says to him: Follow me. (44)Now Philip was from Bethsaida, of the city of Andrew and Peter. (45)Philip finds Nathanael, and says to him: We have found him of whom Moses, in the law, and the prophets wrote, Jesus the son of Joseph, who is from Nazareth. (46)And Nathanael said to him: Can any good thing come out of Nazareth? Philip says to him: Come and see. (47)Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and says of him: Behold an Israelite indeed, in whom is no guile! (48)Nathanael says to him: Whence knowest thou me? Jesus answered and said to him: Before Philip called thee, when thou wast under the fig-tree, I saw thee. (49)Nathanael answered: Rabbi; thou art the Son of God, thou art the King of Israel. (50)Jesus answered and said to him: Because I said to thee, I saw thee under the fig-tree, believest thou? Thou shalt see greater things than these. (51)And he says to him: Verily, verily, I say to you, henceforth[1:51] ye shall see heaven opened, and the angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of man.

II.

AND on the third day there was a marriage in Cana of Galilee; and the mother of Jesus was there. (2)And Jesus also was bidden, and his disciples, to the marriage. (3)And wine having failed, the mother of Jesus says to him: They have no wine. (4)Jesus says to her: Woman, what have I to do with thee? My hour is not yet come. (5)His mother says to the servants: Whatever he says to you, do it. (6)Now there were set there six water-pots of stone, after the Jewish custom of purifying, containing two or three firkins[2:6] apiece. (7)Jesus says to them: Fill the water-pots with water. And they filled them up to the brim. (8)And he says to them: Draw out now, and bear to the ruler of the feast. And they bore it. (9)When the ruler of the feast tasted the water that was made wine (and he knew not whence it was, but the servants who had drawn the water knew), the ruler of the feast called the bridegroom, (10)and says to him: Every man sets forth the good wine first; and when they have drunk freely, then that which is worse. Thou hast kept the good wine until now. (11)This beginning of the signs Jesus wrought in Cana of Galilee, and manifested his glory; and his disciples believed on him.

(12)After this he went down to Capernaum, he, and his mother, and his brothers, and his disciples; and they abode there not many days.

(13)And the passover of the Jews was at hand; and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. (14)And he found in the temple those who sold oxen and sheep and doves, and the money-changers sitting. (15)And having made a scourge of small cords, he drove all out of the temple, both the sheep and the oxen; and poured out the changers' money, and overthrew the tables; (16)and to those who sold doves he said: Take these things hence; make not my Father's house a house of merchandise. (17)And his disciples remembered that it is written: for thy house consumes me.

(18)The Jews therefore answered and said to him: What sign dost thou show to us, seeing that thou doest these things? (19)Jesus answered and said to them: Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up. (20)Therefore said the Jews: Forty and six years was this temple in building, and wilt thou raise it up in three days? (21)But he said it of the temple of his body. (22)When therefore he was risen from the dead, his disciples remembered that he said this; and they believed the Scripture, and the word which Jesus spoke.

(23)And when he was in Jerusalem at the passover, on the feast-day, many believed on his name, beholding his signs which he wrought. (24)But Jesus did not trust himself to them, because he knew all men, (25)and had no need that any one should testify of man; for he himself knew what was in man.

III.

THERE was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. (2)The same came to him by night, and said to him: Rabbi, we know that thou hast come a teacher from God; for no one can do these signs which thou doest, except God be with him.

(3)Jesus answered and said to him: Verily, verily, I say to thee, except a man be born again[3:3], he can not see the kingdom of God. (4)Nicodemus says to him: How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter the second time into his mother's womb, and be born?

(5)Jesus answered: Verily, verily, I say to thee, except a man be born of water and the Spirit, he can not enter into the kingdom of God. (6)That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. (7)Marvel not that I said to thee: Ye must be born again.

(8)The wind blows where it will, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but knowest not whence it comes, and whither it goes. So is every one that is born of the Spirit.

(9)Nicodemus answered and said to him: How can these things be? (10)Jesus answered and said to him: Art thou the teacher of Israel, and knowest not these things? (11)Verily, verily, I say to thee, we speak that which we know, and testify that which we have seen; and ye receive not our testimony. (12)If I told you the earthly things, and ye believe not, how shall ye believe, if I tell you the heavenly things? (13)And no one has ascended up into heaven, but he who came down out of heaven, the Son of man who is in heaven. (14)And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of man be lifted up; (15)that every one who believes on him may have everlasting life. (16)For God so loved the world, that he gave his only-begotten Son, that whoever believes on him, should not perish, but may have everlasting life. (17)For God sent not his Son into the world to judge the world; but that the world through him might be saved. (18)He that believes on him is not judged; but he that believes not has already been judged, because he has not believed on the name of the only-begotten Son of God. (19)And this is the judgment, that light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light; for their deeds were evil. (20)For every one that does evil hates the light, and comes not to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. (21)But he that does the truth comes to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.

(22)After these things came Jesus and his disciples into the land of Judaea; and there he remained with them, and immersed. (23)And John also was immersing in Aenon near to Salim, because there was much water there; and they came, and were immersed. (24)For John was not yet cast into prison.

(25)There arose therefore a question, on the part of John's disciples with a Jew, about purification. (26)And they came to John and said to him: Rabbi, he who was with thee beyond the Jordan, to whom thou hast borne witness, behold, he immerses, and all come to him.

(27)John answered and said: A man can receive nothing, except it be given him from heaven. (28)Ye yourselves bear me witness, that I said, I am not the Christ, but I am sent before him. (29)He that has the bride is the bridegroom. But the friend of the bridegroom, who stands and hears him, rejoices greatly because of the bridegroom's voice. This my joy therefore is made full. (30)He must increase, but I must decrease. (31)He that comes from above is above all; he that is from the earth is of the earth, and speaks of the earth; he that comes from heaven is above all. (32)And what he has seen and heard, that he testifies; and his testimony no one receives. (33)He that received his testimony has set his seal, That God is true. (34)For he whom God sent forth speaks the words of God; for he gives not[3:34] the Spirit by measure. (35)The Father loves the Son, and has given all things into his hand. (36)He that believes on the Son has everlasting life; and he that believes not the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God abides on him.

IV.

WHEN therefore the Lord knew that the Pharisees heard, that Jesus made and immersed more disciples than John (2)(though Jesus himself immersed not, but his disciples), (3)he left Judaea, and departed again into Galilee. (4)And he must go through Samaria. (5)He comes therefore to a city of Samaria, called Sychar[4:5], near to the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph. (6)And Jacob's well was there. Jesus therefore, being wearied with the journey, sat down thus on the well. It was about the sixth hour.

(7)There comes a woman of Samaria to draw water. Jesus, says to her: Give me to drink. (8)For his disciples had gone away into the city to buy food. (9)The Samaritan woman therefore says to him: How is it that thou, being a Jew, askest drink of me, being a Samaritan woman? For Jews do not associate with Samaritans. (10)Jesus answered and said to her: If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that says to thee, Give me to drink, thou wouldest have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water. (11)The woman says to him: Sir, thou hast nothing to draw with, and the well is deep. From whence then hast thou the living water. (12)Art thou greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well, and drank thereof himself, and his children, and his cattle? (13)Jesus answered and said to her: Every one that drinks of this water shall thirst again. (14)But whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall become in him a well of water, springing up into everlasting life. (15)The woman says to him: Sir, give me this water, that I may not thirst, nor come hither to draw.

(16)Jesus says to her: Go, call thy husband, and come hither. (17)The woman answered and said: I have no husband. Jesus says to her: Thou saidst well, I have no husband. (18)For thou hast had five husbands; and he whom thou now hast is not thy husband. That thou hast spoken truly.

(19)The woman says to him: Sir, I perceive that thou art a prophet. (20)Our fathers worshiped in this mountain; and ye say, that in Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship. (21)Jesus says to her: Woman, believe me, an hour is coming, when ye shall neither in this mountain nor in Jerusalem worship the Father. (22)Ye worship that which ye know not; we worship that which we know; because salvation is of the Jews. (23)But an hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth; for such the Father seeks to worship him. (24)God is spirit; and they that worship him, must worship in spirit and in truth.

(25)The woman says to him: I know that Messiah comes (who is called Christ); when he is come, he will tell us all things. (26)Jesus says to her: I that speak to thee am he. (27)And upon this came his disciples; and they marveled that he talked with the woman[4:27]. Yet no one said: What seekest thou? or, Why talkest thou with her? (28)The woman then left her water-pot, and went away into the city; and she says to the men: (29)Come, see a man who told me all things that ever I did. Is this the Christ? (30)Then they went out of the city, and came to him.

(31)In the mean while the disciples prayed him, saying: Master, eat. (32)But he said to them: I have food to eat that ye know not of. (33)Therefore said the disciples one to another: Has any one brought him aught to eat? (34)Jesus says to them: My food is to do the will of him who sent me, and to finish his work. (35)Do ye not say, that there are yet four months, and then comes the harvest? Behold, I say to you, lift up your eyes and look on the fields, that they are already white for harvest. (36)And he that reaps receives wages, and gathers fruit unto life eternal; that both he that sows and he that reaps may rejoice together. (37)And herein is the true saying: One sows, and another reaps. (38)I sent you to reap that whereon ye have not labored. Other men have labored, and ye have entered into their labor.

(39)And many of the Samaritans of that city believed on him for the saying of the woman, who testified: He told me all that ever I did. (40)When therefore the Samaritans came to him, they besought him to remain with them. And he remained there two days. (41)And far more believed because of his word; (42)and said to the woman: We no longer believe because of thy saying; for we ourselves have heard, and know that this is in truth the Savior of the world.

(43)And after the two days he departed thence, and went into Galilee. (44)For Jesus himself testified, that a prophet has no honor in his own country.

(45)When therefore he came into Galilee, the Galilaeans received him, having seen all that he did in Jerusalem at the feast; for they also went to the feast. (46)So he came again into Cana of Galilee, where he made the water wine.

And there was a certain nobleman, whose son was sick, in Capernaum. (47)He, having heard that Jesus is come out of Judaea into Galilee, went to him, and besought him that he would come down and heal his son; for he was about to die. (48)Jesus therefore said to him: Except ye see signs and wonders, ye will not believe. (49)The nobleman says to him: Sir, come down ere my child die. (50)Jesus says to him: Go thy way; thy son lives. And the man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him, and he went his way. (51)And as he was now going down, his servants met him, and brought word saying: Thy child lives. (52)He inquired of them, therefore, the hour when he began to amend. And they said to him: Yesterday, at the seventh hour, the fever left him. (53)The father knew, therefore, that it was in the same hour in which Jesus said to him: Thy son lives. And he himself believed, and his whole house. (54)This second sign Jesus wrought, when he had come out of Judaea into Galilee.

V.

AFTER these things there was a feast of the Jews; and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. (2)And there is in Jerusalem by the sheep-gate a pool, which is called in the Hebrew tongue Bethesda, having five porches. (3)In these lay a multitude of the infirm, of blind, lame, withered [waiting for the moving of the water. (4)For an angel went down at a certain season into the pool, and troubled the water. He therefore; who first went in after the troubling of the water, was made whole of whatever disease he had][5:4]. (5)And a certain man was there, who had an infirmity thirty and eight years. (6)Jesus seeing this man lying, and knowing that he had been already a long time thus, says to him: Dost thou desire to be made whole? (7)The infirm man answered him: Sir, I have no man, when the water is troubled, to put me into the pool; but while I am coming, another goes down before me. (8)Jesus says to him: Rise, take up thy bed, and walk. (9)And immediately the man was made whole, and took up his bed and walked.

And on that day was the sabbath. (10)The Jews therefore said to him that was cured: It is the sabbath; it is not lawful for thee to carry the bed. (11)He answered them: He who made me whole, the same said to me: Take up thy bed, and walk. (12)They asked him therefore: Who is the man that said to thee: Take up thy bed and walk? (13)And he who was healed knew not who it was; for Jesus conveyed himself away, there being a multitude in the place.

(14)Afterward Jesus finds him in the temple. And he said to him: Behold, thou hast been made whole; sin no more, lest something worse befall thee. (15)The man departed, and told the Jews that it was Jesus who made him whole. (16)And for this the Jews persecuted Jesus, because he did these things on the sabbath. (17)But Jesus answered them: My Father works hitherto, and I work. (18)For this therefore the Jews sought the more to kill him, because he not only broke the sabbath, but also called God his Father, making himself equal with God.

(19)Jesus therefore, answered and said to them: Verily, verily, I say to you, the Son can do nothing of himself, but what he sees the Father do; for what things soever he does, these also does the Son in like manner. (20)For the Father loves the Son, and shows him all things that he himself does; and greater works than these will he show him, that ye may marvel. (21)For as the Father raises up the dead, and quickens them; so also the Son quickens whom he will. (22)For neither does the Father judge any one; but all judgment he has given to the Son; (23)that all may honor the Son, as they honor the Father. He that honors not the Son, honors not the Father who sent him.

(24)Verily, verily, I say to you, he that hears my word, and believes him who sent me, has everlasting life, and comes not into judgment, but has passed out of death into life. (25)Verily, verily, I say to you, an hour is coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God; and they that hear shall live. (26)For as the Father has life in himself, so he gave also to the Son to have life in himself. (27)And he gave him authority to execute judgment also, because he is a son of man. (28)Marvel not at this; for an hour is coming, in which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice, (29)and shall come forth; they that did good, to the resurrection of life, and they that did evil, to the resurrection of judgment.

(30)I can of myself do nothing. As I hear, I judge; and my judgment is just; because I seek not my own will, but the will of him who sent me.

(31)If I bear witness of myself, my witness is not true. (32)There is another that bears witness of me; and I know that the witness which he witnesses of me is true. (33)Ye have sent to John, and he has borne witness to the truth. (34)But I receive the witness not from man; but these things I say, that ye might be saved. (35)He was the burning and shining lamp; and ye were willing for a season to rejoice in his light. (36)But I have greater witness than that of John; for the works which the Father gave me to finish, the works themselves that I do bear witness of me, that the Father has sent me. (37)And the Father, who sent me, he has borne witness of me. Ye have neither heard his voice at any time, nor have ye seen his shape. (38)And ye have not his word abiding in you; for whom he sent, him ye believe not.

(39)Search[5:39] the Scriptures; because in them ye think ye have eternal life, and these are they that testify of me; (40)and ye will not come to me, that ye may have life. (41)I receive not honor from men. (42)But I know you, that ye have not the love of God in you. (43)I have come in my Father's name, and ye receive me not; if another shall come in his own name, him ye will receive. (44)How can ye believe, receiving honor from one another, and the honor that is from God alone ye seek not? (45)Do not think that I will accuse you to the Father; there is one that accuses you, Moses in whom ye have placed your hope. (46)For if ye believed Moses, ye would believe me; for he wrote of me. (47)But if ye believe not his writings, how shall ye believe my words?

VI.

AFTER these things Jesus went away, beyond the sea of Galilee, which is the sea of Tiberias. (2)And a great multitude followed him, because they saw the signs which he wrought on the sick. (3)And Jesus went up into the mountain, and there he sat with his disciples. (4)And the passover, the feast of the Jews, was near. (5)Jesus therefore lifting up his eyes, and seeing that a great multitude is coming to him, says to Philip: Whence shall we buy bread that these may eat? (6)And this he said to try him; for he himself knew what he was about to do. (7)Philip answered him: Two hundred denaries worth of bread is not sufficient for them, that each one may take a little. (8)One of his disciples, Andrew, the brother of Simon Peter, says to him: (9)There is a lad here, who has five barley loaves and two small fishes; but what are they among so many? (10)Jesus said: Make the men lie down. Now there was much grass in the place. So the men lay down, in number about five thousand. (11)And Jesus took the loaves; and having given thanks, he distributed to those who were lying down; and likewise of the fishes as much as they desired. (12)When they were filled, he said to his disciples: Gather up the fragments that remain, that nothing be lost. (13)Therefore they gathered them together, and filled twelve baskets with fragments of the five barley loaves, which remained over and above to those who had eaten. (14)The men therefore, seeing the sign that Jesus wrought, said: This is of a truth the Prophet that comes into the world.

(15)Jesus therefore, knowing that they were about to come and take him by force, to make him a king, withdrew again into the mountain, himself alone. (16)And when evening came, his disciples went down to the sea, (17)and entering into the ship, were going over the sea to Capernaum. And it was now dark, and Jesus had not come to them; (18)and as a strong wind was blowing, the sea began to rise. (19)When therefore they had rowed about twenty-five or thirty furlongs, they see Jesus walking on the sea, and drawing near to the ship; and they were afraid. (20)But he says to them: It is I, be not afraid. (21)They therefore willingly received him into the ship; and immediately the ship was at the land whither they were going.

(22)On the morrow, the multitude that stood on the other side of the sea, seeing that there was no other boat there but one, and that Jesus went not with his disciples into the ship, but his disciples went away alone (23)(but there came other boats from Tiberias near to the place where they ate bread, when the Lord had given thanks); (24)when therefore the multitude saw that Jesus was not there, nor his disciples, they themselves entered into the boats, and came to Capernaum, seeking for Jesus. (25)And having found him on the other side of the sea, they said to him: Rabbi, when camest thou hither? (26)Jesus answered them and said: Verily, verily, I say to you, ye seek me, not because ye saw signs, but because ye ate of the loaves and were filled. (27)Work not for the food that perishes, but for the food that endures unto everlasting life, which the Son of man will give to you; for him the Father, God, has sealed, (28)Therefore they said to him: What shall we do, that we may work the works of God? (29)Jesus answered and said to them: This is the work of God, that ye believe on him whom he sent. (30)They therefore said to him: What sign doest thou then, that we may see, and believe thee? What dost thou work? (31)Our fathers ate the manna in the wilderness; as it is written: He gave them bread from heaven to eat. (32)Jesus therefore said to them: Verily, verily, I say to you, Moses has not given you the bread from heaven; but my Father gives you the true bread from heaven. (33)For the bread of God is that which[6:33] comes down out of heaven, and gives life to the world.

(34)They therefore said to him: Lord, evermore give us this bread. (35)Jesus said to them: I am the bread of life. He that comes to me shall never hunger, and he that believes on me shall never thirst. (36)But I said to you, that ye have also seen me, and do not believe. (37)All that the Father gives me will come to me; and him that comes to me I will not cast out. (38)Because I have come down from heaven, not to do my own will, but the will of him who sent me. (39)And this is the will of him who sent me, that of all which he has given me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up at the last day. (40)For this is the will of my Father, that every one who sees the Son, and believes on him, may have everlasting life; and I will raise him up at the last day.

(41)The Jews therefore murmured at him, because he said: I am the bread that came down out of heaven. (42)And they said: Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How then does this man say: I have come down out of heaven?

(43)Jesus answered and said to them: Murmur not among yourselves. (44)No one can come to me, except the Father who sent me draw him; and I will raise him up at the last day. (45)It is written in the prophets: And they shall all be taught of God. Every one that has heard from the Father, and has learned, comes to me. (46)Not that any one has seen the Father, save he who is from God; he has seen the Father.

(47)Verily, verily, I say to you, he that believes on me has everlasting life. (48)I am the bread of life. (49)Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and are dead. (50)This is the bread that comes down out of heaven, that one may eat thereof, and not die. (51)I am the living bread that came down out of heaven. If any one eat of this bread, he shall live forever; yea, and the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.

(52)The Jews therefore contended with one another, saying: How can this man give us his flesh to eat? (53)Jesus therefore said to them: Verily, verily, I say to you, except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, ye have no life in you. (54)He that 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 true food, and my blood is true drink. (56)He that eats my flesh, and drinks my blood, abides in me, and I in him. (57)As the living Father has sent me, and I live because of the Father; so he that eats me, he also shall live because of me. (58)This is the bread that came down out of heaven. Not as your fathers ate the manna, and are dead; he that eats of this bread shall live forever.

(59)These things he said in the synagogue, while teaching in Capernaum.

(60)Many therefore of his disciples, when they heard it, said: This is a hard saying; who can hear it? (61)But Jesus, knowing in himself that his disciples murmured at this, said to them: Does this offend you? (62)What then if ye behold the Son of man ascending up where he was before? (63)It is the spirit that makes alive, the flesh profits nothing; the words which I have spoken to you are spirit, and are life. (64)But there are some of you that believe not. For Jesus knew from the beginning who they were that believed not, and who it was that should betray him. (65)And he said: For this cause I have said to you, that no one can come to me, except it be given him from the Father.

(66)From this time many of his disciples went back, and walked no more with him.

(67)Jesus said therefore to the twelve: Will ye also go away? (68)Simon Peter answered him: Lord, to whom shall we go? Thou hast words of eternal life. (69)And we believe and know, that thou art the Holy One of God. (70)Jesus answered them: Did I not choose you, the twelve, and one of you is a devil? (71)He spoke of Judas Iscariot, son of Simon; for he it was that would betray him, being one of the twelve.

VII.

AND after these things Jesus walked in Galilee; for he would not walk in Judaea, because the Jews were seeking to kill him.

(2)Now the feast of the Jews, the feast of tabernacles, was at hand. (3)His brothers therefore said to him: Depart hence, and go into Judaea, that thy disciples also may behold thy works that thou doest. (4)For no one does anything in secret, and he himself seeks to be known openly. If thou doest these things, manifest thyself to the world. (5)For neither did his brothers believe on him. (6)Jesus therefore says to them: My time is not yet come; but your time is always ready. (7)The world can not hate you; but me it hates, because I testify of it, that its works are evil. (8)Go ye up to the feast. I go not up to this feast; because my time is not yet fully come.

(9)Having said these things to them, he remained in Galilee. (10)But when his brothers were gone up to the feast, then he also went up, not openly, but as it were in secret.

(11)The Jews therefore sought him at the feast, and said: Where is he? (12)And there was much murmuring among the multitudes concerning him. Some said: He is a good man; others said: Nay, but he misleads the multitude. (13)No one, however, spoke openly of him, for fear of the Jews.

(14)But when it was already the midst of the feast, Jesus went up into the temple and taught. (15)And the Jews wondered, saying: How knows this man letters, having never learned? (16)Jesus therefore answered them, and said: My teaching is not mine, but his who sent me. (17)If any one desires to do his will, he shall know of the teaching, whether it is of God, or whether I speak from myself. (18)He that speaks from himself seeks his own glory; but he that seeks the glory of him who sent him, the same is true, and there is no unrighteousness in him.

(19)Has not Moses given you the law, and none of you keeps the law? Why do ye seek to kill me? (20)The multitude answered and said: Thou hast a demon; who seeks to kill thee? (21)Jesus answered and said to them: I did one work, and ye all marvel. (22)Moses has for this cause given you circumcision, not that it is of Moses, but of the fathers; and on the sabbath ye circumcise a man. (23)If a man receives circumcision on the sabbath, that the law of Moses may not be broken; are ye angry at me, because I made a man altogether whole on the sabbath? (24)Judge not according to appearance, but judge the righteous judgment.

(25)Then said some of those of Jerusalem: Is not this he whom they seek to kill? (26)But, lo, he speaks boldly, and they say nothing to him. Did the rulers know[7:26] in truth that this is the Christ? (27)But we know this man, whence he is; but when the Christ comes, no one knows whence he is.

(28)Jesus therefore cried, teaching in the temple and saying: Ye both know me, and ye know whence I am; and I have not come of myself, but he that sent me is true, whom ye know not. (29)I know him; because I am from him, and he sent me. (30)Therefore they sought to seize him; and no one laid hands on him, because his hour had not yet come.

(31)But of the multitude many believed on him, and said: When the Christ comes, will he work more signs than these which this man wrought? (32)The Pharisees heard the multitude murmuring these things concerning him; and the chief priests and the Pharisees sent officers to seize him. (33)Jesus therefore said: Yet a little while I am with you, and I go to him who sent me. (34)Ye will seek me, and shall not find me; and where I am, ye can not come. (35)The Jews said therefore among themselves: Whither will this man go, that we shall not find him? Will he go to those dispersed among the Greeks, and teach the Greeks? (36)What is this saying that he said: Ye will seek me, and shall not find me; and where I am, ye can not come?

(37)In the last day, the great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying: If any one thirst, let him come to me and drink. (38)He that believes on me, as said the Scripture, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water. (39)And this he spoke concerning the Spirit, which they that believe on him should receive; for the Holy Spirit was not yet [given], because Jesus was not yet glorified.

(40)Some of the multitude therefore, hearing the words, said: Of a truth this is the Prophet. (41)Others said: This is the Christ. But some said: Does the Christ then come out of Galilee? (42)Did not the Scripture say, that the Christ comes of the seed of David, and from the town of Bethlehem, where David was? (43)A division therefore arose among the multitude because of him. (44)And some of them desired to seize him; but no one laid hands on him.

(45)The officers therefore came to the chief priests and Pharisees; and they said to them: Why did ye not bring him? (46)The officers answered: Never man spoke like this man[7:47]. (47)The Pharisees answered them: Are ye also led astray? (48)Did any of the rulers believe on him, or of the Pharisees? (49)But this multitude, that know not the law, are accursed. (50)Nicodemus says to them (he who came to him by night, being one of them): (51)Does our law judge a man, except it first hear from him, and know what he does? (52)They answered and said to him: Art thou also of Galilee? Search, and see, that out of Galilee arises no prophet[7:52]. (53)[7:53][And each one went to his house.

VIII.

JESUS went to the mount of the Olives.

(2)And early in the morning he came again into the temple, and all the people came to him; and having sat down, he was teaching them. (3)And the scribes and the Pharisees bring to him a woman taken in adultery; and having placed her in the midst, (4)they say to him: Teacher, this woman was taken in adultery, in the very act: (5)Now in the law Moses commanded us, that such should be stoned; what then dost thou say? (6)This they said, tempting him, that they might have whereof to accuse him. But Jesus, having stooped down, was writing with his finger in the ground. (7)And as they continued asking him, raising himself up, he said to them: He that is without sin among you, let him first cast the stone at her. (8)And again stooping down, he wrote in the ground. (9)And they hearing it, and being convicted by their conscience, went out one by one, beginning at the eldest, unto the last; and Jesus was left alone, and the woman standing in the midst. (10)And Jesus raising himself up, and seeing none but the woman, said to her: Woman, where are they, thine accusers? Did no one condemn thee? (11)She said: No one, Lord. And Jesus said to her: Neither do I condemn thee; go, and sin no more.]

(12)Again therefore Jesus spoke to them, saying: I am the light of the world; he that follows me shall not walk in the darkness, but shall have the light of life. (13)The Pharisees therefore said to him: Thou bearest witness of thyself; thy witness is not true. (14)Jesus answered and said to them: Though I bear witness of myself, my witness is true; because I know whence I came, and whither I go; but ye know not whence I come, or whither I go. (15)Ye judge according to the flesh; I judge no one. (16)And even if I judge, my judgment is true; because I am not alone, but I and the Father who sent me. (17)It is written also in your law, that the witness of two men is true. (18)I am one that bear witness of myself, and the Father who sent me bears witness of me. (19)They said therefore to him: Where is thy Father? Jesus answered: Ye know neither me, nor my Father. If ye knew me, ye would know my Father also.

(20)These words he spoke in the treasury, while teaching in the temple; and no one laid hands on him, because his hour had not yet come.

(21)Again therefore he said to them: I go away, and ye will seek me, and shall die in your sin. Whither I go, ye can not come. (22)The Jews therefore said: Will he kill himself? because he says: Whither I go, ye can not come. (23)And he said to them: Ye are from beneath; I am from above. Ye are of this world; I am not of this world. (24)I said therefore to you, that ye shall die in your sins; for if ye believe not that I am he, ye shall die in your sins. (25)Therefore they said to him: Who art thou? And Jesus said to them: That which I also say to you from the beginning. (26)I have many things to say and to judge concerning you. But he who sent me is true; and the things which I heard from him, these I speak to the world. (27)They understood not that he spoke to them of the Father.

(28)Therefore Jesus said to them: When ye shall have lifted up the Son of man, then ye shall know that I am he; and of myself I do nothing, but as the Father taught me, those things I speak. (29)And he who sent me is with me. He has not left me alone; because I do always the things that please him. (30)As he spoke these words many believed on him.

(31)Jesus therefore said to those Jews who have believed him: If ye continue in my word, ye are truly my disciples; (32)and ye shall know the truth, and the truth will make you free. (33)They answered him: We are Abraham's seed, and have never been in bondage to any one. How sayest thou: Ye shall be made free? (34)Jesus answered them: Verily, verily, I say to you, every one who commits sin is a servant of sin. (35)And the servant abides not in the house forever. (36)The Son abides forever; if therefore the Son shall make you free, ye will be free indeed. (37)I know that ye are Abraham's seed; but ye seek to kill me, because my word has no place in you. (38)I speak what I have seen with my Father; and ye therefore do what ye have heard from your father.

(39)They answered and said to him: Our father is Abraham. Jesus says to them: If ye were children of Abraham, ye would do the works of Abraham. (40)But now ye seek to kill me, a man who has spoken to you the truth, which I heard from God. This Abraham did not. (41)Ye do the works of your father. They said to him: We were not born of fornication; we have one father, God. (42)Jesus said to them: If God were your father, ye would love me; for from God I came forth, and am come; neither have I come of myself, but he sent me. (43)Why do ye not understand my speech? Because ye can not hear my word. (44)Ye are of your father the Devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abides not in the truth, because truth is not in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks of his own; because he is a liar, and the father of it. (45)And because I speak the truth, ye believe me not.

(46)Which of you convicts me of sin? If I speak truth, why do ye not believe me? (47)He that is of God hears God's words; ye therefore hear not, because ye are not of God.

(48)The Jews answered and said to him: Say we not well, that thou art a Samaritan, and hast a demon? (49)Jesus answered: I have not a demon; but I honor my Father, and ye dishonor me. (50)And I seek not my own glory; there is one that seeks, and judges. (51)Verily, verily, I say to you, if any one keep my saying, he shall not see death, forever. (52)The Jews said to him: Now we know that thou hast a demon. Abraham is dead, and the prophets; and thou sayest: If a man keep my saying, he shall not taste of death, forever. (53)Art thou greater than our father Abraham, who is dead? And the prophets are dead. Whom makest thou thyself? (54)Jesus answered: If I honor myself, my honor is nothing. It is my Father that honors me, of whom ye say, that he is your God. (55)And ye know him not; but I know him. And if I say, I know him not, I shall be a liar like to you. But I know him, and I keep his word. (56)Abraham, your father, rejoiced to see my day; and he saw it, and was glad. (57)The Jews therefore said to him: Thou art not yet fifty years old, and hast thou seen Abraham? (58)Jesus said to them: Verily, verily, I say to you, before Abraham was, I am. (59)They took up stones therefore to cast at him. But Jesus hid himself, and went out of the temple.

IX.

AND passing along, he saw a man blind from his birth. (2)And his disciples asked him, saying: Master, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he should be born blind? (3)Jesus answered: Neither this man sinned, nor his parents; but that the works of God should be made manifest in him. (4)I must work the works of him who sent me, while it is day. Night is coming, when none can work. (5)As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.

(6)Having thus spoken, he spit on the ground, and made clay of the spittle, and anointed the eyes of the blind man with the clay, (7)and said to him: Go, wash in the pool of Siloam (which is interpreted, Sent). He went away therefore, and washed, and came seeing.

(8)The neighbors therefore, and they who before had seen him that he was a beggar, said: Is not this he that sits and begs? (9)Some said: This is he; and others: He is like him; he said: I am he. (10)Therefore they said to him: How were thine eyes opened? (11)He answered: A man called Jesus made clay, and anointed mine eyes, and said to me: Go to the pool of Siloam, and wash. And I went away and washed, and received sight. (12)They said to him: Where is he? He said: I know not.

(13)They bring to the Pharisees him who before was blind. (14)And it was the sabbath when Jesus made the clay, and opened his eyes. (15)Again therefore the Pharisees also asked him, how he received sight. He said to them: He put clay upon mine eyes, and I washed, and do see. (16)Therefore some of the Pharisees said: This man is not from God, because he keeps not the sabbath. Others said: How can a man that is a sinner do such signs? And there was a division among them. (17)They say to the blind man again: What sayest thou of him, seeing that he opened thine eyes? He said: He is a Prophet.

(18)The Jews therefore did not believe concerning him, that he was blind and received sight, until they called the parents of him that received sight. (19)And they asked them, saying: Is this your son, who ye say was born blind? How then does he now see? (20)His parents answered them and said: We know that this is our son, and that he was born blind. (21)But by what means he now sees, we know not; or who opened his eyes, we know not. He is of age; ask him. He shall speak for himself. (22)These words spoke his parents, because they feared the Jews; for the Jews had agreed already, that if any one acknowledged him as Christ, he should be put out of the synagogue. (23)Therefore his parents said: He is of age; ask him.