Chapter II: Part 2

008:058 "In most solemn truth," answered Jesus, "I tell you that before
Abraham came into existence, I am."

008:059 Thereupon they took up stones with which to stone Him,
but He hid Himself and went away out of the Temple.

009:001 As He passed by, He saw a man who had been blind from his birth.

009:002 So His disciples asked Him, "Rabbi, who sinned--this man
or his parents--that he was born blind?"

009:003 "Neither he nor his parents sinned," answered Jesus,
"but he was born blind in order that God's mercy might be
openly shown in him.

009:004 We must do the works of Him who sent me while there is daylight.
Night is coming on, when no one can work.

009:005 When I am in the world, I am the Light of the world."

009:006 After thus speaking, He spat on the ground, and then,
kneading the dust and spittle into clay, He smeared the clay
over the man's eyes and said to him,

009:007 "Go and wash in the pool of Siloam"--the name means `Sent.'
So he went and washed his eyes, and returned able to see.

009:008 His neighbours, therefore, and the other people to whom he had
been a familiar object because he was a beggar, began asking,
"Is not this the man who used to sit and beg?"

009:009 "Yes it is," replied some of them. "No it is not,"
said others, "but he is like him." His own statement was,
"I am the man."

009:010 "How then were your eyes opened?" they asked.

009:011 "He whose name is Jesus," he answered, "made clay and smeared
my eyes with it, and then told me to go to Siloam and wash.
So I went and washed and obtained sight."

009:012 "Where is he?" they inquired, but the man did not know.

009:013 They brought him to the Pharisees--the man who had been blind.

009:014 Now the day on which Jesus made the clay and opened the man's
eyes was the Sabbath.

009:015 So the Pharisees renewed their questioning as to how he had
obtained his sight. "He put clay on my eyes," he replied,
"and I washed, and now I can see."

009:016 This led some of the Pharisees to say, "That man has not come
from God, for he does not keep the Sabbath." "How is it
possible for a bad man to do such miracles?" argued others.

009:017 And there was a division among them. So again they asked the once
blind man, "What is your account of him?--for he opened your eyes."
"He is a Prophet," he replied.

009:018 The Jews, however, did not believe the statement concerning him--
that he had been blind and had obtained his sight--until they
called his parents and asked them,

009:019 "Is this your son, who you say was born blind? How is it then
that he can now see?"

009:020 "We know," replied the parents, "that this is our son and that
he was born blind;

009:021 but how it is that he can now see or who has opened his
eyes we do not know. Ask him himself; he is of full age;
he himself will give his own account of it."

009:022 Such was their answer, because they were afraid of the Jews;
for the Jews had already settled among themselves that if any
one should acknowledge Jesus as the Christ, he should be
excluded from the synagogue.

009:023 That was why his parents said, "He is of full age:
ask him himself."

009:024 A second time therefore they called the man who had been blind,
and said, "Give God the praise: we know that that man
is a sinner."

009:025 "Whether he is a sinner or not, I do not know," he replied;
"one thing I know--that I was once blind and that now I can see."

009:026 "What did he do to you?" they asked; "how did he open your eyes?"

009:027 "I have told you already," he replied, "and you did
not listen to me. Why do you want to hear it again?
Do you also mean to be disciples of his?"

009:028 Then they railed at him, and said, "You are that man's disciple,
but we are disciples of Moses.

009:029 We know that God spoke to Moses; but as for this fellow we
do not know where he comes from."

009:030 "Why, this is marvellous!" the man replied; "you do not know
where he comes from, and yet he has opened my eyes!

009:031 We know that God does not listen to bad people, but that if any
one is a God-fearing man and obeys Him, to him He listens.

009:032 From the beginning of the world such a thing was never heard
of as that any one should open the eyes of a man blind
from his birth.

009:033 Had that man not come from God, he could have done nothing."

009:034 "You," they replied, "were wholly begotten and born in sin,
and do *you* teach *us*?" And they put him out of the synagogue.

009:035 Jesus heard that they had done this. So having found him,
He asked him, "Do you believe in the Son of God?"

009:036 "Who is He, Sir?" replied the man. "Tell me, so that I may
believe in Him."

009:037 "You have seen Him," said Jesus; "and not only so:
He is now speaking to you."

009:038 "I believe, Sir," he said. And he threw himself at His feet.

009:039 "I came into this world," said Jesus, "to judge men,
that those who do not see may see, and that those who do see
may become blind."

009:040 These words were heard by those of the Pharisees who were present,
and they asked Him, "Are *we* also blind?"

009:041 "If you were blind," answered Jesus, "you would have no sin;
but as a matter of fact you boast that you see.
So your sin remains!"

010:001 "In most solemn truth I tell you that the man who does not enter
the sheepfold by the door, but climbs over some other way,
is a thief and a robber.

010:002 But he who enters by the door is the shepherd of the sheep.

010:003 To him the porter opens the door, and the sheep hear his voice;
and he calls his own sheep by their names and leads them out.

010:004 When he has brought out his own sheep--all of them--
he walks at the head of them; and the sheep follow him,
because they know his voice.

010:005 But a stranger they will by no means follow, but will run away
from him, because they do not know the voice of strangers."

010:006 Jesus spoke to them in this figurative language, but they did
not understand what He meant.

010:007 Again therefore Jesus said to them, "In most solemn truth I
tell you that I am the Door of the sheep.

010:008 All who have come before me are thieves and robbers;
but the sheep would not listen to them.

010:009 I am the Door. If any one enters by me, he will find safety,
and will go in and out and find pasture.

010:010 The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy:
I have come that they may have Life, and may have it in abundance.

010:011 "I am the Good Shepherd. A good shepherd lays down his very life
for the sheep.

010:012 The hired servant--one who is not a shepherd and does not own
the sheep--no sooner sees the wolf coming than he leaves
the sheep and runs away; and the wolf worries and scatters them.

010:013 For he is only a hired servant and cares nothing for the sheep.

010:014 "I am the Good Shepherd. And I know my sheep and my sheep know me,

010:015 just as the Father knows me and I know the Father; and I am
laying down my life for the sheep.

010:016 I have also other sheep--which do not belong to this fold.
Those also I must bring, and they will listen to my voice;
and they shall become one flock under one Shepherd.

010:017 For this reason my Father loves me, because I am laying down
my life in order to receive it back again.

010:018 No one is taking it away from me, but I myself am laying it down.
I am authorized to lay it down, and I am authorized to receive
it back again. This is the command I received from my Father."

010:019 Again there arose a division among the Jews because of these words.

010:020 Many of them said, "He is possessed by a demon and is mad.
Why do you listen to him?"

010:021 Others argued, "That is not the language of a demoniac:
and can a demon open blind men's eyes?"

010:022 The Dedication Festival came on in Jerusalem. It was winter,

010:023 and Jesus was walking in the Temple in Solomon's Portico,

010:024 when the Jews gathered round Him and kept asking Him, "How long
do you mean to keep us in suspense? If you are the Christ,
tell us so plainly."

010:025 "I have told you," answered Jesus, "and you do not believe.
The deeds that I do in my Father's name--they give
testimony about me.

010:026 But you do not believe, because you are not my sheep.

010:027 My sheep listen to my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.

010:028 I give them the Life of the Ages, and they shall never,
never perish, nor shall any one wrest them from my hand.

010:029 What my Father has given me is more precious than all besides;
and no one is able to wrest anything from my Father's hand.

010:030 I and the Father are one."

010:031 Again the Jews brought stones with which to stone Him.

010:032 Jesus remonstrated with them. "Many good deeds," He said,
"have I shown you as coming from the Father; for which of them
are you going to stone me?"

010:033 "For no good deed," the Jews replied, "are we going to stone you,
but for blasphemy, and because you, who are only a man,
are making yourself out to be God."

010:034 "Does it not stand written in your Law," replied Jesus, "`I said,
you are gods'?

010:035 If those to whom God's word was addressed are called gods
(and the Scripture cannot be annulled),

010:036 how is it that you say to one whom the Father consecrated
and sent into the world, `You are blaspheming,' because I said,
`I am God's Son'?

010:037 If the deeds I do are not my Father's deeds, do not believe me.

010:038 But if they are, then even if you do not believe me,
at least believe the deeds, that you may know and see clearly
that the Father is in me, and that I am in the Father."

010:039 This made them once more try to arrest Him, but He withdrew
out of their power.

010:040 Then He went away again to the other side of the Jordan,
to the place where John had been baptizing at first;
and there He stayed.

010:041 Large numbers of people also came to Him. Their report was,
"John did not work any miracle, but all that John said about
this Teacher was true."

010:042 And many became believers in Him there.

011:001 Now a certain man, named Lazarus, of Bethany, was lying ill--
Bethany being the village of Mary and her sister Martha.

011:002 (It was the Mary who poured the perfume over the Lord and wiped
His feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was ill.)

011:003 So the sisters sent to Him to say, "Master, he whom you hold
dear is ill."

011:004 Jesus received the message and said, "This illness is not
to end in death, but is to promote the glory of God,
in order that the Son of God may be glorified by it."

011:005 Now Jesus loved Martha, and her sister, and Lazarus.

011:006 When, however, He heard that Lazarus was ill, He still remained
two days in that same place.

011:007 Then, after that, He said to the disciples, "Let us
return to Judaea."

011:008 "Rabbi," exclaimed the disciples, "the Jews have just been trying
to stone you, and do you think of going back there again?"

011:009 "Are there not twelve hours in the day?" replied Jesus.
"If any one walks in the daytime, he does not stumble--
because he sees the light of this world.

011:010 But if a man walks by night, he does stumble, because the light
is not in him."

011:011 He said this, and afterwards He added, "Our friend Lazarus
is sleeping, but I will go and wake him."

011:012 "Master," said the disciples, "if he is asleep he will recover."

011:013 Now Jesus had spoken of his death, but they thought He referred
to the rest taken in ordinary sleep.

011:014 So then He told them plainly,

011:015 "Lazarus is dead; and for your sakes I am glad I was not there,
in order that you may believe. But let us go to him."

011:016 "Let us go also," Thomas, the Twin, said to his fellow disciples,
"that we may die with him."

011:017 On His arrival Jesus found that Lazarus had already been
three days in the tomb.

011:018 Bethany was near Jerusalem, the distance being a little less
than two miles;

011:019 and a considerable number of the Jews were with Martha and Mary,
having come to express sympathy with them on the death
of their brother.

011:020 Martha, however, as soon as she heard the tidings, "Jesus is coming,"
went to meet Him; but Mary remained sitting in the house.

011:021 So Martha came and spoke to Jesus. "Master, if you had been here,"
she said, "my brother would not have died.

011:022 And even now I know that whatever you ask God for,
God will give you."

011:023 "Your brother shall rise again," replied Jesus.

011:024 "I know," said Martha, "that he will rise again at the resurrection,
on the last day."

011:025 "I am the Resurrection and the Life," said Jesus; "he who believes
in me, even if he has died, he shall live;

011:026 and every one who is living and is a believer in me shall never,
never die. Do you believe this?"

011:027 "Yes, Master," she replied; "I thoroughly believe that you are
the Christ, the Son of God, who was to come into the world."

011:028 After saying this, she went and called her sister Mary privately,
telling her, "The Rabbi is here and is asking for you."

011:029 So she, on hearing that, rose up quickly to go to Him.

011:030 Now Jesus was not yet come into the village, but was still
at the place where Martha had met Him.

011:031 So the Jews who were with Mary in the house sympathizing with her,
when they saw that she had risen hastily and had gone out,
followed her, supposing that she was going to the tomb
to weep aloud there.

011:032 Mary then, when she came to Jesus and saw Him, fell at His
feet and exclaimed, "Master, if you had been here, my brother
would not have died."

011:033 Seeing her weeping aloud, and the Jews in like manner weeping
who had come with her, Jesus, curbing the strong emotion
of His spirit,

011:034 though deeply troubled, asked them, "Where have you laid him?"
"Master, come and see," was their reply.

011:035 Jesus wept.

011:036 "See how dear he held him," said the Jews.

011:037 But others of them asked, "Was this man who opened the blind
man's eyes unable to prevent this man from dying?"

011:038 Jesus, however, again restraining His strong feeling,
came to the tomb. It was a cave, and a stone had been laid
against the mouth of it.

011:039 "Take away the stone," said Jesus. Martha, the sister of the
dead man, exclaimed, "Master, by this time there is a foul smell;
for it is three days since he died."

011:040 "Did I not promise you," replied Jesus, "that if you believe,
you shall see the glory of God?"

011:041 So they removed the stone. Then Jesus lifted up His eyes
and said, "Father, I thank Thee that Thou hast heard me.

011:042 I know that Thou always hearest me; but for the sake of the crowd
standing round I have said this--that they may believe
that Thou didst send me."

011:043 After speaking thus, He called out in a loud voice,
"Lazarus, come out."

011:044 The dead man came out, his hands and feet wrapped in cloths,
and his face wrapped round with a towel. "Untie him,"
said Jesus, "and let him go free."

011:045 Thereupon a considerable number of the Jews--namely those
who had come to Mary and had witnessed His deeds--
became believers in Him;

011:046 though some of them went off to the Pharisees and told them
what He had done.

011:047 Therefore the High Priests and the Pharisees held a meeting of
the Sanhedrin. "What steps are we taking?" they asked one another;
"for this man is performing a great number of miracles.

011:048 If we leave him alone in this way, everybody will believe
in him, and the Romans will come and blot out both our city
and our nation."

011:049 But one of them, named Caiaphas, being High Priest that year,
said, "You know nothing about it.

011:050 You do not reflect that it is to your interest that one man
should die for the people rather than the whole nation perish."

011:051 It was not as a mere man that he thus spoke. But being
High Priest that year he was inspired to declare that Jesus
was to die for the nation,

011:052 and not for the nation only, but in order to unite into one
body all the far-scattered children of God.

011:053 So from that day forward they planned and schemed in order
to put Him to death.

011:054 Therefore Jesus no longer went about openly among the Jews,
but He left that neighbourhood and went into the district
near the Desert, to a town called Ephraim, and remained there
with the disciples.

011:055 The Jewish Passover was coming near, and many from that district
went up to Jerusalem before the Passover, to purify themselves.

011:056 They therefore looked out for Jesus, and asked one another
as they stood in the Temple, "What do you think?--will he come
to the Festival at all?"

011:057 Now the High Priests and the Pharisees had issued orders
that if any one knew where He was, he should give information,
so that they might arrest Him.

012:001 Jesus, however, six days before the Passover, came to Bethany,
where Lazarus was whom He had raised from the dead.

012:002 So they gave a dinner there in honour of Jesus, at which
Martha waited at table, but Lazarus was one of the guests
who were with Him.

012:003 Availing herself of the opportunity, Mary took a pound weight
of pure spikenard, very costly, and poured it over His feet,
and wiped His feet with her hair, so that the house was filled
with the fragrance of the perfume.

012:004 Then said Judas (the Iscariot, one of the Twelve--the one
who afterwards betrayed Jesus),

012:005 "Why was not that perfume sold for 300 shillings and the money
given to the poor?"

012:006 The reason he said this was not that he cared for the poor,
but that he was a thief, and that being in charge of the money-box,
he used to steal what was put into it.

012:007 But Jesus interposed. "Do not blame her," He said, "allow her
to have kept it for the time of my preparation for burial.

012:008 For the poor you always have with you, but you have not me always."

012:009 Now it became widely known among the Jews that Jesus was there;
but they came not only on His account, but also in order
to see Lazarus whom He had brought back to life.

012:010 The High Priests, however, consulted together to put Lazarus
also to death,

012:011 for because of him many of the Jews left them and became
believers in Jesus.

012:012 The next day a great crowd of those who had come to the Festival,
hearing that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem,

012:013 took branches of the palm trees and went out to meet Him,
shouting as they went, "God save him! Blessings on him who
comes in the name of the Lord--even on the King of Israel!"

012:014 And Jesus, having procured a young ass, sat upon it,
just as the Scripture says,

012:015 "Fear not, Daughter of Zion! See, thy King is coming riding
on an ass's colt."

012:016 The meaning of this His disciples did not understand at the time;
but after Jesus was glorified they recollected that this
was written about Him, and that they had done this to Him.

012:017 The large number of people, however, who had been present when He
called Lazarus out of the tomb and brought him back to life,
related what they had witnessed.

012:018 This was also why the crowd came to meet Him, because they
had heard of His having performed that miracle.

012:019 The result was that the Pharisees said among themselves,
"Observe how idle all your efforts are! The world is
gone after him!"

012:020 Now some of those who used to come up to worship at the
Festival were Greeks.

012:021 They came to Philip, of Bethsaida in Galilee, with the request,
"Sir, we wish to see Jesus."

012:022 Philip came and told Andrew: Andrew and Philip told Jesus.

012:023 His answer was, "The time has come for the Son of Man
to be glorified.

012:024 In most solemn truth I tell you that unless the grain of wheat
falls into the ground and dies, it remains what it was--
a single grain; but that if it dies, it yields a rich harvest.

012:025 He who holds his life dear, is destroying it; and he who makes
his life of no account in this world shall keep it to the Life
of the Ages.

012:026 If a man wishes to be my servant, let him follow me;
and where I am, there too shall my servant be.
If a man wishes to be my servant, the Father will honour him.

012:027 Now is my soul full of trouble; and what shall I say?
Father, save me from this hour. But for this purpose I
have come to this hour.

012:028 Father, glorify Thy name." Thereupon there came a voice from
the sky, "I have glorified it and will also glorify it again."

012:029 The crowd that stood by and heard it, said that there had
been thunder. Others said, "An angel spoke to him."

012:030 "It is not for my sake," said Jesus, "that that voice came,
but for your sakes.

012:031 Now is a judgement of this world: now will the Prince of this
world be driven out.

012:032 And I--if I am lifted up from the earth--will draw all men to me."

012:033 He said this to indicate the kind of death He would die.

012:034 The crowd answered Him, "We have heard out of the Law that
the Christ remains for ever. In what sense do you say that
the Son of Man must be lifted up? Who is that Son of Man?"

012:035 "Yet a little while," He replied, "the light is among you.
Be faithful to the light that you have, for fear darkness
should overtake you; for a man who walks in the dark does
not know where he is going.

012:036 In the degree that you have light, believe in the Light,
so that you may become sons of Light." Jesus said this,
and went away and hid Himself from them.

012:037 But though He had performed such great miracles in their presence,
they did not believe in Him--

012:038 in order that the words of Isaiah the Prophet might
be fulfilled, "Lord, who has believed our preaching?
And the arm of the Lord--to whom has it been unveiled?"

012:039 For this reason they were unable to believe--because Isaiah
said again,

012:040 "He has blinded their eyes and made their minds callous,
lest they should see with their eyes and perceive with their minds,
and should turn, and I should heal them."

012:041 Isaiah uttered these words because he saw His glory;
and he spoke of Him.

012:042 Nevertheless even from among the Rulers many believed in Him.
But because of the Pharisees they did not avow their belief,
for fear they should be shut out from the synagogue.

012:043 For they loved the glory that comes from men rather than
the glory that comes from God.

012:044 But Jesus cried aloud, "He who believes in me, believes not
so much in me, as in Him who sent me;

012:045 and he who sees me sees Him who sent me.

012:046 I have come like light into the world, in order that no one
who believes in me may remain in the dark.

012:047 And if any one hears my teachings and regards them not,
I do not judge him; for I did not come to judge the world,
but to save the world.

012:048 He who sets me at naught and does not receive my teachings
is not left without a judge: the Message which I have spoken
will judge him on the last day.

012:049 Because I have not spoken on my own authority; but the Father
who sent me, Himself gave me a command what to say and in
what words to speak.

012:050 And I know that His command is the Life of the Ages.
What therefore I speak, I speak just as the Father has bidden me."

013:001 Now just before the Feast of the Passover this incident took place.
Jesus knew that the time had come for Him to leave this world
and go to the Father; and having loved His own who were
in the world, He loved them to the end.

013:002 While supper was proceeding, the Devil having by this time
suggested to Judas Iscariot, the son of Simon, the thought
of betraying Him, Jesus,

013:003 although He knew that the Father had put everything into His hands,
and that He had come forth from God and was now going to God,

013:004 rose from the table, threw off His upper garments, and took
a towel and tied it round Him.

013:005 Then He poured water into a basin, and proceeded to wash
the feet of the disciples and to wipe them with the towel
which He had put round Him.

013:006 When He came to Simon Peter, Peter objected. "Master," he said,
"are *you* going to wash my feet?"

013:007 "What I am doing," answered Jesus, "for the present you do
not know, but afterwards you shall know."

013:008 "Never, while the world lasts," said Peter, "shall you
wash my feet." "If I do not wash you," replied Jesus,
"you have no share with me."

013:009 "Master," said Peter, "wash not only my feet, but also my hands
and my head."

013:010 "Any one who has lately bathed," said Jesus, "does not
need to wash more than his feet, but is clean all over.
And you my disciples are clean, and yet this is not true
of all of you."

013:011 For He knew who was betraying Him, and that was why He said,
"You are not all of you clean."

013:012 So after He had washed their feet, put on His garments again,
and returned to the table, He said to them, "Do you understand
what I have done to you?

013:013 You call me `The Rabbi' and `The Master,' and rightly so,
for such I am.

013:014 If I then, your Master and Rabbi, have washed your feet,
it is also your duty to wash one another's feet.

013:015 For I have set you an example in order that you may do what I
have done to you.

013:016 In most solemn truth I tell you that a servant is not superior
to his master, nor is a messenger superior to him who sent him.

013:017 If you know all this, blessed are you if you act accordingly.

013:018 I am not speaking of all of you. I know whom I have chosen,
but things are as they are in order that the Scripture may
be fulfilled, which says, `He who eats my bread has lifted
up his heel against me.'

013:019 From this time forward I tell you things before they happen,
in order that when they do happen you may believe that I am He.

013:020 In most solemn truth I tell you that he who receives whoever
I send receives me, and that he who receives me receives Him
who sent me."

013:021 After speaking thus Jesus was troubled in spirit and said
with deep earnestness, "In most solemn truth I tell you
that one of you will betray me."

013:022 The disciples began looking at one another, at a loss to know
to which of them He was referring.

013:023 There was at table one of His disciples--the one Jesus loved--
reclining with his head on Jesus's bosom.

013:024 Making a sign therefore to him, Simon Peter said, "Tell us
to whom he is referring."

013:025 So he, having his head on Jesus's bosom, leaned back and asked,
"Master, who is it?"

013:026 "It is the one," answered Jesus, "for whom I shall dip this
piece of bread and to whom I shall give it." Accordingly He
dipped the piece of bread, and took it and gave it to Judas,
the son of the Iscariot Simon.

013:027 Then, after Judas had received the piece of bread, Satan entered
into him. "Lose no time about it," said Jesus to him.

013:028 But why He said this no one else at the table understood.

013:029 Some, however, supposed that because Judas had the money-box
Jesus meant, "Buy what we require for the Festival,"
or that he should give something to the poor.

013:030 So Judas took the piece of bread and immediately went out.
And it was night.

013:031 So when he was gone out, Jesus said, "Now is the Son of
Man glorified, and God is glorified in Him.

013:032 Moreover God will glorify Him in Himself, and will glorify
Him without delay.

013:033 Dear children, I am still with you a little longer.
You will seek me, but, as I said to the Jews, `Where I am
going you cannot come,' so for the present I say to you.

013:034 A new commandment I give you, to love one another; that as I
have loved you, you also may love one another.

013:035 It is by this that every one will know that you are my disciples--
if you love one another."

013:036 "Master," inquired Simon Peter, "where are you going?"
"Where I am going," replied Jesus, "you cannot be my follower now,
but you shall be later."

013:037 "Master," asked Peter again, "why cannot I follow you now?
I will lay down my life on your behalf.

013:038 "You say you will lay down your life on my behalf!" said Jesus;
"in most solemn truth I tell you that the cock will not crow
before you have three times disowned me."

014:001 "Let not your hearts be troubled. Trust in God:
trust in me also.

014:002 In my Father's house there are many resting-places. Were
it otherwise, I would have told you; for I am going to make
ready a place for you.

014:003 And if I go and make ready a place for you, I will return
and take you to be with me, that where I am you also may be.

014:004 And where I am going, you all know the way."

014:005 "Master," said Thomas, "we do not know where you are going.
In what sense do we know the way?"

014:006 "I am the Way," replied Jesus, "and the Truth and the Life.
No one comes to the Father except through me.

014:007 If you--all of you--knew me, you would fully know my Father also.
From this time forward you know Him and have seen Him."

014:008 "Master," said Philip, "cause us to see the Father:
that is all we need."

014:009 "Have I been so long among you," Jesus answered, "and yet you,
Philip, do not know me? He who has seen me has seen the Father.
How can *you* ask me, `Cause us to see the Father'?

014:010 Do you not believe that I am in the Father and that the Father
is in me? The things that I tell you all I do not speak on
my own authority: but the Father dwelling within me carries
on His own work.

014:011 Believe me, all of you, that I am in the Father and that the Father
is in me; or at any rate, believe me because of what I do.

014:012 In most solemn truth I tell you that he who trusts in me--
the things which I do he shall do also; and greater things
than these he shall do, because I am going to the Father.

014:013 And whatever any of you ask in my name, I will do, in order
that the Father may be glorified in the Son.

014:014 If you make any request of me in my name, I will do it.

014:015 "If you love me, you will obey my commandments.

014:016 And I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Advocate
to be for ever with you--the Spirit of truth.

014:017 That Spirit the world cannot receive, because it does not see
Him or know Him. You know Him, because He remains by your
side and is in you.

014:018 I will not leave you bereaved: I am coming to you.

014:019 Yet a little while and the world will see me no more, but you
will see me: because I live, you also shall live.

014:020 At that time you will know that I am in my Father, and that you
are in me, and that I am in you.

014:021 He who has my commandments and obeys them--he it is who loves me.
And he who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will
love him and will clearly reveal myself to him."

014:022 Judas (not the Iscariot) asked, "Master, how is it that you
will reveal yourself clearly to us and not to the world?"

014:023 "If any one loves me," replied Jesus, "he will obey my teaching;
and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make
our home with him.

014:024 He who has no love for me does not obey my teaching;
and yet the teaching to which you are listening is not mine,
but is the teaching of the Father who sent me.

014:025 "All this I have spoken to you while still with you.

014:026 But the Advocate, the Holy Spirit whom the Father will send
at my request, will teach you everything, and will bring
to your memories all that I have said to you.

014:027 Peace I leave with you: my own peace I give to you.
It is not as the world gives its greetings that I give you peace.
Let not your hearts be troubled or dismayed.

014:028 "You heard me say to you, `I am going away, and yet I am coming
to you.' If you loved me, you would have rejoiced because I
am going to the Father; for the Father is greater than I am.

014:029 I have now told you before it comes to pass, that when it has
come to pass you may believe.

014:030 In future I shall not talk much with you, for the Prince
of this world is coming. And yet in me he has nothing;

014:031 but it is in order that the world may know that I love the Father,
and that it is in obedience to the command which the Father
gave me that I thus act. Rise, let us be going."

015:001 "I am the Vine--the True Vine, and my Father is the vine-dresser.

015:002 Every branch in me--if it bears no fruit, He takes away;
and every branch that bears fruit He prunes, that it may
bear more fruit.

015:003 Already you are cleansed--through the teaching which I
have given you.

015:004 Continue in me, and let me continue in you. Just as the branch
cannot bear fruit of itself--that is, if it does not continue
in the vine--so neither can you if you do not continue in me.

015:005 I am the Vine, you are the branches. He who continues in me
and in whom I continue bears abundant fruit, for apart from me
you can do nothing.

015:006 If any one does not continue in me, he is like the unfruitful
branch which is at once thrown away and then withers up.
Such branches they gather up and throw into the fire and
they are burned.

015:007 "If you continue in me and my sayings continue in you,
ask what you will and it shall be done for you.

015:008 By this is God glorified--by your bearing abundant fruit
and thus being true disciples of mine.

015:009 As the Father has loved me, I have also loved you:
continue in my love.

015:010 If you obey my commands, you will continue in my love, as I
have obeyed my Father's commands and continue in His love.

015:011 "These things I have spoken to you in order that I may have joy
in you, and that your joy may become perfect.

015:012 This is my commandment to you, to love one another as I
have loved you.

015:013 No one has greater love than this--a man laying down his life
for his friends.

015:014 You are my friends, if you do what I command you.

015:015 No longer do I call you servants, because a servant does not
know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends,
because all that I have heard from the Father I have made
known to you.

015:016 It is not you who chose me, but it is I who chose you and
appointed you that you might go and be fruitful and that your
fruit might remain; so that whatever petition you present
to the Father in my name He may give you.

015:017 "Thus I command you to love one another.

015:018 If the world hates you, remember that it has first had me
as the fixed object of its hatred.

015:019 If you belonged to the world, the world would love its own property.
But because you do not belong to the world, and I have chosen
you out of the world--for that reason the world hates you.

015:020 Bear in mind what I said to you, `A servant is not superior
to his master.' If they have persecuted me, they will
also persecute you: if they have obeyed my teaching,
they will obey yours also.

015:021 But they will inflict all this suffering upon you on account
of your bearing my name--because they do not know Him
who sent me.

015:022 "If I had not come and spoken to them, they would have had no sin;
but as the case stands they are without excuse for their sin.

015:023 He who hates me hates my Father also.

015:024 If I had not done among them, as I have, such miracles as no
one else ever did, they would have had no sin; but they
have in fact seen and also hated both me and my Father.

015:025 But this has been so, in order that the saying may be fulfilled
which stands written in their Law, `They have hated me
without any reason.'

015:026 "When the Advocate is come whom I will send to you from
the Father's presence--the Spirit of Truth who comes forth
from the Father's presence--He will be a witness concerning me.

015:027 And you also are witnesses, because you have been with me
from the first.

016:001 "These things I have spoken to you in order to clear
stumbling-blocks out of your path.

016:002 You will be excluded from the synagogues; nay more, the time
is coming when any one who has murdered one of you will suppose
he is offering service to God.

016:003 And they will do these things because they have failed
to recognize the Father and to discover who I am.

016:004 But I have spoken these things to you in order that when
the time for their accomplishment comes you may remember them,
and may recollect that I told you. I did not, however, tell you
all this at first, because I was still with you.

016:005 But now I an returning to Him who sent me; and not one of you
asks me where I am going.

016:006 But grief has filled your hearts because I have said all
this to you.

016:007 "Yet it is the truth that I am telling you--it is to your
advantage that I go away. For unless I go away, the Advocate
will not come to you; but if I go, I will send Him to you.

016:008 And He, when He comes, will convict the world in respect of sin,
of righteousness, and of judgement;--

016:009 of sin, because they do not believe in me;

016:010 of righteousness, because I am going to the Father, and you
will no longer see me;

016:011 of judgement, because the Prince of this world is under sentence.

016:012 "I have much more to say to you, but you are unable at present
to bear the burden of it.

016:013 But when He has come--the Spirit of Truth--He will guide
you into all the truth. For He will not speak as Himself
originating what He says, but all that He hears He will speak,
and He will make known the future to you.

016:014 He will glorify me, because He will take of what is mine
and will make it known to you.

016:015 Everything that the Father has is mine; that is why I said
that the Spirit of Truth takes of what is mine and will make
it known to you.

016:016 "A little while and you see me no more, and again a little
while and you shall see me."

016:017 Some of His disciples therefore said to one another, "What does
this mean which He is telling us, `A little while and you
do not see me, and again a little while and you shall see me,'
and `Because I am going to the Father'?"

016:018 So they asked one another repeatedly, "What can that `little while'
mean which He speaks of? We do not understand His words."

016:019 Jesus perceived that they wanted to ask Him, and He said,
"Is this what you are questioning one another about--
my saying, `A little while and you do not see me, and again
a little while and you shall see me'?

016:020 In most solemn truth I tell you that you will weep aloud
and lament, but the world will be glad. You will mourn,
but your grief will be turned into gladness.

016:021 A woman, when she is in labour, has sorrow, because her
time has come. But when she has given birth to the babe,
she no longer remembers the pain, because of her joy at a child
being born into the world.

016:022 So you also now have sorrow; but I shall see you again,
and your hearts will be glad, and your gladness no one will
take away from you.

016:023 You will put no questions to me then. "In most solemn truth
I tell you that whatever you ask the Father for in my name
He will give you.

016:024 As yet you have not asked for anything in my name: ask, and you
shall receive, that your hearts may be filled with gladness.

016:025 "All this I have spoken to you in veiled language.
The time is coming when I shall no longer speak to you
in veiled language, but will tell you about the Father
in plain words.

016:026 At that time you will make your requests in my name;
and I do not promise to ask the Father on your behalf,

016:027 for the Father Himself holds you dear, because you have held me
dear and have believed that I came from the Father's presence.

016:028 I came from the Father and have come into the world.
Again I am leaving the world and am going to the Father."

016:029 "Ah, now you are using plain language," said His disciples,
"and are uttering no figure of speech!

016:030 Now we know that you have all knowledge, and do not need to be
pressed with questions. Through this we believe that you
came from God."

016:031 "Do you at last believe?" replied Jesus.

016:032 "Remember that the time is coming, nay, has already come, for you
all to be dispersed each to his own home and to leave me alone.
And yet I am not alone, for the Father is with me.

016:033 "I have spoken all this to you in order that in me you
may have peace. In the world you have affliction.
But keep up your courage: *I* have won the victory
over the world."

017:001 When Jesus had thus spoken, He raised his eyes towards Heaven
and said, "Father, the hour has come. Glorify Thy Son
that the Son may glorify Thee;

017:002 even as Thou hast given Him authority over all mankind,
so that on all whom Thou hast given Him He may bestow the Life
of the Ages.

017:003 And in this consists the Life of the Ages--in knowing Thee
the only true God and Jesus Christ whom Thou hast sent.

017:004 I have glorified Thee on earth, having done perfectly the work
which by Thine appointment has been mine to do.

017:005 And now, Father, do Thou glorify me in Thine own presence,
with the glory that I had in Thy presence before the world existed.

017:006 "I have revealed Thy perfections to the men whom Thou gavest me
out of the world. Thine they were, and Thou gavest them to me,
and they have obeyed Thy message.

017:007 Now they know that whatever Thou hast given me is from Thee.

017:008 For the truths which Thou didst teach me I have taught them.
And they have received them, and have known for certain that I
came out from Thy presence, and have believed that Thou
didst send me.

017:009 "I am making request for them: for the world I do not make
any request, but for those whom Thou hast given me.
Because they are Thine,

017:010 and everything that is mine is Thine, and everything that is
Thine is mine; and I am crowned with glory in them.

017:011 I am now no longer in the world, but they are in the world and I
am coming to Thee. "Holy Father, keep them true to Thy name--
the name which Thou hast given me to bear--that they may be one,
even as we are.

017:012 While I was with them, I kept them true to Thy name--the name
Thou hast given me to bear--and I kept watch over them, and not
one of them is lost but only he who is doomed to destruction--
that the Scripture may be fulfilled.

017:013 "But now I am coming to Thee, and I speak these words while I
am in the world, in order that they may have my gladness
within them filling their hearts.

017:014 I have given them Thy Message, and the world has hated them,
because they do not belong to the world, just as I do not
belong to the world.

017:015 I do not ask that Thou wilt remove them out of the world,
but that Thou wilt protect them from the Evil one.

017:016 They do not belong to the world, just as I do not belong
to the world.

017:017 Make them holy in the truth: Thy Message is truth.

017:018 Just as Thou didst send me into the world, I also have sent them;

017:019 and on their behalf I consecrate myself, in order that they
may become perfectly consecrated in truth.

017:020 "Nor is it for them alone that I make request.
It is also for those who trust in me through their teaching;

017:021 that they may all be one, even as Thou art in me, O Father,
and I am in Thee; that they also may be in us; that the world
may believe that Thou didst send me.

017:022 And the glory which Thou hast given me I have given them,
that they may be one, just as we are one:

017:023 I in them and Thou in me; that they may stand perfected in one;
that the world may come to understand that Thou didst send me
and hast loved them with the same love as that with which Thou
hast loved me.

017:024 "Father, those whom Thou hast given me--I desire that where I
am they also may be with me, that they may see the glory--
my glory--my gift from Thee, which Thou hast given me because
Thou didst love me before the creation of the world.

017:025 And, righteous Father, though the world has failed to
recognize Thee, I have known Thee, and these have perceived
that Thou didst send me.

017:026 And I have made known Thy name to them and will make it known,
that the love with which Thou hast loved me may be in them,
and that I may be in them."

018:001 After offering this prayer Jesus went out with His
disciples to a place on the further side of the Ravine
of the Cedars, where there was a garden which He entered--
Himself and His disciples.

018:002 Now Judas also, who at that very time was betraying Him,
knew the place, for Jesus had often resorted there
with His disciples.

018:003 So Judas, followed by the battalion and by a detachment
of the Temple police sent by the High Priests and Pharisees,
came there with torches and lamps and weapons.

018:004 Jesus therefore, knowing all that was about to befall Him,
went out to meet them. "Who are you looking for?"
He asked them.

018:005 "For Jesus the Nazarene," was the answer. "I am he," He replied.
(Now Judas who was betraying Him was also standing with them.)

018:006 As soon then as He said to them, "I am he," they went backwards
and fell to the ground.

018:007 Again therefore He asked them, "Who are you looking for?"
"For Jesus the Nazarene," they said.

018:008 "I have told you," replied Jesus, "that I am he.
If therefore you are looking for me, let these my disciples
go their way."

018:009 He made this request in order that the words He had spoken
might be fulfilled, "As for those whom Thou hast given me,
I have not lost one."

018:010 Simon Peter, however, having a sword, drew it, and, aiming at
the High Priest's servant, cut off his right ear.
The servant's name was Malchus.

018:011 Jesus therefore said to Peter, "Put back your sword.
Shall I refuse to drink the cup of sorrow which the Father
has given me to drink?"

018:012 So the battalion and their tribune and the Jewish police closed in,
and took Jesus and bound Him.

018:013 They then brought Him to Annas first; for Annas was the father-in-law
of Caiaphas who was High Priest that year.

018:014 (It was this Caiaphas who had advised the Jews, saying, "It is
to your interest that one man should die for the People.")

018:015 Meanwhile Simon Peter was following Jesus, and so also was
another disciple. The latter was known to the High Priest,
and went in with Jesus into the court of the High Priest's palace.

018:016 But Peter remained standing outside the door, till the disciple
who was acquainted with the High Priest came out and induced
the portress to let Peter in.

018:017 This led the girl, the portress, to ask Peter, "Are you also
one of this man's disciples?" "No, I am not," he replied.

018:018 Now because it was cold the servants and the police had lighted
a charcoal fire, and were standing and warming themselves;
and Peter too remained with them, standing and warming himself.

018:019 So the High Priest questioned Jesus about His disciples
and His teaching.

018:020 "As for me," replied Jesus, "I have spoken openly to the world.
I have continually taught in some synagogue or in the Temple
where all the Jews are wont to assemble, and I have said
nothing in secret.

018:021 Why do you question me? Question those who heard what it was I
said to them: these witnesses here know what I said."

018:022 Upon His saying this, one of the officers standing by struck Him
with his open hand, asking Him as he did so, "Is that the way
you answer the High Priest?"

018:023 "If I have spoken wrongly," replied Jesus, "bear witness to it
as wrong; but if rightly, why that blow?"

018:024 So Annas sent Him bound to Caiaphas the High Priest.