THE GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST
ACCORDING TO JOHN
1 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; and without him was not any thing
made that was made.
4 In him was life; and the life was the light of men.
5 And the light shines in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it
not.
6 There was a man
sent from God, whose
name was John.
7 The same came for
a witness, to bear
witness of the Light,
that all men through
him might believe.
8 He was not that
Light, but was sent
to bear witness of
that Light.
9 That 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 unto his own, and his own received him not.
12 But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the
sons of God, even to them that believe on his name;
13 Which 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 was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld
his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full
of grace and truth.
15 John bare witness of him, and cried, saying, This was he of whom
I spoke, He that comes after me is preferred before me: for he was
before me.
16 And of his fullness have all we received, and grace for grace.
17 For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus
Christ.
18 No man has seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, which is
in the bosom of the Father, he has declared him.
19 And this is the record of John, when the Jews sent priests and
Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, Who ARE you?
20 And he confessed, and denied not; but confessed, I am not the
Christ.
21 And they asked him, What then? ARE you Elias? And he said, I am
not. ARE you that prophet? And he answered, No.
22 Then said they unto him, Who ARE you? that we may give an answer
to them that sent us. What say you of yourself?
23 He said, I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, Make
straight the way of the Lord, as said the prophet Esaias.
24 And they which were sent were of the Pharisees.
25 And they asked him, and said unto him, Why baptize you then, if
you be not that Christ, nor Elias, neither that prophet?
26 John answered them, saying, I baptize with water: but there
stands one among you, whom you know not;
27 He it is, who coming after me is preferred before me, whose
shoe's latchet I am not worthy to unloose.
28 These things were done in Bethabara beyond Jordan, where John was
baptizing.
29 The next day John saw Jesus coming unto him, and said, Behold the
Lamb of God, which takes away the sin of the world.
30 This is he of whom I said, After me comes a man which is
preferred before me: for he was before me.
31 And I knew him not: but that he should be made manifest to
Israel, therefore am I come baptizing with water.
32 And John bare record, saying, I saw the Spirit descending
from heaven like a dove, and it abode upon him.
33 And I knew him not: but he that sent me to baptize with water,
the same said unto me, Upon whom you shall see the Spirit
descending, and remaining on him, the same is he which baptizes with
the Holy Spirit.
34 And I saw, and bare record that this is the Son of God.
35 Again the next day after John stood, and two of his disciples;
36 And looking upon Jesus as he walked, he said, Behold the Lamb of
God!
37 And the two disciples heard him speak, and they followed
Jesus.
38 Then Jesus turned, and saw them following, and said unto them,
What seek you? They said unto him, Rabbi, (which is to say, being
interpreted, Master,) where dwell you?
39 He said unto them, Come and see. They came and saw where he
dwelt, and abode with him that day: for it was about the tenth hour.
40 One of the two which heard John speak, and followed him, was
Andrew, Simon Peter's brother.
41 He first found his own brother Simon, and said unto him, We have
found the Messias, which is, being interpreted, the Christ.
42 And he brought him to
Jesus.
And when Jesus beheld him,
he said,
You ARE Simon the son of Jona:
you shall be called Cephas,
which is by interpretation,
A stone.
43 The day following Jesus would go forth into Galilee, and find
Philip, and said unto him, Follow me.
44 Now Philip was of Bethsaida, the city of Andrew and Peter.
45 Philip found Nathanael, and said unto him, We have found him, of
whom Moses in the law, and the prophets, did write, Jesus of
Nazareth, the son of Joseph.
46 And Nathanael said unto him, Can there any good thing come out of
Nazareth? Philip said unto him, Come and see.
47 Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and said of him, Behold an
Israelite indeed, in whom is no guile!
48 Nathanael said unto him, Whence know you me? Jesus answered and
said unto him, Before that Philip called you, when you were under
the fig tree, I saw you.
49 Nathanael answered and said unto him, Rabbi, you ARE the Son of
God; you ARE the King of Israel.
50 Jesus answered and said unto him, Because I said unto you, I saw
you under the fig tree, believe you? you shall see greater things
than these.
51 And he said unto him,
Verily, verily, I say
unto you, Hereafter you
shall see heaven open,
and the angels of
God ascending and descending
upon the Son of man.
2
And the third day
there was a marriage
in Cana of Galilee;
and the mother of
Jesus was there;
2 And both Jesus was called, and his disciples, to the marriage.
3 And when they wanted wine, the mother of Jesus said unto him, They
have no wine.
4 Jesus said unto her, Woman, what have I to do with you? My hour is
not yet come.
5 His mother said unto the servants, Whatsoever he said unto you, do
it.
6 And there were set there six water pots of stone, after the manner
of the purifying of the Jews, containing two or three firkins
apiece.
7 Jesus said unto them, Fill the water pots with water. And they
filled them up to the brim.
8 And he said unto them, Draw out now, and bear unto the governor of
the feast. And they bare it.
9 When the ruler of the feast had tasted the water that was made
wine, and knew not whence it was: (but the servants which drew the
water knew;) the governor of the feast called the bridegroom,
10 And said unto him, Every man at the beginning does set forth good
wine; and when men have well drunk, then that which is worse: but
you have kept the good wine until now.
11 This beginning of miracles did Jesus in Cana of Galilee, and
manifested forth his glory; and his disciples believed on him.
12 After this he went down to Capernaum, he, and his mother, and his
brethren, and his disciples: and they continued there not many days.
13 And the Jews' passover was at hand, and Jesus went up to
Jerusalem,
14 And found in the temple those that sold oxen and sheep and doves,
and the changers of money sitting;
14 And found in the temple those that sold oxen and sheep and doves,
and the changers of money sitting;
15 And when he had made a scourge of small cords, he drove them all
out of the temple, and the sheep, and the oxen; and poured out the
changers' money, and overthrew the tables;
16 And said unto them that sold doves, Take these things hence; make
not my Father's house an house of merchandise.
17 And his disciples remembered that it was written, The zeal of
your house has eaten me up.
18 Then answered the Jews and said unto him, What sign you will show
unto us, seeing that you do these things?
19 Jesus answered and said unto them, Destroy this temple, and in
three days I will raise it up.
20 Then said the Jews, Forty and six years was this temple in
building, and will you rear it up in three days?
22 When therefore he was risen from the dead, his disciples
remembered that he had said this unto them; and they believed the
scripture, and the word which Jesus had said.
21 But he spoke of the temple of his body.
23 Now when he was in Jerusalem at the passover, in the feast day,
many believed in his name, when they saw the miracles which he
did.
24 But Jesus did not commit himself unto them, because he knew all
men.
3
There was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a ruler of the
Jews;
2 The same came to Jesus by night, and said unto him, Rabbi, we
know that you ARE a teacher come from God: for no man can do
these miracles that you do, except God be with him.
3 Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto
you, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the
kingdom of God.
4 Nicodemus said unto 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 unto you, Except a man be
born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot 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 unto you, You must be born again.
8 The wind blows where it lists, and you hears the sound thereof,
but can not tell whence it comes, and whither it goes: so is every
one that is born of the Spirit.
9 Nicodemus answered and said unto him, How can these things be?
10 Jesus answered and said unto him, ARE you a master of Israel,
and knows not these things?
11 Verily, verily, I say unto you, We speak that we do know, and
testify that we have seen; and you receive not our witness.
12 If I have told you earthly things, and you believe not, how shall
you believe, if I tell you of heavenly things?
13 And no man has ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from
heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven.
14 And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so
must the Son of man be lifted up;
15 That whosoever believes in him should not perish, but have
eternal life.
16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son,
that whosoever believes in him should not perish, but have
everlasting life.
17 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but
that the world through him might be saved.
18 He that believes on him is not condemned: but he that believes
not is condemned already,
because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of
God.
19 And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world,
and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were
evil.
20 For every one that does evil hates the light, neither comes to
the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.
21 But he that does 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 tarried with them, and baptized.
23 And John also was baptizing in Aenon near to Salim, because there
was much water there: and they came, and were baptized.
24 For John was not yet cast into prison.
25 Then there arose a question between some of John's disciples and
the Jews about purifying.
26 And they came unto John, and said unto him, Rabbi, he that was
with you beyond Jordan, to whom you bares witness, behold, the same
baptizes, and all men come to him.
27 John answered and said, A man can receive nothing, except it
be given him from heaven.
28 You yourselves bear me witness, that I said, I am not the Christ,
but that I am sent before him.
29 He that has the bride is the bridegroom: but the friend of the
bridegroom, which stands and hears him, rejoices greatly because of
the bridegroom's voice: my joy therefore is fulfilled.
30 He must increase, but I must decrease.
31 He that comes from above is above all: he that is of the earth is
earthly, 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 no man
receives his testimony.
33 He that has received his testimony has set to his seal that God
is true.
34 For he whom God has sent speaks the words of God: for God gives
not the Spirit by measure unto him.
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.
4
When therefore the Lord knew how the Pharisees had heard
that Jesus made and baptized more disciples than John,
2 (Though Jesus himself baptized not, but his disciples,)
3 He left Judaea, and departed again into Galilee.
4 And he must needs go through Samaria.
5 Then comes he to a city of Samaria, which is called Sychar, near
to the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph.
6 Now Jacob's well was there. Jesus therefore, being wearied with
his journey, sat thus on the well: and it was about the sixth hour.
7 There comes a woman of Samaria to draw water: Jesus said unto her,
Give me to drink.
8 (For his disciples were gone away unto the city to buy meat.)
9 Then said the woman of Samaria unto him, How is it that you, being
a Jew, asks drink of me, which am a woman of Samaria? for the Jews
have no dealings with the Samaritans.
10 Jesus answered and said unto her, If you knows the gift of God,
and who it is that said to you, Give me to drink; you would have
asked of him, and he would have given you living water.
11 The woman said unto him, Sir, you have nothing to draw with, and
the well is deep: from whence then have you that living
water?
12 Are you greater than our father Jacob, which gave us the well,
and drank thereof himself, and his children, and his cattle?
13 Jesus answered and said unto her, Whosoever drinks of this water
shall thirst again;
14 But whosoever drinks of the water that I shall give him shall
never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a
well of water springing up into everlasting life.
15 The woman said unto him, Sir, give me this water, that I thirst
not, neither come hither to draw.
16 Jesus said unto her, Go, call your husband, and come hither.
17 The woman answered and said, I have no husband. Jesus said unto
her, You have well said, I have no husband;
18 For you have had five husbands; and he whom you now have is not
your husband: in that said you truly.
19 The woman said unto him, Sir, I perceive that you are a prophet.
20 Our fathers worshipped in this mountain; and you say, that in
Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship.
21 Jesus said unto her, Woman, believe me, the hour comes, when you
shall neither in this mountain, nor yet at Jerusalem, worship
the Father.
22 You worship you know not what: we know what we worship: for
salvation is of the Jews.
23 But the hour comes, and now is, when the true worshippers shall
worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeks such
to worship him.
24 God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in
spirit and in truth.
25 The woman said unto him, I know that Messias comes, which is
called Christ: when he is come, he will tell us all things.
26 Jesus said unto her, I that speak unto you am he.
27 And upon this came his disciples, and marveled that he talked
with the woman: yet no man said, What seeks you? or, Why talks you
with her?
28 The woman then left her water pot, and went her way into the
city, and said to the men,
29 Come, see a man, which told me all things that ever I did: is not
this the Christ?
30 Then they went out of the city, and came unto him.
31 In the mean while his disciples prayed him, saying, Master,
eat.
32 But he said unto them, I have meat to eat that you know not of.
33 Therefore said the disciples one to another, Has any man brought
him ought to eat?
34 Jesus said unto them, My meat is to do the will of him that
sent me, and to finish his work.
35 Say not you, There are yet four months, and then comes harvest?
behold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields;
for they are white already to 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 that saying true, One sows, and another reaps.
38 I sent you to reap that whereon you bestowed no labour: other
men laboured, and you are entered into their labours.
39 And many of the Samaritans of that city believed on him for the
saying of the woman, which testified, He told me all that ever
I did.
40 So when the Samaritans were come unto him, they besought him that
he would tarry with them: and he abode there two days.
41 And many more believed because of his own word;
42 And said unto the woman, Now we believe, not because of your
saying: for we have heard him ourselves, and know that this is
indeed the Christ, the
Saviour of the world.
43 Now after two days he departed thence, and went into Galilee.
44 For Jesus himself testified, that a prophet has no honour in
his own country.
45 Then when he was come into Galilee, the Galilaeans received him,
having seen all the things that he did at Jerusalem at the feast:
for they also went unto the feast.
46 So Jesus came again into Cana of Galilee, where he made the water
wine. And there was a certain nobleman, whose son was sick at
Capernaum.
47 When he heard that Jesus was come out of Judaea into Galilee, he
went unto him, and besought him that he would come down, and heal
his son: for he was at the point of death.
48 Then said Jesus unto him, Except you see signs and wonders, you
will not believe.
49 The nobleman said unto
him, Sir, come down ere
my child die.
50 Jesus said unto him, Go your way; your son lives. And the man
believed the word that Jesus had spoken unto him, and he went his
way.
51 And as he was
now going down, his
servants met him, and
told him,
saying, Your son lives.
52 Then inquired he of them the hour when he began to amend. And
they said unto him, Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left
him.
53 So the father knew that it was at the same hour, in the which
Jesus said unto him, Your son lives: and himself believed, and his
whole house.
54 This is again the second miracle that Jesus did, when he was come
out of Judaea into Galilee.
5
After this there was a feast of the Jews; and Jesus went up
to Jerusalem.
2 Now there is at Jerusalem by the sheep market a pool, which is
called in the Hebrew tongue Bethesda, having five porches.
3 In these lay a great multitude of impotent folk, of blind, halt,
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: whosoever then first after the troubling of
the water stepped in was made whole of whatsoever disease he
had.
5 And a certain man was there, which had an infirmity thirty and
eight years.
6 When Jesus saw him lie, and knew that he had been now a long time
in that case, he said unto him, Will you be made whole?
7 The impotent 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
steps down before me.
8 Jesus said unto him, Rise, take up your bed, and walk.
9 And immediately the man was made whole, and took up his bed, and
walked: and on the same day was the sabbath.
10 The Jews therefore said unto him that was cured, It is the
sabbath day: it is not lawful for you to carry your bed.
11 He answered them, He that made me whole, the same said unto me,
Take up your bed, and walk.
12 Then asked they him, What man is that which said unto you, Take
up your bed, and walk?
13 And he that was healed did not who it was: for Jesus had conveyed
himself away, a multitude being in that place.
14 Afterward Jesus found him in the temple, and said unto him,
Behold, you are made whole: sin no more, lest a worse thing come
unto you.
15 The man departed, and told the Jews that it was Jesus, which
had made him whole.
16 And therefore did the Jews persecute Jesus, and sought to slay
him, because he had done these things on the sabbath day.
17 But Jesus answered them, My Father works hitherto, and I work.
18 Therefore the Jews sought the more to kill him , because they
thought he had broken the sabbath ; and because he claimed also that
God was his Father, making himself equal with God.
19 Then answered Jesus and said unto them, Verily, verily, I say
unto 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 likewise.
20 For the Father loves the Son, and shows him all things that
himself does: and he will show him greater works than these,
that you may marvel.
21 For as the Father raises up the dead, and quickens them; even so
the Son quickens whom he will.
22 For the Father judges no man, but has committed all judgment
unto the Son;
23 That all men should honour the Son, even as they honour the
Father. He that honours not the Son honours not the Father which has
sent him.
24 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that hears my word, and
believes on him that sent me, has everlasting life, and shall not
come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life.
25 Verily, verily, I say unto you, The 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 has he given to the Son
to have life in himself; .
27 And has given him authority to execute judgment also, because he
is the Son of man.
28 Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in the which all that
are in the graves shall hear his voice,
29 And shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the
resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, unto the
resurrection of damnation.
30 I can of mine own self do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my
judgment is just; because I seek not mine own will, but the will of
the Father which has 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 You sent unto John, and he bare witness unto the truth.
34 But I receive not testimony from man: but these things I say,
that you might be saved.
35 He was a burning and a shining light: and you 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 has given me to finish, the same works that I do, bear
witness of me, that the Father has sent me.
37 And the Father himself, which has sent me, has borne witness of
me. You have neither heard his voice at any time, nor seen his
shape.
38 And you have not his word abiding in you: for whom he has sent,
him you believe not.
39 Search the scriptures; for in them you think you have eternal
life: and they are they which testify of me.
40 And you will not come to me, that you might have life.
41 I receive not honour from men.
42 But I know you, that you have not the love of God in you.
43 I am come in my Father's name, and you receive me not: if
another shall come in his own name, him you will receive.
44 How can you believe, which receive honour one of another, and
seek not the honour that comes from God only?
45 Do not think that I will accuse you to the Father: there is one
that accuses you, even Moses, in whom you trust.
46 For had you believed Moses, you would have believed me: for he
wrote of me.
47 But if you believe not his writings, how shall you believe my
words?
6 After these things Jesus went over the sea of Galilee, which is
the sea of Tiberias.
2 And a great multitude followed him, because they saw his miracles
which he did on them that were diseased.
3 And Jesus went up into a mountain, and there he sat with his
disciples.
4 And the passover, a feast of the Jews, was nigh.
5 When Jesus then lifted up his eyes, and saw a great company come
unto him, he said unto Philip, Whence shall we buy bread, that these
may eat?
6 And this he said to prove him: for he himself knew what he would
do.
7 Philip answered him, Two hundred pennyworth of bread is not
sufficient for them, that every one of them may take a little.
8 One of his disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter's brother, said unto
him,
9 There is a lad here, which has five barley loaves, and two small
fishes: but what are they among so many?
10 And Jesus said, Make the men sit down. Now there was much grass
in the place. So the men sat down, in number about five thousand.
11 And Jesus took the loaves; and when he had given thanks, he
distributed to the disciples, and the disciples to them that were
set down; and likewise of the fishes as much as they would.
12 When they were filled, he said unto his disciples, Gather up the
fragments that remain, that nothing be lost.
13 Therefore they gathered them together, and filled twelve baskets
with the fragments of the five barley loaves, which remained over
and above unto them that had eaten.
14 Then those men, when they had seen the miracle that Jesus did,
said, This is of a truth that prophet that should come into the
world.
15 When Jesus therefore perceived that they would come and take him
by force, to make him a king, he departed again into a mountain
himself alone.
16 And when even was now come, his disciples went down unto the sea,
17 And entered into a ship, and went over the sea toward Capernaum.
And it was now dark, and Jesus was not come to them.
18 And the sea arose by reason of a great wind that blew.
19 So when they had rowed about five and twenty or thirty furlongs,
they see Jesus walking on the sea, and drawing nigh unto the ship:
and they were afraid.
20 But he said unto them, It is I; be not afraid.
21 Then they willingly received him into the ship: and immediately
the ship was at the land whither they went.
22 The day following, when the people which stood on the other side
of the sea saw that there was none other boat there, save that
one whereunto his disciples were entered, and that Jesus went not
with his disciples into the boat, but that his disciples were
gone away alone;
23 (Howbeit there came other boats from Tiberias nigh unto the place
where they did eat bread, after that the Lord had given thanks:)
24 When the people therefore saw that Jesus was not there, neither
his disciples, they also took shipping, and came to Capernaum,
seeking for Jesus.
25 And when they had found him on the other side of the sea, they
said unto him, Rabbi, when came you hither?
26 Jesus answered them and said, Verily, verily, I say unto you, You
seek me, not because you saw the miracles, but because you did eat
of the loaves, and were filled.
27 Labour not for the meat which perishes, but for that meat which
endures unto everlasting life, which the Son of man shall give unto
you: for him has God the Father sealed.
28 Then said they unto him, What shall we do, that we might work the
works of God?
29 Jesus answered and said unto them, This is the work of God, that
you believe on him whom he has sent.
30 They said therefore unto him, What sign show you then, that we
may see, and believe you? what do you work?
31 Our fathers did eat manna in the desert; as it is written, He
gave them bread from heaven to eat.
32 Then Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Moses
gave you not that bread from heaven; but my Father gives you the
true bread from heaven.
33 For the bread of God is he which comes down from heaven, and
gives life unto the world.
34 Then said they unto him, Lord, evermore give us this bread.
35 And Jesus said unto 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 unto you, That you also have seen me, and believe not.
37 All that the Father gives me shall come to me; and him that comes
to me I will in no wise cast out.
38 For I came down from heaven, not to do mine own will, but the
will of him that sent me.
39 And this is the Father's will which has sent me, that of all
which he has given me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up
again at the last day.
40 And this is the will of him that sent me, that every one which
see the Son, and believes on him, may have everlasting life: and I
will raise him up at the last day.
41 The Jews then murmured at him, because he said, I am the bread
which came down from heaven.
42 And they said, Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father
and mother we know? how is it then that he said, I came down from
heaven?
43 Jesus therefore answered and said unto them, Murmur not among
yourselves.
44 No man can come to me, except the Father which has sent me draw
him: and I will raise him up at the last day.
45 It is written in the prophets, And they shall be all taught of
God. Every man therefore that has heard, and has learned of the
Father, comes unto me.
46 Not that any man has seen the Father, save he which is of God,
he has seen the Father.
47 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believes on me has
everlasting life.
48 I am that bread of life.
49 Your fathers did eat manna in the wilderness, and are dead.
50 This is the bread which comes down from heaven, that a man may
eat thereof, and not die.
51 I am the living bread which came down from heaven: if any man eat
of this bread, he shall live for ever: and the bread that I will
give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.
52 The Jews therefore strove among themselves, saying, How can this
man give us his flesh to eat?
53 Then Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except
you eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, you have
no life in you.
54 Whoever eats my flesh, and drinks my blood, has eternal life; and
I will raise him up at the last day.
55 For my flesh is meat indeed, and my blood is drink indeed.
56 He that eats my flesh, and drinks my blood, dwells in me, and I
in him.
57 As the living Father has sent me, and I live by the Father: so
he that eats me, even he shall live by me.
58 This is that bread which came down from heaven: not as your
fathers did eat manna, and are dead: he that eats of this bread
shall live for ever.
59 These things said he in the synagogue, as he taught in Capernaum.
60 Many therefore of his disciples, when they had heard this, said,
This is an hard saying; who can hear it?
61 When Jesus knew in himself that his disciples murmured at it, he
said unto them, Does this offend you?
62 What and if you shall see the Son of man ascend up where he
was before?
63 It is the spirit that quickens; the flesh profits nothing: the
words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they 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 should betray
him.
65 And he said, Therefore said I unto you, that no man can come unto
me, except it were given unto him of my Father.
66 From that time many of his disciples went back, and walked no
more with him.
67 Then said Jesus unto the twelve, Will you also go away?
68 Then Simon Peter answered him, Lord, to whom shall we go? you
have the words of eternal life.
69 And we believe and are sure that you ARE that Christ, the Son of
the living God.
70 Jesus answered them, Have not I chosen you twelve, and one of you
is a devil?
71 He spoke of Judas Iscariot the son of Simon: for he it was that
should betray him, being one of the twelve.
7
After these things Jesus walked in Galilee: for he would not walk
in Jewry, because the Jews sought to kill him.
2 Now the Jews' feast of tabernacles was at hand.
3 His brethren therefore said unto him, Depart hence, and go into
Judaea, that your disciples also may see the works that you .
4 For there is no man that does any thing in secret, and he himself
seeks to be known openly. If you do these things, show yourself to
the world.
5 For neither did his brethren believe in him.
6 Then Jesus said unto them, My time is not yet come: but your time
is always ready.
7 The world cannot hate you; but me it hates, because I testify of
it, that the works thereof are evil.
8 Go you up unto this feast: I go not up yet unto this feast; for my
time is not yet full come.
9 When he had said these words unto them, he abode still in Galilee.
10 But when his brethren were gone up, then went he also up unto the
feast, not openly, but as it were in secret.
11 Then the Jews sought him at the feast, and said, Where is he?
12 And there was much murmuring among the people concerning him:
for some said, He is a good man: others said, Nay; but he
deceives the people.
13 Howbeit no man spoke openly of him for fear of the Jews.
14 Now about the midst of the feast Jesus went up into the temple,
and taught.
15 And the Jews marveled, saying, How knows this man letters, having
never learned?
16 Jesus answered them, and said, My doctrine is not mine, but his
that sent me.
17 If any man will do his will, he shall know of the doctrine,
whether it be of God, or whether I speak of myself.
18 He that speaks of himself seeks his own glory: but he that seeks
his glory that sent him, the same is true, and no unrighteousness is
in him.
19 Did not Moses give you the law, and yet none of you keeps the
law? Why go you about to kill me?
20 The people answered and said, You have a devil: who goes about to
kill you?
21 Jesus answered and said unto them, I have done one work, and you
all marvel.
22 Moses therefore gave unto you circumcision; (not because it is of
Moses, but of the fathers;) and you on the sabbath day circumcise
a man.
23 If a man on the sabbath day receive circumcision, that the law of
Moses should not be broken; are you angry at me, because I have made
a man every whit whole on the sabbath day?
24 Judge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous
judgment.
25 Then said some of them of Jerusalem, Is not this he, whom they
seek to kill?
26 But, lo, he speaks boldly, and they say nothing unto him. Do the
rulers know indeed that this is the very Christ?
27 Howbeit we know this man whence he is: but when Christ comes, no
man knows whence he is.
28 Then cried Jesus in the temple as he taught, saying, You both
know me, and you know whence I am: and I am not come of myself, but
he that sent me is true, whom you know not.
29 But I know him: for I am from him, and he has sent me.
30 Then they sought to take him: but no man laid hands on him,
because his hour was not yet come.
31 And many of the people believed on him, and said, When Christ
comes, will he do more miracles than these which this man has done?
32 The Pharisees heard that the people murmured such things
concerning him; and the Pharisees and the chief priests sent
officers to take him.
33 Then said Jesus unto them, Yet a little while am I with you, and
then I go unto him that sent me.
34 You shall seek me, and shall not find me: and where I am, thither
you cannot come.
35 Then said the Jews among themselves, Whither will he go, that we
shall not find him? will he go unto the dispersed among the
Gentiles, and teach the Gentiles?
36 What manner of saying is this that he said, You shall seek me,
and shall not find me: and where I am, thither you cannot come?
37 In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and
cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink.
38 He that believes on me, as the scripture has said, out of his
belly shall flow rivers of living water.
39 (But this spoke he of the Spirit, which they that believe on him
should receive: for the Holy Spirit was not yet given; because that
Jesus was not yet glorified.)
40 Many of the people therefore, when they heard this saying, said,
Of a truth this is the Prophet.
41 Others said, This is the Christ. But some said, Shall Christ come
out of Galilee?
42 Has not the scripture said, That Christ comes of the seed of
David, and out of the town of Bethlehem, where David was?
43 So there was a division among the people because of him.
44 And some of them would have taken him; but no man laid hands on
him.
45 Then came the officers to the chief priests and Pharisees; and
they said unto them, Why have you not brought him?
46 The officers answered, Never man spoke like this man.
47 Then answered them the Pharisees, Are you also deceived?
48 Have any of the rulers or of the Pharisees believed on him?
49 But this people who knows not the law are cursed.
50 Nicodemus said unto them, (he that came to Jesus by night, being
one of them,)
51 Does our law judge any man, before it hear him, and know what he
does?
52 They answered and said unto him, ARE you also of Galilee? Search,
and look: for out of Galilee arises no prophet.
53 And every man went unto his own house.
Chapter 8
1 Jesus went unto the mount of Olives.
2 And early in the morning he came again into the temple, and all
the people came unto him; and he sat down, and taught them.
3 And the scribes and Pharisees brought unto him a woman taken in
adultery; and when they had set her in the midst,
4 They say unto him, Master, this woman was taken in adultery, in
the very act.
5 Now Moses in the law commanded us, that such should be stoned: but
what say you?
6 This they said, tempting him, that they might have to accuse him.
But Jesus stooped down, and with his finger wrote on the ground, as
though he heard them not.
7 So when they continued asking him, he lifted up himself, and
said unto them, He that is without sin among you, let him
first cast a stone at her.
8 And again he stooped down, and wrote on the ground.
9 And they which heard it, being convicted by their own conscience,
went out one by one, beginning at the eldest, even unto the last:
and Jesus was left alone, and the woman standing in the midst.
10 When Jesus had lifted up himself, and saw none but the woman, he
said unto her, Woman, where are those your accusers? has no
man condemned you?
11 She said, No man, Lord. And Jesus said unto her, Neither do
I condemn you: go, and sin no more.
12 Then spoke Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the light of the
world: he that follows me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have
the light of life.
13 The Pharisees therefore said unto him, You bears record of
yourself; your record is not true.
14 Jesus answered and said unto them, though I bear record of
myself, yet my record is true: for I know whence I came, and whither
I go; but you cannot tell whence I come, and whither I go.
15 You judge after the flesh; I judge no man.
16 And yet if I judge, my judgment is true: for I am not alone, but
I and the Father that sent me.
17 It is also written in your law, that the testimony of two men is
true.
18 I am one that bear witness of myself, and the Father that sent me
bears witness of me.
19 Then said they unto him, Where is your Father? Jesus answered,
You neither know me, nor my Father: if you had known me, you should
have known my Father also.
20 These words spoke Jesus in the treasury, as he taught in the
temple: and no man laid hands on him; for his hour was not yet come.
21 Then said Jesus again unto them, I go my way, and you shall seek
me, and shall die in your sins: whither I go, you cannot come.
22 Then said the Jews, Will he kill himself? because he said,
Whither I go, you cannot come.
23 And he said unto them, You are from beneath; I am from above: you
are of this world; I am not of this world.
24 I said therefore unto you, that you shall die in your sins: for
if you believe not that I am he, you shall die in your sins.
25 Then said they unto him, Who ARE you? And Jesus said unto them,
Even the same that I said unto you from the beginning.
26 I have many things to say and to judge of you: but he that sent
me is true; and I speak to the world those things which I have heard
of him.
27 They understood not that he spoke to them of the Father.
28 Then said Jesus unto them, When you have lifted up the Son of
man, then shall you know that I am he, and that I do nothing of
myself; but as my Father has taught me, I speak these things.
29 And he that sent me is with me: the Father has not left me alone;
for I do always those things that please him.
30 As he spoke these words, many believed on him.
31 Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If you
continue in my word, then are you my disciples indeed;
32 And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you
free.
33 They answered him, We be Abraham's seed, and were never in
bondage to any man: how say you, You shall be made free?
34 Jesus answered them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whosoever
commits sin is the servant of sin.
35 And the servant abides not in the house for ever: but the
Son abides ever.
36 If the Son therefore shall make you free, you shall be free
indeed.
37 I know that you are Abraham's seed; but you seek to kill me,
because my word has no place in you.
38 I speak that which I have seen with my Father: and you do that
which you have seen with your father.
39 They answered and said unto him, Abraham is our father. Jesus
said unto them, If you were Abraham's children, you would do the
works of Abraham.
40 But now you seek to kill me, a man that has told you the truth,
which I have heard of God: this did not Abraham.
41 You do the deeds of your father. Then said they to him, We be not
born of fornication; we have one Father, even God.
42 Jesus said unto them, If God were your Father, you would love me:
for I proceeded forth and came from God; neither came I of myself,
but he sent me.
43 Why do you not understand my speech? even because you cannot hear
my word.
44 You are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father
you will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in
the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie,
he speaks of
his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.
45 And because I tell you the truth, you believe me not.
46 Which of you convince me of sin? And if I say the truth, why do
you not believe me?
47 He that is of God hears God's words: you therefore hear them not,
because you are not of God.
48 Then answered the Jews, and said unto him, Say we not well that
you are a Samaritan, and have a devil?
49 Jesus answered, I have not a devil; but I honour my Father, and
you do dishonour me.
50 And I seek not mine own glory: there is one that seeks and
judges.
51 Verily, verily, I say unto you, If a man keep my saying, he shall
never see death.
52 Then said the Jews unto him, Now we know that you have a
devil. Abraham is dead, and the prophets; and you say, If a
man keep my saying, he shall never taste of death.
53 Are you greater than our father Abraham, who is dead? and
the prophets are dead: whom makes you yourself?
54 Jesus answered, If I honour myself, my honour is nothing: it is
my Father that honours me; of whom you say, that he is your
God:
55 Yet you have not known him; but I know him: and if I should say,
I know him not, I shall be a liar like unto you: but I know him,
and keep his saying.
56 Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day: and he saw it, and
was glad.
57 Then said the Jews unto him, You are not yet fifty years old,
and have you seen Abraham?
58 Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Before
Abraham was, I am.
59 Then took they up stones to cast at him: but Jesus hid himself,
and went out of the temple, going through the midst of them, and so
passed by.
9 And as Jesus passed by, he saw a man which was blind from his
birth.
2 And his disciples asked him, saying, Master, who did sin, this
man, or his parents, that he was born blind?
3 Jesus answered, Neither has 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 that sent me, while it is day: the
night comes, when no man can work.
5 As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.
6 When he had thus spoken, he spat on the ground, and made clay of
the spittle, and he anointed the eyes of the blind man with the
clay,
7 And said unto him, Go, wash in the pool of Siloam, (which is by
interpretation, Sent.) He went his way therefore, and washed, and
came seeing.
8 The neighbours therefore, and they which before had seen him that
he was blind, said, Is not this he that sat and begged?
9 Some said, This is he: others said, He is like him: but he said, I
am he.
10 Therefore said they unto him, How were your eyes opened?
11 He answered and said, A man that is called Jesus made clay, and
anointed mine eyes, and said unto me, Go to the pool of Siloam, and
wash: and I went and washed, and I received sight.
12 Then said they unto him, Where is he? He said, I know not.
13 They brought to the Pharisees him that aforetime was blind.
14 And it was the sabbath day when Jesus made the clay, and opened
his eyes.
15 Then again the Pharisees also asked him how he had received his
sight. He said unto them, He put clay upon mine eyes, and I washed,
and do see.
16 Therefore said some of the Pharisees, This man is not of God,
because he keeps not the sabbath day. Others said, How can a man
that is a sinner do such miracles? And there was a division among
them.
17 They say unto the blind man again, What say you of him, that he
has opened your eyes? He said, He is a prophet.
18 But the Jews did not believe concerning him, that he had been
blind, and received his sight, until they called the parents of him
that had received his sight.
19 And they asked them, saying, Is this your son, who you 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 has 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 man did confess that he was
Christ, he should be put out of the synagogue.
23 Therefore said his parents, He is of age; ask him.
24 Then again called they the man that was blind, and said unto him,
Give God the praise: we know that this man is a sinner.
25 He answered and said, Whether he be a sinner or no, I know not:
one thing I know, that, whereas I was blind, now I see.
26 Then said they to him again, What did he to you? how opened he
your eyes?
27 He answered them, I have told you already, and you did not hear:
wherefore would you hear it again? will you also be his disciples?
28 Then they reviled him, and said, You are his disciple; but we are
Moses' disciples.
29 We know that God spoke unto Moses: as for this fellow, we know
not from whence he is.
30 The man answered and said unto them, Why herein is a marvelous
thing, that you know not from whence he is, and yet he has
opened mine eyes.
31 Now we know that God hears not sinners: but if any man be a
worshipper of God, and does his will, him he hears.
32 Since the world began was it not heard that any man opened the
eyes of one that was born blind.
33 If this man were not of God, he could do nothing.
34 They answered and said unto him, You were altogether born in
sins, and do you teach us? And they cast him out.
35 Jesus heard that they had cast him out; and when he had found
him, he said unto him, Do you believe on the Son of God?
36 He answered and said, Who is he, Lord, that I might believe on
him?
37 And Jesus said unto him, You have both seen him, and it is he
that talks with you.
38 And he said, Lord, I believe. And he worshipped him.
39 And Jesus said, For judgment I am come into this world, that they
which see not might see; and that they which see might be made
blind.
40 And some of the Pharisees which were with him heard these words,
and said unto him, Are we blind also?
41 Jesus said unto them, If you were blind, you should have no sin:
but now you say, We see; therefore your sin remains.
10
Verily, verily,
I say unto you,
He that enters not
by the door into
the sheepfold, but
climbs up some other
way, the same is a
thief and a robber.
2 But he that enters in by the door is the shepherd of the
sheep.
3 To him the porter opens; and the sheep hear his voice: and he
Calls his own sheep by name, and leads them out.
4 And when he puts forth his own sheep, he goes before them, and the
sheep follow him: for they know his voice.
5 And a stranger will they not follow, but will flee from him: for
they know not the voice of strangers.
6 This parable spoke Jesus unto them: but they understood not what
things they were which he spoke unto them.
7 Then said Jesus unto them again, Verily, verily, I say unto you, I
am the door of the sheep.
8 All that ever came before me are thieves and robbers: but the
sheep did not hear them.
9 I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and
shall go in and out, and find pasture.
10 The thief comes not,
but for to steal, and to kill, and to
destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might
have it more abundantly.
11 I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd gives his life for the
sheep.
12 But he that is an hireling, and not the shepherd, whose own the
sheep are not, sees the wolf coming, and leaves the sheep, and
flees:
and the wolf catches them, and scatters the sheep.
13 The hireling flees, because he is an hireling, and cares not for
the sheep.
14 I am the good shepherd, and know my sheep, and am known of mine.
15 As the Father knows me, even so know I the Father: and I lay down
my life for the sheep.
16 And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold: them also I
must bring, and they shall hear my voice; and there shall be one
fold, and one shepherd.
17 Therefore does my Father love me, because I lay down my life,
that I might take it again.
18 No man takes it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have
power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This
commandment have I received of my Father.
19 There was a division therefore again among the Jews for these
sayings.
20 And many of them said, He has a devil, and is mad; why hear you
him?
21 Others said, These are not the words of him that has a devil. Can
a devil open the eyes of the blind?
22 And it was at Jerusalem the feast of the dedication, and it was
winter.
23 And Jesus walked in the temple in Solomon's porch.
24 Then came the Jews round about him, and said unto him, How long
do you make us to doubt? If you be the Christ, tell us plainly.
25 Jesus answered them, I told you, and you believed not: the works
that I do in my Father's name, they bear witness of me.
26 But you believe not, because you are not of my sheep, as I said
unto you.
27 My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me;
28 And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish,
neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand.
29 My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is
able to pluck them out of my Father's hand.
30 I and my Father are one.
31 Then the Jews took up stones again to stone him.
32 Jesus answered them, Many good works have I showed you from my
Father; for which of those works do you stone me?
33 The Jews answered him, saying, For a good work we stone you not;
but for blasphemy; and because that you, being a man, make yourself
God.
34 Jesus answered them, Is it not written in your law, I said, You
are gods?
35 If he called them gods, unto whom the word of God came, and the
scripture cannot be broken; .
36 Say you of him, whom the Father has sanctified, and sent into the
world, You blaspheme; because I said, I am the Son of God?
37 If I do not the works of my Father, believe me not.
38 But if I do, though you believe not me, believe the works: that
you may know, and believe, that the Father is in me, and I in him.
39 Therefore they sought again to take him: but he escaped out of
their hand,
40 And went away again beyond Jordan into the place where John at
first baptized; and there he abode.
41 And many resorted unto him, and said, John did no miracle: but
all things that John spoke of this man were true.
42 And many believed on him there.
11
Now a certain man
was sick, named Lazarus,
of Bethany, the town
of Mary and her
sister Martha.
2 (It was that Mary which anointed the Lord with ointment, and wiped
his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick.)
3 Therefore his sisters sent unto him, saying, Lord, behold, he whom
you love is sick.
4 When Jesus heard that, he said, This sickness is not unto death,
but for the glory of God, that the Son of God might be
glorified thereby.
5 Now Jesus loved Martha, and her sister, and Lazarus.
6 When he had heard therefore that he was sick, he abode two days
still in the same place where he was.
7 Then after that said he to his disciples, Let us go into Judaea
again.
8 His disciples say unto him, Master, the Jews of late sought to
stone you; and go you thither again?
9 Jesus answered, Are there not twelve hours in the day? If any man
walk in the day, he stumbles not, because he sees the light of this
world.
10 But if a man walk in the night, he stumbles, because there is no
light in him.
11 These things said he: and after that he said unto them, Our
friend Lazarus sleeps; but I go, that I may awake him out of sleep.
12 Then said his disciples, Lord, if he sleep, he shall do well.
13 Howbeit Jesus spoke of his death: but they thought that he had
spoken of taking of rest in sleep.
14 Then said Jesus unto them plainly, Lazarus is dead.
15 And I am glad for your sakes that I was not there, to the intent
you may believe; nevertheless let us go unto him.
16 Then said Thomas, which is called Didymus, unto his fellow
disciples, Let us also go, that we may die with him.
17 Then when Jesus came, he found that he had lain in the grave four
days already.
18 Now Bethany was nigh unto Jerusalem, about fifteen furlongs off:
19 And many of the Jews came to Martha and Mary, to comfort them
concerning their brother.
20 Then Martha, as soon as she heard that Jesus was coming, went and
met him: but Mary sat still in the house.
21 Then said Martha unto Jesus, Lord, if you had been here, my
brother had not died.
22 But I know, that even now, whatsoever you will ask of God, God
will give it you.
23 Jesus said unto her, Your brother shall rise again.
24 Martha said unto him, I know that he shall rise again in the
resurrection at the last day.
25 Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that
believes in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live;
26 And whosoever lives and believes in me shall never die. Believe
you this?
27 She said unto him, Yea, Lord: I believe that you are the Christ,
the Son of God, which should come into the world.
28 And when she had so said, she went her way, and called Mary her
sister secretly, saying, The Master is come, and calls for
you.
29 As soon as she heard that, she arose quickly, and came unto him.
30 Now Jesus was not yet come into the town, but was in that place
where Martha met him.
31 The Jews then which were with her in the house, and comforted
her, when they saw Mary, that she rose up hastily and went out,
followed her, saying, She goes unto the grave to weep there.
32 Then when Mary was come where Jesus was, and saw him, she fell
down at his feet, saying unto him, Lord, if you had been here, my
brother had not died.
33 When Jesus therefore saw her weeping, and the Jews also weeping
which came with her, he groaned in the spirit, and was troubled,
34 And said, Where have you laid him? They said unto him, Lord, come
and see.
35 Jesus wept.
36 Then said the Jews, Behold how he loved him!
37 And some of them said, Could not this man, which opened the eyes
of the blind, have caused that even this man should not have
died?
38 Jesus therefore again groaning in himself comes to the grave. It
was a cave, and a stone lay upon it.
39 Jesus said, Take you away the stone. Martha, the sister of him
that was dead, said unto him, Lord, by this time he stinks: for he
has been dead four days.
40 Jesus said unto her, Said I not unto you, that, if you would
believe, you should see the glory of God?
41 Then they took away the stone from the place where the dead was
laid. And Jesus lifted up his eyes, and said, Father, I thank you
that you have heard me.
42 And I knew that you hear me always: but because of the people
which stand by I said it, that they may believe that you have sent
me.
43 And when he thus had spoken, he cried with a loud voice, Lazarus,
come forth.
44 And he that was dead came forth, bound hand and foot with
grave clothes :
and his face was bound about with a napkin. Jesus
said unto them, Loose him, and let him go.
45 Then many of the Jews which came to Mary, and had seen the things
which Jesus did, believed on him.
46 But some of them went their ways to the Pharisees, and told them
what things Jesus had done.
47 Then gathered the chief priests and the Pharisees a council, and
said, What do we? for this man does many miracles.
48 If we let him thus alone, all men will believe on him: and the
Romans shall come and take away both our place and nation.
49 And one of them, named Caiaphas, being the high priest that same
year, said unto them, You know nothing at all,
50 Nor consider that it is expedient for us, that one man should die
for the people, and that the whole nation perish not.
51 And this spoke he not of himself: but being high priest that
year, he prophesied that Jesus should die for that nation;
52 And not for that nation only, but that also he should gather
together in one the children of God that were scattered
abroad.
53 Then from that day forth they took counsel together for to put
him to death.
54 Jesus therefore walked no more openly among the Jews; but went
thence unto a country near to the wilderness, into a city called
Ephraim, and there continued with his disciples.
55 And the Jews' passover was nigh at hand: and many went out of the
country up to Jerusalem before the passover, to purify themselves.
56 Then sought they for Jesus, and spoke among themselves, as they
stood in the temple, What think you, that he will not come to the
feast?
57 Now both the chief priests and the Pharisees had given a
commandment, that, if any man knew where he were, he should show it,
that they might take him.
12
Then Jesus six days
before the passover came
to Bethany, where Lazarus
was which had been dead,
whom he raised from the
dead.
2 There they made him a supper; and Martha served: but Lazarus was
one of them that sat at the table with him.
3 Then took Mary a pound of ointment of spikenard, very costly, and
anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his feet with her hair:
and the house was filled with the odour of the ointment.
4 Then said one of his disciples, Judas Iscariot, Simon's son,
which should betray him,
5 Why was not this ointment sold for three hundred pence, and given
to the poor?
6 This he said, not that he cared for the poor; but because he was a
thief, and had the bag, and bare what was put therein.
7 Then said Jesus, Let her alone: against the day of my burying has
she kept this.
8 For the poor always you have with you; but me you have not always.
9 Much people of the Jews therefore knew that he was there: and they
came not for Jesus' sake only, but that they might see Lazarus also,
whom he had raised from the dead.
10 But the chief priests consulted that they might put Lazarus also
to death;
11 Because that by reason of him many of the Jews went away, and
believed on Jesus.
12 On the next day much people that were come to the feast, when
they heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem,
13 Took branches of palm trees, and went forth to meet him, and
cried, Hosanna: Blessed is the King of Israel that comes in
the name of the Lord.
14 And Jesus, when he had found a young ass, sat thereon; as it
is written,
15 Fear not, daughter of Sion: behold, your King comes, sitting on
an ass's colt.
16 These things understood not his disciples at the first: but when
Jesus was glorified, then remembered they that these things were
written of him, and that they had done these things unto him.
17 The people therefore that was with him when he called Lazarus out
of his grave, and raised him from the dead, bare record.
18 For this reason the people also met him, for that they heard that
he had done this miracle.
19 The Pharisees therefore said among themselves, Perceive you how
you prevail nothing? behold, the world is gone after him.
20 And there were certain Greeks among them that came up to worship
at the feast;
21 The same came therefore to Philip, which was of Bethsaida of
Galilee, and desired him, saying, Sir, we would see Jesus.
22 Philip comes and tells Andrew: and again Andrew and Philip tell
Jesus.
23 And Jesus answered them, saying, The hour is come, that the Son
of man should be glorified.
24 Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a corn of wheat fall into
the ground and die, it abides alone: but if it die, it brings forth
much fruit.
25 He that loves his life shall lose it; and he that hates his life
in this world shall keep it unto life eternal.
26 If any man serve me, let him follow me; and where I am, there
shall also my servant be: if any man serve me, him will my Father
honour.
27 Now is my soul troubled; and what shall I say? Father, save me
from this hour: but for this cause came I unto this hour.
28 Father, glorify your name. Then came there a voice from heaven,
saying, I have both glorified it, and will glorify it again.
29 The people therefore, that stood by, and heard it, said that it
thundered: others said, An angel spoke to him.
30 Jesus answered and said, This voice came not because of me, but
for your sakes.
31 Now is the judgment of this world: now shall the prince of this
world be cast out.
32 And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto
me.
33 This he said, signifying what death he should die.
34 The people answered him, We have heard out of the law that Christ
abides for ever: and how say you, The Son of man must be lifted up?
who is this Son of man?
35 Then Jesus said unto them, Yet a little while is the light with
you. Walk while you have the light, lest darkness come upon you: for
he that walks in darkness knows not whither he goes.
36 While you have light, believe in the light, that you may be the
children of light. These things spoke Jesus, and departed, and did
hide himself from them.
37 But though he had done so many miracles before them, yet they
believed not on him;
38 That the saying of Esaias the prophet might be fulfilled, which
he spoke, Lord, who has believed our report? and to whom has the arm
of the Lord been revealed?
39 Therefore they could not believe, because that Esaias said again,
40 He has blinded their eyes, and hardened their heart; that they
should not see with their eyes, nor
understand with their heart, and be converted, and I should heal
them.
41 These things said Esaias, when he saw his glory, and spoke of
him.
42 Nevertheless among the chief rulers also many believed on him;
but because of the Pharisees they did not confess him, lest they
should be put out of the synagogue;
43 For they loved the praise of men more than the praise of God.
44 Jesus cried and said, He that believes on me, believes not on me,
but on him that sent me.
45 And he that sees me sees him that sent me.
46 I am come a light into the world, that whosoever believes on me
should not abide in darkness.
47 And if any man hear my words, and believe not, I judge him not:
for I came not to judge the world, but to save the world.
48 He that rejects me, and receives not my words, has one that
judges him: the word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him in
the last day.
49 For I have not spoken of myself; but the Father which sent me, he
gave me a commandment, what I should say, and what I should speak.
50 And I know that his commandment is life everlasting: whatsoever I
speak therefore, even as the Father said unto me, so I speak.
13
Now before the feast of the passover, when Jesus knew that
his hour was come that he should depart out of this world unto the
Father, having loved his own which were in the world, he loved them
unto the end.
2 And supper being ended, the devil having now put into the heart of
Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, to betray him;
3 Jesus knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands,
and that he was come from God, and went to God;
4 He rises from supper, and laid aside his garments; and took a
towel, and girded himself.
5 After that he pours water into a bason, and began to wash the
disciples' feet, and to wipe them with the towel wherewith he was
girded.
6 Then comes he to Simon Peter: and Peter said unto him, Lord, do
you wash my feet?
7 Jesus answered and said unto him, What I do you know not now; but
you shall know hereafter.
8 Peter said unto him, You shall never wash my feet. Jesus answered
him, If I wash you not, you have no part with me.
9 Simon Peter said unto him, Lord, not my feet only, but also my
hands and my head.
10 Jesus said to him, He that is washed needs not save to wash his
feet, but is clean every whit: and you are clean, but not all.
11 For he knew who should betray him; therefore said he, You are not
all clean.
12 So after he had washed their feet, and had taken his garments,
and was set down again, he said unto them, Know you what I have done
to you?
13 You call me Master and Lord: and you say well; for so I am.
14 If I then, your Lord and Master, have washed your feet; you also
ought to wash one another's feet.
15 For I have given you an example, that you should do as I have
done to you.
16 Verily, verily, I say unto you, The servant is not greater than
his lord; neither he that is sent greater than he that sent him.
17 If you know these things, happy are you if you do them.
18 I speak not of you all: I know whom I have chosen: but that the
scripture may be fulfilled, He that eats bread with me has lifted up
his heel against me.
19 Now I tell you before it come, that, when it is come to pass,
you may believe that I am he.
20 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that receives whomsoever I
send receives me; and he that receives me receives him that sent me.
21 When Jesus had thus said, he was troubled in spirit, and
testified, and said, Verily, verily, I say unto you, that one of you
shall betray me.
22 Then the disciples looked one on another, doubting of whom he
spoke.
23 Now there was leaning on Jesus' bosom one of his disciples,
whom Jesus loved.
24 Simon Peter therefore beckoned to him, that he should ask who
it should be of whom he spoke.
25 He then lying on Jesus' breast said unto him, Lord, who is it?
26 Jesus answered, He it is, to whom I shall give a sop, when I have
dipped it. And when he had dipped the sop, he gave it to Judas
Iscariot, the son of Simon.
27 And after the sop Satan entered into him. Then said Jesus unto
him, That you do, do quickly.
28 Now no man at the table knew for what intent he spoke this unto
him.
29 For some of them thought, because Judas had the bag, that Jesus
had said unto him, Buy those things that we have need of against the
feast; or, that he should give something to the poor.
30 He then having received the sop went immediately out: and it was
night.
31 Therefore, when he was gone out, Jesus said, Now is the Son of
man glorified, and God is glorified in him.
32 If God be glorified in him, God shall also glorify him in
himself, and shall straightway glorify him.
33 Little children, yet a little while I am with you. You shall seek
me: and as I said unto the Jews, Whither I go, you cannot come; so
now I say to you.
34 A new commandment I give unto you, That you love one another; as
I have loved you, that you also love one another.
35 By this shall all men know that you are my disciples, if you have
love one to another.
36 Simon Peter said unto him, Lord, whither go you? Jesus answered
him, Whither I go, you can not follow me now; but you shall
follow me afterwards.
37 Peter said unto him, Lord, why cannot I follow you now? I will
lay down my life for your sake.
38 Jesus answered him, Will you lay down your life for my sake?
Verily, verily, I say unto you, The cock shall not crow, till you
have denied me thrice.
14
Let not your heart
be troubled: you believe
in God, believe also
in me.
2 In my Father's house
are many mansions: if
it were not so,
I would have told
you. I go to prepare
a place for you.
3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and
receive you unto myself; that where I am, there you may be also.
4 And whither I go you know, and the way you know.
5 Thomas said unto him, Lord, we know not whither you go; and how
can we know the way?
6 Jesus said unto him,
I am the way,
the truth, and the
life:
no man comes unto
the Father, but by me.
7 If you had known me, you should have known my Father also: and
from henceforth you know him, and have seen him.
8 Philip said unto him, Lord, show us the Father, and it suffices
us.
9 Jesus said unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and yet
have you not known me, Philip? he that
has seen me has seen the Father; and how say you then, Show us the
Father?
10 Believe you not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me?
the words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the
Father that dwells in me, he does the works.
11 Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father in me: or else
believe me for the very works' sake.
12 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believes on me, the works
that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he
do; because I go unto my Father.
13 And whatsoever you shall ask in my name, that will I do, that the
Father may be glorified in the Son.
14 If you shall ask any thing in my name, I will do it.
15 If you love me, keep my commandments.
16 And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another
Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever;
17 Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because
it sees him not, neither knows him: but you know him; for he dwells
with you, and shall be in you.
18 I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you.
19 Yet a little while, and the world sees me no more; but you see
me: because I live, you shall live also.
20 At that day you shall know that I am in my Father, and you in me,
and I in you.
21 He that has my commandments, and keeps them, he it is that loves
me: and he that loves me shall be loved of my Father, and I will
love him, and will manifest myself to him.
22 Judas said unto him, not Iscariot, Lord, how is it that you will
manifest yourself unto us, and not unto the world?
23 Jesus answered and said unto him,
If a man love me, he will keep
my words: and my Father will
love him, and we will come
unto him, and make our abode
with him.
24 He that loves me not keeps
not my sayings: and the word
which you hear is not mine,
but the Father's which sent me.
25 These things have I spoken
unto you, being yet present
with you.
26 But the Comforter, which is
the Holy Spirit, whom the Father
will send in my name, he shall
teach you all things, and bring
all things to your remembrance,
whatsoever I have said unto you.
27 Peace I leave with you,
my peace I give unto you:
not as the world gives,
give I unto you.
Let not your heart be troubled,
neither let it be afraid.
28 You have heard how I said
unto you, I go away,
and come again unto you.
If you loved me, you would
rejoice, because I said, I go
unto the Father: for my Father
is greater than I.
29 And now I have told you before it come to pass, that, when it is
come to pass, you might believe.
30 Hereafter I will not talk much with you: for the prince of this
world comes, and has nothing in me.
31 But that the world may know that I love the Father; and as the
Father gave me commandment, even so I do. Arise, let us go
hence.
CHAPTER 15
1 I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman.
2 Every branch in me that bears not fruit he takes away: and every
branch that bears fruit, he purges it, that it may bring forth
more fruit.
3 Now you are clean through the word which I have spoken unto
you.
4 Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of
itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can you, except you
abide in me.
5 I am the vine, you are the branches: He that abides in me, and I
in him, the same brings forth much fruit: for without me you can do
nothing.
6 If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is
withered; and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they
are burned.
7 If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, you shall ask what
you will, and it shall be done unto you.
8 Herein is my Father glorified, that you bear much fruit; so shall
you be my disciples.
9 As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you: continue you in
my love.
10 If you keep my commandments, you shall abide in my love; even as
I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love.
11 These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy might remain in
you, and that your joy might be full.
12 This is my commandment, That you love one another, as I have
loved you.
13 Greater love has no man than this, that a man lay down his life
for his friends.
14 You are my friends, if you do whatsoever I command you.
15 Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knows not
what his lord does: but I have called you friends; for all things
that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you.
16 You have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you,
that you should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should
remain: that whatsoever you shall ask of the Father in my name,
he may give it you.
17 These things I command you, that you love one another.
18 If the world hate you, you know that it hated me before it hated
you.
19 If you were of the world, the world would love his own: but
because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the
world, therefore the world hates you.
20 Remember the word that I said unto you, The servant is not
greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also
persecute you; if they have kept my saying, they will keep yours
also.
21 But all these things will they do unto you for my name's sake,
because they know not him that sent me.
22 If I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not had sin: but
now they have no cloke for their sin.
23 He that hates me hates my Father also.
24 If I had not done among them the works which none other man did,
they had not had sin: but now have they both seen and hated both me
and my Father.
25 But this comes to pass, that the word might be fulfilled that is
written in their law, They hated me without a cause.
26 But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from
the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceeds from the
Father, he shall testify of me;
27 And you also shall bear witness, because you have been with me
from the beginning.
CChapter 16
1 These things have I spoken unto you,
that you should not be offended.
2 They shall put you out of
the synagogues: yea, the time comes,
that whosoever kills you will
think that he does God service.
3 And these things will they do unto you, because they have not
known the Father, nor me.
4 But these things have I told you, that when the time shall come,
you may remember that I told you of them. And these things I said
not unto you at the beginning, because I was with you.
5 But now I go my way to him that sent me; and none of you asks me,
Whither go you?
6 But because I have said these things unto you, sorrow has filled
your heart.
7 Nevertheless I tell you the truth; It is expedient for you that I
go away: for if I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you;
but if I depart, I will send him unto you.
8 And when he is come, he will reprove the world of sin, and of
righteousness, and of judgment;
9 Of sin, because they believe not on me; .
10 Of righteousness, because I go to my Father, and you see me no
more;
11 Of judgment, because the prince of this world is judged.
12 I have yet many things to say unto you, but you cannot bear
them now.
13 Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you
into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he
shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will show you things to
come.
14 He shall glorify me: for he shall receive of mine, and shall show
it unto you.
15 All things that the Father has are mine: therefore said I, that
he shall take of mine, and shall show it unto you.
16 A little while, and you shall not see me: and again, a little
while, and you shall see me, because I go to the Father.
17 Then said some of his disciples among themselves, What is this
that he said unto us, A little while, and you shall not see me: and
again, a little while, and you shall see me: and, Because I go to
the Father?
18 They said therefore, What is this that he said, A little while?
we cannot tell what he said.
19 Now Jesus knew that they were desirous to ask him, and said unto
them, Do you inquire among yourselves of that I said, A little
while, and you shall not see me: and again, a little while, and you
shall see me?
20 Verily, verily, I say unto you, That you shall weep and lament,
but the world shall rejoice: and you shall be sorrowful, but your
sorrow shall be turned into joy.
21 A woman when she is in travail has sorrow, because her hour is
come: but as soon as she is delivered of the child, she remembers no
more
the anguish, for joy that a man is born into the world.
22 And you now therefore have sorrow: but I will see you again, and
your heart shall rejoice, and your joy no man takes from you.
23 And in that day you shall ask me nothing. Verily, verily, I say
unto you, Whatsoever you shall ask the Father in my name, he will
give it you.
24 Hitherto have you asked nothing in my name: ask, and you shall
receive, that your joy may be full.
25 These things have I spoken unto you in proverbs: but the time
comes, when I shall no more speak unto you in proverbs, but I shall
show you plainly of the Father.
26 At that day you shall ask in my name: and I say not unto you,
that I will pray the Father for you;
27 For the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me, and
have believed that I came out from God.
28 I came forth from the Father, and am come into the world: again,
I leave the world, and go to the Father.
29 His disciples said unto him, Lo, now speak you plainly, and speak
no proverb.
30 Now are we sure that you know all things, and need not that any
man should ask you: by this we believe that you came forth from God.
31 Jesus answered them, Do you now believe?
32 Behold, the hour comes, yea, is now come, that you shall be
scattered, every man to his own, and shall leave me alone: and yet I
am not alone, because the Father is with me.
33 These things I have spoken unto you, that in me you might have
peace. In the world you shall have tribulation: but be of good
cheer; I have overcome the world.
17 These words spoke Jesus, and lifted up his eyes to heaven,
and said, Father, the hour is come; glorify your Son, that your Son
also may glorify you;
2 As you have given him power over all flesh, that he should give
eternal life to as many as you have given him.
3 And this is life eternal, that they might know you the only true
God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent.
4 I have glorified you on the earth: I have finished the work which
you gave me to do.
5 And now, O Father, glorify you me with your own self with the
glory which I had with you before the world was.
6 I have manifested your name unto the men which you gave me out of
the world: yours they were, and you gave them me; and they have kept
your word.
7 Now they have known that all things whatsoever you have given me
are of you.
8 For I have given unto them the words which you gave me; and they
have received them, and have known surely that I came out from you,
and they have believed that you did send me.
9 I pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for them which you
have given me; for they are yours.
10 And all mine are yours, and yours are mine; and I am glorified in
them.
11 And now I am no more in the world, but these are in the world,
and I come to you. Holy Father, keep through your own name those
whom you have given me, that they may be one, as we are.
12 While I was with them in the world, I kept them in your name:
those that you gave me I have kept, and none of them is lost, but
the son of perdition; that the scripture might be fulfilled.
13 And now come I to you; and these things I speak in the world,
that they might have my joy fulfilled in themselves.
14 I have given them your word; and the world has hated them,
because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
15 I pray not that you should take them out of the world, but that
you should keep them from the evil.
16 They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
17 Sanctify them through your truth: your word is truth.
18 As you have sent me into the world, even so have I also sent them
into the world.
19 And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also might
be sanctified through the truth.
20 Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall
believe on me through their word; .
21 That they all may be one; as you, Father, ARE in me, and I in
you, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe
that you have sent me.
22 And the glory which you gave me I have given them; that they may
be one, even as we are one;
23 I in them, and you in me, that they may be made perfect in one;
and that the world may know that you
have sent me, and have loved them, as you have loved me.
24 Father, I will that they also, whom you have given me, be with me
where I am; that they may behold my glory, which you have given me:
for you loved me before the foundation of the world.
25 O righteous Father, the world has not known you: but I have known
you, and these have known that you have sent me.
26 And I have declared unto them your name, and will declare it:
that the love wherewith you have loved me may be in them, and I in
them.
18 When Jesus had spoken these words, he went forth with his
disciples over the brook Cedron, where was a garden, into the which
he entered, and his disciples.
2 And Judas also, which betrayed him, knew the place: for Jesus
oftentimes resorted thither with his disciples.
3 Judas then, having received a band of men and officers from the
chief priests and Pharisees, come thither with lanterns and torches
and weapons.
4 Jesus therefore, knowing all things that should come upon him,
went forth, and said unto them, Whom seek you?
5 They answered him, Jesus of Nazareth. Jesus said unto them, I am
he. And Judas also, which betrayed him, stood with them.
6 As soon then as he had said unto them, I am he, they went
backward, and fell to the ground.
7 Then asked he them again, Whom seek you? And they said, Jesus of
Nazareth.
8 Jesus answered, I have told you that I am he: if therefore you
seek me, let these go their way;
9 That the saying might be fulfilled, which he spoke, Of them which
you gave me have I lost none.
10 Then Simon Peter having a sword drew it, and smote the high
priest's servant, and cut off his right ear. The servant's name
was Malchus.
11 Then said Jesus unto Peter, Put up your sword into the sheath:
the cup which my Father has given me, shall I not drink it?
12 Then the band and the captain and officers of the Jews took
Jesus, and bound him,
13 And led him away to Annas first; for he was father in law to
Caiaphas, which was the high priest that same year.
14 Now Caiaphas was he, which gave counsel to the Jews, that it
was expedient that one man should die for the people.
15 And Simon Peter followed Jesus, and so did another disciple: that
disciple was known unto the high priest, and went in with Jesus into
the palace of the high priest.
16 But Peter stood at the door without. Then went out that other
disciple, which was known unto the high priest, and spoke unto her
that kept the door, and brought in Peter.
17 Then said the damsel that kept the door unto Peter, ARE not you
also one of this man's disciples? He said, I am not.
18 And the servants and officers stood there, who had made a fire of
coals; for it was cold: and they warmed themselves: and Peter stood
with them, and warmed himself.
19 The high priest then asked Jesus of his disciples, and of his
doctrine.
20 Jesus answered him, I spoke openly to the world; I ever taught in
the synagogue, and in the temple, whither the Jews always resort;
and in secret have I said nothing.
21 Why ask you me? ask them which heard me, what I have said unto
them: behold, they know what I said.
22 And when he had thus spoken, one of the officers which stood by
struck Jesus with the palm of his hand, saying, Answer you the high
priest so?
23 Jesus answered him, If I have spoken evil, bear witness of the
evil: but if well, why smite you me?
24 Now Annas had sent him bound unto Caiaphas the high priest.
25 And Simon Peter stood and warmed himself. They said therefore
unto him, ARE not you also one of his disciples? He denied it, and
said, I am not.
26 One of the servants of the high priest, being his kinsman whose
ear Peter cut off, said, Did not I see you in the garden with
him?
27 Peter then denied again: and immediately the cock crew.
28 Then led they Jesus from Caiaphas unto the hall of judgment: and
it was early; and they themselves went not into the judgment hall,
lest they should be defiled; but that they might eat the
passover.
29 Pilate then went out unto them, and said, What accusation bring
you against this man?
30 They answered and said unto him, If he were not a malefactor, we
would not have delivered him up unto you.
31 Then said Pilate unto them, Take you him, and judge him according
to your law. The Jews therefore said unto him, It is not lawful for
us to put any man to death;
32 That the saying of Jesus might be fulfilled, which he spoke,
signifying what death he should die.
33 Then Pilate entered into the judgment hall again, and called
Jesus, and said unto him, ARE you the King of the Jews?
34 Jesus answered him, Say you this thing of yourself, or did others
tell it you of me?
35 Pilate answered, Am I a Jew? Your own nation and the chief
priests have delivered you unto me: what have you done?
36 Jesus answered, My kingdom is not of this world: if my kingdom
were of this world, then would my servants fight, that I should not
be delivered to the Jews: but now is my kingdom not from hence.
37 Pilate therefore said unto him, ARE you a king then? Jesus
answered, You say that I am a king. To this end was I born, and for
this cause came I into the world, that I should bear witness unto
the truth. Every one that is of the truth hear my voice.
38 Pilate said unto him, What is truth? And when he had said this,
he went out again unto the Jews, and said unto them, I find in him
no fault at all.
39 But you have a custom, that I should release unto you one at the
passover: will you therefore that I release unto you the King of the
Jews?
40 Then cried they all again, saying, Not this man, but Barabbas.
Now Barabbas was a robber.
19 Then Pilate therefore took Jesus, and scourged him.
2 And the soldiers platted a crown of thorns, and put it on his
head, and they put on him a purple robe,
3 And said, Hail, King of the Jews! and they smote him with
their hands.
4 Pilate therefore went forth again, and said unto them, Behold,
I bring him forth to you, that you may know that I find no
fault in him.
5 Then came Jesus forth, wearing the crown of thorns, and the purple
robe. And Pilate said unto them, Behold the man!
6 When the chief priests therefore and officers saw him, they cried
out, saying, Crucify him, crucify him. Pilate said unto them, Take
you him, and crucify him: for I find no fault in him.
7 The Jews answered him, We have a law, and by our law he ought to
die, because he made himself the Son of God.
8 When Pilate therefore heard that saying, he was the more afraid;
9 And went again into the judgment hall, and said unto Jesus, Whence
are you? But Jesus gave him no answer.
10 Then said Pilate unto him, Speak you not unto me? know you not
that I have power to crucify you, and have power to release you?
11 Jesus answered, You could have no power at all against me, except
it were given you from above: therefore he that delivered me unto
you has the greater sin.
12 And from thenceforth Pilate sought to release him: but the Jews
cried out, saying, If you let this man go, you are not Caesar's
friend: whosoever make himself a king speak against Caesar.
13 When Pilate therefore heard that saying, he brought Jesus forth,
and sat down in the judgment seat in a place that is called the
Pavement, but in the Hebrew, Gabbatha.
14 And it was the preparation of the passover, and about the sixth
hour: and he said unto the Jews, Behold your King!
15 But they cried out, Away with him, away with him, crucify him.
Pilate said unto them, Shall I crucify your King? The chief priests
answered, We have no king but Caesar.
16 Then delivered he him therefore unto them to be crucified. And
they took Jesus, and led him away.
17 And he bearing his cross went forth into a place called the place
of a skull, which is called in the Hebrew Golgotha;
18 Where they crucified him, and two other with him, on either side
one, and Jesus in the midst.
19 And Pilate wrote a title, and put it on the cross. And the
writing was, JESUS OF NAZARETH THE KING OF THE JEWS.
20 This title then read many of the Jews: for the place where Jesus
was crucified was nigh to the city: and it was written in Hebrew,
and Greek, and Latin.
21 Then said the chief priests of the Jews to Pilate, Write not, The
King of the Jews; but that he said, I am King of the Jews.
22 Pilate answered, What I have written I have written.
23 Then the soldiers, when they had crucified Jesus, took his
garments, and made four parts, to every soldier a part; and also his
coat: now the coat was without seam, woven from the top throughout.
24 They said therefore among themselves, Let us not rend it, but
cast lots for it, whose it shall be: that the scripture might be
fulfilled, which said, They parted my raiment among them, and for my
vesture they did cast lots. These things therefore the soldiers did.
25 Now there stood by the cross of Jesus his mother, and his
mother's sister, Mary the wife of Cleophas, and Mary Magdalene.
26 When Jesus therefore saw his mother, and the disciple standing
by, whom he loved, he said unto his mother, Woman, behold your son!
27 Then said he to the disciple, Behold your mother! And from that
hour that disciple took her unto his own home.
28 After this, Jesus knowing that all things were now accomplished,
that the scripture might be fulfilled, said, I thirst.
29 Now there was set a vessel full of vinegar: and they filled a
spunge with vinegar, and put it upon hyssop, and put it to his
mouth.
30 When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, It
is finished: and he bowed his head, and gave up the ghost.
31 The Jews therefore, because it was the preparation, that the
bodies should not remain upon the cross on the sabbath day, (for
that sabbath day was an high day,) besought Pilate that their legs
might be broken, and that they might be taken away.
32 Then came the soldiers, and brake the legs of the first, and of
the other which was crucified with him.
33 But when they came to Jesus, and saw that he was dead already,
they brake not his legs;
34 But one of the soldiers with a spear pierced his side, and
forthwith came there out blood and water.
35 And he that saw it bare record, and his record is true: and he
knows that he said is true, that you might believe.
36 For these things were done, that the scripture should be
fulfilled, A bone of him shall not be broken.
37 And again another scripture said, They shall look on him whom
they pierced.
38 And after this Joseph of Arimathaea, being a disciple of Jesus,
but secretly for fear of the Jews, besought Pilate that he might
take away the body of Jesus: and Pilate gave him leave. He
came therefore, and took the body of Jesus.
39 And there came also Nicodemus, which at the first came to Jesus
by night, and brought a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about an hundred
pound weight.
40 Then took they the body of Jesus, and wound it in linen clothes
with the spices, as the manner of the Jews is to bury.
41 Now in the place where he was crucified there was a garden; and
in the garden a new sepulchre, wherein was never man yet laid.
42 There laid they Jesus therefore because of the Jews' preparation
day; for the sepulchre was nigh at hand.
Chapter 20
The first day of the week came Mary Magdalene early, when it was
yet dark, unto the sepulchre, and saw the stone taken away from the
sepulchre.
2 Then she ran, and came to Simon Peter, and to the other disciple,
whom Jesus loved, and said unto them, They have taken away the Lord
out of the sepulchre, and we know not where they have laid him.
3 Peter therefore went forth, and that other disciple, and came to
the sepulchre.
4 So they ran both together: and the other disciple did outrun
Peter, and came first to the sepulchre.
5 And he stooping down, and looking in, saw the linen clothes lying;
yet went he not in.
6 Then came Simon Peter following him, and went into the sepulchre,
and saw the linen clothes lie,
7 And the napkin, that was about his head, not lying with the linen
clothes, but wrapped together in a place by itself.
8 Then went in also that other disciple, which came first to the
sepulchre, and he saw, and believed.
9 For as yet they knew not the scripture, that he must rise again
from the dead.
10 Then the disciples went away again unto their own home.
11 But Mary stood without at the sepulchre weeping: and as she wept,
she stooped down, and looked into the sepulchre,
12 And saw two angels in white sitting, the one at the head, and the
other at the feet, where the body of Jesus had lain.
13 And they say unto her, Woman, why weep you? She said unto them,
Because they have taken away my Lord, and I know not where they have
laid him.
14 And when she had thus said, she turned herself back, and saw
Jesus standing, and knew not that it was Jesus.
15 Jesus said unto her, Woman, why weep you? whom seek you? She,
supposing him to be the gardener, said unto him, Sir, if you have
borne him hence, tell me where you have laid him, and I will take
him away.
16 Jesus said unto her, Mary. She turned herself, and said unto him,
Rabboni; which is to say, Master.
17 Jesus said unto her, Touch me not; for I am not yet ascended to
my Father: but go to my brethren, and say unto them, I ascend
unto my Father, and your Father; and to my God, and your God.
18 Mary Magdalene came and told the disciples that she had seen
the Lord, and that he had spoken these things unto her.
19 Then the same day at evening, being the first day of the week,
when the doors were shut where the disciples were assembled for fear
of the Jews, came Jesus and stood in the midst, and said unto them,
Peace be unto you.
20 And when he had so said, he showed unto them his hands and his
side. Then were the disciples glad, when they saw the Lord.
21 Then said Jesus to them again, Peace be unto you: as my Father
has sent me, even so send I you.
22 And when he had said this, he breathed on them, and said unto
them, Receive you the Holy Spirit;
23 Whose soever sins you remit, they are remitted unto them; and
whose soever sins you retain, they are retained.
24 But Thomas, one of the twelve, called Didymus, was not with them
when Jesus came.
25 The other disciples therefore said unto him, We have seen the
Lord. But he said unto them, Except I shall see in his hands the
print of the nails, and put my finger into the print of the nails,
and thrust my hand into his side, I will not believe.
26 And after eight days again his disciples were within, and Thomas
with them: then came Jesus, the doors being shut, and stood in the
midst, and said, Peace be unto you.
27 Then said he to Thomas, Reach hither your finger, and behold my
hands; and reach hither your hand, and thrust it into my side: and
be not faithless, but believing.
28 And Thomas answered and said unto him, My Lord and my God.
29 Jesus said unto him, Thomas, because you have seen me, you have
believed: blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have
believed .
30 And many other signs truly did Jesus in the presence of his
disciples, which are not written in this book;
31 But these are written, that you might believe that Jesus is the
Christ, the Son of God; and that believing you might have life
through his name.
Chapter 21
1 After these things Jesus showed himself
again to the disciples at
the sea of Tiberias; and on
this wise showed he himself.
2 There were together Simon Peter,
and Thomas called Didymus, and
Nathanael of Cana in Galilee,
and the sons of Zebedee,
and two other of his disciples.
3 Simon Peter said unto them,
I go a fishing.
They say unto him, We also
go with you. They went forth,
and entered into a ship
immediately; and that night they
caught nothing.
4 But when the morning was now
come, Jesus stood on the shore: but
the disciples knew not that
it was Jesus.
5 Then Jesus said unto them,
Children, have you any meat? They
answered him, No.
6 And he said unto them,
Cast the net on the right
side of the ship,
and you shall find. They cast
therefore, and now they were not able
to draw it for the multitude
of fishes.
7 Therefore that disciple whom Jesus
loved said unto Peter, It is
the Lord. Now when Simon Peter
heard that it was the Lord,
he girt his fisher's coat
unto him, (for he was naked,) and did cast
himself into the sea.
8 And the other disciples came in a little ship; (for they were not
far from land, but as it were two hundred cubits,) dragging the net
with fishes.
9 As soon then as they were come to land, they saw a fire of coals
there, and fish laid thereon, and bread.
10 Jesus said unto them, Bring of the fish which you have now
caught.
12 Jesus said unto them,
Come and dine. And none of the
disciples did ask him,
Who are you?
knowing that it was the
Lord.
13 Jesus then comes, and takes bread, and gives them, and fish
likewise.
14 This is now the third time that Jesus showed himself to his
disciples, after that he was risen from the dead.
15 So when they had dined, Jesus said to Simon Peter, Simon, son of
Jonas, love you me more than these? He said unto him, Yea, Lord; you
know that I love you. He said unto him, Feed my lambs.
16 He said to him again the second time, Simon, son of Jonas,
love you me? He said unto him, Yea, Lord; you know that I love
you. He said unto him, Feed my sheep.
17 He said unto him the third
time, Simon, son of Jonas,
love you me? Peter was grieved
because he said unto him the
third time, Love you me?
And he said unto him,
Lord, you know all things;
you know that I love you.
Jesus said unto him,
Feed my sheep.
18 Verily, verily, I say unto you, When you were young, you girded
yourself, and walked whither you would: but when you shall be old,
you shall stretch forth your hands, and another shall gird you, and
carry you whither you would not.
19 This spoke he, signifying by what death he should glorify God.
And when he had spoken this, he said unto him, Follow me.
20 Then Peter, turning about, saw the disciple whom Jesus loved
following; which also leaned on his breast at supper, and said,
Lord, which is he that betrayed you?
21 Peter seeing him said to Jesus, Lord, and what shall this man do?
22 Jesus said unto him, If I will that he tarry till I come, what is
that to you? follow you me.
23 Then went this saying abroad among the brethren, that that
disciple should not die: yet Jesus said not unto him, He shall not
die; but,
If I will that he tarry till I come, what is that to you?
24 This is the disciple which testifies of these things, and wrote
these things: and we know that his testimony is true.
25 And there are also many other things which Jesus did, the which,
if they should be written every one, I suppose that even the world
itself could not contain the books that should be written. Amen.
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Title : THE LOVE BIBLE
(The Gospel of Jesus Christ
according to John )
Author: Anthony Ing
Publisher: Good News Publishing
paperback ISBN-10 0-921947-73-9