The Holy Joyful News according to John

Chapter One

In the beginning there was the Word, and the Word was with God and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. Through him everything came into being, and without him nothing came into being, not even one thing which came into being. In him there was life and the life was the Light of men. And the Light appears in the darkness, and the darkness did not overcome it.

There came a man, sent from God, his name John. He came for a witness so that he might witness about the Light, so that all might believe through him. He was not the Light but so that he might testify about the Light, which was the true Light, he who gives light to every person coming into the world. He was in the world and the world through him had come into being, and the world did not know him. He came to his own and his own did not receive him, but as many as did receive him, to them he gave authority to become children of God, to those who believe in his name, who were not born of blood, nor of the desire of flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.

And the Word became flesh, and lived among us, and we looked on his glory, a glory like the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth.

John bears witness about him and cried out saying,

"This was he of whom I said, 'The one coming after me has precedence over me, for before me he was.'"

And of his fullness we have all received and grace on grace. For the law was given through Moses; grace and the truth came through Jesus Christ. No one has seen God at any time, the only begotten Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, he has made him known. And this is the witness of John, when the Jews sent from Jerusalem priests and Levites so that they might ask him 'Who are you?'

And he confessed and did not deny and confessed,

"I am not the Christ!"

And they asked him,

"What then? Are you Elijah?"

And he says,

"I am not!"

"Are you the prophet?"

And he answered,

"No!"

So they said to him,

"Who are you? So that we may give an answer to those who sent us. What do you say about yourself?"

He said,

"Me? A voice crying in the desert, 'Make straight the way of the Lord' as the prophet Isaiah said."

And the ones who had been sent were of the Pharisees. And they asked him and said to him,

"Why then are you baptising if you are not the Christ neither Elijah nor the prophet?"

John answered them saying,

"I'm baptising in water but in among you is standing one who you don't know, it's he who is coming after me, who takes precedence before me, of whom I'm not worthy that I should loose the thong of his shoe."

These things took place in Bethabra across the Jordan where John was baptising.

On the next day John sees Jesus coming to him and says,

"Look! The Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world! He it is about whom I said 'After me there's coming a man who takes precedence before me because before me, he was.' And I didn't know him but so that he might appear to Israel, for this, I came baptising with water."

And John testified saying,

"I saw the Spirit coming down as a dove out of heaven and it remained on him. And I didn't know him, but he who sent me to baptise with water, that one said to me 'On whom you see the Spirit coming down and staying on him, he it is who baptises with the Holy Spirit.' And I saw and have testified that this is the Son of God!"

The next day again John was standing and two of his disciples. And looking at Jesus walking he says,

"Look! The Lamb of God!"

And the two disciples heard him speaking and they followed Jesus. But Jesus having turned and seeing them following says to them,

"What are you looking for?"

And they said to him,

"Rabbi!" which is to say, being interpreted, "Teacher!" "Where do you live?"

He says to them,

"Come and see!"

They went and saw where he is living and they stayed with him that day for it was about the tenth hour.

Andrew, Simon Peter's brother, was one of the two who heard from John, and followed him. First he finds his own brother Simon and says to him,

"We've found the Messiah!" which is, being interpreted, "The Christ."

And he led him to Jesus. And looking at him Jesus said,

"You are Simon, the son of Jonah, you will be called Cephas," which is interpreted "a rock".

The next day Jesus wanted to go off into Galilee, and he finds Philip and says to him,

"Follow me!"

Now Philip was from Bethsaida, out of Andrew and Peter's town. Philip finds Nathanael and says to him,

"We've found Jesus the son of Joseph from Nazareth, of whom Moses wrote in the law and of whom the prophets wrote".

And Nathanael said to him,

"Can there be any good thing out of Nazareth?"

Philip says to him,

"Come and see!"

Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him and says about him,

"Look, truly an Israelite in whom there is no deceit."

Nathanael says to him,

"From where do you know me?"

And Jesus said to him,

"Before Philip called to you, you being under the fig tree, I saw you!"

Nathanael answered and says to him,

" Rabbi! You are the Son of God! You are the King of Israel!"

Jesus answered and said to him,

"Do you believe because I said to you 'I saw you under the fig tree'? You'll see greater things than these!" And he says to him "Truly, truly I'm telling you, after this you'll see heaven opened and the angels of God going up and coming down on the Son of Man!"

Chapter Two

And on the third day a wedding took place in Cana of Galilee, and Jesus' mother was there, and both Jesus and his disciples were invited to the wedding. And there being a lack of wine Jesus' mother says to him,

"They haven't got any wine!"

Jesus says to her,

"What's that to me and to you woman? My hour hasn't come yet!"

His mother says to the servants,

"Do whatever he tells you!"

And there were standing there six stone water pots according to the purification of the Jews, each holding two or three measures.

Jesus says to them,

"Fill the water pots with water!"

And they filled them to the brim.

And he says to them,

"Draw out now and bring it to the master of the feast."

And they brought it.

And when the master of the feast tasted the water that had become wine and did not know from where it is – but the servants who had drawn the water knew - the master of the feast calls the bridegroom and says to him,

"Every man sets out the good wine first, and when they've drunk plenty, the inferior; you've kept the good wine until now!"

This beginning of signs Jesus did in Cana of Galilee and revealed his glory, and his disciples believed in him.

After this he went down to Capernaum, he and his mother and his brothers and sisters and his disciples, and they stayed there a few days. And the Passover of the Jews was near and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. And he found in the temple the ones selling oxen and sheep and pigeons, and the moneychangers sitting. And having made a whip of cords he drove them all out from the temple, both the sheep and the oxen, and he poured out the coin of the moneychangers and overturned the tables.

And he said to those who sold the pigeons,

"Take these things away from here! Don't make my father's house a house of business!"

And his disciples remembered that it is written,

"The zeal of your house has consumed me!"

The Jews therefore answered and said to him,

"What sign do you show us since you're doing these things?"

Jesus answered and said to them,

"Destroy this temple and in three days I'll raise it up!"

Then the Jews said,

"This temple was forty six years in building and you'll raise it up in three days?"

But he was speaking about the temple of his body. So when he was raised from the dead his disciples remembered that he had said this to them, and they believed the scripture and the word which Jesus had said.

Now when he was in Jerusalem at the Passover, at the feast, many believed in his name, seeing the signs which he was doing. But Jesus himself did not trust himself to them because he knew everyone, and that he had no need that any should testify about a person, because he knew what was in a person.

Chapter Three

And there was a man of the Pharisees, his name Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. He came to Jesus by night and said to him,

"Rabbi we know that you've come, a teacher from God, for no one can do these signs which you're doing unless God is with him."

Jesus answered and said to him,

"Truly, truly I'm telling you, unless someone is born anew he can't see the kingdom of God!"

Nicodemus says to him,

"How can a person be born being old? Can he enter a second time into his mother's womb and be born?"

Jesus answered,

"Truly, truly I'm telling you, unless someone is born of water and of the Spirit he can't enter into the kingdom of God. That which has been born of the flesh is flesh and that which has been born of the Spirit is spirit. Don't wonder that I said to you 'You must be born anew.' The wind blows where it wants, and you hear its sound but you don't know where it's coming from and where it's going to, so is everyone who's been born of the Spirit."

Nicodemus answered and said to him,

"How can these things happen?"

Jesus answered and said to him,

"You're the teacher of Israel and you don't know these things? Truly, truly I'm telling you, that which we know, we speak, and that which we've seen, we testify to, and you don't receive our testimony. If I've told you earthly things and you don't believe, how will you believe if I tell you heavenly things? And no one has gone up into heaven except he who has come down out of heaven, the Son of man who is in heaven.

"And even as Moses lifted up the serpent in the desert, so must the Son of man be lifted up, so that everyone believing in him may not perish but may have everlasting life.

"For God loved the world so much that he gave his only begotten Son, so that everyone believing in him may not perish but may have everlasting life. For God hasn't sent his Son into the world so that he might judge the world but so that the world might be saved through him. The one believing in him isn't judged but the one not believing has been judged already because he hasn't believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.

"And this is the judgement, that the light has come into the world and men have loved the darkness rather than the light for their works were evil. For everyone doing evil hates the light and doesn't come to the light, in case his works are exposed, but the one doing the truth comes to the light so that it may be made evident that his works have come from God."

After these things Jesus and his disciples came into the land of Judaea and he stayed there with them and was baptising. And John was also baptising in Aenon, near Salim because there was a lot of water there, and they were coming and being baptised.

For John was not yet put into prison. Then there arose a question from John's disciples with the Jews about purification. And they came to John and said to him,

"Rabbi, he who was with you beyond Jordan, to whom you bore witness, look he's baptising and everyone's coming to him!"

John answered and said,

"A man can receive nothing unless it's given to him from heaven. You yourselves bear me witness that I said I'm not the Christ but that I'm sent ahead of him. The one having the bride is the bridegroom but the friend of the bridegroom, the one standing and hearing him, rejoices very much because of the voice of the bridegroom: this then my joy is fulfilled. He must increase but I decrease.

"He, coming from above, is above all. He who is from the earth is from the earth, and speaks from the earth. He who comes from heaven is above all, and what he saw and heard, this he testifies, and no one receives his testimony. He who has received his testimony, has certified that God is true, for he whom God sent speaks the word of God, for God doesn't give the Spirit by measure. The Father loves the Son and has given everything into his hand. The one believing in the Son has everlasting life, and the one not being subject to the Son won't see life, but the wrath of God stays on him."

Chapter Four

So when the Lord knew that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus is making and baptising more disciples than John, although Jesus himself did not baptise but his disciples, he left Judaea and went away again into Galilee. And he had to pass through Samaria.

So he comes to a town of Samaria called Sychar, near the lands which Jacob gave to his son Joseph. Now Jacob's spring was there, so Jesus being tired from his journey sat thus at the spring. It was about midday.

A woman of Samaria comes to draw water. Jesus says to her,

"Give me a drink!"

For his disciples had gone away into the town so as to buy provisions. So the Samaritan woman says to him,

"How is it that you, being a Jew, ask for a drink from me, being a Samaritan woman?"

For Jews have no communication with Samaritans. Jesus answered and said to her,

"If you knew God's gift and who it is saying to you, 'Give me a drink' you'd have asked him and he'd have given you living water!"

The woman says to him,

"You've nothing to draw with and the well is deep, from where then have you got the living water? Are you greater than our father Jacob who gave us the well and drank from it himself, and his sons and his cattle?"

Jesus answered and said to her,

"Everyone drinking of this water will be thirsty again but whoever drinks of the water which I give him will definitely not be thirsty ever again! But the water which I give him will become in him a spring of water bubbling up into everlasting life!"

The woman says to him,

"Sir, give me this water so that I may not be thirsty nor come here to draw!"

Jesus says to her,

"Go, call your husband and come here!"

The woman answered and said,

"I haven't got a husband!"

Jesus says to her,

"You say well 'I haven't got a husband!' You've had five husbands, and the one you've got now isn't your husband! This you said truly!"

The woman says to him,

"Sir, I see that you're a prophet! Our fathers worshipped in this mountain, and you say that the place where one ought to worship is in Jerusalem!"

Jesus says to her,

"Woman, believe me, that an hour is coming when you'll worship the Father neither in this mountain nor in Jerusalem. You're worshipping what you don't know. We're worshipping what we know, for Salvation is from the Jews. But there is coming an hour, and it's now, when the true worshippers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father is looking for such ones worshipping him. God is a Spirit, and those worshipping him must worship in spirit and truth."

The woman says to him,

"I know that Messiah is coming, he who is called Christ. When he comes he'll tell us all things!"

Jesus says to her,

"I am he, the one speaking to you!"

And on this his disciples came and were amazed that he was speaking with a woman; however no one said 'What are you looking for?' or 'What are you talking about with her?'

Then the woman left her water pot and went off into the town and says to the people,

"Come, see a man who's told me everything I've ever done! Perhaps this is the Christ!"

So they went out of the town and came to him.

But in the meantime the disciples were asking him, saying,

"Rabbi, eat!"

But he said to them,

"I've got food to eat which you don't know about!"

So the disciples said to one another,

"Did anyone bring him anything to eat?"

Jesus says to them,

"My food is that I should do the will of him who sent me and that I should finish his work. Aren't you saying 'There are still four months and the harvest is coming'? Look, I tell you! Lift up your eyes and look at the fields, for they're white for harvest already! And the one reaping receives a reward, and gathers fruit to everlasting life, so that the one sowing and the one reaping may rejoice together. For in this the saying is true, that one sows and another reaps. I've sent you to reap that on which you haven't laboured, others have laboured and you've entered into their toil."

And from that town many of the Samaritans believed in him, because of the word of the woman testifying, 'He's told me everything I've ever done!'

So when the Samaritans came to him they asked him to stay with them and he stayed there two days. And many more believed because of his word. And they said to the woman,

"We believe no longer because of your report, for we've heard for ourselves and we know that this truly is the Saviour of the world, the Christ!"

But after the two days he went out from there and went off into Galilee, for Jesus himself testified that a prophet does not have honour in his own country. So when he came into Galilee, the Galileans received him, having seen everything which he had done in Jerusalem during the feast, for they also had gone to the feast.

So Jesus came again to Cana of Galilee, where he had made the water wine. And there was a certain royal official whose son was sick in Capernaum. He, having heard that Jesus had come out of Judaea into Galilee, went to him and asked him to come down and heal his son for he was about to die.

So Jesus said to him,

"Unless you see signs and wonders you won't believe at all!"

The royal official says to him,

"Sir, come down before my child dies."

Jesus says to him,

"Go, your son lives!"

And the man believed the word, which Jesus said to him and he went away. But already, as he was going down his servants met him and reported saying,

"Your child lives!"

So he asked them the hour in which he had got better.

And they said to him,

"Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him!"

So the father knew that it was at that hour in which Jesus had said to him 'Your son lives!' And he himself believed, and his whole house. This again, a second sign, Jesus did, having come out of Judaea into Galilee.

Chapter Five

After these things there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. And in Jerusalem, at the Sheep Gate, there is a pool called in Hebrew Bethesda, having five porches.

In these a great number were lying of those who were sick, blind, lame, withered, waiting for the moving of the water. For an angel now and then went down into the pool and stirred up the water. So whoever got in first after the stirring up of the water became healthy from whatever disease he suffered. But there was a man there who had been ill for thirty-eight years. Jesus seeing him lying there and knowing he has been so a long time already, says to him,

"Do you want to be well?"

The sick man answered him,

"Sir, I have nobody to put me into the pool when the water has been stirred up, but while I'm coming, another gets down ahead of me."

Jesus says to him,

"Get up! Take up your bed and walk!"

And at once the man became healthy and took up his bed and walked. And on that day it was the Sabbath. So the Jews said to him who had been healed,

"It's Sabbath, it isn't lawful for you to take up your bed!"

He answered them,

"He who made me well, he said to me 'Take up your bed and walk!'"

So they asked him,

"Who is the man who said to you 'Take up your bed and walk'?"

But he who was healed did not know who it is, for Jesus had moved away, a crowd being in the place.

After these things Jesus finds him in the temple and said to him, "Look, you've become well, don't sin any more in case a worse thing happens to you!"

The man went away and told the Jews that it is Jesus who had made him healthy. And because of this the Jews persecuted Jesus, and sought to kill him, because he had done these things on a Sabbath.

But Jesus answered them,

"My Father works until now, and I am working."

So because of this the Jews sought the more to kill him, because not only had he broken the Sabbath, but also called God his own Father making himself equal to God.

So Jesus answered and said to them,

"Truly, truly I'm telling you, the Son from himself can do nothing except what he sees the Father doing: for whatever he does, these things also the Son does similarly. For the Father loves the Son and shows him everything which he himself does, and he'll show him greater works than these so that you will be amazed. For even as the Father raises the dead and makes alive, so also the Son makes alive whom he wants, for the Father judges no one, but has given all judgement to the Son, so that all may honour the Son even as they honour the Father. The one not honouring the Son doesn't honour the Father who sent him.

"Truly, truly I'm telling you that the one hearing my word and believing him who sent me, has everlasting life, and doesn't come into judgement but has passed from death into life.

"Truly, truly I'm telling you that an hour is coming, and it is now, when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and the ones who have heard will live. For even as the Father has life in himself, so he gave also to the Son to have life in himself, and he gave him also authority to execute judgement because he is the Son of man. Don't be amazed at this because an hour is coming in which all those in the tombs will hear his voice, and will come out: those who've done good to a resurrection of life, and those who've done evil to a resurrection of judgement.

"From myself I can do nothing; even as I hear, I judge. And my judgement is just, because I don't seek my will but the will of the Father who sent me. If I testify about myself my testimony is not valid. There is another witnessing about me, and I know that the testimony he witnesses about me is true.

"You sent to John, and he has witnessed to the truth. And I don't need testimony from a person but I'm saying these things so that you may be saved. He was the lamp, burning and shining, and you were willing to rejoice for an hour in his light. But I have greater testimony than John's, for the works that my Father gave me so that I should complete them, the works themselves which I do, testify about me that the Father has sent me.

"And the Father who sent me out himself bore witness about me. You have neither heard his voice at any time nor seen his form. And you don't have his word living in you, for you don't believe him whom he has sent.

"Search the scriptures, for you think in them to have everlasting life, and those are they which bear witness about me; and you don't want to come to me so that you may have life.

"I don't receive glory from men, but I have known you that you haven't got the love of God in yourselves. I've come in my Father's name and you haven't received me; if another should come in his own name you'll receive him.

"How can you believe, receiving glory from one another, and you're not seeking the glory which is from God alone? Don't think that I'll accuse you before the Father: Moses in whom you hoped is the one accusing you. For if you'd believed Moses you'd have believed me, for he wrote about me. But if you don't believe his writings, how will you believe my words?"

Chapter Six

After these things Jesus went away over the Sea of Galilee, of Tiberias, and a great crowd followed him because they saw his signs which he did on the sick. And Jesus went up into the mountain and sat there with his disciples. And the Passover, the Jews' feast was near. Then Jesus having lifted up his eyes, and having seen that a large crowd is coming to him, says to Philip,

"Where shall we buy bread from, so that these may eat?"

But he said this testing him for he knew what he was about to do.

Philip answered him,

"Bread for two hundred pence isn't enough for them so that each of them may receive a little!"

One of his disciples, Andrew, the brother of Simon Peter says to him,

"There's a little boy here who's got five barley loaves and two small fish, but what are these among so many?"

And Jesus said,

"Make the people recline."

Now there was a lot of grass in the place, so the men reclined, in number about five thousand. And Jesus took the loaves, and having given thanks he distributed to the disciples, and the disciples to those reclining. And similarly of the small fish as much as they wanted.

And when they were filled he says to his disciples,

"Gather together the left over fragments so that nothing is lost."

So they gathered, and they filled twelve baskets of fragments from the five barley loaves, which were over and above to those who had eaten.

So the people having seen the sign Jesus had done said,

"Truly this is the prophet who is coming into the world!"

Jesus therefore, knowing that they are about to come and seize him so that they may make him king, withdrew again into the mountain by himself.

And when evening came his disciples went down to the sea, and having entered into the boat they were going over the sea to Capernaum. And it had already got dark and Jesus had not come to them, and the sea was stirred up by a strong wind blowing. Having rowed then about twenty five or thirty furlongs they see Jesus walking on the sea and coming near the boat, and they were afraid.

But he says to them,

"It's me! Don't be afraid!"

They wanted then to receive him into the boat, and immediately the boat was at the land to which they were going.

On the next day the crowd which stood on the other side of the sea, having seen that there was no other boat there except that one into which his disciples had entered, and that Jesus had not gone with his disciples into the boat, but his disciples had gone off alone - but other boats from Tiberias came near the place where they had eaten the bread, the Lord having given thanks – so when the crowd saw that Jesus is not there, nor his disciples, they themselves also got into boats and came to Capernaum looking for Jesus.

And having found him the other side of the sea they said to him,

"Rabbi, when did you come here?"

Jesus answered them and said,

"Truly, truly I'm telling you: you're looking for me not because you've seen signs, but because you ate of the loaves and were satisfied. Don't work for the food which perishes, but for the food which remains to everlasting life which the Son of man will give you, for God the Father has sealed him."

So they said to him,

"What should we do so that we may perform the works of God?"

Jesus answered and said to them,

"This is God's work: that you should believe on him whom he's sent!"

So they said to him,

"What sign are you doing then, so that we may see and believe you? What are you working? Our fathers ate the manna in the desert, as it is written 'He gave them bread out of heaven to eat.'"

So Jesus said to them,

"Truly, truly I'm telling you, Moses didn't give you the bread out of heaven but my Father gives you the true bread out of heaven. For God's bread is he who comes down out of heaven and gives life to the world!"

So they said to him,

"Lord, give us this bread always!"

Jesus said to them,

"I am the bread of life, the one coming to me won't hunger at all and the one believing in me won't thirst at all at any time. But I said to you that you too have seen me and you don't believe. All who the Father gives to me will come to me, and he who comes to me I won't at all throw out, for I've come down out of heaven, not to do my will, but the will of him who sent me. And this is the will of the Father who sent me: that all he's given me, I shouldn't lose any of it, but I should raise it up in the last day.

"And this is the will of him who sent me, that everyone who sees the Son and believes in him, should have everlasting life; and I will raise him up at the last day!"

So the Jews were murmuring about him because he said. 'I am the bread, which has come down out of heaven.' And they were saying,

"Isn't this Jesus, Joseph's son, whose father and mother we know? So how does he say 'I've come down out of heaven'?"

So Jesus answered and said to them,

"Don't murmur with each other! No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him, and I personally will raise him up at the last day. It is written in the prophets: 'And they shall all be taught by God', so everyone, who has heard from the Father and has learnt, comes to me; not that anyone has seen the Father, except he who is from God. He has seen the Father.

"Truly, truly I'm telling you, the one believing in me has everlasting life! I am the bread of life. Your fathers ate the manna in the desert, and they died. This is the bread coming down from heaven, so that anyone may eat of it and not die. I am the living bread who came down out of heaven, if anyone has eaten of this bread, he'll live for ever, and the bread which I'll give is my flesh, which I'll give for the life of the world."

So the Jews contended with each other saying,

"How can he give us flesh to eat?"

So Jesus said to them,

"Truly, truly I'm telling you, unless you've eaten the flesh of the Son of man and have drunk his blood you don't have life in yourselves. The one eating my flesh and drinking my blood has everlasting life, and I myself will raise him up on the last day, for my flesh really is food and my blood really is drink. The one eating my flesh and drinking my blood lives in me, and I in him.

"As the living Father has sent me and I am alive because of the Father, so the one eating me, he too will live because of me. This is the bread that came down from heaven. Not as your fathers ate the manna and died: the one eating this bread will live for ever!"

He said these things teaching in the synagogue in Capernaum.

So having heard, many of his disciples said, "This word is hard, who can hear it?"

But Jesus, knowing in himself that his disciples are murmuring about this, said to them,

"Does this offend you? What then if you should see the Son of man going up where he was before? It's the Spirit, which makes alive, the flesh profits nothing. The words, which I'm speaking to you, are Spirit and life. But there are some of you who don't believe."

For Jesus knew from the start who are the ones not believing, and who it is who will hand him over.

And he said, "Because of this I said to you that no one can come to me unless it's given to him from my Father."

From then on many of his disciples went back and walked no more with him. So Jesus said to the twelve,

"Do you too want to go away?"

So Simon Peter answered him,

"Lord who shall we go to? You've got the words of everlasting life, and we've believed and known that you're the Christ, the Son of the living God!"

Jesus answered them,

"Didn't I choose you twelve? And one of you is a devil!"

He spoke of Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, for he, being one of the twelve was going to hand him over.

Chapter Seven

And after these things Jesus walked in Galilee for he did not want to walk in Judaea because the Jews were seeking to kill him. Now the Jews’ feast of tabernacles was near. So his brothers said to him,

“Go away from here and go into Judaea so that your disciples too may see your works which you’re doing. For no one does anything in secret while himself seeking to be in the public eye. If you’re doing these things, make yourself obvious to the world!”

For neither did his brothers believe in him.

So Jesus says to them,

“My time hasn’t come yet but your time is always ready. The world can’t hate you, but it hates me because I’m testifying about it that its works are evil. You go up to this feast. I’m not going up to this feast yet, for my time hasn’t yet fully come.”

And having said these words to them he stayed in Galilee. But when his brothers had gone up then he too went up to the feast, not openly, but as in secret.

So the Jews were looking for him at the feast and said,

“Where is he?”

And there was a lot of murmuring about him among the crowds.

Some said,

“He’s good!”

But others said,

“No, rather, he misleads the crowd.”

No one however openly spoke about him, through fear of the Jews.

But now at the middle of the feast Jesus went up to the temple and was teaching, and the Jews were amazed saying,

“How does this one know letters not having learned?”

Jesus answered them and said,

“My teaching isn’t mine but his who sent me. If anyone wants to do his will he’ll know about the teaching, whether it’s from God or if I’m speaking from myself. He who speaks from himself is looking for his own glory, but the one seeking the glory of him who sent him, he is true, and there’s no unrighteousness in him. Didn’t Moses give you the law, and none of you practises the law? Why are you seeking to kill me?”

The crowd answered and said,

“You’ve got a demon! Who’s seeking to kill you?”

Jesus answered and said to them,

“I’ve done one work and you’re all amazed. For this Moses gave you circumcision – not that it’s from Moses but from the patriarchs – and you circumcise a man on the Sabbath. If a man receives circumcision on the Sabbath, so that the law of Moses may not be broken, are you angry with me because I’ve made a man entirely healthy on the Sabbath? Don’t judge according to appearances but judge righteous judgement.”

So some of those of Jerusalem said,

“Isn’t this he who they’re looking for to kill? And look he’s speaking openly and they’re saying nothing to him. Have the ones ruling really recognised that this is truly the Christ? But we know where this one is from, but the Christ, whenever he may come, no one knows from where he is!”

So Jesus cried out in the temple teaching and saying,

“You know both me and you know where I’m from; and I haven’t come from myself but he who sent me is true, whom you don’t know. But I know him because I’m from him and he sent me”.

So they were seeking to take him, but no one laid a hand on him because his hour had not yet come. But many of the crowd believed in him and said,

“The Christ when he comes won’t do more signs than these which this man has done, will he?”

The Pharisees heard of the murmuring of the crowd about these things concerning him, and the Pharisees and the chief priests sent officers so that they might take him.

So Jesus said to them,

“I’m still with you for a little while, and I’m going to him who sent me. You’ll look for me and you won’t find me, and where l am you can’t come!”

So the Jews said among themselves,

“Where’s he about to go that we won’t find him? Is he about to go to the diaspora among the Greeks, and teach the Greeks? What is this saying which he said ‘You’ll look for me and you won’t find me!’ and ‘Where I’m going you can’t come!”

And on the last day of the great feast Jesus stood and cried out saying,

“If anyone is thirsty let him come to me and drink! The one believing in me, as the scripture has said, 'Out of his innards living water will flow.'"

But he said this about the Spirit which those believing in him were going to receive, for the Holy Spirit had not been given yet because Jesus had not yet been glorified. Many out of the crowd therefore, having heard the saying said,

“This is truly the prophet!’

Others said,

“This is the Christ!”

And others said,

“Then is the Christ coming out of Galilee? Hasn’t the scripture said that out of David’s seed and from Bethlehem, the village where David was, the Christ is coming?”

So a division in the crowd came about because of him. And some of them wanted to take him but no one laid hands on him. So the officers came to the chief priests and Pharisees and they said to them,

“Why didn’t you bring him?”

The officers answered,

“No man ever spoke thus like this man.”

So the Pharisees answered them,

“You haven’t been deceived too? Has any one of the rulers believed in him, or of the Pharisees? But this crowd which doesn’t know the law is accursed!”

Nicodemus (he who had come to him at night) being one of them says to them,

“Does our law judge a man unless it has heard from him first, and has known what he does?”

They answered and said to him,

“Are you too from Galilee? Search and look: for a prophet hasn’t arisen out of Galilee.”

And each one went to his house.

Chapter Eight

But Jesus went to the Mount of Olives. And at dawn he came again into the temple, and all the people came to him, and having sat down he was teaching them. And the scribes and the Pharisees bring to him a woman having been taken in adultery. And having placed her in the midst they say to him,

“Teacher, this woman was taken in the very act of committing adultery. Now in the law, Moses commanded us that such should be stoned, so you, what do you say?”

But they said this testing him so that they might have something to accuse him of. But Jesus having bent down wrote on the ground with his finger. But as they continued asking him, having got up, he said to them,

“The one without sin among you: let him throw the first stone at her.”

And again, having bent down, he wrote on the ground.

But the ones having heard and being convicted by their conscience went out one by one, starting with the older ones until the last. And Jesus was left alone and the woman standing in the midst.

And having got up and seeing no one except the woman, Jesus said to her,

“Woman, where are those accusers of yours? Didn’t anyone condemn you?”

And she said,

“No one sir!”

And Jesus said to her,

“Neither do I condemn you: go, and sin no more.”

So Jesus spoke to them again saying,

“I am the light of the world! The one following me won’t walk in darkness at all, but will have the light of life!”

So the Pharisees said to him,

“You’re bearing witness about yourself: your witness isn’t valid.”

Jesus answered and said to them,

“Even if I do bear witness about myself, my witness is true because I know where I come from and where I’m going; but you don’t know where I come from and where I’m going.

“You judge according to the flesh, I judge no one. And if I do judge, my judgement is true because I’m not alone, but I and the Father who sent me. And in your law too it is written that the witness of two people is true. I’m bearing witness about myself, and the Father who sent me bears witness about me!”

So they said to him,

“Where is your Father?”

Jesus answered,

“You know neither me nor my Father! If you knew me, you’d have known my Father too!”

These words Jesus spoke in the treasury, teaching in the temple, and no one took him, for his hour had not yet come.

So Jesus said again to them,

“I’m going away and you’ll look for me and you’ll die in your sin. Where I’m going you can’t come!”

So the Jews said,

“He won’t kill himself will he? Because he’s saying ‘Where I’m going you can’t come!’”

And he said to them,

“You’re from below, I’m from above. You’re from this world; I’m not from this world! So I told you that you’ll die in your sins.”

So they said to him,

“Who are you?”

And Jesus said to them,

“That which I’m telling you from the beginning. I’ve got many things to say and to judge concerning you, but he who sent me is true, and as for me, what I heard from him: these things I’m telling the world.”

They did not know that he spoke of the Father to them.

So Jesus said to them,

“When you’ve lifted up the Son of man, then you’ll know that it’s me, and from myself I do nothing, but as my Father has taught me, I’m speaking these things. And he who has sent me is with me. The Father hasn’t left me alone because I always do the things pleasing to him.”

As he spoke these things many believed in him.

So Jesus said to the Jews who believed in him,

“If you stay in my word, truly you are my disciples. And you’ll know the truth, and the truth will set you free!”

They answered him,

“We are Abraham’s seed and have never been in bondage to anyone, how do you say ‘You’ll become free’?”

Jesus answered them,

“Truly, truly I’m telling you that everyone practising sin is a servant of sin. But the bondman doesn’t stay in the house for ever; the Son stays for ever. So if the Son sets you free you really will be free. I know that you’re Abraham’s seed but you’re seeking to kill me because my word has no place in you. What I personally have seen with my Father, I'm speaking. So you too: you are doing what you’ve seen with your father.”

They answered and said to him,

“Abraham is our father!”

Jesus says to them,

“If you were Abraham’s children you’d do Abraham’s works, but now you’re seeking to kill me, a man who has told you the truth which I’ve heard from God. Abraham didn’t do this. You’re doing the works of your father!”

So they said to him,

“We haven’t been born from fornication! We have one father, God!”

So Jesus said to them,

“If God were your Father you’d have loved me, for I came forth and have come out of God, for nor did I come of myself but he sent me. Why don’t you understand my speech? Because you can’t hear my word! You are from your father - the devil! And you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the start and didn’t stand in the truth, because truth isn’t in him. Whenever he speaks falsehood, he speaks from himself, for he’s a liar and the father of it. But because I speak the truth, you don’t believe me. Which of you censures me about sin? And if I speak truth why don’t you believe me? He who is of God hears the words of God: so you don’t hear because you’re not of God.”

So the Jews answered and said to him,

“Don’t we say well that you’re a Samaritan and have got a demon?”’

Jesus answered,

“I haven’t got a demon, but I honour my Father and you dishonour me. But I’m not seeking my own glory; there is he who seeks and judges. Truly, truly I’m telling you: if anyone keeps my word he’ll definitely never see death.”

So the Jews said to him,

“Now we do know that you’ve got a demon: Abraham died, the prophets too, and you’re saying ‘If anyone keeps my word he’ll definitely never taste death!’ Are you greater than our father Abraham who died? The prophets died too. Who are you making yourself?”

Jesus answered,

“If I glorify myself, my glory is nothing. It’s my Father who glorifies me, whom you say is your God. And you haven’t known him, but I know him, and if I say that I don’t know him I’ll be a liar like you! But I do know him and I keep his word. Your father Abraham rejoiced in that he should see my day, and he saw and rejoiced.”

So the Jews said to him,

“You’re not yet fifty years old and you’ve seen Abraham?”

Jesus said to them,

“Truly, truly I’m telling you: before Abraham was begotten, I am!”

So they took up stones to throw at him, but Jesus hid and went out of the temple, going through the midst of them and thus passed by.

Chapter Nine

And passing by he saw a man blind from birth. And his disciples asked him saying,

“Rabbi, who sinned: this man or his parents that he was born blind?”

Jesus answered,

“Neither this man nor his parents sinned but so that the works of God may be shown in him. I must do the works of him who sent me while it is day. Night is coming when no one can work. While I’m in the world I’m the light of the world.”

Having said these things he spat on the ground, and made clay out of the spittle, and applied the clay to the blind man’s eyes.

And he said to him,

“Go, wash in the pool of Siloam”, which is translated ‘Sent’.

So he went off and washed, and came seeing.

So the neighbours and those who before had seen him that was blind said,

“Isn’t this he who used to sit and beg?”

Some said,

“It’s him!”

But others,

“He’s like him.”

He said,

“It’s me!”

So they said to him,

“How were your eyes opened?”

He answered and said,

“A man called Jesus made clay and applied it to my eyes and said to me, ‘Go to the pool of Siloam and wash!’ Having gone and washed I received sight!”

So they said to him,

“Where is he?”

He says,

“I don’t know.”

They bring him who was once blind to the Pharisees. And it was Sabbath when Jesus made the clay and opened his eyes. So again the Pharisees also asked how he had received sight.

And he said to them,

“He put clay on my eyes and I washed and I see!”

So some of the Pharisees said,

“This man isn’t from God because he doesn’t keep the Sabbath!”’

Others said,

“How can a man who is a sinner do such signs?”

And there was a division among them.

They say to the blind man again,

“You, what do you say about him, for he opened your eyes?”

And he said,

“He’s a prophet!”

But the Jews did not believe concerning him, that he had been blind and received sight, until they called the parents of him who had received sight. And they asked them saying,

“This is your son whom you say was born blind? How does he now see?”

His parents answered them and said,

“We know that this is our son and that he was born blind, but how he now sees we don’t know, nor do we know who opened his eyes! He’s of age, ask him. He’ll speak for himself.”

His parents said these things because they were afraid of the Jews, for the Jews had already agreed that if anyone should confess Christ he should be expelled from the synagogue.

Because of this his parents said ‘He’s of age, ask him.’

So they called a second time the man who was blind and said to him,

“Give glory to God! We know that this man’s a sinner!”

So he answered and said,

“I don’t know if he’s a sinner. I know one thing: that from being blind, now I see!”

And they said to him again,

“What did he do to you? How did he open your eyes?”

He answered them,

“I’ve told you already and you didn’t listen. Why do you want to hear it again? Do you too want to become his disciples?”

So they insulted him and said,

“You’re his disciple but we are Moses’ disciples! We know that God spoke to Moses, but this man - we don’t know where he’s from!”

The man answered and said to them,

“Well this is an amazing thing: that you don’t know where he’s from and he opened my eyes! And we know that God doesn’t hear sinners, but if anyone is God–fearing and does his will, he does hear him. It’s never been heard of before that anyone opened the eyes of one born blind. If this man weren’t from God he could do nothing!”

They answered and said to him,

“You were born completely in sins and are you teaching us?”

And they threw him out.

Jesus heard that they had thrown him out and having found him said to him,

“Do you believe in the Son of God?”

He answered and said,

“Who is he Lord so that I may believe in him?”

And Jesus said to him,

“You have both seen him and the one speaking to you, he it is!”

And he said,

“I believe Lord!” And he worshipped him.

And Jesus said,

“I came into this world for judgement, so that the ones not seeing may see, and the ones seeing might become blind!”

And some of the Pharisees who were with him heard these things and they said to him,

“Are we blind too?”

Jesus said to them,

“If you were blind you’d have no sin, but now you say ‘We see’ - so your sin remains.

Chapter Ten

“Truly, truly I’m telling you, the one not entering in by the door to the sheepfold, but getting up somewhere else, that one’s a thief and a robber; but the one entering in by the door is the shepherd of the sheep. The doorkeeper opens to him and the sheep hear his voice, and he calls his own sheep by name and leads them out. And when he puts out his own sheep, he goes in front of them and the sheep follow him, because they know his voice. “But they definitely won’t follow a stranger, but will flee from him because they don’t know the voice of strangers.”

This parable Jesus told them, but they did not know what it was that he spoke to them.

So Jesus said to them again,

“Truly, truly I’m telling you that I am the door of the sheep. All who ever came before me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep didn’t listen to them. I am the door; if anyone goes in through me he’ll be saved, and will go in and out and find pasture. The thief doesn’t come except in order to steal and kill and destroy. I’ve come so that they may have life and have it abundantly.

“I am the good shepherd! The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep, but the employee, who is not the shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, sees the wolf coming and leaves the sheep and runs away, and the wolf seizes them and scatters the sheep. But the employee runs away because he’s an employee and isn’t bothered about the sheep himself.

“I am the good shepherd and know the ones that are mine and am known by those that are mine. As the Father knows me, I too know the Father, and I lay down my life for the sheep. And I have other sheep who aren’t from this fold. I must bring those too, and they will listen to my voice, and there’ll be one flock, one shepherd. On account of this the Father loves me, because I’m laying down my life so that I may take it again. No one’s taking it from me, but I’m laying it down of my own accord. I’ve got authority to lay it down, and I’ve got authority to take it again. I’ve received this commandment from my Father.”

So again a division arose among the Jews because of these words, and many of them said,

“He’s got a demon and he’s mad, why do you listen to him?”

Others said,

“These words aren’t from one possessed by a demon. Can a demon open the eyes of the blind?’

And the feast of dedication took place at Jerusalem and it was winter. And Jesus was walking in the temple in Solomon’s porch. So the Jews encircled him and said to him,

“Till when are you holding our souls in suspense? If you’re the Christ tell us plainly!”

Jesus answered them,

“I’ve told you and you don’t believe! The works which I’m doing in my Father’s name, these bare witness about me, but you don’t believe because you’re not of my sheep, as I said to you: ‘My sheep hear my voice and I know them and they follow me.’ And I give them everlasting life, and they’ll definitely never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand. My Father, who has given to me, is greater than all, and no one can snatch away from the hand of my Father. I and the Father are one.”

So again the Jews took up stones so that they might stone him,

Jesus answered them,

“I’ve shown you many good works from my Father: for which one of them are you stoning me?”

The Jews answered him saying,

“We aren’t stoning you for a good work, but for blasphemy, and that you, being a man, are making yourself God!”

Jesus answered them,

“Isn’t it written in your law ‘I said you are Gods’? If he called them, to whom the word of God came, Gods (and the scripture cannot be broken) are you saying to the one whom the Father has sanctified and sent into the world ‘You’re blaspheming’ because I said I’m God’s Son? If I’m not doing my Father’s works don’t believe me! But if I am doing them, even if you don’t believe me, believe the works, so that you may know and believe that the Father is in me and I in him!”

So they tried again to take him and he went out from their hand.

And he departed again beyond the Jordan to the place where John was first baptising and he stayed there.

And many came to him and said,

“Truly John didn’t do a sign, but whatever John said about this man was true.”

And many there believed in him.

Chapter Eleven

Now there was someone ill, Lazarus of Bethany, from Mary and her sister Martha’s village. And it was Mary who anointed the Lord with ointment and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was ill. So the sisters sent to him saying ‘Lord, look, he whom you love is ill!’

But having heard, Jesus said,

“This sickness is not to death, but for the glory of God, so that the Son of God may be glorified through it!”

Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus. So when he heard that he is ill, he stayed indeed in the place in which he was, two days.

Then after this, he says to the disciples,

“Let’s go into Judaea again!”

The disciples say to him,

“Rabbi, just a while ago the Jews were trying to stone you! And are you going there again?”

Jesus answered,

“Aren’t there twelve hours in the day? If any man walks in the day he doesn’t stumble because he sees the light of this world. But if anyone walks at night he does stumble because the light isn’t in him!”

He said these things, and after this he says to them, “Lazarus, our friend, has fallen asleep, but I’m going to wake him up!”

So his disciples said, “Lord, if he’s fallen asleep he’ll get well!”

Now Jesus had spoken of his death, but they thought that he is talking about natural sleep.

So Jesus then said to them clearly, “Lazarus has died and I’m happy for you that I wasn’t there, so that you may believe! But let’s go to him!”

So Thomas, called Didymus, said to his fellow-disciples, “Let us go too, so that we may die with him!”

So, having come, Jesus found him to have been in the tomb four days already. Now Bethany was near to Jerusalem, about fifteen furlongs away, and many of the Jews had come to those around Martha and Mary, so that they might comfort them about their brother. So Martha, when she heard that Jesus is coming, met him; but Mary was sitting in the house.

So Martha said to Jesus, “Lord if you’d been here my brother wouldn’t have died, but even now I know that whatever you ask of God, God will give you!”

Jesus says to her, “Your brother will rise again!”

Martha says to him, “I know that he’ll rise again in the resurrection on the last day!”

Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life, the one believing in me, though he dies, he’ll live, and everyone living and believing in me will definitely never die. Do you believe this?”

She says to him, “Yes Lord, I’ve believed that you are the Christ, the Son of God who is coming into the world.”

And having said these things she went away and called her sister Mary secretly saying, “The teacher’s come and is calling you!”

She, when she heard, gets up quickly and comes to him.

But Jesus had not yet come into the village but was in the place where Martha had met him. So the Jews who were with her in the house and comforting her, having seen that Mary rose up quickly and went out, followed her saying,

“She’s going off to the tomb so she may weep there!”

So Mary, when she came where Jesus was, seeing him, fell at his feet saying to him,

“Lord, if you’d been here my brother wouldn’t have died!”

So Jesus when he saw her weeping, and the Jews who came with her weeping, groaned in spirit and was very upset, and said,

“Where have you laid him?”

They say to him,

“Lord, come and see!”

Jesus wept.

So the Jews said,

“Look how he loved him!”

But some of them said,

“Couldn’t this man who opened the blind man’s eyes have done something so that this one too shouldn’t have died?”

So Jesus again, groaning in himself, comes to the tomb.

Now it was a cave and a stone was lying on it.

Jesus says,

“Take away the stone!”

Martha, the sister of the dead one, says to him,

“Lord, by now he smells horrible for it’s four days!”

Jesus says to her,

“Didn’t I tell you that if you’d believe you’d see the glory of God?”

So they took away the stone where the dead man was laid.

And Jesus lifted up his eyes and said,

“Father, I thank you that you’ve heard me, and I knew that you always hear me but because of the crowd standing round I spoke, so that they might believe that you’ve sent me.”

And having said these things he cried out in a loud voice,

“Lazarus, come out!”

And he who had been dead came out, bound hand and foot with grave clothes, and his face bound round with a handkerchief.

Jesus says to them,

“Loose him and let him go!”

So, many of the Jews who had come to Mary and had seen what Jesus did, believed in him, but some of them went off to the Pharisees and told them what Jesus had done.

So the chief priests and the Pharisees got together a council and said,

“What are we going to do? For this man does many signs. If we let him alone thus, everyone will believe in him, and the Romans will come and take away from us both the place and the nation.”

But one of them, Caiaphas, being that year’s high priest said to them,

“You know nothing, nor do you consider that it’s profitable for us that one man should die for the people, and that the whole nation should not perish.”

But he did not say this from himself, but being that year’s high priest he prophesied that Jesus was about to die for the nation, and not for the nation only but so that he might also gather together into one the children of God who have been dispersed. So from that day they took counsel together so that they might kill him.

So Jesus no longer walked openly among the Jews, but went away from there into the country near the desert, to a town called Ephraim, and there he stayed with his disciples.

And the Jew’s Passover was near, and many went up from the country to Jerusalem before the Passover in order to purify themselves. So they were looking for Jesus, and standing in the temple they were saying to one another,

“How does it seem to you? Won’t he come to the feast at all?”

Now both the chief priests and the Pharisees had given a command that if anyone knew where he was he should notify them so that they might take him.

Chapter Twelve

So Jesus, six days before the Passover came to Bethany where Lazarus was, who had died, whom he raised from the dead.

So they made him a supper there, and Martha served, but Lazarus was one of those reclining with him. Then Mary, having taken a pound of ointment of pure nard, very expensive, anointed Jesus’ feet and wiped his feet with her hair, and the house was filled with the smell of the ointment.

So, one of his disciples, Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son, who was about to hand him over says,

“Why wasn’t this ointment sold for three hundred pence and given to the poor?”

But he said this, not that he was caring for the poor, but because he was a thief and had the purse and took away what was put in.

So Jesus said,

“Leave her alone! She’s kept it for the day of my burial. For the poor you always have with you, but you don’t always have me!”

So then many people of the Jews knew that he is there and they came, not only because of Jesus, but so that they might also see Lazarus, whom he had raised from the dead.

But the chief priests took counsel so that they might kill Lazarus too, because by reason of him many of the Jews were going away, and believed in Jesus.

The next day a great crowd which came to the feast, having heard that Jesus is coming, took branches of palm trees and went out to meet him, and they were crying out,

“Hosanna! Blessed is he who is coming in the name of the Lord, the King of Israel!”

And Jesus, having found a young donkey sat on it, as it is written, ‘Don’t be afraid, daughter of Zion, look, your king is coming sitting on a donkey’s foal!’

But these things his disciples did not know about at first, but when Jesus was glorified, then they remembered that these things were written about him and they had done these things for him. So the crowd that was with him when he called Lazarus out of the tomb and raised him from the dead, bore witness. Because of this the crowd also met him, because it had heard about his having done this sign.

So the Pharisees said among themselves,

“You see that you’re gaining nothing? Look, the world has gone after him!”

And there were some Greeks among those coming up to worship at the feast; so these came to Philip who was from Bethsaida of Galilee and they asked him saying,

“Sir, we want to see Jesus!”

Philip comes and tells Andrew, and again Andrew and Philip tell Jesus.

But Jesus replied to them saying,

“The hour has come so that the Son of man should be glorified; truly, truly I’m telling you, unless the grain of wheat falling into the ground dies, it stays alone, but if it dies it bears a lot of fruit. He who loves his life will lose it, and he who hates his life in this world will keep it into everlasting life.

“If anyone serves me, let him follow me, and where I am, there also my servant will be. And if anyone serves me the Father will honour him.

“Now my soul has been troubled and what shall I say? Father save me from this hour! But because of this I’ve come to this hour. Father, glorify your name!”

So there came a voice out of heaven,

“I have both glorified and will again glorify it!”

So the crowd which stood by and heard said,

“It was thunder!”

Others said,

“An angel spoke to him!”

Jesus answered and said,

“This voice didn’t come because of me, but for you! Now is this world’s judgement. Now will the prince of this world be cast out. And I, if I am lifted up from the earth, will draw everyone to myself!”

Now he said this signifying by what death he was about to die.

The crowd answered him,

“We heard from the law that the Christ remains for ever, and how do you say that the Son of man must be lifted up? Who is this Son of man?”

So Jesus said to them,

“The light is with you for a little while yet. Walk while you’ve got the light, so that darkness doesn’t overtake you. And the one walking in the darkness doesn’t know where he’s going. Believe in the light while you’ve got the light so that you may become sons of light!”

Jesus spoke these things and, going away, was hidden from them.

Now though he had done so many signs before them, they did not believe in him, so that the word of Isaiah the prophet might be fulfilled which he said, ‘Lord, who has believed our report? And to whom was the Lord’s arm revealed?’ Because of this they could not believe, because again Isaiah said, ‘He blinded their eyes and hardened their heart, so that they should not see with the eyes and understand with the heart and be converted and I heal them’. These things Isaiah said when he saw his glory and spoke about him.

Nevertheless even from the rulers many believed in him, but because of the Pharisees they did not admit it, so that they might not be put out of the synagogue; for they loved the glory of men rather than the glory of God.

And Jesus cried out and said,

“The one believing in me, isn’t believing in me but in him who sent me, and the one looking on me, is looking on him who sent me. I, a light, have come into the world so that everyone believing in me may not remain in darkness. And if anyone hears my words and doesn’t believe, I don’t judge him, for I haven’t come in order to judge the world, but so that I might save the world. The one rejecting me and not receiving my words has one judging him: the word which I’ve spoken. That will judge him in the last day. For I haven’t spoken out of myself but the Father who sent me gave me a commandment as to what I should say and what I should speak, and I know that his commandment is everlasting life. So what I speak, even as the Father said to me, thus I speak”.

Chapter Thirteen

Now before the feast of the Passover, Jesus, knowing that his hour had come that he should depart from this world to the Father, having loved his own who were in the world, loved them to the end.

And supper going on, the devil having already put into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son, that he should hand him over, Jesus, knowing that the Father had given everything into his hands and that he had come out from God and he was going to God, gets up from the supper and takes off his clothes, and having taken a towel he wrapped himself round with it. Then he pours water into the basin and began to wash the disciples’ feet and to wipe them with the towel in which he was wrapped.

So he comes to Simon Peter and he says to him,

“Lord, are you washing my feet?”

Jesus answered and said to him,

“What I’m doing, you don’t know now, but you will know after these things!”

Peter says to him,

“You’ll definitely never wash my feet!”

Jesus answered him,

“Unless I wash you, you have no part with me.”

Simon Peter says to him,

“Lord, not only my feet but also my hands and head!”

Jesus says to him,

“The one who has been bathed has no need except to wash the feet but he is wholly clean, and you are clean, but not everyone.”

For he knew him who was handing him over: because of this he said ‘You are not all clean.’ So when he had washed their feet and put on his clothes, having reclined again he said to them,

“Do you know what I’ve done to you? You call me ‘Teacher’ and ‘Lord’ and you say well, for I am. So if I, the Lord and the Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another’s feet. For I’ve given you an example so that as I’ve done to you, you also should do.

“Truly, truly I’m telling you, a servant isn’t greater than his Lord, nor a messenger greater than the one who sent him. If you know these things, you are blessed if you do them.

“I’m not talking about all of you: I know whom I’ve chosen, but so that the scripture might be fulfilled, ‘He who is eating bread with me has lifted up his heel against me’ I’m telling you now, before it happens, so that when it does happen you may believe that it’s me. Truly, truly I’m telling you, the one receiving whoever I send receives me, and he who receives me, receives him who sent me.”

Saying these things Jesus was troubled in spirit and testified and said,

“Truly, truly I’m telling you that one of you will hand me over!”

So the disciples looked at one another wondering who he is talking about. But one of the disciples, whom Jesus loved, was reclining in the bosom of Jesus. So Simon Peter makes a sign to him to ask who it might be he is speaking about. And he, having leaned on Jesus’ breast, says to him,

“Lord, who is it?”

Jesus answers,

“It’s he to whom I’ll give the bread, having dipped it!”

And having dipped the bread he gives it to Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son. And after the morsel then Satan entered into him.

So Jesus says to him,

“What you’re doing, do quickly!”

But none of those reclining knew why he said this to him, for some thought, since Judas had the purse, that Jesus is saying to him ‘Buy what we need for the feast’ or that he should give something to the poor. So having received the morsel he at once went out. And it was night.

When he had gone out Jesus says,

“Now the Son of man has been glorified, and God has been glorified in him. If God has been glorified in him, God will also glorify him in himself, and he will glorify him immediately. Little children I’m with you a little while yet. You’ll look for me, and as I said to the Jews that where I’m going you can’t come, so I’m telling you now.

“I’m giving you a new commandment that you should love one another, even as I’ve loved you, so you too should love one another. By this everyone will know that you’re my disciples, if you have love for one another.”

Simon Peter says to him,

“Lord, where are you going?”

Jesus answered him,

“Where I’m going, you can’t follow me now, but afterwards you’ll follow me!”’

Peter says to him,

“Lord why can’t I follow you now? I’ll lay down my life for you.”

Jesus answered him,

“You’ll lay down your life for me? Truly, truly I’m telling you, the cock won’t crow until you deny me three times!’

Chapter Fourteen

“Don’t let your heart be troubled: you believe in God, believe also in me. In my Father’s house there are many places to stay, otherwise I would have told you. I’m going to prepare a place for you. And if I’m going and preparing a place for you, I’m coming again and will receive you to myself, so that where I am, you may be too. And you know where I’m going, and you know the way!”

Thomas says to him,

“Lord, we don’t know where you’re going, and how can we know the way?”

Jesus says to him,

“I am the way, and the truth and the life! No one comes to the Father but through me! If you’d known me, you would have known my Father too, and from now on you do know him and you’ve seen him!”

Philip says to him,

“Lord show us the Father and it’s enough for us.”

Jesus says to him,

“Am I so long a time with you and you haven’t known me Philip? The one who has seen me has seen the Father and how do you say ‘Show us the Father’? Don’t you believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me? The words which I speak to you, I don’t speak from myself, but the Father who stays in me, he does the works. Believe me that I’m in the Father and the Father in me, or else believe me because of the works themselves.

“Truly, truly I’m telling you, the one believing in me, the works which I do, he too will do, and he’ll do greater than these, because I’m going to my Father; and whatever you ask in my name, this I’ll do, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son. If you ask anything in my name I’ll do it. If you love me keep my commandments. And I will ask the Father and he will give you another Comforter so that he may stay with you for ever: the Spirit of truth, whom the world can’t receive because it neither sees him nor knows him, but you know him for he lives with you and will be in you. I won’t leave you orphans, I’m coming to you. A little while yet and the world sees me no longer, but you see me. Because I live, you too will live. In that day you’ll know that I’m in my Father and you in me, and I in you. The one having my commandments and keeping them: that is the one loving me, and the one loving me will be loved by my Father, and I’ll love him and will reveal myself to him!”

Judas, not Iscariot, says to him,

“Lord, what has happened that you’re about to reveal yourself to us, and not to the world?”

Jesus answered and said to him,

“If anyone loves me he’ll keep my word, and my Father will love him and we’ll come to him and will make a place to stay with him. The one not loving me, doesn’t keep my words, and the word which you’re listening to isn’t of me but of the Father who sent me.

“I’ve spoken these things, staying with you, but the Comforter, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you everything and will remind you everything I’ve said to you. Peace I leave with you, my peace I give to you, not as the world gives do I give to you. Don’t let your heart be troubled, nor let it be frightened. You heard that I said to you ‘I’m going away and I’m coming to you!’ If you loved me you would have rejoiced that I said ‘I’m going to the Father’ for my Father is greater than me.

“And now I’ve told you before it happens, so that when it does happen you may believe. I’ll no longer speak much with you, for the ruler of this world is coming and he has nothing in me. But so that the world may know that I love the Father and even as the Father has commanded me, thus I do. Rise up, let’s go from here.

Chapter Fifteen

“I am the true vine and my Father is the vine dresser. Every branch in me not bearing fruit: he takes it away. And every one that bears fruit: he prunes it so that it may bear more fruit. You are already pruned through the word which I’ve spoken to you. Stay in me and I in you. As the branch can’t bear fruit by itself unless it stays in the vine, so nor can you unless you stay in me. I am the vine, you the branches. The one staying in me and I in him, this one bears a lot of fruit, for without me you can do nothing. Unless someone stays in me he is cast out as the branch and is dried up, and they gather them and throw them into a fire, and it is burned. If you stay in me and my words stay in you, whatever you want, you’ll ask for, and it’ll happen to you. In this my Father is glorified, so that you should bear a lot of fruit, and you’ll become my disciples”.

“As the Father has loved me, so also I’ve loved you. Stay in my love. If you keep my commandments you’ll stay in my love, as I’ve kept my Father’s commandments, and stay in his love. I’ve spoken these things to you so that my joy may stay in you and your joy may be full. This is my commandment: that you love one another as I’ve loved you. No one has a greater love than this: that one should lay down his life for his friends!

“You are my friends if you do whatever I command you. I’m no longer calling you servants, for the servant doesn’t know what his master’s doing. But I’ve called you friends for I’ve made known to you everything which I’ve heard from my Father. You didn’t choose me but I chose you and appointed you so that you should go and bear fruit, and your fruit should remain, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name, he may give you.

“These things I command you so that you love one another. If the world hates you, know that it hated me before you. If you were from the world, the world would love its own, but because you’re not from the world, but I selected you from out of the world, because of this, the world hates you.

“Remember the word, which I said to you: ‘A servant isn’t greater than his master.’ If they’ve persecuted me they’ll persecute you too; if they’ve kept my word they’ll keep yours too. But they’ll do all these things to you because of my name, because they don’t know him who sent me.

“If I hadn’t come and spoken to them they wouldn’t have had sin, but now they’ve got no excuse for their sin. The one hating me also hates my Father. If I hadn’t done the works among them which no one else has done, they wouldn’t have had sin, but now they’ve both seen and hated both me and my Father, so that rather the word that has been written in their law - ‘They hated me without cause’ - may be fulfilled.

“But when the Comforter comes, whom I’ll send you from the Father, the Spirit of truth who goes out from the Father, he’ll bear witness about me; and you too bear witness because you’re with me from the start.

Chapter Sixteen

“I’ve spoken these things to you so that you may not be offended. They will expel you from the synagogues: but an hour is coming when everyone who kills you will think they’re doing God a service, and they’ll do these things to you because they don’t know the Father, nor me. But I’ve spoken these things to you so that when the time comes you may remember that I said them to you. And I didn’t say these things to you from the start because I was with you. But now I’m going away to him who sent me and none of you asks me ‘Where are you going to?’ But because I’ve said these things to you grief has filled your heart. But I’m saying the truth to you: it’s profitable for you that I go away, for if I don’t go away the Comforter won’t come to you; but if I go, I’ll send him to you. And having come he will censure the world about sin, and about righteousness, and about judgement. About sin because they don’t believe in me, about righteousness because I’m going away to my Father and you no longer look on me, and about judgement because the ruler of this world has been judged.

“I’ve still got many things to say to you but you can’t bear them now. But when the Spirit of truth has come, he’ll guide you into all the truth, for he won’t speak from himself but whatever he hears he’ll speak and he’ll make known to you the things coming. He will glorify me, for of mine he’ll receive and will make known to you. All things, whatever the Father has, are mine, because of this I said that he’ll receive of mine and will make known to you. A little while and you don’t look on me, and again a little while and you will see me, because I’m going away to the Father.”

So some of the disciples said to one another,

“What’s this that he’s saying to us ‘a little while and you don’t look on me, and again a little while and you will see me.’ And ‘because I’m going away to the Father’?”

So they said, “What’s this that he’s saying: the ‘little while’? We don’t know what he’s talking about!”

So Jesus knew that they wanted to ask him and said to them, “You’re asking one another about this that I said ‘A little while and you don’t look on me, and again a little while and you will see me’. Truly, truly I’m telling you that you will weep and sorrow, but the world will rejoice; and you will be saddened, but your sadness will become joy. A woman when she’s giving birth has sorrow, because her hour has come, but when she does give birth to the child, she no longer remembers the anguish because of the joy that a person has been born into the world. So you too now have sorrow indeed, but I will see you again, and your heart will rejoice, and no one takes your joy away from you. And in that day you’ll ask nothing of me.

“Truly, truly I’m telling you that whatever you may ask the Father in my name, he will give you. Up till now you’ve asked nothing in my name: ask and you’ll receive so that your joy may be full. I’ve spoken these things in parables to you, but a time is coming when I’ll no longer speak to you in parables but I’ll make known to you plainly about the Father. In that day you’ll ask in my name, and I’m not saying to you that I’ll ask the Father for you, for the Father himself loves you, because you’ve loved me and have believed that I came out from God. I came out from the Father and have come into the world; again, I’m leaving the world and am going to the Father.”

His disciples say to him,

“Look, now you’re speaking plainly and you’re not speaking a parable. Now we know that you know all things and you have no need that anyone should ask you. By this we believe that you’ve come out from God.”

Jesus answered them,

“Do; you believe now? Look an hour is coming, indeed has now come, that you’ll each be scattered to his own, and you’ll leave me alone - and yet I’m not alone for the Father is with me. I’ve spoken these things to you so that you may have peace in me. In the world you’ll have anguish, but take courage, I have overcome the world!”

Chapter Seventeen

Jesus spoke these things and lifted his eyes up to heaven and said,

“Father, the hour has come, glorify your Son, so that your Son may also glorify you, as you gave him authority over all flesh so that all which you have given him, to them he should give everlasting life. And this is the everlasting life: that they should know you the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you sent. I’ve glorified you on the earth, I’ve finished the work which you’ve given me to do, and now you glorify me, Father, with yourself, with the glory which I had with you before the world was.

“I’ve revealed your name to the men who you’ve given me from the world. They were yours and you’ve given them to me, and they’ve kept your word. Now they’ve known that everything which you’ve given me is from you, that the words which you’ve given me I’ve given them, and they received them and knew truly that I came out from you, and they’ve believed that you sent me.

“I’m asking about them, I’m not asking about the world, but about those you’ve given me, for they’re yours, and all my things are yours and yours mine, and I’ve been glorified in them. And I’m no longer in the world and these are in the world. And I’m coming to you. Holy Father, keep them in your name whom you’ve given me, so that they may be one like us.

“When I was with them in the world I used to keep them in your name, those whom you’ve given me I’ve guarded and none of them perished except the son of perdition, so that the scripture might be fulfilled. And now I’m coming to you, and I’m speaking these things in the world, so that they may have my joy fulfilled in them. I’ve given your word to them, and the world hated them, because they’re not of the world, even as I’m not of the world. I’m not asking that you should take them out of the world, but that you should keep them from the evil. They aren’t of the world just as I’m not of the world. Sanctify them in your truth: your word is truth. Even as you sent me into the world, I too sent them into the world and I sanctify myself for them, so that they too may be sanctified in truth.

“I’m not asking only for these but also for the ones believing in me through their word, so that all may be one even as you, Father, are in me and I in you, so that they may be one in us, so that the world may believe that you sent me. And I’ve given them the glory, which you’ve given me so that they may be one, even as we are one. I in them and you in me so that they may be made perfect in one, and so that the world may know that you sent me and loved them even as you loved me.”

“Father, I desire that those whom you’ve given me may also be with me where I am, so that they may look on the glory which you gave me, for you loved me before the foundation of the world. Righteous Father, the world didn’t know you, but I knew you, and these knew that you sent me. And I’ve made your name known to them and I’ll continue to make it known so that the love with which you’ve loved me may be in them, and I in them.”

Chapter Eighteen

Having said these things Jesus went out with his disciples beyond the stream of Kedron, where there was a garden into which he and his disciples entered. And Judas who was handing him over also knew the place, because Jesus often used to gather there with his disciples. So Judas, having received the band of men and officers from the chief priests and Pharisees, comes there with torches and lamps and weapons.

So Jesus, knowing everything that was coming to him, having gone out says to them,

“Who are you looking for?”

They answered him,

“Jesus the Nazarene!”

Jesus says to them,

“It’s me!”

And Judas who was handing him over was standing with them too.

So when he said to them ‘It’s me!’ they went backwards and fell to the ground.

So he asked them again,

“Who are you looking for?”

And they said,

“Jesus the Nazarene!”

Jesus answered,

“I told you that it’s me. So if you’re looking for me, let these go away.”

So that the word which said ‘Of those who you have given me I have lost not one’ might be fulfilled.

So Simon Peter, having a sword, drew it and struck the high priest’s servant and cut off his right ear. And the servant’s name was Malchus.

So Jesus said to Peter,

“Put your sword into the scabbard: shouldn’t I drink the cup, which the Father has given me?”

So the band and the chief captain and the officers of the Jews took hold of Jesus and bound him; and first they led him away to Annas, for he was father-in-law of Caiaphas who was that year’s high priest. And it was Caiaphas who had advised the Jews that it is profitable for one man to die for the people.

And Simon Peter and the other disciple followed Jesus. And that disciple was known to the high priest, and went in with Jesus into the court of the high priest. But Peter stood near the door outside. So the other disciple, who was known to the high priest, went out and spoke to the girl who was keeping the door and brought Peter in.

So the maid who was keeping the door says to Peter,

“Aren’t you too one of this man’s disciples?”

He says, “I’m not!’

But the servants and the officers were standing by, having made a fire of coals, for it was cold and they were warming themselves, and Peter was with them standing and warming himself.

So the high priest questioned Jesus about his disciples and about his teaching.

Jesus answered him,

“I spoke openly to the world. I always taught in the synagogue and in the temple, where the Jews always come together, and I spoke nothing in secret. Why are you asking me? Ask those who heard what I spoke to them: look, they know what I said!”

But on his saying these things one of the officers slapped Jesus saying,

“Do you answer the high priest thus?”

Jesus answered,

“If I’ve spoken evil bear witness about the evil, but if well, why do you strike me?”

Annas sent him bound to Caiaphas the high priest.

And Simon Peter was standing warming himself. So they said to him,

“Aren’t you too one of his disciples?”

He denied and said,

“I’m not!”

One of the high priest’s servants being a relative of the one whose ear Peter had cut off says,

“Didn’t I see you in the garden with him?”

So Peter denied again. And at once a cock crowed.

So they lead Jesus off from Caiaphas into the praetorium, and it was early. And they did not go into the praetorium lest they be defiled, but rather that they might eat the Passover.

So Pilate went out to them and said,

“What accusation are you bringing against this man?”

They answered and said to him,

“If he weren’t a wrong doer we wouldn’t have handed him over to you.’

So Pilate said to them,

“You take him and judge him according to your law.”

So the Jews said to him,

“We’re not allowed to put anyone to death,” so that Jesus’ word might be fulfilled which he had spoken signifying by what death he was going to die.

So Pilate entered into the praetorium again and called Jesus and said to him, “Are you the King of the Jews?”

Jesus answered him,

“Are you saying this from yourself or did others tell you about me?”

Pilate answered,

“I’m not a Jew am I? Your nation and the chief’ priests have handed you over to me. What have you done?”

Jesus answered,

“My kingdom is not of this world. If my kingdom were of this world my servants would fight so that I might not be handed over to the Jews, but now my kingdom is not from here.”

So Pilate said to him,

“Then you are a king!”

Jesus answered,

“You’re right that I’m a king! I’ve been born for this and I’ve come into the world for this, so that I may bear witness to the truth! Everyone being of the truth hears my voice!”

Pilate says to him,

“What is truth?”

And having said this he went out again to the Jews and says to them,

“I find no fault in him. But it is a custom with you that I should release one to you at the Passover, so do you intend that I should release to you the King of the Jews?”

So they all cried out again saying,

“Not this one, but Barabbas!”

Now Barabbas was a robber.

Chapter Nineteen

So then Pilate took Jesus and scourged him. And the soldiers having plaited a crown of thorns placed it on his head, and put a purple cloak around him, and said, “Hi! King of the Jews!”

And they slapped him.

So Pilate went out again and says to them, “Look! I’m bringing him out to you, so that you may know that I find no fault in him.”

So Jesus went out, wearing the thorny crown and the purple cloak, and he says to them,

“Look at the man!”

So when the chief priests and the officers saw him they cried out saying,

“Crucify! Crucify!”

Pilate says to them,

“You take and crucify him, for I find no fault in him!”

The Jews answered him,

“We have a law, and according to our law he ought to die because he made himself God’s Son!”

So when Pilate heard this word he was more afraid, and he went into the praetorium again and says to Jesus,

“Where are you from?”

But Jesus did not give him an answer,

So Pilate says to him,

“Aren’t you speaking to me? Don’t you know that I have authority to crucify you and I have authority to release you?”

Jesus answered,

“You’d have no authority at all against me if it were not given you from above. Because of this the one handing me over to you has greater sin.”

From then on Pilate tried to release him, but the Jews cried out saying,

“If you release this man you’re not a friend of Caesar! Everyone making himself a king is speaking against Caesar!”

So Pilate, having heard this word, led Jesus out and sat down on the judgement seat at a place called Pavement, but Gabbatha in Hebrew. And it was the Passover’s preparation and about the sixth hour, and he says to the Jews,

“Look! Your King!”

But they cried out,

“Away, away, crucify him!”

Pilate says to them,

“Shall I crucify your King?’

The chief priests answered,

“We’ve got no king except Caesar!”

So then he handed him over to them so that he might be crucified. And they took Jesus and led him away.

And carrying his cross he went out to what is called ‘The place of a skull’, which in Hebrew is called ‘Golgotha’, where they crucified him and two others with him, on this side and on that side, and Jesus in the middle. And Pilate also wrote a title and put it on the cross, and there was written ‘Jesus the Nazarene, the King of the Jews’. So this title many of the Jews read, for the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city, and it was written in Hebrew, in Greek, in Latin.

So the chief priests of the Jews said to Pilate,

“Don’t write ‘The King of the Jews’ but that ‘He said I am King of the Jews’.”

Pilate answered,

“What I have written, I have written!”

So the soldiers, when they crucified Jesus took his clothes and made four parts, to each soldier a part, and the tunic. But the tunic was seamless, woven from the top throughout. So they said to one another,

“Let’s not tear it, but let’s cast lots for it, whose it will be,” so that the scripture would be fulfilled which says, ‘They divided my clothes among them and for my raiment they cast a lot’. So the soldiers did these things.

And his mother stood by Jesus’ cross, and his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene. So Jesus, seeing his mother and the disciple whom he loved, standing by, says to his mother,

“Woman, look, your son!”

Then he says to the disciple,

“Look, your mother!”

And from that time the disciple took her to his own people.

After this, Jesus, knowing that everything has now been completed, so that the scripture might be fulfilled, says,

“I’m thirsty!”

So a pot full of vinegar was set out, and, having filled a sponge with vinegar, and having put on hyssop they put it to his mouth.

So when Jesus took the vinegar he said,

“It’s completed!”

And having bowed his head he gave up his Spirit.

So the Jews, so that the bodies would not remain on the cross on the Sabbath, because it was preparation, for that Sabbath was a great day, asked Pilate that their legs be broken and they be taken away. So the soldiers came and broke the legs of the first and of the other who was crucified with him, but having come to Jesus, when they saw he was already dead they did not break his legs. But one of the soldiers pierced his side with a spear and immediately blood and water came out.

And he who saw, bore witness and his witness is true and he knows that he says true so that you may believe. For these things happened so that the scripture might be fulfilled: ‘No bone of his will be broken’ and again another scripture says, ‘They will look on him whom they pierced’.

And after these things Joseph of Arimathaea, being a disciple of Jesus, but secretly through fear of the Jews, asked Pilate that he might take away the body of Jesus, and Pilate gave permission. So he came and took away Jesus’ body.

And Nicodemus, who had come to Jesus by night at first, came too bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about a hundred pounds weight . So they took Jesus’ body and bound it in linen cloths with the aromatics, as is the customary way among the Jews to prepare for burial.

And there was, in the place where he was crucified, a garden, and in the garden a new tomb in which no one had ever been laid. There therefore, because of the preparation of the Jews, for the tomb was nearby, they laid Jesus.

Chapter Twenty

And on the first day of the week Mary Magdalene comes early, it being still dark, to the tomb, and sees the stone taken away from the tomb. So she runs and comes to Simon Peter and to the other disciple whom Jesus loved and says to them,

“They’ve taken away the Lord out of the tomb, and we don’t know where they’ve laid him!”

So Peter and the other disciple went out and came to the tomb. And the two ran together, and the other disciple ran ahead faster than Peter, and came to the tomb first, and stooping down he sees the linen cloths lying. However he did not go in. Then Simon Peter comes following him, and entered into the tomb and sees the linen cloths lying, and the handkerchief which had been on his head, lying not with the linen cloths but folded up in a place by itself. So then the other disciple, who had come first to the tomb, went in also, and saw and believed. For they did not yet know the scripture that he must rise from the dead.

So the disciples went away again to their own. But Mary stood outside by the tomb, weeping. So as she wept she stooped down into the tomb, and sees two angels in white sitting, one at the head and one at the feet, where the body of Jesus had lain.

And they say to her,

“Woman, why are you crying?”

She says to them,

“Because they’ve taken away my Lord and I don’t know where they’ve laid him!”

And having said these things she turned round and sees Jesus standing and did not know that it is Jesus.

Jesus says to her,

“Woman, why are you crying? Who are you looking for?” She, thinking that he is the gardener says to him,

“Sir, if you’ve carried him away, tell me where you’ve laid him and I’ll take him away!”

Jesus says to her,

“Mary!” Turning, she says to him,

“Rabboni!” that is to say ‘Teacher!’

Jesus says to her,

“Don’t touch me for I haven’t yet gone up to my Father. But go to my brethren and say to them, ‘I’m going up to my Father and your Father and my God and your God.’“

Mary Magdalene comes bringing word to the disciples she has seen the Lord, and he has said these things to her.

So, it being evening on that day, the first of the week, and the doors having been shut where the disciples were assembled through fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in the middle and says to them,

“Peace to you!”

And having said this he showed them his hands and his side.

So the disciples rejoiced having seen the Lord.

So Jesus said to them again,

“Peace to you! Even as the Father has sent me out, I too am sending you!”

And haying said this he breathed on them and says to them,

“Receive the Holy Spirit! If you pardon anybody’s sins they are pardoned them; if you retain anybody’s sins, they’ve been retained!”

But Thomas, one of the twelve, called Didymus, was not with them when Jesus came. So the other disciples said to him,

“We’ve seen the Lord!”

But he said to them,

“Unless I see in his hands the mark of the nails, and put my finger into the mark of the nails, and put my hand into his side I will definitely not believe!”

And after eight days, again his disciples were inside and Thomas with them. The doors having been shut, Jesus comes and stood in the midst and said,

“Peace to you!’

Then he says to Thomas,

“Bring your finger here and see my hands, and bring your hand and put it into my side, and don’t be unbelieving, but believing!”

And Thomas answered and said to him,

“My Lord and my God!”

Jesus says to him,

“Because you’ve seen me, Thomas, you’ve believed. Blessed they who have not seen - and have believed!”

So too indeed Jesus did many other signs in the presence of his disciples, which are not written in this book. But these have been written so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and so that believing you may have life in his name.

Chapter Twenty One

After these things Jesus showed himself again to the disciples at the sea of Tiberias; and he appeared thus:

There were together Simon Peter, and Thomas called Didymus, and Nathanael from Cana of Galilee, and the sons of Zebedee, and two other of his disciples.

Simon Peter says to them,

“I’m going fishing!”

They say to him,

“We’re coming with you too!”

Immediately they went out and went up into the boat, and during that night they caught nothing. And it already being morning, Jesus was standing on the shore. However the disciples did not know that it is Jesus.

So Jesus says to them,

“Children, you haven’t got any food have you?”

They answered him,

“No.”

And he said to them,

“Cast the net to the right side of the boat and you’ll find!”

So they cast and now could not draw it in for the great number of fish.

So that disciple whom Jesus loved says to Peter,

“It’s the Lord!”

So Simon Peter, having heard that it is the Lord, put on his tunic - for he was bare - and threw himself into the sea. And the other disciples came in the small boat, for they were not far from land, but something like two hundred cubits away, dragging the net of fish.

So when they went up on the land they see a fire of coals laid and fish set on it, and bread.

Jesus says to them,

“Bring some of the fish that you caught just now.”

Simon Peter went up and drew the net to the land full of a hundred and fifty three large fish, and though there were so many, the net was not torn.

Jesus says to them,

“Come and have breakfast!”

But none of the disciples dared to ask him ‘Who are you?’ knowing that it is the Lord. So Jesus comes and takes the bread and gives to them, and similarly the fish. Now this was the third time Jesus appeared to his disciples, having been raised from the dead.

So when they had breakfasted Jesus says to Simon Peter,

“Simon of Jonas, do you love me more than these?”

He says to him,

“Lord you know that I love you!”

He says to him,

“Feed my lambs!”

He says to him again a second time,

“Simon of Jonas, do you love me?”

He says to him,

“Yes Lord you know I love you!”

He says to him,

“Shepherd my sheep.”

He says to him the third time,

“Simon of Jonas, do you love me?”

Peter was saddened because he said to him the third time ‘Do you love me?’ and said to him,

“Lord you know everything! You know that I love you!”

Jesus says to him,

“Feed my sheep! Truly, truly I’m telling you, when you were younger you girded yourself and walked where you wanted, but when you’re old you’ll stretch out your hands, and another will gird you, and bring you where you don’t want.”

And he said this signifying by what death he would glorify God. And having said this he says to him,

“Follow me!”

And having turned round Peter sees the disciple whom Jesus loved following, who also had reclined on his breast at the supper, and had said ‘Lord who is it who’s handing you over?’ Seeing him Peter says to Jesus,

“But Lord what about this one?”

Jesus says to him,

“If I want him to remain until I come: what is it to you? You, follow me!”

Then this saying went out among the brethren that that disciple would not die. Yet Jesus did not say to him that he would not die, but ‘If I want him to remain until I come what is it to you?’

This is the disciple who is testifying about these things and has written these things and we know that his witness is true. And there are also many other things which Jesus did, which if they were to be written each one, I suppose not even the world itself would contain the books written. Truly.

This translation,

from the Greek Text used for the ‘Authorized’ or ‘King James’ Version

Copyright © David Lawrie 1998

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