20These words he spoke in the treasury, while teaching in the temple; and no one laid hands on him, because his hour had not yet come.
21Again therefore he said to them: I go away, and ye will seek me, and shall die in your sin. Whither I go, ye can not come.22The Jews therefore said: Will he kill himself? because he says: Whither I go, ye can not come.23And he said to them: Ye are from beneath; I am from above. Ye are of this world; I am not of this world.24I said therefore to you, that ye shall die in your sins; for if ye believe not that I am he, ye shall die in your sins.25Therefore they said to him: Who art thou? And Jesus said to them: That which I also say to you from the beginning.26I have many things to say and to judge concerning you. But he who sent me is true; and the things which I heard from him, these I speak to the world.27They understood not that he spoke to them of the Father.
28Therefore Jesus said to them: When ye shall have lifted up the Son of man, then ye shall know that I am he; and of myself I do nothing, but as the Father taught me, those things I speak.29And he who sent me is with me. He has not left me alone; because I do always the things that please him.30As he spoke these words many believed on him.
31Jesus therefore said to those Jews who have believed him: If ye continue in my word, ye are truly my disciples;32and ye shall know the truth, and the truth will make you free.33They answered him: We are Abraham's seed, and have never been in bondage to any one. How sayest thou: Ye shall be made free?34Jesus answered them: Verily, verily, I say to you, every one who commits sin is a servant of sin.35And the servant abides not in the house forever.36The Son abides forever; if therefore the Son shall make you free, ye will be free indeed.37I know that ye are Abraham's seed; but ye seek to kill me, because my word has no place in you.38I speak what I have seen with my Father; and ye therefore do what ye have heard from your father.
39They answered and said to him: Our father is Abraham. Jesus says to them: If ye were children of Abraham, ye would do the works of Abraham.40But now ye seek to kill me, a man who has spoken to you the truth, which I heard from God. This Abraham did not.41Ye do the works of your father. They said to him: We were not born of fornication; we have one father, God.42Jesus said to them: If God were your father, ye would love me; for from God I came forth, and am come; neither have I come of myself, but he sent me.43Why do ye not understand my speech? Because ye can not hear my word.44Ye are of your father the Devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abides not in the truth, because truth is not in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks of his own; because he is a liar, and the father of it.45And because I speak the truth, ye believe me not.
46Which of you convicts me of sin? If I speak truth, why do ye not believe me?47He that is of God hears God's words; ye therefore hear not, because ye are not of God.
48The Jews answered and said to him: Say we not well, that thou art a Samaritan, and hast a demon?49Jesus answered: I have not a demon; but I honor my Father, and ye dishonor me.50And I seek not my own glory; there is one that seeks, and judges.51Verily, verily, I say to you, if any one keep my saying, he shall not see death, forever.52The Jews said to him: Now we know that thou hast a demon. Abraham is dead, and the prophets; and thou sayest: If a man keep my saying, he shall not taste of death, forever.53Art thou greater than our father Abraham, who is dead? And the prophets are dead. Whom makest thou thyself?54Jesus answered: If I honor myself, my honor is nothing. It is my Father that honors me, of whom ye say, that he is your God.55And ye know him not; but I know him. And if I say, I know him not, I shall be a liar like to you. But I know him, and I keep his word.56Abraham, your father, rejoiced to see my day; and he saw it, and was glad.57The Jews therefore said to him: Thou art not yet fifty years old, and hast thou seen Abraham?58Jesus said to them: Verily, verily, I say to you, before Abraham was, I am.59They took up stones therefore to cast at him. But Jesus hid himself, and went out of the temple.
IX.Andpassing along, he saw a man blind from his birth.2And his disciples asked him, saying: Master, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he should be born blind?3Jesus answered: Neither this man sinned, nor his parents; but that the works of God should be made manifest in him.4I must work the works of him who sent me, while it is day. Night is coming, when none can work.5As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.
6Having thus spoken, he spit on the ground, and made clay of the spittle, and anointed the eyes of the blind man with the clay,7and said to him: Go, wash in the pool of Siloam (which is interpreted, Sent). He went away therefore, and washed, and came seeing.
8The neighbors therefore, and they who before had seen him that he was a beggar, said: Is not this he that sits and begs?9Some said: This is he; and others: He is like him; he said: I am he.10Therefore they said to him: How were thine eyes opened?11He answered: A man called Jesus made clay, and anointed mine eyes, and said to me: Go to the pool of Siloam, and wash. And I went away and washed, and received sight.12They said to him: Where is he? He said: I know not.
13They bring to the Pharisees him who before was blind.14And it was the sabbath when Jesus made the clay, and opened his eyes.15Again therefore the Pharisees also asked him, how he received sight. He said to them: He put clay upon mine eyes, and I washed, and do see.16Therefore some of the Pharisees said: This man is not from God, because he keeps not the sabbath. Others said: How can a man that is a sinner do such signs? And there was a division among them.17They say to the blind man again: What sayest thou of him, seeing that he opened thine eyes? He said: He is a Prophet.
18The Jews therefore did not believe concerning him, that he was blind and received sight, until they called the parents of him that received sight.19And they asked them, saying: Is this your son, who ye say was born blind? How then does he now see?20His parents answered them and said: We know that this is our son, and that he was born blind.21But by what means he now sees, we know not; or who opened his eyes, we know not. He is of age; ask him. He shall speak for himself.22These words spoke his parents, because they feared the Jews; for the Jews had agreed already, that if any one acknowledged him as Christ, he should be put out of the synagogue.23Therefore his parents said: He is of age; ask him.
24They therefore called a second time the man that was blind, and said to him: Give glory to God; we know that this man is a sinner.25He answered therefore: Whether he is a sinner, I know not; one thing I know, that, whereas I was blind, now I see.26They therefore said to him: What did he to thee? How opened he thine eyes?27He answered them: I told you already, and ye did not hear. Wherefore would ye hear again? Will ye also become his disciples?28They reviled him, and said: Thou art his disciple; but we are Moses' disciples.29We know that God has spoken to Moses; but this man we know not, whence he is.30The man answered and said to them: Why herein is a marvelous thing, that ye know not whence he is, and he opened mine eyes.31Now we know that God hears not sinners. But if any one is a worshiper of God, and does his will, him he hears.32Since the world began, it was not heard that any one opened the eyes of one born blind.33If this man were not from God, he could do nothing.34They answered and said to him: Thou wast altogether born in sins, and dost thou teach us? And they cast him out.
35Jesus heard that they cast him out; and finding him, he said to him: Dost thou believe on the Son of God?36He answered and said: Who then is he, Lord, that I may believe on him?37And Jesus said to him: Thou hast both seen him, and he it is that talks with thee.38And he said: Lord, I believe. And he worshiped him.
39And Jesus said: For judgment came I into this world; that they who see not may see, and that they who see may become blind.40And some of the Pharisees who were with him heard these words, and said to him: Are we also blind?41Jesus said to them: If ye were blind, ye would not have sin. But now ye say: We see. Your sin remains!
X.Verily, verily, I say to you: He that enters not through the door into the sheepfold, but climbs up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber.2But he that enters in through the door is a shepherd of the sheep.3To him the porter opens, and the sheep hear his voice; and he calls his own sheep by name, and leads them out.4And when he has put forth all his own, he goes before them; and the sheep follow him, for they know his voice.5And a stranger they will not follow, but will flee from him; because they know not the voice of strangers.
6This parable spoke Jesus to them; but they understood not what things they were which he spoke to them.
7Therefore said Jesus to them again: Verily, verily, I say to you, I am the door of the sheep.8All who came before me are thieves and robbers; but the sheep did not hear them.9I am the door. If any one enter in through me, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out and find pasture.10The thief comes not but to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I came that they may have life, and that they may have it abundantly.
11I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.12But he that is a hireling, and not a shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, sees the wolf coming, and leaves the sheep, and flees; and the wolf catches them, and scatters the sheep.13The hireling flees, because he is a hireling, and cares not for the sheep.14I am the good shepherd; and I know mine, and am known by mine,15as the Father knows me, and I know the Father; and I lay down my life for the sheep.16And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold. Them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice; and there shall be one flock, one shepherd.17For this the Father loves me, because I lay down my life, that I may take it again.18No one takes it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have authority to lay it down, and I have authority to take it again. This commandment I received from my Father.
19Again there arose a division among the Jews because of these words.20And many of them said: He has a demon, and is mad, why do ye hear him?21Others said: These are not the words of one that has a demon. Can a demon open the eyes of the blind?
22And there came the feast of the dedication, in Jerusalem; and it was winter.23And Jesus was walking in the temple, in the porch of Solomon.24The Jews therefore came around him, and said to him: How long dost thou hold us in doubt24? If thou art the Christ, tell us plainly.
25Jesus answered them: I told you, and ye do not believe. The works that I do in my Father's name, these bear witness of me.26But ye do not believe; for ye are not of my sheep, as I said to you.27My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me;28and I give to them eternal life; and they shall never perish, nor shall any one pluck them out of my hand.29My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all; and no one is able to pluck them out of my Father's hand.30I and the Father are one.
31The Jews therefore took up stones again to stone him.32Jesus answered them: Many good works have I showed you from my Father; for which of those works do ye stone me?33The Jews answered him: For a good work we stone thee not, but for blasphemy, and because thou, being man, makest thyself God.34Jesus answered them: Is it not written in your law, I said,Ye are gods?35If he called them gods to whom the word of God came, and the Scripture can not be broken,36say ye of him, whom the Father sanctified, and sent into the world, Thou blasphemest, because I said, I am the Son of God?37If I do not the works of my Father, believe me not.38But if I do, though ye believe not me, believe the works; that ye may learn and know, that the Father is in me, and I in the Father.39Therefore they sought again to seize him; and he went forth, out of their hand.
40And he went away again beyond the Jordan, to the place where John was at first immersing; and there he abode.41And many came to him, and said: John indeed wrought no sign; but all things that John spoke of this man were true.42And many believed on him there.
XI.Nowa certain one was sick, Lazarus of Bethany, from the village of Mary and Martha her sister.2It was the Mary who anointed the Lord with ointment, and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick.3The sisters therefore sent to him, saying: Lord, behold, he whom thou lovest is sick.4And Jesus hearing it, said: This sickness is not for death, but for the sake of the glory of God, that the Son of God may be glorified thereby.
5Now Jesus loved Martha, and her sister, and Lazarus.6When therefore he heard that he was sick, he then abode two days in the place where he was.7Then after this he says to the disciples: Let us go into Judæa again.8The disciples say to him: Master, the Jews of late sought to stone thee; and goest thou thither again?9Jesus answered: Are there not twelve hours in the day? If any one walk in the day, he stumbles not, because he sees the light of this world.10But if any one walk in the night, he stumbles, because the light is not in him.
11These things said he; and after this he says to them: Lazarus our friend has fallen asleep; but I go, that I may awake him out of sleep.12Therefore his disciples said: Lord if he has fallen asleep, he will be restored.13But Jesus had spoken of his death; but they thought that he said it of taking rest in sleep.14Then therefore Jesus said to them plainly: Lazarus is dead.15And I am glad for your sakes that I was not there, that ye may believe. But let us go to him.16Therefore said Thomas, who is called Didymus, to his fellow disciples: Let us also go, that we may die with him.
17Having come therefore, Jesus found that he had already been four days in the tomb.
18Now Bethany was nigh to Jerusalem, about fifteen furlongs off.19And many of the Jews had come to Martha and Mary, to comfort them concerning their brother.
20Therefore Martha, when she heard that Jesus is coming, went and met him; but Mary sat in the house.21Then said Martha to Jesus: Lord, if thou hadst been here, my brother had not died.22But even now, I know that whatever thou shalt ask of God, God will give it thee.23Jesus says to her: Thy brother will rise again.24Martha says to him: I know that he will rise again, in the resurrection at the last day.25Jesus said to her: I am the resurrection, and the life; he that believes on me, though he be dead, yet shall he live;26and whoever lives and believes on me, shall never die. Believest thou this?27She says to him: Yea, Lord; I believe that thou art the Christ, the Son of God, who comes into the world.
28And having said this, she went away, and called Mary her sister secretly, saying: The Teacher is come, and calls for thee.29And she, when she heard it, rises quickly and comes to him.
30Now Jesus had not yet come into the village, but was in the place where Martha met him.31The Jews therefore who were with her in the house and comforting her, when they saw that Mary rose up hastily and went out, followed her, saying: She goes to the tomb to weep there.
32Mary therefore, when she came where Jesus was, seeing him, fell down at his feet, saying to him: Lord, if thou hadst been here, my brother had not died.
33Jesus therefore, when he saw her weeping, and the Jews weeping who came with her, groaned in spirit, and was troubled.34And he said: Where have ye laid him? They say to him: Lord, come and see.35Jesus wept.
36The Jews therefore said: Behold how he loved him!37And some of them said: Could not this man, who opened the eyes of the blind, have caused even that this man should not have died?38Jesus therefore, again groaning in himself, comes to the tomb. It was a cave, and a stone lay upon it.
39Jesus says: Take away the stone. The sister of him that was dead, Martha, says to him: Lord, by this time he is offensive; for he has been dead four days.40Jesus says to her: Said I not to thee, that, if thou believe, thou shalt see the glory of God?
41So they took away the stone. And Jesus raised his eyes upward, and said: Father, I thank thee that thou didst hear me.42And I knew that thou always hearest me; but for the sake of the multitude standing around I said it, that they might believe that thou didst send me.43And having thus spoken, he cried with a loud voice: Lazarus, come forth.44And he that was dead came forth, bound hand and foot with grave clothes; and his face was bound about with a napkin. Jesus says to them: Loose him, and let him go.
45Many therefore of the Jews who came to Mary, and saw what he did, believed on him.46But some of them went away to the Pharisees, and told them what Jesus did.
47Therefore the chief priests and the Pharisees gathered a council, and said: What do we, seeing that this man works many signs?48If we let him thus alone, all will believe on him; and the Romans will come and take away both our place and nation.49And a certain one of them, Caiaphas, being high priest that year, said to them: Ye know nothing;50nor do ye consider that it is expedient for us, that one man die for the people, and not the whole nation perish.51And this he spoke not of himself; but being high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus should die for the nation;52and not for the nation only, but that also he should gather together into one the children of God that were scattered abroad.
53Therefore from that day forth they took counsel together to put him to death.54Jesus therefore no longer walked openly among the Jews; but departed thence to the country near to the wilderness, to a city called Ephraim, and there continued with his disciples.
55And the passover of the Jews was at hand; and many went up to Jerusalem out of the country, before the passover, that they might purify themselves.56They sought therefore for Jesus, and said among themselves, as they stood in the temple: What think ye, that he will not come to the feast?57Now the chief priests and the Pharisees had given a commandment, that, if any one knew where he was, he should make it known, that they might seize him.
XII.ThereforeJesus, six days before the passover, came to Bethany, where Lazarus was who had been dead, whom Jesus raised from the dead.2They therefore made him a supper there, and Martha served; and Lazarus was one of those who reclined at table with him.
3Then Mary took a pound of ointment of pure spikenard, very costly, and anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his feet with her hair; and the house was filled with the odor of the ointment.4Then says one of his disciples, Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, who was about to betray him:5Why was not this ointment sold for three hundred denáries5, and given to the poor?6This he said, not because he cared for the poor; but because he was a thief, and had the bag, and bore6what was put therein.7Then said Jesus: Let her alone; she has kept it7to the day of my preparation for burial.8For the poor ye have always with you; but me ye have not always.
9A great multitude of the Jews therefore knew that he was there. And they came, not because of Jesus only, but that they might see Lazarus also, whom he raised from the dead.
10But the chief priests consulted that they might put Lazarus also to death;11because by reason of him many of the Jews went away, and believed on Jesus.
12On the morrow a great multitude that had come to the feast, hearing that Jesus is coming to Jerusalem,13took branches of the palm-trees and went forth to meet him, and cried: Hosanna; blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord, the King of Israel.14And Jesus, having found a young ass, sat thereon; as it is written:
15Fear not, daughter of Zion;
Behold, thy King comes,
Sitting on an ass's colt.
16These things his disciples understood not at the first. But when Jesus was glorified, then they remembered that these things were written of him, and that they did these things to him.
17The multitude therefore that was with him when he called Lazarus out of the tomb, and raised him from the dead, bore witness.18For this the multitude also met him, because they heard that he had wrought this sign.19The Pharisees therefore said among themselves: Perceive ye that ye avail nothing? Behold, the world is gone after him.
20And there were certain Greeks, of those who come up to worship at the feast.21These came therefore to Philip, who was from Bethsaida of Galilee, and desired him, saying: Sir, we would see Jesus.22Philip comes and tells Andrew; Andrew and Philip come and tell Jesus.
23And Jesus answered them, saying: The hour has come, that the Son of man should be glorified.24Verily, verily, I say to you, except the grain of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abides alone; but if it die, it brings forth much fruit.25He that loves his life shall lose it; and he that hates his life in this world shall keep it unto life eternal.26If any one serve me, let him follow me; and where I am, there shall also my servant be. If any one serve me, him will the Father honor.
27Now is my soul troubled; and what shall I say? Father, save me from this hour27! But for this cause came I unto this hour.28Father, glorify thy name. Then there came a voice out of heaven: I both have glorified it, and will glorify it again.
29The multitude therefore that stood by and heard, said that it thundered; others said: An angel has spoken to him.30Jesus answered and said: This voice came not for my sake, but for your sakes.31Now is the judgment of this world; now shall the prince of this world be cast out.32And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men to me.33This he said, signifying by what manner of death he should die.
34The multitude answered him: We heard out of the law that the Christ abides forever; and how sayest thou: The Son of man must be lifted up? Who is this Son of man?35Jesus therefore said to them: Yet a little while is the light among you. Walk while ye have the light, that darkness may not overtake you; and he that walks in the darkness knows not whither he goes.36While ye have the light, believe on the light, that ye may become sons of light.
These things spoke Jesus, and departed, and hid himself from them.
37But though he had wrought so many signs before them, they did not believe on him;38that the saying of Isaiah the prophet might be fulfilled, which he spoke:
Lord, who believed our report,
And to whom was the arm of the Lord revealed?
39Therefore they could not believe, because Isaiah said again:
40He has blinded their eyes,
And has hardened their heart;
That they should not see with their eyes,
And understand with their heart,
And turn, and I should heal them.
41These things said Isaiah, because he saw his glory, and spoke of him.42Yet, even of the rulers many believed on him; but because of the Pharisees they did not acknowledge him, lest they should be put out of the synagogue;43for they loved the glory of men more than the glory of God.
44And Jesus cried and said: He that believes on me, believes not on me but on him who sent me.45And he that beholds me beholds him who sent me.46I have come a light into the world, that whoever believes on me may not abide in the darkness.47And if any one hear my words, and keep them not, I do not judge him; for I came not to judge the world, but to save the world.48He that rejects me, and receives not my words, has one that judges him. The word that I spokes that shall judge him in the last day.49Because I spoke not from myself; but the Father who sent me, he has given me a commandment, what I should say, and what I should speak.50And I know that his commandment is everlasting life. What things I speak therefore, as the Father has said to me, so I speak.
XIII.Andbefore the feast of the passover, Jesus knowing that his hour has come that he should depart out of this world to the Father, having loved his own who were in the world, loved them to the end.2And supper being served, the Devil having already put into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, to betray him;3knowing that the Father has given all things into his hands, and that he came out from God, and is going to God,4he rises from the supper, and lays aside his garments, and taking a towel he girded himself.5After that he pours water into the basin, and began to wash the feet of his disciples, and to wipe them with the towel with which he was girded.
6He comes therefore to Simon Peter; and Peter says to him: Lord, dost thou wash my feet?7Jesus answered and said to him: What I do thou knowest not now; but thou shalt know hereafter.8Peter says to him: Never shalt thou wash my feet. Jesus answered him: If I wash thee not, thou hast no part with me.9Simon Peter says to him: Lord, not my feet only, but also my hands and my head.10Jesus says to him: He that has bathed has no need save to wash the feet, but is wholly clean. And ye are clean; but not all.11For he knew his betrayer; therefore he said: Ye are not all clean.
12When therefore he had washed their feet, he took his garments, and reclining again at table, said to them: Know ye what I have done to you?13Ye call me the Teacher, and the Master; and ye say well, for so I am.14If I then, the Master and the Teacher, washed your feet, ye also ought to wash one another's feet.15For I gave you an example, that as I did to you, ye also should do.16Verily, verily, I say to you, a servant is not greater than his lord, nor one that is sent16greater than he who sent him.17If ye know these things, happy are ye if ye do them.
18I speak not of you all; I know whom I chose; but that the scripture might be fulfilled,He that eats the loaf with me lifted up his heel against me.19Even now I tell you, before it comes to pass, that when it comes to pass, ye may believe that I am he.20Verily, verily, I say to you, he that receives whomsoever I send receives me; and he that receives me receives him who sent me.
21Having said this, Jesus was troubled in spirit, and testified and said: Verily, verily, I say to you, that one of you will betray me.22The disciples therefore looked one on another, doubting of whom he spoke.23And there was reclining in Jesus' bosom one of his disciples, whom Jesus loved.24To him therefore Simon Peter beckons, and says to him: Say who it is of whom he speaks.25And he, leaning back on Jesus' breast, says to him: Lord, who is it?26Jesus answers: He it is, to whom I shall give the morsel, when I have dipped it. And having dipped the morsel, he gives it to Judas Iscariot, son of Simon.27And after the morsel, then entered Satan into him. Jesus therefore says to him: What thou doest, do quickly.
28And no one at the table knew for what intent he spoke this to him.29For some thought, because Judas had the bag, that Jesus said to him: Buy what we need for the feast; or, that he should give something to the poor.
30He then, having received the morsel, went immediately out; and it was night.
31When therefore he was gone out, Jesus says: Now is the Son of man glorified, and God is glorified in him.32If God is glorified in him, God will also glorify him in himself, and will straightway glorify him.33Children, yet a little while I am with you. Ye will seek me; and as I said to the Jews, whither I go ye can not come, so now I say to you.34A new commandment I give to you, that ye love one another; as I loved you, that ye also love one another.35By this shall all know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one toward another.
36Simon Peter says to him: Lord, whither goest thou? Jesus answered him: Whither I go, thou canst not follow me now; but thou shalt follow me afterward.37Peter says to him: Lord, why can not I follow thee now? I will lay down my life for thee.38Jesus answers: Wilt thou lay down thy life for me? Verily, verily, I say to thee, a cock will not crow, till thou hast denied me thrice.
XIV.Letnot your heart be troubled. Believe on God, and believe on me1.2In my Father's house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you; because I go to prepare a place for you.3And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and will receive you to myself; that where I am ye may be also.4And ye know the way whither I go.
5Thomas says to him: Lord, we know not whither thou goest; and how do we know the way?6Jesus says to him: I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, but by me.7If ye knew me, ye would know my Father also; and from henceforth ye know him, and have seen him.
8Philip says to him: Lord, show us the Father, and it suffices us.9Jesus says to him: Am I so long time with you, and dost thou not know me, Philip? He that has seen me has seen the Father; and how sayest thou: Show us the Father?10Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? The words that I speak to you I speak not of myself; but the Father who dwells in me, he does the works.11Believe me, that I am in the Father, and the Father in me; or else believe for the very works' sake.
12Verily, verily, I say to you, he that believes on me, the works that I do he shall do also, and greater than these shall he do, because I go to the Father.13And whatever ye shall ask in my name, that I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.14If ye shall ask anything in my name, I will do it.
15If ye love me, keep my commandments.16And I will ask of the Father, and he will give you another Comforter, that he may be with you forever;17the Spirit of truth, whom the world can not receive, because it sees him not, neither knows him; but ye know him, because he abides with you, and shall be in you.18I will not leave you bereaved18; I will come to you.
19Yet a little while, and the world sees me no more; but ye see me; because I live, ye shall live also.20In that day ye shall know that I am in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you.21He that has my commandments, and keeps them, he it is that loves me; and he that loves me shall be loved by my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.
22Judas says to him (not Iscariot): Lord, how is it that thou wilt manifest thyself to us, and not to the world?23Jesus answered and said to him: If any one loves me, he will keep my word; and my Father will love him, and we will come to him, and make our abode with him.24He that loves me not, keeps not my words; and the word which ye hear is not mine, but the Father's who sent me.
25These things have I spoken to you, while abiding with you.26But the Comforter, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all things which I said to you.
27Peace I leave with you, my peace I give to you; not as the world gives, give I to you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.28Ye heard how I said to you: I go away; and I come to you. If ye loved me, ye would have rejoiced that I go to the Father; because the Father is greater than I.29And now I have told you before it comes to pass, that, when it is come to pass, ye may believe.
30I will no longer talk much with you; for the prince of the world comes, and in me he has nothing.31But that the world may know that I love the Father, and as the Father gave me commandment, so I do. Arise, let us go hence.
XV.Iamthe true vine, and my Father is the husbandman.2Every branch in me that bears not fruit, he takes it away; and every one that bears fruit, he cleanses it, that it may bear more fruit.3Ye are already clean, through the word which I have spoken to you.
4Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch can not bear fruit of itself, if it abide not in the vine, so neither can ye, if ye abide not in me.5I am the vine, ye are the branches. He that abides in me and I in him, the same bears much fruit; because without me ye can do nothing.6If any one abide not in me, he is cast forth as the branch, and is withered; and they gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned.7If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask whatever ye will, and it shall be done to you.
8Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; and ye shall become my disciples.9As the Father loved me, I also loved you; abide in my love.10If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love.
11These things I have spoken to you, that my joy may be in you, and your joy be made full.12This is my commandment, that ye love one another, as I loved you.13Greater love has no one than this, that one lay down his life for his friends.14Ye are my friends, if ye do whatever I command you.
15No longer do I call you servants; because the servant knows not what his lord does. But I have called you friends because all things that I heard from my Father I made known to you.16Ye did not choose me, but I chose you, and appointed you that ye may go and bear fruit, and that your fruit may remain; that whatever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you.
17These things I command you, that ye love one another.18If the world hates you, ye know that it has hated me before it hated you.19If ye were of the world, the world would love its own; but because ye are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, for this the world hates you.20Remember the word that I said to you: A servant is not greater than his lord. If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they kept my saying, they will keep yours also.21But all these things they will do to you for my name's sake, because they know not him who sent me.
22If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have sin; but now they have no cloak for their sin.23He that hates me hates my Father also.24If I had not done among them the works which no other one has done, they would not have sin; but now they have both seen and hated both me and my Father.25But this comes to pass, that the word might be fulfilled that is written in their law:They hated me without a cause.
26But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, which proceeds from the Father, he will bear witness of me.27And ye also shall bear witness, because ye are with me from the beginning.
XVI.Thesethings I have spoken to you, that ye should not be offended.2They will put you out of the synagogues; yea, a time is coming, that every one who kills you will think he makes an offering to God.3And these things they will do to you, because they have not known the Father, nor me.4But these things I have spoken to you, that when the time shall come, ye may remember that I told you. And these things I told you not from the beginning, because I was with you.
5And now I go to him who sent me; and none of you asks me: Whither goest thou?6But because I have spoken these things to you, sorrow has filled your heart.7But I tell you the truth, it is expedient for you that I depart; for if I depart not, the Comforter will not come to you; but if I go, I will send him to you.8And when he is come, he will convict the world, in respect of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment;9of sin, in that they believe not on me;10of righteousness, in that I go to my Father, and ye behold me no more;11of judgment, in that the prince of this world has been judged.
12I have yet many things to say to you, but ye can not bear them now.13But when he, the Spirit of truth is come, he will guide you into all the truth; for he will not speak from himself, but whatever he shall hear, that will he speak, and he will tell you the things to come.14He will glorify me; because he will receive of mine, and will tell it to you.15All things that the Father has are mine. Therefore, I said, that he will receive of mine, and will tell it to you.16A little while, and ye behold me not; and again a little while, and ye shall see me.
17Therefore some of his disciples said to one another: What is this that he says to us, A little while, and ye behold me not; and again a little while, and ye shall see me; and, I go to the Father?18They said therefore: What is this that he says, A little while? We know not what he says.
19Jesus knew that they were desirous to ask him, and said to them: Do ye inquire of this with one another, that I said, A little while, and ye behold me not; and again a little while, and ye shall see me?20Verily, verily, I say to you, that ye will weep and lament, but the world will rejoice; and ye will be sorrowful, but your sorrow shall be turned into joy.21A woman when she is in travail has sorrow, because her hour is come; but when she has borne the child, she remembers no more the anguish, for joy that a man is born into the world.22And so ye now have sorrow; but I will see you again, and your heart shall rejoice, and your joy no one takes from you.
23And in that day ye shall ask nothing of me. Verily, verily, I say to you: Whatever ye shall ask of the Father, he will give it you in my name.24Hitherto ye asked nothing in my name. Ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be made full.
25These things I have spoken to you in parables. A time is coming, when I will no more speak to you in parables, but I will tell you plainly of the Father.26In that day ye shall ask in my name. And I say not to you, that I will pray the Father for you;27for the Father himself loves you, because ye have loved me, and have believed that I came forth from God.28I came forth from the Father, and have come into the world; again, I leave the world, and go to the Father.
29His disciples say to him: Lo, now thou speakest plainly, and speakest no parable.30Now we know that thou knowest all things, and needest not that any one should ask thee. By this we believe that thou camest forth from God.
31Jesus answered them: Do ye now believe?32Behold, an hour is coming, and has come, that ye will be scattered, each one to his own, and will leave me alone; and I am not alone, because the Father is with me.
33These things I have spoken to you, that in me ye may have peace. In the world ye have tribulation; but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world.
XVII.Thesewords spoke Jesus, and lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said: Father, the hour has come; glorify thy Son, that thy Son may glorify thee;2as thou gayest him authority over all flesh, that as many as thou hast given to him, to them he should give eternal life.3And this is the eternal life, that they know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou didst send.4I glorified thee on the earth; I finished the work which thou hast given me to do.5And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self, with the glory which I had with thee before the world was.6I manifested thy name to the men whom thou hast given me out of the world. Thine they were, and thou hast given them to me; and they have kept thy word.7Now they know that all things whatever thou hast given me are from thee;8because the words which thou gayest me I have given to them, and they received them, and knew in truth that I came forth from thee, and believed that thou didst send me.9I pray for them; I pray not for the world, but for those whom thou hast given me; because they are thine.10And all things that are mine are thine, and thine are mine; and I am glorified in them.
11And I am no longer in the world; and these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep those in thy name whom thou hast given me, that they may be one, as we are,12While I was with them, I kept them in thy name. Those whom thou hast given me I watched over and none of them perished, except the son of perdition, that the scripture might be fulfilled.13And now I come to thee; and these things I speak in the world, that they may have my joy made full in them.14I have given them thy word; and the world hated them, because they are not of the world, as I am not of the world.15I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil.16They are not of the world, as I am not of the world.17Sanctify them in the truth; thy word is truth.18As thou didst send me into the world, I also sent them into the world.19And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also may be sanctified in the truth.20And I pray not for these only, but also for those who believe on me through their word;21that all may be one; as thou, Father, in me and I in thee, that they also may be in us; that the world may believe that thou didst send me.22And the glory which thou hast given to me I have given to them, that they may be one, as we are one;23I in them, and thou in me, that they may be perfected into one; that the world may know that thou didst send me, and lovedst them as thou lovedst me.
24Father, those whom thou hast given me, I will that where I am they also be with me; that they may behold my glory, which thou hast given me; because thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world.25Righteous Father! And the world knew thee not! But I knew thee, and these knew that thou didst send me;26and I made known to them thy name, and will make it known; that the love wherewith thou lovedst me may be in them, and I in them.
XVIII.Havingspoken these words, Jesus went out with his disciples beyond the brook Kedron, where was a garden, into which he entered and his disciples.2And Judas also, his betrayer knew the place; because Jesus ofttimes resorted thither with his disciples.
3Judas therefore, having received the band and officers from the chief priests and Pharisees, comes thither with torches and lamps and weapons.4Jesus therefore, knowing all the things that were coming upon him, went forth and said to them: Whom do ye seek?5They answered him: Jesus the Nazarene. Jesus says to them: I am he. And Judas also, his betrayer, was standing with them.
6When therefore he said to them, I am he, they went backward, and fell to the ground.
7Again therefore he asked them: Whom do ye seek? And they said: Jesus the Nazarene.8Jesus answered: I told you that I am he; if therefore ye seek me, let these go their way;9that the saying might be fulfilled, which he spoke: Of those whom thou hast given me, I lost none.
10Then Simon Peter, having a sword, drew it and smote the servant of the high priest, and cut off his right ear. The servant's name was Malchus.11Jesus therefore said to Peter: Put up thy sword into the sheath. The cup which my Father has given me, shall I not drink it?
12So the band, and the captain, and the officers of the Jews, took Jesus and bound him,13and led him away to Annas first; for he was father-in-law of Caiaphas, who was high priest that year.14And it was Caiaphas who counseled the Jews, that it is expedient that one man should die for the people.
15And Simon Peter and the other disciple followed Jesus. That disciple was known to the high priest, and went in with Jesus into the court of the high priest.16But Peter was standing at the door without. Therefore the other disciple, who was known to the high priest, went out and spoke to her that kept the door, and brought in Peter.17Then the damsel that kept the door says to Peter: Art not thou also one of this man's disciples? He says: I am not.
18And the servants and the officers were standing there, having made a fire of coals, because it was cold, and were warming themselves; and Peter was standing with them, and warming himself.
19The high priest therefore asked Jesus concerning his disciples, and concerning his teaching.20Jesus answered him: I have spoken openly to the world; I ever taught in the synagogue, and in the temple, where all the Jews assemble; and I spoke nothing in secret.21Why askest thou me? Ask those who have heard, what I spoke to them. Behold, these know what things I said.
22And when he had said this, one of the officers who was standing by gave Jesus a blow on the face, saying: Answerest thou the high priest so?23Jesus answered him: If I spoke evil, bear witness of the evil; but if well, why dost thou smite me?
24Annas sent him bound to Caiaphas the high priest.25And Simon Peter was standing and warming himself. They said therefore to him: Art thou also one of his disciples? He denied, and said: I am not.26One of the servants of the high priest, being a kinsman of him whose ear Peter cut off, says: Did not I see thee in the garden with him?27Again therefore Peter denied; and immediately a cock crowed.
28Then they lead Jesus from Caiaphas into the Governor's palace; and it was early; and they themselves went not into the palace, that they might not be defiled, but might eat the passover.29Pilate therefore went out to them, and said: What accusation do ye bring against this man?30They answered and said to him: If this man were not a malefactor, we would not have delivered him up to thee.31Pilate therefore said to them: Do ye take him, and judge him according to your law. The Jews therefore said to him: It is not lawful for us to put any one to death;32that the saying of Jesus might be fulfilled, which he spoke, signifying by what manner of death he should die.
33Pilate therefore entered into the palace again, and called Jesus, and said to him: Art thou the King of the Jews?34Jesus answered: Dost thou say this of thyself, or did others tell thee concerning me?35Pilate answered: Am I a Jew? Thine own nation, and the chief priests, delivered thee up to me. What didst thou?36Jesus answered: My kingdom is not of this world. If my kingdom were of this world, my servants would fight, that I might not be delivered up to the Jews; but now is my kingdom not from hence.37Pilate therefore said to him: Art thou a king then? Jesus answered: Thou sayest it; because I am a king. To this end have I been born, and to this end have I come into the world, that I may bear witness to the truth. Every one that is of the truth hears my voice.
38Pilate 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.39But ye have a custom, that I should release to you one at the passover. Do ye desire therefore that I release to you the King of the Jews?40They all therefore cried out again, saying: Not this one, but Barabbas. Now Barabbas was a robber.
XIX.Thentherefore Pilate took Jesus, and scourged him.2And the soldiers platted a crown of thorns, and put it on his head, and put on him a purple robe; and they came to him,3and said: Hail, King of the Jews! And they gave him blows on the face.
4Pilate went forth again, and says to them: Behold, I bring him forth to you, that ye may know that I find no fault in him.5Jesus therefore came forth, wearing the crown of thorns, and the purple robe. And he says to them: Behold the man!
6When therefore the chief priests and the officers saw him, they cried out, saying: Crucify him, crucify him. Pilate says to them: Do ye take him, and crucify him; for I find no fault in him.7The Jews answered him: We have a law, and by our law he ought to die, because he made himself the Son of God.
8When therefore Pilate heard this saying, he was the more afraid.9And he went again into the palace, and says to Jesus: Whence art thou? But Jesus gave him no answer.10Then says Pilate to him: Dost thou not speak to me? Knowest thou not that I have power to release thee, and have power to crucify thee?11Jesus answered: Thou wouldst have no power against me, except it were given thee from above. Therefore he that delivers me to thee has the greater sin.12Thenceforth Pilate sought to release him. But the Jews cried out, saying: If thou let this man go, thou art not a friend of Cæsar. Whoever makes himself a king speaks against Cæsar.
13When therefore Pilate heard these words, he brought Jesus forth, and sat down on the judgment-seat in a place called the Pavement, and in Hebrew, Gabbatha.14And it was the preparation of the passover, and about the sixth hour. And he says to the Jews: Behold your king!15But they cried out: Away with him, away with him, crucify him. Pilate says to them: Shall I crucify your king? The chief priests answered: We have no king but Cæsar.16Then therefore he delivered him to them to be crucified. And they took Jesus, and led him away.
17And bearing his cross he went forth into the place called Place of a skull, which in Hebrew is called Golgotha;18where they crucified him, and two others with him, on either side one, and Jesus in the midst.19And Pilate wrote also a title, and put it on the cross. And the writing was: JESUS THE NAZARENE THE KING OF THE JEWS.
20This title therefore many of the Jews read; because the place where Jesus was crucified was nigh to the city, and it was written in Hebrew, and Greek, and Latin.21Therefore said the chief priests of the Jews to Pilate: Write not, The King of the Jews; but that he said, I am King of the Jews.22Pilate answered: What I have written, I have written.
23Then the soldiers, when they crucified Jesus, took his garments, and made four parts, to every soldier a part, and also his coat. And the coat was without a seam, woven from the top throughout.24They said therefore to one another: Let us not rend it, but cast lots for it, whose it shall be; that the scripture might be fulfilled which says:
They parted my garments among them.
And for my vesture they cast lots.
These things the soldiers did.25And there were standing by the cross of Jesus his mother, and his mother's sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary the Magdalene.26Jesus therefore seeing his mother, and the disciple whom he loved standing by, says to his mother: Woman, behold thy son!27Then he says to the disciple: Behold thy mother! And from that hour the disciple took her to his own home.
28After this, Jesus knowing that all things were now finished, that the scripture might be accomplished, says: I thirst.29Now there was set a vessel full of vinegar; and they, having filled a sponge with vinegar, and put it on a hyssop-stalk, bore it to his mouth.30When Jesus therefore received the vinegar, he said: It is finished; and he bowed his head, and gave up his spirit.
31The Jews therefore, since it was the preparation, that the bodies might not remain upon the cross on the sabbath (for that sabbath day was a great day), besought Pilate that their legs might be broken, and they be taken away.32The soldiers came, therefore, and broke the legs of the first, and of the other who was crucified with him.33But when they came to Jesus, and saw that he was already dead, they broke not his legs.34But one of the soldiers with a spear pierced his side, and forthwith there came out blood and water.
35And he that has seen has borne witness, and his witness is true, and he knows that he says what is true, that ye also might believe.36For these things came to pass, that the scripture might be fulfilled:A bone of him shall not be broken.37And again another scripture says:They shall look on him whom they pierced.
38And after this, Joseph from Arimathæa, being a disciple of Jesus, but secretly for fear of the Jews, besought Pilate that he might take away the body of Jesus; and Pilate gave him leave. He came therefore, and took away the body of Jesus.39And there came also Nicodemus, who at the first came to Jesus by night, bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about a hundred pounds weight.40They took therefore the body of Jesus, and wound it in linen cloths with the spices, as is the custom of the Jews to prepare for burial.
41And in the place where he was crucified there was a garden, and in the garden a new sepulchre, wherein no one was yet laid.42There they laid Jesus therefore, on account of the preparation of the Jews, because the sepulchre was nigh at hand.
XX.Andon the first day of the week Mary the Magdalene comes early, while it is yet dark, to the sepulchre, and sees the stone taken away out of the sepulchre.2She runs therefore and comes to Simon Peter, and to the other disciple, whom Jesus loved, and says to them: They took away the Lord out of the sepulchre, and we know not where they laid him.
3Peter therefore went forth, and the other disciple, and they went to the sepulchre.4And the two ran together; and the other disciple outran Peter, and came first to the sepulchre.5And stooping down he sees the linen cloths lying; yet he went not in.6Then comes Simon Peter following him; and he went into the sepulchre, and sees the linen cloths lying,7and the napkin that was about his head not lying with the linen cloths, but wrapped together in a place by itself.8Then therefore the other disciple, who came first to the sepulchre, went in also; and he saw, and believed.9For not even yet did they know the scripture, that he must rise from the dead.
10The disciples therefore went away again to their own home.11And Mary was standing by the sepulchre without, weeping. So, as she wept, she stooped clown into the sepulchre,12and beholds two angels in white, sitting the one at the head and the other at the feet, where the body of Jesus lay.13And they say to her: Woman, why weepest thou? She says to them: Because they took away my Lord, and I know not where they laid him.
14Having said this, she turned back and beholds Jesus standing, and knew not that it was Jesus.15Jesus says to her: Woman, why weepest thou? Whom dost thou seek? She, supposing that it was the gardener, says to him: Sir, if thou didst bear him hence, tell me where thou laidest him, and I will take him away.16Jesus says to her: Mary! Turning, she says to him in Hebrew: Rabboni! (which is to say, Teacher!)17Jesus says to her: Touch me not; for I have not yet ascended to my Father; but go to my brethren, and say to them: I ascend to my Father and your Father, and my God and your God.
18Mary the Magdalene comes bringing word to the disciples, that she has seen the Lord, and that he spoke these things to her.
19When therefore it was evening on that day, the first day of the week, the doors having been shut, where the disciples were assembled, for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in the midst; and he says to them: Peace be to you.20And having said this, he showed them his hands and his side. The disciples rejoiced therefore, when they saw the Lord.
21Jesus therefore said to them again: Peace be to you. As the Father has sent me, I also send you.22And having said this, he breathed on them, and says to them: Receive the Holy Spirit.23Whosesoever sins ye remit, they are remitted to them; and whosesoever ye retain, they are retained.
24But Thomas, one of the twelve, called Didymus, was not with them when Jesus came.25The other disciples therefore said to him: We have seen the Lord. But he said to them: Except I see in his hands the print of the nails, and thrust my finger into the print of the nails, and thrust my hand into his side, I will not believe.
26And after eight days, again his disciples were within, and Thomas with them. Jesus comes, the doors being shut, and stood in the midst, and said: Peace be to you.27After that, he says to Thomas: Reach hither thy finger, and see my hands; and reach thy hand, and thrust it into my side; and be not faithless, but believing.28Thomas answered and said to him: My Lord, and my God.29Jesus says to him: Because thou hast seen me, thou hast believed. Happy they who saw not, and have believed!
30Many other signs also did Jesus in the presence of his disciples, which are not written in this book.31But these are written, that ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing ye may have life in his name.
XXI.Afterthese things Jesus manifested himself again to the disciples at the sea of Tiberias; and he manifested himself in this manner.
2There were together Simon Peter, and Thomas called Didymus, and Nathanael from Cana of Galilee, and the sons of Zebedee, and two others of his disciples.3Simon Peter says to them: I go a fishing. They say to him: We also go with thee. They went forth, and entered into the ship; and in that night they caught nothing.
4But when morning was now come, Jesus stood on the beach; yet the disciples knew not that it was Jesus.5Jesus therefore says to them: Children, have ye anything to eat? They answered him: No.6And he said to them: Cast the net on the right side of the ship, and ye shall find. They cast it therefore; and now they were not able to draw it, for the multitude of the fishes.
7Therefore that disciple whom Jesus loved says to Peter: It is the Lord. Simon Peter therefore, hearing that it is the Lord, girded on his outer garment (for he was naked), and cast himself into the sea.8And the other disciples came in the boat (for they were not far from land, but about two hundred cubits off), dragging the net with the fishes.
9When therefore they went out upon the land, they see a fire of coals there, and a fish lying thereon, and bread.10Jesus says to them: Bring of the fishes which ye just now caught.11Simon Peter went on board, and drew the net to land full of great fishes, a hundred and fifty and three; and though there were so many, the net was not broken.
12Jesus says to them: Come hither, and break your fast. And none of the disciples durst ask him, Who art thou? knowing that it is the Lord.13Jesus comes, and takes the bread and gives to them, and the fish likewise.14This the third time already, Jesus manifested himself to his disciples, after he was risen from the dead.
15When therefore they had broken their fast, Jesus says to Simon Peter: Simon, son of Jonah, lovest thou me more than these? He says to him: Yea, Lord; thou knowest that I love thee. He says to him: Feed my lambs.
16He says to him again a second time: Simon, son of Jonah, lovest thou me? He says to him: Yea, Lord; thou knowest that I love thee. He says to him: Tend my sheep.
17He says to him the third time: Simon, son of Jonah, lovest thou me? Peter was grieved because he said to him the third time, Lovest thou me? And he said to him: Lord, thou knowest all things; thou knowest that I love thee. Jesus says to him: Feed my sheep.
18Verily, verily, I say to thee, when thou wast young, thou didst gird thyself, and walk whither thou wouldst; but when thou shalt be old, thou shalt stretch forth thy hands, and another shall gird thee, and lead thee whither thou wouldst not.19And this he spoke, signifying by what manner of death he should glorify God.
And having spoken this, he says to him: Follow me.20Peter, turning about, sees the disciple whom Jesus loved following; who also at the supper leaned back on his breast, and said: Lord, who is he that betrays thee?21Peter seeing him says to Jesus: Lord, and what shall this man do?22Jesus says to him: If I will that he remain till I come, what is it to thee? Do thou follow me.
23This saying therefore went abroad among the brethren, that that disciple should not die. And Jesus said not to him, that he should not die; but, If I will that he tarry till I come, what is it to thee?
24This is the disciple who testifies of these things, and wrote these things; and we know that his testimony is true.25And there are also many other things which Jesus did; and if they should be written every one, I suppose that even the world itself would not contain the books that should be written.