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New Testament-Holy Bible
Christ
John
Chapter 1
1 In
the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with
God, and the Word was God.
2 He was with God in the beginning.
3 Through him all things
were made; without him nothing was made that has
been made.
4 In him was
life, and that life was the light of men.
5 The light shines in the
darkness, but the darkness has not understood it.
6 There came a man who was
sent from God; his name was John.
7 He came as a witness to testify
concerning that light, so that through him all men
might
believe.
8
He himself was not the light; he came only as a
witness to the light.
9 The
true light that gives light to every man was
coming into the world.
10
He was in the world, and though the world was made
through him, the world did not
recognize him.
11 He came to that which was his own,
but his own did not receive him.
12 Yet to all who received him, to
those who believed in his name, he gave the right
to
become children of God--
13 children born not of natural
descent, nor of human decision or a husband's
will, but
born of God.
14 The Word became flesh and made his
dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the
I
glory of the One and Only, who came
from the Father, full of grace and truth.
15 John testifies
concerning him. He cries out, saying,
who comes after me has surpassed me
because he was before me.'
16 From the fullness of his grace we
have all received one blessing after another.
17 For the law was given
through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus
Christ.
18 No one has ever
seen God, but God the One and Only, , who is at
the Father's side,
has made him known.
19 Now this was John's
testimony when the Jews of Jerusalem sent priests
and Levites to
ask him who he was.
20 He did not fail to
confess, but confessed freely,
21 They asked him,
Prophet?
22
Finally they said,
What do you say
about yourself?
23 John
replied in the words of Isaiah the prophet,
desert, 'Make straight the way for the
Lord.'
24 Now some
Pharisees who had been sent
25 questioned him,
Prophet?
26
27 He is the one who comes
after me, the thongs of whose sandals I am not
worthy to
untie.
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28
This
all
happened
at
Bethany
on
the
other
side
of
the
Jordan,
where
John
was
baptizing.
29
The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him and
said,
who takes away the sin of the
world!
30 This is the one I
meant when I said, 'A man who comes after me has
surpassed me
because he was before me.'
31 I myself did not know
him, but the reason I came baptizing with water
was that he might
be revealed to
Israel.
32 Then John gave
this testimony:
and remain on him.
33 I would not have known
him, except that the one who sent me to baptize
with water told
me, 'The man on whom
you see the Spirit come down and remain is he who
will baptize
with the Holy Spirit.'
34 I have seen and I
testify that this is the Son of God.
35 The next day John was there again
with two of his disciples.
36 When he saw Jesus passing by, he
said,
37 When the two
disciples heard him say this, they followed Jesus.
38 Turning around, Jesus
saw them following and asked,
39
and spent that day with him. It was
about the tenth hour.
40
Andrew, Simon Peter's brother, was one of the two
who heard what John had said and
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who had
followed Jesus.
41 The
first thing Andrew did was to find his brother
Simon and tell him,
the
Messiah
42 And he brought
him to Jesus. Jesus looked at him and said,
John. You will be called
Cephas
43 The next day Jesus
decided to leave for Galilee. Finding Philip, he
said to him,
me.
44 Philip, like Andrew and Peter, was
from the town of Bethsaida.
45 Philip found Nathanael and told him,
Law, and about whom the prophets also
wrote--Jesus of Nazareth, the son of
Joseph.
46
said
Philip.
47 When Jesus saw
Nathanael approaching, he said of him,
whom there is nothing false.
48
still under the fig tree
before Philip called you.
49
Then Nathanael declared,
50
Jesus said,
greater things than
that.
51 He then added,
ascending and descending on the Son of
Man.
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Chapter 2
1 On the third day a wedding took place
at Cana in Galilee. Jesus' mother was there,
2 and Jesus and his
disciples had also been invited to the wedding.
3 When the wine was gone,
Jesus' mother said to him,
4
5 His mother
said to the servants,
6
Nearby stood six stone water jars, the kind used
by the Jews for ceremonial washing,
each holding from twenty to thirty
gallons.
7 Jesus said to
the servants,
8 Then he
told them,
9 They did so,
and the master of the banquet tasted the water
that had been turned into
wine. He did
not realize where it had come from, though the
servants who had drawn the
water knew.
Then he called the bridegroom aside
10 and said,
the guests have
had too much to drink; but you have saved the best
till now.
11 This, the first
of his miraculous
signs, Jesus
performed
in
Cana
of Galilee. He
thus
revealed
his glory, and his disciples put their faith in
him.
12 After this he went
down to Capernaum with his mother and brothers and
his disciples.
There they stayed for a
few days.
13 When it was
almost time for the Jewish Passover, Jesus went up
to Jerusalem.
14 In the
temple courts he found men selling cattle, sheep
and doves, and others sitting at
tables
exchanging money.
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15 So he made
a whip out of cords, and drove all from the temple
area, both sheep and
cattle; he
scattered the coins of the money changers and
overturned their tables.
16
To
those
who
sold
doves
he
said,
these
out
of
here!
How
dare
you
turn
my
Father's
house into a market!
17 His
disciples remembered that it is written:
18 Then the Jews demanded
of him,
your authority to do all
this?
19 Jesus answered
them,
20 The Jews replied,
raise it in three days?
21 But the temple he had spoken of was
his body.
22 After he was
raised from the dead, his disciples recalled what
he had said. Then they
believed the
Scripture and the words that Jesus had spoken.
23
Now
while
he
was
in
Jerusalem
at
the
Passover
Feast,
many
people
saw
the
miraculous signs he was doing and
believed in his name.
24
But Jesus would not entrust himself to them, for
he knew all men.
25 He did
not need man's testimony about man, for he knew
what was in a man.
Chapter 3
1 Now there was a
man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a member of
the Jewish
ruling council.
2 He came to Jesus at night and said,
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from God. For no one could perform the
miraculous signs you are doing if God were not
with him.
3 In
reply Jesus declared,
he is born again.
4
second time
into his mother's womb to be born!
5 Jesus answered,
born of
water and the Spirit.
6
Flesh gives birth to flesh, but the Spirit gives
birth to spirit.
7 You
should not be surprised at my saying, 'You must be
born again.'
8 The wind
blows wherever it pleases. You hear its sound, but
you cannot tell where it
comes from or
where it is going. So it is with everyone born of
the Spirit.
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10
11 I tell you
the truth, we speak of what we know, and we
testify to what we have seen, but
still
you people do not accept our testimony.
12 I have spoken to you of
earthly things and you do not believe; how then
will you believe
if I speak of heavenly
things?
13 No one has ever
gone into heaven except the one who came from
heaven--the Son of
Man.
14 Just as Moses lifted up the snake in
the desert, so the Son of Man must be lifted up,
15 that everyone who
believes in him may have eternal life.
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16
in him shall not perish
but have eternal life.
17
For God did not send his Son into the world to
condemn the world, but to save the
world through him.
18
Whoever
believes
in
him
is
not
condemned,
but
whoever
does
not
believe
stands
condemned already
because he has not believed in the name of God's
one and only Son.
19 This
is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but
men loved darkness instead of
light
because their deeds were evil.
20 Everyone who does evil hates the
light, and will not come into the light for fear
that his
deeds will be exposed.
21 But whoever lives by the
truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen
plainly that
what he has done has been
done through God.
22
After
this,
Jesus
and
his
disciples
went
out
into
the
Judean
countryside,
where
he
spent some time with
them, and baptized.
23 Now
John also was baptizing at Aenon near Salim,
because there was plenty of water,
and
people were constantly coming to be baptized.
24 (This was before John
was put in prison.)
25 An
argument developed between some of John's
disciples and a certain Jew over the
matter of ceremonial washing.
26 They came to John and
said to him,
side
of
the
Jordan--the
one
you
testified
about--well,
he
is
baptizing,
and
everyone
is
going
to him.
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27 To this John replied,
28 You yourselves can
testify that I said, 'I am not the Christ but am
sent ahead of him.'
29 The
bride belongs to the bridegroom. The friend who
attends the bridegroom waits and
listens for him, and is full of joy
when he hears the bridegroom's voice. That joy is
mine,
and it is now complete.
30 He must become greater;
I must become less.
31
the earth, and speaks as one from the
earth. The one who comes from heaven is above
all.
32 He
testifies to what he has seen and heard, but no
one accepts his testimony.
33 The man who has accepted it has
certified that God is truthful.
34 For the one whom God has sent speaks
the words of God, for God gives the Spirit
without limit.
35 The Father loves the Son and has
placed everything in his hands.
36 Whoever believes in the Son has
eternal life, but whoever rejects the Son will not
see
life, for God's wrath remains on
him.
Chapter 4
1 The Pharisees heard that Jesus was
gaining and baptizing more disciples than John,
2 although in fact it was
not Jesus who baptized, but his disciples.
3 When the Lord learned of
this, he left Judea and went back once more to
Galilee.
4 Now he had to go
through Samaria.
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5 So he came
to a town in Samaria called Sychar, near the plot
of ground Jacob had given
to his son
Joseph.
6 Jacob's well was
there, and Jesus, tired as he was from the
journey, sat down by the
well. It was
about the sixth hour.
7
When a Samaritan woman came to draw water, Jesus
said to her,
drink?
8 (His disciples had gone into the town
to buy food.)
9 The
Samaritan woman said to him,
can you
ask me for a drink?
10 Jesus
answered her,
you would have asked him
and he would have given you living
water.
11
you get
this living water?
12 Are
you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the
well and drank from it himself,
as did
also his sons and his flocks and herds?
13 Jesus answered,
14 but whoever drinks the water I give
him will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give
him
will become in him a spring of
water welling up to eternal life.
15 The woman said to him,
keep coming here to draw
water.
16 He told her,
17
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18 Jesus said
to her,
have had five husbands, and the
man you now have is not your husband. What you
have
just said is quite
true.
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20 Our fathers worshiped on this
mountain, but you Jews claim that the place where
we
must worship is in
Jerusalem.
21
Jesus
declared,
me,
woman,
a
time
is
coming
when
you
will
worship
the
Father neither on this mountain nor in
Jerusalem.
22
You
Samaritans
worship
what
you
do
not
know;
we
worship
what
we
do
know,
for
salvation is from the
Jews.
23 Yet a time is
coming and
has now come when the
true
worshipers will worship
the
Father in spirit and
truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the
Father seeks.
24 God is
spirit, and his worshipers must worship in spirit
and in truth.
25 The woman
said,
will explain everything to
us.
26 Then Jesus declared,
27 Just then his disciples
returned and were surprised to find him talking
with a woman.
But no one asked,
28 Then, leaving her water
jar, the woman went back to the town and said to
the people,
29
30 They came out of the town and made
their way toward him.
31
Meanwhile his disciples urged him,
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32 But he said to them,
33 Then his disciples said to each
other,
34
35 Do you not say, 'Four months more
and then the harvest'? I tell you, open your eyes
and look at the fields! They are ripe
for harvest.
36 Even now
the reaper draws his wages, even now he harvests
the crop for eternal life,
so that the
sower and the reaper may be glad together.
37 Thus the saying 'One
sows and another reaps' is true.
38 I sent you to reap what you have not
worked for. Others have done the hard work, and
you have reaped the benefits of their
labor.
39
Many
of
the
Samaritans
from
that
town
believed
in
him
because
of
the
woman's
testimony,
40 So when the Samaritans
came to him, they urged him to stay with them, and
he stayed
two days.
41 And because of his words many more
became believers.
42 They
said to the woman,
have heard for
ourselves, and we know that this man really is the
Savior of the world.
43
After the two days he left for Galilee.
44 (Now Jesus himself had
pointed out that a prophet has no honor in his own
country.)
45 When he
arrived in Galilee, the Galileans welcomed him.
They had seen all that he had
done in
Jerusalem at the Passover Feast, for they also had
been there.
46 Once more he
visited Cana in Galilee, where he had turned the
water into wine. And
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there was a certain royal
official whose son lay sick at Capernaum.
47 When this man heard that
Jesus had arrived in Galilee from Judea, he went
to him and
begged him to come and heal
his son, who was close to death.
48
believe.
49 The royal official said,
50 Jesus replied,
departed.
51 While he was still on
the way, his servants met him with the news that
his boy was
living.
52 When he inquired as to the time when
his son got better, they said to him,
left him yesterday at the seventh
hour.
53 Then the father
realized that this was the exact time at which
Jesus had said to him,
54 This was the second miraculous sign
that Jesus performed, having come from Judea
to Galilee.
Chapter 5
1 Some time later,
Jesus went up to Jerusalem for a feast of the
Jews.
2
Now
there
is
in
Jerusalem
near
the
Sheep
Gate
a
pool,
which
in
Aramaic
is
called
Bethesda and which is
surrounded by five covered colonnades.
3 Here a great number of disabled
people used to lie--the blind, the lame, the
paralyzed.
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5 One who was there had been an invalid
for thirty-eight years.
6 When Jesus
saw him lying there and learned that he had been
in this condition for a
long time, he
asked him,
7
While I am trying to get in, someone
else goes down ahead of me.
8 Then Jesus said to him,
9 At once the man was cured; he picked
up his mat and walked. The day on which this
took place was a Sabbath,
10 and so the Jews said to the man who
had been healed,
forbids you to carry
your mat.
11 But he replied,
12 So they asked him,
13 The man who was healed
had no idea who it was, for Jesus had slipped away
into the
crowd that was there.
14 Later Jesus found him at
the temple and said to him,
sinning or
something worse may happen to you.
15 The man went away and told the Jews
that it was Jesus who had made him well.
16 So, because Jesus was
doing these things on the Sabbath, the Jews
persecuted him.
17 Jesus
said to them,
working.
18 For this reason the Jews tried all
the harder to kill him; not only was he breaking
the
Sabbath, but he was even calling
God his own Father, making himself equal with God.
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19 Jesus gave them this answer:
he can do only what he sees his Father
doing, because whatever the Father does the Son
also does.
20
For the Father loves the Son and shows him all he
does. Yes, to your amazement he
will
show him even greater things than these.
21 For just as the Father
raises the dead and gives them life, even so the
Son gives life to
whom he is pleased to
give it.
22 Moreover, the
Father judges no one, but has entrusted all
judgment to the Son,
23
that all may honor the Son just as they honor the
Father. He who does not honor the
Son
does not honor the Father, who sent him.
24
life and will
not be condemned; he has crossed over from death
to life.
25 I tell you the
truth, a time is coming and has now come when the
dead will hear the
voice of the Son of
God and those who hear will live.
26 For as the Father has life in
himself, so he has granted the Son to have life in
himself.
27 And he has
given him authority to judge because he is the Son
of Man.
28
hear
his voice
29 and come out--
those who have done good will rise to live, and
those who have done
evil will rise to
be condemned.
30 By myself
I can do nothing; I judge only as I hear, and my
judgment is just, for I seek
not to
please myself but him who sent me.
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31
32 There is
another who testifies in my favor, and I know that
his testimony about me is
valid.
33
34 Not that I accept human testimony;
but I mention it that you may be saved.
35 John was a lamp that
burned and gave light, and you chose for a time to
enjoy his light.
36
given me to finish, and which I am
doing, testifies that the Father has sent me.
37
And
the
Father
who
sent
me
has
himself
testified
concerning
me.
You
have
never
heard his voice nor seen his form,
38 nor does his word dwell
in you, for you do not believe the one he sent.
39 You diligently study the
Scriptures because you think that by them you
possess eternal
life. These are the
Scriptures that testify about me,
40 yet you refuse to come to me to have
life.
41
42 but I know you. I know that you do
not have the love of God in your hearts.
43 I have
come
in my Father's name, and
you do not
accept me; but if someone
else
comes in his own name, you will accept
him.
44
How
can
you
believe
if
you
accept
praise
from
one
another,
yet
make
no
effort
to
obtain the praise that comes from the
only God ?
45
your hopes are set.
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46 If you believed Moses, you would
believe me, for he wrote about me.
47 But since you do not believe what he
wrote, how are you going to believe what I
say?
Chapter 6
1 Some time after this, Jesus crossed
to the far shore of the Sea of Galilee (that is,
the
Sea of Tiberias),
2 and a great crowd of people followed
him because they saw the miraculous signs he
had performed on the sick.
3 Then Jesus went up on a mountainside
and sat down with his disciples.
4 The Jewish Passover Feast was near.
5 When Jesus looked up and
saw a great crowd coming toward him, he said to
Philip,
6 He
asked this only to test him, for he already had in
mind what he was going to do.
7 Philip answered him,
have
a bite!
8 Another of his
disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter's brother, spoke
up,
9
among so
many?
10 Jesus said,
the men sat down, about five thousand
of them.
11 Jesus then took
the loaves, gave thanks, and distributed to those
who were seated as
much as they wanted.
He did the same with the fish.
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12 When they had all had enough to eat,
he said to his disciples,
are left
over. Let nothing be wasted.
13
So
they
gathered
them
and
filled
twelve
baskets
with
the
pieces
of
the
five
barley
loaves left over by those who had
eaten.
14 After the people
saw the miraculous sign that Jesus did, they began
to say,
is the Prophet who is to come
into the world.
15
Jesus,
knowing
that
they
intended
to
come
and
make
him
king
by
force,
withdrew
again to a mountain
by himself.
16 When evening
came, his disciples went down to the lake,
17 where they got into a
boat and set off across the lake for Capernaum. By
now it was
dark, and Jesus had not yet
joined them.
18 A strong
wind was blowing and the waters grew rough.
19 When they had rowed
three or three and a half miles, they saw Jesus
approaching the
boat, walking on the
water; and they were terrified.
20 But he said to them,
21 Then they were willing to take him
into the boat, and immediately the boat reached
the
shore where they were heading.
22 The next day the crowd
that had stayed on the opposite shore of the lake
realized that
only one boat had been
there, and that Jesus had not entered it with his
disciples, but that
they had gone away
alone.
23 Then some boats
from Tiberias landed near the place where the
people had eaten the
bread after the
Lord had given thanks.
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24 Once
the crowd realized that neither Jesus nor his
disciples were there, they got into
the
boats and went to Capernaum in search of Jesus.
25 When they found him on
the other side of the lake, they asked him,
you get here?
26
Jesus answered,
truth, you are looking
for me, not because
you saw
miraculous signs but because you ate
the loaves and had your fill.
27 Do not work for food that spoils,
but for food that endures to eternal life, which
the Son
of Man will give you. On him
God the Father has placed his seal of
approval.
28 Then they asked
him,
29 Jesus answered,
30 So they asked him,
believe you? What will you do?
31 Our forefathers ate the
manna in the desert; as it is written: 'He gave
them bread from
heaven to eat.'
32 Jesus said to them,
from heaven, but it is my Father who
gives you the true bread from heaven.
33 For the bread of God is he who comes
down from heaven and gives life to the
world.
34
35 Then Jesus declared,
and
he who believes in me will never be thirsty.
36 But as I told you, you
have seen me and still you do not believe.
37 All that the Father
gives me will come to me, and whoever comes to me
I will never
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drive away.
38 For I have come down from heaven not
to do my will but to do the will of him who sent
me.
39 And this
is the will of him who sent me, that I shall lose
none of all that he has given me,
but
raise them up at the last day.
40 For my Father's will is that
everyone who looks to the Son and believes in him
shall
have eternal life, and I will
raise him up at the last day.
41 At this the Jews began to grumble
about him because he said,
came down
from heaven.
42 They said,
How can he now say, 'I came down from
heaven'?
43
44
up at the last day.
45 It is written in the
Prophets: 'They will all be taught by God.'
Everyone who listens to the
Father and
learns from him comes to me.
46 No one has seen the Father except
the one who is from God; only he has seen the
Father.
47 I
tell you the truth, he who believes has
everlasting life.
48 I am
the bread of life.
49 Your
forefathers ate the manna in the desert, yet they
died.
50 But here is the
bread that comes down from heaven, which a man may
eat and not die.
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51 I am the
living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone
eats of this bread, he will
live
forever. This bread is my flesh, which I will give
for the life of the world.
52 Then the Jews began to argue sharply
among themselves,
his flesh to
eat?
53 Jesus said to them,
drink his blood, you have no life in
you.
54 Whoever eats my
flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I
will raise him up at
the last day.
55 For my flesh is real
food and my blood is real drink.
56 Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my
blood remains in me, and I in him.
57 Just as the living Father sent me
and I live because of the Father, so the one who
feeds on me will live because of me.
58 This is the bread that
came down from heaven. Your forefathers ate manna
and died,
but he who feeds on this
bread will live forever.
59
He said this while teaching in the synagogue in
Capernaum.
60 On hearing
it, many of his disciples said,
61
Aware
that
his
disciples
were
grumbling
about
this,
Jesus
said
to
them,
this
offend you?
62 What if you see the Son
of Man ascend to where he was before!
63 The Spirit gives life; the flesh
counts for nothing. The words I have spoken to you
are
spirit and they are life.
64
Yet
there
are
some
of
you
who
do
not
believe.
For
Jesus
had
known
from
the
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beginning which of them did
not believe and who would betray him.
65 He went on
to say,
I told you that no
one
can come to
me unless
the
Father has enabled him.
66 From this time many of his disciples
turned back and no longer followed him.
67
68
Simon
Peter
answered
him,
to
whom
shall
we
go?
You
have
the
words
of
eternal
life.
69 We believe and
know that you are the Holy One of God.
70 Then Jesus replied,
71 (He meant Judas, the son of Simon
Iscariot, who, though one of the Twelve, was later
to betray him.)
Chapter 7
1 After this,
Jesus went around in Galilee, purposely staying
away from Judea because
the Jews there
were waiting to take his life.
2 But when the Jewish Feast of
Tabernacles was near,
3
Jesus'
brothers said to him,
ought to leave here and
go
to
Judea, so
that
your
disciples may see the miracles you
do.
4 No one who wants to
become a public figure acts in secret. Since you
are doing these
things, show yourself
to the world.
5 For even his
own brothers did not believe in him.
6 Therefore Jesus told them,
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right.
7 The
world cannot hate you, but it hates me because I
testify that what it does is evil.
8 You go to the Feast. I am not yet
going up to this Feast, because for me the right
time
has not yet come.
9 Having said this, he stayed in
Galilee.
10 However, after
his brothers had left for the
Feast, he
went also, not publicly, but in
secret.
11 Now
at the Feast the Jews were watching for him and
asking,
12 Among the crowds
there was widespread whispering about him. Some
said,
good man.
13 Others replied,
about him
for fear of the Jews.
14
Not until halfway through the Feast did Jesus go
up to the temple courts and begin to
teach.
15
The
Jews
were
amazed
and
asked,
did
this
man
get
such
learning
without
having studied?
16 Jesus answered,
17 If anyone chooses to do God's will,
he will find out whether my teaching comes from
God or whether I speak on my own.
18 He who speaks on his own
does so to gain honor for himself, but he who
works for the
honor of the one who sent
him is a man of truth; there is nothing false
about him.
19 Has not Moses
given you the law? Yet not one of you keeps the
law. Why are you
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trying to kill
me?
20
21 Jesus said to them,
22
Yet,
because
Moses
gave
you
circumcision
(though
actually
it
did
not
come
from
Moses, but from the patriarchs), you
circumcise a child on the Sabbath.
23 Now if a child can be circumcised on
the Sabbath so that the law of Moses may not be
broken, why are you angry with me for
healing the whole man on the Sabbath?
24 Stop judging by mere appearances,
and make a right judgment.
25 At that point some of the people of
Jerusalem began to ask,
trying to kill?
26
Here
he
is,
speaking
publicly,
and
they
are
not
saying
a
word
to
him.
Have
the
authorities really
concluded that he is the Christ ?
27 But we know where this man is from;
when the Christ comes, no one will know where
he is from.
28
Then Jesus, still teaching in the temple courts,
cried out,
know where I am from. I am
not here on my own, but he who sent me is true.
You do not
know him,
29 but I know him because I am from him
and he sent me.
30 At this
they tried to seize him, but no one laid a hand on
him, because his time had not
yet come.
31 Still, many in the crowd
put their faith in him. They said,
he
do more miraculous signs than this man?
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32
The
Pharisees
heard
the
crowd
whispering
such
things
about
him.
Then
the
chief
priests and the Pharisees sent temple
guards to arrest him.
33
Jesus said,
34 You will
look for me, but you will not find me; and where I
am, you cannot come.
35 The
Jews said to one another,
him?
Will
he
go
where
our
people
live
scattered
among
the
Greeks,
and
teach
the
Greeks?
36 What
did he mean when he said, 'You will look for me,
but you will not find me,' and
'Where I
am, you cannot come'?
37 On
the last and greatest day of the Feast, Jesus
stood and said in a loud voice,
anyone
is thirsty, let him come to me and drink.
38 Whoever believes in me,
as the Scripture has said, streams of living water
will flow
from within him.
39 By this he meant the Spirit, whom
those who believed in him were later to receive.
Up
to that time the Spirit had not been
given, since Jesus had not yet been glorified.
40 On hearing his words,
some of the people said,
41
Others said,
42 Still
others asked,
that the Christ will come
from David's family and from Bethlehem, the town
where David
lived?
43 Thus the people were divided because
of Jesus.
44 Some wanted to
seize him, but no one laid a hand on him.
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45 Finally the temple
guards
went back to
the
chief priests and
Pharisees,
who
asked
them,
46
47
48
49 No! But this mob that knows nothing
of the law--there is a curse on them.
50 Nicodemus, who had gone to Jesus
earlier and
who was one
of
their own number,
asked,
51
52 They
replied,
does not come out of
Galilee.
53 Then each went
to his own home.
Chapter 8
1 But Jesus went
to the Mount of Olives.
2
At dawn he appeared again in the temple courts,
where all the people gathered around
him, and he sat down to teach them.
3 The teachers of the law
and the Pharisees brought in a woman caught in
adultery. They
made her stand before
the group
4 and said to
Jesus,
5 In the Law Moses
commanded us to stone such women. Now what do you
say?
6 They were using this
question as a trap, in order to have a basis for
accusing him.
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7 But Jesus
bent down and started to write on the ground with
his finger. When they kept
on
questioning him, he straightened up and said to
them,
let him be the first to throw a
stone at her.
8 Again he
stooped down and wrote on the ground.
9 At this, those who heard began to go
away one at a time, the older ones first, until
only
Jesus was left, with the woman
still standing there.
10
Jesus
straightened
up
and
asked
her,
where
are
they?
Has
no
one
condemned
you?
11
leave
your life of sin.
12 When
Jesus spoke again to the people, he said,
follows me will never walk in darkness,
but will have the light of life.
13 The Pharisees challenged him,
testimony is not valid.
14 Jesus answered,
where I
came from and where I am going. But you have no
idea where I come from or
where I am
going.
15 You judge by
human standards; I pass judgment on no one.
16 But if I do judge, my
decisions are right, because I am not alone. I
stand with the Father,
who sent me.
17 In your own Law it is
written that the testimony of two men is valid.
18 I am one who testifies
for myself; my other witness is the Father, who
sent me.
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19 Then they asked him,
20
my Father
also.
where the offerings were put. Yet
no one seized him, because his time had not yet
come.
21 Once more Jesus
said to them,
die in your sin. Where I
go, you cannot come.
22 This
made the Jews ask,
cannot
come'?
23 But he continued,
not of this world.
24 I told you that you would die in
your sins; if you do not believe that I am the one
I claim
to be, you will indeed die in
your sins.
25
26
what
I
have
been
claiming
all
along,
Jesus
replied.
have
much
to
say
in
judgment of you. But he
who sent me is reliable, and what I have heard
from him I tell the
world.
27 They did not understand that he was
telling them about his Father.
28 So Jesus said,
the one I
claim to be and that I do nothing on my own but
speak just what the Father has
taught
me.
29 The one who sent me
is with me; he has not left me alone, for I always
do what pleases
him.
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30 Even as he spoke, many put their
faith in him.
31 To the
Jews who had believed him, Jesus said,
really my disciples.
32 Then you will know the truth, and
the truth will set you free.
33 They answered him,
anyone. How can you say that we shall
be set free?
34 Jesus
replied,
35 Now a slave has
no permanent place in the family, but a son
belongs to it forever.
36
So if the Son sets you free, you will be free
indeed.
37 I know you are
Abraham's descendants. Yet you are ready to kill
me, because you
have no room for my
word.
38 I am telling you
what I have seen in the Father's presence, and you
do what you have
heard from your
father.
39
40 do the things
Abraham did. As it is, you are determined to kill
me, a man who has told
you the truth
that I heard from God. Abraham did not do such
things.
41 You are doing
the things your own father
does.
protested.
42 Jesus said to them,
and
now am here. I have not come on my own; but he
sent me.
43 Why is my
language not clear to you? Because you are unable
to hear what I say.
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44 You
belong to your father, the devil, and you want to
carry out your father's desire. He
was
a murderer from the beginning, not holding to the
truth, for there is no truth in him.
When he lies, he speaks his native
language, for he is a liar and the father of lies.
45 Yet because I tell the
truth, you do not believe me!
46 Can any of you prove me guilty of
sin? If I am telling the truth, why don't you
believe
me?
47
He who belongs to God hears what God says. The
reason you do not hear is that you
do
not belong to God.
48
The
Jews
answered
him,
we
right
in
saying
that
you
are
a
Samaritan
and
demon-possessed?
49
me.
50 I am not seeking glory for myself;
but there is one who seeks it, and he is the
judge.
51 I tell you the
truth, if anyone keeps my word, he will never see
death.
52 At this the Jews
exclaimed,
died and so did the
prophets, yet you say that if anyone keeps your
word, he will never
taste death.
53 Are you greater than our
father Abraham? He died, and so did the prophets.
Who do
you think you are?
54 Jesus replied,
as your
God, is the one who glorifies me.
55 Though you do not know him, I know
him. If I said I did not, I would be a liar like
you,
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but I do know him and keep his word.
56 Your father Abraham
rejoiced at the thought of seeing my day; he saw
it and was glad.
57
58
59 At this, they picked up stones to
stone him, but Jesus hid himself, slipping away
from
the temple grounds.
Chapter 9
1 As
he went along, he saw a man blind from birth.
2 His disciples asked him,
blind?
3
work of God might be displayed in his
life.
4 As long as it is
day, we must do the work of him who sent me. Night
is coming, when no
one can work.
5 While I am in the world,
I am the light of the world.
6 Having said this, he spit on the
ground, made some mud with the saliva, and put it
on
the man's eyes.
7
and washed, and came home
seeing.
8 His neighbors and
those who had formerly seen him begging asked,
man who used to sit and beg?
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9 Some claimed that he was. Others
said,
insisted,
10
11 He
replied,
me to go to Siloam and wash.
So I went and washed, and then I could
see.
12
13 They brought to the Pharisees the
man who had been blind.
14
Now the day on which Jesus had made the mud and
opened the man's eyes was a
Sabbath.
15 Therefore the Pharisees
also asked him how he had received his sight.
my eyes,
16
Some
of
the
Pharisees
said,
man
is
not
from
God,
for
he
does
not
keep
the
Sabbath.
divided.
17 Finally they turned again to the
blind man,
your eyes he
opened.
18 The Jews still
did not believe that he had been blind and had
received his sight until
they sent for
the man's parents.
19
now he can see?
20
21 But how he
can see now, or who opened his eyes, we don't
know. Ask him. He is of
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age; he
will speak for himself.
22
His parents said this because they were afraid of
the Jews, for already the Jews had
decided that anyone who acknowledged
that Jesus was the Christ would be put out of the
synagogue.
23
That was why his parents said,
24 A second time they summoned the man
who had been blind.
said.
25 He replied,
blind but now
I see!
26 Then they asked
him,
27 He answered,
it again? Do you want to become his
disciples, too?
28
Then
they
hurled
insults
at
him
and
said,
are
this
fellow's
disciple!
We
are
disciples
of Moses!
29 We know that
God spoke to Moses, but as for this fellow, we
don't even know where he
comes
from.
30 The man answered,
yet he opened my eyes.
31 We know that God does not listen to
sinners. He listens to the godly man who does his
will.
32 Nobody
has ever heard of opening the eyes of a man born
blind.
33 If this man were
not from God, he could do nothing.
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34 To this they replied,
they threw him out.
35 Jesus heard that they had thrown him
out, and when he found him, he said,
believe in the Son of Man?
36
37 Jesus
said,
38 Then the man said,
39 Jesus said,
those who see will become
blind.
40 Some Pharisees who
were with
him heard
him say
this and asked,
Are we
blind too?
41
Jesus said,
you can see, your guilt
remains.
Chapter 10
1
by
some other way, is a thief and a robber.
2 The man who enters by the
gate is the shepherd of his sheep.
3 The watchman opens the gate for him,
and the sheep listen to his voice. He calls his
own sheep by name and leads them out.
4 When he has brought out
all his own, he goes on ahead of them, and his
sheep follow
him because they know his
voice.
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5 But they will never
follow a stranger; in fact, they will run away
from him because they do
not recognize
a strangers voice.
6 Jesus
used this figure of speech, but they did not
understand what he was telling them.
7 Therefore Jesus said again,
8 All who ever came before
me were thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not
listen to
them.
9 I am the gate; whoever enters through
me will be saved. He will come in and go out, and
find pasture.
10
The thief comes only to steal and kill and
destroy; I have come that they may have life,
and have it to the full.
11
12 The hired
hand is not the shepherd who owns the sheep. So
when he sees the wolf
coming,
he
abandons
the
sheep
and
runs
away.
Then
the
wolf
attacks
the
flock
and
scatters it.
13
The man runs away because he is a hired hand and
cares nothing for the sheep.
14
15 just as
the Father knows me and
I know the
Father--and
I lay
down
my life
for the
sheep.
16 I have
other sheep that are not of this sheep pen. I must
bring them also. They too will
listen
to my voice, and there shall be one flock and one
shepherd.
17 The reason my
Father loves me is that I lay down my life--only
to take it up again.
18 No
one takes it from me, but I lay it down of my own
accord. I have authority to lay it
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down and
authority to take it up again. This command I
received from my Father.
19
At these words the Jews were again divided.
20 Many of them said,
21 But others said,
demon open the eyes of the
blind?
22 Then came the
Feast of Dedication at Jerusalem. It was winter,
23 and Jesus was in the
temple area walking in Solomon's Colonnade.
24 The Jews gathered around
him, saying,
are the Christ, tell us
plainly.
25 Jesus answered,
name speak for me,
26 but you do not believe because you
are not my sheep.
27 My
sheep listen to my voice; I know them, and they
follow me.
28 I give them
eternal life, and they shall never perish; no one
can snatch them out of my
hand.
29 My Father, who has given
them to me, is greater than all no one can
snatch them out
of my Father's hand.
30 I and the Father are
one.
31 Again the Jews
picked up stones to stone him,
32 but Jesus said to them,
which of these do you stone
me?
33
are
not
stoning
you
for
any
of
these,
replied
the
Jews,
for
blasphemy,
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