The Gospel According to John

I. In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. ²The same was in the beginning with God. ³All things were made by him³; and without him was nothing made that has been made. ⁴In him was life; and the life was the light of men. ⁵And the light shines in the darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.

⁶There was a man sent from God, whose name was John. ⁷The same came for witness, to bear witness of the light, that through him all might believe. ⁸He was not the light; but [came] to bear witness of the light. ⁹There was the true light, which lights every man that comes into the world. ¹⁰He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not. ¹¹He came to his own, and his own received him not. ¹²But as many as received him, to them he gave power to become children of God, to those who believe on his name; ¹³who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.

¹⁴And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us¹⁴; and we beheld his glory, a glory as of the only begotten from the Father, full of grace and truth.

¹⁵John bore witness of him; and cried, saying: This was he of whom I said, He that comes after me is preferred before me, because he was before me¹⁵. ¹⁶Because out of his fullness we all received, and grace for grace. ¹⁷For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ. ¹⁸No one has ever seen God; the only begotten Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, he declared him.

¹⁹And this is the witness of John, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him: Who art thou? ²⁰And he confessed, and denied not; and he confessed: I am not the Christ. ²¹And they asked him: What then? Art thou Elijah? And he says: I am not. Art thou the Prophet? And he answered: No. ²²They said therefore to him: Who art thou? that we may give an answer to those who sent us. What sayest thou of thyself? ²³He said: I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness: Make straight the way of the Lord, as said Isaiah the prophet.

²⁴And they who were sent were of the Pharisees. ²⁵And they asked him, and said to him: Why then dost thou immerse, if thou art not the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the Prophet? ²⁶John answered them, saying: I immerse in water. There stands one in the midst of you, whom ye know not; ²⁷he who comes after me, the latchet of whose sandal I am not worthy to loose.

²⁸These things took place in Bethany beyond the Jordan, where John was immersing.

²⁹On the morrow, he sees Jesus coming to him, and says: Behold the Lamb of God, that takes away the sin of the world! ³⁰This is he of whom I said: After me comes a man who is preferred before me; because he was before me³⁰. ³¹And I knew him not; but that he might be made manifest to Israel, for this I came immersing in water.

³²And John bore witness, saying: I have seen the Spirit descending as a dove out of heaven, and it abode upon him. ³³And I knew him not; but he who sent me to immerse in water, the same said to me: Upon whom thou shalt see the Spirit descending, and abiding on him, the same is he who immerses in the Holy Spirit. ³⁴And I have seen, and have borne witness, that this is the Son of God.

³⁵Again, on the morrow, John was standing, and two of his disciples; ³⁶and looking upon Jesus as he walked, he says: Behold the Lamb of God! ³⁷And the two disciples heard him speak, and they followed Jesus. ³⁸And Jesus turning, and beholding them following, says to them: What seek ye? They said to him: Rabbi (which interpreted means, Teacher), where dost thou abide? ³⁹He says to them: Come, and ye shall see. They came and saw where he abode; and they abode with him that day. It was about the tenth hour.

⁴⁰Andrew, the brother of Simon Peter, was one of the two who heard it from John, and followed him. ⁴¹He first finds his brother Simon, and says to him: We have found the Messiah, which is interpreted, Christ. ⁴²And he brought him to Jesus. Jesus, beholding him, said: Thou art Simon the son of Jonah; thou shalt be called Cephas, which is interpreted, Peter⁴².

⁴³On the morrow he would go forth into Galilee. And he finds Philip; and Jesus says to him: Follow me. ⁴⁴Now Philip was from Bethsaida, of the city of Andrew and Peter. ⁴⁵Philip finds Nathanael, and says to him: We have found him of whom Moses, in the law, and the prophets wrote, Jesus the son of Joseph, who is from Nazareth. ⁴⁶And Nathanael said to him: Can any good thing come out of Nazareth? Philip says to him: Come and see. ⁴⁷Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and says of him: Behold an Israelite indeed, in whom is no guile! ⁴⁸Nathanael says to him: Whence knowest thou me? Jesus answered and said to him: Before Philip called thee, when thou wast under the fig-tree, I saw thee. ⁴⁹Nathanael answered: Rabbi; thou art the Son of God, thou art the King of Israel. ⁵⁰Jesus answered and said to him: Because I said to thee, I saw thee under the fig-tree, believest thou? Thou shalt see greater things than these. ⁵¹And he says to him: Verily, verily, I say to you, henceforth⁵¹ ye shall see heaven opened, and the angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of man.

II. And on the third day there was a marriage in Cana of Galilee; and the mother of Jesus was there. ²And Jesus also was bidden, and his disciples, to the marriage. ³And wine having failed, the mother of Jesus says to him: They have no wine. ⁴Jesus says to her: Woman, what have I to do with thee? My hour is not yet come. ⁵His mother says to the servants: Whatever he says to you, do it. ⁶Now there were set there six water-pots of stone, after the Jewish custom of purifying, containing two or three firkins⁶ apiece. ⁷Jesus says to them: Fill the water-pots with water. And they filled them up to the brim. ⁸And he says to them: Draw out now, and bear to the ruler of the feast. And they bore it. ⁹When the ruler of the feast tasted the water that was made wine (and he knew not whence it was, but the servants who had drawn the water knew), the ruler of the feast called the bridegroom, ¹⁰and says to him: Every man sets forth the good wine first; and when they have drunk freely, then that which is worse. Thou hast kept the good wine until now. ¹¹This beginning of the signs Jesus wrought in Cana of Galilee, and manifested his glory; and his disciples believed on him.

¹²After this he went down to Capernaum, he, and his mother, and his brothers, and his disciples; and they abode there not many days.

¹³And the passover of the Jews was at hand; and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. ¹⁴And he found in the temple those who sold oxen and sheep and doves, and the money-changers sitting. ¹⁵And having made a scourge of small cords, he drove all out of the temple, both the sheep and the oxen; and poured out the changers’ money, and overthrew the tables; ¹⁶and to those who sold doves he said: Take these things hence; make not my Father’s house a house of merchandise. ¹⁷And his disciples remembered that it is written: for thy house consumes me.

¹⁸The Jews therefore answered and said to him: What sign dost thou show to us, seeing that thou doest these things? ¹⁹Jesus answered and said to them: Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up. ²⁰Therefore said the Jews: Forty and six years was this temple in building, and wilt thou raise it up in three days? ²¹But he said it of the temple of his body. ²²When therefore he was risen from the dead, his disciples remembered that he said this; and they believed the Scripture, and the word which Jesus spoke.

²³And when he was in Jerusalem at the passover, on the feast-day, many believed on his name, beholding his signs which he wrought. ²⁴But Jesus did not trust himself to them, because he knew all men, ²⁵and had no need that any one should testify of man; for he himself knew what was in man.

III. There was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. ²The same came to him by night, and said to him: Rabbi, we know that thou hast come a teacher from God; for no one can do these signs which thou doest, except God be with him.

³Jesus answered and said to him: Verily, verily, I say to thee, except a man be born again³, he can not see the kingdom of God. ⁴Nicodemus says to him: How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter the second time into his mother’s womb, and be born?

⁵Jesus answered: Verily, verily, I say to thee, except a man be born of water and the Spirit, he can not enter into the kingdom of God. ⁶That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. ⁷Marvel not that I said to thee: Ye must be born again.

⁸The wind blows where it will, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but knowest not whence it comes, and whither it goes. So is every one that is born of the Spirit.

⁹Nicodemus answered and said to him: How can these things be? ¹⁰Jesus answered and said to him: Art thou the teacher of Israel, and knowest not these things? ¹¹Verily, verily, I say to thee, we speak that which we know, and testify that which we have seen; and ye receive not our testimony. ¹²If I told you the earthly things, and ye believe not, how shall ye believe, if I tell you the heavenly things? ¹³And no one has ascended up into heaven, but he who came down out of heaven, the Son of man who is in heaven. ¹⁴And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of man be lifted up; ¹⁵that every one who believes on him may have everlasting life. ¹⁶For God so loved the world, that he gave his only-begotten Son, that whoever believes on him, should not perish, but may have everlasting life. ¹⁷For God sent not his Son into the world to judge the world; but that the world through him might be saved. ¹⁸He that believes on him is not judged; but he that believes not has already been judged, because he has not believed on the name of the only-begotten Son of God. ¹⁹And this is the judgment, that light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light; for their deeds were evil. ²⁰For every one that does evil hates the light, and comes not to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. ²¹But he that does the truth comes to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.

²²After these things came Jesus and his disciples into the land of Judæa; and there he remained with them, and immersed. ²³And John also was immersing in Ænon near to Salim, because there was much water there; and they came, and were immersed. ²⁴For John was not yet cast into prison.

²⁵There arose therefore a question, on the part of John’s disciples with a Jew, about purification. ²⁶And they came to John and said to him: Rabbi, he who was with thee beyond the Jordan, to whom thou hast borne witness, behold, he immerses, and all come to him.

²⁷John answered and said: A man can receive nothing, except it be given him from heaven. ²⁸Ye yourselves bear me witness, that I said, I am not the Christ, but I am sent before him. ²⁹He that has the bride is the bridegroom. But the friend of the bridegroom, who stands and hears him, rejoices greatly because of the bridegroom’s voice. This my joy therefore is made full. ³⁰He must increase, but I must decrease. ³¹He that comes from above is above all; he that is from the earth is of the earth, and speaks of the earth; he that comes from heaven is above all. ³²And what he has seen and heard, that he testifies; and his testimony no one receives. ³³He that received his testimony has set his seal, That God is true. ³⁴For he whom God sent forth speaks the words of God; for he gives not³⁴ the Spirit by measure. ³⁵The Father loves the Son, and has given all things into his hand. ³⁶He that believes on the Son has everlasting life; and he that believes not the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God abides on him.

IV. When therefore the Lord knew that the Pharisees heard, that Jesus made and immersed more disciples than John ²(though Jesus himself immersed not, but his disciples), ³he left Judæa, and departed again into Galilee. ⁴And he must go through Samaria. ⁵He comes therefore to a city of Samaria, called Sychar⁵, near to the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph. ⁶And Jacob’s well was there. Jesus therefore, being wearied with the journey, sat down thus on the well. It was about the sixth hour.

⁷There comes a woman of Samaria to draw water. Jesus, says to her: Give me to drink. ⁸For his disciples had gone away into the city to buy food. ⁹The Samaritan woman therefore says to him: How is it that thou, being a Jew, askest drink of me, being a Samaritan woman? For Jews do not associate with Samaritans. ¹⁰Jesus answered and said to her: If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that says to thee, Give me to drink, thou wouldest have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water. ¹¹The woman says to him: Sir, thou hast nothing to draw with, and the well is deep. From whence then hast thou the living water. ¹²Art thou greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well, and drank thereof himself, and his children, and his cattle? ¹³Jesus answered and said to her: Every one that drinks of this water shall thirst again. ¹⁴But whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall become in him a well of water, springing up into everlasting life. ¹⁵The woman says to him: Sir, give me this water, that I may not thirst, nor come hither to draw.

¹⁶Jesus says to her: Go, call thy husband, and come hither. ¹⁷The woman answered and said: I have no husband. Jesus says to her: Thou saidst well, I have no husband. ¹⁸For thou hast had five husbands; and he whom thou now hast is not thy husband. That thou hast spoken truly.

¹⁹The woman says to him: Sir, I perceive that thou art a prophet. ²⁰Our fathers worshiped in this mountain; and ye say, that in Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship. ²¹Jesus says to her: Woman, believe me, an hour is coming, when ye shall neither in this mountain nor in Jerusalem worship the Father. ²²Ye worship that which ye know not; we worship that which we know; because salvation is of the Jews. ²³But an hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth; for such the Father seeks to worship him. ²⁴God is spirit; and they that worship him, must worship in spirit and in truth.

²⁵The woman says to him: I know that Messiah comes (who is called Christ); when he is come, he will tell us all things. ²⁶Jesus says to her: I that speak to thee am he. ²⁷And upon this came his disciples; and they marveled that he talked with the woman²⁷. Yet no one said: What seekest thou? or, Why talkest thou with her? ²⁸The woman then left her water-pot, and went away into the city; and she says to the men: ²⁹Come, see a man who told me all things that ever I did. Is this the Christ? ³⁰Then they went out of the city, and came to him.

³¹In the mean while the disciples prayed him, saying: Master, eat. ³²But he said to them: I have food to eat that ye know not of. ³³Therefore said the disciples one to another: Has any one brought him aught to eat? ³⁴Jesus says to them: My food is to do the will of him who sent me, and to finish his work. ³⁵Do ye not say, that there are yet four months, and then comes the harvest? Behold, I say to you, lift up your eyes and look on the fields, that they are already white for harvest. ³⁶And he that reaps receives wages, and gathers fruit unto life eternal; that both he that sows and he that reaps may rejoice together. ³⁷And herein is the true saying: One sows, and another reaps. ³⁸I sent you to reap that whereon ye have not labored. Other men have labored, and ye have entered into their labor.

³⁹And many of the Samaritans of that city believed on him for the saying of the woman, who testified: He told me all that ever I did. ⁴⁰When therefore the Samaritans came to him, they besought him to remain with them. And he remained there two days. ⁴¹And far more believed because of his word; ⁴²and said to the woman: We no longer believe because of thy saying; for we ourselves have heard, and know that this is in truth the Savior of the world.

⁴³And after the two days he departed thence, and went into Galilee. ⁴⁴For Jesus himself testified, that a prophet has no honor in his own country.

⁴⁵When therefore he came into Galilee, the Galilæans received him, having seen all that he did in Jerusalem at the feast; for they also went to the feast. ⁴⁶So he came again into Cana of Galilee, where he made the water wine.

And there was a certain nobleman, whose son was sick, in Capernaum. ⁴⁷He, having heard that Jesus is come out of Judæa into Galilee, went to him, and besought him that he would come down and heal his son; for he was about to die. ⁴⁸Jesus therefore said to him: Except ye see signs and wonders, ye will not believe. ⁴⁹The nobleman says to him: Sir, come down ere my child die. ⁵⁰Jesus says to him: Go thy way; thy son lives. And the man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him, and he went his way. ⁵¹And as he was now going down, his servants met him, and brought word saying: Thy child lives. ⁵²He inquired of them, therefore, the hour when he began to amend. And they said to him: Yesterday, at the seventh hour, the fever left him. ⁵³The father knew, therefore, that it was in the same hour in which Jesus said to him: Thy son lives. And he himself believed, and his whole house. ⁵⁴This second sign Jesus wrought, when he had come out of Judæa into Galilee.

V. After these things there was a feast of the Jews; and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. ²And there is in Jerusalem by the sheep-gate a pool, which is called in the Hebrew tongue Bethesda, having five porches. ³In these lay a multitude of the infirm, of blind, lame, withered [waiting for the moving of the water. ⁴For an angel went down at a certain season into the pool, and troubled the water. He therefore; who first went in after the troubling of the water, was made whole of whatever disease he had]⁴. ⁵And a certain man was there, who had an infirmity thirty and eight years. ⁶Jesus seeing this man lying, and knowing that he had been already a long time thus, says to him: Dost thou desire to be made whole? ⁷The infirm man answered him: Sir, I have no man, when the water is troubled, to put me into the pool; but while I am coming, another goes down before me. ⁸Jesus says to him: Rise, take up thy bed, and walk. ⁹And immediately the man was made whole, and took up his bed and walked.

And on that day was the sabbath. ¹⁰The Jews therefore said to him that was cured: It is the sabbath; it is not lawful for thee to carry the bed. ¹¹He answered them: He who made me whole, the same said to me: Take up thy bed, and walk. ¹²They asked him therefore: Who is the man that said to thee: Take up thy bed and walk? ¹³And he who was healed knew not who it was; for Jesus conveyed himself away, there being a multitude in the place.

¹⁴Afterward Jesus finds him in the temple. And he said to him: Behold, thou hast been made whole; sin no more, lest something worse befall thee. ¹⁵The man departed, and told the Jews that it was Jesus who made him whole. ¹⁶And for this the Jews persecuted Jesus, because he did these things on the sabbath. ¹⁷But Jesus answered them: My Father works hitherto, and I work. ¹⁸For this therefore the Jews sought the more to kill him, because he not only broke the sabbath, but also called God his Father, making himself equal with God.

¹⁹Jesus therefore, answered and said to them: Verily, verily, I say to you, the Son can do nothing of himself, but what he sees the Father do; for what things soever he does, these also does the Son in like manner. ²⁰For the Father loves the Son, and shows him all things that he himself does; and greater works than these will he show him, that ye may marvel. ²¹For as the Father raises up the dead, and quickens them; so also the Son quickens whom he will. ²²For neither does the Father judge any one; but all judgment he has given to the Son; ²³that all may honor the Son, as they honor the Father. He that honors not the Son, honors not the Father who sent him.

²⁴Verily, verily, I say to you, he that hears my word, and believes him who sent me, has everlasting life, and comes not into judgment, but has passed out of death into life. ²⁵Verily, verily, I say to you, an hour is coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God; and they that hear shall live. ²⁶For as the Father has life in himself, so he gave also to the Son to have life in himself. ²⁷And he gave him authority to execute judgment also, because he is a son of man. ²⁸Marvel not at this; for an hour is coming, in which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice, ²⁹and shall come forth; they that did good, to the resurrection of life, and they that did evil, to the resurrection of judgment.

³⁰I can of myself do nothing. As I hear, I judge; and my judgment is just; because I seek not my own will, but the will of him who sent me.

³¹If I bear witness of myself, my witness is not true. ³²There is another that bears witness of me; and I know that the witness which he witnesses of me is true. ³³Ye have sent to John, and he has borne witness to the truth. ³⁴But I receive the witness not from man; but these things I say, that ye might be saved. ³⁵He was the burning and shining lamp; and ye were willing for a season to rejoice in his light. ³⁶But I have greater witness than that of John; for the works which the Father gave me to finish, the works themselves that I do bear witness of me, that the Father has sent me. ³⁷And the Father, who sent me, he has borne witness of me. Ye have neither heard his voice at any time, nor have ye seen his shape. ³⁸And ye have not his word abiding in you; for whom he sent, him ye believe not.

³⁹Search³⁹ the Scriptures; because in them ye think ye have eternal life, and these are they that testify of me; ⁴⁰and ye will not come to me, that ye may have life. ⁴¹I receive not honor from men. ⁴²But I know you, that ye have not the love of God in you. ⁴³I have come in my Father’s name, and ye receive me not; if another shall come in his own name, him ye will receive. ⁴⁴How can ye believe, receiving honor from one another, and the honor that is from God alone ye seek not? ⁴⁵Do not think that I will accuse you to the Father; there is one that accuses you, Moses in whom ye have placed your hope. ⁴⁶For if ye believed Moses, ye would believe me; for he wrote of me. ⁴⁷But if ye believe not his writings, how shall ye believe my words?

VI. After these things Jesus went away, beyond the sea of Galilee, which is the sea of Tiberias. ²And a great multitude followed him, because they saw the signs which he wrought on the sick. ³And Jesus went up into the mountain, and there he sat with his disciples. ⁴And the passover, the feast of the Jews, was near. ⁵Jesus therefore lifting up his eyes, and seeing that a great multitude is coming to him, says to Philip: Whence shall we buy bread that these may eat? ⁶And this he said to try him; for he himself knew what he was about to do. ⁷Philip answered him: Two hundred denáries worth of bread is not sufficient for them, that each one may take a little. ⁸One of his disciples, Andrew, the brother of Simon Peter, says to him: ⁹There is a lad here, who has five barley loaves and two small fishes; but what are they among so many? ¹⁰Jesus said: Make the men lie down. Now there was much grass in the place. So the men lay down, in number about five thousand. ¹¹And Jesus took the loaves; and having given thanks, he distributed to those who were lying down; and likewise of the fishes as much as they desired. ¹²When they were filled, he said to his disciples: Gather up the fragments that remain, that nothing be lost. ¹³Therefore they gathered them together, and filled twelve baskets with fragments of the five barley loaves, which remained over and above to those who had eaten. ¹⁴The men therefore, seeing the sign that Jesus wrought, said: This is of a truth the Prophet that comes into the world.

¹⁵Jesus therefore, knowing that they were about to come and take him by force, to make him a king, withdrew again into the mountain, himself alone. ¹⁶And when evening came, his disciples went down to the sea, ¹⁷and entering into the ship, were going over the sea to Capernaum. And it was now dark, and Jesus had not come to them; ¹⁸and as a strong wind was blowing, the sea began to rise. ¹⁹When therefore they had rowed about twenty-five or thirty furlongs, they see Jesus walking on the sea, and drawing near to the ship; and they were afraid. ²⁰But he says to them: It is I, be not afraid. ²¹They therefore willingly received him into the ship; and immediately the ship was at the land whither they were going.

²²On the morrow, the multitude that stood on the other side of the sea, seeing that there was no other boat there but one, and that Jesus went not with his disciples into the ship, but his disciples went away alone ²³(but there came other boats from Tiberias near to the place where they ate bread, when the Lord had given thanks); ²⁴when therefore the multitude saw that Jesus was not there, nor his disciples, they themselves entered into the boats, and came to Capernaum, seeking for Jesus. ²⁵And having found him on the other side of the sea, they said to him: Rabbi, when camest thou hither? ²⁶Jesus answered them and said: Verily, verily, I say to you, ye seek me, not because ye saw signs, but because ye ate of the loaves and were filled. ²⁷Work not for the food that perishes, but for the food that endures unto everlasting life, which the Son of man will give to you; for him the Father, God, has sealed, ²⁸Therefore they said to him: What shall we do, that we may work the works of God? ²⁹Jesus answered and said to them: This is the work of God, that ye believe on him whom he sent. ³⁰They therefore said to him: What sign doest thou then, that we may see, and believe thee? What dost thou work? ³¹Our fathers ate the manna in the wilderness; as it is written: He gave them bread from heaven to eat. ³²Jesus therefore said to them: Verily, verily, I say to you, Moses has not given you the bread from heaven; but my Father gives you the true bread from heaven. ³³For the bread of God is that which³³ comes down out of heaven, and gives life to the world.

³⁴They therefore said to him: Lord, evermore give us this bread. ³⁵Jesus said to them: I am the bread of life. He that comes to me shall never hunger, and he that believes on me shall never thirst. ³⁶But I said to you, that ye have also seen me, and do not believe. ³⁷All that the Father gives me will come to me; and him that comes to me I will not cast out. ³⁸Because I have come down from heaven, not to do my own will, but the will of him who sent me. ³⁹And this is the will of him who sent me, that of all which he has given me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up at the last day. ⁴⁰For this is the will of my Father, that every one who sees the Son, and believes on him, may have everlasting life; and I will raise him up at the last day.

⁴¹The Jews therefore murmured at him, because he said: I am the bread that came down out of heaven. ⁴²And they said: Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How then does this man say: I have come down out of heaven?

⁴³Jesus answered and said to them: Murmur not among yourselves. ⁴⁴No one can come to me, except the Father who sent me draw him; and I will raise him up at the last day. ⁴⁵It is written in the prophets: And they shall all be taught of God. Every one that has heard from the Father, and has learned, comes to me. ⁴⁶Not that any one has seen the Father, save he who is from God; he has seen the Father.

⁴⁷Verily, verily, I say to you, he that believes on me has everlasting life. ⁴⁸I am the bread of life. ⁴⁹Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and are dead. ⁵⁰This is the bread that comes down out of heaven, that one may eat thereof, and not die. ⁵¹I am the living bread that came down out of heaven. If any one eat of this bread, he shall live forever; yea, and the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.

⁵²The Jews therefore contended with one another, saying: How can this man give us his flesh to eat? ⁵³Jesus therefore said to them: Verily, verily, I say to you, except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, ye have no life in you. ⁵⁴He that eats my flesh, and drinks my blood, has eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day. ⁵⁵For my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink. ⁵⁶He that eats my flesh, and drinks my blood, abides in me, and I in him. ⁵⁷As the living Father has sent me, and I live because of the Father; so he that eats me, he also shall live because of me. ⁵⁸This is the bread that came down out of heaven. Not as your fathers ate the manna, and are dead; he that eats of this bread shall live forever.

⁵⁹These things he said in the synagogue, while teaching in Capernaum.

⁶⁰Many therefore of his disciples, when they heard it, said: This is a hard saying; who can hear it? ⁶¹But Jesus, knowing in himself that his disciples murmured at this, said to them: Does this offend you? ⁶²What then if ye behold the Son of man ascending up where he was before? ⁶³It is the spirit that makes alive, the flesh profits nothing; the words which I have spoken to you are spirit, and are life. ⁶⁴But there are some of you that believe not. For Jesus knew from the beginning who they were that believed not, and who it was that should betray him. ⁶⁵And he said: For this cause I have said to you, that no one can come to me, except it be given him from the Father.

⁶⁶From this time many of his disciples went back, and walked no more with him.

⁶⁷Jesus said therefore to the twelve: Will ye also go away? ⁶⁸Simon Peter answered him: Lord, to whom shall we go? Thou hast words of eternal life. ⁶⁹And we believe and know, that thou art the Holy One of God. ⁷⁰Jesus answered them: Did I not choose you, the twelve, and one of you is a devil? ⁷¹He spoke of Judas Iscariot, son of Simon; for he it was that would betray him, being one of the twelve.

VII. And after these things Jesus walked in Galilee; for he would not walk in Judæa, because the Jews were seeking to kill him.

²Now the feast of the Jews, the feast of tabernacles, was at hand. ³His brothers therefore said to him: Depart hence, and go into Judæa, that thy disciples also may behold thy works that thou doest. ⁴For no one does anything in secret, and he himself seeks to be known openly. If thou doest these things, manifest thyself to the world. ⁵For neither did his brothers believe on him. ⁶Jesus therefore says to them: My time is not yet come; but your time is always ready. ⁷The world can not hate you; but me it hates, because I testify of it, that its works are evil. ⁸Go ye up to the feast. I go not up to this feast; because my time is not yet fully come.

⁹Having said these things to them, he remained in Galilee. ¹⁰But when his brothers were gone up to the feast, then he also went up, not openly, but as it were in secret.

¹¹The Jews therefore sought him at the feast, and said: Where is he? ¹²And there was much murmuring among the multitudes concerning him. Some said: He is a good man; others said: Nay, but he misleads the multitude. ¹³No one, however, spoke openly of him, for fear of the Jews.

¹⁴But when it was already the midst of the feast, Jesus went up into the temple and taught. ¹⁵And the Jews wondered, saying: How knows this man letters, having never learned? ¹⁶Jesus therefore answered them, and said: My teaching is not mine, but his who sent me. ¹⁷If any one desires to do his will, he shall know of the teaching, whether it is of God, or whether I speak from myself. ¹⁸He that speaks from himself seeks his own glory; but he that seeks the glory of him who sent him, the same is true, and there is no unrighteousness in him.

¹⁹Has not Moses given you the law, and none of you keeps the law? Why do ye seek to kill me? ²⁰The multitude answered and said: Thou hast a demon; who seeks to kill thee? ²¹Jesus answered and said to them: I did one work, and ye all marvel. ²²Moses has for this cause given you circumcision, not that it is of Moses, but of the fathers; and on the sabbath ye circumcise a man. ²³If a man receives circumcision on the sabbath, that the law of Moses may not be broken; are ye angry at me, because I made a man altogether whole on the sabbath? ²⁴Judge not according to appearance, but judge the righteous judgment.

²⁵Then said some of those of Jerusalem: Is not this he whom they seek to kill? ²⁶But, lo, he speaks boldly, and they say nothing to him. Did the rulers know²⁶ in truth that this is the Christ? ²⁷But we know this man, whence he is; but when the Christ comes, no one knows whence he is.

²⁸Jesus therefore cried, teaching in the temple and saying: Ye both know me, and ye know whence I am; and I have not come of myself, but he that sent me is true, whom ye know not. ²⁹I know him; because I am from him, and he sent me. ³⁰Therefore they sought to seize him; and no one laid hands on him, because his hour had not yet come.

³¹But of the multitude many believed on him, and said: When the Christ comes, will he work more signs than these which this man wrought? ³²The Pharisees heard the multitude murmuring these things concerning him; and the chief priests and the Pharisees sent officers to seize him. ³³Jesus therefore said: Yet a little while I am with you, and I go to him who sent me. ³⁴Ye will seek me, and shall not find me; and where I am, ye can not come. ³⁵The Jews said therefore among themselves: Whither will this man go, that we shall not find him? Will he go to those dispersed among the Greeks, and teach the Greeks? ³⁶What is this saying that he said: Ye will seek me, and shall not find me; and where I am, ye can not come?

³⁷In the last day, the great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying: If any one thirst, let him come to me and drink. ³⁸He that believes on me, as said the Scripture, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water. ³⁹And this he spoke concerning the Spirit, which they that believe on him should receive; for the Holy Spirit was not yet [given], because Jesus was not yet glorified.

⁴⁰Some of the multitude therefore, hearing the words, said: Of a truth this is the Prophet. ⁴¹Others said: This is the Christ. But some said: Does the Christ then come out of Galilee? ⁴²Did not the Scripture say, that the Christ comes of the seed of David, and from the town of Bethlehem, where David was? ⁴³A division therefore arose among the multitude because of him. ⁴⁴And some of them desired to seize him; but no one laid hands on him.

⁴⁵The officers therefore came to the chief priests and Pharisees; and they said to them: Why did ye not bring him? ⁴⁶The officers answered: Never man spoke like this man⁴⁷. ⁴⁷The Pharisees answered them: Are ye also led astray? ⁴⁸Did any of the rulers believe on him, or of the Pharisees? ⁴⁹But this multitude, that know not the law, are accursed. ⁵⁰Nicodemus says to them (he who came to him by night, being one of them): ⁵¹Does our law judge a man, except it first hear from him, and know what he does? ⁵²They answered and said to him: Art thou also of Galilee? Search, and see, that out of Galilee arises no prophet⁵². ⁵³⁵³[And each one went to his house.

VIII. Jesus went to the mount of the Olives.

²And early in the morning he came again into the temple, and all the people came to him; and having sat down, he was teaching them. ³And the scribes and the Pharisees bring to him a woman taken in adultery; and having placed her in the midst, ⁴they say to him: Teacher, this woman was taken in adultery, in the very act: ⁵Now in the law Moses commanded us, that such should be stoned; what then dost thou say? ⁶This they said, tempting him, that they might have whereof to accuse him. But Jesus, having stooped down, was writing with his finger in the ground. ⁷And as they continued asking him, raising himself up, he said to them: He that is without sin among you, let him first cast the stone at her. ⁸And again stooping down, he wrote in the ground. ⁹And they hearing it, and being convicted by their conscience, went out one by one, beginning at the eldest, unto the last; and Jesus was left alone, and the woman standing in the midst. ¹⁰And Jesus raising himself up, and seeing none but the woman, said to her: Woman, where are they, thine accusers? Did no one condemn thee? ¹¹She said: No one, Lord. And Jesus said to her: Neither do I condemn thee; go, and sin no more.]

¹²Again therefore Jesus spoke to them, saying: I am the light of the world; he that follows me shall not walk in the darkness, but shall have the light of life. ¹³The Pharisees therefore said to him: Thou bearest witness of thyself; thy witness is not true. ¹⁴Jesus answered and said to them: Though I bear witness of myself, my witness is true; because I know whence I came, and whither I go; but ye know not whence I come, or whither I go. ¹⁵Ye judge according to the flesh; I judge no one. ¹⁶And even if I judge, my judgment is true; because I am not alone, but I and the Father who sent me. ¹⁷It is written also in your law, that the witness of two men is true. ¹⁸I am one that bear witness of myself, and the Father who sent me bears witness of me. ¹⁹They said therefore to him: Where is thy Father? Jesus answered: Ye know neither me, nor my Father. If ye knew me, ye would know my Father also.

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. And passing 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. Now a 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. Therefore Jesus, 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 bore⁶ what was put therein. ⁷Then said Jesus: Let her alone; she has kept it⁷ to 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. And before 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 sent¹⁶ greater 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. Let not 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. I am the 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. These things 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. These words 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. Having spoken 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. Then therefore 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. And on 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. After these 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.

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