John Chapter 1
The Word made flesh
1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
2 He was with God in the beginning.
3 Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made.
4 In him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind.
5 The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.
6 There was a man sent from God whose name was John.
7 He came as a witness to testify concerning that light, so that through him all might believe.
8 He himself was not the light; he came only as a witness to the light.
9 The true light that gives light to everyone was coming into the world.
10 He was in the world, and though the world was made through him, the world did not recognize him.
11 He came to that which was his own, but his own people did not receive him.
12 But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God,
13 who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God.
14 And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, the glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.
15 John bore witness about him, and cried out, “This was he of whom I said, ‘He who comes after me ranks before me, because he was before me.’”
16 For from his fullness we have all received, grace upon grace.
17 For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.
18 No one has ever seen God, but the one and only Son, who is himself God and is in closest relationship with the Father, has made him known.
Testimony of John the Baptist
19 This is the testimony of John, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, “Who are you?”
20 He confessed, and did not deny, but confessed, “I am not the Christ.”
21 And they asked him, “What then? Are you Elijah?” He said, “I am not.” “Are you the Prophet?” He answered, “No.”
22 They said to him, “Who are you then, so that we may give an answer to those who sent us? What do you say about yourself?”
23 He said, “I am the voice of one crying out in the wilderness, ‘Make straight the way of the Lord,’ as the prophet Isaiah said.”
24 Now those who had been sent were from the Pharisees.
25 And they asked him, “Why then do you baptize, if you are neither the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the prophet?”
26 John answered them, “I baptize with water; But among you stands one whom you do not know.
27 He is the one who comes after me, the one who is before me, the strap of whose sandal I am not worthy to untie.
28 These things took place at Bethany beyond the Jordan, where John was baptizing.
The Lamb of God
29 The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him and said, “Look, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!
30 This is the one I meant when I said, ‘A man who comes after me has surpassed me because he was before me.’
31 I myself did not know him, but the reason I came baptizing with water was that he might be revealed to Israel.”
32 Then John gave this testimony: “I saw the Spirit descending from heaven like a dove and remaining on him.
33 And I myself did not know him, but the one who sent me to baptize with water told me, ‘The man on whom you see the Spirit descend and remain is the one who will baptize with the Holy Spirit.’
34 I have seen and I testify that this is God’s Chosen One.”
The first disciples
35 The next day John was there again with two of his disciples.
36 When he saw Jesus walking by, he said, “Look, the Lamb of God!”
37 When the two disciples heard him say this, they followed Jesus.
38 Turning around, Jesus saw them following and asked, “What do you want?” They said, “Rabbi” (which means Teacher), “where are you staying?”
39 “Come and see,” he replied. So they went and saw where he was staying, and they spent that day with him. It was about four in the afternoon.
40 Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother, was one of the two who heard what John had said and had followed Jesus.
41 The first thing Andrew did was find his brother Simon and tell him, “We have found the Messiah” (which means Christ).
42 And he brought him to Jesus. Jesus looked at him and said, “You are Simon son of John. You will be called Cephas” (which, when translated, means Peter).
Jesus calls Philip and Nathanael
43 The next day Jesus decided to go to Galilee. He found Philip and said to him, “Follow me.”
44 Philip was from Bethsaida, the town of Andrew and Peter.
45 Philip found Nathanael and told him, “We have found the one Moses wrote about in the Law, and about whom the prophets also wrote—Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.”
46 Nathanael asked, “Can anything good come out of Nazareth?” Philip replied, “Come and see.”
47 When Jesus saw Nathanael approaching, he said of him, “Here truly is an Israelite in whom there is no deceit.”
48 “How do you know me?” Nathanael asked. Jesus answered, “I saw you while you were still under the fig tree, before Philip called you.”
49 Then Nathanael declared, “Rabbi, you are the Son of God; you are the King of Israel.”
50 Jesus answered and said to him, “Because I told you, ‘I saw you under the fig tree,’ do you believe? You will see greater things than these.”
51 And he said to him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, you will see heaven opened, and the angels of God ascending and descending on the Son of Man.”
John Chapter 2
The Wedding at Cana
1 On the third day there was a wedding in Cana of Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there.
2 Jesus and his disciples had also been invited to the wedding.
3 When the wine ran out, the mother of Jesus said to him, “They have no wine.”
4 Jesus replied, “Woman, why do you involve me? My hour has not yet come.”
5 His mother said to the servants, “Do whatever he tells you.”
6 Nearby stood six stone water jars, used for the Jewish rites of purification, each holding two or three literes.
7 Jesus said to the servants, “Fill the jars with water”; so they filled them to the brim.
8 Then he told them, “Now draw some out and take it to the master of the banquet.” So they took it.
9 When the master of the banquet tasted the water that had been turned into wine, not knowing where it had come from (though the servants who had drawn the water knew), he called the bridegroom aside
10 and said, “Everyone brings out the choice wine first and then the cheaper wine after the guests have had too much to drink; but you have saved the best till now.”
11 This, the first of his miraculous signs, Jesus performed at Cana in Galilee. He thus revealed his glory, and his disciples put their faith in him.
12 After this, he and his mother, his brothers and his disciples went down to Capernaum, where they stayed for a few days.
Jesus cleanses the temple
13 Now the Passover of the Jews was near, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
14 In the temple courts he found people selling cattle, sheep, and doves, and the money changers sitting at tables.
15 Making a whip out of cords, he drove all from the temple courts, both sheep and cattle; he scattered the coins of the money changers and overturned their tables.
16 To those who sold doves he said, “Take these things away; do not make my Father’s house a house of trade.”
17 Then his disciples remembered that it is written: “Zeal for your house will consume me.”
18 The Jews then answered and said to him, “What sign can you show us to prove your authority to do all this?”
19 Jesus answered them, “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.”
20 Then the Jews said, “It has taken forty-six years to build this temple, and you are going to raise it up in three days?”
21 But he was speaking of the temple of his body.
22 Therefore, when he was raised from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this; and they believed the Scripture and the word that Jesus had spoken.
Jesus knows all men
23 Now while he was in Jerusalem at the Passover Festival, many people saw the signs he was performing and believed in his name.
24 But Jesus would not entrust himself to them, because he knew all people.
25 He did not need anyone to testify about mankind, for he knew what was in each person.
John Chapter 3
Jesus and Nicodemus
1 Now there was a Pharisee named Nicodemus, a member of the Jewish ruling council.
2 He came to Jesus at night and said, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher who has come from God. For no one could perform the signs you are doing if God were not with him.”
3 Jesus replied, “Very truly I tell you, no one can see the kingdom of God unless they are born again.”
4 “How can someone be born when they are old?” Nicodemus asked. “Surely they cannot enter a second time into their mother’s womb to be born!”
5 Jesus answered, “Very truly I tell you, no one can enter the kingdom of God unless they are born of water and the Spirit.
6 Flesh gives birth to flesh, but the Spirit gives birth to spirit.
7 You should not be surprised at my saying, ‘You must be born again.’
8 The wind blows wherever it pleases. You hear its sound, but But you do not know where it comes from or where it is going. So it is with everyone born of the Spirit.
9 Nicodemus asked him, “How can these things be?”
10 Jesus answered, “Are you a teacher of Israel and yet you do not understand these things?
11 Very truly I tell you, we speak of what we know, and we testify to what we have seen, but you do not accept our testimony.
12 I have told you earthly things and you do not believe; how then will you believe if I tell you heavenly things?
13 No one has ascended into heaven except the one who descended from heaven, the Son of Man.
14 Just as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so the Son of Man must be lifted up,
15 that whoever believes in him may have eternal life.
For God so loved the world
16 For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.
17 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.
18 Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because they have not believed in the name of God’s one and only Son.
19 This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but people loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil.
20 Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that their deeds will be exposed.
21 But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what they have done has been done in the sight of God.
The husband's friend
22 After this, Jesus and his disciples went into the Judean countryside, where he spent some time with them and was baptizing.
23 Now John was baptizing at Aenon near Salim, because water was plentiful there, and people were coming and being baptized.
24 (This was before John was put in prison.)
25 Over the matter of purification, a discussion arose between some of John’s disciples and a Jewish leader.
26 They came to John and said to him, “Rabbi, he who was with you across the Jordan—the one you testified about—is baptizing, and everyone is going to him.”
27 John replied, “A person cannot receive even one thing unless it is given them from heaven.
28 You yourselves can testify that I said, ‘I am not the Messiah, but I have been sent ahead of him.’
29 The bride belongs to the bridegroom. The friend who attends the bridegroom waits and hears him and rejoices greatly at the bridegroom’s voice. So this joy of mine is now complete.
30 He must increase, but I must decrease.
The one who comes from above
31 The one who comes from above is above all; the one who is of the earth belongs to the earth and speaks in earthly terms. The one who comes from heaven is above all.
32 He testifies to what he has seen and heard, yet no one accepts his testimony.
33 Whoever accepts his testimony has certified that God is true.
34 For the one whom God has sent speaks the words of God, for God gives the Spirit without measure.
35 The Father loves the Son and has given all things into his hand.
36 Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life; whoever rejects the Son will not see life, for God’s wrath remains on them.
John Chapter 4
Jesus and the Samaritan woman
1 When the Lord learned that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John
2 (although Jesus himself did not baptize, but only his disciples),
3 he left Judea and went back to Galilee.
4 Now he had to go through Samaria.
5 So he came to a town in Samaria called Sychar, near the plot of ground Jacob had given to his son Joseph.
6 Jacob’s well was there, and Jesus, tired as he was from the journey, sat down by the well. It was about noon.
7 When a Samaritan woman came to draw water, Jesus said to her, “Will you give me a drink?”
8 (His disciples had gone into the town to buy food.)
9 The Samaritan woman said to him, “You are a Jew and I am a Samaritan woman. How can you ask me for a drink?” (For Jews do not associate with Samaritans.)
10 Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God and who it is that asks you for a drink, you would have asked him and he would have given you living water.”
11 “Sir,” the woman said, “you have nothing to draw with and the well is deep. Where can you get this living water?
12 Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did also his sons and his livestock?”
13 Jesus answered, “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again,
14 but whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life.”
15 “Sir,” the woman said, “give me this water so that I won’t get thirsty and have to keep coming here to draw water.”
16 “Go,” he told her, “call your husband and come back.”
17 The woman answered, “I have no husband.” Jesus said to her, “You are right in saying, ‘I have no husband,’
18 for you have had five husbands, and the one you now have is not your husband. What you have said is true.”
19 The woman said to him, “Sir, I perceive that you are a prophet.
20 Our ancestors worshiped on this mountain, but you Jews claim that the place where people ought to worship is in Jerusalem.”
21 Jesus said to her, “Woman, believe me, a time is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem.
22 You Samaritans worship what you do not know; we worship what we know, for salvation is from the Jews.
23 Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks.
24 God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in spirit and truth.
25The woman said to him, “I know that Messiah” (called Christ) “is coming. When he comes, he will explain everything to us.”
26 Jesus declared, “I, the one speaking to you—I am he.”
27 Just then his disciples came back and were surprised to find him talking with a woman. But no one asked, “What do you want?” or “Why are you talking with her?”
28 Then the woman left her water jar, went back to the town, and said to the people,
29 “ Come, see a man who told me everything I ever did. Could this be the Messiah?”
30 So the people came out of the town and made their way to him.
31 Meanwhile, the disciples urged him, saying, “Rabbi, eat something.”
32 He said to them, “I have food to eat that you know nothing about.”
33 Then the disciples said to one another, “Could someone have brought him food?”
34 Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to finish his work.
35 Do you not say, ‘There are still four months until the harvest’? I tell you, open your eyes and look at the fields! They are ripe for harvest.”
36 And the one who reaps draws a wage and gathers a crop for eternal life, so that the sower and the reaper may rejoice together.
37 For in this the saying is true: ‘One sows and another reaps.’
38 I sent you to reap what you have not labored for. Others have done the labor, and you have reaped the benefits of their labor.
39 Many of the Samaritans from that town believed in him because of the woman’s testimony, “He told me everything I ever did.”
40 So when the Samaritans came to him, they urged him to stay with them, and he stayed two days.
41 And many more believed because of his testimony.
42 They said to the woman, “We no longer believe just because of what you said; now we have heard for ourselves, and we know that this man really is the Savior of the world.”
Jesus heals the son of a nobleman
43 Two days later, he left there and went to Galilee.
44 For Jesus himself had testified that a prophet has no honor in his own country.
45 When he arrived in Galilee, the Galileans welcomed him, having seen all that he had done in Jerusalem at the festival, for they too had gone to the festival.
46 Jesus came again to Cana in Galilee, where he had turned the water into wine. Now there was a royal official whose son was ill in Capernaum.
47 When this man heard that Jesus had come from Judea to Galilee, he went to him and begged him to come down and heal his son, for he was at the point of death.
48 Then Jesus said to him, “Unless you see signs and wonders, you will not believe.”
49 The royal official said to him, “Sir, come down before my child dies.”
50 Jesus said to him, “Go; your son will live.” The man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him and went away.
51 As he was going down, his servants met him and told him, “Your son is alive!”
52 He asked them at what time his son began to get better, and they told him, “Yesterday at seven the fever left him.”
53 Then the father realized that this was the exact time Jesus had said to him, “Your son will live”; and he and his entire household believed.
54 This was the second sign Jesus performed after he had come from Judea to Galilee.
John Chapter 5
The paralytic of Bethesda
1 After this there was a Jewish festival, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
2 Now there is in Jerusalem near the Sheep Gate a pool, which in Aramaic is called Bethesda, and which is surrounded by five porticoes.
3 In these lay a great multitude of sick people, blind, lame, and paralyzed, waiting for the moving of the water.
4 For an angel of the Lord went down at certain seasons into the pool and stirred up the water; then whoever stepped in first after the stirring of the water was healed of whatever disease he had.
5 Now a certain man was there who had been an invalid for thirty-eight years.
6 When Jesus saw him lying there and learned that he had been in this condition for a long time, he said to him, “Do you want to get well?”
7 “Sir,” the invalid replied, “I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up, but while I am trying to get in, someone else steps down ahead of me.”
8 Then Jesus said to him, “Get up! Pick up your mat and walk.”
9 At once the man was healed; he picked up his mat and walked. Now that day was the Sabbath.
10 So the Jews said to the man who had been healed, “It is the Sabbath; it is not lawful for you to carry your mat.”
11 He answered them, “The man who healed me said to me, ‘Pick up your mat and walk.’”
12 Then they asked him, “Who is this man who told you, ‘Pick up your mat and walk’?”
13 The man who had been healed did not know who it was, for Jesus had slipped away into the crowd.
14 Later Jesus found him at the temple and said to him, “See, you have been made well. Sin no more, lest a worse thing happen to you.”
15 The man went away and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had healed him.
16 For this reason the Jews persecuted Jesus and sought to kill him, because he was doing these things on the Sabbath.
17 Jesus answered them, “My Father is always at his work to this very day, and I too am working.”
18 For this reason the Jews tried all the more to kill him; not only was he breaking the Sabbath, but he was even calling God his own Father, making himself equal with God.
The authority of the Son
19 Jesus answered and said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing of himself, but what he sees the Father doing; for whatever the Father does, the Son also does in like manner.
20 For the Father loves the Son and shows him all things that he himself does; and he will show him greater works than these, so that you may marvel.
21 For as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, so also the Son gives life to whom he wills.
22 For the Father judges no one, but has committed all judgment to the Son,
23 that all may honor the Son just as they honor the Father. Whoever does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent him.
24 Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life. He does not come into judgment, but has passed from death to life.”
25 “ Very truly I tell you, a time is coming and has now come when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will live.
26 For as the Father has life in himself, so he has granted the Son also to have life in himself.
27 And he has given him authority to judge because he is the Son of Man.
28 Do not be amazed at this, for a time is coming when all who are in their graves will hear his voice
29 and come out—those who have done what is good will rise to live, and those who have done what is evil will rise to be condemned.”
Witnesses of Christ
30 I can do nothing on my own. 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, the Father.
31 If I testify about myself, my testimony is not true.
32 There is another who testifies about me, and I know that his testimony about me is true.
33 You sent messengers to John, and he testified to the truth.
34 But I do not accept testimony from human beings; but I say this so that you may be saved.
35 He was a burning and shining lamp, and you were willing for a while to rejoice in his light.
36 But I have a greater testimony than that of John; for the works that the Father has given me to accomplish, the very works that I am doing, testify about me, that the Father has sent me.
37 And the Father who sent me has himself testified about me. You have never heard his voice nor seen his form,
38 nor does his word dwell in you, for you do not believe the one he sent.
39 You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life. These are the Scriptures that testify about me,
40 yet you refuse to come to me to have life.
41 I do not accept glory from men.
42 But I know you, that you do not have the love of God in you.
43 I have come in my Father’s name, and you do not receive me; if another comes in his own name, you will receive him.
44 How can you believe, when you receive glory from one another and do not seek the glory that comes from the only God?
45 Do not think that I will accuse you before the Father; there is one who accuses you, Moses, on whom you have put your hope.
46 For if you believed Moses, you would believe me, for he wrote about me.
47 But if you do not believe his writings, how will you believe my words?
John Chapter 6
Feeding the five thousand
1 After this, Jesus went across the Sea of Galilee, also called the Sea of Tiberias.
2 A large crowd followed him because they saw the signs he was performing on the sick.
3 Then Jesus went up on a mountainside and sat down there with his disciples.
4 The Jewish Passover Festival was near.
5 When Jesus looked up and saw a great crowd coming toward him, he said to Philip, “Where shall we buy bread for these people to eat?”
6 He asked this only to test him, for he already knew what he was going to do.
7 Philip answered him, “Two hundred denarii worth of bread would not be enough for each of them to have a bite.”
8 One of his disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother, spoke up,
9 “ Here is a boy with five barley loaves and two small fish, but how far will they go among so many?”
10 Jesus said, “Have the people sit down.” Now there was plenty of grass in that place, and the men sat down, about five thousand in number.
11 Then Jesus took the loaves, and when he had given thanks, he distributed them to the disciples, and the disciples to those who were seated. He did the same with the fish, giving them as much as they wanted.
12 When they had all had enough to eat, he said to his disciples, “Gather up the pieces that are left over, so that nothing is wasted.”
13 So they gathered them and filled twelve baskets with the pieces of the five barley loaves left over by those who had eaten.
14 When the men saw the sign Jesus performed, they began to say, “Surely this is the Prophet who is to come into the world.”
15 Jesus, knowing that they intended to come and make him king by force, withdrew again to a mountain by himself.
Jesus walks on the sea
16 When evening came, his disciples went down to the sea,
17 and getting into a boat, they set out across the sea toward Capernaum. By now it was dark, and Jesus had not yet come to them.
18 A strong wind was blowing and the sea became rough.
19 When they had rowed about three or four miles, they saw Jesus walking on the sea and approaching the boat, and they were afraid.
20 But he said to them, “It is I; do not be afraid.”
21 Then they gladly took him into the boat, and immediately the boat reached the shore where they were heading.
People are looking for Jesus
22 The next day, the crowd that had stayed on the other side of the lake saw that there had been only one boat there, and that Jesus had not entered it with his disciples, but that they had gone away alone.
23 Other boats from Tiberias landed near the place where they had eaten the bread after the Lord had given thanks.
24 So when the crowd saw that neither Jesus nor his disciples were there, they got into the boats and went to Capernaum, looking for Jesus.
Jesus, the bread of life
25 When they found him on the other side of the lake, they asked him, “Rabbi, when did you get here?”
26 Jesus replied, “Very truly I tell you, you are looking for me, not because you saw the signs I performed but because you ate the loaves and were satisfied.
27 Do not work for food that spoils, but for food that endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you. For on him God the Father has placed his seal of approval.”
28 Then they asked him, “What must we do to perform the works God requires?”
29 Jesus replied, “The work of God is this: to believe in the one he has sent.”
30 So they asked him, “What sign then will you give us, so that we may see it and believe you? What will you do?
31 Our ancestors ate the manna in the wilderness; as it is written: ‘He gave them bread from heaven to eat.’”
32 Jesus said to them, “Very truly I tell you, it was not Moses who gave you the bread from heaven, but it is my Father who gives you the true bread from heaven.
33 For the bread of God is the bread that comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.”
34 “Sir,” they said, “always give us this bread.”
35 Then Jesus declared, “I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never go hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty.
36 But I told you that you have seen me and still you do not believe.
37 All those the Father gives me will come to me, and whoever comes to me I will never drive away.
38 For I have come down from heaven, not to do my own will, but the will of him who sent me.”
39 And this is the will of him who sent me, that of all that he has given me I should lose nothing, but raise it up at the last day.
40 For this is the will of him who sent me, that everyone who looks on the Son and believes in him should have eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.
41 So the Jews grumbled about him because he said, “I am the bread that came down from heaven.”
42 They said, “Is this not Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How then can he say, ‘I have come down from heaven’?”
43 Jesus answered them, “Do not grumble among yourselves.”
44 No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws them, and I will raise them up at the last day.
45 It is written in the Prophets: ‘They will all be taught by God.’ Everyone who has heard the Father and learned from him comes to me.
46 No one has seen the Father except the one who is from God; only he has seen the Father.
47 Very truly I tell you, whoever believes in me has eternal life.
48 I am the bread of life.
49 Your ancestors ate the manna in the wilderness, yet they died.
50 But here is the bread that comes down from heaven, which anyone may eat and not die.
51 I am the living bread that came down from heaven. Whoever eats this bread will live forever. This bread is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.
52 Then the Jews began to argue sharply among themselves, saying, “How can this man give us his flesh to eat?”
53 Jesus said to them, “Very truly I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you.
54 Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise them up at the last day.
55 For my flesh is real food and my blood is real drink.
56 Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me, and I in them.
57 Just as the living Father sent me and I live because of the Father, so the one who feeds on me will live because of me.
58 This is the bread that came down from heaven. Unlike your ancestors, who ate manna and died, whoever feeds on this bread will live forever.”
59 He said these things while teaching in the synagogue in Capernaum.
Words of eternal life
60 On hearing this, many of his disciples said, “This is a hard teaching. Who can listen to it?”
61 Aware that his disciples were grumbling about this, Jesus said to them, “Does this offend you?
62 Then what if you were to see the Son of Man ascend to where he was before?
63 The Spirit gives life; the flesh counts for nothing. The words I have spoken to you—they are full of the Spirit and life.
64 Yet there are some of you who do not believe.” For Jesus had known from the beginning who did not believe and who would betray him.
65 He went on to say, “This is why I told you that no one can come to me unless the Father has enabled them.”
66 From this time many of his disciples turned back and no longer followed him.
67 “You do not want to leave too, do you?” Jesus asked the Twelve.
68 Simon Peter answered him, “Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life.”
69 We have come to believe and to know that you are the Holy One of God.
70 Jesus answered, “Did I not choose you, the twelve, and one of you is a devil?”
71 He was speaking of Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son, for he was one of the twelve who would betray him.
John Chapter 7
The unbelief of Jesus' brothers
1 After this, Jesus went about in Galilee. He did not want to go about in Judea because the Jews were seeking to kill him.
2 Now the Jewish Festival of Tabernacles was near.
3 So his brothers said to him, “Leave here and go to Judea, so that your disciples also may see the works you are doing.
4 For no one who wants to be known acts in secret. If you do these things, show yourself to the world.”
5 For even his brothers did not believe in him.
6 Then Jesus said to them, “My time has not yet come, but your time is always here.
7 The world cannot hate you, but it hates me because I testify about it that its works are evil.
8 You go up to the festival. I am not going up to this festival yet, because my time has not yet come.”
9 After saying this, he remained in Galilee.
Jesus at the Feast of Tabernacles
10 After his brothers had gone up, he also went up to the festival, not publicly, but as though in secret.
11 The Jews were looking for him at the festival, saying, “Where is he?”
12 There was much discussion about him among the crowds. Some said, “He is a good man,” while others said, “No, he is deceiving the people.”
13 Yet no one spoke openly about him for fear of the Jews.
14 About the middle of the festival, Jesus went up into the temple courts and began to teach.
15 The Jews were amazed and asked, “How did this man get such learning without having studied?”
16 Jesus answered, “My teaching is not my own. It comes from the one who sent me.
17 Anyone who chooses to do the will of God will find out whether my teaching comes from God or whether I speak on my own.
18 Whoever speaks on their own authority seeks their own glory, but whoever seeks the glory of the one who sent him is a man of truth, and there is nothing false about him.”
19 Did not Moses give you the law, yet not one of you keeps the law? Why are you trying to kill me?
20 The crowd answered, “You have a demon. Who is trying to kill you?”
21 Jesus answered them, “I performed one miracle, and you are all amazed.
22 Indeed, Moses gave you circumcision (not because it originated with Moses, but with the patriarchs), and you circumcise a man on the Sabbath.
23 If a man receives circumcision on the Sabbath so that the law of Moses may not be broken, are you angry with me because I made a man completely well on the Sabbath?
24 Do not judge by appearances, but judge with righteous judgment.
Is this Christ?
25 Some of the people of Jerusalem were saying, “Isn’t this the man they are trying to kill?
26 Yet look, he is speaking publicly, and they are saying nothing to him. Could it be that the rulers have really recognized that this is the Messiah?
27 But we know where this man comes from; when the Messiah comes, no one will know where he comes from.”
28 Then Jesus, while teaching in the temple courts, cried out, “You know me, and you know where I come from. I have not come on my own, but he who sent me is true, and you do not know him.
29 I know him, because I am from him, and he sent me.”
30 At this, they were trying to arrest him, but no one laid a hand on him, because his hour had not yet come.
31 Many of the crowd believed in him, and they said, “When the Messiah comes, will he perform more signs than this man is doing?”
The Pharisees send officers to arrest Jesus
32 The Pharisees heard the crowds murmuring these things about him, and the chief priests and the Pharisees sent officers to arrest him.
33 Then Jesus said, “I will be with you for a little while longer, and then I am going to him who sent me.
34 You will look for me, but you will not find me; and where I am, you cannot come.”
35 The Jews then said to one another, “Where does this man intend to go that we cannot find him? Does he intend to go to the Dispersion among the Greeks and teach the Greeks?
36 What does he mean by saying, ‘You will look for me, but you will not find me; and where I am, you cannot come’?”
Rivers of living water
37 On the last and greatest day of the festival, Jesus stood and said in a loud voice, “Let anyone who is thirsty come to me and drink.
38 Whoever believes in me, as Scripture has said, rivers of living water will flow from within them.”
39 By this he meant the Spirit, whom those who believed in him were later to receive. Up to that time the Spirit had not been given, since Jesus had not yet been glorified.
Division among the people
40 When some of the crowd heard these words, they said, “Surely this is the Prophet.”
41 Others said, “This is the Christ.” But some said, “Surely the Christ will not come from Galilee?
42 Does not Scripture say that the Christ will come from the line of David and from Bethlehem, the village where David lived?”
43 So the crowd was divided because of him.
44 Some of them wanted to arrest him, but no one laid a hand on him.
No man has ever spoken like that!
45 The officers came to the chief priests and the Pharisees, who asked them, “Why didn’t you bring him in?”
46 The officers replied, “No one ever spoke the way this man does!”
47 The Pharisees responded, “Have you been deceived also?
48 Has any of the rulers or of the Pharisees believed in him?
49 But this crowd that does not know the law—they are cursed!”
50 Nicodemus, who had come to Jesus by night and was one of them, said to them,
51 “Does our law condemn a man without first hearing him to find out what he has been doing?”
52 They answered him, “Are you from Galilee, too? Look into it, and you will see that no prophet comes out of Galilee.”
53 Then each of them went to his own home.
John Chapter 8
The adulterous woman
1 Jesus went to the Mount of Olives.
2 Early in the morning he went back to the temple courts, where all the people gathered around him. He sat down to teach them.
3 The Pharisees and the teachers of the law brought in a woman caught in adultery. They made her stand before the group and
4 said to Jesus, “Teacher, this woman was caught in the act of adultery.
5 Now in the Law Moses commanded us to stone such women. So what do you say?”
6 They were using this question as a trap, so that they might have some charge to bring against him. But Jesus bent down and started to write on the ground with his finger.
7 When they kept on questioning him, he stood up and said to them, “Let any one of you who is without sin be the first to throw a stone at her.”
8 Again he bent down and wrote on the ground.
9 But when they heard this, they began to go away one by one, the oldest even to the last. And Jesus was left alone, and the woman standing in the middle.
10 Jesus straightened up and said to her, “Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?”
11 She said, “No one, Lord.” And Jesus said to her, “Neither do I condemn you; go, and from now on do not sin again.”
Jesus, the light of the world
12 Again Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.”
13 The Pharisees said to him, “You are testifying about yourself; your testimony is not true.”
14 Jesus answered, “Even if I testify about myself, my testimony is true, for I know where I came from and where I am going. But you do not know where I come from or where I am going.
15 You judge by human standards; I judge no one.
16 But if I do judge, my judgment is true, because I am not alone. I stand with the Father, who sent me.
17 It is written in your own Law that the testimony of two witnesses is true.
18 I am one who testifies about myself; my other witness is the Father, who sent me.”
19 “Where is your Father?” they asked. “You know neither me nor my Father,” Jesus replied. If you knew me, you would know my Father also.
20 Jesus spoke these words in the place of offerings, teaching in the temple; and no one arrested him, because his hour had not yet come.
Where I am going, you cannot come.
21 Again Jesus said to them, “I am going away, and you will look for me, but you will die in your sin. Where I am going, you cannot come.”
22 The Jews then said, “Will he kill himself, since he says, ‘Where I am going, you cannot come’?”
23 He said to them, “You are from below; I am from above. You are of this world; I am not of this world.
24 That is why I told you that you will die in your sins; for unless you believe that I am he, you will die in your sins.”
25 “Who are you?” they asked. Jesus replied, “Just what I have been telling you from the beginning.
26 I have much to say about you and much to judge, but he who sent me is true, and what I have heard from him I tell the world.”
27 They did not understand that he was speaking to them about the Father.
28 Then Jesus said to them, “When you have lifted up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am he, and that I do nothing on my own authority, but speak just as the Father taught me.
29 And he who sent me is with me; he has not left me alone, for I always do what pleases him.”
30 As he spoke these things, many believed in him.
The truth will set you free
31 Then Jesus said to the Jews who had believed in him, “If you abide in my word, you are truly my disciples,
32 and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”
33 They answered him, “We are offspring of Abraham and have never been slaves of anyone. How can you say, ‘You shall be set free’?”
34 Jesus answered them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, everyone who practices sin is a slave to sin.
35 The slave does not remain in the house forever; the son remains forever.”
36 So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed.
37 I know that you are Abraham’s descendants; yet you seek to kill me, because my word finds no place among you.
38 I speak of what I have seen in the Father’s presence, and you do what you have heard from your father.
You belong to your father the devil
39 They answered and said to him, “Our father is Abraham.” Jesus said to them, “If you were Abraham’s children, you would do the works of Abraham.
40 But now you seek to kill me, a man who has told you the truth which I heard from God. Abraham did not do such things.
41 You do the works of your own father.” Then they said to him, “We are not illegitimate children; we have one Father, even God.”
42 Jesus said to them, “If God were your Father, you would love me, for I came from God and am here. I did not come on my own, but he sent me.
43 Why is my language not clear to you? Because you cannot bear to hear what I say.
44 You are of your father the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks out of his own nature, for he is a liar and the father of lies.”
45 Yet because I tell the truth, you do not believe me.
46 Can any of you convict me of sin? If I tell the truth, why do you not believe me?
47 Whoever belongs to God hears what God says. The reason you do not hear is that you do not belong to God.
The preexistence of Christ
48 The Jews answered him, “Aren’t we right in saying that you are a Samaritan and demon-possessed?”
49 “I am not demon-possessed,” Jesus answered, “but I honor my Father, and you dishonor me.
50 I do not seek glory for myself, but there is one who seeks it, and he is the judge.
51 Very truly I tell you, whoever obeys my word will never see death.”
52 “Now we know that you are demon-possessed,” the Jews said to him. “Abraham died, and so did the prophets, yet you say, ‘Whoever obeys my word will never die.’
53 Are you greater than our father Abraham? He died, and so did the prophets. Who do you claim to be?”
54 “If I glorify myself,” Jesus replied, “my glory means nothing. It is my Father who glorifies me, whom you claim as your God.
55 Yet you do not know him. But I know him, and if I said I did not know him, I would be a liar like you; but I do know him, and I keep his word.
56 Your father Abraham rejoiced at the thought of seeing my day; he saw it and was glad.
57 Then the Jews said to him, “You are not yet fifty years old, and have you seen Abraham?”
58 Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, before Abraham was, I am.”
59 At this they picked up stones to throw at him, but Jesus hid himself and went out of the temple, passing through the midst of them and going away.
John Chapter 9
Jesus heals a man born blind
1 As Jesus passed by, he saw a man blind from birth.
2 His disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?”
3 “Neither this man nor his parents sinned,” Jesus answered, “but this happened so that the works of God might be displayed in him.
4 As long as it is day, we must do the works of him who sent me. Night is coming, when no one can work.
5 While I am in the world, I am the light of the world.”
6 After saying this, he spat on the ground, made mud with the saliva, and put it on the man’s eyes.
7 “ Go,” he told him, “wash in the Pool of Siloam” (which means “Sent”). So the man went and washed, and came back seeing.
8 His neighbors and those who had formerly seen him begging asked, “Isn’t this the man who used to sit and beg?”
9 Some said, “It is he.” Others said, “He just looks like him.” He said, “I am he.”
10 They said to him, “How were your eyes opened?”
11 He answered, “The man called Jesus made mud, anointed my eyes, and told me, ‘Go to Siloam and wash.’ So I went and washed, and then I could see.”
12 They asked him, “Where is he?” He said, “I don’t know.”
The Pharisees question the healed blind man
13 They brought the man who had been blind to the Pharisees.
14 Now it was the Sabbath when Jesus had made the mud and opened his eyes.
15 So the Pharisees again asked him how he had received his sight. He told them, “He put mud on my eyes, and I washed, and now I see.”
16 Then some of the Pharisees said, “This man is not from God, for he does not keep the Sabbath.” Others said, “How can a sinner perform such signs?” And there was a division among them.
17 So they said to the blind man again, “What do you say about him, since he opened your eyes?” He replied, “He is a prophet.”
18 But the Jews did not believe that he had been blind and had received his sight until they summoned the parents of the man who had received his sight.
19 They asked them, “Is this your son, the one you say was born blind? How then does he now see?”
20 His parents answered and said to them, “We know that this is our son, and that he was born blind;
21 but how he now sees we do not know, or who opened his eyes we do not know; he is of age, ask him; he will speak for himself.”
22 His parents said this because they were afraid of the Jewish leaders, for the Jewish leaders had already agreed that anyone who confessed that Jesus was the Messiah would be put out of the synagogue.
23 So his parents said, “He is of age; ask him.”
24 Then they called the man who had been blind a second time and said to him, “Give glory to God! We know that this man is a sinner.”
25 He answered, “Whether he is a sinner or not, I don’t know. One thing I do know: I was blind, but now I see!”
26 So they asked him again, “What did he do to you? How did he open your eyes?”
27 He replied, “I have already told you, and you did not listen. Why do you want to hear it again? Do you also want to become his disciples?”
28 Then they hurled insults at him and said, “You are his disciple, but we are disciples of Moses.
29 We know that God spoke to Moses, but as for this man, we don’t even know where he comes from.”
30 The man replied, “This is remarkable! You don’t know where he comes from, yet he opened my eyes.
31 We know that God does not listen to sinners. He listens to the godly person who does his will.
32 Since the beginning of time, it has never been heard that anyone opened the eyes of a man born blind.”
33 If this man were not from God, he could do nothing.
34 They answered and said to him, “You were born entirely in sin, and yet you are teaching us?” And they cast him out.
Spiritual blindness
35 Jesus heard that they had cast him out; and finding him, he said, “Do you believe in the Son of God?”
36 He answered and said, “Who is he, sir, that I may believe in him?”
37 Jesus said to him, “You have seen him, and he is the one speaking with you. ”
38 He said, “I believe, Lord,” and he worshiped him.
39 Jesus said, “For judgment I have come into this world, so that those who do not see may see, and those who see may become blind.”
40 When some of the Pharisees who were with him heard this, they said to him, “Are we also blind?”
41 Jesus said to them, “If you were blind, you would not have sin; but now that you say, ‘We see,’ your sin remains.”
John Chapter 10
Parable of the sheepfold
1 Truly, truly, I say to you, he who does not enter the sheepfold by the door but climbs in by some other way, that man is a thief and a robber.
2 But he who enters by the door is the shepherd of the sheep.
3 To him the gatekeeper opens, and the sheep hear his voice, and he calls his own sheep by name and leads them out.
4 And when he has brought out all his own, he goes before them, and the sheep follow him, for they know his voice.
5 But they will never follow a stranger; in fact, they will flee from him, for they do not know the voice of strangers.
6 Jesus used this figure of speech, but they did not understand what he was telling them.
Jesus, the Good Shepherd
7 So Jesus said to them again, “Very truly I tell you, I am the gate for the sheep.
8 All who came before me were thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not listen to them.
9 I am the gate; whoever enters through me will be saved. They will come in and go out, and find pasture.
10 The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full.
11 I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.
12 The hired hand is not the shepherd and does not own the sheep. So when he sees the wolf coming, he abandons the sheep and runs away. Then the wolf attacks the flock and scatters it.
13 The man runs away because he is a hired hand and cares nothing for the sheep.
14 I am the good shepherd. I know my sheep and my sheep know me,
15 just as the Father knows me and I know the Father; and I lay down my life for the sheep.
16 I have other sheep that are not of this sheep pen. I must bring them also, and they will listen to my voice. So there shall be one flock and one shepherd.
17 The reason my Father loves me is that I lay down my life so that I may take it up again.
18 No one takes it from me, but I lay it down of my own accord. I have authority to lay it down and authority to take it up again. This command I received from my Father.
19 Again there was a division among the Jews because of these words.
20 Many of them said, “He has a demon and is insane. Why listen to him?”
21 Others said, “These are not the words of a demon-possessed man. Can a demon open the eyes of the blind?”
The Jews reject Jesus
22 Now the Feast of Dedication was being celebrated in Jerusalem. It was winter,
23 and Jesus was walking in the temple in Solomon’s Portico.
24 Then the Jews gathered around him and said, “How long will you keep us in suspense? If you are the Messiah, tell us plainly.”
25 Jesus answered, “I did tell you, but you do not believe. The works I do in my Father’s name testify about me,
26 but you do not believe because you are not my sheep.
27 My sheep listen to my voice; I know them, and they follow me.
28 I give them eternal life, and they will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand.
29 My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all; no one is able to snatch them out of my Father’s hand.
30 I and the Father are one.”
31 Again the Jews picked up stones to stone him.
32 Jesus replied, “I have shown you many good works from my Father. For which of these do you stone me?”
33 The Jews answered him, “We are not stoning you for any good work, but for blasphemy, because you, a mere man, claim to be God.”
34 Jesus answered them, “Is it not written in your Law, ‘I said, “You are gods”’?
35 If he called them gods to whom the word of God came—and Scripture cannot be broken—
36 why do you accuse him whom the Father set apart as his very own and sent into the world, because I said, ‘I am the Son of God’?
37 If I am not doing the works of my Father, then do not believe me.
38 But if I do them, even though you do not believe me, believe the works themselves, so that you may know and understand that the Father is in me, and I in the Father.”
39 Again they tried to arrest him, but he escaped from their grasp.
40 Then Jesus went back across the Jordan to the place where John had been baptizing at first, and he remained there.
41 Many came to him and said, “John performed no sign, but everything John said about this man was true.”
42 And many there believed in him.
John Chapter 11
Death of Lazarus
1 Now a man named Lazarus was sick. He was from Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha.
2 (Mary, whose brother Lazarus was sick, was the one who poured perfume on the Lord and wiped his feet with her hair.)
3 So the sisters sent word to Jesus, “Lord, the one you love is sick.”
4 When Jesus heard this, he said, “This sickness will not end in death. No, it is for God’s glory so that God’s Son may be glorified through it.”
5 Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus.
6 So when he heard that Lazarus was sick, he stayed where he was for two more days.
7 Then he said to his disciples, “Let us go back to Judea.”
8 But his disciples asked him, “Rabbi, the Jews there just now tried to stone you, and are you going there again?”
9 Jesus answered, “Are there not twelve hours in a day?” “Whoever walks in the daytime does not stumble, because he sees the light of this world.
10 But whoever walks at night stumbles, because the light is not in him.”
11 After saying this, he went on to tell them, “Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep, but I am going there to wake him up.”
12 His disciples replied, “Lord, if he is asleep, he will get better.”
13 Jesus had been speaking of Lazarus’ death, but his disciples thought he meant natural sleep.
14 So then Jesus told them plainly, “Lazarus is dead,
15 and for your sake I am glad I was not there, so that you may believe. But let us go to him.”
16 Then Thomas (also known as Didymus) said to the other disciples, “Let us also go, that we may die with him.”
Jesus, the resurrection and the life
17 When Jesus arrived, he found that Lazarus had already been in the tomb for four days.
18 Bethany was near Jerusalem, about two miles away,
19 and many Jews had come to Martha and Mary to console them about their brother.
20 So when Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went to meet him, but Mary stayed at home.
21 Martha said to Jesus, “Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.
22 But even now I know that whatever you ask of God, God will give you.”
23 Jesus said to her, “Your brother will rise again.”
24 Martha said to him, “I know that he will rise again in the resurrection on the last day.”
25 Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in me will live, even though they die;
26 and whoever lives by believing in me will never die. Do you believe this?”
27 “Yes, Lord,” she replied. I have believed that you are the Christ, the Son of God, who has come into the world.
Jesus weeps at the tomb of Lazarus
28 Having said this, she went and called her sister Mary, telling her privately, “The Teacher is here and is calling for you.”
29 When she heard this, she got up quickly and went to him.
30 Now Jesus had not yet entered the village, but was still at the place where Martha had met him.
31 So when the Jews who were with her in the house, consoling her, saw that Mary got up quickly and went out, they followed her, supposing, “She is going to the tomb to weep there.”
32 When Mary came to where Jesus was and saw him, she fell at his feet, saying to him, “Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died. ”
33 When Jesus saw her weeping, and the Jews who had come with her also weeping, he was deeply moved in spirit and troubled.
34 “Where have you laid him?” he asked. “Come and see, Lord,” they replied.
35 Jesus wept.
36 Then the Jews said, “See how he loved him!”
37 And some of them said, “Could not he who opened the eyes of the blind man have kept Lazarus from dying?”
Resurrection of Lazarus
38 Jesus, deeply moved again, came to the tomb. It was a cave with a stone laid across the entrance.
39 “Take away the stone,” he said. “But, Lord,” said Martha, the sister of the dead man, “by this time there is a bad odor, for he has been dead four days.”
40 Then Jesus said, “Did I not tell you that if you believe, you will see the glory of God?”
41 So they took away the stone. Then Jesus looked up and said, “Father, I thank you that you have heard me.
42 I knew that you always hear me, but I said this for the benefit of the people standing here, that they may believe that you sent me.”
43 When he had said this, he called in a loud voice, “Lazarus, come out!”
44 The dead man came out, his hands and feet bound with strips of linen, and his face wrapped in a cloth. Jesus said to them, “Take off the grave clothes and let him go.”
The plot to kill Jesus
45 So many of the Jews who had come to visit Mary, and had seen what Jesus did, believed in him.
46 But some of them went to the Pharisees and told them what Jesus had done.
47 Then the chief priests and the Pharisees called a meeting of the Sanhedrin and said, “What shall we do? For this man is performing many signs.
48 If we let him go on like this, everyone will believe in him, and the Romans will come and destroy both our holy place and our nation.”
49 Then Caiaphas, one of them, who was high priest that year, said to them, “You know nothing at all!
50 You do not realize that it is better for you that one man die for the people than that the whole nation perish.”
51 He did not say this on his own, but as high priest that year he prophesied that Jesus would die for the nation,
52 and not only for that nation but also to gather into one the children of God who are scattered abroad.
53 So from that day on they plotted to kill him.
54 Therefore Jesus no longer walked openly among the Jews, but withdrew from there to the region near the wilderness, to a town called Ephraim, where he stayed with his disciples.
55 Now the Jewish Passover was near, and many went up from the region to Jerusalem before the Passover to purify themselves.
56 They were looking for Jesus and, as they stood in the temple courts, they asked one another, “What do you think? Will he not come to the festival at all?”
57 Now the chief priests and the Pharisees had given orders that if anyone knew where he was, he should report it so that they could arrest him.
John Chapter 12
Jesus is anointed in Bethany
1 Six days before the Passover, Jesus came to Bethany, where Lazarus lived, who had been dead but had been raised from the dead.
2 So they gave a dinner for him there. Martha served, and Lazarus was one of those reclining at the table with him.
3 Then Mary took a pound of very expensive perfume, made of pure nard, and anointed Jesus’ feet and wiped them with her hair. And the house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume.
4 But one of his disciples, Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son, who was going to betray him, said,
5 “Why wasn’t this perfume sold for three hundred denarii and given to the poor?”
6 He said this not because he cared about the poor, but because he was a thief; as keeper of the money bag, he used to help himself to what was put into it.
7 Then Jesus said, “Leave her alone; she has kept this for the day of my burial.”
8 For you will always have the poor with you, but you will not always have me.
The plot against Lazarus
9 A large crowd of Jews learned that Jesus was there and came, not only because of him but also to see Lazarus, whom he had raised from the dead.
10 So the chief priests plotted to kill Lazarus as well,
11 because on account of him many of the Jews were going away and believing in Jesus.
The triumphal entry into Jerusalem
12 The next day, large crowds who had come to the festival, hearing that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem,
13 took palm branches and went out to meet him, shouting, “Hosanna! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord, the King of Israel!”
14 Jesus found a donkey and sat on it, as it is written:
15 “Do not be afraid, Daughter of Zion; see, your king is coming, riding on a donkey’s colt.”
16 At first, his disciples did not understand all this. But after Jesus was glorified, they remembered that these things had been written about him and that they had done these things to him.
17 The crowds who had been with him when he called Lazarus from the tomb and raised him from the dead continued to testify.
18 This is why the crowds had come to meet him, because they had heard that he had performed this sign.
19 But the Pharisees said to one another, “See, you are accomplishing nothing.” Look, the world is going after him.
Some Greeks are looking for Jesus
20 Now some Greeks were among those who had gone up to worship at the festival.
21 They approached Philip, who was from Bethsaida in Galilee, and asked him, “Sir, we would like to see Jesus.”
22 Philip went and told Andrew; then Andrew and Philip told Jesus.
23 Jesus replied, “The hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified.
24 Very truly I tell you, unless a kernel of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains only a single seed. But if it dies, it produces many seeds.
25 Anyone who loves their life will lose it, while anyone who hates their life in this world will keep it for eternal life.
26 Whoever serves me must follow me; and where I am, my servant also will be. My Father will honor the one who serves me.”
Jesus announces his death
27 Now my soul is troubled, and what shall I say? ‘Father, save me from this hour’? No, it was for this very reason I came to this hour.
28 Father, glorify your name. Then a voice came from heaven, “I have glorified it, and I will glorify it again.”
29 The crowd that was there and heard the voice said it had thundered; others said an angel had spoken to him.
30 Jesus answered, “This voice was not for my benefit, but for yours.
31 Now is the judgment of this world; now the ruler of this world will be driven out.
32 And I, when I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all people to myself.”
33 He said this to show the kind of death he was going to die.
34 The crowds answered him, “We have heard from the Law that the Christ remains forever. How can you say that the Son of Man must be lifted up? Who is this Son of Man?”
35 Jesus said to them, “The light is among you for a little while longer. Walk while you have the light, so that darkness does not overtake you. For he who walks in darkness does not know where he is going.
36 While you have the light, believe in the light, so that you may become children of light. After Jesus said these things, he departed and hid himself from them.
Unbelief of the Jews
37 But even after he had performed so many signs in their presence, they still did not believe in him.
38 This was to fulfill what was spoken through the prophet Isaiah: “Lord, who has believed our message? And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?”
39 For this reason they could not believe, because Isaiah also said:
40 “ He has blinded their eyes and hardened their hearts, so that they cannot see with their eyes, understand with their hearts and turn, and I would heal them.”
41 Isaiah said this because he saw Jesus’ glory and spoke about him.
42 Nevertheless, even among the rulers many believed in him, but because of the Pharisees they did not confess it, for fear they would be put out of the synagogue;
43 for they loved human praise more than the praise of God.
Jesus' words will judge men
44 Jesus cried out and said, “Whoever believes in me does not believe in me only, but in the one who sent me.
45 The one who sees me sees the one who sent me.
46 I have come into the world as light, so that no one who believes in me should stay in darkness.
47 If anyone hears my words but does not keep them, I do not judge that person. For I did not come to judge the world, but to save the world.
48 There is a judge for the one who rejects me and does not accept my words; the very words I have spoken will condemn them at the last day.
49 For I have not spoken on my own authority. The Father who sent me commanded me what to say and how to say it.
50 And I know that his command leads to eternal life. So whatever I say is just what the Father has told me to say.”
John Chapter 13
Jesus washes the feet of his disciples
1 Before the Passover festival, Jesus, knowing that his hour had come to depart from this world to the Father, having loved his own who were in the world, loved them to the end.
2 During supper, when the devil had already put it into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son, to betray him,
3 Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands, and that he had come from God and was going to God,
4 rose from supper, took off his outer garment, and tied a towel around his waist.
5 After that, he poured water into a basin and began to wash the disciples’ feet, drying them with the towel that was wrapped around him.
6 Then he came to Simon Peter, who said to him, “Lord, are you going to wash my feet?”
7 Jesus answered, “What I am doing you do not understand now, but you will understand later.”
8 Peter said to him, “You will never wash my feet.” Jesus answered, “If I do not wash you, you have no part with me.”
9 Simon Peter said to him, “Lord, not only my feet but also my hands and my head!”
10 Jesus said to him, “He who has bathed needs only to wash his feet, but is completely clean; and you are clean, though not all of you.”
11 For he knew who was going to betray him; that was why he said, “Not all of you are clean.”
12 So when he had washed their feet, and put on his outer garment, he reclined again. “Do you understand what I have done for you?” he asked them.
13 “You call me Teacher and Lord, and rightly so, for that is what I am.
14 Now that I, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also should wash one another’s feet.
15 I have set you an example that you should do as I have done for you.”
16 Very truly I tell you, no servant is greater than his master, nor is a messenger greater than the one who sent him.
17 Now that you know these things, you will be blessed if you do them.
18 I am not referring to all of you; I know whom I have chosen. But this is to fulfill the scripture: “He who shares my bread has turned against me.”
19 I am telling you now before it happens, so that when it does happen, you will believe that I am he.
20 Very truly I tell you, whoever receives the one I send receives me, and whoever receives me receives the one who sent me.
Jesus foretells Judas' betrayal
21 After Jesus had said this, he was troubled in spirit and testified, “Very truly I tell you, one of you will betray me.”
22 His disciples looked at one another, wondering which of them he meant.
23 One of his disciples, the one whom Jesus loved, was reclining next to him.
24 Simon Peter motioned to him to ask who it was he was speaking about.
25 Leaning back against Jesus’ chest, he asked him, “Lord, who is it?”
26 Jesus answered, “It is he to whom I will give this piece of bread when I have dipped it in the dish.” Then, dipping the bread, he gave it to Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son.
27 As soon as Judas took the piece of bread, Satan entered into him. So Jesus told him, “What you are about to do, do quickly.”
28 But no one at the table knew why he said this to him.
29 Some thought, since Judas had charge of the moneybag, that Jesus was telling him to buy what we need for the festival, or to give something to the poor.
30 So Judas took the piece of bread and went out at once. And it was night.
The new commandment
31 When he had gone out, Jesus said, “Now the Son of Man is glorified, and God is glorified in him.
32 If God is glorified in him, God will also glorify him in himself, and will glorify him at once.
33 My children, I am with you only a little while longer. You will look for me, and just as I said to the Jews, so I say to you now: Where I am going, you cannot come.
34 A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.
35 By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.”
Jesus foretells Peter's denial
36 Simon Peter said to him, “Lord, where are you going?” Jesus replied, “Where I am going, you cannot follow me now, but you will follow me later.”
37 Peter asked, “Lord, why can’t I follow you now? I will lay down my life for you. ”
38 Jesus answered, “Will you lay down your life for me? Very truly I tell you, before the rooster crows, you will deny me three times.”
John Chapter 14
Jesus, the way to the Father
1 “ Do not let your hearts be troubled. You believe in God; believe also in me.
2 My Father’s house has many rooms; if that were not so, would I have told you that I am going there to prepare a place for you?
3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am.
4 You know the way to the place where I am going.”
5 Thomas said to him, “Lord, we don’t know where you are going, so how can we know the way?”
6 Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
7 If you really knew me, you would know my Father as well. From now on, you do know him and have seen him.”
8 Philip said, “Lord, show us the Father and that will be enough for us.”
9 Jesus answered: “Don’t you know me, Philip, even after I have been among you such a long time?” “Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’?
10 Don’t you believe that I am in the Father, and that the Father is in me? The words I say to you I do not speak on my own authority. Rather, it is the Father, living in me, who is doing his work.
11 Believe me when I say that I am in the Father and the Father is in me; or at least believe on the evidence of the works themselves.
12 Very truly I tell you, whoever believes in me will do the works I have been doing, and they will do even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father.
13 And I will do whatever you ask in my name, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son.
14 You may ask me for anything in my name, and I will do it.
The promise of the Holy Spirit
15 If you love me, you will keep my commandments.
16 And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Advocate to help you and be with you forever—
17 the Spirit of truth. The world cannot accept him, because it neither sees him nor knows him. But you know him, for he lives with you and will be in you.
18 I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you.
19 Before long, the world will not see me anymore, but you will see me. Because I live, you also will live.
20 On that day you will realize that I am in my Father, and you are in me, and I am in you.
21 Whoever has my commandments and keeps them is the one who loves me. The one who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I too will love them and show myself to them.
22 Then Judas (not Judas Iscariot) said to him, “Lord, how is it that you will reveal yourself to us and not to the world?”
23 Jesus answered, “Whoever loves me will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him.
24 Whoever does not love me does not keep my words. And the word that you hear is not mine but the Father’s who sent me.
25 “I have spoken these things to you while I am still with you.
26 But the Advocate, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have said to you.
27 Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid.
28 You heard me say, ‘I am going away and I am coming back to you.’” If you loved me, you would rejoice that I am going to the Father, for the Father is greater than I.
29 And now I have told you before it happens, so that when it does happen you will believe.
30 I will not speak much more with you, for the prince of this world is coming, and he has no hold over me.
31 But I do this so that the world may know that I love the Father and that I do exactly what the Father has commanded me. Come, let us go.
John Chapter 15
Jesus, the true vine
1 I am the true vine, and my Father is the gardener.
2 He cuts off every branch in me that bears no fruit, while every branch that does bear fruit he prunes so that it will be even more fruitful.
3 You are already clean because of the word I have spoken to you.
4 Remain in me, as I also remain in you. No branch can bear fruit by itself; it must remain in the vine. Neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in me.
5 I am the vine; you are the branches. If you remain in me and I in you, you will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing.
6 If you do not remain in me, you are like a branch that is thrown away and withers; such branches are picked up, thrown into the fire and burned.
7 If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you.
8 This is to my Father’s glory, that you bear much fruit, showing yourselves to be my disciples.
9 As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Now remain in my love.
10 If you keep my commands, you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commands and remain in his love.
11 I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and that your joy may be complete.
12 My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you.
13 Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.
14 You are my friends if you do what I command.
15 I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master’s business. Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I learned from my Father I have made known to you.
16 You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you so that you might go and bear fruit—fruit that will last—and so that whatever you ask in my name the Father will give you.
17 This is my command: Love each other.
The world will hate you
18 If the world hates you, keep in mind that it hated me first.
19 If you belonged to the world, it would love you as its own. As it is, you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world. That is why the world hates you.
20 Remember the word that I said to you: ‘A servant is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they kept my word, they will also keep yours.
21 But they will do all these things to you on account of my name, because they do not know him who sent me.
22 If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin.
23 Whoever hates me hates my Father also.
24 If I had not done among them the works that no one else did, they would not have sin; but now they have seen and hated both me and my Father.
25 But this happened so that the word that is written in their Law might be fulfilled: ‘They hated me without a cause.’
26 When the Helper comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father, he will bear witness about me.
27 And you also will bear witness, for you have been with me from the beginning.
John Chapter 16
1 I have told you these things so that you will not stumble.
2 They will put you out of the synagogues; indeed, the time is coming when anyone who kills you will think they are offering a service to God.
3 They will do such things because they do not know the Father or me.
The work of the Holy Spirit
4 But I have told you these things, so that when the time comes, you will remember that I warned you about them. I did not tell you this from the beginning because I was with you.
5 But now I am going to him who sent me, and none of you asks me, “Where are you going?”
6 Because I have said these things to you, sorrow has filled your hearts.
7 But I tell you the truth: It is to your advantage that I go away, for if I do not go away, the Helper will not come to you. But if I go, I will send him to you.
8 When he comes, he will convict the world concerning sin and righteousness and judgment:
9 concerning sin, because they do not believe in me;
10 concerning righteousness, because I am going to the Father, and you will see me no longer;
11 concerning judgment, because the ruler of this world now stands judged.
12 I still have many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now.
13 When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth. For he will not speak on his own authority, but he will speak whatever he hears, and he will tell you things to come.
14 He will glorify me, for it is from me that he will receive what he will make known to you.
15 All that the Father has is mine; therefore I said that he will receive from me what he will make known to you.
Sadness will turn into joy
16 “A little while, and you will no longer see me; and again a little while, and you will see me; because I am going to the Father.”
17 Then some of his disciples said to one another, “What does he mean by saying, ‘A little while, and you will no longer see me; and again a little while, and you will see me,’ and ‘because I am going to the Father’?”
21 A woman giving birth has pain because her hour has come; but when her baby is born she forgets the anguish because of her joy that a child is born into the world.
18 So they said, “What does he mean by ‘A little while’? We don’t understand what he is talking about.”
19 Jesus knew that they wanted to ask him about this, so he said to them, “Are you asking one another what I meant when I said, ‘A little while and you will not see me, and then after a little while you will see me again’?”
20 Truly, truly, I say to you, you will weep and mourn, but the world will rejoice; but you will be sorrowful, yet your sorrow will turn into joy.
22 So you also have sorrow now, but I will see you again, and your hearts will rejoice, and no one will take your joy from you.
23 In that day you will no longer ask me anything. Truly, truly, I say to you, whatever you ask of the Father in my name, he will give it to you.
24 Until now you have not asked for anything in my name. Ask, and you will receive, that your joy may be full.
I have overcome the world
25 “I have spoken to you in figurative language; the hour is coming when I will no longer speak to you in figurative language, but I will tell you plainly about the Father.
26 In that day you will ask in my name, and I do not say to you that I will ask the Father on your behalf.
27 For the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me and have believed that I came from God.
28 I came from the Father and entered the world; now I am leaving the world and going back to the Father.”
29 His disciples said to him, “Now you are speaking plainly and not using figurative language.
30 Now we can see that you know all things and do not need anyone to question you. This makes us believe that you came from God.”
31 Jesus answered them, “Do you now believe?
32 “ A time is coming—indeed, it has come—when you will be scattered, each to your own home. You will leave me alone. Yet I am not alone, for the Father is with me.”
33 I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.
John Chapter 17
Jesus prays for his disciples
1 After Jesus said this, he looked toward heaven and prayed: “Father, the hour has come. Glorify your Son, that your Son may glorify you.
2 For you have given him authority over all people, so that he may give eternal life to all those you have given him.
3 Now this is eternal life: that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent.
4 I have glorified you on earth by completing the work you gave me to do.
5 And now, Father, glorify me in your presence with the glory I had with you before the world began.
6 I have revealed your name to those whom you gave me out of the world. They were yours; you gave them to me, and they have obeyed your word.
7 Now they know that everything you have given me comes from you.
8 For I gave them the words you gave me, and they obeyed them.” And they received them and knew with certainty that I came from you, and they believed that you sent me.
9 I pray for them. I am not praying for the world, but for those you have given me, for they are yours.
10 All I have is yours, and all you have is mine. And glory has come to me through them.
11 I will remain in the world no longer, but they are still in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, protect them by the power of your name, the name you gave me, so that they may be one as we are one.
12 While I was with them in the world, I protected them by the power of your name, the name you gave me. None of them has been lost except the one doomed to destruction so that Scripture would be fulfilled.
13 I am coming to you now, but I say these things while I am still in the world, so that they may have my joy fulfilled in themselves.
14 I have given them your word, and the world has hated them because they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.
15 I do not ask that you take them out of the world, but that you keep them from the evil one.
16 They are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.
17 Sanctify them in the truth; your word is truth.
18 As you sent me into the world, so I have sent them into the world.
19 And for them I sanctify myself, that they also may be truly sanctified.
20 My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message,
21 that they may all be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you, that they also may be in us, so that the world may believe that you sent me.
22 I have given them the glory that you gave me, so that they may be one even as we are one—
23 I in them and you in me—so that they may be brought to complete unity. Then the world will know that you sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me.
24 Father, I want those you have given me to be with me where I am, and to see my glory, the glory you have given me because you loved me before the creation of the world.
25 Righteous Father, though the world does not know you, I know you, and they know that you sent me.
26 I have made you known to them, and will continue to make you known in order that the love you have for me may be in them and that I myself may be in them.
John Chapter 18
Arrest of Jesus
1 After Jesus had said these things, he went out with his disciples across the Kidron Valley to a place where there was a garden, which he and his disciples entered.
2 Now Judas, who betrayed him, also knew the place, because Jesus had often met there with his disciples.
3 So Judas, having obtained a detachment of soldiers and some officers from the chief priests and the Pharisees, went there with lanterns, torches, and weapons.
4 But Jesus, knowing all that was going to happen to him, came forward and asked them, “Whom are you looking for?”
5 They answered, “Jesus of Nazareth.” Jesus said to them, “I am he.” Judas, who betrayed him, was standing with them.
6 When he said to them, “I am he,” they drew back and fell to the ground.
7 Again he asked them, “Whom are you looking for?” They said, “Jesus of Nazareth.”
8 Jesus answered, “I told you that I am he; If you are looking for me, let these men go.
9 This was to fulfill what he had said: “I have not lost one of those you gave me.”
10 Then Simon Peter drew his sword and struck the high priest’s servant, cutting off his right ear. The servant’s name was Malchus.
11 Then Jesus said to Peter, “Put your sword back into its sheath. Shall I not drink the cup the Father has given me?”
Jesus before the high priest
12 Then the detachment of soldiers, the tribune, and the Jewish officers arrested Jesus and bound him.
13 They took him first to Annas, for he was the father-in-law of Caiaphas, who was high priest that year.
14 Caiaphas was the one who advised the Jews that it was expedient that one man should die for the people.
Peter in Annas's courtyard
15 Simon Peter and another disciple were following Jesus. This disciple was known to the high priest, and he went with Jesus into the high priest’s courtyard,
16 but Peter stood outside at the gate. The disciple who was known to the high priest went out, spoke to the servant girl who kept the door, and brought Peter in.
17 The servant girl who kept the door said to Peter, “You aren’t one of this man’s disciples too, are you?” “I am not,” he replied.
18 The servants and officers had made a fire of coals, because it was cold, and they were standing and warming themselves. Peter was also standing with them, warming himself.
Annas questions Jesus
19 The high priest then questioned Jesus about his disciples and his teaching.
20 Jesus answered, “I have spoken openly to the world. I always taught in synagogues and in the temple, where all the Jews come together. I said nothing in secret.
21 Why do you ask me? Ask those who heard me what I said to them. They know what I said.”
22 When Jesus had said this, one of the officers standing there struck him with his hand, saying, “Is that how you answer the high priest?”
23 Jesus answered him, “If I have spoken wrongly, testify to what is wrong. But if I have spoken rightly, why do you strike me?”
24 Then Annas sent him bound to Caiaphas the high priest.
Peter denies Jesus
25 Now Peter was standing and warming himself. And they said to him, “You are not one of his disciples, are you?” He denied it, and said, “I am not.”
26 One of the servants of the high priest, a relative of the man whose ear Peter had cut off, said to him, “Did I not see you in the garden with him?”
27 Again Peter denied it, and immediately a rooster crowed.
Jesus before Pilate
28 They led Jesus from Caiaphas’s house to the Praetorium. It was early morning, and they themselves did not enter the Praetorium, so that they would not be defiled and could eat the Passover.
29 Then Pilate went out to them and asked, “What accusation do you bring against this man?”
30 They answered, “If this man were not a criminal, we would not have handed him over to you.”
31 Pilate said to them, “Take him yourselves and judge him according to your own law.” The Jews replied, “We are not permitted to put anyone to death.”
32 This was to fulfill what Jesus had said, indicating the kind of death he was going to die.
33 Then Pilate went back inside the Praetorium, summoned Jesus, and asked him, “Are you the King of the Jews?”
34 Jesus answered, “Is this your own idea, or did others tell you about me?”
35 Pilate replied, “Am I a Jew? Your own nation and the chief priests have handed you over to me.” What have you done?
36 Jesus 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 over to the Jews. But my kingdom is not from here.”
37 Then Pilate said to him, “So you are a king?” Jesus answered, “You say that I am a king. For this I was born, and for this I have come into the world, to bear witness to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth listens to my voice.”
38 Pilate said to him, “What is truth?” After he had said this, he went out again to the Jews and told them, “I find no guilt in him.
39 But you have a custom that I should release one prisoner to you at the Passover. Do you want me to release to you the King of the Jews?”
40 Then they all cried out again, “Not this man, but Barabbas!” Now Barabbas was a robber.
John Chapter 19
1 So Pilate took Jesus and had him flogged.
2 The soldiers twisted together a crown of thorns and put it on his head, and they clothed him in a purple robe.
3 They kept saying to him, “Hail, King of the Jews!” and struck him with their fists.
4 Pilate went out again and said to them, “Look, I am bringing him out to you to let you know that I find no guilt in him.”
5 When Jesus came out wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe, Pilate said to them, “Here is the man!”
6 As soon as the chief priests and the officers saw him, they shouted, “Crucify him! Crucify him!” Pilate answered, “You take him and crucify him, for I find no guilt in him.”
7 The Jews answered him, “We have a law, and according to that law he ought to die, because he claimed to be the Son of God.”
8 When Pilate heard this, he was even more afraid.
9 He went back inside the Praetorium and asked Jesus, “Where are you from?” But Jesus gave him no answer.
10 Then Pilate said to him, “Do you refuse to speak to me? Don’t you realize I have power either to crucify you or to release you?”
11 Jesus answered, “You would have no power over me if it were not given you from above. Therefore, the one who handed me over to you is guilty of a greater sin.”
12 From then on, Pilate tried to release him, but the Jews kept shouting, “If you release this man, you are no friend of Caesar. Anyone who claims to be a king opposes Caesar.”
13 When Pilate heard this, he brought Jesus out and sat down on the judge’s seat at the place called The Stone Pavement, which in Aramaic is Gabbatha.
14 It was the day of Preparation of the Passover, and it was about noon. Pilate said to the Jews, “Here is your King!”
15 But they shouted, “Away with him! Away with him! Crucify him!” Pilate said to them, “Shall I crucify your king?” The chief priests answered, “We have no king but Caesar.”
16 Then he handed him over to them to be crucified. So they took Jesus and led him away.
Crucifixion and death of Jesus
17 Carrying his own cross, he went out to the place called The Skull, which in Hebrew is called Golgotha.
18 There they crucified him, and with him two others, one on either side, with Jesus in the middle.
19 Pilate also wrote a title and put it on the cross. It read: JESUS OF NAZARETH, KING OF THE JEWS.
20 Many of the Jews read this title, for the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city, and the title was written in Hebrew, Greek, and Latin.
21 The chief priests of the Jews said to Pilate, “Do not write, ‘King of the Jews,’ but that he said, ‘I am King of the Jews.’”
22 Pilate answered, “What I have written, I have written.”
23 When the soldiers had crucified Jesus, they took his clothes and divided them into four parts, one for each soldier. They also took his tunic, which was seamless, woven in one piece from top to bottom.
24 Then they said to one another, “Let’s not tear it, but cast lots for it to see whose it will be.” This was to fulfill the Scripture that says, “They divided my garments among them, and for my clothing they cast lots.” So the soldiers did this.
25 Standing near the cross of Jesus were his mother, his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene.
26 When Jesus saw his mother there, and the disciple whom he loved standing nearby, he said to his mother, “Woman, here is your son.”
27 Then he said to the disciple, “Here is your mother.” And from that hour the disciple took her into his home.
28 Later, knowing that everything was now finished, Jesus said (to fulfill the Scripture), “I am thirsty.”
29 A jar full of sour wine was standing there, so they soaked a sponge in the wine, put it on a hyssop branch, and held it to his mouth.
30 When Jesus had received the wine, he said, “It is finished.” And having bowed his head, he gave up his spirit.
The pierced side of Jesus
31 Now it was the day of Preparation, and the Jews did not want the bodies to remain on the cross on the Sabbath (for that Sabbath was a high day). So they asked Pilate that their legs might be broken and that they might be taken down.
32 So the soldiers came and broke the legs of the first man, and of the other who had been crucified with him.
33 But when they came to Jesus and saw that he was already dead, they did not break his legs.
34 Instead, one of the soldiers pierced his side with a spear, and at once blood and water flowed out.
35 The man who saw it has testified, and his testimony is true. He knows that he tells the truth, so that you also may believe.
36 These things happened so that the Scripture would be fulfilled: “Not one of his bones will be broken.”
37 And another Scripture says, “They will look on the one they pierced.”
Jesus is buried
38 After all this, Joseph of Arimathea, who was a disciple of Jesus, but secretly for fear of the Jews, asked Pilate for permission to take away Jesus’ body; and Pilate granted it. So he came and took away Jesus’ body.
39 Nicodemus, who earlier had visited Jesus at night, also came, bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about a hundred pounds.
40 They took Jesus’ body and wrapped it in linen cloths with the spices, according to the Jewish burial custom.
41 Now in the place where he was crucified there was a garden, and in the garden a new tomb in which no one had yet been laid.
42 So because it was the Jewish day of Preparation, and since the tomb was nearby, they laid Jesus there.
John Chapter 20
The resurrection
1 Early on the first day of the week, while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene went to the tomb and saw that the stone had been removed from the entrance.
2 So she ran to Simon Peter and the other disciple, the one whom Jesus loved, and said to them, “They have taken the Lord out of the tomb, and we don’t know where they have put him!”
3 So Peter and the other disciple went out and made their way to the tomb.
4 The two were running together, but the other disciple outran Peter and reached the tomb first.
5 He bent down to look in and saw the linen cloths lying there, but he did not go in.
6 Then Simon Peter came along behind him and went into the tomb. He saw the linen cloths lying there,
7 as well as the face cloth, which had been wrapped around Jesus’ head. The cloth was folded up in a separate place, not lying with the linen cloths.
8 Then the other disciple, who had reached the tomb first, also went in, and he saw and believed.
9 For they did not yet understand the Scripture, that he must rise from the dead.
10 Then the disciples returned to their own homes.
Jesus appears to Mary Magdalene
11 Now Mary stood outside the tomb crying. As she wept, she bent over to look into the tomb
12 and saw two angels in white, sitting where Jesus’ body had been, one at the head and the other at the foot.
13 They asked her, “Woman, why are you crying?” “They have taken my Lord away,” she said, “and I don’t know where they have put him.”
14 At this, she turned around and saw Jesus standing there, but she did not realize that it was Jesus.
15 He asked her, “Woman, why are you crying? Who is it you are looking for?” Supposing him to be the gardener, she said, “Sir, if you have carried him away, tell me where you have put him, and I will get him.”
16 “Mary,” he said. Mary turned toward him and cried out in Aramaic, “Rabboni!” (which means Teacher).
17 “Do not hold on to me,” Jesus said, “for I have not yet ascended to the Father.” But go to my brothers and tell them, ‘I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.’
18 Then Mary Magdalene went and announced to the disciples that she had seen the Lord, and that he had said these things to her.
Jesus appears to the disciples
19 On the evening of that first day of the week, when the disciples were together, with the doors locked for fear of the Jewish leaders, Jesus came and stood among them and said, “Peace be with you!”
20 After he said this, he showed them his hands and side. The disciples were overjoyed when they saw the Lord.
21 Again Jesus said to them, “Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, I am sending you.”
22 And with that he breathed on them and said, “Receive the Holy Spirit.
23 If you forgive anyone’s sins, their sins are forgiven; if you do not forgive them, they are not forgiven.”
Thomas's Disbelief
24 Now Thomas, one of the twelve, called the Twin, was not with them when Jesus came.
25 So the other disciples told him, “We have seen the Lord.” But he said to them, “Unless I see the nail marks in his hands and put my finger where the nails were, and put my hand into his side, I will not believe.”
26 A week later his disciples were in the house again, and Thomas was with them. Though the doors were locked, Jesus came and stood among them and said, “Peace be with you!”
27 Then he said to Thomas, “Put your finger here; see my hands. Reach out your hand and put it into my side. Stop doubting and believe.”
28 Thomas said to him, “My Lord and my God!”
29 Then Jesus told him, “Because you have seen me, you have believed; blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed.”
The purpose of the book
30 Jesus performed many other signs in the presence of his disciples, which are not recorded in this book.
31 But these are written so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name.
John Chapter 21
Jesus appears to seven of his disciples
1 After this, Jesus appeared again to his disciples by the Sea of Tiberias. He appeared in this way:
2 Simon Peter, Thomas (called the Twin), Nathanael from Cana in Galilee, the sons of Zebedee, and two other disciples were together.
3 Simon Peter said to them, “I am going fishing.” They said to him, “We will go with you.” They went out and got into the boat, but that night they caught nothing.
4 Just as day was breaking, Jesus stood on the shore, yet the disciples did not realize that it was Jesus.
5 He called out to them, “Children, haven’t you caught anything?” “No,” they answered .
6 He said, “Cast the net on the right side of the boat and you will find some.” When they did, they were not able to haul the net in because of the large number of fish.
7 The disciple whom Jesus loved said to Peter, “It is the Lord!” When Simon Peter heard that it was the Lord, he put on his outer garment (for he had taken it off) and jumped into the sea.
8 The other disciples came in the boat, dragging the net full of fish, for they were not far from land, about two hundred cubits.
9 When they got out on land, they saw a charcoal fire there with fish on it, and some bread.
10 Jesus said to them, “Bring some of the fish you have just caught.”
11 So Simon Peter climbed aboard and hauled the net ashore, full of large fish, 153 of them; and although there were so many, the net was not torn.
12 Jesus said to them, “Come and have breakfast.” None of the disciples dared ask him, “Who are you?” They knew it was the Lord.
13 Jesus came and took the bread and gave it to them, and did the same with the fish.
14 This was now the third time that Jesus appeared to his disciples after he was raised from the dead.
Feed my sheep
15 When they had finished eating, Jesus said to Simon Peter, “Simon son of John, do you love me more than these?” “Yes, Lord,” he replied, “you know that I love you.” Jesus said, “Feed my lambs.”
16 Again Jesus said, “Simon son of John, do you love me?” He answered, “Yes, Lord, you know that I love you.” Jesus said, “Tend my sheep.”
17 The third time he said to him, “Simon son of John, do you love me?” Peter was hurt because Jesus asked him the third time, “Do you love me?” He said, “Lord, you know everything; you know that I love you.” Jesus said, “Feed my sheep.”
18 Truly, truly, I say to you, when you were younger, you dressed yourself and went wherever you wanted; but when you are old, you will stretch out your hands, and someone else will dress you and lead you where you do not want to go.
19 This he said to show by what kind of death Jesus was to glorify God. And after saying this he said to him, “Follow me.”
The beloved disciple
20 Turning around, Peter saw the disciple whom Jesus loved following them—the one who had leaned back against Jesus at the supper and had asked, “Lord, who is going to betray you?”
21 When Peter saw him, he asked Jesus, “Lord, what about him?”
22 Jesus answered, “If I want him to remain until I come, what is that to you? You follow me.”
23 So the rumor spread among the believers that this disciple would not die. Yet Jesus did not say that he would not die; he only said, “If I want him to remain until I come, what is that to you?”
24 This is the disciple who testifies to these things and who wrote them down. We know that his testimony is true.
25 Jesus did many other things as well. If every one of them were written down, I suppose that even the world itself could not contain the books that would be written. Amen.