John, chapters 8 through 11.Then each one went to his house.But Jesus went to the Mount of Olives.At dawn he went to the temple again and all the people were coming to him.He sat down and began to teach them.
Then the scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman caught in adultery, making her stand in the center.Teacher, they said to him, This woman was caught in the act of committing adultery.In the law, Moses commanded us to stone such women.
So what do you say?They asked this to trap him in order that they might have evidence to accuse him.Jesus stooped down and started riding on the ground with his finger.When they persisted in questioning him, he stood up and said to them,
The one without sin among you should be the first to throw a stone at her.Then he stooped down again and continued riding on the ground.When they heard this, they left one by one, starting with the older men.
Only he was left with the woman in the center.When Jesus stood up, he said to her, Woman, where are they?Has no one condemned you? No one, Lord," she answered.Neither do I condemn you, said Jesus.Go, and from now on, do not sin anymore.
Jesus spoke to them again.I am the light of the world.Anyone who follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life. So the Pharisees said to him, you are testifying about yourself.Your testimony is not valid.
Even if I testify about myself, Jesus replied, my testimony is true because I know where I came from and where I'm going.But you don't know where I come from or where I'm going.You judge by human standards.
I judge no one, and if I do judge, my judgment is true, because it is not I alone who judge, but I and the Father who sent me.Even in your law it is written that the testimony of two witnesses is true.
I am the one who testifies about myself, and the Father who sent me testifies about me."Then they asked him, Where is your father?You know neither me nor my father, Jesus answered.If you knew me, you would also know my father.
He spoke these words by the treasury while teaching in the temple.But no one seized him because his hour had not yet come.Then he said to them again, I'm going away. You will look for me, and you will die in your sin.
Where I'm going, you cannot come."So the Jews said again.He won't kill himself, will he?Since he says, where I'm going, you cannot come.You are from below, he told them.I am from above.You are of this world.I am not of this world.
Therefore, I told you that you will die in your sins.For if you do not believe that I am He, you will die in your sins.Who are you?they questioned.Exactly what I've been telling you from the very beginning, Jesus told them.
I have many things to say and to judge about you. But the one who sent me is true, and what I have heard from him, these things I tell the world."They did not know he was speaking to them about the Father.
So Jesus said to them, "'When you lift up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am He, and that I do nothing on my own.But just as the Father taught me, I say these things. The one who sent me is with me.
He has not left me alone because I always do what pleases him."As he was saying these things, many believed in him.Then Jesus said to the Jews who had believed in him, "'If you continue in my word, you really are my disciples.You will know the truth.
and the truth will set you free.We are descendants of Abraham, they answered him, and we have never been enslaved to anyone.How can you say you will become free?Jesus responded, truly I tell you, everyone who commits sin is a slave of sin.
A slave does not remain in the household forever, but a son does remain forever.So if the son sets you free, you really will be free.I know you are descendants of Abraham, but you are trying to kill me because my word has no place among you.
I speak what I have seen in the presence of the Father.So then, you do what you have heard from your father. Our father is Abraham," they replied.If you were Abraham's children, Jesus told them, you would do what Abraham did.
But now you are trying to kill me, a man who has told you the truth that I heard from God.Abraham did not do this.You're doing what your father does.We weren't born of sexual immorality, they said. We have one Father, God.
Jesus said to them, if God were your Father, you would love me because I came from God and I am here.For I didn't come on my own, but he sent me.Why don't you understand what I say?Because you cannot listen to my word.
You are of your father, the devil, and you want to carry out your father's desires.He was a murderer from the beginning and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him.
When he tells a lie, he speaks from his own nature, because he is a liar and the father of lies.Yet because I tell the truth, you do not believe me. Who among you can convict me of sin?If I am telling the truth, why don't you believe me?
The one who is from God listens to God's words.This is why you don't listen, because you are not from God."The Jews responded to him, Aren't we right in saying that you're a Samaritan and have a demon? I do not have a demon," Jesus answered.
On the contrary, I honor my Father, and you dishonor me.I do not seek my own glory.There is one who seeks it and judges.Truly I tell you, if anyone keeps my word, he will never see death."Then the Jews said, Now we know you have a demon.
Abraham died, and so did the prophets.You say, if anyone keeps my word, he will never taste death.Are you greater than our father Abraham, who died?And the prophets died.Who do you claim to be?If I glorify myself, Jesus answered, my glory is nothing.
My father, about whom you say he is our God?He is the one who glorifies me.You don't know him, but I know him.If I were to say I don't know him, I would be a liar like you.But I do know him, and I keep his word.
Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day.He saw it and was glad. The Jews replied, you aren't 50 years old yet, and you've seen Abraham.Jesus said to them, truly I tell you, before Abraham was, I am.
So they picked up stones to throw at him, but Jesus was hidden and went out of the temple. As he was passing by, he saw a man blind from birth.His disciples asked him, Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?
Neither this man nor his parents sinned, Jesus answered.This came about so that God's works might be displayed in him.We must do the works of him who sent me while it is day. Night is coming when no one can work.
As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world."After he said these things, he spit on the ground, made some mud from the saliva, and spread the mud on his eyes.Go, he told him.Wash in the pool of Siloam, which means scent.
So he left, washed, and came back seeing. His neighbors and those who had seen him before as a beggar said, "'Isn't this the one who used to sit begging?'Some said, "'He's the one.'Others were saying, "'No, but he looks like him.'
He kept saying, "'I'm the one.'So they asked him, "'Then how were your eyes opened?'He answered, The man called Jesus made mud, spread it on my eyes and told me, go to Siloam and wash.So when I went and washed, I received my sight.Where is he?
They asked.I don't know, he said.They brought the man who used to be blind to the Pharisees.The day that Jesus made the mud and opened his eyes was a Sabbath. Then the Pharisees asked him again how he received his sight.
He put mud on my eyes, he told them.I washed and I can see.Some of the Pharisees said, this man is not from God because he doesn't keep the Sabbath.But others were saying, how can a sinful man perform such signs? and there was a division among them.
Again, they asked the blind man, what do you say about him since he opened your eyes?He's a prophet, he said.
The Jews did not believe this about him, that he was blind and received sight until they summoned the parents of the one who had received his sight.They asked him, Is this your son, the one you say was born blind?How then does he now see?"
We know this is our son, and that he was born blind, his parents answered.But we don't know how he now sees, and don't know who opened his eyes.Ask him.He's of age.He will speak for himself.
His parents said these things because they were afraid of the Jews, since the Jews had already agreed that if anyone confessed him as the Messiah, he would be banned from the synagogue.This is why his parents said, he's of age, ask him.
So a second time, they summoned the man who had been blind and told him, give glory to God, we know that this man is a sinner.He answered, Whether or not he's a sinner, I don't know.One thing I do know, I was blind and now I can see."
Then they asked him, what did he do to you?How did he open your eyes?I already told you, he said, and you didn't listen.Why do you want to hear it again? You don't want to become his disciples too, do you?"They ridiculed him.
You're that man's disciple, but we're Moses' disciples.We know that God has spoken to Moses, but this man, we don't know where he's from.This is an amazing thing, the man told them.You don't know where he is from, and yet he opened my eyes.
We know that God doesn't listen to sinners, but if anyone is God-fearing and does His will, He listens to him.Throughout history, no one has ever heard of someone opening the eyes of a person born blind.
If this man were not from God, he wouldn't be able to do anything.You were born entirely in sin, they replied. And are you trying to teach us?Then they threw him out.
Jesus heard that they had thrown the man out, and when he found him, he asked, Do you believe in the Son of Man?Who is he, sir, that I may believe in him?He asked.Jesus answered, You have seen him.In fact, he is the one speaking with you.
I believe, Lord," he said, and he worshiped him.Jesus said, I came into this world for judgment, in order that those who do not see will see, and those who do see will become blind.
Some of the Pharisees who were with him heard these things and asked him, we aren't blind too, are we? If you were blind, Jesus told them, you wouldn't have sin.But now that you say, we see, your sin remains.
Truly I tell you, anyone who doesn't enter the sheep pen by the gate, but climbs in some other way, is a thief and a robber. The one who enters by the gate is the shepherd of the sheep.The gatekeeper opens it for him, and the sheep hear his voice.
He calls his own sheep by name and leads them out.When he has brought all his own outside, he goes ahead of them.The sheep follow him because they know his voice.They will never follow a stranger.
Instead, they will run away from him because they don't know the voice of strangers. Jesus gave them this figure of speech, but they did not understand what he was telling them.Jesus said again, truly, I tell you, I am the gate for the sheep.
All who came before me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep didn't listen to them.I am the gate. If anyone enters by me, he will be saved and will come in and go out and find pasture.A thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy.
I have come so that they may have life and have it in abundance.I am the good shepherd.The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.
The hired hand, since he is not the shepherd and doesn't own the sheep, leaves them and runs away when he sees a wolf coming.The wolf then snatches and scatters them.This happens because he is a hired hand and doesn't care about the sheep.
I am the good shepherd.I know my own, and my own know me. just as the Father knows me and I know the Father.I lay down my life for the sheep, but I have other sheep that are not from this sheep pen.
I must bring them also, and they will listen to my voice.Then there will be one flock, one shepherd.This is why the Father loves me, because I lay down my life so that I may take it up again. No one takes it from me, but I lay it down on my own.
I have the right to lay it down and I have the right to take it up again.I have received this command from my father."Again, the Jews were divided because of these words.Many of them were saying, he has a demon and he's crazy.
Why do you listen to him?Others were saying, These aren't the words of someone who is demon-possessed.Can a demon open the eyes of the blind?Then the festival of dedication took place in Jerusalem, and it was winter.
Jesus was walking in the temple in Solomon's colonnade.The Jews surrounded him and asked, How long are you going to keep us in suspense?If you are the Messiah, tell us plainly. I did tell you, and you don't believe," Jesus answered them.
The works that I do in my Father's name testify about me, but you don't believe because you are not of my sheep.My sheep hear my voice, I know them, and they follow me.I give them eternal life, and they will never perish.
No one will snatch them out of my hand. My Father who has given them to me is greater than all.No one is able to snatch them out of the Father's hand.I and the Father are one.Again, the Jews picked up rocks to stone him.
Jesus replied, I have shown you many good works from the Father.For which of these works are you stoning me? We aren't stoning you for a good work," the Jews answered, but for blasphemy, because you, being a man, make yourself God.
Jesus answered them, Isn't it written in your law, I said you are gods?If he called those to whom the word of God came gods, and the scripture cannot be broken,
Do you say you are blaspheming to the one the Father set apart and sent into the world because I said, I am the Son of God?If I am not doing my Father's works, don't believe me.But if I am doing them and you don't believe me, believe the works.
This way you will know and understand that the Father is in me and I in the Father. Then they were trying again to seize him, but he escaped their grasp.
So he departed again across the Jordan to the place where John had been baptizing earlier, and he remained there.Many came to him and said, John never did a sign, but everything John said about this man was true.And many believed in him there.
Now, a man was sick, Lazarus from Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha.Mary was the one who anointed the Lord with perfume and wiped his feet with her hair.And it was her brother, Lazarus, who was sick.
So the sisters sent a message to him.Lord, the one you love is sick.When Jesus heard it, he said, This sickness will not end in death, but is for the glory of God, so that the Son of God may be glorified through it.
Now Jesus loved Martha, her sister, and Lazarus.So when he heard that he was sick, he stayed two more days in the place where he was.Then after that, he said to the disciples, let's go to Judea again.
"'Rabbi,' the disciples told him, "'just now the Jews tried to stone you, "'and you're going there again?'"'Aren't there twelve hours in a day?'Jesus answered.
"'If anyone walks during the day, he doesn't stumble, "'because he sees the light of this world."'But if anyone walks during the night, "'he does stumble, because the light is not in him.'"'He said this, and then he told them,
Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep, but I'm on my way to wake him up."Then the disciples said to him, Lord, if he has fallen asleep, he will get well.
Jesus, however, was speaking about his death, but they thought he was speaking about natural sleep.So Jesus then told them plainly, Lazarus has died. I'm glad for you that I wasn't there, so that you may believe.But let's go to him."
Then Thomas, called Twin, said to his fellow disciples, Let's go too, so that we may die with him.When Jesus arrived, he found that Lazarus had already been in the tomb four days.Bethany was near Jerusalem, less than two miles away.
Many of the Jews had come to Martha and Mary to comfort them about their brother.As soon as Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went to meet him, but Mary remained seated in the house.
Then Martha said to Jesus, Lord, if you had been here, my brother wouldn't have died.Yet even now, I know that whatever you ask from God, God will give you. Your brother will rise again, Jesus told her.
Martha said to him, I know that he will rise again in the resurrection at the last day.Jesus said to her, I am the resurrection and the life.The one who believes in me, even if he dies, will live.Everyone who lives and believes in me will never die.
Do you believe this? Yes, Lord," she told him.I believe you are the Messiah, the Son of God, who comes into the world.Having said this, she went back and called her sister Mary, saying in private, The teacher is here, and he's calling for you.
As soon as Mary heard this, she got up quickly and went to him. Jesus had not yet come into the village, but was still in the place where Martha had met Him.
The Jews who were with her in the house consoling her saw that Mary got up quickly and went out.They followed her, supposing that she was going to the tomb to cry there.
As soon as Mary came to where Jesus was and saw Him, she fell at His feet and told Him. Lord, if you had been here, my brother wouldn't have died."
When Jesus saw her crying, and the Jews who had come with her crying, he was deeply moved in his spirit and troubled.Where have you put him?he asked.Lord, they told him, come and see.Jesus wept. So the Jews said, see how he loved him.
But some of them said, couldn't he who opened the blind man's eyes also have kept this man from dying?Then Jesus, deeply moved again, came to the tomb.It was a cave and a stone was lying against it.Remove the stone, Jesus said.
Martha, the dead man's sister, told him, Lord, there is already a stench, because he has been dead four days.Jesus said to her, Didn't I tell you that if you believed, you would see the glory of God?So they removed the stone.
Then Jesus raised his eyes and said, Father, I thank you that you heard me.I know that you always hear me.But because of the crowd standing here, I said this so that they may believe you sent me."
After he said this, he shouted with a loud voice, "'Lazarus, come out!' The dead man came out bound hand and foot with linen strips and with his face wrapped in a cloth.Jesus said to them, unwrap him and let him go.
Therefore, many of the Jews who came to Mary and saw what he did believed in him.But some of them went to the Pharisees and told them what Jesus had done.
So the chief priests and the Pharisees convened the Sanhedrin and were saying, What are we going to do, since this man is doing many signs?
If we let him go on like this, everyone will believe in him, and the Romans will come and take away both our place and our nation.One of them, Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, said to them, You know nothing at all.
You're not considering that it is to your advantage that one man should die for the people rather than the whole nation perish.
He did not say this on his own, but being high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus was going to die for the nation and not for the nation only, but also to unite the scattered children of God. So from that day on, they plotted to kill him.
Jesus therefore no longer walked openly among the Jews, but departed from there to the countryside near the wilderness, to a town called Ephraim.And he stayed there with the disciples.
Now the Jewish Passover was near, and many went up to Jerusalem from the country to purify themselves before the Passover. They were looking for Jesus and asking one another as they stood in the temple, what do you think?
He won't come to the festival, will he?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.
Sign in
