John 1:1 In [the] beginning the Word was, & the Word was with God, & the Word was a god. 2 This one was in [the] beginning with God. 3 All things came into existence through him, & apart from him not even one thing came into existence. What has come into existence 4 by means of him was life, & the life was the light of men. 5 And the light is shining in the darkness, but the darkness has not overpowered it. 6 There arose a man that was sent forth as a representative of God: his name was John. 7 This [man] came for a witness, in order to bear witness about the light, that people of all sorts might believe through him. 8 He was not that light, but he was meant to bear witness about that light. 9 The true light that gives light to every sort of man was about to come into the world. 10 He was in the world, & the world came into existence through him, but the world did not know him. 11 He came to his own home, but his own people did not take him in. 12 However, as many as did receive him, to them he gave authority to become God's children, because they were exercising faith in his name; 13 & they were BORN, not from blood or from a fleshly will or from man's will, but from God. 14 So the Word became flesh & resided among us, & we had a view of his glory, a glory such as belongs to an only-begotten son from a father; & he was full of undeserved kindness & truth. 15 (John bore witness about him, yes, he actually cried out--this was the one who said [it]--saying: "The one coming behind me has advanced in front of me, because he existed before me.") 16 For we all received from out of his fullness, even undeserved kindness upon undeserved kindness. 17 Because the Law was given through Moses, the undeserved kindness & the truth came to be through JESUS CHRIST. 18 No man has seen God at any time; the only-begotten god who is in the bosom [position] with the Father is the one that has explained him. 19 Now this is the witness of John when the Jews sent forth priests & Levites from Jerusalem to him to ask him: "Who are you?" 20 And he confessed & did not deny, but confessed: "I am not the CHRIST." 21 And they asked him: "What, then? Are you Elijah?" And he said: "I am not." "Are you The Prophet?" And he answered: "No!" 22 Therefore they said to him: "Who are you? that we may give an answer to those who sent us. What do you say about yourself?" 23 He said: "I am a voice of someone crying out in the wilderness, 'MAKE the way of Jehovah straight,' just as Isaiah the prophet said." 24 Now those sent forth were from the Pharisees. 25 So they questioned him & said to him: "Why, then, do you baptize if you yourself are not the CHRIST or Elijah or The Prophet?" 26 John answered them, saying: "I baptize in water. In the midst of you one is standing whom you do not know, 27 the one coming behind me, but the lace of whose sandal I am not worthy to untie." 28 These things took place in Bethany across the Jordan, where John was baptizing. 29 The next day he beheld JESUS coming toward him, & he said: "See, the Lamb of God that takes away the sin of the world! 30 This is the one about whom I said, Behind me there comes a man who has advanced in front of me, because he existed before me. 31 Even I did not know him, but the reason why I came baptizing in water was that he might be made manifest to Israel." 32 John also bore witness, saying: "I viewed the spirit coming down as a dove out of HEAVEN, & it remained upon him. 33 Even I did not know him, but the very One who sent me to baptize in water said to me, 'Whoever it is upon whom you see the spirit coming down & remaining, this is the one that baptizes in holy spirit.' 34 And I have seen [it], & I have borne witness that this one is the Son of God." 35 Again the next day John was standing with 2 of his disciples, 36 & as he looked at JESUS walking he said: "See, the Lamb of God!" 37 And the 2 disciples heard him speak, & they followed JESUS. 38 Then JESUS turned &, getting a view of them following, he said to them: "What are you looking for?" They said to him: "Rabbi, (which means, when translated, Teacher,) where are you staying?" 39 He said to them: "Come, & you will see." Accordingly they went & saw where he was staying, & they stayed with him that day; it was about the 10th hour. 40 Andrew the brother of Simon Peter was one of the 2 that heard what John said & followed [JESUS]. 41 First this one found his own brother, Simon, & said to him: "We have found the Messiah" (which means, when translated, CHRIST). 42 He led him to JESUS. When JESUS looked upon him he said: "You are Simon the son of John; you will be called Cephas" (which is translated Peter). 43 The next day he desired to depart for Galilee. So JESUS found Philip & said to him: "Be my follower." 44 Now Philip was from Bethsaida, from the city of Andrew & Peter. 45 Philip found Nathanael & said to him: "We have found the one of whom Moses, in the Law, & the Prophets wrote, JESUS, the son of Joseph, from Nazareth." 46 But Nathanael said to him: "Can anything good come out of Nazareth?" Philip said to him: "Come & see." 47 JESUS saw Nathanael coming toward him & said about him: "See, an Israelite for a certainty, in whom there is no deceit." 48 Nathanael said to him: "How does it come that you know me?" JESUS in answer said to him: "Before Philip called you, while you were under the fig tree, I saw you." 49 Nathanael answered him: "Rabbi, you are the Son of God, you are King of Israel." 50 JESUS in answer said to him: "Because I told you I saw you underneath the fig tree do you believe? You will see things greater than these." 51 He further said to him: "Most truly I say to you men, you will see HEAVEN opened up & the angels of God ascending & descending to the Son of man."

John 2:1 Now on the 3rd day a marriage feast took place in Cana of Galilee, & the mother of JESUS was there. 2 JESUS & his disciples were also invited to the marriage feast. 3 When the wine ran short the mother of JESUS said to him: "They have no wine." 4 But JESUS said to her: "What have I to do with you, woman? My hour has not yet come." 5 His mother said to those ministering: "Whatever he tells you, do." 6 As it was, there were 6 stone water jars sitting there as required by the purification rules of the Jews, each able to hold 2 or 3 liquid measures. 7 JESUS said to them: "Fill the water jars with water." And they filled them to the brim. 8 And he said to them: "Draw some out now & take it to the director of the feast." So they took it. 9 When, now, the director of the feast tasted the water that had been turned into wine but did not know what its source was, although those ministering who had drawn out the water knew, the director of the feast called the bridegroom 10 & said to him: "Every other man puts out the fine wine first, & when people are intoxicated, the inferior. You have reserved the fine wine until now." 11 JESUS performed this in Cana of Galilee as [the] beginning of his signs, & he made his glory manifest; & his disciples put their faith in him. 12 After this he & his mother & brothers & his disciples went down to Capernaum, but they did not stay there many days. 13 Now the Passover of the Jews was near, & JESUS went up to Jerusalem. 14 And he found in the temple those selling cattle & sheep & doves & the money brokers in their seats. 15 So, after making a whip of ropes, he drove all those with the sheep & cattle out of the temple, & he poured out the coins of the money changers & overturned their tables. 16 And he said to those selling the doves: "Take these things away from here! Stop making the house of my Father a house of merchandise!" 17 His disciples called to mind that it is written: "The zeal for your house will eat me up." 18 Therefore, in answer, the Jews said to him: "What sign have you to show us, since you are doing these things?" 19 In answer JESUS said to them: "Break down this temple, & in 3 days I will raise it up." 20 Therefore the Jews said: "This temple was built in 46 years, & will you raise it up in 3 days?" 21 But he was talking about the temple of his body. 22 When, though, he was raised up from the dead, his disciples called to mind that he used to say this; & they believed the Scripture & the saying that JESUS said. 23 However, when he was in Jerusalem at the Passover, at its festival, many people put their faith in his name, viewing his signs that he was performing. 24 But JESUS himself was not entrusting himself to them because of his knowing them all 25 & because he was in no need to have anyone bear witness about man, for he himself knew what was in man.

There are 3 ways (A,B,C) to become a "child of God" (A,B,C).
C = Creation ("Natural Birth" Method -- good for this life only)
B = Birth ("Supernatural, Spiritual Birth" Method -- good for the next life)
A = Adoption ("Supernatural, Spiritual, Legal" Method -- good for the next life)

Here is some of the Scriptural evidence that shows that
we must be BORN AGAIN or BORN ANEW or BORN FROM ABOVE
(i.e. become a son or daughter, & heir, & joint heir via new birth/life & legal adoption)
- just like JESUS said. [P.S. God has no grandchildren.]

Mk.10:14,15 - At seeing this JESUS was indignant & said to them: "Let the young children come to me; do not try to stop them, for the kingdom of God belongs to suchlike ones. 15 Truly I say to you, Whoever does not receive the kingdom of God like a young child will by no means enter into it."

John 3:3-8 - In answer JESUS said to him: "Most truly [ lit. "Amen amen" ] I say to you, Unless anyone is BORN again [ lit. "born from above" ], he cannot see the kingdom of God." Nicodemus said to him: "How can a man be BORN when he is old? He cannot enter into the womb of his mother a 2nd time & be BORN, can he?" JESUS answered: "Most truly I say to you, Unless anyone is BORN from water & spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. What has been BORN from the flesh is flesh, & what has been BORN from the spirit is spirit. Do not marvel because I told you, you people MUST be BORN again. The wind blows where it wants to, & you hear the sound of it, but you do not know where it comes from & where it is going. So is everyone that has been BORN from the spirit."

Rom.4:13,14 - For it was not through law that Abraham or his seed had the promise that he should be heir of a world, but it was through the righteousness by faith. For if those who adhere to law are heirs, faith has been made useless & the promise has been abolished.

Rom.8:15-21 - For you did not receive a spirit of slavery causing fear again, but you received a spirit of adoption as sons, by which spirit we cry out: "Abba Father!" The spirit itself bears witness with our spirit that we are God's children. If, then, we are children, we are also heirs: heirs indeed of God, but joint heirs with Christ, provided we suffer together that we may also be glorified together. Consequently I reckon that the sufferings of the present season do not amount to anything in comparison with the glory that is going to be revealed in us. For the eager expectation of the creation is waiting for the revealing of the sons of God. For the creation was subjected to futility, not by its own will but through him that subjected it, on the basis of hope that the creation itself also will be set free from enslavement to corruption & have the glorious freedom of the children of God.

Rom.9:7,8 - Neither because they are Abraham's seed are they all children, but: "What will be called ‘your seed' will be through Isaac." 8 That is, the children in the flesh are not really the children of God, but the children by the promise are counted as the seed.

Rom.9:22-26 - If, now, God, although having the will to demonstrate his wrath & to make his power known, tolerated with much long-suffering vessels of wrath made fit for destruction, in order that he might make known the riches of his glory upon vessels of mercy, which he prepared beforehand for glory, namely, us, whom he called not only from among Jews but also from among nations, [what of it]? It is as he says also in Hosea: "Those not my people I will call ‘my people,' & her who was not beloved ‘beloved'; & in the place where it was said to them, ‘you are not my people,' there they will be called ‘sons of the living God.'"

2Cor.6:18 - " ‘And I shall be a father to you, & you will be sons & daughters to me,' says Jehovah the Almighty."

Gal.3:6-14 - Just as Abraham "put faith in Jehovah, & it was counted to him as righteousness." Surely you know that those who adhere to faith are the ones who are sons of Abraham. Now the Scripture, seeing in advance that God would declare people of the nations righteous due to faith, declared the good news beforehand to Abraham, namely: "<by means of> you all the nations will be blessed." Consequently those who adhere to faith are being blessed together with faithful Abraham. For all those who depend upon works of law are under a curse; for it is written: "Cursed is every one that does not continue in all the things written in the scroll of the Law in order to do them." Moreover, that by law no one is declared righteous with God is evident, because "the righteous one will live by reason of faith." Now the Law does not adhere to faith, but "he that does them shall live by means of them." Christ by purchase released us from the curse of the Law by becoming a curse instead of us, because it is written: "Accursed is every man hanged upon a stake." The purpose was that the blessing of Abraham might come to be by means of JESUS CHRIST for the nations, that we might receive the promised spirit through our faith.

Gal.3:21-29 - For if a law had been given that was able to give life, righteousness would actually have been by means of law. But the Scripture delivered up all things together to the custody of sin, that the promise resulting from faith toward JESUS CHRIST might be given to those exercising faith. However, before the faith arrived, we were being guarded under law, being delivered up together into custody, looking to the faith that was destined to be revealed. Consequently the Law has become our tutor leading to Christ, that we might be declared righteous due to faith. But now that the faith has arrived, we are no longer under a tutor. You are all, in fact, sons of God through your faith in Christ JESUS. For all of you who were baptized into Christ have put on Christ. There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor freeman, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one [person] in union with Christ JESUS. Moreover, if you belong to Christ, you are really Abraham's seed, heirs with reference to a promise.

Gal.4:4-7 - But when the full limit of the time arrived, God sent forth his Son, who came to be out of a woman & who came to be under law, 5 that he might release by purchase those under law, that we, in turn, might receive the adoption as sons. 6 Now because you are sons, God has sent forth the spirit of his Son into our hearts & it cries out: "Abba, Father!" 7 So, then, you are no longer a slave but a son; & if a son, also an heir through God.

Gal.4:19 - my little children, with whom I am again in childbirth pains until Christ is formed in you

Gal.4:22-31 - For example, it is written that Abraham acquired 2 sons, one by the servant girl & one by the free woman; but the one by the servant girl was actually BORN in the manner of flesh, the other by the free woman through a promise. These things stand as a symbolic drama; for these [women] mean 2 covenants, the one from Mount Sinai, which brings forth children for slavery, & which is Hagar. Now this Hagar means Sinai, a mountain in Arabia, & she corresponds with the Jerusalem today, for she is in slavery with her children. But the Jerusalem above is free, & she is our mother. For it is written: "Be glad, you barren woman who does not give birth; break out & cry aloud, you woman who does not have childbirth pains; for the children of the desolate woman are more numerous than [those] of her who has the husband." Now we, brothers, are CHILDREN belonging to the promise the same as Isaac was. But just as then the one born in the manner of flesh began persecuting the one BORN in the manner of spirit, so also now. Nevertheless, what does the Scripture say? "Drive out the servant girl & her son, for by no means shall the son of the servant girl be an heir with the son of the free woman." Wherefore, brothers, we are children, not of a servant girl, but of the free woman.

Eph.1:5 - For he foreordained us to the adoption through JESUS CHRIST as sons to himself

Eph.3:5,6 - In other generations this [secret] was not made known to the sons of men as it has now been revealed to his holy apostles & prophets by spirit, namely, that people of the nations should be joint heirs & fellow members of the body & partakers with us of the promise in union with Christ JESUS through the good news.

Titus 3:4-7 - However, when the kindness & the love for man on the part of our Savior, God, was manifested, owing to no works in righteousness that we had performed, but according to his mercy he saved us through the bath that brought us to life & through the making of us new by holy spirit. This [spirit] he poured out richly upon us through JESUS CHRIST our Savior, that, after being declared righteous by virtue of the undeserved kindness of that one, we might become heirs according to a hope of everlasting life.

James 2:5 - Listen, my beloved brothers. God chose the ones who are poor respecting the world to be rich in faith & heirs of the kingdom, which he promised to those who love him, did he not?

1Pet.1:3 - Blessed be the God & Father of our Lord JESUS Christ, for according to his great mercy he gave us a NEW BIRTH to a living hope through the resurrection of JESUS Christ from the dead, to an incorruptible & undefiled & unfading inheritance. It is reserved in the HEAVENS for you

1Pet.1:23 - For you have been given a NEW BIRTH, not by corruptible, but by incorruptible [reproductive] seed, through the word of [the] living & enduring God.

1Pet.2:2 - as NEWBORN INFANTS, form a longing for the unadulterated milk belonging to the word, that through it you may grow to salvation

1Jn.3:1,2 - See what sort of love the Father has given us, so that we should be called children of God; & such we are. That is why the world does not have a knowledge of us, because it has not come to know him. Beloved ones, now we are children of God, but as yet it has not been made manifest what we shall be. We do know that whenever he is made manifest we shall be like him, because we shall see him just as he is.

1Jn.5:1 - Everyone believing that JESUS is the Christ has been BORN from God, & everyone who loves the one that caused to be BORN loves him who has been BORN from that one.

Rev.21:6-8 - I am the Alpha & the Omega, the beginning & the end. To anyone thirsting I will give from the fountain of the water of life free. Anyone conquering will inherit these things, & I shall be his God & he will be my son. But as for the cowards & those without faith & those who are disgusting in their filth & murderers & fornicators & those practicing spiritism & idolaters & all the liars, their portion will be in the lake that burns with fire & sulphur. This means the 2nd death."

John 3:1 Now there was a man of the Pharisees, Nicodemus was his name, a ruler of the Jews. 2 This one came to him in the night & said to him: "Rabbi, we know that you as a teacher have come from God; for no one can perform these signs that you perform unless God is with him." 3 In answer JESUS said to him: "Most truly [ lit. "Amen amen" ] I say to you, Unless anyone is BORN again [ lit. "born from above" ], he cannot see the kingdom of God." 4 Nicodemus said to him: "How can a man be BORN when he is old? He cannot enter into the womb of his mother a 2nd time & be BORN, can he?" 5 JESUS answered: "Most truly I say to you, Unless anyone is BORN from water & spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. 6 What has been BORN from the flesh is flesh, & what has been BORN from the spirit is spirit. 7 Do not marvel because I told you, you people MUST be BORN again. 8 The wind blows where it wants to, & you hear the sound of it, but you do not know where it comes from & where it is going. So is everyone that has been BORN from the spirit." 9 In answer Nicodemus said to him: "How can these things come about?" 10 In answer JESUS said to him: "Are you a teacher of Israel & yet do not know these things? 11 Most truly I say to you, What we know we speak & what we have seen we bear witness of, but you people do not receive the witness we give. 12 If I have told you earthly things & yet you do not believe, how will you believe if I tell you HEAVENLY things? 13 Moreover, no man has ascended into HEAVEN but he that descended from HEAVEN, the Son of man. 14 And just as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so the Son of man must be lifted up, 15 that everyone believing in him may have everlasting life. 16 "For God loved the world so much that he gave his only-begotten Son, in order that everyone exercising faith in him might not be destroyed but have everlasting life. 17 For God sent forth his Son into the world, not for him to judge the world, but for the world to be saved through him. 18 He that exercises faith in him is not to be judged. He that does not exercise faith has been judged already, because he has not exercised faith in the name of the only-begotten Son of God. 19 Now this is the basis for judgment, that the light has come into the world but men have loved the darkness rather than the light, for their works were wicked. 20 For he that practices vile things hates the light & does not come to the light, in order that his works may not be reproved. 21 But he that does what is true comes to the light, in order that his works may be made manifest as having been worked in harmony with God." 22 After these things JESUS & his disciples went into Judean country, & there he spent some time with them & did baptizing. 23 But John also was baptizing in Aenon near Salim, because there was a great quantity of water there, & people kept coming & being baptized; 24 for John had not yet been thrown into prison. 25 Therefore a dispute arose on the part of the disciples of John with a Jew concerning purification. 26 So they came to John & said to him: "Rabbi, the man that was with you across the Jordan, to whom you have borne witness, see, this one is baptizing & all are going to him." 27 In answer John said: "A man cannot receive a single thing unless it has been given him from HEAVEN. 28 You yourselves bear me witness that I said, I am not the CHRIST, but, I have been sent forth in advance of that one. 29 He that has the bride is the bridegroom. However, the friend of the bridegroom, when he stands & hears him, has a great deal of joy on account of the voice of the bridegroom. Therefore this joy of mine has been made full. 30 That one must go on increasing, but I must go on decreasing." 31 He that comes from above is over all others. He that is from the earth is from the earth & speaks of things of the earth. He that comes from HEAVEN is over all others. 32 What he has seen & heard, of this he bears witness, but no man is accepting his witness. 33 He that has accepted his witness has put his seal to it that God is true. 34 For the one whom God sent forth speaks the sayings of God, for he does not give the spirit by measure. 35 The Father loves the Son & has given all things into his hand. 36 He that exercises faith in the Son has everlasting life; he that disobeys the Son will not see life, but the wrath of God remains upon him.

John 4:1 When, now, the Lord became aware that the Pharisees had heard that JESUS was making & baptizing more disciples than John-- 2 although, indeed, JESUS himself did no baptizing but his disciples did-- 3 he left Judea & departed again for Galilee. 4 But it was necessary for him to go through Samaria. 5 Accordingly he came to a city of Samaria called Sychar near the field that Jacob gave to Joseph his son. 6 In fact, Jacob's fountain was there. Now JESUS, tired out from the journey, was sitting at the fountain just as he was. The hour was about the 6th. 7 A woman of Samaria came to draw water. JESUS said to her: "Give me a drink." 8 (For his disciples had gone off into the city to buy foodstuffs.) 9 Therefore the Samaritan woman said to him: "How is it that you, despite being a Jew, ask me for a drink, when I am a Samaritan woman?" (For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.) 10 In answer JESUS said to her: "If you had known the free gift of God & who it is that says to you, 'Give me a drink,' you would have asked him, & he would have given you living water." 11 She said to him: "Sir, you have not even a bucket for drawing water, & the well is deep. From what source, therefore, do you have this living water? 12 You are not greater than our forefather Jacob, who gave us the well & who himself together with his sons & his cattle drank out of it, are you?" 13 In answer JESUS said to her: "Everyone drinking from this water will get thirsty again. 14 Whoever drinks from the water that I will give him will never get thirsty at all, but the water that I will give him will become in him a fountain of water bubbling up to impart everlasting life." 15 The woman said to him: "Sir, give me this water, so that I may neither thirst nor keep coming over to this place to draw water." 16 He said to her: "Go, call your husband & come to this place." 17 In answer the woman said: "I do not have a husband." JESUS said to her: "You said well, 'A husband I do not have.' 18 For you have had 5 husbands, & the [man] you now have is not your husband. This you have said truthfully." 19 The woman said to him: "Sir, I perceive you are a prophet. 20 Our forefathers worshiped in this mountain; but you people say that in Jerusalem is the place where persons ought to worship." 21 JESUS said to her: "Believe me, woman, The hour is coming when neither in this mountain nor in Jerusalem will you people worship the Father. 22 You worship what you do not know; we worship what we know, because salvation originates with the Jews. 23 Nevertheless, the hour is coming, & it is now, when the true worshipers will worship the Father with spirit & truth, for, indeed, the Father is looking for suchlike ones to worship him. 24 God is a Spirit, & those worshiping him must worship with spirit & truth." 25 The woman said to him: "I know that Messiah is coming, who is called CHRIST. Whenever that one arrives, he will declare all things to us openly." 26 JESUS said to her: "I who am speaking to you am he." 27 Now at this point his disciples arrived, & they began to wonder because he was speaking with a woman. Of course, no one said: "What are you looking for?" or, "Why do you talk with her?" 28 The woman, therefore, left her water jar & went off into the city & told the men: 29 "Come here, see a man that told me all the things I did. This is not perhaps the CHRIST, is it?" 30 They went out of the city & began coming to him. 31 Meanwhile the disciples were urging him, saying: "Rabbi, eat." 32 But he said to them: "I have food to eat of which you do not know." 33 Therefore the disciples began saying to one another: "No one has brought him anything to eat, has he?" 34 JESUS said to them: "My food is for me to do the will of him that sent me & to finish his work. 35 Do you not say that there are yet 4 months before the harvest comes? Look! I say to you: Lift up your eyes & view the fields, that they are white for harvesting. Already 36 the reaper is receiving wages & gathering fruit for everlasting life, so that the sower & the reaper may rejoice together. 37 In this respect, indeed, the saying is true, One is the sower & another the reaper. 38 I dispatched you to reap what you have spent no labor on. Others have labored, & you have entered into the benefit of their labor." 39 Now many of the Samaritans out of that city put faith in him on account of the word of the woman who said in witness: "He told me all the things I did." 40 Therefore when the Samaritans came to him, they began asking him to stay with them; & he stayed there 2 days. 41 Consequently many more believed on account of what he said, 42 & they began to say to the woman: "We do not believe any longer on account of your talk; for we have heard for ourselves & we know that this man is for a certainty the savior of the world." 43 After the 2 days he left there for Galilee. 44 JESUS himself, however, bore witness that in his own homeland a prophet has no honor. 45 When, therefore, he arrived in Galilee, the Galileans received him, because they had seen all the things he did in Jerusalem at the festival, for they also had gone to the festival. 46 Accordingly he came again to Cana of Galilee, where he had turned the water into wine. Now there was a certain attendant of the king whose son was sick in Capernaum. 47 When this man heard that JESUS had come out of Judea into Galilee, he went off to him & began asking him to come down & heal his son, for he was at the point of dying. 48 However, JESUS said to him: "Unless you people see signs & wonders, you will by no means believe." 49 The attendant of the king said to him: "Lord, come down before my young child dies." 50 JESUS said to him: "Go your way; your son lives." The man believed the word that JESUS spoke to him & went his way. 51 But already while he was on his way down his slaves met him to say that his boy was living. 52 Therefore he began to inquire of them the hour in which he got better in health. Accordingly they said to him: "Yesterday at the 7th hour the fever left him." 53 Therefore the father knew it was in the very hour that JESUS said to him: "Your son lives." And he & his whole household believed. 54 Again this was the 2nd sign JESUS performed when he came out of Judea into Galilee.

John 5:1 After these things there was a festival of the Jews, & JESUS went up to Jerusalem. 2 Now in Jerusalem at the sheepgate there is a pool designated in Hebrew Bethzatha, with 5 colonnades. 3 In these a multitude of the sick, blind, lame & those with withered members, was lying down. 4 ---- 5 But a certain man was there who had been in his sickness for 38 years. 6 Seeing this man lying down, & being aware that he had already been [sick] a long time, JESUS said to him: "Do you want to become sound in health?" 7 The sick man answered him: "Sir, I do not have a man to put me into the pool when the water is disturbed; but while I am coming another steps down ahead of me." 8 JESUS said to him: "Get up, pick up your cot & walk." 9 With that the man immediately became sound in health, & he picked up his cot & began to walk. Now on that day it was a Sabbath. 10 Therefore the Jews began to say to the cured man: "It is Sabbath, & it is not lawful for you to carry the cot." 11 But he answered them: "The very one that made me sound in health said to me, 'Pick up your cot & walk.'" 12 They asked him: "Who is the man that told you, 'Pick it up & walk'?" 13 But the healed man did not know who he was, for JESUS had turned aside, there being a crowd in the place. 14 After these things JESUS found him in the temple & said to him: "See, you have become sound in health. Do not sin anymore, in order that something worse does not happen to you." 15 The man went away & told the Jews it was JESUS that made him sound in health. 16 So on this account the Jews went persecuting JESUS, because he was doing these things during Sabbath. 17 But he answered them: "My Father has kept working until now, & I keep working." 18 On this account, indeed, the Jews began seeking all the more to kill him, because not only was he breaking the Sabbath but he was also calling God his own Father, making himself equal to God. 19 Therefore, in answer, JESUS went on to say to them: "Most truly I say to you, The Son cannot do a single thing of his own initiative, but only what he beholds the Father doing. For whatever things that One does, these things the Son also does in like manner. 20 For the Father has affection for the Son & shows him all the things he himself does, & he will show him works greater than these, in order that you may marvel. 21 For just as the Father raises the dead up & makes them alive, so the Son also makes those alive whom he wants to. 22 For the Father judges no one at all, but he has committed all the judging to the Son, 23 in order that all may honor the Son just as they honor the Father. He that does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent him. 24 Most truly I say to you, He that hears my word & believes him that sent me has everlasting life, & he does not come into judgment but has passed over from death to life. 25 "Most truly I say to you, The hour is coming, & it is now, when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God & those who have given heed will live. 26 For just as the Father has life in himself, so he has granted also to the Son to have life in himself. 27 And he has given him authority to do judging, because Son of man he is. 28 Do not marvel at this, because the hour is coming in which all those in the memorial tombs will hear his voice 29 & come out, those who did good things to a resurrection of life, those who practiced vile things to a resurrection of judgment. 30 I cannot do a single thing of my own initiative; just as I hear, I judge; & the judgment that I render is righteous, because I seek, not my own will, but the will of him that sent me. 31 "If I alone bear witness about myself, my witness is not true. 32 There is another that bears witness about me, & I know that the witness which he bears about me is true. 33 You have dispatched men to John, & he has borne witness to the truth. 34 However, I do not accept the witness from man, but I say these things that you may be saved. 35 That man was a burning & shining lamp, & you for a short time were willing to rejoice greatly in his light. 36 But I have the witness greater than that of John, for the very works that my Father assigned me to accomplish, the works themselves that I am doing, bear witness about me that the Father dispatched me. 37 Also, the Father who sent me has himself borne witness about me. You have neither heard his voice at any time nor seen his figure; 38 & you do not have his word remaining in you, because the very one whom he dispatched you do not believe. 39 "You are searching the Scriptures, because you think that by means of them you will have everlasting life; & these are the very ones that bear witness about me. 40 And yet you do not want to come to me that you may have life. 41 I do not accept glory from men, 42 but I well know that you do not have the love of God in you. 43 I have come in the name of my Father, but you do not receive me; if someone else arrived in his own name, you would receive that one. 44 How can you believe, when you are accepting glory from one another & you are not seeking the glory that is from the only God? 45 Do not think that I will accuse you to the Father; there is one that accuses you, Moses, in whom you have put your hope. 46 In fact, if you believed Moses you would believe me, for that one wrote about me. 47 But if you do not believe the writings of that one, how will you believe my sayings?"

John 6:1 After these things JESUS departed across the sea of Galilee, or Tiberias. 2 But a great crowd kept following him, because they were beholding the signs he was performing upon those who were ill. 3 So JESUS went up into a mountain, & there he was sitting with his disciples. 4 Now the Passover, the festival of the Jews, was near. 5 When, therefore, JESUS raised his eyes & observed that a great crowd was coming to him, he said to Philip: "Where shall we buy loaves for these to eat?" 6 However, he was saying this to test him, for he himself knew what he was about to do. 7 Philip answered him: "200 denarii worth of loaves is not enough for them, so that each one may get a little." 8 One of his disciples, Andrew the brother of Simon Peter, said to him: 9 "Here is a little boy that has 5 barley loaves & 2 small fishes. But what are these among so many?" 10 JESUS said: "HAVE the men recline as at meal." Now there was a lot of grass in the place. Therefore the men reclined, about 5,000 in number. 11 So JESUS took the loaves &, after giving thanks, he distributed them to those reclining, likewise also as much of the small fishes as they wanted. 12 But when they had their fill he said to his disciples: "Gather together the fragments that remain over, so that nothing is wasted." 13 Therefore they gathered them together, & they filled 12 baskets with fragments from the 5 barley loaves, which were left over by those who had eaten. 14 Hence when the men saw the signs he performed, they began to say: "This is for a certainty the prophet that was to come into the world." 15 Therefore JESUS, knowing they were about to come & seize him to make him king, withdrew again into the mountain all alone. 16 When evening fell, his disciples went down to the sea, 17 &, boarding a boat, they set out across the sea for Capernaum. Well, by now it had grown dark & JESUS had not yet come to them. 18 Also, the sea began to be stirred up because a strong wind was blowing. 19 However, when they had rowed about 3 or 4 miles, they beheld JESUS walking upon the sea & getting near the boat; & they became fearful. 20 But he said to them: "It is I; have no fear!" 21 Therefore they were willing to take him into the boat, & directly the boat was at the land to which they were trying to go. 22 The next day the crowd that was standing on the other side of the sea saw that there was no boat there except a little one, & that JESUS had not entered into the boat with his disciples but that only his disciples had left; 23 but boats from Tiberias arrived near the place where they ate the bread after the Lord had given thanks. 24 Therefore when the crowd saw that neither JESUS was there nor his disciples, they boarded their little boats & came to Capernaum to look for JESUS. 25 So when they found him across the sea they said to him: "Rabbi, when did you get here?" 26 JESUS answered them & said: "Most truly I say to you, you are looking for me, not because you saw signs, but because you ate from the loaves & were satisfied. 27 Work, not for the food that perishes, but for the food that remains for life everlasting, which the Son of man will give you; for upon this one the Father, even God, has put his seal [of approval]." 28 Therefore they said to him: "What shall we do to work the works of God?" 29 In answer JESUS said to them: "This is the work of God, that you exercise faith in him whom that One sent forth." 30 Therefore they said to him: "What, then, are you performing as a sign, in order for us to see [it] & believe you? What work are you doing? 31 Our forefathers ate the manna in the wilderness, just as it is written, 'He gave them bread from HEAVEN to eat.'" 32 Hence JESUS said to them: "Most truly I say to you, Moses did not give you the bread from HEAVEN, but my Father does give you the true bread from HEAVEN. 33 For the bread of God is the one who comes down from HEAVEN & gives life to the world." 34 Therefore they said to him: "Lord, always give us this bread." 35 JESUS said to them: "I am the bread of life. He that comes to me will not get hungry at all, & he that exercises faith in me will never get thirsty at all. 36 But I have said to you, you have even seen me & yet do not believe. 37 Everything the Father gives me will come to me, & the one that comes to me I will by no means drive away; 38 because I have come down from HEAVEN to do, not my will, but the will of him that sent me. 39 This is the will of him that sent me, that I should lose nothing out of all that he has given me but that I should resurrect it at the last day. 40 For this is the will of my Father, that everyone that beholds the Son & exercises faith in him should have everlasting life, & I will resurrect him at the last day." 36 But I have said to you, you have even seen me & yet do not believe.." 41 Therefore the Jews began to murmur at him because he said: "I am the bread that came down from HEAVEN"; 42 & they began saying: "Is this not JESUS the son of Joseph, whose father & mother we know? How is it that now he says, 'I have come down from HEAVEN'?" 43 In answer JESUS said to them: "Stop murmuring among yourselves. 44 No man can come to me unless the Father, who sent me, draws him; & I will resurrect him in the last day. 45 It is written in the Prophets, 'And they will all be taught by Jehovah.' Everyone that has heard from the Father & has learned comes to me. 46 Not that any man has seen the Father, except he who is from God; this one has seen the Father. 47 Most truly I say to you, He that believes has everlasting life. 48 "I am the bread of life. 49 Your forefathers ate the manna in the wilderness & yet died. 50 This is the bread that comes down from HEAVEN, so that anyone may eat of it & not die. 51 I am the living bread that came down from HEAVEN; if anyone eats of this bread he will live forever; &, for a fact, the bread that I shall give is my flesh in behalf of the life of the world." 52 Therefore the Jews began contending with one another, saying: "How can this man give us his flesh to eat?" 53 Accordingly JESUS said to them: "Most truly I say to you, Unless you eat the flesh of the Son of man & drink his blood, you have no life in yourselves. 54 He that feeds on my flesh & drinks my blood has everlasting life, & I shall resurrect him at the last day; 55 for my flesh is true food, & my blood is true drink. 56 He that feeds on my flesh & drinks my blood remains in union with me, & I in union with him. 57 Just as the living Father sent me forth & I live because of the Father, he also that feeds on me, even that one will live because of me. 58 This is the bread that came down from HEAVEN. It is not as when your forefathers ate & yet died. He that feeds on this bread will live forever." 59 These things he said as he was teaching in public assembly at Capernaum. 60 Therefore many of his disciples, when they heard this, said: "This speech is shocking; who can listen to it?" 61 But JESUS, knowing in himself that his disciples were murmuring about this, said to them: "Does this stumble you? 62 What, therefore, if you should behold the Son of man ascending to where he was before? 63 It is the spirit that is life-giving; the flesh is of no use at all. The sayings that I have spoken to you are spirit & are life. 64 But there are some of you that do not believe." For from [the] beginning JESUS knew who were the ones not believing & who was the one that would betray him. 65 So he went on to say: "This is why I have said to you, No one can come to me unless it is granted him by the Father." 66 Owing to this many of his disciples went off to the things behind & would no longer walk with him. 67 Therefore JESUS said to the 12: "You do not want to go also, do you?" 68 Simon Peter answered him: "Lord, whom shall we go away to? You have sayings of everlasting life; 69 & we have believed & come to know that you are the Holy One of God." 70 JESUS answered them: "I chose you 12, did I not? Yet one of you is a slanderer." 71 He was, in fact, speaking of Judas [the son] of Simon Iscariot; for this one was going to betray him, although one of the 12.

John 7:1 Now after these things JESUS continued walking about in Galilee, for he did not want to walk about in Judea, because the Jews were seeking to kill him. 2 However, the festival of the Jews, the festival of tabernacles, was near. 3 Therefore his brothers said to him: "Pass on over from here & go into Judea, in order that your disciples also may behold the works you do. 4 For nobody does anything in secret while himself seeking to be known publicly. If you do these things, manifest yourself to the world." 5 His brothers were, in fact, not exercising faith in him. 6 Therefore JESUS said to them: "My due time is not yet present, but your due time is always at hand. 7 The world has no reason to hate you, but it hates me, because I bear witness concerning it that its works are wicked. 8 You go up to the festival; I am not yet going up to this festival, because my due time has not yet fully come." 9 So after he told them these things, he remained in Galilee. 10 But when his brothers had gone up to the festival, then he also went up himself, not openly but as in secret. 11 Therefore the Jews began looking for him at the festival & saying: "Where is that [man]?" 12 And there was a lot of subdued talk about him among the crowds. Some would say: "He is a good man." Others would say: "He is not, but he misleads the crowd." 13 No one, of course, would speak about him publicly because of the fear of the Jews. 14 When by now the festival was half over, JESUS went up into the temple & began teaching. 15 Therefore the Jews fell to wondering, saying: "How does this man have a knowledge of letters, when he has not studied at the schools?" 16 JESUS, in turn, answered them & said: "What I teach is not mine, but belongs to him that sent me. 17 If anyone desires to do His will, he will know concerning the teaching whether it is from God or I speak of my own originality. 18 He that speaks of his own originality is seeking his own glory; but he that seeks the glory of him that sent him, this one is true, & there is no unrighteousness in him. 19 Moses gave you the Law, did he not? But not one of you obeys the Law. Why are you seeking to kill me?" 20 The crowd answered: "You have a demon. Who is seeking to kill you?" 21 In answer JESUS said to them: "One deed I performed, & you are all wondering. 22 For this reason Moses has given you the circumcision--not that it is from Moses, but that it is from the forefathers--& you circumcise a man on a Sabbath. 23 If a man receives circumcision on a Sabbath in order that the law of Moses may not be broken, are you violently angry at me because I made a man completely sound in health on a Sabbath? 24 Stop judging from the outward appearance, but judge with righteous judgment." 25 Therefore some of the inhabitants of Jerusalem began to say: "This is the man they are seeking to kill, is it not? 26 And yet, see! he is speaking in public, & they say nothing to him. The rulers have not come to know for a certainty that this is the CHRIST, have they? 27 On the contrary, we know where this man is from; yet when the CHRIST comes, no one is to know where he is from." 28 Therefore JESUS cried out as he was teaching in the temple & said: "You both know me & know where I am from. Also, I have not come of my own initiative, but he that sent me is real, & you do not know him. 29 I know him, because I am a representative from him, & that One sent me forth." 30 Hence they began seeking to get hold of him, but no one laid a hand upon him, because his hour had not yet come. 31 Still, many of the crowd put faith in him; & they commenced saying: "When the CHRIST arrives, he will not perform more signs than this man has performed, will he?" 32 The Pharisees heard the crowd murmuring these things about him, & the chief priests & the Pharisees dispatched officers to get hold of him. 33 Therefore JESUS said: "I continue a little while longer with you before I go to him that sent me. 34 You will look for me, but you will not find me, & where I am you cannot come." 35 Therefore the Jews said among themselves: "Where does this [man] intend going, so that we shall not find him? He does not intend to go to the [Jews] dispersed among the Greeks & teach the Greeks, does he? 36 What does this saying mean that he said, 'You will look for me, but you will not find me, & where I am you cannot come'?" 37 Now on the last day, the great day of the festival, JESUS was standing up & he cried out, saying: "If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me & drink. 38 He that puts faith in me, just as the Scripture has said, 'Out from his inmost part streams of living water will flow.'" 39 However, he said this concerning the spirit which those who put faith in him were about to receive; for as yet there was no spirit, because JESUS had not yet been glorified. 40 Therefore some of the crowd that heard these words began saying: "This is for a certainty The Prophet." 41 Others were saying: "This is the CHRIST." But some were saying: "The CHRIST is not actually coming out of Galilee, is he? 42 Has not the Scripture said that the CHRIST is coming from the offspring of David, & from Bethlehem the village where David used to be?" 43 Therefore a division over him developed among the crowd. 44 Some of them, though, were wanting to get hold of him, but no one did lay [his] hands upon him. 45 Therefore the officers went back to the chief priests & Pharisees, & the latter said to them: "Why is it you did not bring him in?" 46 The officers replied: "Never has [another] man spoken like this." 47 In turn the Pharisees answered: "You have not been misled also, have you? 48 Not one of the rulers or of the Pharisees has put faith in him, has he? 49 But this crowd that does not know the Law are accursed people." 50 Nicodemus, who had come to him previously, & who was one of them, said to them: 51 "Our law does not judge a man unless first it has heard from him & come to know what he is doing, does it?" 52 In answer they said to him: "You are not also out of Galilee, are you? Search & see that no prophet is to be raised up out of Galilee." 53 So they went each one to his home.

John 8:1 But JESUS went to the Mount of Olives. 2 At daybreak, however, he again presented himself at the temple, & all the people began coming to him, & he sat down & began to teach them. 3 Now the scribes & the Pharisees brought a woman caught at adultery, &, after standing her in their midst, 4 they said to him: "Teacher, this woman has been caught in the act of committing adultery. 5 In the Law Moses prescribed for us to stone such sort of women. What, really, do you say?" 6 Of course, they were saying this to put him to the test, in order to have something with which to accuse him. But JESUS bent down & began to write with his finger in the ground. 7 When they persisted in asking him, he straightened up & said to them: "Let the one of you that is sinless be the 1st to throw a stone at her." 8 And bending over again he kept on writing in the ground. 9 But those who heard this began going out, one by one, starting with the older men, & he was left alone, & the woman that was in their midst. 10 Straightening up, JESUS said to her: "Woman, where are they? Did no one condemn you?" 11 She said: "No one, sir." JESUS said: "Neither do I condemn you. Go your way; from now on practice sin no more." 12 Therefore JESUS spoke again to them, saying: "I am the light of the world. He that follows me will by no means walk in darkness, but will possess the light of life." 13 Hence the Pharisees said to him: "You bear witness about yourself; your witness is not true." 14 In answer JESUS said to them: "Even if I do bear witness about myself, my witness is true, because I know where I came from & where I am going. But you do not know where I came from & where I am going. 15 You judge according to the flesh; I do not judge any man at all. 16 And yet if I do judge, my judgment is truthful, because I am not alone, but the Father who sent me is with me. 17 Also, in your own Law it is written, 'The witness of 2 men is true.' 18 I am one that bears witness about myself, & the Father who sent me bears witness about me." 19 Therefore they went on to say to him: "Where is your Father?" JESUS answered: "You know neither me nor my Father. If you did know me, you would know my Father also." 20 These sayings he spoke in the treasury as he was teaching in the temple. But no one laid hold of him, because his hour had not yet come. 21 Hence he said to them again: "I am going away, & you will look for me, & yet you will die in your sin. Where I am going you cannot come." 22 Therefore the Jews began to say: "He will not kill himself, will he? Because he says, 'Where I am going you cannot come.'" 23 So he went on to say to them: "you are from the realms below; I am from the realms above. You are from this world; I am not from this world. 24 Therefore I said to you, you will die in your sins. For if you do not believe that I am [he], you will die in your sins." 25 Therefore they began to say to him: "Who are you?" JESUS said to them: "Why am I even speaking to you at all? 26 I have many things to speak concerning you & to pass judgment upon. As a matter of fact, he that sent me is true, & the very things I heard from him I am speaking in the world." 27 They did not grasp that he was talking to them about the Father. 28 Therefore JESUS said: "When once you have lifted up the Son of man, then you will know that I am [he], & that I do nothing of my own initiative; but just as the Father taught me I speak these things. 29 And he that sent me is with me; he did not abandon me to myself, because I always do the things pleasing to him." 30 As he was speaking these things, many put faith in him. 31 And so JESUS went on to say to the Jews that had believed him: "If you remain in my word, you are really my disciples, 32 & you will know the truth, & the truth will set you free." 33 They replied to him: "We are Abraham's offspring & never have we been slaves to anybody. How is it you say, 'you will become free'?" 34 JESUS answered them: "Most truly I say to you, Every doer of sin is a slave of sin. 35 Moreover, the slave does not remain in the household forever; the son remains forever. 36 Therefore if the Son sets you free, you will be actually free. 37 I know that you are Abraham's offspring; but you are seeking to kill me, because my word makes no progress among you. 38 What things I have seen with my Father I speak; & you, therefore, do the things you have heard from [your] father." 39 In answer they said to him: "Our father is Abraham." JESUS said to them: "If you are Abraham's children, do the works of Abraham. 40 But now you are seeking to kill me, a man that has told you the truth that I heard from God. Abraham did not do this. 41 You do the works of your father." They said to him: "We were not born from fornication; we have one Father, God." 42 JESUS said to them: "If God were your Father, you would love me, for from God I came forth & am here. Neither have I come of my own initiative at all, but that One sent me forth. 43 Why is it you do not know what I am speaking? Because you cannot listen to my word. 44 You are from your father the Devil, & you wish to do the desires of your father. That one was a manslayer when he began, & he did not stand fast in the truth, because truth is not in him. When he speaks the lie, he speaks according to his own disposition, because he is a liar & the father of [the lie]. 45 Because I, on the other hand, tell the truth, you do not believe me. 46 Who of you convicts me of sin? If I speak truth, why is it you do not believe me? 47 He that is from God listens to the sayings of God. This is why you do not listen, because you are not from God." 48 In answer the Jews said to him: "Do we not rightly say, You are a Samaritan & have a demon?" 49 JESUS answered: "I do not have a demon, but I honor my Father, & you dishonor me. 50 But I am not seeking glory for myself; there is One that is seeking & judging. 51 Most truly I say to you, If anyone observes my word, he will never see death at all." 52 The Jews said to him: "Now we do know you have a demon. Abraham died, also the prophets; but you say, 'If anyone observes my word, he will never taste death at all.' 53 You are not greater than our father Abraham, who died, are you? Also, the prophets died. Who do you claim to be?" 54 JESUS answered: "If I glorify myself, my glory is nothing. It is my Father that glorifies me, he who you say is your God; 55 & yet you have not known him. But I know him. And if I said I do not know him I should be like you, a liar. But I do know him & am observing his word. 56 Abraham your father rejoiced greatly in the prospect of seeing my day, & he saw it & rejoiced." 57 Therefore the Jews said to him: "You are not yet 50 years old, & still you have seen Abraham?" 58 JESUS said to them: "Most truly I say to you, Before Abraham came into existence, I have been." 59 Therefore they picked up stones to hurl [them] at him; but JESUS hid & went out of the temple.

John 9:1 Now as he was passing along he saw a man blind from birth. 2 And his disciples asked him: "Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, so that he was born blind?" 3 JESUS answered: "Neither this man sinned nor his parents, but it was in order that the works of God might be made manifest in his case. 4 We must work the works of him that sent me while it is day; the night is coming when no man can work. 5 As long as I am in the world, I am the world's light." 6 After he said these things, he spit on the ground & made a clay with the saliva, & put his clay upon the [man's] eyes 7 & said to him: "Go wash in the pool of Siloam" (which is translated 'Sent forth'). And so he went off & washed, & came back seeing. 8 Therefore the neighbors & those who formerly used to see he was a beggar began to say: "This is the man that used to sit & beg, is it not?" 9 Some would say: "This is he." Others would say: "Not at all, but he is like him." The man would say: "I am [he]." 10 Consequently they began to say to him: "How, then, were your eyes opened?" 11 He answered: "The man called JESUS made a clay & smeared [it] on my eyes & said to me, 'Go to Siloam & wash.' I therefore went & washed & gained sight." 12 At this they said to him: "Where is that [man]?" He said: "I do not know." 13 They led the once-blind man himself to the Pharisees. 14 Incidentally it was Sabbath on the day that JESUS made the clay & opened his eyes. 15 This time, therefore, the Pharisees also took up asking him how he gained sight. He said to them: "He put a clay upon my eyes, & I washed & have sight." 16 Therefore some of the Pharisees began to say: "This is not a man from God, because he does not observe the Sabbath." Others began to say: "How can a man that is a sinner perform signs of that sort?" So there was a division among them. 17 Hence they said to the blind man again: "What do you say about him, seeing that he opened your eyes?" The [man] said: "He is a prophet." 18 However, the Jews did not believe concerning him that he had been blind & had gained sight, until they called the parents of the man that gained sight. 19 And they asked them: "Is this your son who you say was born blind? How, then, is it he sees at present?" 20 Then in answer his parents said: "We know that this is our son & that he was born blind. 21 But how it is he now sees we do not know, or who opened his eyes we do not know. ASK him. He is of age. He must speak for himself." 22 His parents said these things because they were in fear of the Jews, for the Jews had already come to an agreement that, if anyone confessed him as CHRIST, he should get expelled from the synagogue. 23 This is why his parents said: "He is of age. QUESTION him." 24 Therefore a 2nd time they called the man that had been blind & said to him: "Give glory to God; we know that this man is a sinner." 25 In turn he answered: "Whether he is a sinner I do not know. One thing I do know, that, whereas I was blind, I see at present." 26 Therefore they said to him: "What did he do to you? How did he open your eyes?" 27 He answered them: "I told you already, & yet you did not listen. Why do you want to hear it again? You do not want to become his disciples also, do you?" 28 At this they reviled him & said: "You are a disciple of that [man], but we are disciples of Moses. 29 We know that God has spoken to Moses; but as for this [man], we do not know where he is from." 30 In answer the man said to them: "This certainly is a marvel, that you do not know where he is from, & yet he opened my eyes. 31 We know that God does not listen to sinners, but if anyone is God-fearing & does his will, he listens to this one. 32 From of old it has never been heard that anyone opened the eyes of one born blind. 33 If this [man] were not from God, he could do nothing at all." 34 In answer they said to him: "You were altogether born in sins, & yet are you teaching us?" And they threw him out! 35 JESUS heard that they had thrown him out, &, on finding him, he said: "Are you putting faith in the Son of man?" 36 The [man] answered: "And who is he, sir, that I may put faith in him?" 37 JESUS said to him: "You have seen him &, besides, he that is speaking with you is that one." 38 Then he said: "I do put faith [in him], Lord." And he did obeisance to him. 39 And JESUS said: "For [this] judgment I came into this world: that those not seeing might see & those seeing might become blind." 40 Those of the Pharisees who were with him heard these things, & they said to him: "We are not blind also, are we?" 41 JESUS said to them: "If you were blind, You would have no sin. But now you say, 'We see.' Your sin remains."

John 10:1 "Most truly I say to you, He that does not enter into the sheepfold through the door but climbs up some other place, that one is a thief & a plunderer. 2 But he that enters through the door is shepherd of the sheep. 3 The doorkeeper opens to this one, & the sheep listen to his voice, & he calls his own sheep by name & leads them out. 4 When he has got all his own out, he goes before them, & the sheep follow him, because they know his voice. 5 A stranger they will by no means follow but will flee from him, because they do not know the voice of strangers." 6 JESUS spoke this comparison to them; but they did not know what the things meant that he was speaking to them. 7 Therefore JESUS said again: "Most truly I say to you, I am the door of the sheep. 8 All those that have come in place of me are thieves & plunderers; but the sheep have not listened to them. 9 I am the door; whoever enters through me will be saved, & he will go in & out & find pasturage. 10 The thief does not come unless it is to steal & slay & destroy. I have come that they might have life & might have it in abundance. 11 I am the fine shepherd; the fine shepherd surrenders his soul in behalf of the sheep. 12 The hired man, who is no shepherd & to whom the sheep do not belong as his own, beholds the wolf coming & abandons the sheep & flees--& the wolf snatches them & scatters them-- 13 because he is a hired man & does not care for the sheep. 14 I am the fine shepherd, & I know my sheep & my sheep know me, 15 just as the Father knows me & I know the Father; & I surrender my soul in behalf of the sheep. 16 "And I have other sheep, which are not of this fold; those also I must bring, & they will listen to my voice, & they will become one flock, one shepherd. 17 This is why the Father loves me, because I surrender my soul, in order that I may receive it again. 18 No man has taken it away from me, but I surrender it of my own initiative. I have authority to surrender it, & I have authority to receive it again. The commandment on this I received from my Father." 19 Again a division resulted among the Jews because of these words. 20 Many of them were saying: "He has a demon & is mad. Why do you listen to him?" 21 Others would say: "These are not the sayings of a demonized man. A demon cannot open blind people's eyes, can it?" 22 At that time the festival of dedication took place in Jerusalem. It was wintertime, 23 & JESUS was walking in the temple in the colonnade of Solomon. 24 Therefore the Jews encircled him & began to say to him: "How long are you to keep our souls in suspense? If you are the CHRIST, tell us outspokenly." 25 JESUS answered them: "I told you, & yet you do not believe. The works that I am doing in the name of my Father, these bear witness about me. 26 But you do not believe, because you are none of my sheep. 27 My sheep listen to my voice, & I know them, & they follow me. 28 And I give them everlasting life, & they will by no means ever be destroyed, & no one will snatch them out of my hand. 29 What my Father has given me is something greater than all other things, & no one can snatch them out of the hand of the Father. 30 I & the Father are one." 31 Once more the Jews lifted up stones to stone him. 32 JESUS replied to them: "I displayed to you many fine works from the Father. For which of those works are you stoning me?" 33 The Jews answered him: "We are stoning you, not for a fine work, but for blasphemy, even because you, although being a man, make yourself a god." 34 JESUS answered them: "Is it not written in your Law, 'I said: "You are gods"'? 35 If he called 'gods' those against whom the word of God came, & yet the Scripture cannot be nullified, 36 do you say to me whom the Father sanctified & dispatched into the world, 'You blaspheme,' because I said, I am God's Son? 37 If I am not doing the works of my Father, do not believe me. 38 But if I am doing them, even though you do not believe me, believe the works, in order that you may come to know & may continue knowing that the Father is in union with me & I am in union with the Father." 39 Therefore they tried again to seize him; but he got out of their reach. 40 So he went off again across the Jordan to the place where John was baptizing at 1st, & he stayed there. 41 And many people came to him, & they began saying: "John, indeed, did not perform a single sign, but as many things as John said about this man were all true." 42 And many put faith in him there.

1Thess.4:13-17 explains verses 25 & 26. Moreover, brothers, we do not want you to be ignorant concerning those who are sleeping [in death]; that you may not sorrow just as the rest also do who have no hope. For if our faith is that Jesus died and rose again, so, too, those who have fallen asleep [in death] through Jesus God will bring with him. For this is what we tell you by Jehovah’s word, that we the living who survive to the presence of the Lord shall in no way precede those who have fallen asleep [in death]; because the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a commanding call, with an archangel’s voice and with God’s trumpet, and those who are dead in union with Christ will rise first. Afterward we the living who are surviving will, together with them, be caught away in clouds to meet the Lord in the air; and thus we shall always be with [the] Lord.

John 11:1 Now there was a certain man sick, Lazarus of Bethany, of the village of Mary & of Martha her sister. 2 It was, in fact, the Mary that greased the Lord with perfumed oil & wiped his feet dry with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick. 3 Therefore his sisters dispatched word to him, saying: "Lord, see! the one for whom you have affection is sick." 4 But when JESUS heard it he said: "This sickness is not with death as its object, but is for the glory of God, in order that the Son of God may be glorified through it." 5 Now JESUS loved Martha & her sister & Lazarus. 6 However, when he heard that he was sick, then he actually remained 2 days in the place where he was. 7 Then after this he said to the disciples: "Let us go into Judea again." 8 The disciples said to him: "Rabbi, just lately the Judeans were seeking to stone you, & are you going there again?" 9 JESUS answered: "There are 12 hours of daylight, are there not? If anyone walks in daylight he does not bump against anything, because he sees the light of this world. 10 But if anyone walks in the night, he bumps against something, because the light is not in him." 11 He said these things, & after this he said to them: "Lazarus our friend has gone to rest, but I am journeying there to awaken him from sleep." 12 Therefore the disciples said to him: "Lord, if he has gone to rest, he will get well." 13 JESUS had spoken, however, about his death. But they imagined he was speaking about taking rest in sleep. 14 At that time, therefore, JESUS said to them outspokenly: "Lazarus has died, 15 & I rejoice on your account that I was not there, in order for you to believe. But let us go to him." 16 Therefore Thomas, who was called The Twin, said to his fellow disciples: "Let us also go, that we may die with him." 17 Consequently when JESUS arrived, he found he had already been 4 days in the memorial tomb. 18 Now Bethany was near Jerusalem at a distance of about 2 miles. 19 Accordingly many of the Jews had come to Martha & Mary in order to console them concerning their brother. 20 Therefore Martha, when she heard that JESUS was coming, met him; but Mary kept sitting at home. 21 Martha therefore said to JESUS: "Lord, if you had been here my brother would not have died. 22 And yet at present I know that as many things as you ask God for, God will give you." 23 JESUS said to her: "Your brother will rise." 24 Martha said to him: "I know he will rise in the resurrection on the last day." 25 JESUS said to her: "I am the resurrection & the life. He that exercises faith in me, even though he dies, will come to life; 26 & everyone that is living & exercises faith in me will never die at all. Do you believe this?" 27 She said to him: "Yes, Lord; I have believed that you are the CHRIST the Son of God, the One coming into the world." 28 And when she had said this, she went off & called Mary her sister, saying secretly: "The Teacher is present & is calling you." 29 The latter, when she heard this, got up quickly & was on her way to him. 30 JESUS had not yet, in fact, come into the village, but he was still in the place where Martha met him. 31 Therefore the Jews that were with her in the house & that were consoling her, on seeing Mary rise quickly & go out, followed her, supposing that she was going to the memorial tomb to weep there. 32 And so Mary, when she arrived where JESUS was & caught sight of him, fell at his feet, saying to him: "Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died." 33 JESUS, therefore, when he saw her weeping & the Jews that came with her weeping, groaned in the spirit & became troubled; 34 & he said: "Where have you laid him?" They said to him: "Lord, come & see." 35 JESUS gave way to tears. 36 Therefore the Jews began to say: "See, what affection he used to have for him!" 37 But some of them said: "Was not this [man] that opened the eyes of the blind man able to prevent this one from dying?" 38 Hence JESUS, after groaning again within himself, came to the memorial tomb. It was, in fact, a cave, & a stone was lying against it. 39 JESUS said: "TAKE the stone away." Martha, the sister of the deceased, said to him: "Lord, by now he must smell, for it is 4 days." 40 JESUS said to her: "Did I not tell you that if you would believe you would see the glory of God?" 41 Therefore they took the stone away. Now JESUS raised his eyes HEAVENWARD & said: "Father, I thank you that you have heard me. 42 True, I knew that you always hear me; but on account of the crowd standing around I spoke, in order that they might believe that you sent me forth." 43 And when he had said these things, he cried out with a loud voice: "Lazarus, come on out!" 44 The [man] that had been dead came out with his feet & hands bound with wrappings, & his countenance was bound about with a cloth. JESUS said to them: "Loose him & let him go." 45 Therefore many of the Jews that had come to Mary & that beheld what he did put faith in him; 46 but some of them went off to the Pharisees & told them the things JESUS did. 47 Consequently the chief priests & the Pharisees gathered the Sanhedrin together & began to say: "What are we to do, because this man performs many signs? 48 If we let him alone this way, they will all put faith in him, & the Romans will come & take away both our place & our nation." 49 But a certain one of them, Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, said to them: "You do not know anything at all, 50 & you do not reason out that it is to your benefit for one man to die in behalf of the people & not for the whole nation to be destroyed." 51 This, though, he did not say of his own originality; but because he was high priest that year, he prophesied that JESUS was destined to die for the nation, 52 & not for the nation only, but in order that the children of God who are scattered about he might also gather together in one. 53 Therefore from that day on they took counsel to kill him. 54 Hence JESUS no longer walked about publicly among the Jews, but he departed from there to the country near the wilderness, into a city called Ephraim, & there he remained with the disciples. 55 Now the Passover of the Jews was near, & many people went up out of the country to Jerusalem before the Passover in order to cleanse themselves ceremonially. 56 Therefore they went looking for JESUS & they would say to one another as they stood around in the temple: "What is your opinion? That he will not come to the festival at all?" 57 As it was, the chief priests & the Pharisees had given orders that if anyone got to know where he was, he should disclose [it], in order that they might seize him.

John 12:1 Accordingly JESUS, 6 days before the Passover, arrived at Bethany, where Lazarus was whom JESUS had raised up from the dead. 2 Therefore they spread an evening meal for him there, & Martha was ministering, but Lazarus was one of those reclining at the table with him. 3 Mary, therefore, took a pound of perfumed oil, genuine nard, very costly, & she greased the feet of JESUS & wiped his feet dry with her hair. The house became filled with the scent of the perfumed oil. 4 But Judas Iscariot, one of his disciples, who was about to betray him, said: 5 "Why was it this perfumed oil was not sold for 300 denarii & given to the poor people?" 6 He said this, though, not because he was concerned about the poor, but because he was a thief & had the money box & used to carry off the monies put in it. 7 Therefore JESUS said: "Let her alone, that she may keep this observance in view of the day of my burial. 8 For you have the poor always with you, but me you will not have always." 9 Therefore a great crowd of the Jews got to know he was there, & they came, not on account of JESUS only, but also to see Lazarus, whom he raised up from the dead. 10 The chief priests now took counsel to kill Lazarus also, 11 because on account of him many of the Jews were going there & putting faith in JESUS. 12 The next day the great crowd that had come to the festival, on hearing that JESUS was coming to Jerusalem, 13 took the branches of palm trees & went out to meet him. And they began to shout: "Save, we pray you! Blessed is he that comes in Jehovah's name, even the king of Israel!" 14 But when JESUS had found a young ass, he sat on it, just as it is written: 15 "Have no fear, daughter of Zion. Look! Your king is coming, seated upon an ass's colt." 16 These things his disciples took no note of at 1st, but when JESUS became glorified, then they called to mind that these things were written respecting him & that they did these things to him. 17 Accordingly the crowd that was with him when he called Lazarus out of the memorial tomb & raised him up from the dead kept bearing witness. 18 On this account the crowd, because they heard he had performed this sign, also met him. 19 Therefore the Pharisees said among themselves: "You observe you are getting absolutely nowhere. See! The world has gone after him." 20 Now there were some Greeks among those that came up to worship at the festival. 21 These, therefore, approached Philip who was from Bethsaida of Galilee, & they began to request him, saying: "Sir, we want to see JESUS." 22 Philip came & told Andrew. Andrew & Philip came & told JESUS. 23 But JESUS answered them, saying: "The hour has come for the Son of man to be glorified. 24 Most truly I say to you, Unless a grain of wheat falls into the ground & dies, it remains just one [grain]; but if it dies, it then bears much fruit. 25 He that is fond of his soul destroys it, but he that hates his soul in this world will safeguard it for everlasting life. 26 If anyone would minister to me, let him follow me, & where I am there my minister will be also. If anyone would minister to me, the Father will honor him. 27 Now my soul is troubled, & what shall I say? Father, save me out of this hour. Nevertheless, this is why I have come to this hour. 28 Father, glorify your name." Therefore a voice came out of HEAVEN: "I both glorified [it] & will glorify [it] again." 29 Hence the crowd that stood about & heard it began to say that it had thundered. Others began to say: "An angel has spoken to him." 30 In answer JESUS said: "This voice has occurred, not for my sake, but for your sakes. 31 Now there is a judging of this world; now the ruler of this world will be cast out. 32 And yet I, if I am lifted up from the earth, will draw men of all sorts to me." 33 This he was really saying to signify what sort of death he was about to die. 34 Therefore the crowd answered him: "We heard from the Law that the CHRIST remains forever; & how is it you say that the Son of man must be lifted up? Who is this Son of man?" 35 JESUS therefore said to them: "The light will be among you a little while longer. Walk while you have the light, so that darkness does not overpower you; & he that walks in the darkness does not know where he is going. 36 While you have the light, exercise faith in the light, in order to become sons of light." JESUS spoke these things & went off & hid from them. 37 But although he had performed so many signs before them, they were not putting faith in him, 38 so that the word of Isaiah the prophet was fulfilled which he said: "Jehovah, who has put faith in the thing heard by us? And as for the arm of Jehovah, to whom has it been revealed?" 39 The reason why they were not able to believe is that again Isaiah said: 40 "He has blinded their eyes & he has made their hearts hard, that they should not see with their eyes & get the thought with their hearts & turn around & I should heal them." 41 Isaiah said these things because he saw his glory, & he spoke about him. 42 All the same, many even of the rulers actually put faith in him, but because of the Pharisees they would not confess [him], in order not to be expelled from the synagogue; 43 for they loved the glory of men more than even the glory of God. 44 However, JESUS cried out & said: "He that puts faith in me puts faith, not in me [only], but in him [also] that sent me; 45 & he that beholds me beholds [also] him that sent me. 46 I have come as a light into the world, in order that everyone putting faith in me may not remain in the darkness. 47 But if anyone hears my sayings & does not keep them, I do not judge him; for I came, not to judge the world, but to save the world. 48 He that disregards me & does not receive my sayings has one to judge him. The word that I have spoken is what will judge him in the last day; 49 because I have not spoken out of my own impulse, but the Father himself who sent me has given me a commandment as to what to tell & what to speak. 50 Also, I know that his commandment means everlasting life. Therefore the things I speak, just as the Father has told me [them], so I speak [them]."

John 13:1 Now, because he knew before the festival of the Passover that his hour had come for him to move out of this world to the Father, JESUS, having loved his own that were in the world, loved them to the end. 2 So, while the evening meal was going on, the Devil having already put it into the heart of Judas Iscariot, the son of Simon, to betray him, 3 he, knowing that the Father had given all things into [his] hands & that he came forth from God & was going to God, 4 got up from the evening meal & laid aside his outer garments. And, taking a towel, he girded himself. 5 After that he put water into a basin & started to wash the feet of the disciples & to dry them off with the towel with which he was girded. 6 And so he came to Simon Peter. He said to him: "Lord, are you washing my feet?" 7 In answer JESUS said to him: "What I am doing you do not understand at present, but you will understand after these things." 8 Peter said to him: "You will certainly never wash my feet." JESUS answered him: "Unless I wash you, you have no part with me." 9 Simon Peter said to him: "Lord, not my feet only, but also my hands & my head." 10 JESUS said to him: "He that has bathed does not need to have more than his feet washed, but is wholly clean. And you men are clean, but not all." 11 He knew, indeed, the man betraying him. This is why he said: "Not all of you are clean." 12 When, now, he had washed their feet & had put his outer garments on & laid himself down at the table again, he said to them: "Do you know what I have done to you? 13 You address me, 'Teacher,' &, 'Lord,' & you speak rightly, for I am such. 14 Therefore, if I, although Lord & Teacher, washed your feet, you also ought to wash the feet of one another. 15 For I set the pattern for you, that, just as I did to you, you should do also. 16 Most truly I say to you, A slave is not greater than his master, nor is one that is sent forth greater than the one that sent him. 17 If you know these things, happy you are if you do them. 18 I am not talking about all of you; I know the ones I have chosen. But it is in order that the Scripture might be fulfilled, 'He that used to feed on my bread has lifted up his heel against me.' 19 From this moment on I am telling you before it occurs, in order that when it does occur you may believe that I am [he]. 20 Most truly I say to you, He that receives anyone I send receives me [also]. In turn he that receives me, receives [also] him that sent me." 21 After saying these things, JESUS became troubled in spirit, & he bore witness & said: "Most truly I say to you, One of you will betray me." 22 The disciples began to look at one another, being at a loss as to which one he was saying [it] about. 23 There was reclining in front of JESUS' bosom one of his disciples, & JESUS loved him. 24 Therefore Simon Peter nodded to this one & said to him: "Tell who it is about whom he is saying [it]." 25 So the latter leaned back upon the breast of JESUS & said to him: "Lord, who is it?" 26 Therefore JESUS answered: "It is that one to whom I shall give the morsel that I dip." And so, having dipped the morsel, he took & gave it to Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot. 27 And after the morsel then Satan entered into the latter. JESUS, therefore, said to him: "What you are doing get done more quickly." 28 However, none of those reclining at the table knew for what purpose he said this to him. 29 Some, in fact, were imagining, since Judas was holding the money box, that JESUS was telling him: "Buy what things we need for the festival," or that he should give something to the poor. 30 Therefore, after he received the morsel, he went out immediately. And it was night. 31 Hence when he had gone out, JESUS said: "Now the Son of man is glorified, & God is glorified in connection with him. 32 And God will himself glorify him, & he will glorify him immediately. 33 Little children, I am with you a little longer. You will look for me; & just as I said to the Jews, 'Where I go you cannot come,' I say also to you at present. 34 I am giving you a new commandment, that you love one another; just as I have loved you, that you also love one another. 35 By this all will know that you are my disciples, if you have love among yourselves." 36 Simon Peter said to him: "Lord, where are you going?" JESUS answered: "Where I am going you cannot follow me now, but you will follow afterwards." 37 Peter said to him: "Lord, why is it I cannot follow you at present? I will surrender my soul in your behalf." 38 JESUS answered: "Will you surrender your soul in my behalf? Most truly I say to you, A cock will by no means crow until you have disowned me 3 times."

John 14:1 "Do not let your hearts be troubled. Exercise faith in God, exercise faith also in me. 2 In the house of my Father there are many abodes. Otherwise, I would have told you, because I am going my way to prepare a place for you. 3 Also, if I go my way & prepare a place for you, I am coming again & will receive you home to myself, that where I am you also may be. 4 And where I am going you know the way." 5 Thomas said to him: "Lord, we do not know where you are going. How do we know the way?" 6 JESUS said to him: "I am the way & the truth & the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. 7 If you men had known me, you would have known my Father also; from this moment on you know him & have seen him." 8 Philip said to him: "Lord, show us the Father, & it is enough for us." 9 JESUS said to him: "Have I been with you men so long a time, & yet, Philip, you have not come to know me? He that has seen me has seen the Father [also]. How is it you say, 'Show us the Father'? 10 Do you not believe that I am in union with the Father & the Father is in union with me? The things I say to you men I do not speak of my own originality; but the Father who remains in union with me is doing his works. 11 Believe me that I am in union with the Father & the Father is in union with me; otherwise, believe on account of the works themselves. 12 Most truly I say to you, He that exercises faith in me, that one also will do the works that I do; & he will do works greater than these, because I am going my way to the Father. 13 Also, whatever it is that you ask in my name, I will do this, in order that the Father may be glorified in connection with the Son. 14 If you ask anything in my name, I will do it. 15 "If you love me, you will observe my commandments; 16 & I will request the Father & he will give you another helper to be with you forever, 17 the spirit of the truth, which the world cannot receive, because it neither beholds it nor knows it. You know it, because it remains with you & is in you. 18 I shall not leave you bereaved. I am coming to you. 19 A little longer & the world will behold me no more, but you will behold me, because I live & you will live. 20 In that day you will know that I am in union with my Father & you are in union with me & I am in union with you. 21 He that has my commandments & observes them, that one is he who loves me. In turn he that loves me will be loved by my Father, & I will love him & will plainly show myself to him." 22 Judas, not Iscariot, said to him: "Lord, what has happened that you intend to show yourself plainly to us & not to the world?" 23 In answer JESUS said to him: "If anyone loves me, he will observe my word, & my Father will love him, & we shall come to him & make our abode with him. 24 He that does not love me does not observe my words; & the word that you are hearing is not mine, but belongs to the Father who sent me. 25 "While remaining with you I have spoken these things to you. 26 But the helper, the holy spirit, which the Father will send in my name, that one will teach you all things & bring back to your minds all the things I told you. 27 I leave you peace, I give you my peace. I do not give it to you the way that the world gives it. Do not let your hearts be troubled nor let them shrink for fear. 28 You heard that I said to you, I am going away & I am coming [back] to you. If you loved me, you would rejoice that I am going my way to the Father, because the Father is greater than I am. 29 So now I have told you before it occurs, in order that, when it does occur, you may believe. 30 I shall not speak much with you anymore, for the ruler of the world is coming. And he has no hold on me, 31 but, in order for the world to know that I love the Father, even as the Father has given me commandment [to do], so I am doing. Get up, let us go from here.

John 15:1 "I am the true vine, & my Father is the cultivator. 2 Every branch in me not bearing fruit he takes away, & every one bearing fruit he cleans, that it may bear more fruit. 3 You are already clean because of the word that I have spoken to you. 4 Remain in union with me, & I in union with you. Just as the branch cannot bear fruit of itself unless it remains in the vine, in the same way neither can you, unless you remain in union with me. 5 I am the vine, you are the branches. He that remains in union with me, & I in union with him, this one bears much fruit; because apart from me you can do nothing at all. 6 If anyone does not remain in union with me, he is cast out as a branch & is dried up; & men gather those branches up & pitch them into the fire & they are burned. 7 If you remain in union with me & my sayings remain in you, ask whatever you wish & it will take place for you. 8 My Father is glorified in this, that you keep bearing much fruit & prove yourselves my disciples. 9 Just as the Father has loved me & I have loved you, remain in my love. 10 If you observe my commandments, you will remain in my love, just as I have observed the commandments of the Father & remain in his love. 11 "These things I have spoken to you, that my joy may be in you & your joy may be made full. 12 This is my commandment, that you love one another just as I have loved you. 13 No one has love greater than this, that someone should surrender his soul in behalf of his friends. 14 You are my friends if you do what I am commanding you. 15 I no longer call you slaves, because a slave does not know what his master does. But I have called you friends, because all the things I have heard from my Father I have made known to you. 16 You did not choose me, but I chose you, & I appointed you to go on & keep bearing fruit & that your fruit should remain; in order that no matter what you ask the Father in my name he might give it to you. 17 "These things I command you, that you love one another. 18 If the world hates you, you know that it has hated me before it hated you. 19 If you were part of the world, the world would be fond of what is its own. Now because you are no part of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, on this account the world hates you. 20 Bear in mind the word I said to you, A slave is not greater than his master. If they have persecuted me, they will persecute you also; if they have observed my word, they will observe yours also. 21 But they will do all these things against you on account of my name, because they do not know him that sent me. 22 If I had not come & spoken to them, they would have no sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin. 23 He that hates me hates also my Father. 24 If I had not done among them the works that no one else did, they would have no sin; but now they have both seen & hated me as well as my Father. 25 But it is that the word written in their Law may be fulfilled, 'They hated me without cause.' 26 When the helper arrives that I will send you from the Father, the spirit of the truth, which proceeds from the Father, that one will bear witness about me; 27 & you, in turn, are to bear witness, because you have been with me from when I began.

John 16:1 "I have spoken these things to you that you may not be stumbled. 2 Men will expel you from the synagogue. In fact, the hour is coming when everyone that kills you will imagine he has rendered a sacred service to God. 3 But they will do these things because they have not come to know either the Father or me. 4 Nevertheless, I have spoken these things to you that, when the hour for them arrives, you may remember I told them to you. "These things, however, I did not tell you at 1st, because I was with you. 5 But now I am going to him that sent me, & yet not one of you asks me, 'Where are you going?' 6 But because I have spoken these things to you grief has filled your hearts. 7 Nevertheless, I am telling you the truth, It is for your benefit I am going away. For if I do not go away, THE HELPER will by no means come to you; but if I do go my way, I will send him to you. 8 And when that one arrives he will give the world convincing evidence concerning sin & concerning righteousness & concerning judgment: 9 in the 1st place, concerning sin, because they are not exercising faith in me; 10 then concerning righteousness, because I am going to the Father & you will behold me no longer; 11 then concerning judgment, because the ruler of this world has been judged. 12 "I have many things yet to say to you, but you are not able to bear them at present. 13 However, when that one arrives, the spirit of the truth, he will guide you into all the truth, for he will not speak of his own impulse, but what things he hears he will speak, & he will declare to you the things coming. 14 That one will glorify me, because he will receive from what is mine & will declare it to you. 15 All the things that the Father has are mine. That is why I said he receives from what is mine & declares [it] to you. 16 In a little while you will behold me no longer, &, again, in a little while you will see me." 17 Therefore some of his disciples said to one another: "What does this mean that he says to us, 'In a little while you will not behold me, &, again, in a little while you will see me,' &, 'because I am going to the Father'?" 18 Hence they were saying: "What does this mean that he says, 'a little while'? We do not know what he is talking about." 19 JESUS knew they were wanting to question him, so he said to them: "Are you inquiring among yourselves over this, because I said, In a little while you will not behold me, &, again, in a little while you will see me? 20 Most truly I say to you, You will weep & wail, but the world will rejoice; you will be grieved, but your grief will be turned into joy. 21 A woman, when she is giving birth, has grief, because her hour has arrived; but when she has brought forth the young child, she remembers the tribulation no more because of the joy that a man has been born into the world. 22 You also, therefore, are now, indeed, having grief; but I shall see you again & your hearts will rejoice, & your joy no one will take from you. 23 And in that day you will ask me no question at all. Most truly I say to you, If you ask the Father for anything he will give it to you in my name. 24 Until this present time you have not asked a single thing in my name. Ask & you will receive, that your joy may be made full. 25 "I have spoken these things to you in comparisons. The hour is coming when I will speak to you no more in comparisons, but I will report to you with plainness concerning the Father. 26 In that day you will ask in my name, & I do not say to you that I shall make request of the Father concerning you. 27 For the Father himself has affection for you, because you have had affection for me & have believed that I came out as the Father's representative. 28 I came out from the Father & have come into the world. Further, I am leaving the world & am going my way to the Father." 29 His disciples said: "See! Now you are speaking with plainness, & are uttering no comparison. 30 Now we know that you know all things & you do not need to have anyone question you. By this we believe that you came out from God." 31 JESUS answered them: "Do you believe at present? 32 Look! The hour is coming, indeed, it has come, when you will be scattered each one to his own house & you will leave me alone; & yet I am not alone, because the Father is with me. 33 I have said these things to you that by means of me you may have peace. In the world you are having tribulation, but take courage! I have conquered the world."

John 17:1 JESUS spoke these things, &, raising his eyes to HEAVEN, he said: "Father, the hour has come; glorify your son, that your son may glorify you, 2 according as you have given him authority over all flesh, that, as regards the whole [number] whom you have given him, he may give them everlasting life. 3 This means everlasting life, their taking in knowledge of you, the only true God, & of the one whom you sent forth, JESUS CHRIST. 4 I have glorified you on the earth, having finished the work you have given me to do. 5 So now you, Father, glorify me alongside yourself with the glory that I had alongside you before the world was. 6 "I have made your name manifest to the men you gave me out of the world. They were yours, & you gave them to me, & they have observed your word. 7 They have now come to know that all the things you gave me are from you; 8 because the sayings that you gave me I have given to them, & they have received them & have certainly come to know that I came out as your representative, & they have believed that you sent me forth. 9 I make request concerning them; I make request, not concerning the world, but concerning those you have given me; because they are yours, 10 & all my things are yours & yours are mine, & I have been glorified among them. 11 "Also, I am no longer in the world, but they are in the world & I am coming to you. Holy Father, watch over them on account of your own name which you have given me, in order that they may be one just as we are. 12 When I was with them I used to watch over them on account of your own name which you have given me; & I have kept them, & not one of them is destroyed except the son of destruction, in order that the scripture might be fulfilled. 13 But now I am coming to you, & I am speaking these things in the world in order that they may have my joy in themselves to the full. 14 I have given your word to them, but the world has hated them, because they are no part of the world, just as I am no part of the world. 15 "I request you, not to take them out of the world, but to watch over them because of the wicked one. 16 They are no part of the world, just as I am no part of the world. 17 Sanctify them by means of the truth; your word is truth. 18 Just as you sent me forth into the world, I also sent them forth into the world. 19 And I am sanctifying myself in their behalf, that they also may be sanctified by means of truth. 20 "I make request, not concerning these only, but also concerning those putting faith in me through their word; 21 in order that they may all be one, just as you, Father, are in union with me & I am in union with you, that they also may be in union with us, in order that the world may believe that you sent me forth. 22 Also, I have given them the glory that you have given me, in order that they may be one just as we are one. 23 I in union with them & you in union with me, in order that they may be perfected into one, that the world may have the knowledge that you sent me forth & that you loved them just as you loved me. 24 Father, as to what you have given me, I wish that, where I am, they also may be with me, in order to behold my glory that you have given me, because you loved me before the founding of the world. 25 Righteous Father, the world has, indeed, not come to know you; but I have come to know you, & these have come to know that you sent me forth. 26 And I have made your name known to them & will make it known, in order that the love with which you loved me may be in them & I in union with them."

John 18:1 Having said these things, JESUS went out with his disciples across the winter torrent of Kidron to where there was a garden, & he & his disciples entered into it. 2 Now Judas, his betrayer, also knew the place, because JESUS had many times met there with his disciples. 3 Therefore Judas took the soldier band & officers of the chief priests & of the Pharisees & came there with torches & lamps & weapons. 4 JESUS, therefore, knowing all the things coming upon him, went forth & said to them: "Whom are you looking for?" 5 They answered him: "JESUS the Nazarene'." He said to them: "I am [he]." Now Judas, his betrayer, was also standing with them. 6 However, when he said to them: "I am [he]," they drew back & fell to the ground. 7 Therefore he asked them again: "Whom are you looking for?" They said: "JESUS the Nazarene'." 8 JESUS answered: "I told you I am [he]. If, therefore, it is I you are looking for, let these go"; 9 in order that the word might be fulfilled which he said: "Of those whom you have given me I have not lost a single one." 10 Then Simon Peter, as he had a sword, drew it & struck the slave of the high priest & cut his right ear off. The name of the slave was Malchus. 11 JESUS, however, said to Peter: "Put the sword into [its] sheath. The cup that the Father has given me, should I not by all means drink it?" 12 Then the soldier band & the military commander & the officers of the Jews seized JESUS & bound him, 13 & they led him 1st to Annas; for he was father-in-law to Caiaphas, who was high priest that year. 14 Caiaphas was, in fact, the one that counseled the Jews that it was to their benefit for one man to die in behalf of the people. 15 Now Simon Peter as well as another disciple was following JESUS. That disciple was known to the high priest, & he went in with JESUS into the courtyard of the high priest, 16 but Peter was standing outside at the door. Therefore the other disciple, who was known to the high priest, went out & spoke to the doorkeeper & brought Peter in. 17 The servant girl, the doorkeeper, then said to Peter: "You are not also one of this man's disciples, are you?" He said: "I am not." 18 Now the slaves & the officers were standing about, as they had built a charcoal fire, because it was cold, & they were warming themselves. Peter also was standing with them & warming himself. 19 And so the chief priest questioned JESUS about his disciples & about his teaching. 20 JESUS answered him: "I have spoken to the world publicly. I always taught in a synagogue & in the temple, where all the Jews come together; & I spoke nothing in secret. 21 Why do you question me? Question those who have heard what I spoke to them. See! These know what I said." 22 After he said these things, one of the officers that was standing by gave JESUS a slap in the face & said: "Is that the way you answer the chief priest?" 23 JESUS answered him: "If I spoke wrongly, bear witness concerning the wrong; but if rightly, why do you hit me?" 24 Then Annas sent him away bound to Caiaphas the high priest. 25 Now Simon Peter was standing & warming himself. Then they said to him: "You are not also one of his disciples, are you?" He denied it & said: "I am not." 26 One of the slaves of the high priest, being a relative of the man whose ear Peter cut off, said: "I saw you in the garden with him, did I not?" 27 However, Peter denied it again; & immediately a cock crowed. 28 Then they led JESUS from Caiaphas to the governor's palace. It was now early in the day. But they themselves did not enter into the governor's palace, that they might not get defiled but might eat the Passover. 29 Therefore Pilate came outside to them & said: "What accusation do you bring against this man?" 30 In answer they said to him: "If this man were not a wrongdoer, we would not have delivered him up to you." 31 Hence Pilate said to them: "Take him yourselves & judge him according to your law." The Jews said to him: "It is not lawful for us to kill anyone." 32 This, in order that the word of JESUS might be fulfilled which he said to signify what sort of death he was destined to die. 33 So Pilate entered into the governor's palace again & called JESUS & said to him: "Are you the king of the Jews?" 34 JESUS answered: "Is it of your own originality that you say this, or did others tell you about me?" 35 Pilate answered: "I am not a Jew, am I? Your own nation & the chief priests delivered you up to me. What did you do?" 36 JESUS answered: "My kingdom is no part of this world. If my kingdom were part of this world, my attendants would have fought that I should not be delivered up to the Jews. But, as it is, my kingdom is not from this source." 37 Therefore Pilate said to him: "Well, then, are you a king?" JESUS answered: "You yourself are saying that I am a king. For this I have been born, & for this I have come into the world, that I should bear witness to the truth. Everyone that is on the side of the truth listens to my voice." 38 Pilate said to him: "What is truth?" And after saying this, he went out again to the Jews & said to them: "I find no fault in him. 39 Moreover, you have a custom that I should release a man to you at the Passover. Do you, therefore, wish me to release to you the king of the Jews?" 40 Then they shouted again, saying: "Not this man, but Barabbas!" Now Barabbas was a robber.

Now I make known to you, brothers, the good news which I declared to you, which you also received, in which you also stand, through which you are also being saved... that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures; & that he was buried, yes, that he has been raised up the 3rd day according to the Scriptures.... (1Cor.15:1)

For I am not ashamed of the good news; it is, in fact, God's power for salvation to everyone having faith, to the Jew 1st & also to the Greek.... (Rom.1:16)

John 19:1 At that time, therefore, Pilate took JESUS & scourged him. 2 And the soldiers braided a crown of thorns & put it on his head & arrayed him with a purple outer garment; 3 & they began coming up to him & saying: "Good day, you King of the Jews!" Also, they would give him slaps in the face. 4 And Pilate went outside again & said to them: "See! I bring him outside to you in order for you to know I find no fault in him." 5 Accordingly JESUS came outside, wearing the thorny crown & the purple outer garment. And he said to them: "Look! The man!" 6 However, when the chief priests & the officers saw him, they shouted, saying: "Impale [him]! Impale [him]!" Pilate said to them: "Take him yourselves & impale him, for I do not find any fault in him." 7 The Jews answered him: "We have a law, & according to the law he ought to die, because he made himself God's son." 8 When, therefore, Pilate heard this saying, he became more fearful; 9 & he entered into the governor's palace again & said to JESUS: "Where are you from?" But JESUS gave him no answer. 10 Hence Pilate said to him: "Are you not speaking to me? Do you not know I have authority to release you & I have authority to impale you?" 11 JESUS answered him: "You would have no authority at all against me unless it had been granted to you from above. This is why the man that handed me over to you has greater sin." 12 For this reason Pilate kept on seeking how to release him. But the Jews shouted, saying: "If you release this [man], you are not a friend of Caesar. Every man making himself a king speaks against Caesar." 13 Therefore Pilate, after hearing these words, brought JESUS outside, & he sat down on a judgment seat in a place called The Stone Pavement, but, in Hebrew, Gabbatha. 14 Now it was preparation of the Passover; it was about the 6th hour. And he said to the Jews: "See! Your king!" 15 However, they shouted: "Take [him] away! Take [him] away! Impale him!" Pilate said to them: "Shall I impale your king?" The chief priests answered: "We have no king but Caesar." 16 At that time, therefore, he handed him over to them to be impaled. Then they took charge of JESUS. 17 And, bearing the torture stake for himself, he went out to the so-called Skull Place, which is called Golgotha in Hebrew; 18 & there they impaled him, & 2 other [men] with him, one on this side & one on that, but JESUS in the middle. 19 Pilate wrote a title also & put it on the torture stake. It was written: "JESUS the Nazarene' the King of the Jews." 20 Therefore many of the Jews read this title, because the place where JESUS was impaled was near the city; & it was written in Hebrew, in Latin, in Greek. 21 However, the chief priests of the Jews began to say to Pilate: "Do not write 'The 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 Now when the soldiers had impaled JESUS, they took his outer garments & made 4 parts, for each soldier a part, & the inner garment. But the inner garment was without a seam, being woven from the top throughout its length. 24 Therefore they said to one another: "Let us not tear it, but let us determine by lots over it whose it will be." This was that the scripture might be fulfilled: "They apportioned my outer garments among themselves, & upon my apparel they cast lots." And so the soldiers really did these things. 25 By the torture stake of JESUS, however, there were standing his mother & the sister of his mother; Mary the wife of Clopas, & Mary Magdalene. 26 Therefore JESUS, seeing his mother & the disciple whom he loved standing by, said to his mother: "Woman, see! Your son!" 27 Next he said to the disciple: "See! Your mother!" And from that hour on the disciple took her to his own home. 28 After this, when JESUS knew that by now all things had been accomplished, in order that the scripture might be accomplished he said: "I am thirsty." 29 A vessel was sitting there full of sour wine. Therefore they put a sponge full of the sour wine upon a hyssop [stalk] & brought it to his mouth. 30 When, now, he had received the sour wine, JESUS said: "It has been accomplished!" &, bowing his head, he delivered up [his] spirit. 31 Then the Jews, since it was Preparation, in order that the bodies might not remain upon the torture stakes on the Sabbath, (for the day of that Sabbath was a great one,) requested Pilate to have their legs broken & the [bodies] taken away. 32 The soldiers came, therefore, & broke the legs of the 1st [man] & those of the other [man] that had been impaled with him. 33 But on coming to JESUS, as they saw that he was already dead, they did not break his legs. 34 Yet one of the soldiers jabbed his side with a spear, & immediately blood & water came out. 35 And he that has seen [it] has borne witness, & his witness is true, & that man knows he tells true things, in order that you also may believe. 36 In fact, these things took place in order for the scripture to be fulfilled: "Not a bone of his will be crushed." 37 And, again, a different scripture says: "They will look to the One whom they pierced." 38 Now after these things Joseph from Arimathea, who was a disciple of JESUS but a secret one out of [his] fear of the Jews, requested Pilate that he might take away the body of JESUS; & Pilate gave him permission. Therefore he came & took his body away. 39 Nicodemus also, the man that came to him in the night the 1st time, came bringing a roll of myrrh & aloes, about 100 pounds [of it]. 40 So they took the body of JESUS & bound it up with bandages with the spices, just the way the Jews have the custom of preparing for burial. 41 Incidentally, at the place where he was impaled there was a garden, & in the garden a new memorial tomb, in which no one had ever yet been laid. 42 There, then, on account of the preparation of the Jews, they laid JESUS, because the memorial tomb was nearby.

John 20:1 On the 1st day of the week Mary Magdalene came to the memorial tomb early, while there was still darkness, & she beheld the stone already taken away from the memorial tomb. 2 Therefore she ran & came to Simon Peter & to the other disciple, for whom JESUS had affection, & she said to them: "They have taken away the Lord out of the memorial tomb, & we do not know where they have laid him." 3 Then Peter & the other disciple went out & started for the memorial tomb. 4 Yes, the 2 together began to run; but the other disciple ran ahead of Peter with greater speed & reached the memorial tomb 1st. 5 And, stooping forward, he beheld the bandages lying, yet he did not go in. 6 Then Simon Peter also came following him, & he entered into the memorial tomb. And he viewed the bandages lying, 7 also the cloth that had been upon his head not lying with the bandages but separately rolled up in one place. 8 At that time, therefore, the other disciple who had reached the memorial tomb 1st also went in, & he saw & believed. 9 For they did not yet discern the scripture that he must rise from the dead. 10 And so the disciples went back to their homes. 11 Mary, however, kept standing outside near the memorial tomb, weeping. Then, while she was weeping, she stooped forward to look into the memorial tomb 12 & she viewed 2 angels in white sitting one at the head & one at the feet where the body of JESUS had been lying. 13 And they said to her: "Woman, why are you weeping?" She said to them: "They have taken my Lord away, & I do not know where they have laid him." 14 After saying these things, she turned back & viewed JESUS standing, but she did not discern it was JESUS. 15 JESUS said to her: "Woman, why are you weeping? Whom are you looking for?" She, imagining it was the gardener, said to him: "Sir, if you have carried him off, tell me where you have laid him, & I will take him away." 16 JESUS said to her: "Mary!" Upon turning around, she said to him, in Hebrew: "Rabboni!" (which means "Teacher!") 17 JESUS said to her: "Stop clinging to me. For I have not yet ascended to the Father. But be on your way to my brothers & say to them, 'I am ascending to my Father & your Father & to my God & your God.'" 18 Mary Magdalene came & brought the news to the disciples: "I have seen the Lord!" & that he said these things to her. 19 Therefore, when it was late on that day, the 1st of the week, &, although the doors were locked where the disciples were for fear of the Jews, JESUS came & stood in their midst & said to them: "May you have peace." 20 And after he said this he showed them both his hands & his side. Then the disciples rejoiced at seeing the Lord. 21 JESUS, therefore, said to them again: "May you have peace. Just as the Father has sent me forth, I also am sending you." 22 And after he said this he blew upon them & said to them: "Receive holy spirit. 23 If you forgive the sins of any persons, they stand forgiven to them; if you retain those of any persons, they stand retained." 24 But Thomas, one of the 12, who was called The Twin, was not with them when JESUS came. 25 Consequently the other disciples would say to him: "We have seen the Lord!" But he said to them: "Unless I see in his hands the print of the nails & stick my finger into the print of the nails & stick my hand into his side, I will certainly not believe." 26 Well, 8 days later his disciples were again indoors, & Thomas with them. JESUS came, although the doors were locked, & he stood in their midst & said: "May you have peace." 27 Next he said to Thomas: "Put your finger here, & see my hands, & take your hand & stick it into my side, & stop being unbelieving but become believing." 28 In answer Thomas said to him: "My Lord & my God!" 29 JESUS said to him: "Because you have seen me have you believed? Happy are those who do not see & yet believe." 30 To be sure, JESUS performed many other signs also before the disciples, which are not written down in this scroll. 31 But these have been written down that you may believe that JESUS is the CHRIST the Son of God, & that, because of believing, you may have life by means of [lit. "IN"] his name.

John 21:1 After these things JESUS manifested himself again to the disciples at the sea of Tiberias; but he made the manifestation in this way. 2 There were in company Simon Peter & Thomas, who was called The Twin, & Nathanael from Cana of Galilee & the sons of Zebedee & 2 others of his disciples. 3 Simon Peter said to them: "I am going fishing." They said to him: "We also are coming with you." Out they went & got aboard the boat, but during that night they caught nothing. 4 However, just as it was getting to be morning, JESUS stood on the beach, but the disciples did not, of course, discern that it was JESUS. 5 Then JESUS said to them: "Young children, you do not have anything to eat, do you?" They answered "No!" to him. 6 He said to them: "Cast the net on the right side of the boat & you will find [some]." Then they cast it, but they were no longer able to draw it in because of the multitude of the fishes. 7 Therefore that disciple whom JESUS used to love said to Peter: "It is the Lord!" Hence Simon Peter, upon hearing that it was the Lord, girded about himself his top garment, for he was naked, & plunged into the sea. 8 But the other disciples came in the little boat, for they were not a long way from land, only about 300 feet away, dragging the net of fishes. 9 However, when they disembarked onto land they beheld lying there a charcoal fire & fish lying upon it & bread. 10 JESUS said to them: "Bring some of the fish you just now caught." 11 Simon Peter, therefore, went on board & drew the net to land full of big fishes, 153 of them. But although there were so many the net did not burst. 12 JESUS said to them: "Come, take your breakfast." Not one of the disciples had the courage to inquire of him: "Who are you?" because they knew it was the Lord. 13 JESUS came & took the bread & gave it to them, & the fish likewise. 14 This was now the 3rd time that JESUS appeared to the disciples after his being raised up from the dead. 15 When, now, they had breakfasted, JESUS said to Simon Peter: "Simon son of John, do you love me more than these?" He said to him: "Yes, Lord, you know I have affection for you." He said to him: "Feed my lambs." 16 Again he said to him, a 2nd time: "Simon son of John, do you love me?" He said to him: "Yes, Lord, you know I have affection for you." He said to him: "Shepherd my little sheep." 17 He said to him the 3rd time: "Simon son of John, do you have affection for me?" Peter became grieved that he said to him the 3rd time: "Do you have affection for me?" So he said to him: "Lord, you know all things; you are aware that I have affection for you." JESUS said to him: "Feed my little sheep. 18 Most truly I say to you, When you were younger, you used to gird yourself & walk about where you wanted. But when you grow old you will stretch out your hands & another [man] will gird you & bear you where you do not wish." 19 This he said to signify by what sort of death he would glorify God. So, when he had said this, he said to him: "Continue following me." 20 Upon turning about Peter saw the disciple whom JESUS used to love following, the one who at the evening meal had also leaned back upon his breast & said: "Lord, who is the one betraying you?" 21 Accordingly, when he caught sight of him, Peter said to JESUS: "Lord, what will this [man do]?" 22 JESUS said to him: "If it is my will for him to remain until I come, of what concern is that to you? You continue following me." 23 In consequence, this saying went out among the brothers, that that disciple would not die. However, JESUS did not say to him that he would not die, but: "If it is my will for him to remain until I come, of what concern is that to you?" 24 This is the disciple that bears witness about these things & that wrote these things, & we know that the witness he gives is true. 25 There are, in fact, many other things also which JESUS did, which, if ever they were written in full detail, I suppose, the world itself could not contain the scrolls written.