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The Gospel of John

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Chapter 1
1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
2 In the beginning it was with God.
3 All things were made through it, and nothing that was made was made without it.
4 In her was life, and the life was the light of men.
5 The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not received it.
6 There was a man sent from God: his name was John.
7 He came to be a witness, to give testimony to the light, so that all might believe through
him.
8 He was not the light, but he appeared to bear witness to the light.
9 This light was the true light, which, coming into the world, enlightens every man.
10 It was in the world, and the world was made through it, and the world did not know it. 11
She came to her own, and her own received her not.
12, 13 But to all who received her, to those who believe in her name, she gave power to
become children of God, born not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man,
but of God.
14 And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, full of grace and truth; and we
beheld his glory, a glory like the glory of the only-begotten Son from the Father.
15 John testified to him, and cried out, "This is he of whom I said, 'He who comes after me
has preceded me, for he was before me.
16, 17 And we have all received of his fullness, and grace for grace; for the law was given by
Moses, grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.
18 No one has ever seen God; the only Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, is the one
who has made him known.
19 This is the testimony of John, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to
ask him, "Who are you?
20 He declared, and did not deny, that he was 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 Then they said to him: Who are you? That we may give an answer to those who have sent
us. What do you say about yourself?
23 "I," he said, "am the voice of one crying out in the desert, 'Make straight the path of the
Lord, as the prophet Isaiah said.
24 Those who had been sent were Pharisees.
25 They asked him again, "Why then do you baptize, if you are not the Christ, nor Elijah, nor
the prophet?
26, 27 John answered and said to them, "I baptize with water, but among you there is one
whom you do not know, who is coming after me; I am not worthy to untie his shoe strap.
28 These things happened at Bethany, beyond the Jordan, where John was baptizing.
29 The next day, he saw Jesus coming to him, and said, "This is the Lamb of God, who takes
away the sin of the world.
30 This is he of whom I said, After me comes a man who was before me, for he was before
me.
31 I did not know him, but I came to baptize with water so that he might be made manifest
to Israel.
32 John testified, "I saw the Spirit come down from heaven like a dove and rest on him.
33 I didn't know him, but he who sent me to baptize with water said to me: "The one on
whom you will see the Spirit descend and stop is the one who baptizes with the Holy Spirit.
34 And I saw and testified that he is the Son of God.
35, 36 The next day, John was still there, with two of his disciples; and when he saw Jesus
passing by, he said, "There is the Lamb of God.
37 When the two disciples heard him say these words, they followed Jesus.
38 Jesus turned and saw them following him, and said to them, "What are you looking for?
They said to him, "Rabbi," which means Master, "where are you staying?
39 He said to them, "Come and see. So they went and saw where he was staying, and stayed
with him that day. It was about the tenth hour.
40 Andrew, Simon Peter's brother, was one of the two who had heard John's words and
followed Jesus.
41 He was the first to meet his brother Simon, and he said to him, "We have found the
Messiah," which means Christ.
42 And he led him to Jesus. Jesus looked at him and said, "You are Simon, son of Jonah; you
shall be called Cephas, which means Peter.
43 The next day, when Jesus wanted to go to Galilee, he met Philip. He said to him, "Follow
me.
44 Philip was from Bethsaida, the town of Andrew and Peter.
45 Philip met Nathanael, and said to him, "We have found him of whom Moses wrote in the
law and the prophets spoke, Jesus of Nazareth, son of Joseph.
46 Nathanael said to him, "Can anything good come from Nazareth? Philip answered, "Come
and see.
47 When Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, he said of him, "This is truly an Israelite, in
whom there is no deceit.
48 "How do you know me?" said Nathanael. Jesus answered, "Before Philip called you, when
you were under the fig tree, I saw you.
49 Nathanael answered and said to him, "Rabbi, you are the Son of God, the King of Israel.
50 Jesus said to him, "Because I told you that I saw you under the fig tree, you believe; you
will see greater things than these.
51 And he said to him: Truly, truly, from now on you will see heaven opened and the angels
of God ascending and descending on the Son of Man.

Chapter 2
1, 2 Three days later, a wedding took place at Cana in Galilee. Jesus' mother was there, and
Jesus was also invited to the wedding with his disciples.
3 When the wine ran out, Jesus' mother said to him, "They have no more wine.
4 Jesus answered her, "Woman, what is there between me and you? My hour has not yet
come.
5 His mother said to the servants, "Do whatever he tells you.
6 Now there were six stone vessels there, for the purifications of the Jews, each containing
two or three measures.
7 Jesus said to them: Fill these vessels with water. And they filled them to the brim.
8 He said to them, "Draw from it now and take it to the man who ordered the meal. And
they did.
9, 10 When the steward of the feast had tasted the water turned into wine - he didn't know
where the wine came from, but the servants who had drawn the water did - he called the
bridegroom and said to him, "Everyone serves the good wine first, and then the not-so-good
wine after they've gotten drunk; but you've kept the good wine until now.
11 This was the first of Jesus' miracles at Cana in Galilee. He manifested his glory, and his
disciples believed in him.
12 After this, he went down to Capernaum with his mother, his brothers and his disciples,
and they stayed there only a few days.
13 The Passover of the Jews was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
14 In the temple he found the sellers of oxen, sheep and pigeons, and the moneychangers
seated.
15, 16 Having made a whip of cords, he drove them all out of the temple, along with the
sheep and oxen; he scattered the money changers' change, and overturned the tables; and
he said to the sellers of pigeons, "Take this away from here; do not make my Father's house
a house of traffic.
17 His disciples remembered that it is written: The zeal of your house consumes me.
18 The Jews answered and said to him, "What miracle do you show us, that you do this to
us?
19 Jesus answered them, "Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.
20 The Jews said, "It took forty-six years to build this temple, and you will raise it up in three
days!
21 But he was talking about the temple of his body.
22 Therefore, when he had risen from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said
this, and they believed the Scripture and the word that Jesus had spoken.
23 While Jesus was in Jerusalem at the Passover feast, many believed in his name, seeing the
miracles he did. 24 But Jesus did not trust them, because he knew them all, 25 and because
he did not need any man to testify to him; for he himself knew what was in man.

Chapter 3
1, 2 But there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews, who came
to Jesus by night and said to him, "Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher from God; for no
one can do these miracles that you do, unless God is with him.
3 Jesus answered and said to him, "Truly, truly, I say to you, unless a man is born again, he
cannot see the kingdom of God.
4 Nicodemus said to him: How can a man be born when he is old? Can he return to his
mother's womb and be born?
5 Jesus answered: Truly, truly, I say to you, unless a man is born of water and the Spirit, he
cannot enter the kingdom of God.
6 That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
7 Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again.
8 The wind blows where it wills, and you hear the sound of it; but you don't know where it
comes from or where it's going. So it is with everyone born of the Spirit.
9 Nicodemus said to him, "How can this be?
10 Jesus answered, "You are the teacher of Israel, and you do not know these things!
11 Truly, truly, I say to you, we speak what we know, and bear witness to what we have
seen; and you do not receive our testimony.
12 If you did not believe when I spoke to you about earthly things, how will you believe
when I speak to you about heavenly things?
13 No one has ascended into heaven but he who came down from heaven, the Son of man
who is in heaven.
14, 15 And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted
up, so that everyone who believes in him may have eternal life.
16 For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should
not perish but have eternal life.
17 For God did not send his Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world might
be saved through him.
18 He who believes in him is not judged; but he who does not believe is already judged,
because he has not believed in the name of the only-begotten Son of God.
19 And this judgment is that when light came into the world, men preferred darkness to
light, because their deeds were evil.
20, 21 For everyone who does evil hates the light, and does not come to the light, lest his
deeds be revealed; but he who does the truth comes to the light, so that his deeds may be
made manifest, because they are done in God.
22 After this, Jesus and his disciples went into the land of Judea, where he stayed with them
and baptized.
23 John also baptized at Enon, near Salim, because there was plenty of water there; and
people came there to be baptized.
24 For John had not yet been put in prison.
25 Now a dispute arose between John's disciples and a Jew about purification.
26 They came to John and said, "Rabbi, he who was with you beyond the Jordan, to whom
you gave testimony, behold, he is baptizing, and all are going to him.
27 John answered, "A man can only receive what has been given him from heaven.
28 You yourselves are my witnesses that I said, 'I am not the Christ, but I have been sent
before him.
29 The bridegroom is the one to whom the bride belongs; but the friend of the bridegroom,
who stands and hears her, rejoices greatly at the bridegroom's voice.
30 He must increase, and I must decrease.
31 He who comes from above is above all; he who is of the earth is of the earth, and he
speaks as one of the earth. He who comes from heaven is above all,
32 He bears witness to what he has seen and heard, and no one receives his testimony.
33 Whoever receives his testimony has certified that God is true;
34 for he whom God has sent speaks God's words, because God does not give him the Spirit
in measure.
35 The Father loves the Son, and has given all things into his hands.
36 He who believes in the Son has eternal life; he who does not believe in the Son will not
see life, but the wrath of God abides on him.

Chapter 4
1 The Lord knew that the Pharisees had heard that he was making and baptizing more
disciples than John.
2 However, Jesus did not baptize himself, but they were his disciples.
3 So he left Judea and returned to Galilee.
4, 5 As he had to pass through Samaria, he came to a town in Samaria called Sychar, near the
field Jacob had given to his son Joseph.
6 There was Jacob's well. Jesus, tired from his journey, was sitting by the well. It was about
the sixth hour.
7 A woman from Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, "Give me a drink.
8 For his disciples had gone into town to buy food.
9 The Samaritan woman said to him, "How can you, a Jew, ask me, a Samaritan woman, for a
drink? -For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans. 10 Jesus replied: "If you knew the gift of
God and who it is who is saying to you, 'Give me a drink! you yourself would have asked him
for a drink, and he would have given you living water.
11 "Lord," said the woman to him, "you have nothing to draw from, and the well is deep;
where would you get this living water from?
12 Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us this well and drank from it himself,
along with his sons and his flocks?
13 Jesus answered and said to him, "Whoever drinks of this water will still be thirsty;
14 but whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst, and the water I give him will
become in him a spring of water welling up into eternal life.
15 The woman said to him, "Lord, give me this water, so that I may never thirst again, nor
come here to draw.
16 Jesus said to her, "Go, call your husband and come here.
17 The woman answered, "I have no husband. Jesus said to her, "You were right to say, 'I
have no husband.
18 For you have had five husbands, and the one you have now is not your husband. In this
you have spoken the truth.
19 "Lord," said the woman, "I see that you are a prophet.
20 Our fathers worshipped on this mountain, and you say that the place to worship is in
Jerusalem.
21 "Woman," Jesus said to her, believe me, the hour is coming when you will neither
worship the Father on this mountain nor in Jerusalem.
22 You worship what you do not know; we worship what we do know, for salvation comes
from the Jews.
23 But the hour is coming, and has already come, when the true worshippers will worship
the Father in spirit and truth; for these are the worshippers the Father requires.
24 God is Spirit, and those who worship him must worship him in spirit and truth.
25 The woman said to him, "I know that the Messiah is coming, he who is called Christ; when
he comes, he will tell us all things.
26 Jesus said to her, "I am he who is speaking to you.
27 Then his disciples arrived, and they were amazed that he was talking to a woman. But
none of them said, "What are you asking?" or "What are you talking to her about?
28 Then the woman left her pitcher, went into the town and said to the people:
29 Come and see a man who has told me all that I have done; is it not Christ?
30 They went out of the city and came to him.
31 Meanwhile, the disciples urged him to eat, saying: Rabbi, eat.
32 But he said to them, "I have food to eat that you do not know.
33 So the disciples said to one another, "Has someone brought him something to eat?
34 Jesus said to them, "My food is to do the will of the one who sent me, and to accomplish
his work.
35 Don't you say that there are still four months to the harvest? Behold, I say to you, lift up
your eyes and see the fields already being made white for harvest.
36 He who reaps receives wages, and gathers fruit for eternal life, so that he who sows and
he who reaps may rejoice together.
37 For in this the saying is true: Another is he who sows, and another he who reaps. 38 I sent
you to reap what you did not work; others worked, and you entered into their work.
39 Many of the Samaritans in that town believed in Jesus because of the woman's clear
statement: "He has told me everything I have done.
40 So when the Samaritans came to him, they asked him to stay with them. And he stayed
there two days.
41 Many more believed because of his word;
42 And they said to the woman, "We no longer believe because of what you said; for we
have heard for ourselves, and we know that he is truly the Savior of the world.
43, 44 After these two days, Jesus set out from there for Galilee; for he himself had said that
a prophet is not honored in his own country.
45 When he arrived in Galilee, he was well received by the Galileans, who had seen all he
had done in Jerusalem during the feast; for they too had gone to the feast.
46 So he returned to Cana in Galilee, where he had turned water into wine. In Capernaum
there was an officer of the king, whose son was ill.
47 When he heard that Jesus had come from Judea to Galilee, he went to him and asked him
to come down and heal his son, who was near death.
48 Jesus said to him, "Unless you see miracles and wonders, you do not believe.
49 The king's officer said to him, "Lord, come down before my child dies.
50 Jesus said to him, "Go, your son lives. And the man believed the word Jesus had spoken
to him, and went his way.
51 As he was going down, his servants met him and brought him this news: Your child lives.
52 He asked them what time it was when he got better, and they told him, "Yesterday, at the
seventh hour, the fever left him.
53 The father recognized that it was at that hour that Jesus had said to him, "Your son lives".
And he believed, he and all his household.
54 Jesus performed this second miracle when he came from Judea to Galilee.

Chapter 5
1 After this, there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
2 Now in Jerusalem, near the sheep gate, there is a pool called Bethesda in Hebrew, which
has five porches.
3, 4 In these porticoes lay many sick, blind, lame and paralyzed people, waiting for the water
to move; for an angel went down into the pool from time to time and stirred the water; and
whoever went down first after the water had been stirred was healed, whatever his illness.
5 There was a man who had been sick for thirty-eight years.
6 When Jesus saw him lying there, and knew that he had been ill for a long time, he said to
him, "Do you want to be healed?
7 The sick man answered, "Lord, I have no one to throw me into the pool when the water is
rough, and while I'm going, someone else goes down before me.
8 Jesus said to him, "Get up, take up your bed and walk.
9 Immediately the man was healed; he took up his bed and walked. It was the Sabbath.
10 So the Jews said to the healed man, "It's the Sabbath; you're not allowed to take your bed
with you.
11 He answered them, "He who healed me said to me, 'Take up your bed and walk.
12 They asked him, "Who is the man who said to you, 'Take up your bed and walk'?
13 But he who had been healed did not know who it was; for Jesus had disappeared from
the crowd that was in that place.
14 Then Jesus found him in the temple and said to him, "Behold, you are healed; sin no
more, lest something worse happen to you.
15 The man went away and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had healed him.
16 The Jews therefore persecuted Jesus, because he did these things on the Sabbath.
17 But Jesus said to them, "My Father works until now; I also work.
18 Because of this, the Jews sought even more to put him to death, not only because he
broke the Sabbath, but because he called God his own Father, making himself equal with
God.
19 Then Jesus answered and said to them, "Truly, truly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing
of himself, but only what he sees the Father do; and whatever the Father does, the Son does
likewise.
20 For the Father loves the Son, and shows him everything he does; and he will show him
greater works than these, so that you may be amazed.
21 For as the Father raises the dead and gives life, so the Son gives life to whom he will.
22, 23 The Father judges no one, but has given all judgment to the Son, so that all may honor
the Son as they honor the Father. Whoever does not honor the Son does not honor the
Father who sent him.
24 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent
me, hath everlasting life, and cometh not into judgment, but is passed from death unto life.
25 Verily, verily, I say unto you, the hour cometh, and now is, when the dead shall hear the
voice of the Son of God; and they that hear shall live.
26 For as the Father has life in himself, so he has given the Son life in himself.
27 And he has given him authority to judge, because he is the Son of Man.
28, 29 Do not marvel at this, for the hour is coming when all who are in the tombs will hear
his voice and come out. Those who have done good will rise to life, but those who have done
evil will rise to judgment.
30 I can do nothing of myself: as I hear, so I judge; and my judgment is righteous, because I
seek not my own will, but the will of him who sent me.
31 If I testify of myself, my testimony is not true.
32 There is another who testifies about me, and I know that the testimony he gives about
me is true.
33 You sent to John, and he testified to the truth.
34 I do not receive testimony from a man, but I say this so that you may be saved.
35 John was the lamp that burns and shines, and you wanted to rejoice for an hour in his
light.
36 But I have a greater testimony than John; for the works the Father has given me to do,
the very works I do, bear witness that the Father sent me.
37, 38 And the Father who sent me has himself testified about me. You have never heard his
voice, you have not seen his face, and his word does not abide in you, because you do not
believe in him whom he sent.
39 You search the Scriptures because you think you have eternal life in them: they are the
ones who testify about me.
40 But you don't want to come to me to have life!
41 I don't get my glory from men.
42 But I know that you do not have the love of God in you.
43 I have come in my Father's name, and you do not receive me; if another comes in his own
name, you will receive him.
44 How can you believe, when you glory in one another and do not seek the glory that
comes from God alone?
45 Do not think that I will accuse you before the Father; he who accuses you is Moses, in
whom you have put your hope.
46 For if you believed Moses, you would also believe me, because he wrote of me.
47 But if you do not believe his writings, how will you believe my words?"

Chapter 6
1. After this, Jesus went away across the Sea of Galilee, from Tiberias.
2 A great crowd followed him, because they saw the miracles he performed on the sick. 3
Jesus went up the mountain and sat down with his disciples.
4 Now the Passover was near, the feast of the Jews.
5 When Jesus looked up and saw that a large crowd was coming to him, he said to Philip,
"Where shall we buy bread for these people to eat?
6 He said this to test him, for he knew what he was about to do.
7 Philip answered him, "The loaves we could get for two hundred denarii would not be
enough for everyone to have a little.
8, 9 One of his disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter's brother, said to him, "There is a boy here
who has five barley loaves and two fish; but what is this to so many people?
10 Jesus said, "Have them sit down. There was a lot of grass in that place. So they sat down,
about five thousand of them.
11 Jesus took the loaves, gave thanks and distributed them to those who were seated; he
also gave them as much fish as they wanted.
12 When they had eaten their fill, he said to his disciples, "Gather up the pieces that remain,
so that nothing is lost.
13 So they gathered them up and filled twelve baskets with the remaining pieces of the five
barley loaves, after everyone had eaten.
14 When they saw the miracle Jesus had done, they said, "This is truly the prophet who is to
come into the world.
15 And Jesus, knowing that they were coming to take him away and make him king,
withdrew again to the mountain by himself.
16 When evening came, his disciples went down to the seashore.
17 They got into a boat and crossed the sea to Capernaum. It was already dark, and Jesus
had not yet joined them.
18 There was a strong wind and the sea was rough.
19 When they had rowed about twenty-five or thirty furlongs, they saw Jesus walking on the
sea and approaching the boat. And they were afraid.
20 But Jesus said to them, "It's me; don't be afraid!
21 So they wanted to take him into the boat, and immediately the boat landed where they
were going.
22 The crowd on the other side of the sea had noticed that there was only one boat there,
and that Jesus had not got into the boat with his disciples, but had gone out alone.
23, 24 The next day, as other boats had arrived from Tiberias near the place where they had
eaten bread after the Lord had given thanks, the people in the crowd, having seen that
neither Jesus nor his disciples were there, got into these boats themselves and went to
Capernaum in search of Jesus.
25 When they found him beyond the sea, they said to him, "Rabbi, when did you come here?
26 Jesus answered, "Truly, truly, I say to you, you seek me, not because you saw miracles,
but because you ate bread and were filled.
27 Work, not for the food that perishes, but for the food that endures to eternal life, which
the Son of Man will give you; for it is he whom the Father, God has marked with his seal."
28 They said to him, "What must we do, to do the works of God?
29 Jesus answered them, "The work of God is that you believe in him whom he has sent.
30 They said to him, "What miracle then do you perform, that we may see it and believe in
you? What are you doing?
31 Our fathers ate manna in the desert, as it is written: He gave them the bread from heaven
to eat.
32, 33 Jesus said to them: Truly, truly, I say to you, Moses did not give you the bread of
heaven, but my Father gives you the true bread of heaven; for the bread of God is he who
comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.
34 They said to him, "Lord, give us this bread always.
35 Jesus said to them, "I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never hunger, and
whoever believes in me will never thirst.
36 But I tell you, you have seen me, and you do not believe.
37, 38 Everyone the Father gives me will come to me, and I will not cast out anyone who
comes to me; for I came down from heaven not to do my own will, but the will of the one
who sent me.
39 Now the will of him who sent me is that I should lose nothing of all he has given me, but
should raise it up at the last day.
40 It is my Father's will that everyone who sees the Son and believes in him should have
eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.
41 But the Jews murmured against him, because he had said, "I am the bread that came
down from heaven.
42 And they said, Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know?
How then does he say, 'I came down from heaven'?
43 Jesus answered them, "Do not murmur among yourselves.
44 No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him, and I will raise him up
on the last day.
45 It is written in the prophets: "They will all be taught by God. So everyone who has heard
the Father and received his teaching comes to me.
46 For no one has seen the Father except the one who comes from God; he has seen the
Father.
47 Truly, truly, I say to you, he who believes in me has eternal life.
48, 49 I am the bread of life. Your fathers ate manna in the desert and died. 50 This is the
bread that comes down from heaven, so that whoever eats it will not die.
51 I am the living bread which came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will
live forever; and the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the
world.
52 Thereupon the Jews disputed among themselves, saying: How can he give us his flesh to
eat?
53 Jesus said to them, "Truly, truly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man
and drink his blood, you have no life in yourselves.
54 He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the
last day.
55 For my flesh is food indeed, and my blood is drink indeed.
56 He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood abides in me, and I in him.
57 As the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father, so he who eats me will live
because of me.
58 This is the bread that came down from heaven. It is not like your fathers, who ate manna
and died: he who eats this bread will live forever.
59 Jesus said these things in the synagogue, teaching in Capernaum."
60 When several of his disciples heard him, they said, "This word is hard; who can listen to
it?
61 Jesus, knowing in himself that his disciples murmured at this, said to them, Does this
scandalize you?
62 What if you see the Son of Man ascending where he was before?
63 It is the spirit that gives life; the flesh is useless. The words I have spoken to you are spirit
and life.
64 But there are some among you who do not believe. For Jesus knew from the beginning
who those were who did not believe, and who it was who would betray him.
65 And he added: This is why I told you that no one can come to me unless it has been given
to him by the Father.
66 From that time, many of his disciples withdrew, and no longer went with him.
67 Jesus therefore said to the twelve, "Won't you also go away?
68 Simon Peter answered him, "Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal
life.
69 And we have believed and known that you are the Christ, the Holy One of God.
70 Jesus answered and said to them, "Didn't I choose you, the twelve? And one of you is a
demon!
71 He spoke of Judas Iscariot, son of Simon; for it was he who was to betray him, one of the
twelve.

Chapter 7
1 After this, Jesus went around Galilee, for he did not want to stay in Judea, because the
Jews were trying to put him to death.
2 Now the feast of the Jews, the Feast of Tabernacles, was near.
3 So his brothers said to him, "Leave here and go to Judea, so that your disciples may see the
works you are doing.
4 No one acts in secret, when he desires to appear: if you do these things, show yourself to
the world.
5 For neither did his brothers believe in him.
6 Jesus said to them, "My time has not yet come, but your time is always ready.
7 The world cannot hate you; but it hates me, because I testify that its works are evil.
8 You go up to this feast; I will not go up, because my time is not yet fulfilled.
9 When he had said this to them, he stayed in Galilee.
10 When his brothers had gone up to the feast, he himself went up, not publicly, but as if in
secret.
11 The Jews were looking for him during the feast, saying, "Where is he?
12 The crowd was full of rumors about him. Some said, "He's a good man. Others said, "No,
he's leading the crowd astray.
13 No one, however, spoke freely about him, for fear of the Jews.
14 About midway through the festival, Jesus went up to the temple. And he taught.
15 The Jews were astonished, saying, "How can he who has not studied the Scriptures know
them? 16 Jesus answered them, "My teaching is not mine, but his who sent me.
17 If any man will do his own will, he shall know whether my teaching is of God, or whether I
speak from my head.
18 He who speaks from his head seeks his own glory; but he who seeks the glory of him who
sent him, he is true, and there is no unrighteousness in him.
19 Did not Moses give you the law? And none of you keeps the law. Why do you seek to kill
me?
20 The crowd answered: "You have a demon. Who is it that seeks to kill you?
21 Jesus answered, "I have done a work, and you are all astonished.
22 Moses gave you circumcision-not that it comes from Moses, for it comes from the
patriarchs-and you circumcise a man on the Sabbath.
23 If a man receives circumcision on the Sabbath, so that the Law of Moses is not violated,
why are you angry with me that I healed a whole man on the Sabbath?
24 Judge not according to appearance, but judge according to righteousness.
25 Some of the people of Jerusalem said, "Is this not the man they seek to kill?
26 And behold, he speaks freely, and they say nothing to him! Would the rulers really have
recognized him as the Christ?
27 But we know where this one comes from; but when Christ comes, no one will know
where he comes from.
28 And Jesus, teaching in the temple, cried out, "You know me, and where I come from! I
have not come of myself: but he who sent me is true, and you do not know him.
29 I know him, for I come from him, and he sent me.
30 So they sought to seize him, but no one laid hands on him, because his hour had not yet
come.
31 But many of the crowd believed in him, saying: When Christ comes, will he do more
miracles than this one has done?
32 The Pharisees heard the crowd murmuring these things to him. So the chief priests and
Pharisees sent bailiffs to seize him.
33 Jesus said, "I am still with you for a little while, and then I am going to him who sent me.
34 You will seek me and not find me, and you cannot come where I am.
35 Whereupon the Jews said among themselves, "Where will he go that we do not find him?
Will he go among those scattered among the Greeks, and teach the Greeks?
36 What is the meaning of these words of his: You will seek me and not find me, and you
cannot come where I am?
37 On the last day, the great feast day, Jesus stood up and said, "If anyone is thirsty, let him
come to me and drink.
38 He who believes in me, rivers of living water will flow from his belly, as the Scripture says.
39 He said this of the Spirit which those who believed in him were to receive; for the Spirit
was not yet, because Jesus had not yet been glorified.
40 When some of the crowd heard these words, they said, "This is truly the prophet.
41 Others said, "This is the Christ. And others said, "Is it from Galilee that the Christ is to
come?
42 Doesn't Scripture say that Christ must come from the seed of David, and from the village
of Bethlehem, where David was?
43 So there was division among the crowd because of him.
44 Some of them wanted to seize him, but no one laid hands on him.
45 So the ushers returned to the chief priests and Pharisees. And they said to them: Why
didn't you bring him?
46 The bailiffs answered: No man has ever spoken like this man.
47 The Pharisees replied, "Have you also been seduced?
48 Did any of the rulers or Pharisees believe in him?
49 But this crowd, who know not the law, are accursed!
50 Nicodemus, who had come to Jesus by night and was one of them, said to them:
51 Does our law condemn a man before we hear him and know what he has done?
52 They said to him, "Are you also a Galilean? Examine, and you will see that no prophet
comes out of Galilee.
53 So each one went back to his house.

Chapter 8
1 Jesus went to the Mount of Olives.
2 But in the morning he went again into the temple, and all the people came to him. He sat
down and taught them.
3, 4 Then the scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman caught in adultery, and placing her
among the people, they said to Jesus, Master, this woman has been caught in the act of
adultery.
5 Moses in the law commanded us to stone such women: what sayest thou then?
6 They said this to test him, that they might accuse him. But Jesus, having stooped down,
wrote with his finger on the earth.
7 As they continued to question him, he stood up and said to them, He who is without sin
among you be the first to throw a stone at her.
8 And stooping down again, he wrote on the earth.
9 When they heard this, being accused by their conscience, they withdrew one by one, from
the oldest to the last; and Jesus was left alone with the woman who was there in the middle.
10 Then he rose up and saw no one but the woman, and Jesus said to her, Woman, where
are those who accused you? Has no one condemned you?
11 She said, No, Lord. And Jesus said unto him, Neither do I condemn thee: go, and sin no
more.
12 Jesus spake unto them again, and said, I am the light of the world; whoever follows me
will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.
13 Whereupon the Pharisees said unto him, Thou bearest witness of thyself; your testimony
is not true.
14 Jesus answered them, Although I bear witness of myself, my testimony is true, for I know
where I have come from and where I am going; but you don't know where I come from or
where I'm going.
15 You judge according to the flesh; I don't judge anyone.
16 And if I judge, my judgment is true, for I am not alone; but the Father who sent me is with
me.
17 It is written in your law that the testimony of two men is true;
18 I bear witness of myself, and the Father who sent me bears witness of me. 19 They said
therefore unto him, Where is thy Father? Jesus answered: You know neither me nor my
Father. If you knew me, you would also know my Father.
20 Jesus spoke these words, teaching in the temple, in the place where the treasure was;
and no one seized him, because his hour had not yet come.
21 Jesus said unto them again, I go, and ye shall seek me, and die in your sin; you cannot
come where I am going.
22 Whereupon the Jews said, Will he kill himself, seeing that he said, Where I am going, ye
cannot come?
23 And he said unto them, Ye are from below; I am from above. You are of this world; I am
not of this world.
24 Therefore I told you that you will die in your sins; for if you do not believe what I am, you
will die in your sins.
25 Who are you? they told him. Jesus answered them: This I have said to you from the
beginning. 26 I have many things to say about you and to judge in you; but he who sent me
is true, and what I have heard from him I speak to the world.
27 They did not understand that he was speaking to them about the Father.
28 Jesus therefore said unto them, When ye have lifted up the Son of man, then ye shall
know what I am, and that I do nothing of myself, but speak as the Father hath taught me.
29 He who sent me is with me; he didn't leave me alone, because I always do what pleases
him.
30 As Jesus spoke thus, many believed on him.
31, 32 And he said to the Jews who believed on him: If you continue in my word, you are
truly my disciples; you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.
33 They answered him, We are Abraham's seed, and were never slaves of any man; how do
you say: You will become free?
34 Truly, truly, I tell you, Jesus replied, whoever commits sin is the servant of sin.
35 Now the slave does not always remain in the house; the son still remains there.
36 If therefore the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed.
37 I know that you are Abraham's seed; but you seek to kill me, because my word does not
penetrate you.
38 I say what I saw with my Father; and you do what you heard from your father.
39 They answered him, Our father is Abraham. Jesus said to them: If you were children of
Abraham, you would do the works of Abraham.
40 But now you seek to kill me, who have 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 are not illegitimate children; we
have one Father, God.
42 Jesus said to them, If God were your Father, you would love me, for I came from God and
have come; I did not come of my own accord, but he sent me.
43 Why do you not understand my language? Because you cannot listen to my word.
44, 45 You are of your father the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was
a murderer from the beginning, and he does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth
in him. When he utters a lie, he speaks from his own source; for he is a liar and the father of
lies. And I, because I speak the truth, you do not believe me.
46 Which of you will convict me of sin? If I'm telling the truth, why don't you believe me?
47 He who is of God, hears the words of God; you do not listen, because you are not of God.
48 The Jews answered him, Are we not right in saying that you are a Samaritan, and that you
have a demon?
49 Jesus replied: I have no devil; but I honor my Father, and you insult me.
50 I do not seek my glory; there is one who seeks it and judges.”
51 Truly, truly, I tell you, if anyone keeps my word, he will never see death. 52 Now, the Jews
said to him, we know that you have a demon. Abraham is dead, and so are the prophets, and
you say: If anyone keeps my word, he will never see death. 53 Are you greater than our
father Abraham, who died? The prophets also died. Who do you pretend to be?
54, 55 Jesus answered: If I glorify myself, my glory is nothing. It is my Father who glorifies
me, he whom you say is your God, and whom you do not know. For me, I know him; and, if I
said that I did not know him, I would be like you, a liar. But I know him, and I keep his word.
56 Abraham your father rejoiced to see my day; he saw it and was glad.
57 The Jews said to him: You are not yet fifty years old, and you have seen Abraham!
58 Jesus said to them, Truly, truly, I say to you, before Abraham was, I am.
59 Thereupon they took stones to throw at him; but Jesus hid himself, and went out of the
temple.

Chapter 9
1 As Jesus passed by, he saw a man blind from birth.
2 His disciples asked him this question: Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he
was born blind?
3 Jesus answered, “It is not that he or his parents sinned; but it is so that the works of God
may be manifested in him.
4 I must do the works of him who sent me while it is day; night comes, when no one can
work.
5 While I am in the world, I am the light of the world.
6, 7 When he had said this, he spat on the ground, and made mud with his saliva. Then he
applied this mud to the eyes of the blind man, and said to him: Go and wash in the pool of
Siloam, the name which means sent. He went there, washed, and returned seeing clearly.
8 His neighbors and those who had previously known him as a beggar said, Is not this the
one who sat and begged?
9 Some said, It is he. Others said: No, but he looks like him. And he himself said: It’s me.
10 They said therefore unto him, How were thy eyes opened?
11 He said, The man called Jesus made mud, and anointed my eyes, and said unto me, Go to
the pool of Siloam, and wash. I went there, washed, and received my sight.
12 They said to him, Where is this man? He replied: I don't know.
13 They brought him who had been blind to the Pharisees.
14 Now it was on the Sabbath that Jesus made mud, and opened his eyes.
15 Again the Pharisees also asked him how he had received his sight. And he said to them:
He has put mud on my eyes, and I have washed, and I see.
16 Whereupon some of the Pharisees said, This man is not of God, for he keepeth not the
sabbath. Others said: How can a sinful man perform such miracles? And there was division
among them.
17 They said again to the blind man, “What do you say about him, because he opened your
eyes? He replied: He is a prophet.
18 The Jews did not believe that he had been blind and had received his sight until they had
brought his parents.
19 And they asked them, saying, Is this your son, whom you say was born blind? How then
does he see now?
20 His parents answered, We know that he is our son, and that he was born blind;
21 But how he sees now, or who opened his eyes, we do not know. Ask him himself, he is
old, he will talk about what concerns him.
22 His parents said this because they feared the Jews; for the Jews had already agreed that if
anyone recognized Jesus as the Christ, he would be excluded from the synagogue. 23
Therefore his parents said, He is old, ask him himself.
24 The Pharisees called the man who had been blind the second time, and said to him, Give
glory to God; we know that this man is a sinner.
25, 26 He said, Whether he is a sinner, I do not know; I know one thing, that I was blind and
now I see.They said to him, What has he done to you? How did he open your eyes?
27 He said to them, I have already told you, and you have not listened; why do you want to
hear it again? Do you also want to become his disciples?
28 They reviled him and said, You are his disciple; we are disciples of Moses.
29 We know that God spoke to Moses; but we don’t know where this one comes from.
30 The man said to them, “It is a wonder that you do not know where he is from; and yet he
opened my eyes.
31 We know that God does not hear sinners; but if anyone honors him and does his will, he
will do it.
32 No one ever heard of anyone opening the eyes of a man born blind.
33 If this man did not come from God, he could do nothing.
34 They answered him: You were born entirely in sin, and you teach us! And they chased him
away.
35 Jesus heard that they had driven him out; and having met him, he said to him: Do you
believe in the Son of God?
36 He said, And who is he, Lord, that I should believe in him?
37 You have seen him, Jesus said to him, and he is the one who speaks to you.
38 And he said: I believe, Lord. And he bowed down before him.”
39 Then Jesus said, I have come into this world for judgment, that those who cannot see may
see, and those who see may become blind.
40 When some of the Pharisees who were with him heard these words, they said to him, Are
we also blind?
41 Jesus answered them, If you were blind, you would have no sin. But now you say: We see.
This is why your sin remains.

Chapter 10
1 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that entereth not by the door into the sheepfold, but
climbeth in by the other way, is a thief and a robber.
2 But he who enters through the door is the shepherd of the sheep.
3 The doorkeeper opens the door to him, and the sheep hear his voice; he calls the sheep
that belong to him by name, and he leads them outside.
4 When he has brought out all his own sheep, he goes before them; and the sheep follow
him, because they know his voice.
5 They will not follow a stranger; but they will flee from him, because they do not know the
voice of strangers.
6 Jesus told them this parable, but they did not understand what he was talking about.
7 Jesus said again to them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, I am the door of the sheep.
8 All those who came before me are thieves and robbers; but the sheep did not listen to
them.
9 I am the door. If anyone enters through me, he will be saved; he will go in and out, and he
will find pasture.
10 The thief comes only to steal, to kill, and to destroy; I have come that the sheep may have
life and abundance.
11 I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep.
12 But the hireling, who is not the shepherd, and whose sheep are not his, sees the wolf
coming, leaves the sheep, and flees; and the wolf snatches them and scatters them.
13 The hireling flees, because he is a hireling, and does not care for the sheep.
14, 15 I am the good shepherd. I know my sheep, and they know me, as the Father knows
me and as I know the Father; and I lay down my life for my sheep.
16 I have also other sheep, which are not of this fold; I have to bring these; they will hear my
voice, and there will be one flock, one shepherd.
17 The Father loves me, because I lay down my life, that I might receive it again.
18 No one takes it from me, but I give it of myself; I have the power to give it, and I have the
power to take it back: such is the command that I received from my Father.
19 There was again division among the Jews because of these words.
20 Many of them said, He has a demon, he is mad; why are you listening to it?
21 Others said, These are not the words of one possessed by a demon; can a demon open
the eyes of the blind?
22 The Feast of Dedication was celebrated in Jerusalem. It was winter.
23 And Jesus was walking in the temple under Solomon's portico.
24 And the Jews surrounded him, and said unto him, How long wilt thou hold our spirit in
suspense? If you are the Christ, tell us frankly.
25 Jesus answered them, I have told you, and you do not believe. The works I do in my
Father’s name bear witness to me.
26 But you do not believe, because you are not of my sheep.
27 My sheep hear my voice; I know them, and they follow me.
28 I give them eternal life; and they will never perish, and no one will pluck them out of my
hand.
29 My Father, who gave them to me, is greater than all; and no one can pluck them out of
my Father's hand.
30 I and the Father are one.
31 Then the Jews again took stones to stone him.
32 Jesus said to them, I have shewed you many good works from my Father: for which one
do you stone me?
33 The Jews answered him, We are not stoning you for a good work, but for blasphemy, and
because you, being a man, make yourself God.
34 Jesus answered them, Is it not written in your law: I said, Are you gods?
35, 36 If she has called those to whom the word of God came gods, and the Scripture cannot
be destroyed, him whom the Father has sanctified and sent into the world, you say to him:
You blaspheme! And this because I said: I am the Son of God.
37 If I do not the works of my Father, do not believe me.
38 But if I do them, even if you do not believe me, believe these works, that you may know
and acknowledge that the Father is in me and I in the Father.
39 Thereupon they sought again to seize him, but he escaped from their hands.
40 Jesus went again beyond the Jordan to the place where John had first baptized. And he
remained there.
41, 42 Many people came to him, and they said, John has done no miracle; but everything
John said about this man was true. And many in that place believed in him.

Chapter 11
1 There was a sick man, Lazarus, from Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha.
2 It was this Mary who anointed the Lord with ointment and wiped his feet with her hair,
and it was her brother Lazarus who was sick.
3 The sisters sent to Jesus, saying, Lord, behold, he whom you love is sick.
4 When Jesus heard this, he said, This sickness is not unto death; but it is for the glory of
God, that the Son of God may be glorified through it.
5 Now Jesus loved Martha, and her sister, and Lazarus.
6, 7 When he therefore heard that Lazarus was sick, he remained two days more in the place
where he was, and then said to the disciples, Let us return to Judea.
8 The disciples said to him, Rabbi, the Jews recently sought to stone you, and you are
returning to Judea!
9, 10 answered: Are there not twelve hours in the day? If anyone walks during the day, he
does not stumble, because he sees the light of this world; but if anyone walks at night, he
stumbles, because the light is not in him.
11 After these words he said to them, Lazarus our friend sleeps; but I'm going to wake him
up.
12 The disciples said to him, Lord, if he sleeps, he will be healed.
13 Jesus spoke of his death, but they thought that he spoke of the drowsiness of sleep. 14
Then Jesus said unto them openly, Lazarus is dead.
15 And for your sake, that you may believe, I rejoice that I was not there. But let's go to him.
16 Whereupon Thomas, called Didymus, said to the other disciples, Let us go also, that we
may die with him.
17 When Jesus arrived, he found that Lazarus had been in the tomb for four days.
18, 19 And as Bethany was near Jerusalem, about fifteen furlongs away, many Jews came to
Martha and Mary, to console them for the death of their brother.
20 When Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went to meet him, while Mary sat at
home.
21 Martha said to Jesus, Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.
22 But even now I know that whatever you ask of God, God will do it for you.
23 Jesus said to him, Your brother will rise again.
24 I know, Martha answered, that he will rise again in the resurrection at the last day.
25, 26 Jesus said to him: I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me, even
though he were dead, will live; and whoever lives and believes in me will never die. Do you
believe this?
27 She said to him, Yes, Lord, I believe that you are the Christ, the Son of God, who was to
come into the world.
28 Having thus spoken, she departed. Then she secretly called Mary, her sister, and said to
her: The master is here, and he asks for you.
29 When Mary heard, she got up quickly and went to him.
30 For Jesus had not yet entered the village, but was in the place where Martha met him.
31 The Jews who were with Mary in the house and were comforting her, seeing her rise
quickly and go out, followed her, saying, She is going to the tomb to weep there.
32 When Mary came to where Jesus was, and saw him, she fell at his feet and said to him,
Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.
33 When Jesus saw her and the Jews who came with her weeping, he trembled in his spirit,
and was greatly moved.
34, 35 And he said: Where have you put it? Lord, they replied, come and see. Jesus wept. 36
Whereupon the Jews said, See how he loved him.
37 And some of them said, Could not He who opened the eyes of the blind man also cause
that this man should not die?
38 Jesus, trembling within himself again, went to the tomb. It was a cave, and a stone was
placed in front of it.
39 Jesus said: Take away the stone. Martha, the sister of the dead man, said to him: Lord, he
already smells, because he has been here four days.
40 Jesus said to him, Did I not tell you that if you believe you will see the glory of God?
41 So they took away the stone. And Jesus lifted up his eyes on high, and said: Father, I
thank you that you have heard me.
42 As for me, I knew that you always hear me; but I spoke because of the crowd around me,
that they might believe that it was you who sent me.
43 Having said this, he cried with a loud voice, Lazarus, come out!
44 And the dead man came out, his hands and feet bound with bands, and his face wrapped
in a cloth. Jesus said to them: Unbind him, and let him go.
45, 46 Many of the Jews who came to Mary, and saw what Jesus did, believed in him. But
some of them went to the Pharisees and told them what Jesus had done.
47 Then the chief priests and the Pharisees assembled the Sanhedrin, and said, What shall
we do? Because this man works many miracles.
48 If we let him, everyone will believe in him, and the Romans will come and destroy both
our city and our nation.
49, 50 One of them, Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, said to them: You understand
nothing; you do not reflect that it is in your interest that one man should die for the people,
and that the whole nation should not perish.
51 Now he does not say this of himself; but being high priest that year, he prophesied that
Jesus should die for the nation.
52 And it was not for the nation only; it was also in order to reunite in one body the
scattered children of God.
53 From that day they resolved to put him to death.
54 Therefore Jesus no longer appeared openly among the Jews; but he withdrew into the
region near the wilderness, to a city called Ephraim; and there he dwelt with his disciples.
55 The Jewish Passover was near. And many of the people of the land went up to Jerusalem
before the Passover, to purify themselves.
56 They sought Jesus, and said to one another in the temple, What do you think? Won't he
come to the party?
57 Now the chief priests and the Pharisees commanded, that if anyone knew where he was,
he should declare it, that they might seize him.

Chapter 12
1, 2 Six days before Passover, Jesus came to Bethany, where Lazarus was, whom he had
raised from the dead. There they made him a supper; Martha served, and Lazarus was one
of those who sat at table with him.
3 Mary, having taken a pound of pure nard perfume of great price, anointed Jesus' feet, and
wiped his feet with her hair; and the house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume. 4
One of his disciples, Judas Iscariot, son of Simon, the one who was to betray him, said:
5 "Why was not this perfume sold for three hundred denarii, to be given to the poor?" 6 He
said this, not because he felt sorry for the poor, but because he was a thief, and, holding the
purse, took what was put into it.
7 But Jesus said, "Let her keep this perfume for the day of my burial.
8 You always have the poor with you, but you don't always have me.
9 When a great multitude of Jews heard that Jesus was in Bethany, they came, not only
because of him, but also to see Lazarus, whom he had raised from the dead.
10, 11 Then the chief priests decided to kill Lazarus too, because many Jews had turned
away from them because of him, and believed in Jesus.
12, 13 The next day, when a large crowd of people who had come to the feast heard that
Jesus was on his way to Jerusalem, they took palm branches and went out to meet him,
shouting: Hosanna! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord, the King of Israel!
14, 15 Jesus found a colt and sat on it, as it is written: "Do not be afraid, daughter of Zion;
behold, your King is coming, sitting on the foal of a donkey.
16 His disciples did not at first understand these things; but when Jesus had been glorified,
they remembered that they were written of him, and that they had fulfilled them concerning
him. 17, 18 All who were with Jesus, when he called Lazarus out of the tomb and raised him
from the dead, bore witness to him; and the crowd came to meet him, because they had
heard that he had done this miracle.
19 The Pharisees therefore said to one another, "You see that you gain nothing; behold, the
world has gone after him.
20, 21 Then some of the Greeks who had gone up to worship at the feast came to Philip
from Bethsaida in Galilee, and said to him, "Lord, we would like to see Jesus.
22 Philip went and told Andrew, and Andrew and Philip told Jesus.
23 Jesus answered them, "The hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified.
24 Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a grain of wheat fall into the earth and die, it abideth
alone; but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit.
25, 26 He who loves his life will lose it, and he who hates his life in this world will keep it for
eternal life. If anyone serves me, let him follow me; and where I am, there shall my servant
be also. If anyone serves me, the Father will honor him.
27 Now my soul is troubled. And what shall I say? ... Father, deliver me from this hour? ...
But this is why I have come to this hour.
28 Father, glorify your name! And a voice came from heaven: I have glorified it, and I will
glorify it again. 29 The crowd who were there and had heard it said it was thunder. Others
said, "An angel spoke to him.
30, 31 Jesus said, "This voice was not heard for my sake, but for yours. Now is the judgment
of this world; now the prince of this world will be thrown out.
32 And I, when I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all men to myself.
33 When he spoke in this way, he was indicating the death from which he was to die.
34 The crowd answered him, "We have learned from the law that Christ abides forever; how
then do you say, 'The Son of Man must be lifted up'? Who is this Son of Man? 35 Jesus said
to them, "The light is still among you for a little while. Walk while you have the light, so that
the darkness does not overtake you: he who walks in darkness does not know where he is
going.
36 While you have the light, believe in the light, that you may be children of light. Jesus said
these things, then went away and hid himself from them.
37, 38 In spite of so many miracles he had done in their presence, they did not believe in
him, so that the word spoken by Isaiah the prophet might be fulfilled: Lord, who has
believed our preaching? And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?
39, 40 So they could not believe, because Isaiah also said: He has blinded their eyes and
hardened their hearts, lest they should see with their eyes, and understand with their
hearts, and be converted, and I should heal them.
41 Isaiah said these things when he saw his glory and spoke of him.
42 Nevertheless, even among the rulers, many believed in him; but because of the Pharisees,
they did not confess it, for fear of being excluded from the synagogue.
43 For they loved the glory of men more than the glory of God.
44, 45 But Jesus cried out, "He who believes in me believes, not in me, but in him who sent
me; and he who sees me sees him who sent me.
46 I have come as a light into the world, so that whoever believes in me should not remain in
darkness.
47 If anyone hears my words and does not keep them, it is not I who judge him; for I have
not come to judge the world, but to save the world.
48 He who rejects me and does not receive my words has his judge; the word I have spoken
will judge him on the last day.
49 For I have not spoken of myself, but the Father who sent me has commanded me what I
should say and proclaim.
50 And I know that his commandment is eternal life. Therefore the things I say, I say as the
Father has said them to me.

Chapter 13
1 Before the feast of Passover, Jesus, knowing that his hour had come to pass from this
world to the Father, and having loved his own who were in the world, made his love for
them complete.
2-4 At supper, when the devil had already inspired the heart of Judas Iscariot, son of Simon,
to betray him, Jesus, who knew that the Father had given all things into his hands, that he
had come from God and was going to God, rose from the table, took off his clothes, and took
a towel and girded himself with it.
5 Then he poured water into a basin, and began to wash the disciples' feet, and to wipe
them with the towel with which he was girded.
6 Then he came to Simon Peter, and Peter said to him, "Lord, you wash my feet!
7 Jesus replied, "You don't understand what I'm doing now, but you will soon.
8 Peter said to him, "No, you will never wash my feet. Jesus answered, "Unless I wash you,
you have no part with me.
9 Simon Peter said to him, "Lord, not only your feet, but also your hands and your head. 10
Jesus said to him, "He who is washed needs only to wash his feet to be completely clean;
and you are clean, but not all of you.
11 For he knew him who betrayed him; therefore he said, "You are not all clean.
12 When he had washed their feet and taken his clothes, he sat down again and said to
them, "Do you understand what I have done to you?
13 You call me Master and Lord; and you say well, for so I am.
14, 15 If I then, the Lord and Master, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one
another's feet; for I have given you an example, that you should do as I have done to you.
16 Truly, truly, I say to you, the servant is not greater than his lord, nor the apostle greater
than the one who sent him.
17 If you know these things, you are blessed, provided you practice them."
18 I am not speaking of all of you; I know those whom I have chosen. But the Scripture must
be fulfilled: He who eats bread with me has lifted up his heel against me.
19 I tell you this now, before it happens, so that when it does happen, you may believe in
what I am.
20 Truly, truly, I say to you, he who receives him whom I have sent receives me, and he who
receives me receives him who sent me.
21 When Jesus had said this, his spirit was troubled and he said, "Truly, truly, I say to you,
one of you will betray me.
22 The disciples looked at one another, not knowing of whom he spoke.
23 One of the disciples, the one Jesus loved, was lying on Jesus' bosom.
24 Simon Peter beckoned him to ask who it was Jesus was talking about.
25 The disciple bent over Jesus' breast and said, "Lord, who is this?
26 Jesus answered, "He is the one to whom I will give the dipped morsel. And having dipped
the morsel, he gave it to Judas, son of Simon the Iscariot.
27 As soon as the morsel was given, Satan entered Judas. Jesus said to him, "What you do,
do quickly.
28, 29 But none of those at the table understood why he said this to him; for some thought
that, as Judas had the purse, Jesus meant to say to him, Buy what we need for the feast, or
that he was commanding him to give something to the poor.
30 Judas took the morsel and hurried out. It was night.
31 When Judas had gone out, Jesus said: Now the Son of Man has been glorified, and God
has been glorified in him.
32 If God was glorified in him, God will also glorify him in himself, and he will glorify him
soon. 33 My little children, I am with you for a short time yet. You will seek me out; and as I
said to the Jews, "You cannot come where I am going," so I say to you now.
34 A new commandment I give you: Love one another; as I have loved you, so you also
should love one another.
35 By this all will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.
36 Simon Peter said to him, "Lord, where are you going? Jesus answered, "You cannot follow
me where I am going now, but you will follow me later.
37 "Lord," Peter said, "why can't I follow you now? I will lay down my life for you.
38 Jesus answered: You will lay down your life for me! Truly, truly, I say to you, the cock will
not crow until you have denied me three times.

Chapter 14
1 Let not your heart be troubled. Believe in God, and believe in me.
2 There are many mansions in my Father's house. If it were not so, I would have told you. I'm
going to prepare a place for you.
3 And when I have gone and prepared a place for you, I will come back and take you with
me, so that where I am, there you will be too.
4 You know where I'm going, and you know the way.
5 Thomas said to him, "Lord, we don't know where you're going; how can we know the way?
6 Jesus said to him: I am the way, the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except
through me.
7 If you knew me, you would know my Father too. And now you know him, and have seen
him.
8 Philip said to him, "Lord, show us the Father, and it will be enough for us.
9 Jesus said to him, "I have been with you so long, and yet you have not known me, Philip!
He who has seen me has seen the Father; how can you say: Show us the Father?
10 Don't you believe that I am in the Father, and that the Father is in me? The words I speak
to you, I do not speak of myself; and the Father who dwells in me, it is he who does the
works.
11 Believe me, I am in the Father, and the Father is in me; believe at least because of these
works.
12, 13 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do
also, and greater works than these shall he do, because I go to the Father; and whatsoever
ye shall ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.
14 If you ask anything in my name, I will do it.
15 If you love me, keep my commandments.
16, 17 And I will pray the Father, and he will give you another Comforter, that he may abide
with you forever, the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees
him nor knows him; but you know him, for he abides with you and will be in you.
18 I will not leave you orphans; I will come to you.
19 Yet a little while, and the world will see me no more; but you will see me, for I live, and
you too will live.
20 In that day you will know that I am in my Father, and you in me, and I in you.
21 He who has my commandments and keeps them is the one who loves me; and he who
loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and make myself known to him.
22 Jude, not the Iscariot, said to him, "Lord, why do you make yourself known to us and not
to the world?
23 Jesus answered him, "If anyone loves me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love
him, and we will come to him and make our home with him.
24 He who does not love me does not keep my words. And the word you hear is not from
me, but from the Father who sent me.
25 These things I have spoken to you while I dwell with you.
26 But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all
things, and bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you.
27 Peace I leave with you, my peace I give to you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Let
not your heart be troubled, neither let it be alarmed.
28 You have heard that I have said to you: I am going away, and I am coming back to you. If
you loved me, you would rejoice that I am going to the Father; for the Father is greater than
I. 29 And now I have told you these things before they happen, so that when they do
happen, you will believe.
30, 31 I will no longer speak much with you; for the prince of the world is coming. He has
nothing in me; but so that the world may know that I love the Father, and that I act
according to the order the Father has given me, get up, let's get out of here.

Chapter 15
1 I am the true vine, and my Father is the vinedresser.
2 Every branch in me that bears no fruit, he cuts off; and every branch that does bear fruit,
he prunes, that it may bear even more fruit.
3 Already you are pure, because of the word I have spoken to you.
4 Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, unless it remains
attached to the vine, so neither can you, unless you remain in me.
5 I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in me and I in him bears much fruit, for
without me you can do nothing.
6 If anyone does not abide in me, he is thrown out like a branch, and withers; then the
branches are gathered and thrown into the fire, and they burn.
7 If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask what you will, and it will be done for
you.
8 If you bear much fruit, my Father will be glorified, and you will be my disciples.
9 As the Father has loved me, so I have loved you. Abide in my love.
10 If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father's
commandments, and abide in his love.
11 These things I have spoken to you, that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be
complete.
12 This is my commandment to you: Love one another, as I have loved you.
13 Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
14 You are my friends, if you do what I command you.
15 I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know what his master is doing;
but I have called you friends, because I have made known to you all that I have learned from
my Father.
16 You have not chosen me, but I have chosen you and appointed you, that you may go and
bear fruit, and that your fruit may remain, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name,
he may give it to you.
17 What I command you is to love one another.
18 If the world hates you, know that it hated me before you.
19 If you were of the world, the world would love what is its own; but because you are not
of the world, and I have chosen you from among the world, for this reason the world hates
you.
20 Remember the word I said to you: The servant is not greater than his master. If they have
persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my word, they will also keep
yours.
21 But they will do all these things to you for my name's sake, because they do not know him
who sent me.
22 If I had not come and spoken to them, they would have no sin; but now they have no
excuse for their sin.
23 He who hates me, hates my Father too.
24 If I had not done works among them which no one else has done, they would have no sin;
but now they have seen them, and hated both me and my Father.
25 But this happened so that the word might be fulfilled which is written in their law: They
hated me without a cause.
26, 27 When the Comforter comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of
truth, who comes from the Father, he will testify about me; and you too will testify, because
you have been with me from the beginning.

Chapter16
1 I have told you these things, so that you will not fall.
2 They will exclude you from the synagogues, and the hour is coming when anyone who kills
you will think he is worshipping God.
3 And they will do so, because they know neither the Father nor me.
4 I have told you these things, so that when the time comes, you will remember that I told
you. I didn't tell you from the beginning, because I was with you.
5 Now I am going to him who sent me, and none of you asks me, "Where are you going?
6 But because I have told you these things, sadness has filled your hearts."
7 Yet I tell you the truth: it is to your advantage that I go away, for if I do not go away, the
Comforter will not come to you; but if I go away, I will send him to you.
8-11 And when he has come, he will convict the world of sin and of righteousness and of
judgment: of sin, because they do not believe in me; of righteousness, because I am going to
the Father, and you will see me no more; of judgment, because the prince of this world is
judged.
12 I still have many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now.
13 When the Comforter comes, the Spirit of truth, he will guide you into all truth; for he will
not speak of himself, but will speak everything he hears, and will tell you things to come.
14 He will glorify me, because he will take from what is mine and declare it to you.
15 All that the Father has is mine; that's why I said he will take from what is mine, and
declare it to you.
16 A little while longer, and you will see me no more; and then a little while longer, and you
will see me, for I am going to the Father.
17 Then some of his disciples said among themselves, "What does this mean, that he says to
us, 'Yet a little while, and you will see me no more; and then again a little while, and you will
see me? Because I am going to the Father?
18 So they said: What does it mean when he says: Yet a little while? We don't know what
he's talking about.
19 Jesus, knowing that they wanted to question him, said to them, "You question one
another about what I said, 'A little while longer, and you will see me no more'; and then, 'A
little while longer, and you will see me.
20 Verily, verily, I say unto you, Ye shall weep and lament, and the world shall rejoice: ye
shall mourn, but your mourning shall be turned into joy.
21 When a woman gives birth, she is sad, because her time has come; but when she has
given birth to a child, she remembers the pain no more, because she rejoices that a man has
been born into the world.
22 So now you too are sad; but I will see you again, and your heart will rejoice, and no one
will take away your joy.
23 In that day, you will no longer question me about anything. Truly, truly, I say to you,
whatever you ask the Father, he will give you in my name.
24 Hitherto you have asked nothing in my name. Ask, and you shall receive, that your joy
may be full.
25 These things I have spoken to you in parables. The hour is coming when I will no longer
speak to you in parables, but will speak to you openly about the Father.
26, 27 In that day you will ask in my name, and I do not tell you that I will pray to the Father
for you; for the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me, and have believed that
I came forth from God.
28 I came forth from the Father and came into the world; now I leave the world and go to
the Father.
29 His disciples said to him: Behold, now you speak openly, and use no parables.
30 Now we know that you know all things, and that you do not need anyone to ask you
questions; that is why we believe that you came from God.
31 Jesus answered and said to them, "Now you believe.
32 Behold, the hour is coming, and has already come, when you will be scattered, each to his
own way, and leave me alone; but I am not alone, for the Father is with me.
33 These things I have spoken to you, that in me you may have peace. You will have
tribulations in the world; but be of good cheer, for I have overcome the world.

Chapter 17
1, 2 When Jesus had spoken these words, he raised his eyes to heaven and said, "Father, the
hour has come! Glorify your Son, that your Son may glorify you, according as you have given
him power over all flesh, that he may grant eternal life to all whom you have given him.
3 Eternal life is that they should know you, the only true God, and him whom you have sent,
Jesus Christ.
4 I have glorified you on earth; I have finished the work you gave me to do.
5 And now, Father, glorify me with yourself with the glory I had with you before the world
was.
6 I made your name known to the men you gave me out of the world. They were yours, and
you gave them to me; and they have kept your word.
7 Now they know that everything you have given me is from you.
8 For I have given them the words you gave me; and they have received them, and have
truly known that I came forth from you, and have believed that you sent me.
9, 10 I pray for them. I do not pray for the world, but for those you have given me, because
they are yours; and everything that is mine is yours, and what is yours is mine, and I am
glorified in them.
11 I am no longer in the world, and they are in the world, and I am going to you. Holy Father,
keep in your name those you have given me, so that they may be one like us.
12 When I was with them in the world, I kept them in your name. I kept those you gave me,
and not one of them was lost, except the son of perdition, so that the Scripture might be
fulfilled.
13 And now I go to you, and say these things in the world, that they may have my perfect joy
in them.
14 I have given them your word; and the world has hated them, because they are not of the
world, as I am not of the world.
15 I don't ask you to take them out of the world, but to keep them from evil.
16 They are not of the world, as I am not of the world.
17 Sanctify them by your truth: your word is truth.
18 As you sent me into the world, so I have sent them into the world.
19 And I sanctify myself for their sake, so that they too may be sanctified by the truth.
20, 21 I do not pray for them alone, but also for those who will believe in me through their
word, so that they may all be one, just as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, so that they
too may be one in us, so that the world may believe that you sent me.
22, 23 I have given them the glory that you have given me, so that they may be one, just as
we are one, I in them and you in me-so that they may be perfectly one, and the world may
know that you sent me and loved them as you loved me.
24 Father, I want those you have given me to be with me where I am, so that they may see
my glory, the glory you have given me, because you loved me before the foundation of the
world.
25 Righteous Father, the world has not known you; but I have known you, and these have
known that you have sent me.
26 I have made your name known to them, and I will make it known to them, so that the
love with which you loved me may be in them, and I in them.

Chapter 18
1 When he had said these things, Jesus went with his disciples to the other side of the brook
Kidron, where there was a garden into which he and his disciples entered.
2 Judas, who betrayed him, knew the place, because Jesus and his disciples had often met
there.
3 Judas therefore, having taken the cohort, and bailiffs sent by the chief priests and
Pharisees, came there with lanterns, torches and weapons.
4 Jesus, knowing all that was about to happen to him, came forward and said to them, "Who
are you looking for?
5 They answered him: Jesus of Nazareth. Jesus said to them, "It's me. And Judas, who
betrayed him, was with them.
6 When Jesus said to them, "I am he," they turned back and fell to the ground.
7 He asked them again, "Who are you looking for? And they said: Jesus of Nazareth.
8 Jesus answered, "I told you it's me. If you are looking for me, let these go.
9 This he said, that the word might be fulfilled which he had spoken: "I have lost none of
those whom you have given me.
10 Simon Peter, who had a sword, drew it and struck the high priest's servant, cutting off his
right ear. The servant's name was Malchus.
11 Jesus said to Peter: Put your sword back in its sheath. Shall I not drink the cup which the
Father has given me to drink?
12 Then the cohort, the tribune and the officers of the Jews seized Jesus and bound him.
13 They took him first to Annas; for he was the father-in-law of Caiaphas, who was high
priest that year.
14 And Caiaphas was the one who had given this advice to the Jews: It is advantageous for
one man to die for the people.
15, 16 Simon Peter and another disciple followed Jesus. This disciple was known to the high
priest, and he entered with Jesus into the high priest's courtyard; but Peter remained
outside by the gate. The other disciple, who was known to the high priest, went out, spoke
to the doorkeeper and let Peter in.
17 Then the maid said to Peter, "Aren't you one of this man's disciples? He said, "I am not.
18 The servants and ushers who were there had lit a brazier, for it was cold, and they were
warming themselves. Peter stood with them, warming himself.
19 The high priest asked Jesus about his disciples and his teaching.
20 Jesus answered, "I have spoken openly to the world; I have always taught in the
synagogue and in the temple, where all the Jews assemble, and I have said nothing in secret.
21 Why do you question me? Ask those who have heard me about what I have told them;
behold, they know what I have said.
22 At these words, one of the ushers who was standing by slapped Jesus on the wrist, saying,
"Is this how you answer the high priest?
23 Jesus said to him, "If I have spoken wrongly, show what I have said wrongly; and if I have
spoken rightly, why do you strike me?
24 So Annas sent him bound to Caiaphas, the high priest.
25 Simon Peter was there warming himself. They said to him, "Aren't you also one of his
disciples? He denied it, saying, "I am not.
26 One of the servants of the high priest, a relative of the man whose ear Peter had cut off,
said, "Didn't I see you with him in the garden?
27 Peter denied it again. And immediately the cock crowed.
28 They led Jesus from Caiaphas to the Praetorium: it was morning. They did not enter the
Praetorium themselves, so as not to defile themselves and eat the Passover.
29 Pilate went out to them and said, "What accusation do you bring against this man?
30 They said to him, "If he were not an evildoer, we would not have handed him over to you.
31 Pilate said to them, "Take him yourselves and judge him according to your law. The Jews
said to him, "It is not lawful for us to put anyone to death.
32 This was to fulfill the word that Jesus had spoken, when he indicated what death he
should die.
33 Pilate returned to the Praetorium, called Jesus and said to him: Are you the King of the
Jews?
34 Jesus answered, "Do you say this about yourself, or have others told you about me?
35 Pilate answered, "Am I a Jew? Your nation and the chief priests handed you over to me:
what have you done?
36 Jesus answered, "My kingdom is not of this world. If my kingdom were of this world, my
servants would have fought for me so that I wouldn't be handed over to the Jews; but now
my kingdom is not from here.
37 Pilate said to him, "Are you a king then? Jesus answered, "As you say, I am a king. I was
born and came into the world to bear witness to the truth. Whoever is of the truth listens to
my voice.
38 Pilate said to him: What is truth? When he had said this, he went out again to the Jews,
and said to them, "I find no crime in him.
39 But since it is customary among you for me to release someone to you at Passover, do
you want me to release to you the King of the Jews?
40 Then they all cried out again, "Not he, but Barabbas”. Now, Barabbas was a robber.

Chapter 19
1 Then Pilate took Jesus and scourged him.
2, 3 The soldiers braided a crown of thorns and put it on his head, and clothed him in a
purple robe. They came up to him and said, "Hail, King of the Jews! And they slapped him on
the wrist.
4 Pilate went out again and said to the Jews: Behold, I bring him out to you, that you may
know that I find no crime in him.
5 So Jesus went out, wearing a crown of thorns and a purple robe. And Pilate said to them,
"Here is the man.
6 When the chief priests and the ushers saw him, they cried out, "Crucify him! crucify him!
Pilate said to them, "Take him yourselves and crucify him; for I find no crime in him.
7 The Jews answered him, "We have a law, and according to our law he must die, because he
made himself the Son of God.
8 When Pilate heard this, his fear increased.
9 He went back into the Praetorium and said to Jesus, "Where are you from? But Jesus gave
him no answer.
10 Pilate said to him, "Are you not speaking to me? Don't you know that I have the power to
crucify you, and that I have the power to release you?
11 Jesus answered, "You would have no power over me unless it had been given to you from
above. Therefore whoever hands me over to you commits a greater sin.
12 From that moment, Pilate tried to release him. But the Jews cried out: "If you release
him, you are no friend of Caesar. Whoever makes himself king declares himself against
Caesar.
13 When Pilate heard these words, he took Jesus outside and sat down on the bench in a
place called the Pavement, or Gabbatha in Hebrew.
14 It was the preparation for Passover, and about the sixth hour. Pilate said to the Jews:
Here is your king.
15 But they cried out, "Take him away, crucify him! Pilate said to them, "Shall I crucify your
King? The chief priests answered, "We have no king but Caesar.
16 So he handed him over to them to be crucified. So they took Jesus and led him away.
17 Carrying his cross, Jesus came to the place of the skull, which in Hebrew is called
Golgotha.
18 There he was crucified, and two others with him, one on each side, with Jesus in the
middle.
19 Pilate made an inscription and placed it on the cross, which read: Jesus of Nazareth, King
of the Jews.
20 Many Jews read this inscription, because the place where Jesus was crucified was near
the city: it was in Hebrew, Greek and Latin.
21 The chief priests of the Jews said to Pilate: Do not write: King of the Jews. But write that
he said, I am King of the Jews.
22 Pilate replied, "What I have written, I have written.
23 When the soldiers had crucified Jesus, they took his garments and divided them into four
parts, one for each soldier. They also took his tunic, which was seamless from top to bottom.
24 And they said among themselves, "Let's not tear it, but cast lots to see whose it will be.
This was done to fulfill the words of Scripture: They divided my garments among themselves,
and cast lots for my tunic. This is what the soldiers did.
25 Near Jesus' cross stood his mother and his mother's sister, Mary, the wife of Clopas, and
Mary of Magdala.
26 When Jesus saw his mother and the disciple he loved standing by her, he said to his
mother, "Woman, this is your son.
27 Then he said to the disciple, "Here is your mother. From that moment, the disciple took
her into his home.
28 After this, Jesus, who knew that all was already consummated, said, so that the Scripture
might be fulfilled: I am thirsty.
29 There was a jar full of vinegar. The soldiers filled a sponge with it, attached it to a branch
of hyssop and put it to his mouth.
30 When Jesus had taken the vinegar, he said, "It is finished. And bowing his head, he gave
up the ghost.
31 Fearing that the bodies would remain on the cross on the Sabbath - for it was the
preparation day, and the Sabbath was a great day - the Jews asked Pilate to have the legs of
those crucified broken and removed.
32 So the soldiers came and broke the legs of the first, and then of the other who had been
crucified with him.
33 But when they came to Jesus and saw that he was already dead, they did not break his
legs;
34 But one of the soldiers pierced his side with a spear, and immediately blood and water
came out.
35 He who saw him testified, and his testimony is true; and he knows that he speaks the
truth, so that you too may believe.
36 These things are come to pass, that the scripture might be fulfilled, saying, Not one of his
bones shall be broken. 37 And elsewhere the Scripture says: They will see him whom they
have pierced.
38 After this, Joseph of Arimathea, who was a disciple of Jesus, but secretly for fear of the
Jews, asked Pilate for permission to take Jesus' body. And Pilate gave him permission. So he
came and took Jesus' body.
39 Nicodemus, who had previously gone to Jesus by night, also came, bringing a mixture of
about a hundred pounds of myrrh and aloes.
40 So they took the body of Jesus and wrapped it in linen cloths with the spices, as was the
custom for burial among the Jews.
41 Now there was a garden in the place where Jesus had been crucified, and in the garden a
new tomb, where no one had yet been laid.
42 This was where they laid Jesus, because of the Jews' preparation, for the tomb was near.

Chapter 20
1 On the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene went to the tomb early in the morning,
while it was still dark, and saw that the stone had been removed from the tomb.
2 She ran to Simon Peter and the other disciple whom Jesus loved, and said to them, "They
have taken the Lord out of the tomb, and we do not know where they have put him.
3 So Peter and the other disciple went out to the tomb.
4, 5 They both ran together. But the other disciple ran faster than Peter, and reached the
tomb first; bending down, he saw the bands on the ground, yet he did not enter them.
6, 7 Simon Peter, who was following him, came and entered the tomb; he saw the linen
cloths on the ground and the cloth that had been put on Jesus' head, not with the linen
cloths, but folded in a separate place.
8 Then the other disciple, who had first come to the tomb, also went in; and he saw and
believed. 9 For they did not yet understand that, according to Scripture, Jesus had to rise
from the dead.
10 And the disciples returned to their homes.
11, 12 But Mary stood outside the tomb, weeping. As she wept, she stooped down to look
into the tomb, and saw two angels dressed in white, sitting where Jesus' body had lain, one
at the head, the other at the feet.
13 They said to her, "Woman, why are you weeping? She answered them, "Because they
have taken away my Lord, and I do not know where they have laid him.
14 When she said this, she turned around and saw Jesus standing there; but she didn't know
it was Jesus.
15 Jesus said to her, "Woman, why are you weeping? Who are you looking for? Thinking it
was the gardener, she said to him, "Lord, if you took him away, tell me where you put him,
and I'll take him.
16 Jesus said to her, "Mary! She turned and said to him in Hebrew: Rabboni! That is, Master!
17 Jesus said to her, "Do not touch me, for I have not yet ascended to my Father. But go to
my brothers and tell them that I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and
your God.
18 Mary Magdalene went and told the disciples that she had seen the Lord, and that he had
said these things to her.
19 On the evening of that day, which was the first day of the week, when the doors of the
place where the disciples were were closed for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood
among them and said to them, "Peace be with you!
20 And when he had said this, he showed them his hands and his side. The disciples rejoiced
when they saw the Lord.
21 Jesus said to them again, "Peace be with you! As the Father has sent me, so I send you.
22 When he had said this, he breathed on them and said, "Receive the Holy Spirit.
23 Whose sins you forgive, they are forgiven; and whose sins you retain, they are retained.
24 Thomas, called Didymus, one of the twelve, was not with them when Jesus came.
25 So the other disciples said to him: We have seen the Lord. But he said to them, "Unless I
see the mark of the nails in his hands, and put my finger in the mark of the nails, and put my
hand in his side, I will not believe.
26 Eight days later, Jesus' disciples were again in the house, and Thomas was with them.
When the doors were shut, Jesus came and stood among them, saying, "Peace be with you!
27 Then he said to Thomas, "Put your finger here, and look at my hands; put your hand here,
too, and put it in my side; and do not disbelieve, but believe.
28 Thomas answered him, "My Lord and my God!
29 Jesus said to him, "Because you have seen me, you have believed. Blessed are those who
have not seen and yet have believed!
30 Jesus did many other miracles in the presence of his disciples, which are not written in
this book.
31 But these things have been written so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the
Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name.

Chapter 21
1 After this, Jesus showed himself again to the disciples by the Sea of Tiberias. And this is
how he showed himself.
2 Simon Peter, Thomas called Didymus, Nathanael of Cana in Galilee, the sons of Zebedee,
and two other disciples of Jesus were together.
3 Simon Peter said to them, "I'm going fishing. They said to him, "We'll go with you too. So
they went out and got into a boat, and that night they caught nothing.
4 When morning came, Jesus was on the shore, but the disciples didn't know it was Jesus.
5 Jesus said to them, "Children, have you nothing to eat? They answered him, "No.
6 He said to them, "Cast the net over the right side of the boat and you will find it. So they
cast it out, and could not pull it in because of the great quantity of fish.
7 Then the disciple whom Jesus loved said to Peter, "It's the Lord! As soon as Simon Peter
heard that it was the Lord, he put on his robe and girdle, for he was naked, and threw
himself into the sea.
8 The other disciples came with the boat, pulling in the net full of fish, for they were only
about two hundred cubits from land.
9 When they came ashore, they saw coals burning there, fish on them, and bread.
10 Jesus said to them, "Bring some of the fish you have just caught.
11 Simon Peter got into the boat and drew the net ashore, full of one hundred and fifty-
three large fish; and though there were so many, the net did not break.
12 Jesus said to them, "Come and eat. But none of the disciples dared ask him, "Who are
you?" knowing that it was the Lord.
13 But Jesus came and took the bread and gave it to them, and did the same with the fish.
14 This was the third time Jesus had shown himself to his disciples since he had risen from
the dead.
15 When they had eaten, Jesus said to Simon Peter, "Simon, son of Jonah, do you love me
more than these? He answered: Yes, Lord, you know that I love you. Jesus said to him, "Feed
my lambs.
16 He said to him a second time, "Simon, son of Jonah, do you love me? Peter answered,
"Yes, Lord, you know I love you. Jesus said to him, "Feed my sheep.
17 He said to him the third time, "Simon, son of Jonah, do you love me? Peter was saddened
when he said to him the third time, "Do you love me? And he answered: Lord, you know all
things, you know that I love you. Jesus said to him: Feed my sheep.
18 Truly, truly, I say to you, when you were younger, you girded yourself and went wherever
you wanted; but when you are old, you will stretch out your hands, and someone else will
gird you and lead you wherever you don't want to go.
19 He said this to show by what death Peter would glorify God. And when he had said this,
he said to him, "Follow me.
20 Peter turned around and saw the disciple whom Jesus loved coming after them, the one
who had leaned over Jesus' breast at supper and said, "Lord, who is this who betrays you?
21 When Peter saw him, he said to Jesus, "And this one, Lord, what will happen to him?
22 Jesus said to him, "If I want him to stay until I come, what do you care? You follow me.
23 It was rumored among the brothers that this disciple would not die. But Jesus had not
said to Peter that he would not die, but, "If I want him to stay until I come, what do you
care?
24 It is this disciple who testifies to these things, and wrote them down. And we know that
his testimony is true.
25 Jesus did many other things; if they were written down in detail, I don't think the world
could contain the books that would be written.