Modern Literal Version
[John 1]


    {This Good-news is a ‘fill in the blanks’ after the other Good-news books were written. It goes into great detail of Jesus’ life the week of the crucifixion, Jn 12+.}

     1:1 In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God. 1:2 The same was in the beginning with God. 1:3 All things were made through him, and without him nothing was made that has been made. 1:4 In him was life, and the life was the light of men. 1:5 And the light is appearing in the darkness, and the darkness did not {F} overtake it.

     1:6 It happened that a man came, having been sent from God and his name was John. 1:7 The same came to be a witness, that* he might testify concerning the light, that* all might believe through him. 1:8 He was not the light, but came that* he might testify concerning the light. 1:9 There was the true light, the light which illuminates every man, coming into the world. 1:10 He was in the world and the world was made through him and the world did not know him. 1:11 He came to his own and those who were his own did not receive him. 1:12 But as many as received him, he gave the authority to become children of God to them, to those who believe in his name, 1:13 who were born, not from bloods, nor from the will of the flesh, nor from the will of man, but from God. 1:14 And the Word became flesh and resided among us (and we saw his glory, glory like that of the only begotten from the Father), full of grace and truth. 1:15 John testifies concerning him and cries, saying, This was he of whom I spoke, He who is coming after me has become in front of me, because he was before me. 1:16 And we all received out of his fullness and grace in exchange-for grace. 1:17 Because the law was given through Moses; the grace and the truth came through Jesus Christ. 1:18 No one has seen God at anytime; the only begotten Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, he has described him.


     1:19 And this is the testimony of John, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem that* they might ask him, Who are you?

     1:20 And he confessed and did not deny, and he confessed, I am not the Christ.

     1:21 And they asked him, Then* what? Are you Elijah? And he says, I am not. Are you the prophet?

     And he answered, No.

     1:22 Therefore they said to him, Who are you? That* we might give an answer to those who sent us. What do you say of yourself?

     1:23 He said, I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness. Make straight the way of the Lord, as said Isaiah the prophet.

     1:24 And those who had been sent, were from the Pharisees. 1:25 And they asked him and said to him, Then* why do you immerse*, if you are not the Christ, neither Elijah, nor the prophet?

     1:26 John answered them, saying, I immerse* in water but one stands in your* midst whom you* do not know. 1:27 It is he who is coming after me, who was in front of me. I am not worthy that* I should loose the strap of his shoes. 1:28 These things happened in Bethany on the other side of the Jordan, where John was immersing*.


     1:29 On the next-day he sees Jesus coming to him and says, See there, the Lamb of God, who is taking away the sin of the world! 1:30 This is he concerning whom I said, After me is coming a man who was born in front of me, because he was first; then me. 1:31 And I did not know him; but that* he should be manifested to Israel, I came immersing* in water because of this. 1:32 And John testified, saying, I have seen the Spirit coming down like a dove from heaven, and it remained upon him. 1:33 And I did not know him; but he who sent me to immerse* in water, he said to me, Upon whomever you see the Spirit coming down and abiding upon him, this one is he who immerses* in the Holy Spirit. 1:34 And I have seen and have testified that this is the Son of God.


     1:35 Again on the next-day John was standing and he was with two out of his disciples; 1:36 and looking at Jesus walking and says, Behold, the Lamb of God! 1:37 And the two disciples heard him speak and they followed Jesus. 1:38 And Jesus, having turned, saw them following and says to them, What are you* seeking?

     And they said to him, Rabbi (which is to say, after being translated, Teacher), where do you abide?

     1:39 He says to them, Come and see.

     They went and saw where he abode, and they remained with him that day. It was about the tenth hour. 1:40 One out of the two who heard this from John, was Andrew, Simon Peter's brother and he followed him. 1:41 He finds first his own brother Simon and says to him, We have found the Messiah (which is, after being translated, The Christ). 1:42 And he led him to Jesus. And Jesus looked on him and said, You are Simon, the Son of Jonah, you will be called Cephas, which is by translation, a Pebble.


     1:43 On the next-day, he wished to go out into Galilee and he finds Philip and Jesus says to him, Follow me.

     1:44 Now Philip was from Bethsaida, from the city of Andrew and Peter. 1:45 Philip finds Nathanael and says to him, We have found him, of whom Moses in the law and the prophets wrote, Jesus the Nazarene, the son of Joseph.

     1:46 And Nathanael said to him, Can there be any good thing coming out of Nazareth?

     Philip says to him, Come and see.

     1:47 Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him and says about him, Behold, truly an Israelite in whom there is no treachery!

     1:48 Nathanael says to him, From where do you know me?

     Jesus answered and said to him, Before Philip summoned you, I saw you when you were under the fig tree.

     1:49 Nathanael answered and says to him, Rabbi, you are the Son of God; you are the King of Israel.

     1:50 Jesus answered and said to him, Is it because I said to you, I saw you underneath the fig tree that you believe? You will see greater things than these. 1:51 And he says to him, Assuredly, assuredly, I say to you*, From now on, you* will see the heaven opened and the messengers of God ascending and coming down upon the Son of Man.


    {Footnotes: Please read the Preface. * is our universal footnoting for words contained in the Appendix. These words are NOT the same Greek word as the non-asterisk form; i.e. *for is different from for* is different from for. Jn 1:5- Or: comprehend.}


[John 2]


     2:1 And in the third day there was a marriage in Cana of Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there; 2:2 and Jesus was also invited to the marriage and his disciples. 2:3 And falling-short of wine, the mother of Jesus says to him, They have no wine.

     2:4 Jesus says to her, What is this to me and you, woman? My hour does not come yet.

     2:5 His mother says to the servants, Whatever he says to you*, do it. 2:6 Now six stone water pots were standing there according to the Jews' cleansing, making room for two or three nine-gallons measures apiece.

     2:7 Jesus says to them, Fill the water pots with water. And they filled them to the top. 2:8 And he says to them, Dip-out some now and carry it to the chief waiter.

     And they carried it. 2:9 And as the chief waiter tasted the water that had become wine and did not know where it is from (but the servants that had dipped-out the water knew), the chief waiter summons the bridegroom, 2:10 and says to him, Every man first places the good wine on the table, and whenever they are drunken, then the inferior but you have kept the good wine until now. 2:11 This was the beginning of the signs which Jesus did in Cana of Galilee and manifested his glory, and his disciples believed in him.


     2:12 After this, he went down to Capernaum, he and his mother and his brethren and his disciples, and they did not abide there many days.


     2:13 And the Passover of the Jews was near and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. 2:14 And he found in the temple those who sold bulls and sheep and doves and the money-changers sitting. 2:15 And he made* a scourge from ropes and cast all out of the temple, both the sheep and the bulls, and he poured out the coinage of the brokers and turned over their tables; 2:16 and to those selling the doves he said, Take these things from here. Do not make* my Father's house a house of merchandise.

     2:17 And his disciples remembered that it is written, ‘Zeal of your house will eat me up.’ {Ps. 69:9}

     2:18 Therefore the Jews answered and said to him, What sign are you showing to us? Why is it that you are doing these things?

     2:19 Jesus answered and said to them, Tear-down this temple and I will lift it up in three days.

     2:20 Therefore the Jews said, This temple was forty-six years in building and you will lift it up in three days? 2:21 But he spoke about the temple of his body. 2:22 Therefore when he arose from the dead, his disciples remembered that he spoke this, and they believed the Scripture and the word which Jesus had said.


     2:23 Now when he was in Jerusalem at the Passover, many believed in his name at the feast, viewing his signs which he was doing. 2:24 But Jesus did not trust himself to them, because of his knowledge of all men, 2:25 and because he had no need that* anyone should testify concerning man; for* he himself knew what was in man.


[John 3]


     3:1 Now there was a man from the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. 3:2 This man came to Jesus by night and said to him, Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God; for* no one is able to do these signs that you are doing, if God is not with him.

     3:3 Jesus answered and said to him, Assuredly, assuredly, I say to you, If one has not been born anew, he is not able to see the kingdom of God.

     3:4 Nicodemus says to him, How is a man able to be born when he is elderly? He is not able to enter into his mother's womb a second time and to be born again, is he?

     3:5 Jesus answered, Assuredly, assuredly, I say to you, If one has not been born out of water and the Spirit, he is not able to enter into the kingdom of God! 3:6 That which is born from the flesh is flesh, and what is born from the Spirit is spirit. 3:7 Do not marvel that I said to you, You* must be born anew. 3:8 The Spirit is blowing where he wills and you hear his voice, but do not know from where he is coming and where he is going so is everyone who is born from the Spirit.

     3:9 Nicodemus answered and said to him, How are these things able to happen?

     3:10 Jesus answered and said to him, Are you the teacher of Israel and do not know these things? 3:11 Assuredly, assuredly, I say to you, We speak what we know and testify of what we have seen, and you* do not receive our testimony. 3:12 If I told you* earthly things and you* do not believe, how will you* believe, if I tell you* heavenly things? 3:13 And no one has ascended into heaven, except he who came down from heaven, that is the Son of Man, who is in heaven. 3:14 And like Moses who exalted the serpent in the wilderness, so the Son of Man also must be exalted; 3:15 in order that everyone who believes in him might not perish but may have eternal life.


     3:16 For* God so loved* the world, that he gave his Son, the only begotten, in order that everyone who believes in him might not perish, but may have eternal life. 3:17 For* God did not send the Son into the world in order that he should judge the world; but in order that the world might be saved through him. 3:18 He who believes in him is not judged. He who does not believe has been judged already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. 3:19 And this is the judgment, that the light has come into the world and men loved* the darkness rather than the light; for* their works were evil. 3:20 For* everyone who is practicing evil, hates the light and is not coming to the light, in order that his works should not convict him. 3:21 But he who practices the truth comes to the light, that* his works might be manifest, that they have been worked in God.


     3:22 After these things Jesus and his disciples came into the land of the Jews, and he stayed with them and immersed* there. 3:23 And John was also immersing* in Aenon near to Salem, because many bodies of water were there and they came and were immersed*. 3:24 For* John was not yet cast into prison. 3:25 Therefore there was a debate from John's disciples with a Jew about the cleansing. 3:26 And they came to John and said to him, Rabbi, he who was with you on the other side of the Jordan, to whom you have testified, behold, this man immerses* and all men are going to him.

     3:27 John answered and said, A man is able to receive nothing, if it has not been given to him from heaven. 3:28 You* yourselves testify, that I said, I am not the Christ, but, that I am sent in front of him. 3:29 He who has the bride is the bridegroom; but the friend of the bridegroom, who is standing and hearing him, rejoices with joy because of the bridegroom's voice. Therefore in this, my joy, has been fulfilled. 3:30 It is essential for him to grow but for me to diminish.


     3:31 He who is coming from above is over all. He who is from the earth is from the earth and speaks from the earth. He who is coming from heaven is over all. 3:32 And what he has seen and heard, he is testifying of that, and no one receives his testimony. 3:33 He who has received his testimony has sealed this: that God is true. 3:34 For* he whom God has sent speaks the words of God; for* God does not give the Spirit by measure. 3:35 The Father loves* the Son and has given all things into his hand. 3:36 He who believes in the Son has eternal life; but he who is disobeying the Son will not see life, but the wrath of God is remaining upon him.


[John 4]

    {Mk 1:14a & Mt 4:12 & Lk 3:19-20 & Jn 4:1-4 Judea to Galilee}

     4:1 Therefore when the Lord knew that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus is making* and immersing* more disciples than John 4:2 (although Jesus himself did not immerse*, but his disciples did), 4:3 he left Judea and went away into Galilee.

     

` 4:4 And he must go through Samaria.

    {Jn 4:5-43 Jacob’s Well and at Sychar}

     4:5 So he comes to a city of Samaria, called Sychar, close to the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph 4:6 and Jacob's well was there. Therefore Jesus, being fatigued from his journey, sat thus by the well. It was about the sixth hour. 4:7 A woman from Samaria comes to dip-out water. Jesus says to her, Give me water to drink. 4:8 For* his disciples had gone away into the city that* they might buy nourishment.

     4:9 Therefore the Samaritan woman says to him, How is it that you, being a Jew, ask a drink from me, who is a Samaritan woman? (For* Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.)

     4:10 Jesus answered and said to her, If you knew the gift of God and who it is that says to you, Give me water to drink; you would have asked of him and he would have given you living water.

     4:11 The woman says to him, Lord, you have no bucket and the well is deep. Therefore from where do you have living water? 4:12 You are not greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well and drank out of it himself and his sons and his livestock, are you?

     4:13 Jesus answered and said to her, Everyone who drinks from this water will be thirsty again 4:14 but whoever is drinking from the water that I will give him may never* be thirsty; but the water that I will give him will become in him a well of water leaping up to eternal life.

     4:15 The woman says to him, Lord, give me this water, that* I may not thirst, nor come all the way here to dip-out water.

     4:16 Jesus says to her, Go, summon your husband and come here.

     4:17 The woman answered and said, I have no husband.

     Jesus says to her, You said well, I have no husband 4:18 for* you have had five husbands, and he whom you have now is not your husband. You have said this truly.

     4:19 The woman says to him, Lord, I view that you are a prophet. 4:20 Our fathers worshiped in this mountain, and you* Jews say, that in Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship.

     4:21 Jesus says to her, Woman, believe me, the hour is coming, when you* will worship the Father, neither in this mountain nor in Jerusalem. 4:22 You* worship what you* do not know. We worship what we know, because salvation is from the Jews. 4:23 But the hour is coming and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth; for* the Father is seeking such who are worshiping him. 4:24 God is a Spirit and those who are worshiping him must worship in spirit and truth.

     4:25 The woman says to him, I know that the Messiah is coming (he who is called Christ). Whenever he has come, he will proclaim all things to us.

     4:26 Jesus says to her, I who speak to you, am he.


     4:27 And his disciples came upon this, and marveled that he was speaking with a woman; nevertheless no one said, What are you seeking? Or, Why are you talking with her?

     4:28 So the woman left her water pot and went away into the city and says to the people, 4:29 Come-here. See a man, who told me all things, as many things as I have done. This can not be the Christ, can it? 4:30 They went out of the city and were coming to him.

     4:31 But in the time in between the disciples were asking him, saying, Rabbi, eat.

     4:32 But he said to them, I have food to eat that you* do not know.

     4:33 Therefore the disciples said to one another, Has anyone brought him anything to eat?

     4:34 Jesus says to them, My food is that* I should be doing the will of him who sent me and should accomplish his work. 4:35 Do you not say, There are still four months and then comes the harvest. Behold, I say to you*, Lift up your* eyes and look at the farmland, because they are already white to harvest. 4:36 And he who is reaping receives wages and gathers fruit to eternal life; that* he who is sowing and he who is reaping may rejoice in unison. 4:37 For* in this is the true saying, One is sowing and another is reaping. 4:38 I sent you* to reap that which you* have not labored; others have labored and you* have entered into their labor.


     4:39 And many out of the Samaritans from that city believed in him because of the word of the woman, who was testifying, He told me all things, as many things as I have done. 4:40 So when the Samaritans came to him, they requested him to abide with them and he remained there two days. 4:41 And many more believed because of his word; 4:42 and they said to the woman, We believe no longer because of your speech; for* we have heard for ourselves and know that this is truly the Savior of the world, the Christ.


     4:43 And after the two days he went forth from there and went into Galilee. 4:44 For* Jesus himself testified, that a prophet has no honor in his own homeland.


    {Lk 4:14a & Jn 4:44-45 Arrival in Galilee}

     4:45 So when he came into Galilee, the Galileans accepted him, having seen all the things that he did in Jerusalem at the feast; for* they had also gone to the feast.


     4:46 Therefore Jesus came again to Cana of Galilee, where he made* the water wine. And there was a certain nobleman, whose son was sick in Capernaum. 4:47 When he heard that Jesus had come out of Judea into Galilee, he went to him and asked him that* he might come down and might heal his son; for* he was about to die. 4:48 Therefore Jesus said to him, If you* do not see signs and wonders, you* may never* believe.

     4:49 The nobleman says to him, Lord, come down here before my child dies.

     4:50 Jesus says to him, Go-onward your; your son lives.

     And the man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him and he traveled on. 4:51 And as he was going down, already his bondservants met him and reported, saying, that his boy lives. 4:52 Therefore he inquired from them the hour when he had improved. And they said to him, Yesterday the fever left him in the seventh hour. 4:53 Therefore the father knew that it was in that hour in which Jesus said to him, Your son lives. And he himself and his whole house believed. 4:54 This is again the second sign that Jesus did, having come out of Judea into Galilee.


[John 5]


     5:1 The feast of the Jews was after these things, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. 5:2 Now in Jerusalem by the sheep gate there is a pool, called in Hebrew Bethesda, having five porches. 5:3 A great crowd of those who were sick, blind, lame, dried up, lay in these waiting for the moving of the water. 5:4 For* a messenger went down from time to time in the pool and disturbs the water. Therefore he who steps in first after the disturbance of the waters became healthy, from whatever disease he was held by.

     5:5 And a certain man was there, who had been thirty eight years in sickness. 5:6 When Jesus saw him lying and knew that he had already been like this a long time, he says to him, Do you wish to become healthy?

     5:7 The sick man answered him, Lord, I do not have a man, that* he might put me in the pool, whenever the water is disturbed. But while I am coming, another is going down before me.

     5:8 Jesus says to him, Arise, lift up your pallet and walk. 5:9 And immediately the man became healthy and lifted up his pallet and walked.

     Now on that day, it was the Sabbath. 5:10 So the Jews said to him who had been healed, It is the Sabbath. It is not legal for you to lift up your pallet.

     5:11 He answered them, He who made* me healthy, that man said to me, Lift up your pallet and walk.

     5:12 Therefore they asked him, Who is the man who said to you, Lift up your pallet and walk? 5:13 But he who was healed did not know who it was; for* Jesus had slipped out of the crowd that was in that place.

     5:14 After these things, Jesus finds him in the temple and said to him, Behold, you have become healthy. Sin no longer, in order that a worse thing might not happen to you. 5:15 The man went away and reported to the Jews that it was Jesus who had made* him healthy. 5:16 And because of this the Jews persecuted Jesus and sought to kill him because he did these things on the Sabbath.


     5:17 But Jesus answered them, My Father works until now and I work. 5:18 Therefore, because of this, the Jews sought even more to kill him, because he did not only tear-down the Sabbath, but also called God his own Father, making* himself equal with God.


     5:19 Therefore Jesus answered and said to them, Assuredly, assuredly, I say to you*, The Son can do nothing from himself, if he does not see what the Father is doing; for* whatever things he does, the Son is also doing these things likewise. 5:20 For* the Father loves the Son and shows him all things that he himself does and greater works than these he will show him, that* you* may marvel. 5:21 For* just-like the Father makes the dead arise and is giving-life to them, so the Son also is giving-life to whom he wills. 5:22 For* the Father judges no one, but has given all judgment to the Son; 5:23 that* all may honor the Son, just-as they are honoring the Father. He who is not honoring the Son, does not honor the Father who sent him.

     5:24 Assuredly, assuredly, I say to you*, He who hears my word and believes in him who sent me, has eternal life and does not come into judgment, but has stepped out of death into life.

     5:25 Assuredly, assuredly, I say to you*, The hour is coming and now is, when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and they who hear will live. 5:26 For* as the Father has life in himself, so he also gave to the Son to have life in himself 5:27 and he also gave him authority to make* judgment, because he is a son of man. 5:28 Do not marvel at this, because the hour is coming, in which all who are in the tombs will hear his voice, 5:29 and will travel out; those who have done good, to the resurrection of life, and those who have practiced evil, to the resurrection of judgment.


     5:30 I am able to do nothing of myself. As I hear, I judge and my judgment is righteous, because I am not seeking my own will, but the will of the Father who sent me. 5:31 If I testify concerning myself, my testimony is not true. 5:32 It is another who is testifying concerning me, and I know that the testimony which he is testifying concerning me is true. 5:33 You* have sent people to John and he has testified to the truth. 5:34 But the testimony which I receive is not from man; but I say these things, in order that you* might be saved. 5:35 He was the lamp that was burning and appearing, and you* were willing to be glad for a season in his light. 5:36 But the testimony which I have is greater than John's; for* the works which the Father gave me, that* I should accomplish, the same works which I am doing, testify concerning me, that the Father has sent me. 5:37 And the Father who sent me, he has testified concerning me. You* have neither heard his voice at anytime, nor seen his form. 5:38 And you* do not have his word abiding in you*, because you* do not believe him whom he sent. 5:39 You* are searching the Scriptures because you* think that in them you* have eternal life, and these are those which are testifying concerning me; 5:40 and you* are not willing to come to me, that* you* may have life.

     5:41 I am not receiving glory from men. 5:42 But I know you*, that you* do not have the love* of God in yourselves. 5:43 I have come in my Father's name and you* are not receiving me. If another comes in his own name, you* will receive him. 5:44 How can you* believe, who receive glory of one another and the glory that comes from the only God, you* are not seeking? 5:45 Do not think that I will accuse you* to the Father. There is one who is accusing you*, Moses, in whom you* have hoped. 5:46 For* if you* believed Moses, you* would believe me; for* he wrote about me. 5:47 But if you* do not believe the Scriptures, how will you* believe my words?


[John 6]


    {Mk 6:30-32 & Mt 14:13 & Lk 9:10 & Jn 6:1 East shore of Galilee}

     6:1 After these things, Jesus went away to the other side of the sea of Galilee, which is the sea of Tiberias.


    {Mk 6:33-44 & Mt 14:13-21 & Lk 9:11-17 & Jn 6:2-14}

     6:2 And a great crowd followed him, because they saw from him the signs which he did upon those who were sick. 6:3 And Jesus went up into the mountain and sat there with his disciples. 6:4 Now the Passover, the feast of the Jews, was near. 6:5 Therefore Jesus, having lifted up his eyes and having seen that a great crowd is coming to him, says to Philip, From where will we buy bread, that* these might eat? 6:6 And he said this, testing him; for* he himself knew what he was about to do.

     6:7 Philip answered him, Two hundred denarius' worth of loaves is not enough for them, that* each of them might take a little bit.

     6:8 One out of his disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter's brother, says to him, 6:9 There is one child here, who has five barley loaves and two fish; but what are these among so-many?

     6:10 But Jesus said, Make* the people lean-back on the land. Now much grass was in the place. So the men reclined, in number about five thousand. 6:11 And Jesus took the loaves, and having given-thanks, he distributed it to the disciples and then to the disciples who had reclined; also likewise from the fish as many as they wished to eat. 6:12 And when they were filled, he says to his disciples, Gather up the broken pieces which was leftover, that* nothing might perish. 6:13 Therefore they gathered together and filled twelve baskets with broken pieces from the five barley loaves, which were leftover by those who had fed.

     6:14 Therefore when the people saw the sign which Jesus had done, they said, This truly is the prophet who is coming into the world.


    {Mk 6:45-56 & Mt 14:22-36 & Jn 6:15-21}

     6:15 Therefore Jesus knowing that they were about to come and seize him, that* they might make* him king, departed by himself into the mountain alone.


     6:16 And when it became evening, his disciples went down to the sea; 6:17 and they stepped into the ship and were going over the sea to Capernaum. And it had already become dark and Jesus had not yet come to them. 6:18 And the sea was aroused by a great blowing wind. 6:19 Therefore when they had rowed about twenty five or thirty furlongs, they view Jesus walking upon the sea and coming near the ship and they were afraid. 6:20 But he says to them, It is I. Do not be afraid. 6:21 Therefore they were willing to receive him into the ship and immediately the ship was at the land where they were going.


     6:22 On the next-day the crowd that stood on the other side of the sea saw that no other small-boat was there, except the one which his disciples had stepped into, and that Jesus did not go with his disciples into the small-boat, but his disciples alone 6:23 (but other small-boats came from Tiberias near to the place where they ate the bread after the Lord had given-thanks). 6:24 Therefore when the crowd saw that Jesus was not there, nor his disciples, they themselves also stepped into the ships and came to Capernaum, seeking Jesus. 6:25 And when they found him on the other side of the sea, they said to him, Rabbi, when did you come here?

     6:26 Jesus answered them and said, Assuredly, assuredly, I say to you*, You* are seeking me, not because you* saw signs, but because you* ate from the loaves and were well fed. 6:27 Do not work for the food which perishes, but for the food which remains to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you*; for* him, God, the Father has sealed.

     6:28 Therefore they said to him, What should we do, in order that we may work the works of God?

     6:29 Jesus answered and said to them, This is the work of God, in order that you* might believe in him whom he has sent.

     6:30 Therefore they said to him, Then* what are you doing for a sign, that* we may see it and may believe you? What are you working for us? 6:31 Our fathers ate the manna in the wilderness; as it has been written, He gave them bread from heaven to eat. {Ex. 16:21, Num. 11:8}

     6:32 Therefore Jesus said to them, Assuredly, assuredly, I say to you*, It was not Moses who had given you* the bread from heaven; but my Father who is giving you* the true bread from heaven. 6:33 For* the bread of God is what is coming down from heaven and is giving life to the world.

     6:34 Therefore they said to him, Lord, give us this bread always.

     6:35 But Jesus said to them, I am the bread of life. He who is coming to me may never* hunger and he who believes in me may never* thirst at anytime. 6:36 But I said to you*, That you* have seen me and yet do not believe. 6:37 All that the Father gives me will come to me, and him who is coming to me I may never* cast outside. 6:38 Because I have come down from heaven, not that* I should do my own will, but do the will of him who sent me. 6:39 And this is the will of my Father who sent me, that* of all that he has given me, I should not lose any out of it, but should raise* it up in the last day. 6:40 And this is the will of him who sent me, that* everyone who views the Son and believes in him, may have eternal life, and I will raise* him up in the last day.


     6:41 Therefore the Jews murmured concerning him, because he said, I am the bread which came down from heaven. 6:42 And they said, Is this not Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How does he now say, I have come down from heaven?

     6:43 Therefore Jesus answered and said to them, Do not murmur among yourselves. 6:44 No one can come to me, if the Father who sent me does not draw him and I will raise* him up in the last day. 6:45 It has been written in the prophets, ‘And they will all be taught of God.’ {Is. 54:13} Therefore everyone who hears from the Father and has learned, is coming to me. 6:46 Not that anyone has seen the Father, except he who is from God, he has seen the Father. 6:47 Assuredly, assuredly, I say to you*, He who believes in me has eternal life. 6:48 I am the bread of life. 6:49 Your* fathers ate the manna in the wilderness and they died. 6:50 This is the bread which is coming down from heaven, that* anyone may eat from it and may not die. 6:51 I am the living bread which came down from heaven; if anyone eats from this bread, he will live forever and also the bread which I will give is my flesh, which I will give on behalf of the life of the world.

     6:52 Therefore the Jews quarreled with one another, saying, How can this man give us his flesh to eat?

     6:53 Therefore Jesus said to them, Assuredly, assuredly, I say to you*, If you* do not eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you* do not have life in yourselves. 6:54 He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life and I will raise* him up in the last day. 6:55 For* my flesh is truly food and my blood is truly drink. 6:56 He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood abides in me and I in him. 6:57 As the living Father sent me and I live because of the Father; so he who eats me, he will also live because of me. 6:58 This is the bread which came down from heaven not like the manna your fathers ate and died; he who is eating this bread will live forever. 6:59 He said these things in the synagogue, (teaching in Capernaum).

     6:60 Therefore many out of his disciples, when they heard this, said, This is a hard saying; who can hear it?

     6:61 But Jesus knowing in himself that his disciples murmured concerning this, said to them, Does this offend you*? 6:62 Then* what if you* view the Son of Man ascending where he was beforehand? 6:63 It is the spirit who is giving-life; the flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you* are spirit, are life. 6:64 But there are some out of you* who do not believe. For* Jesus knew from the beginning who they are who do not believe and who is he who will give him up. 6:65 And he said, Because of this, I have said to you*, that no one is able to come to me, if it has not been given to him from my Father.


     6:66 From that time, many of his disciples went back and walked no more with him. 6:67 Therefore Jesus said to the twelve, You* will not also go away, will you*?

     6:68 Therefore Simon Peter answered him, Lord, to whom will we go? You have the words of eternal life. 6:69 And we have believed and know that you are the Christ the Son of the living God.

     6:70 He answered them, Did I not choose you* the twelve and one out of you* is a slanderer? 6:71 Now he spoke of Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son, being one out of the twelve, for* he was about to give him up to the Jews.


[John 7]


    {Mk 7:1-23 & Mt 15:1-20 & Jn 7:1 Galilee, probably Capernaum Spring 29 AD}

     7:1 And after these things Jesus walked in Galilee; for* he did not wish to walk in Judea, because the Jews sought to kill him. 7:2 Now the feast of the Jews, that is the Feast of Tabernacles, was near. 7:3 Therefore his brethren said to him, Proceed from here and go into Judea, that* your disciples may also view your works which you are doing 7:4 for* no one does anything in secret and he himself seeks to be known publicly. If you doing these things, manifest yourself to the world. 7:5 For* even his brethren did not believe in him. 7:6 Therefore Jesus says to them, My time is not yet here; but your* time is always ready. 7:7 The world is not able to hate you*; but it hates me, because I am testifying concerning it, that its works are evil. 7:8 You* go up to the feast. I do not go up to this feast yet, because my time is not yet fulfilled. 7:9 And having said these things to them, he remained still in Galilee.


    {Lk 9:51-56 & Jn 7:10; Samaria, Sept: 29 AD}

     7:10 But when his brethren had gone up to the feast, then he also went up, not openly, but like it was in secret.

    {Jn 7:11-10:21; Jerusalem, Oct. 29 AD}

    7:11 Therefore the Jews sought him at the feast and said, Where is he? 7:12 And there was great murmuring among the crowds concerning him. Some said, He is a good man; others said, Not so, but he misleads the crowd. 7:13 Nevertheless no one spoke publicly about him because of fear of the Jews.


     7:14 But when it was already the middle of the feast Jesus went up into the temple and taught. 7:15 And the Jews were marveling, saying, How does this man know the Scriptures, having not learned them?

     7:16 Therefore Jesus answered them and said, My teaching is not mine, but his, who sent me. 7:17 If anyone is willing to practice his will, he will know about the teaching, of what sort it is, from God or I speak from myself. 7:18 He who speaks from himself is seeking his own glory; but he who is seeking the glory of him who sent him, this one is true and no unrighteousness is in him. 7:19 Did Moses not give you* the law and yet none out of you* are practicing the law? Why do you* seek to kill me?

     7:20 The crowd answered and said, You have a demon. Who seeks to kill you?

     7:21 Jesus answered and said to them, I did one work and you* all marvel. 7:22 Moses has given you* circumcision (not that it is from Moses, but from the fathers), and on the Sabbath you* circumcise a man. 7:23 If a man receives circumcision on the Sabbath, that* the Law of Moses may not be torn-down. Are you* bitterly-angry with me, because I made* a man entirely healthy on the Sabbath? 7:24 Do not judge according to appearance, but judge righteous judgment.


     7:25 Therefore some out of those from Jerusalem said, Is this not the one whom they seek to kill? 7:26 And behold, he speaks publicly and they say nothing to him. Can it be that the rulers truly know that this is truly the Christ? 7:27 But we know where this man is from; but whenever the Christ comes, no one knows where he is from.

     7:28 Therefore Jesus cried out in the temple, teaching and saying, You* both know me and know where I am from, and I have not come from myself, but he who sent me is true, whom you* do not know. 7:29 I know him, because I am from him and he sent me. 7:30 Therefore they sought to arrest him and yet no one put his hand upon him (because his hour had not come yet).

     7:31 But many out of the crowd believed in him, and they said, Whenever the Christ comes, he will not do signs more-than those which this man has done, will he? 7:32 The Pharisees heard the crowd murmuring these things concerning him, and the Pharisees and the high-priests sent attendants that* they might arrest him.

     7:33 Therefore Jesus said, I am still with you* for a little time and I go to him who sent me. 7:34 You* will seek me and will not find me and where I am, you* cannot come.

     7:35 Therefore the Jews said among themselves, Where is this man about to travel that we will not find him? He is not about to travel to the Dispersion among the Greeks and teach the Greeks, is he? 7:36 What is this word that he said, You* will seek me and will not find me, and where I am, you* cannot come?


     7:37 Now on the last day, the great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, saying, If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink. 7:38 He who believes in me, like the Scripture has said, Rivers of living water will flow out of his belly. 7:39 But he spoke this concerning the Spirit, which those who believed in him were to receive; for* the Holy Spirit was not yet given, because Jesus was not yet glorified.

     7:40 Therefore many out of the crowd, having heard the word, said, This is truly the prophet.

     7:41 Others said, This is the Christ. Others said, The Christ does not come out of Galilee, does he? 7:42 Did the Scripture not say that the Christ comes out of the seed of David and from Bethlehem, the village where David was? {2Sam. 7:12, Mic. 5:2} 7:43 So there was a split in the crowd because of him. 7:44 And some out of them wished to arrest him; but no one put hands upon him.

     7:45 Therefore the attendants came to the high-priests and Pharisees, and they said to them, Why did you* not bring him?

     7:46 The attendants answered, A man has never* spoke like so, like this man.

     7:47 Therefore the Pharisees answered them, You* are not also misled, are you? 7:48 Has any out of the rulers or any out of the Pharisees believed in him? 7:49 But this crowd that does not know the law is cursed.

     7:50 Nicodemus says to them (he who came to him by night, being one out of them), 7:51 Our law does not judge a man, if it does not hear from him beforehand and may know what he is doing, does it?

     7:52 They answered and said to him, You are not also from Galilee, are you? Search and see that no prophet has arisen out of Galilee.


     7:53 And they each went-onward to his own house, [John 8] 8:1 however Jesus went-onward to the Mountain of Olives.

     8:2 And at early-morning, he came again into the temple and all the people came to him, and he sat down and taught them. 8:3 And the scribes and the Pharisees lead a woman having been overtaken in adultery, and having stood her in the middle of them, 8:4 they say to him, testing him, Teacher, this woman was overtaken in the very-act of committing adultery. 8:5 Now Moses commanded us in the law to stone such people. Then* what do you say of her? 8:6 And they say this, testing him, that* they may have something to accuse him.

     But Jesus stooped downward and with his finger wrote in the soil and made-like nothing was happening. 8:7 But as they remained, asking him, he stood-erect and said to them, He who is without sin among you*, let him cast a stone at her first. 8:8 And again he stooped downward and with his finger wrote in the soil. 8:9 And when they heard it, being convicted by their conscience, they went out one by one, beginning from the elder ones to the last and Jesus and the woman was left alone, in his midst. 8:10 And Jesus stood-erect and said to her, Woman, where are your accusers? Did no one condemn you?

     8:11 And she said, No one, Lord.

     And Jesus said, Neither do I judge you. Go-onward. Sin no longer from hereafter.


     8:12 Therefore again Jesus spoke to them, saying, I am the light of the world. He who is following me may never* walk in the darkness, but will have the light of life.

     8:13 Therefore the Pharisees said to him, You are testifying concerning yourself; your testimony is not true.

     8:14 Jesus answered and said to them, Even if I testify concerning myself, my testimony is true, because I know from where I come and where I am going; but you* do not know from where I come or where I am going. 8:15 You* judge after the flesh; I judge no one after the flesh. 8:16 And yet if I judge, my judgment is true, because I am not alone, but I and the Father who sent me. 8:17 And in your* law it has been written, that the testimony of two men is true. {Deu 19:15} 8:18 I am he who is testifying concerning myself and the Father who sent me is testifying concerning me.

     8:19 Therefore they said to him, Where is your Father?

     Jesus answered, You* know neither me, nor my Father; if you* knew me, you* would also know my Father. 8:20 (Jesus spoke these words in the treasury, as he was teaching in the temple and no one arrested him, because his hour had not come yet.)

     8:21 Therefore Jesus said again to them, I go away and you* will seek me and will die in your* sin; where I go, you* cannot come.

     8:22 Therefore the Jews said, Will he kill himself, because he says, Where I go, you* cannot come?

     8:23 And he said to them, You* are from below; I am from above. You* are from this world; I am not from this world. 8:24 Therefore I said to you*, that you* will die in your* sins; for* if you* do not believe that I am he, you* will die in your* sins.

     8:25 Therefore they said to him, Who are you?

     And Jesus said to them, Even what I have also spoken to you* from the beginning. 8:26 I have many things to speak and to judge concerning you*; but he who sent me is true, and the things which I heard from him, I speak these to the world. 8:27 (They did not know that he spoke about the Father to them.) 8:28 Therefore Jesus said to them, Whenever you* have exalted the Son of Man, then you* will know that I am he and that I am doing nothing from myself, but as my Father taught me, I speak these things. 8:29 And he who sent me is with me; the Father has not left me alone, because I am always doing those things pleasing to him. 8:30 As he was speaking these things, many believed in him.


     8:31 Therefore Jesus said to those Jews who had believed him, If you* abide in my word, then you* truly are my disciples; 8:32 and you* will know the truth and the truth will make you* free.

     8:33 They answered him, We are Abraham's seed and have been enslaved to no one at anytime. How do you say, You* will become free?

     8:34 Jesus answered them, Assuredly, assuredly, I say to you*, Everyone who practices sin is the bondservant of sin. 8:35 And the bondservant does not abide in the house forever; the son abides forever. 8:36 Therefore if the Son makes you* free, you* will really be free. 8:37 I know that you* are Abraham's seed; yet you* are seeking to kill me, because my word is not making room in you*. 8:38 I speak the things which I have seen with my Father and therefore you* are practicing what you* have seen from your* father.

     8:39 They answered and said to him, Our father is Abraham.

     Jesus says to them, If you* were Abraham's children, you* would do the works of Abraham. 8:40 But now you* are seeking to kill me, a man who has spoken the truth to you*, which I heard from God. Abraham did not do this. 8:41 You* are practicing the works of your* father.

     Therefore they said to him, We have not been born from fornication; we have one Father– God.

     8:42 Therefore Jesus said to them, If God was your* Father, you* would love* me; for* I came out and have come from God; for* neither have I come from myself, but from he who sent me. 8:43 Why do you* not know my speech? Is it because you* are not able to hear my word? 8:44 You* are from your* father, the Slanderer, and it is your* will to do the lusts of your* father. He was a murderer from the beginning and has not stood in the truth, because there is no truth in him. Whenever he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own, because he is a liar and the father of it. 8:45 But because I speak the truth, you* do not believe me. 8:46 Which out of you* convicts me concerning sin? But if I speak the truth, why do you* not believe me? 8:47 He who is from God hears the words of God; but because of this you* do not hear them, because you* are not from God.

     8:48 Therefore the Jews answered and said to him, Do we not say well that you are a Samaritan and you have a demon?

     8:49 Jesus answered, I do not have a demon; but I am honoring my Father and you* are dishonoring me. 8:50 But I am not seeking my own glory. There is one who is seeking and is judging. 8:51 Assuredly, assuredly, I say to you*, If anyone keeps my word, he may never* view his death.

     8:52 The Jews said to him, Now we know that you have a demon. Abraham died and the prophets, and you say, If anyone keeps my word, he may never* taste of death. 8:53 You are not greater than our father Abraham, who died, are you? And the prophets died; whom are you making* yourself out to be?

     8:54 Jesus answered, If I am glorifying myself, my glory is nothing; it is my Father who is glorifying me; of whom you* say, that he is our God. 8:55 And you* have not known him, but I know him, and if I say, I do not know him, I will be similar to you*, a liar; but I know him and I am keeping his word. 8:56 Your* father Abraham was glad that* he might see my day, and he saw it and rejoiced.

     8:57 Therefore the Jews said to him, You are not yet fifty years old and you have seen Abraham?

     8:58 Jesus said to them, Assuredly, assuredly, I say to you*, Before Abraham was born, I am. 8:59 Therefore they took up stones that* they might cast them at him; but Jesus hid himself and went out of the temple, going through the middle of them and so passed on by.


[John 9]


     9:1 And passing by, he saw a man blind from his birth. 9:2 And his disciples asked him, saying, Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that* he should be born blind?

     9:3 Jesus answered, Neither did this man sin, nor his parents; but that* the works of God should be manifest in him. 9:4 It is essential for me to work the works of him who sent me, while it is day. The night is coming, when no one can work. 9:5 Whenever I am in the world, I am the light of the world. 9:6 When he had spoken these things, he spit on the level-ground and made* clay from the spit and anointed the eyes of the blind man with the clay, 9:7 and said to him, Go, wash in the pool of Siloam (which is by translation, Sent). Therefore he went away and washed and came back seeing.

     9:8 Therefore the neighbors and those viewing him beforehand, that he was blind, said, Is this not the one sitting and begging earlier? 9:9 Others said, It is he. But others said, He is similar to him.

     He said, I am he.

     9:10 Therefore they said to him, How were your eyes opened?

     9:11 He answered and said, A man called Jesus made* clay and anointed my eyes and said to me, Go to the pool of Siloam and wash. And I went away and washed and I recovered my sight.

     9:12 Therefore they said to him, Where is he?

     He says, I do not know.

     9:13 They lead him to the Pharisees, he who was previously blind. 9:14 Now it was the Sabbath on the day when Jesus made* the clay and opened his eyes. 9:15 Therefore again the Pharisees also asked him how he recovered his sight.

     And he said to them, He placed clay upon my eyes and I washed and I can see.

     9:16 Therefore some out of the Pharisees said, This man is not from God, because he is not keeping the Sabbath.

     Others said, How can a man who is a sinner do such signs? And there was a split among them. 9:17 They say to the blind man again, What do you say about him, in that he opened your eyes?

     And he said, He is a prophet.

     9:18 Therefore the Jews did not believe concerning him, that he had been blind and had recovered his sight, until they summoned the parents of him who had recovered his sight, 9:19 and asked them, saying, Is this your* son, who you* say was born blind? Then* how does he see now?

     9:20 But his parents answered and said, We know that this is our son and that he was born blind; 9:21 but how he can now see, we do not know; or who opened his eyes, we do not know. He has come of age*; ask him; he will speak concerning himself. 9:22 His parents said these things, because they feared the Jews; for* the Jews had covenanted already, that* if anyone confesses him as Christ, he should be expelled from the synagogue. 9:23 Therefore his parents said, He has come of age*; ask him.

     9:24 So they summoned the man who was blind a second time and said to him, Give glory to God. We know that this man is a sinner.

     9:25 Therefore he answered and said, I do not know if he is a sinner. I know one thing, that I was blind, but now I can see.

     9:26 But they said to him again, What did he do to you? How did he open your eyes?

     9:27 He answered them, I told you* already and you* did not hear; why are you* wishing to hear it again? You* will not also become his disciples, will you*?

     9:28 They reviled him and said, You are his disciple; but we are disciples of Moses. 9:29 We know that God has spoken to Moses; but this man, we do not know where he is from.

     9:30 The man answered and said to them, For* a marvelous thing is in this, because you* do not know where he is from and yet he opened my eyes. 9:31 But we know that God does not hear sinners; but if anyone is god-fearing and if he is practicing his will, he hears him. 9:32 It has not been heard from the beginning of the world, that anyone has opened the eyes of a man born blind. 9:33 If this man was not from God, he could do nothing.

     9:34 They answered and said to him, You were born and live entirely in sins and you are teaching us! And they cast him outside.

     9:35 Jesus heard that they had cast him outside, and finding him, he said to him, Do you believe in the Son of God?

     9:36 He answered and said, Who is he, Lord, that* I may believe in him?

     9:37 And Jesus said to him, You have both seen him and he who speaks with you is he.

     9:38 And he said, Lord, I believe. And he worshiped him.

     9:39 And Jesus said, I came into this world *for judgment, that* those who do not see, may see, and those who see, may become blind.

     9:40 And those who were with him from the Pharisees heard these things and said to him, We are not also blind, are we?

     9:41 Jesus said to them, If you* were blind, you* would have no sin; but now you* say, We see, therefore your* sin remains.


[John 10]


     10:1 Assuredly, assuredly, I say to you*, He who does not enter in through the door into the sheep’s pen, but goes up elsewhere, that man is a thief and a robber. 10:2 But he who enters in through the door is the shepherd of the sheep. 10:3 The doorkeeper opens to him, and the sheep hear his voice and he calls his own sheep by name and leads them out. 10:4 And whenever he has put out his sheep, he travels in front of them and the sheep follow him, because they know his voice. 10:5 And they may never* follow another man, but will escape from him, because they do not know the voice of others. 10:6 (This metaphor Jesus spoke to them; but they did not know what it was that he spoke to them.)


     10:7 Therefore Jesus said to them again, Assuredly, assuredly, I say to you*, I am the door of the sheep. 10:8 All things, as many things as came before are thieves and robbers; but the sheep did not hear them. 10:9 I am the door; if anyone enters in through me, he will be saved and will go in and go out and will find pasture. 10:10 The thief does not come, except that* he may steal, and may sacrifice and may destroy you. I came that* they may have life and may have even-more of it. 10:11 I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life on behalf of the sheep. 10:12 But the hired servant and not the shepherd, whose sheep are not his own, views the wolf coming and leaves the sheep and escapes and the wolf seizes them and scatters the sheep. 10:13 Now the hired servant escapes because he is a hired servant and he himself does not care about the sheep. 10:14 I am the good shepherd, and I know my own and my own know me, 10:15 just-as the Father knows me and I know the Father, and I lay down my life on behalf of the sheep. 10:16 And I have other sheep, which are not of this pen; those I must also lead and they will hear my voice and there will be one flock, one shepherd. 10:17 Because of this, the Father loves* me, because I lay down my life, that* I may take it again. 10:18 No one takes it away from me, but I lay it down out of myself. I have authority to lay it down and I have authority to take it up again. I received this commandment from my Father.

     10:19 Therefore there was a split again among the Jews because of these words. 10:20 And many out of them said, He has a demon and is mad; why do you* listen him?

     10:21 Others said, These are not the sayings of one who is demon-possessed. A demon is not able to open the eyes of the blind, is it?


    {Jn 10:22-42; Jerusalem and beyond Jordan.}

     10:22 And it was Hanukkah in Jerusalem. 10:23 It was winter and Jesus was walking in the temple in Solomon's porch. 10:24 Therefore the Jews surrounded him and said to him, Until when, will you take before telling us if you are the Christ? Tell us frankly.

     10:25 Jesus answered them, I told you* and you* do not believe. The works that I am doing in my Father's name, these are testifying concerning me. 10:26 But you* do not believe, for* you* are not from my sheep just-as I said to you*. 10:27 My sheep hear my voice and I know them and they follow me, 10:28 and I give to them eternal life, and they may never* perish and no one will take them out of my hand. 10:29 My Father, who has given them to me, he is greater than all, and no one is able to take them out of my Father's hand. 10:30 I and the Father are one. 10:31 Therefore the Jews bore stones again that* they might stone him. 10:32 Jesus answered them, Many good works have I showed you* from my Father, because of which of those works do you* stone me?

     10:33 The Jews answered him, saying, We do not stone you concerning a good work, but concerning blasphemy, and because you being a man, are making* yourself God.

     10:34 Jesus answered them, Is it not written in your* law, that I said, You* are gods? {Ps 82:6?} 10:35 If he called them gods, to whom the word of God came (and the Scripture cannot be torn-down), 10:36 do you* say of him, whom the Father sanctified and sent into the world, You blaspheme, because I said, I am the Son of God? 10:37 If I am not doing the works of my Father, then do not believe me. 10:38 But if I am doing them, even if you* do not believe me, believe the works; that* you* may know and may believe that the Father is in me and I in him. 10:39 Therefore they sought again to arrest him and he went forth out of their hand.


     10:40 And he went away again on the other side of the Jordan into the place where John was first immersing*, and he remained there. 10:41 And many came to him and they said, John indeed did no sign; but all things, as many things as John spoke about this man were true. 10:42 And many believed in him there.


[John 11]


    {Jn 11:1-46; Peraea to Bethany, Jan. 30 AD}

     11:1 Now a certain man was sick, Lazarus from Bethany, from the village of Mary and her sister Martha. 11:2 And it was that Mary who anointed the Lord with perfume and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick. 11:3 Therefore the sisters sent to him, saying, Lord, behold, he whom you love is sick.

     11:4 But when Jesus heard it, he said, This sickness is not to death, but on behalf of the glory of God, that* the Son of God may be glorified through it. 11:5 Now Jesus loved* Martha and her sister and Lazarus. 11:6 Therefore when he heard that he was sick, he remained in the place where he was for two days. 11:7 Thereafter, after this time, he says to the disciples, We should go into Judea again.

     11:8 The disciples say to him, Rabbi, the Jews just now were seeking to stone you, and you are going back there again?

     11:9 Jesus answered, Are there not twelve hours in the day? If anyone walks in the day, he does not stumble, because he sees the light of this world. 11:10 But if anyone walks in the night, he stumbles, because the light is not in him. 11:11 He spoke these things and he says to them after this, Our friend Lazarus has fallen-asleep; but I am going-onward, that* I may wake him.

     11:12 Therefore the disciples said to him, Lord, if he has fallen-asleep, he will be cured.

     11:13 (Now Jesus had spoken about his death; but they thought that he spoke about the restfulness of sleep.) 11:14 Therefore Jesus said to them frankly then, Lazarus is dead. 11:15 And I rejoice because of you* that I was not there, in order that* you* may believe; but we should go to him.

     11:16 Therefore Thomas, who is called Didymus, said to his fellow disciples, We should also go, that* we may die with him.


     11:17 Therefore when Jesus came, he found that he had been in the tomb for four days already. 11:18 Now Bethany was near to Jerusalem, about fifteen furlongs off; 11:19 and many from the Jews had come to those around Martha and Mary, that* they may console them concerning their brother. 11:20 Therefore Martha, when she heard that Jesus is coming, met him; but Mary still sat in the house. 11:21 Therefore Martha said to Jesus, Lord, if you had been here, my brother would have not died. 11:22 But even now I know that, as many things as you may ask of God, God will give you.

     11:23 Jesus says to her, Your brother will rise* up again.

     11:24 Martha says to him, I know that he will rise* up in the resurrection at the last day.

     11:25 Jesus said to her, I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me, even if he dies, he will live; 11:26 and everyone who lives and believes in me may never* die– forever. Do you believe this?

     11:27 She says to him, Yes, Lord. I have believed that you are the Christ, the Son of God, he who comes into the world. 11:28 And when she had said these things, she went away and secretly summoned Mary her sister, saying, The Teacher is here and is summoning you. 11:29 When she heard it, she arose quickly and comes to him. 11:30 (Now Jesus had not yet come into the village, but was in the place where Martha met him.)

     11:31 Therefore the Jews who were with her in the house and were consoling her, when they saw Mary, that she stood up quickly and went out, they followed her, saying, She is going to the tomb that* she may weep there.

     11:32 Therefore Mary, when she came where Jesus was and saw him, fell down next to his feet, saying to him, Lord, if you had been there, my brother would have not died.

     11:33 Therefore when Jesus saw her weeping and the Jews also weeping who came with her, he sighed in the spirit and was disturbed, 11:34 and said, Where have you* laid him?

     They say to him, Lord, come and see.

     11:35 Jesus shed-tears.

     11:36 Therefore the Jews said, Behold how he loved him!

     11:37 But some out of them said, Was this man, who opened the eyes of him who was blind, not able to also do something in order that this man might not have died?

     11:38 Therefore Jesus again sighing in himself comes to the tomb. Now it was a cave and a stone lay against it. 11:39 Jesus says, You* lift up the stone.

     Martha, the sister of him who was dead, says to him, Lord, already the body stinks from decay; for* it is four days old.

     11:40 Jesus says to her, Did I not say to you, that, if you believed, you will see the glory of God? 11:41 So they took away the stone where the dead was laid. And Jesus lifted his eyes upward and said, Father, I give-thanks to you that you heard me. 11:42 And I knew that you always hear me; but because of the crowd who is standing around I said it, that* they may believe that you did send me. 11:43 And when he had spoken these things, he cried-out with a loud voice, Lazarus, come-here! Come outside! 11:44 And he who had been dead came out, bound hand and foot with burial wrappings, and his vision was bound around with a handkerchief. Jesus says to them, Loose him and allow him to go.

     11:45 Therefore many out of the Jews, who came to Mary and saw what Jesus did, believed in him. 11:46 But some out of them went away to the Pharisees and told them the things which Jesus had done.


    {Jn 11:47-54; Jerusalem and Ephraim in Judea}

     11:47 Therefore the high-priests and the Pharisees gathered a council and said, What are we doing because this man is doing many signs? 11:48 If we allow him to continue so; all men will believe in him. And the Romans will come and take away both our place and our nation.

     11:49 But a certain one out of them, Caiaphas, being the high-priest that year, said to them, You* know nothing, 11:50 nor do you* reason that it is advantageous for us that* one man should die on behalf of the people and not that* the whole nation should perish. 11:51 (Now he said this not from himself; but being high-priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus was about to die on behalf of the nation; 11:52 and not only on behalf of the nation, but that* he should also gather together into one the children of God who are scattered.) 11:53 So from that day forth, they counseled together that* they might kill him.


     11:54 Therefore Jesus walked no more publicly among the Jews, but went away from there into the country near to the wilderness, into a city called Ephraim, and he stayed there with his disciples.

 

{Jn 11:55-12:1, 9-11 Bethany March 31- April 1, 30 AD}

     11:55 Now the Passover of the Jews was near and many went up to Jerusalem out of the country before the Passover, that* they might purify themselves. 11:56 Therefore they sought Jesus and spoke with one another, as they stood in the temple, What are you* thinking? He may never* come to the feast, or will he? 11:57 Now both the high-priests and the Pharisees had given a commandment, that*, if anyone knows where he was, he should disclose it, *that they might arrest him.


[John 12]


    {Week of the Crucifixion.)

     12:1 Therefore Jesus came to Bethany six days before the Passover, where Lazarus was, who had died, whom was aroused from the dead.

     12:2 So they made* him a supper there and Martha served; but Lazarus was one of those who reclined at the meal with him. 12:3 Therefore Mary took a pound of perfume of precious undiluted nard, and anointed the feet of Jesus and wiped his feet with her hair and the house was filled from the aroma of the perfume. 12:4 Therefore Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son, one out of his disciples, who was about to give him up, says, 12:5 Why was this perfume not sold for three hundred denarius and given to the poor? 12:6 Now this he said, not because he cared about the poor; but because he was a thief and had the box and bore what was put in it.

     12:7 Therefore Jesus said, Allow her, she has kept it *for the day of my burying. 12:8 For* the poor you* always have with you*; but you* do not always have me.


     12:9 Therefore a crowd out of the Jews knew that he was there and they came, not only because of Jesus, but that* they might also see Lazarus, whom he had aroused from the dead. 12:10 But the high-priests counseled that* they might also kill Lazarus; 12:11 that because of him many of the Jews went away and believed in Jesus.


     12:12 A great crowd came to the feast on the next-day when they heard that Jesus is coming into Jerusalem, 12:13 and they took the limbs of the palm trees and went forth to meet him and cried out, Hosanna. He who is coming in the name of the Lord is blessed, the King of Israel. 12:14 And Jesus, having found a young-donkey, sat upon it; as it has been written, 12:15 ‘Do not fear, daughter of Zion. Behold, your King is coming, sitting upon a donkey's colt.’ {Is. 40:9, 62:11, Zech. 9:9} 12:16 (But his disciples did not know these things at first; but when Jesus was glorified, then they remembered that these things were written of him and that they had done these things to him.) 12:17 Therefore the crowd that was with him testified when he summoned Lazarus out of the tomb and aroused him from the dead. 12:18 Also because of this, the crowd went and met him, because it heard that he had done this sign. 12:19 Therefore the Pharisees said among themselves, You are viewing that you* profit nothing. See there! The world has gone after him.


     12:20 Now there were some Greeks from them coming up that* they might worship at the feast; 12:21 therefore these came to Philip, who was of Bethsaida of Galilee and asked him, saying, Lord, we wish to see Jesus. 12:22 Philip comes and speaks to Andrew, and again Andrew and Philip speak to Jesus.

     12:23 And Jesus answered them, saying, The hour has come, that* the Son of Man should be glorified. 12:24 Assuredly, assuredly, I say to you*, If a kernel of grain does not fall into the earth and die, it abides alone by itself; but if it dies, it brings forth much fruit. 12:25 He who loves his life will lose it, and he who hates his life in this world will keep it to eternal life. 12:26 If anyone serves me, let him follow me, and where I am, my servant will also be there. And if anyone serves me, the Father will honor him. 12:27 Now my soul is disturbed, and what should I say? Father, save me from this hour? But I came to this hour because of this. 12:28 Father, glorify your name.

     Therefore a voice came from heaven, saying, I have both glorified it and will glorify it again.

     12:29 Therefore the crowd, that stood there and heard it, said, There has been thunder.

     Others said, A messenger has spoken to him.

     12:30 Jesus answered and said, This voice has not come because of me, but because of you*. 12:31 Now is the judgment of this world. Now the ruler of this world will be cast outside. 12:32 And if I am exalted out of the earth, I will draw all men to myself. 12:33 But he said this, signifying by what sort of death he was about to die.

     12:34 The crowd answered him, We have heard out of the law that the Christ remains forever and how do you say, The Son of Man must be exalted? Who is this Son of Man?

     12:35 Therefore Jesus said to them, The light is still with you* for a little time. Walk while you* have the light, that* darkness might not overtake you* and he who is walking in the darkness does not know where he is going. 12:36 While you* have the light, believe in the light, that* you* may become sons of light.


     Jesus spoke these things and he went away and hid himself from them. 12:37 But though he had done so-many signs in front of them, yet they did not believe in him, 12:38 in order that the word of Isaiah the prophet might be fulfilled, which he spoke, ‘Lord, who has believed our report? And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?’ {Is. 53:1} 12:39 Because of this they were not able to believe, because Isaiah said again, 12:40 ‘He has blinded their eyes and he has hardened their heart; that* they should not see with their eyes and should perceive with their heart and should turn and that* I might heal them.’{Is. 6:9, 10} 12:41 Isaiah said these things, when he saw his glory, and he spoke concerning him. 12:42 Nevertheless many indeed out of the rulers also believed in him; but because of the Pharisees they did not confess it, that* they might not be expelled from the synagogue; 12:43 for* they loved* the glory from men rather than the glory from God.


     12:44 And Jesus cried and said, He who believes in me, does not believe in me, but in him who sent me. 12:45 And he who views me views him who sent me. 12:46 I have come like a light into the world, that* everyone who believes in me may not remain in the darkness. 12:47 And if anyone hears and does not believe my words, I do not judge him; for* I did not come in order that I may judge the world, but in order that I may save the world. 12:48 He who is rejecting me and is not receiving my sayings, has one who judges him; the word that I spoke that will judge him in the last day. 12:49 Because I spoke not from myself; but the Father who sent me, he gave me a commandment, what I should say and what I should speak. 12:50 And I know that his commandment is eternal life, because the things which I speak, just-as the Father has said to me, so I speak to you.


[John 13]


    {Jn 13:1-20 Thurs. Evening}

     13:1 Now before the feast of the Passover, Jesus knowing that his hour has come that* he should proceed out of this world to his Father, having loved* his own that were in the world, he loved* them to the end. 13:2 And it happened during supper, the Slanderer had already put into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, that* he should give him up. 13:3 Jesus, knowing that the Father has given all the things into his hands and that he came forth from God and is going to God, 13:4 arises from supper and places aside his garments, and he took a towel and girded himself. 13:5 Thereafter he pours water into the washbasin and began to wash the disciples' feet and to wipe them with the towel with which he was girded.

     13:6 Therefore he comes to Simon Peter and he says to him, Lord, why are you washing my feet?

     13:7 Jesus answered and said to him, What I do you do not know now; but you will know after this.

     13:8 Peter says to him, Never* wash my feet.

     Jesus answered him, If I do not wash you, you have no part with me.

     13:9 Simon Peter says to him, Lord, not only my feet, but also my hands and my head.

     13:10 Jesus says to him, He who is bathed does not need to wash, other than the feet, but is entirely clean and you* are clean, but not all. 13:11 (For* he knew him who is giving him up.) Then he said, You* are not all clean.


     13:12 Therefore when he had washed their feet and had taken his garments, having leaned-back again, he said to them, You* know what I have done for you*? 13:13 You* address me as the Teacher and, Lord, and you* say well; for* so I am. 13:14 Therefore if, I, the Lord and the Teacher, have washed your* feet, you* also ought to wash one another's feet. 13:15 For* I gave you* an example, that* you* also should do like I have done for you*. 13:16 Assuredly, assuredly, I say to you*, A bondservant is not greater than his lord; nor is an apostle greater than he who sent him. 13:17 If you* know these things, you* are fortunate if you* do them.

     13:18 I do not speak about all of you*. I know whom I have chosen; but in order that the Scripture might be fulfilled, ‘He who eats bread with me, lifted up his heel against me.’ {Ps. 41:9} 13:19 From now on I tell you* before it happens, that*, whenever it has happened, you* may believe that I am he. 13:20 Assuredly, assuredly, I say to you*, He who receives anyone, whomever I send, receives me, and he who receives me receives him who sent me.


    {Mk 14:18-21, 27-31 & Mt 26:21-25, 31-35 & Lk 22:21-23, 31-38 & Jn 13:21-38}

     13:21 When Jesus had said these things, he was disturbed in the spirit and testified and said, Assuredly, assuredly, I say to you* that one out of you* will give me up.

     13:22 Therefore the disciples looked toward one another, being perplexed about whom he is talking about. 13:23 But one of his disciples was reclining on Jesus' bosom, the one whom Jesus loved*. 13:24 Therefore Simon Peter signals to him to inquire, who it might be, about whom he is talking about. 13:25 But he who had leaned upon Jesus' chest says to him, Lord, who is it?

     13:26 Jesus answers, It is he, to whom I have dipped the morsel and I will give it to him. So when he had dipped the morsel, he takes it and gives it to Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son. 13:27 And after the morsel, then Satan entered into him. Therefore Jesus says to him, What you are doing, do quickly. 13:28 (Now no one of those reclining at the table knew and to what purpose he spoke this to him. 13:29 For* some thought, since Judas had the box, that Jesus said to him, Buy what things we have need of *for the feast; or, that* he should give something to the poor.) 13:30 Therefore, having received the morsel, he went out immediately and it was night.


     13:31 Therefore when he had gone out, Jesus says, Now the Son of Man is glorified and God is glorified in him; 13:32 If God has been glorified in him, God will also glorify him in himself and immediately he will glorify him. 13:33 Little children, I am still with you* for a little while. You* will seek me and as I said to the Jews, Where I am going, you* cannot come. Also now I say to you*, 13:34 I am giving to you* a new commandment, that* you* should love* one another; just-as I have loved* you*, that* you* also should love* one another. 13:35 All men will know that you* are my disciples by this, if you* have love* among one another.

     13:36 Simon Peter says to him, Lord, where are you going?

     Jesus answered him, I am going where you cannot follow now; but you will follow me later.

     13:37 Peter says to him, Lord, why cannot I follow you even now? I will lay down my life on behalf of you.

     13:38 Jesus answered him, Will you lay down your life on my behalf? Assuredly, assuredly, I say to you, The rooster may never* crow, until you have denied me three times.


[John 14]


    {Jn 14-17 Thurs. Night, Friday to the Jews}

     14:1 Do not let your* heart be disturbed; you* believe in God, believe also in me. 14:2 In my Father's house are many abodes; otherwise, I would have told you*. I am going-onward to prepare a place for you*. 14:3 And if I go-onward, I will prepare a place for you*. I am coming again and will receive you* to myself; that* where I am, you* may also be there. 14:4 And I am going where you* know and you* know the way.

     14:5 Thomas says to him, Lord, we do not know where you are going; how can we know the way?

     14:6 Jesus says to him, I am the way and the truth and the life; no one is coming to the Father, except through me. 14:7 If you* had known me, you* would have also known my Father; from now on you* know him and have seen him.

     14:8 Philip says to him, Lord, show us the Father and it is enough for us.

     14:9 Jesus says to him, So-much time I have been with you* and you do not know me Philip? He who has seen me has seen the Father. And how can you say this? Show us the Father? 14:10 Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father in me? The words that I say to you*, I do not speak from myself; but the Father who is abiding in me; he is doing the works. 14:11 Either believe me, that I am in the Father and the Father in me, otherwise believe me because of the works themselves. 14:12 Assuredly, assuredly, I say to you*, He who believes in me, the works that I am doing, he will also do, and he will do greater works than these, because I am going-onward to my Father. 14:13 And whatever you* ask in my name, I will do this, that* the Father might be glorified in the Son. 14:14 If you* ask anything in my name, I will do that. 14:15 If you* love* me, keep my commandments.

     14:16 And I will request of the Father and he will give you* another Helper*, that* he may abide with you* forever, 14:17 the Spirit of the truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it does not view him, nor knows him; but you* know him, because he is abiding with you* and will be in you*. 14:18 I will not leave you* orphans. I am coming to you*. 14:19 Still a little while and the world views me no more; but you* view me, because I am living, you* will also live. 14:20 You* will know in that day that I am in my Father and you* in me and I in you*. 14:21 He who holds my commandments and is keeping them, that one is he who loves* me and he who loves* me will be loved* by my Father and I will love* him and will manifest myself to him.

     14:22 Judas (not Iscariot) says to him, Lord, what is happening that you are about to manifest yourself to us and not to the world?

     14:23 Jesus answered and said to him, If anyone loves* me, he will keep my word and my Father will love* him and we will come to him and will make* our abode with him. 14:24 He who does not love* me, does not keep my words. And the word which you* hear is not mine, but the Father's, he who sent me.

     14:25 I have spoken these things to you*, while I am remaining with you*. 14:26 But the Helper*, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you* all things and will remind you* of all that I said to you*. 14:27 I am leaving peace with you*. I am giving my peace to you*; not like the world gives, I am giving to you*. Do not let your* heart be disturbed, nor let it be cowardly. 14:28 You* heard how that I said to you*, I am going-onward and I am coming to you*. If you* loved* me, you* would have rejoiced, because I said, I am going to the Father, because the Father is greater than I. 14:29 And now I have told you* before it happens, that*, whenever it has happened, you* may believe. 14:30 I will not speak much longer with you*, for* the ruler of the world is coming and he has nothing in me; 14:31 but that* the world may know that I love* the Father and as the Father commanded me, thus I am doing.

    Arise, we should go from here.


[John 15]


     15:1 I am the true vine and my Father is the farmer. 15:2 Every branch that is not bringing forth fruit in me, he takes it away and every branch that is bringing forth fruit, he prunes it, in order that it may bring forth more fruit. 15:3 Already you* are clean because of the word which I have spoken to you*. 15:4 Abide in me and I in you*. As the branch cannot bring forth fruit from itself, if it does not abide in the vine; so neither can you* if you* do not abide in me. 15:5 I am the vine, you* are the branches. He who abides in me and I in him, this one is bringing forth much fruit, because you* can do nothing separate from me. 15:6 If anyone does not abide in me, he is cast outside like a branch and is dried up, and they gather them and cast them into the fire and it is burned. 15:7 If you* abide in me and my words should abide in you*, ask whatever you* wish and it will be done to you*. 15:8 My Father is glorified in this, that* you* may bring forth much fruit and will become my disciples.

     15:9 Just-as the Father has loved* me, I have also loved* you*. You* abide in my love*. 15:10 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*. 15:11 I have spoken to you* these things, that* my joy may abide in you* and that* your* joy may be fulfilled. 15:12 This is my commandment, that* you* should love* one another, just-as I have loved* you*. 15:13 No one has greater love* than this: that* someone may lay down his life on behalf of his friends. 15:14 You* are my friends, if you* practice as many things as I command you*. 15:15 I call you* as bondservants no more, because the bondservant does not know what his lord is doing; but I have called you* friends, because all things that I heard from my Father, I have made known to you*. 15:16 You* did not choose me, but I chose you* and appointed* you*, that* you* should go and should bring forth fruit and that* your* fruit should abide, that* whatever you* ask of the Father in my name, he should give it to you*. 15:17 I command you* to do these things, that* you* may love* one another.

     15:18 If the world hates you*, you* know that it has hated me before it hated you*. 15:19 If you* were of* the world, the world would love its own; but because you* are not of* the world, but I chose you* out of the world, therefore the world is hating you*. 15:20 Remember the word that I said to you*, A bondservant is not greater than his lord. If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you*; if they kept my word, they will also keep yours*. 15:21 But they will do all these things to you* because of my name, because they do not know him who sent me. 15:22 If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have had sin; but now they have no excuse concerning their sin. 15:23 He who hates me also hates my Father. 15:24 If I had not done the works which no other has done among them, they would not have had sin; but now they have both seen and hated both me and my Father. 15:25 But this happened, in order that the word might be fulfilled that is written in their law, ‘They hated me undeservedly.’ {Ps 109:3}

     15:26 But whenever the Helper* has come, whom I will send to you* from the Father, who is the Spirit of the truth, who travels from the Father, he will testify concerning me; 15:27 and you* also testify, because you* have been with me from the beginning.


[John 16]


     16:1 I have spoken to you* these things, that* you* should not be offended. 16:2 They will expel you* from the synagogues. But the hour is coming, that* everyone who kills you* may think that he is offering divine service to God. 16:3 And they will do these things to you*, because they have not known the Father, nor me. 16:4 But I have spoken these things to you*, that* whenever the hour has come, you* may remember them, that I told them to you*. And I did not say these things to you* from the beginning, because I was with you*. 16:5 But now I am going to him who sent me, and none out of you* asks me, Where are you going? 16:6 But because I have spoken these things to you*, sorrow has filled your* heart. 16:7 But I tell you* the truth. It is advantageous for you* that* I should go away; for* if I do not go away, the Helper* will not come to you*; but if I go-onward, I will send him to you*. 16:8 And when he has come, he will convict the world concerning sin and concerning righteousness and concerning judgment. 16:9 Concerning sin, because they did not believe in me; 16:10 concerning righteousness, because I am going to my Father and you* view me no more; 16:11 and concerning judgment, because the ruler of this world has been judged. 16:12 I still have many things to say to you*, but you* cannot bear them now. 16:13 But whenever he, the Spirit of the truth, comes, he will guide you* into all the truth; for* he will not speak from himself; but as many things as he may hear, these he will speak and he will report to you* the things that are to come. 16:14 He will glorify me, because he will receive out of mine and will report it to you*. 16:15 All things, as many things as the Father has are mine, because of this, I said, that he is receiving out of mine and will report it to you*. 16:16 A little while and you* do not view me, and again a little while and you* will see me, because I am going to the Father.

     16:17 Therefore some out of his disciples said to one another, What is this that he says to us, A little while and you* do not view me, and again a little while and you* will see me, also, Because I am going to the Father?

     16:18 Therefore they said, What is this that he says, A little while? We do not know the meaning what he says.

     16:19 Therefore Jesus knew that they were wishing to ask him the meaning of this and he said to them, Are you* debating with one another concerning this, that I said, A little while and you* do not view me, and again, A little while and you* will see me? 16:20 Assuredly, assuredly, I say to you* that you* will weep and mourn, but the world will rejoice. But you* will be sorrowful, but your* sorrow will happen leading you* to joy. 16:21 A woman has sorrow whenever she gives-birth, because her hour has come; but whenever the child is born, she remembers the affliction no more, because of the joy that a child has been born into the world. 16:22 And therefore you* now have sorrow; but I will see you* again and your* heart will rejoice and no one takes your* joy away from you*. 16:23 And in that day you* will not be asking me anything. Assuredly, assuredly, I say to you* that as many things as you* may ask the Father, he will give it to you* in my name. 16:24 Until now you* have asked nothing in my name. Ask and you* will receive, that* your* joy may be fulfilled.

     16:25 I have spoken these things to you* in metaphors, but the hour is coming, when I will no more speak to you* in metaphors, but will proclaim to you* frankly about the Father. 16:26 In that day you* will ask in my name and I do not say to you* that I will request of the Father concerning you*; 16:27 for* the Father himself loves you*, because you* have loved me and have believed that I came forth from God. 16:28 I came out from the Father and have come into the world, again, I am leaving the world and I am going-onward to the Father.

     16:29 Then his disciples speak to him, Behold, now you speak frankly and are not speaking in a metaphor. 16:30 Now we know that you know all things and do not have need that* anyone should ask you. We believe that you came forth from God by this.

     16:31 Jesus answered them, Do you* believe now? 16:32 Behold, the hour is coming and has now come, that* you* might be scattered, everyone to his own and you* might leave me alone and yet I am not alone, because the Father is with me. 16:33 I have spoken to you* these things, that* you* may have peace in me. You* have affliction in the world; but have courage; I have overcome the world.


[John 17]


     17:1 Jesus spoke these things, and lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, Father, the hour has come; glorify your Son, that* your Son may also glorify you; 17:2 just-as you gave him authority over all flesh, that* to all whom you have given him, he will give eternal life to them. 17:3 And this is eternal life, that* they should know you, the only true God, and Jesus as the Christ, whom you did send. 17:4 I glorified you upon the earth. I accomplished the work which you have given me that* I should be doing. 17:5 And now, Father, you glorify me with yourself with the glory which I had with you before the world was. 17:6 I manifested your name to the men whom you have given me out of the world. They were yours and you gave them to me, and they have kept your word. 17:7 Now they have known that all things, as many things as you have given me, are from you, 17:8 because the words which you gave me I have given to them, and they received them and do truly know that I came forth from you and they believed that you sent me.

     17:9 I am requesting concerning them. I am not requesting concerning the world, but concerning those whom you have given to me, because they are yours. 17:10 And all things that are mine are yours and yours are mine and I am glorified in them. 17:11 And I am no more in the world and these are in the world and I am coming to you. Holy Father, keep them in your name whom you have given me, that* they may be one, just-as we are one. 17:12 While I was with them in the world, I was keeping them in your name whom you have given me. I guarded them and not one out of them perished, except the son of destruction; in order that the Scripture might be fulfilled. 17:13 But now I am coming to you, and I speak these things in the world, that* they may have my joy fulfilled in themselves. 17:14 I have given them your word, and the world hated them, because they are not of* the world, just-as I am not of* the world.

     17:15 I am not requesting that* you should take them from the world, but that* you should keep them from the evil one. 17:16 They are not of* the world just-as I am not of* the world. 17:17 Sanctify them in the truth; your word is truth. 17:18 As you did send me into the world, I also sent them into the world. 17:19 And I sanctify myself on behalf of them, that* they themselves may also have been sanctified in truth.

     17:20 I am not requesting concerning these only, but concerning those who also believe in me through their word; 17:21 that* they may all be one; like you, Father, are in me and I in you, that* they may also be one in us; that* the world may believe that you did send me. 17:22 And the glory which you have given me I have given to them; that* they may be one, just-as we are one; 17:23 I in them and you in me, that* they may have been perfected into one and that* the world may know that you did send me and you loved* them, just-as you loved* me. 17:24 Father, I wish that* they, whom you have given me, may also be with me where I am, that* they may view my glory, which you gave me, because you loved* me before the conception of the world. 17:25 O righteous Father, the world did not know you, but I knew you, and these knew that you did send me; 17:26 and I made known to them your name and will make it known; that* the love* with which you loved* me may be in them and I in them.


[John 18]


    {Mk 14:26, 32-42 & Mt 26:30, 36-46 & Lk 22:39-46 & Jn 18:1 Garden between Stream of Kidron and Mountain of Olives, Late Thurs. night}

     18:1 When Jesus had spoken these words, he went forth with his disciples over the winter-stream of Kidron valley, where there was a garden, into which he himself and his disciples entered. 18:2 Now Judas, (who is giving him up), also knew the place, because Jesus gathered there often with his disciples. 18:3 Therefore, having received the cohort of soldiers and attendants from the high-priests and the Pharisees, Judas comes there with lanterns and torches and weapons. 18:4 Therefore Jesus, knowing all the things that were coming upon him, went forth and says to them, Whom are you* seeking?

     18:5 They answered him, Jesus the Nazarene.

     Jesus says to them, I am he. And Judas, who was giving him up, was also standing with them. 18:6 Therefore when he said to them, I am he, they went away and fell to the level-ground. 18:7 Therefore again he asked them, Whom are you* seeking?

     And they said, Jesus the Nazarene.

     18:8 Jesus answered, I told you* that I am he; therefore if you* seek me, allow these men to go away. 18:9 (This happened in order that the word might be fulfilled which he spoke, Out of those whom you have given me, I did not lose one.) 18:10 Therefore Simon Peter having a sword drew it and struck the high-priest's bondservant and cut off his right ear. Now the bondservant's name was Malchus. 18:11 Therefore Jesus said to Peter, Put your sword into the sheath. The cup which the Father has given me, should I not drink it?


     18:12 So the cohort and the commander and the attendants of the Jews, took Jesus and bound him, 18:13 and led him to Annas first; for* he was the father-in-law to Caiaphas, who was high-priest that year. 18:14 But it was Caiaphas, who counseled the Jews that it was advantageous for one man to die on behalf of the people.


     18:15 And Simon Peter and the other disciple followed Jesus. Now that disciple was known to the high-priest and went in with Jesus into the courtyard of the high-priest; 18:16 but Peter was standing outside at the door. Therefore the other disciple, who was known to the high-priest, went out and spoke to the doorkeeper and brought in Peter. 18:17 Therefore the maidservant who was the doorkeeper says to Peter, Are you also one out of this man's disciples?

     He says, I am not. 18:18 Now the bondservants and the attendants were standing there, having made* a coal-fire, because it was cold, and they were warming themselves and Peter was standing and warming himself with them.


     18:19 Therefore the high-priest asked Jesus about his disciples and about his teaching. 18:20 Jesus answered him, I spoke publicly to the world; I always taught in the synagogues and in the temple, where the Jews always come together, and I spoke nothing in secret. 18:21 Why are you asking me? Ask those who have heard me, what I spoke to them. Behold, these know what I said.

     18:22 And when he had said these things, one of the attendants standing by gave a slap on the cheek to Jesus, saying, Why are you answering the high-priest so?

     18:23 Jesus answered him, If I spoke evilly, testify concerning the evil; but if well, why are you whipping me?


     18:24 Annas sent him bound to Caiaphas the high-priest.

    {Mk 14:66-72 & Mt 26:69-75 & Lk 22:54-62 & Jn 18:25-27}

     18:25 Now Simon Peter was standing and warming himself. Therefore they said to him, Are you also one out of his disciples?

     Then* he denied and said, I am not.

     18:26 One out of the bondservants of the high-priest, being a relative of him whose ear Peter cut off, says, Did I not see you in the garden with him?

     18:27 Then* Peter denied again and immediately the rooster crowed.


    {Mk 15:2-5 & Mt 27:11-14 & Lk 23:2-5 & Jn 18:28-38 Jerusalem early Friday morning}

     18:28 Then* they lead Jesus from Caiaphas into the palace and it was morning, and they themselves did not enter into the palace, that* they might not be defiled, but that* they might eat the Passover. 18:29 Therefore Pilate went out to them and said, What accusation are you* bringing against this man?

     18:30 They answered and said to him, If this man were not an evildoer, we should not have given him up to you.

     18:31 Therefore Pilate said to them, Take him yourselves and judge him according to your* law.

     Therefore the Jews said to him, It is not legal for us to kill anyone. 18:32 (This happened in order that the word of Jesus might be fulfilled, which he spoke signifying by what sort of death he was about to die.)

     18:33 Therefore Pilate entered again into the palace and summoned Jesus and said to him, Are you the King of the Jews?

     18:34 Jesus answered him, Do you say this from yourself or did others say this to you concerning me?

     18:35 Pilate answered, I am not a Jew, am I? Your own nation and the high-priests gave you to me. What have you done?

     18:36 Jesus answered, My kingdom is not from this world; if my kingdom were from this world, then my attendants would fight that* I might not be given up to the Jews; but now my kingdom is not from here.

     18:37 Therefore Pilate said to him, Are you not a king?

     Jesus answered, You are saying that I am a king. I have been born to this end and I have come into the world to this end, that* I might testify to the truth. Everyone who is from the truth hears my voice.

     18:38 Pilate says to him, What is truth? And when he had said this, he went out again to the Jews and says to them, I am finding no crime in him.

    {Mk 15:6-19 & Mt 27:15-30 & Jn 18:39-19:16 Friday, April 7, 30AD}

     18:39 But it is a custom with you*, that* I should release to you* one prisoner at the Passover; therefore, do you* will that I should release to you* the King of the Jews?

     18:40 Then* they all cried-out again, saying, Not this man, but Barabbas. Now Barabbas was a robber.


    {Footnotes: Jn 18:1- Or: of the Cedars.}


[John 19]


     19:1 Therefore Pilate took Jesus and scourged him then. 19:2 And the soldiers having braided a crown of thorns, placed it on his head and dressed him in a purple garment; 19:3 and said, Hail, King of the Jews! And they gave him slaps on the cheek.

     19:4 Therefore Pilate went outside again and says to them, Behold, I lead him outside to you*, that* you* may know that I am finding no crime in him. 19:5 Then* Jesus came outside, wearing the thorny crown and the purple garment. And Pilate says to them, Behold, the man!

     19:6 Then* when the high-priests and the attendants saw him, they cried-out, saying, Crucify him, crucify him!

     Pilate says to them, Take him yourselves and crucify him; for* I am finding no crime in him.

     19:7 The Jews answered him, We have a law and according to our law he ought to die, because he made* himself the Son of God.

     19:8 Then* when Pilate heard this word, he was more afraid; 19:9 and he entered into the palace again and says to Jesus, Where are you from? But Jesus gave him no answer. 19:10 Therefore Pilate says to him, Why do you not speak to me? Do you not know that I have authority to release you and have authority to crucify you?

     19:11 Jesus answered, You have no authority against me, except that it was given to you from above, because of this, he who gave me to you has the greater sin.

     19:12 From that time, Pilate sought to release him; but the Jews cried out, saying, If you release this man, you are not Caesar's friend. Everyone who makes* himself a king speaks against Caesar. 19:13 Then* when Pilate heard this word, he led Jesus outside and sat down upon the judgment-seat in a place called The Pavement, but in Hebrew, Gabbatha. 19:14 But it was the Preparation of the Passover and was about the sixth hour.

     And he says to the Jews, Behold, your* King!

     19:15 But they cried-out, Take him away, take him away, crucify him!

     Pilate says to them, Shall I crucify your* King?

     The high-priests answered, We have no king except Caesar. 19:16 Therefore, he gave him to them then that* he might be crucified and they took Jesus and led him away.


    {Mk 15:20-23 & Mt 27:31-34 & Lk 23:26-33 & Jn 19:17 Road to the Cross, Friday morning}

     19:17 And he went out, bearing his cross, to the place called The Place of a Skull, which is called in Hebrew, Golgotha,

    {Mk 15:24-32 & Mt 27:35-44 & Lk 23:33-43 & Jn 19:18-27 9:00 until Noon, Friday}

     19:18 where they crucified him and two others with him, on this side and on that side and Jesus in the middle. 19:19 And Pilate also wrote a title and placed it upon the cross. And it was written, JESUS THE NAZARENE, THE KING OF THE JEWS. 19:20 Therefore many of the Jews read this title, because the place where Jesus was crucified was near to the city, and it was written in Hebrew, in Greek and in Latin.

     19:21 Therefore the high-priests of the Jews said to Pilate, Do not write, The King of the Jews; but that he said, I am King of the Jews.

     19:22 Pilate answered, I have written what I have written.


     19:23 Therefore the soldiers, when they had crucified Jesus, took his garments and made* four parts, a part to every soldier, and also the tunic. Now the tunic was seamless from the top, and was entirely woven. 19:24 Therefore they said to one another, We should not split-apart this tunic, but should do lots concerning it; whose it will be. This happened in order that the Scripture might be fulfilled, which says, ‘They divided my garments among them and they cast a lot for my garment.’ {Ps. 22. 18} 19:25 Therefore the soldiers did these things. But, his mother and his mother's sister, Mary the wife of Clopas and Mary Magdalene stood beside the cross of Jesus.

     19:26 Therefore when Jesus saw his mother and the disciple standing by whom he loved*, he says to his mother, Woman, behold your son! 19:27 Thereafter he says to the disciple, Behold, your mother! And from that hour the disciple took her to his own home.


    {Mk 15:34-41 & Mt 27:46-56 & Lk 23:45-49 & Jn 19:28-30 about 5:00 PM}

     19:28 After this Jesus, knowing that all things have been finished, that* the Scripture might be accomplished, which says, ‘I am thirsty.’ {Ps. 69:21} 19:29 Therefore a vessel was standing full of vinegar and having filled a sponge with vinegar and having placed it around a hyssop, they brought it to his mouth. 19:30 Then* when Jesus had received the vinegar, he said, It is finished. And he bowed his head and gave up his spirit.


    {Mk 15:42-47 & Mt 27:57-66 & Lk 23:50-56 & Jn 19:31-42 Before The Sabbath.}

     19:31 Therefore the Jews asked of Pilate, that* the bodies should not remain upon the cross upon the Sabbath since it was the Preparation, (for* the day of that Sabbath was a high day), that* their legs might be fractured and that* they might be taken away. 19:32 Therefore the soldiers came and fractured the legs of the first and of the other one who was crucified together with him, 19:33 but when they came to Jesus and saw that he was dead already, they did not fracture his legs; 19:34 but one of the soldiers pierced his ribs with a spear and immediately blood and water came out of it. 19:35 And he who has seen has testified and his testimony is true and he knows that he says true things, that* you* might believe. 19:36 For* these things happened in order that the Scripture might be fulfilled, ‘A bone of him will not be crushed.’ {Ex. 12:46 & Num. 9:12 & Ps. 34:20} 19:37 And again another Scripture says, ‘They will look at him whom they stabbed.’ {Zech. 12:10}


     19:38 After these things, Joseph of Arimathaea, being a disciple of Jesus and having been hidden because of his fear of the Jews, asked Pilate that* he might take away the body of Jesus and Pilate permitted him. Therefore he came and took away his body. 19:39 And Nicodemus also came, he who came to Jesus the first time by night, bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about a hundred pounds of it. 19:40 So they took the body of Jesus and bound it in linen-strips with the spices, as the custom of the Jews is for burial. 19:41 Now in the place where he was crucified there was a garden, and in the garden a new tomb in which a man had not yet laid. 19:42 Therefore they laid Jesus there and because of the Jews' Preparation and because the tomb was near.


[John 20]


    {Mk 16:1-8 & Mt 28:1-8 & Lk 24:1-8, 12 & Jn 20:1-10 Dawn and very early Sunday}

     20:1 Now on the first day of the week Mary Magdalene comes in the morning, while it was still dark, to the tomb and sees the stone lifted away from the tomb. 20:2 Therefore she runs and comes to Simon Peter and to the other disciple whom Jesus loved* and says to them, They have taken away the Lord from the tomb and we do not know where they have laid him.

     20:3 Therefore Peter went forth and the other disciple and they went toward the tomb. 20:4 And they both ran in unison and the other disciple ran ahead of Peter and came first to the tomb; 20:5 and stooping down and looking in, he sees the linen-strips laying; nevertheless he did not enter in. 20:6 Then* Simon Peter comes, following him and entered into the tomb, and he views the linen-strips laying, 20:7 and the handkerchief that was upon his head, was not laying with the linen-strips, but was entwined in a separate place. 20:8 Therefore the other disciple also entered in then, who came first to the tomb and he saw and believed. 20:9 (For* they did not yet know the Scripture, that he must rise* up from the dead.) 20:10 So the disciples went away again to their home.


    {Mk 16:9-11 & Mt 28:9-10 & Lk 24:9-11 & Jn 20:11-18}

     20:11 But Mary was standing outside at the tomb weeping. Therefore as she wept, she peered into the tomb; 20:12 and she views two messengers in white sitting, one at the head and one at the feet, where the body of Jesus had laid. 20:13 And they say to her, Woman, why do you weep?

     She says to them, Because they have taken away my Lord and I do not know where they have laid him. 20:14 And when she had said these things, she turned herself back and views Jesus standing and did not know that it was Jesus.

     20:15 Jesus says to her, Woman, why are you weeping? Whom are you seeking?

     She, thinking that it is the gardener, says to him, Lord, if you bore him away from here, tell me where you have laid him and I will take him away.

     20:16 Jesus says to her, Mary.

     She turning around, says to him, Rabboni; which is to say, Teacher.

     20:17 Jesus says to her, Do not be touching me; for* I have not yet ascended to the Father; but go-onward to my brethren and say to them, I am ascending to my Father and your* Father and my God and your* God.

     20:18 Mary Magdalene comes, reporting to the disciples, that she had seen the Lord, and that he had said these things to her.


    {Mk 16:14 & Lk 24:36-43 & Jn 20:19-25 Sunday Evening}

     20:19 Therefore when it was evening, on that day, the first day of the week and when the doors were locked where the disciples were gathered because of fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in the middle and says to them, Peace be to you*. 20:20 And when he had said this, he showed to them his hands and his ribs. Therefore the disciples rejoiced, when they saw the Lord. 20:21 Then* Jesus said to them again, Peace be to you*; as the Father has sent me; I am also sending you*. 20:22 And when he had said this, he exhales on them and says to them, You* receive the Holy Spirit. 20:23 If you* forgive anyone’s sins, they are forgiven to them; if you* hold-fast anyone’s sins, those sins have been held.


     20:24 But Thomas, one out of the twelve, called {F} Didymus, was not with them when Jesus came. 20:25 Therefore the other disciples said to him, We have seen the Lord.

     But he said to them, If I do not see the pattern of the nails in his hands and may put my finger into the pattern of the nails and may put my hand into his ribs, I will never* believe.


    {Jn 20:26-31 & 1Cor: 15:5 Sunday after resurrection}

     20:26 And after eight days again his disciples were inside and Thomas with them. Jesus comes, the doors being locked and stood in the middle and said, Peace to you*. 20:27 Thereafter he says to Thomas, Bring your finger here and see my hands, and bring your hand here and put it into my ribs and do not become unbelieving, but believing.

     20:28 And Thomas answered and said to him, My Lord and my God!

     20:29 Jesus says to him, Because you have seen me, you have believed; but those who have not seen and yet have believed are fortunate.


     20:30 Therefore Jesus did many other signs before his disciples, which are not written in this book; 20:31 but these are written, that* you* may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that* believing you* may have life in his name.

    {Footnotes: Jn 20:24- Or: twin.}


[John 21]


    {Jn 21:1-25 Sea of Galilee}

     21:1 After these things, Jesus manifested himself again to the disciples upon the sea of Tiberias, and he appeared so. 21:2 They were united-together at Galilee: Simon Peter and Thomas called Didymus and Nathanael of Cana and the sons of Zebedee and two others out of his disciples. 21:3 Simon Peter says to them, I am going to fish.

     They say to him, We are also coming with you. They went forth and immediately entered into the ship, and that night they clutched nothing in the net.

     21:4 But when it had already become morning, Jesus stood at the beach; nevertheless the disciples did not know that it was Jesus. 21:5 Then* Jesus says to them, Children, do you* have any fish?

     They answered him, No.

     21:6 And he said to them, Cast the net toward the right part of the ship and you* will find some. Therefore they cast it and they were not strong-enough to drag it into the ship away from the crowd of fish.

     21:7 Therefore that disciple whom Jesus loved* says to Peter, It is the Lord. Then* Simon Peter having heard that it was the Lord, he girded his outer clothing upon himself (for* he {F} was naked) and cast himself into the sea. 21:8 But the other disciples came with the small-boat (for* they were not far from the land, but about two hundred cubits from it), dragging the net full of fish. 21:9 Then as they stepped to the land, they see a coal-fire there and a fish laid on it and bread.

     21:10 Jesus says to them, Bring some of the fish which you* have now clutched in the net. 21:11 Simon Peter went up and dragged the net to the land, full of great fish, a hundred and fifty-three and there were so-many, yet the net was not split-apart. 21:12 Jesus says to them, Come-here. Break your* fast.

     And none of the disciples dared to probe him, Who are you? Knowing that it was the Lord. 21:13 Then* Jesus comes and takes the bread and gives it to them and the fish likewise. 21:14 This is already the third time that Jesus appeared to his disciples, after he had arose from the dead.


     21:15 Then* when they had broken their fast, Jesus says to Simon Peter, Simon, Son of Jonah, do you {F} love* me more-than these?

     He says to him, Yes, Lord; you know that I {F} love you.

     He says to him, Feed my lambs.

     21:16 He says to him again a second time, Simon, Son of Jonah, do you {F} love* me?

     He says to him, Yes, Lord; you know that I {F} love you.

     He says to him, Shepherd my sheep.

     21:17 He says to him the third time, Simon, Son of Jonah, Do you {F} love me?

     Peter was sorrowful because he said to him the third time, Do you {F} love me like a friend? And he said to him, Lord, you know all things; you know that I {F} love you like a friend.

     Jesus says to him, Feed my sheep. 21:18 Assuredly, assuredly, I say to you, When you were young, you girded yourself and walked where you wish; but whenever you are elderly, you will stretch out your hands and another will gird you and carry you where you do not wish. 21:19 Now he spoke this signifying by what sort of death he should glorify God. And when he had spoken this, he says to him, Follow me.

     21:20 But Peter, turning again, sees the disciple whom Jesus loved* following; who also leaned-back upon his chest at the supper and who had said, Lord, who is he who is giving you up? 21:21 Peter seeing him says to Jesus, Lord and what about this man?

     21:22 Jesus says to him, If I will for him to abide until I come, what is that pertaining to you? You follow me!

     21:23 Therefore this saying went forth to the brethren that this disciple does not die. And yet Jesus did not say to him that he does not die; but, If I will that he remains until I come, what is that pertaining to you?


     21:24 This is the disciple who is testifying concerning these things and wrote these things and we know that his testimony is true.

     21:25 And there are also many other things testifying to how-much Jesus did, which if they are written every one, I assume that not even the world itself could make* room for the written books.

     Amen.


    {Footnotes: Jn 21:7- Or: was half dressed. COMPARE: Jn 13:14, Is. 20:2, Mic. 1:8, 11:21:15, 16. Jn 21:15, 16, 17 ‘Love*’ means ‘all giving love.’ ‘Love’ means ‘a love of a friend.’ The Greek defined the various kinds of love by different words.}





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