Bible: The New Testament: The Gospel According to John (I - VII)

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In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. ²The same was in the beginning with God. ³All things were made by him; and without him was nothing made that has been made. ⁴In him was life; and the life was the light of men. ⁵And the light shines in the darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.

⁶There was a man sent from God, whose name was John. ⁷The same came for witness, to bear witness of the light, that through him all might believe. ⁸He was not the light; but [came] to bear witness of the light. ⁹There was the true light, which lights every man that comes into the world. ¹⁰He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not. ¹¹He came to his own, and his own received him not. ¹²But as many as received him, to them he gave power to become children of God, to those who believe on his name; ¹³who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.

¹⁴And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us; and we beheld his glory, a glory as of the only begotten from the Father, full of grace and truth.

¹⁵John bore witness of him; and cried, saying: This was he of whom I said, He that comes after me is preferred before me, because he was before me. ¹⁶Because out of his fullness we all received, and grace for grace. ¹⁷For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ. ¹⁸No one has ever seen God; the only begotten Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, he declared him.

¹⁹And this is the witness of John, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him: Who art thou? ²⁰And he confessed, and denied not; and he confessed: I am not the Christ. ²¹And they asked him: What then? Art thou Elijah? And he says: I am not. Art thou the Prophet? And he answered: No. ²²They said therefore to him: Who art thou? that we may give an answer to those who sent us. What sayest thou of thyself? ²³He said: I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness: Make straight the way of the Lord, as said Isaiah the prophet.

²⁴And they who were sent were of the Pharisees. ²⁵And they asked him, and said to him: Why then dost thou immerse, if thou art not the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the Prophet? ²⁶John answered them, saying: I immerse in water. There stands one in the midst of you, whom ye know not; ²⁷he who comes after me, the latchet of whose sandal I am not worthy to loose.

²⁸These things took place in Bethany beyond the Jordan, where John was immersing.

²⁹On the morrow, he sees Jesus coming to him, and says: Behold the Lamb of God, that takes away the sin of the world! ³⁰This is he of whom I said: After me comes a man who is preferred before me; because he was before me. ³¹And I knew him not; but that he might be made manifest to Israel, for this I came immersing in water.

³²And John bore witness, saying: I have seen the Spirit descending as a dove out of heaven, and it abode upon him. ³³And I knew him not; but he who sent me to immerse in water, the same said to me: Upon whom thou shalt see the Spirit descending, and abiding on him, the same is he who immerses in the Holy Spirit. ³⁴And I have seen, and have borne witness, that this is the Son of God.

³⁵Again, on the morrow, John was standing, and two of his disciples; ³⁶and looking upon Jesus as he walked, he says: Behold the Lamb of God! ³⁷And the two disciples heard him speak, and they followed Jesus. ³⁸And Jesus turning, and beholding them following, says to them: What seek ye? They said to him: Rabbi (which interpreted means, Teacher), where dost thou abide? ³⁹He says to them: Come, and ye shall see. They came and saw where he abode; and they abode with him that day. It was about the tenth hour.

⁴⁰Andrew, the brother of Simon Peter, was one of the two who heard it from John, and followed him. ⁴¹He first finds his brother Simon, and says to him: We have found the Messiah, which is interpreted, Christ. ⁴²And he brought him to Jesus. Jesus, beholding him, said: Thou art Simon the son of Jonah; thou shalt be called Cephas, which is interpreted, Peter.

⁴³On the morrow he would go forth into Galilee. And he finds Philip; and Jesus says to him: Follow me. ⁴⁴Now Philip was from Bethsaida, of the city of Andrew and Peter. ⁴⁵Philip finds Nathanael, and says to him: We have found him of whom Moses, in the law, and the prophets wrote, Jesus the son of Joseph, who is from Nazareth. ⁴⁶And Nathanael said to him: Can any good thing come out of Nazareth? Philip says to him: Come and see. ⁴⁷Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and says of him: Behold an Israelite indeed, in whom is no guile! ⁴⁸Nathanael says to him: Whence knowest thou me? Jesus answered and said to him: Before Philip called thee, when thou wast under the fig-tree, I saw thee. ⁴⁹Nathanael answered: Rabbi; thou art the Son of God, thou art the King of Israel. ⁵⁰Jesus answered and said to him: Because I said to thee, I saw thee under the fig-tree, believest thou? Thou shalt see greater things than these. ⁵¹And he says to him: Verily, verily, I say to you, henceforth ye shall see heaven opened, and the angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of man.

II.

And on the third day there was a marriage in Cana of Galilee; and the mother of Jesus was there. ²And Jesus also was bidden, and his disciples, to the marriage. ³And wine having failed, the mother of Jesus says to him: They have no wine. ⁴Jesus says to her: Woman, what have I to do with thee? My hour is not yet come. ⁵His mother says to the servants: Whatever he says to you, do it. ⁶Now there were set there six water-pots of stone, after the Jewish custom of purifying, containing two or three firkins apiece. ⁷Jesus says to them: Fill the water-pots with water. And they filled them up to the brim. ⁸And he says to them: Draw out now, and bear to the ruler of the feast. And they bore it. ⁹When the ruler of the feast tasted the water that was made wine (and he knew not whence it was, but the servants who had drawn the water knew), the ruler of the feast called the bridegroom, ¹⁰and says to him: Every man sets forth the good wine first; and when they have drunk freely, then that which is worse. Thou hast kept the good wine until now. ¹¹This beginning of the signs Jesus wrought in Cana of Galilee, and manifested his glory; and his disciples believed on him.

¹²After this he went down to Capernaum, he, and his mother, and his brothers, and his disciples; and they abode there not many days.

¹³And the passover of the Jews was at hand; and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. ¹⁴And he found in the temple those who sold oxen and sheep and doves, and the money-changers sitting. ¹⁵And having made a scourge of small cords, he drove all out of the temple, both the sheep and the oxen; and poured out the changers' money, and overthrew the tables; ¹⁶and to those who sold doves he said: Take these things hence; make not my Father's house a house of merchandise. ¹⁷And his disciples remembered that it is written: for thy house consumes me.

¹⁸The Jews therefore answered and said to him: What sign dost thou show to us, seeing that thou doest these things? ¹⁹Jesus answered and said to them: Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up. ²⁰Therefore said the Jews: Forty and six years was this temple in building, and wilt thou raise it up in three days? ²¹But he said it of the temple of his body. ²²When therefore he was risen from the dead, his disciples remembered that he said this; and they believed the Scripture, and the word which Jesus spoke.

²³And when he was in Jerusalem at the passover, on the feast-day, many believed on his name, beholding his signs which he wrought. ²⁴But Jesus did not trust himself to them, because he knew all men, ²⁵and had no need that any one should testify of man; for he himself knew what was in man.

III.

There was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. ²The same came to him by night, and said to him: Rabbi, we know that thou hast come a teacher from God; for no one can do these signs which thou doest, except God be with him.

³Jesus answered and said to him: Verily, verily, I say to thee, except a man be born again, he can not see the kingdom of God. ⁴Nicodemus says to him: How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter the second time into his mother's womb, and be born?

⁵Jesus answered: Verily, verily, I say to thee, except a man be born of water and the Spirit, he can not enter into the kingdom of God. ⁶That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. ⁷Marvel not that I said to thee: Ye must be born again.

⁸The wind blows where it will, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but knowest not whence it comes, and whither it goes. So is every one that is born of the Spirit.

⁹Nicodemus answered and said to him: How can these things be? ¹⁰Jesus answered and said to him: Art thou the teacher of Israel, and knowest not these things? ¹¹Verily, verily, I say to thee, we speak that which we know, and testify that which we have seen; and ye receive not our testimony. ¹²If I told you the earthly things, and ye believe not, how shall ye believe, if I tell you the heavenly things? ¹³And no one has ascended up into heaven, but he who came down out of heaven, the Son of man who is in heaven. ¹⁴And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of man be lifted up; ¹⁵that every one who believes on him may have everlasting life. ¹⁶For God so loved the world, that he gave his only-begotten Son, that whoever believes on him, should not perish, but may have everlasting life. ¹⁷For God sent not his Son into the world to judge the world; but that the world through him might be saved. ¹⁸He that believes on him is not judged; but he that believes not has already been judged, because he has not believed on the name of the only-begotten Son of God. ¹⁹And this is the judgment, that light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light; for their deeds were evil. ²⁰For every one that does evil hates the light, and comes not to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. ²¹But he that does the truth comes to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.

²²After these things came Jesus and his disciples into the land of Judæa; and there he remained with them, and immersed. ²³And John also was immersing in Ænon near to Salim, because there was much water there; and they came, and were immersed. ²⁴For John was not yet cast into prison.

²⁵There arose therefore a question, on the part of John's disciples with a Jew, about purification. ²⁶And they came to John and said to him: Rabbi, he who was with thee beyond the Jordan, to whom thou hast borne witness, behold, he immerses, and all come to him.

²⁷John answered and said: A man can receive nothing, except it be given him from heaven. ²⁸Ye yourselves bear me witness, that I said, I am not the Christ, but I am sent before him. ²⁹He that has the bride is the bridegroom. But the friend of the bridegroom, who stands and hears him, rejoices greatly because of the bridegroom's voice. This my joy therefore is made full. ³⁰He must increase, but I must decrease. ³¹He that comes from above is above all; he that is from the earth is of the earth, and speaks of the earth; he that comes from heaven is above all. ³²And what he has seen and heard, that he testifies; and his testimony no one receives. ³³He that received his testimony has set his seal, That God is true. ³⁴For he whom God sent forth speaks the words of God; for he gives not the Spirit by measure. ³⁵The Father loves the Son, and has given all things into his hand. ³⁶He that believes on the Son has everlasting life; and he that believes not the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God abides on him.

IV.

When therefore the Lord knew that the Pharisees heard, that Jesus made and immersed more disciples than John ²(though Jesus himself immersed not, but his disciples), ³he left Judæa, and departed again into Galilee. ⁴And he must go through Samaria. ⁵He comes therefore to a city of Samaria, called Sychar⁵, near to the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph. ⁶And Jacob's well was there. Jesus therefore, being wearied with the journey, sat down thus on the well. It was about the sixth hour.

⁷There comes a woman of Samaria to draw water. Jesus, says to her: Give me to drink. ⁸For his disciples had gone away into the city to buy food. ⁹The Samaritan woman therefore says to him: How is it that thou, being a Jew, askest drink of me, being a Samaritan woman? For Jews do not associate with Samaritans. ¹⁰Jesus answered and said to her: If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that says to thee, Give me to drink, thou wouldest have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water. ¹¹The woman says to him: Sir, thou hast nothing to draw with, and the well is deep. From whence then hast thou the living water. ¹²Art thou greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well, and drank thereof himself, and his children, and his cattle? ¹³Jesus answered and said to her: Every one that drinks of this water shall thirst again. ¹⁴But whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall become in him a well of water, springing up into everlasting life. ¹⁵The woman says to him: Sir, give me this water, that I may not thirst, nor come hither to draw.

¹⁶Jesus says to her: Go, call thy husband, and come hither. ¹⁷The woman answered and said: I have no husband. Jesus says to her: Thou saidst well, I have no husband. ¹⁸For thou hast had five husbands; and he whom thou now hast is not thy husband. That thou hast spoken truly.

¹⁹The woman says to him: Sir, I perceive that thou art a prophet. ²⁰Our fathers worshiped in this mountain; and ye say, that in Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship. ²¹Jesus says to her: Woman, believe me, an hour is coming, when ye shall neither in this mountain nor in Jerusalem worship the Father. ²²Ye worship that which ye know not; we worship that which we know; because salvation is of the Jews. ²³But an hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth; for such the Father seeks to worship him. ²⁴God is spirit; and they that worship him, must worship in spirit and in truth.

²⁵The woman says to him: I know that Messiah comes (who is called Christ); when he is come, he will tell us all things. ²⁶Jesus says to her: I that speak to thee am he. ²⁷And upon this came his disciples; and they marveled that he talked with the woman. Yet no one said: What seekest thou? or, Why talkest thou with her? ²⁸The woman then left her water-pot, and went away into the city; and she says to the men: ²⁹Come, see a man who told me all things that ever I did. Is this the Christ? ³⁰Then they went out of the city, and came to him.

³¹In the mean while the disciples prayed him, saying: Master, eat. ³²But he said to them: I have food to eat that ye know not of. ³³Therefore said the disciples one to another: Has any one brought him aught to eat? ³⁴Jesus says to them: My food is to do the will of him who sent me, and to finish his work. ³⁵Do ye not say, that there are yet four months, and then comes the harvest? Behold, I say to you, lift up your eyes and look on the fields, that they are already white for harvest. ³⁶And he that reaps receives wages, and gathers fruit unto life eternal; that both he that sows and he that reaps may rejoice together. ³⁷And herein is the true saying: One sows, and another reaps. ³⁸I sent you to reap that whereon ye have not labored. Other men have labored, and ye have entered into their labor.

³⁹And many of the Samaritans of that city believed on him for the saying of the woman, who testified: He told me all that ever I did. ⁴⁰When therefore the Samaritans came to him, they besought him to remain with them. And he remained there two days. ⁴¹And far more believed because of his word; ⁴²and said to the woman: We no longer believe because of thy saying; for we ourselves have heard, and know that this is in truth the Savior of the world.

⁴³And after the two days he departed thence, and went into Galilee. ⁴⁴For Jesus himself testified, that a prophet has no honor in his own country.

⁴⁵When therefore he came into Galilee, the Galilæans received him, having seen all that he did in Jerusalem at the feast; for they also went to the feast. ⁴⁶So he came again into Cana of Galilee, where he made the water wine.

And there was a certain nobleman, whose son was sick, in Capernaum. ⁴⁷He, having heard that Jesus is come out of Judæa into Galilee, went to him, and besought him that he would come down and heal his son; for he was about to die. ⁴⁸Jesus therefore said to him: Except ye see signs and wonders, ye will not believe. ⁴⁹The nobleman says to him: Sir, come down ere my child die. ⁵⁰Jesus says to him: Go thy way; thy son lives. And the man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him, and he went his way. ⁵¹And as he was now going down, his servants met him, and brought word saying: Thy child lives. ⁵²He inquired of them, therefore, the hour when he began to amend. And they said to him: Yesterday, at the seventh hour, the fever left him. ⁵³The father knew, therefore, that it was in the same hour in which Jesus said to him: Thy son lives. And he himself believed, and his whole house. ⁵⁴This second sign Jesus wrought, when he had come out of Judæa into Galilee.

After these things there was a feast of the Jews; and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. ²And there is in Jerusalem by the sheep-gate a pool, which is called in the Hebrew tongue Bethesda, having five porches. ³In these lay a multitude of the infirm, of blind, lame, withered [waiting for the moving of the water. ⁴For an angel went down at a certain season into the pool, and troubled the water. He therefore; who first went in after the troubling of the water, was made whole of whatever disease he had]. ⁵And a certain man was there, who had an infirmity thirty and eight years. ⁶Jesus seeing this man lying, and knowing that he had been already a long time thus, says to him: Dost thou desire to be made whole? ⁷The infirm man answered him: Sir, I have no man, when the water is troubled, to put me into the pool; but while I am coming, another goes down before me. ⁸Jesus says to him: Rise, take up thy bed, and walk. ⁹And immediately the man was made whole, and took up his bed and walked.

And on that day was the sabbath. ¹⁰The Jews therefore said to him that was cured: It is the sabbath; it is not lawful for thee to carry the bed. ¹¹He answered them: He who made me whole, the same said to me: Take up thy bed, and walk. ¹²They asked him therefore: Who is the man that said to thee: Take up thy bed and walk? ¹³And he who was healed knew not who it was; for Jesus conveyed himself away, there being a multitude in the place.

¹⁴Afterward Jesus finds him in the temple. And he said to him: Behold, thou hast been made whole; sin no more, lest something worse befall thee. ¹⁵The man departed, and told the Jews that it was Jesus who made him whole. ¹⁶And for this the Jews persecuted Jesus, because he did these things on the sabbath. ¹⁷But Jesus answered them: My Father works hitherto, and I work. ¹⁸For this therefore the Jews sought the more to kill him, because he not only broke the sabbath, but also called God his Father, making himself equal with God.

¹⁹Jesus therefore, answered and said to them: Verily, verily, I say to you, the Son can do nothing of himself, but what he sees the Father do; for what things soever he does, these also does the Son in like manner. ²⁰For the Father loves the Son, and shows him all things that he himself does; and greater works than these will he show him, that ye may marvel. ²¹For as the Father raises up the dead, and quickens them; so also the Son quickens whom he will. ²²For neither does the Father judge any one; but all judgment he has given to the Son; ²³that all may honor the Son, as they honor the Father. He that honors not the Son, honors not the Father who sent him.

²⁴Verily, verily, I say to you, he that hears my word, and believes him who sent me, has everlasting life, and comes not into judgment, but has passed out of death into life. ²⁵Verily, verily, I say to you, an hour is coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God; and they that hear shall live. ²⁶For as the Father has life in himself, so he gave also to the Son to have life in himself. ²⁷And he gave him authority to execute judgment also, because he is a son of man. ²⁸Marvel not at this; for an hour is coming, in which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice, ²⁹and shall come forth; they that did good, to the resurrection of life, and they that did evil, to the resurrection of judgment.

³⁰I can of myself do nothing. As I hear, I judge; and my judgment is just; because I seek not my own will, but the will of him who sent me.

³¹If I bear witness of myself, my witness is not true. ³²There is another that bears witness of me; and I know that the witness which he witnesses of me is true. ³³Ye have sent to John, and he has borne witness to the truth. ³⁴But I receive the witness not from man; but these things I say, that ye might be saved. ³⁵He was the burning and shining lamp; and ye were willing for a season to rejoice in his light. ³⁶But I have greater witness than that of John; for the works which the Father gave me to finish, the works themselves that I do bear witness of me, that the Father has sent me. ³⁷And the Father, who sent me, he has borne witness of me. Ye have neither heard his voice at any time, nor have ye seen his shape. ³⁸And ye have not his word abiding in you; for whom he sent, him ye believe not.

³⁹Search the Scriptures; because in them ye think ye have eternal life, and these are they that testify of me; ⁴⁰and ye will not come to me, that ye may have life. ⁴¹I receive not honor from men. ⁴²But I know you, that ye have not the love of God in you. ⁴³I have come in my Father's name, and ye receive me not; if another shall come in his own name, him ye will receive. ⁴⁴How can ye believe, receiving honor from one another, and the honor that is from God alone ye seek not? ⁴⁵Do not think that I will accuse you to the Father; there is one that accuses you, Moses in whom ye have placed your hope. ⁴⁶For if ye believed Moses, ye would believe me; for he wrote of me. ⁴⁷But if ye believe not his writings, how shall ye believe my words?

VI.

After these things Jesus went away, beyond the sea of Galilee, which is the sea of Tiberias. ²And a great multitude followed him, because they saw the signs which he wrought on the sick. ³And Jesus went up into the mountain, and there he sat with his disciples. ⁴And the passover, the feast of the Jews, was near. ⁵Jesus therefore lifting up his eyes, and seeing that a great multitude is coming to him, says to Philip: Whence shall we buy bread that these may eat? ⁶And this he said to try him; for he himself knew what he was about to do. ⁷Philip answered him: Two hundred denáries worth of bread is not sufficient for them, that each one may take a little. ⁸One of his disciples, Andrew, the brother of Simon Peter, says to him: ⁹There is a lad here, who has five barley loaves and two small fishes; but what are they among so many? ¹⁰Jesus said: Make the men lie down. Now there was much grass in the place. So the men lay down, in number about five thousand. ¹¹And Jesus took the loaves; and having given thanks, he distributed to those who were lying down; and likewise of the fishes as much as they desired. ¹²When they were filled, he said to his disciples: Gather up the fragments that remain, that nothing be lost. ¹³Therefore they gathered them together, and filled twelve baskets with fragments of the five barley loaves, which remained over and above to those who had eaten. ¹⁴The men therefore, seeing the sign that Jesus wrought, said: This is of a truth the Prophet that comes into the world.

¹⁵Jesus therefore, knowing that they were about to come and take him by force, to make him a king, withdrew again into the mountain, himself alone. ¹⁶And when evening came, his disciples went down to the sea, ¹⁷and entering into the ship, were going over the sea to Capernaum. And it was now dark, and Jesus had not come to them; ¹⁸and as a strong wind was blowing, the sea began to rise. ¹⁹When therefore they had rowed about twenty-five or thirty furlongs, they see Jesus walking on the sea, and drawing near to the ship; and they were afraid. ²⁰But he says to them: It is I, be not afraid. ²¹They therefore willingly received him into the ship; and immediately the ship was at the land whither they were going.

²²On the morrow, the multitude that stood on the other side of the sea, seeing that there was no other boat there but one, and that Jesus went not with his disciples into the ship, but his disciples went away alone ²³(but there came other boats from Tiberias near to the place where they ate bread, when the Lord had given thanks); ²⁴when therefore the multitude saw that Jesus was not there, nor his disciples, they themselves entered into the boats, and came to Capernaum, seeking for Jesus. ²⁵And having found him on the other side of the sea, they said to him: Rabbi, when camest thou hither? ²⁶Jesus answered them and said: Verily, verily, I say to you, ye seek me, not because ye saw signs, but because ye ate of the loaves and were filled. ²⁷Work not for the food that perishes, but for the food that endures unto everlasting life, which the Son of man will give to you; for him the Father, God, has sealed, ²⁸Therefore they said to him: What shall we do, that we may work the works of God? ²⁹Jesus answered and said to them: This is the work of God, that ye believe on him whom he sent. ³⁰They therefore said to him: What sign doest thou then, that we may see, and believe thee? What dost thou work? ³¹Our fathers ate the manna in the wilderness; as it is written: He gave them bread from heaven to eat. ³²Jesus therefore said to them: Verily, verily, I say to you, Moses has not given you the bread from heaven; but my Father gives you the true bread from heaven. ³³For the bread of God is that which comes down out of heaven, and gives life to the world.

³⁴They therefore said to him: Lord, evermore give us this bread. ³⁵Jesus said to them: I am the bread of life. He that comes to me shall never hunger, and he that believes on me shall never thirst. ³⁶But I said to you, that ye have also seen me, and do not believe. ³⁷All that the Father gives me will come to me; and him that comes to me I will not cast out. ³⁸Because I have come down from heaven, not to do my own will, but the will of him who sent me. ³⁹And this is the will of him who sent me, that of all which he has given me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up at the last day. ⁴⁰For this is the will of my Father, that every one who sees the Son, and believes on him, may have everlasting life; and I will raise him up at the last day.

⁴¹The Jews therefore murmured at him, because he said: I am the bread that came down out of heaven. ⁴²And they said: Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How then does this man say: I have come down out of heaven?

⁴³Jesus answered and said to them: Murmur not among yourselves. ⁴⁴No one can come to me, except the Father who sent me draw him; and I will raise him up at the last day. ⁴⁵It is written in the prophets: And they shall all be taught of God. Every one that has heard from the Father, and has learned, comes to me. ⁴⁶Not that any one has seen the Father, save he who is from God; he has seen the Father.

⁴⁷Verily, verily, I say to you, he that believes on me has everlasting life. ⁴⁸I am the bread of life. ⁴⁹Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and are dead. ⁵⁰This is the bread that comes down out of heaven, that one may eat thereof, and not die. ⁵¹I am the living bread that came down out of heaven. If any one eat of this bread, he shall live forever; yea, and the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.

⁵²The Jews therefore contended with one another, saying: How can this man give us his flesh to eat? ⁵³Jesus therefore said to them: Verily, verily, I say to you, except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, ye have no life in you. ⁵⁴He that eats my flesh, and drinks my blood, has eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day. ⁵⁵For my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink. ⁵⁶He that eats my flesh, and drinks my blood, abides in me, and I in him. ⁵⁷As the living Father has sent me, and I live because of the Father; so he that eats me, he also shall live because of me. ⁵⁸This is the bread that came down out of heaven. Not as your fathers ate the manna, and are dead; he that eats of this bread shall live forever.

⁵⁹These things he said in the synagogue, while teaching in Capernaum.

⁶⁰Many therefore of his disciples, when they heard it, said: This is a hard saying; who can hear it? ⁶¹But Jesus, knowing in himself that his disciples murmured at this, said to them: Does this offend you? ⁶²What then if ye behold the Son of man ascending up where he was before? ⁶³It is the spirit that makes alive, the flesh profits nothing; the words which I have spoken to you are spirit, and are life. ⁶⁴But there are some of you that believe not. For Jesus knew from the beginning who they were that believed not, and who it was that should betray him. ⁶⁵And he said: For this cause I have said to you, that no one can come to me, except it be given him from the Father.

⁶⁶From this time many of his disciples went back, and walked no more with him.

⁶⁷Jesus said therefore to the twelve: Will ye also go away? ⁶⁸Simon Peter answered him: Lord, to whom shall we go? Thou hast words of eternal life. ⁶⁹And we believe and know, that thou art the Holy One of God. ⁷⁰Jesus answered them: Did I not choose you, the twelve, and one of you is a devil? ⁷¹He spoke of Judas Iscariot, son of Simon; for he it was that would betray him, being one of the twelve.

VII.

And after these things Jesus walked in Galilee; for he would not walk in Judæa, because the Jews were seeking to kill him.

²Now the feast of the Jews, the feast of tabernacles, was at hand. ³His brothers therefore said to him: Depart hence, and go into Judæa, that thy disciples also may behold thy works that thou doest. ⁴For no one does anything in secret, and he himself seeks to be known openly. If thou doest these things, manifest thyself to the world. ⁵For neither did his brothers believe on him. ⁶Jesus therefore says to them: My time is not yet come; but your time is always ready. ⁷The world can not hate you; but me it hates, because I testify of it, that its works are evil. ⁸Go ye up to the feast. I go not up to this feast; because my time is not yet fully come.

⁹Having said these things to them, he remained in Galilee. ¹⁰But when his brothers were gone up to the feast, then he also went up, not openly, but as it were in secret.

¹¹The Jews therefore sought him at the feast, and said: Where is he? ¹²And there was much murmuring among the multitudes concerning him. Some said: He is a good man; others said: Nay, but he misleads the multitude. ¹³No one, however, spoke openly of him, for fear of the Jews.

¹⁴But when it was already the midst of the feast, Jesus went up into the temple and taught. ¹⁵And the Jews wondered, saying: How knows this man letters, having never learned? ¹⁶Jesus therefore answered them, and said: My teaching is not mine, but his who sent me. ¹⁷If any one desires to do his will, he shall know of the teaching, whether it is of God, or whether I speak from myself. ¹⁸He that speaks from himself seeks his own glory; but he that seeks the glory of him who sent him, the same is true, and there is no unrighteousness in him.

¹⁹Has not Moses given you the law, and none of you keeps the law? Why do ye seek to kill me? ²⁰The multitude answered and said: Thou hast a demon; who seeks to kill thee? ²¹Jesus answered and said to them: I did one work, and ye all marvel. ²²Moses has for this cause given you circumcision, not that it is of Moses, but of the fathers; and on the sabbath ye circumcise a man. ²³If a man receives circumcision on the sabbath, that the law of Moses may not be broken; are ye angry at me, because I made a man altogether whole on the sabbath? ²⁴Judge not according to appearance, but judge the righteous judgment.

²⁵Then said some of those of Jerusalem: Is not this he whom they seek to kill? ²⁶But, lo, he speaks boldly, and they say nothing to him. Did the rulers know in truth that this is the Christ? ²⁷But we know this man, whence he is; but when the Christ comes, no one knows whence he is.

²⁸Jesus therefore cried, teaching in the temple and saying: Ye both know me, and ye know whence I am; and I have not come of myself, but he that sent me is true, whom ye know not. ²⁹I know him; because I am from him, and he sent me. ³⁰Therefore they sought to seize him; and no one laid hands on him, because his hour had not yet come.

³¹But of the multitude many believed on him, and said: When the Christ comes, will he work more signs than these which this man wrought? ³²The Pharisees heard the multitude murmuring these things concerning him; and the chief priests and the Pharisees sent officers to seize him. ³³Jesus therefore said: Yet a little while I am with you, and I go to him who sent me. ³⁴Ye will seek me, and shall not find me; and where I am, ye can not come. ³⁵The Jews said therefore among themselves: Whither will this man go, that we shall not find him? Will he go to those dispersed among the Greeks, and teach the Greeks? ³⁶What is this saying that he said: Ye will seek me, and shall not find me; and where I am, ye can not come?

³⁷In the last day, the great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying: If any one thirst, let him come to me and drink. ³⁸He that believes on me, as said the Scripture, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water. ³⁹And this he spoke concerning the Spirit, which they that believe on him should receive; for the Holy Spirit was not yet [given], because Jesus was not yet glorified.

⁴⁰Some of the multitude therefore, hearing the words, said: Of a truth this is the Prophet. ⁴¹Others said: This is the Christ. But some said: Does the Christ then come out of Galilee? ⁴²Did not the Scripture say, that the Christ comes of the seed of David, and from the town of Bethlehem, where David was? ⁴³A division therefore arose among the multitude because of him. ⁴⁴And some of them desired to seize him; but no one laid hands on him.

⁴⁵The officers therefore came to the chief priests and Pharisees; and they said to them: Why did ye not bring him? ⁴⁶The officers answered: Never man spoke like this man. ⁴⁷The Pharisees answered them: Are ye also led astray? ⁴⁸Did any of the rulers believe on him, or of the Pharisees? ⁴⁹But this multitude, that know not the law, are accursed. ⁵⁰Nicodemus says to them (he who came to him by night, being one of them): ⁵¹Does our law judge a man, except it first hear from him, and know what he does? ⁵²They answered and said to him: Art thou also of Galilee? Search, and see, that out of Galilee arises no prophet. ⁵³[And each one went to his house.