YAS God as Self

I will walk among you, and will be your God, and you will be my people.

I will set my face against you, and you will be struck before your enemies. Those who hate you will rule over you; and you will flee when no one pursues you.

then I will also walk contrary to you; and I will strike you, even I, seven times for your sins.

I will be his father, and he shall be my son. If he commits iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men, and with the stripes of the children of men;

I will tell of the decree. Yahweh said to me, "You are my son. Today I have become your father.

Many say, "Who will show us any good?" Yahweh, let the light of your face shine on us.

For Yahweh is righteous. He loves righteousness. The upright shall see his face.

Show your marvelous loving kindness, you who save those who take refuge by your right hand from their enemies.

As for me, I shall see your face in righteousness. I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with seeing your form.

"Hear my prayer, Yahweh, and give ear to my cry. Don't be silent at my tears. For I am a stranger with you, a foreigner, as all my fathers were.

that they may know that this is your hand; that you, Yahweh, have done it.

You hem me in behind and before. You laid your hand on me.

Even there your hand will lead me, and your right hand will hold me.

Your eyes saw my body. In your book they were all written, the days that were ordained for me, when as yet there were none of them.

Wisdom calls aloud in the street. She utters her voice in the public squares.

Turn at my reproof. Behold, I will pour out my spirit on you. I will make known my words to you.

But whoever listens to me will dwell securely, and will be at ease, without fear of harm."

Esteem her, and she will exalt you. She will bring you to honor, when you embrace her.

Listen, islands, to me; and listen, you peoples, from far: Yahweh has called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother has he made mention of my name:

Thus says Yahweh, the Redeemer of Israel, [and] his Holy One, to him whom man despises, to him whom the nation abhors, to a servant of rulers: "Kings shall see and arise; princes, and they shall worship; because of Yahweh who is faithful, [even] the Holy One of Israel, who has chosen you."

Behold, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands; your walls are continually before me.

Thus says the Lord Yahweh, "Behold, I will lift up my hand to the nations, and set up my banner to the peoples; and they shall bring your sons in their bosom, and your daughters shall be carried on their shoulders.

I will feed those who oppress you with their own flesh; and they shall be drunken with their own blood, as with sweet wine: and all flesh shall know that I, Yahweh, am your Savior, and your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob."

He answered, Look, I see four men loose, walking in the midst of the fire, and they are unharmed; and the aspect of the fourth is like a son of the gods.

I saw in the night visions, and behold, there came with the clouds of the sky one like a son of man, and he came even to the ancient of days, and they brought him near before him.

There was given him dominion, and glory, and a kingdom, that all the peoples, nations, and languages should serve him: his dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and his kingdom that which shall not be destroyed.

The kingdom and the dominion, and the greatness of the kingdoms under the whole sky, shall be given to the people of the saints of the Most High: his kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and all dominions shall serve and obey him.

Seeing the multitudes, he went up onto the mountain. When he had sat down, his disciples came to him.

He opened his mouth and taught them, saying,

"Blessed are you when people reproach you, persecute you, and say all kinds of evil against you falsely, for my sake.

He entered again into the synagogue, and there was a man there who had his hand withered.

They watched him, whether he would heal him on the Sabbath day, that they might accuse him.

He said to the man who had his hand withered, "Stand up."

Jesus withdrew to the sea with his disciples, and a great multitude followed him from Galilee, from Judea,

from Jerusalem, from Idumaea, beyond the Jordan, and those from around Tyre and Sidon. A great multitude, hearing what great things he did, came to him.

He spoke to his disciples that a little boat should stay near him because of the crowd, so that they wouldn't press on him.

For he had healed many, so that as many as had diseases pressed on him that they might touch him.

He sternly warned them that they should not make him known.

He went up into the mountain, and called to himself those whom he wanted, and they went to him.

He appointed twelve, that they might be with him, and that he might send them out to preach,

Simon, to whom he gave the name Peter;

and Judas Iscariot, who also betrayed him. He came into a house.

He summoned them, and said to them in parables, "How can Satan cast out Satan?

--because they said, "He has an unclean spirit."

His mother and his brothers came, and standing outside, they sent to him, calling him.

He answered them, "Who are my mother and my brothers?"

Looking around at those who sat around him, he said, "Behold, my mother and my brothers!

Behold, you will conceive in your womb, and bring forth a son, and will call his name 'Jesus.'

He will be great, and will be called the Son of the Most High. The Lord God will give him the throne of his father, David,

and he will reign over the house of Jacob forever. There will be no end to his Kingdom."

He also spoke a parable to them that they must always pray, and not give up,

The Lord said, "Listen to what the unrighteous judge says.

I tell you that he will avenge them quickly. Nevertheless, when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on the earth?"

He spoke also this parable to certain people who were convinced of their own righteousness, and who despised all others.

They were also bringing their babies to him, that he might touch them. But when the disciples saw it, they rebuked them.

Jesus summoned them, saying, "Allow the little children to come to me, and don't hinder them, for the Kingdom of God belongs to such as these.

Most certainly, I tell you, whoever doesn't receive the Kingdom of God like a little child, he will in no way enter into it."

Jesus asked him, "Why do you call me good? No one is good, except one--God.

When Jesus heard these things, he said to him, "You still lack one thing. Sell all that you have, and distribute it to the poor. You will have treasure in heaven. Come, follow me."

Jesus, seeing that he became very sad, said, "How hard it is for those who have riches to enter into the Kingdom of God!

But he said, "The things which are impossible with men are possible with God."

He said to them, "Most certainly I tell you, there is no one who has left house, or wife, or brothers, or parents, or children, for the Kingdom of God's sake,

He took the twelve aside, and said to them, "Behold, we are going up to Jerusalem, and all the things that are written through the prophets concerning the Son of Man will be completed.

They will scourge and kill him. On the third day, he will rise again."

They told him that Jesus of Nazareth was passing by.

Standing still, Jesus commanded him to be brought to him. When he had come near, he asked him,

Jesus said to him, "Receive your sight. Your faith has healed you."

In him was life, and the life was the light of men.

He was in the world, and the world was made through him, and the world didn't recognize him.

He came to his own, and those who were his own didn't receive him.

But as many as received him, to them he gave the right to become God's children, to those who believe in his name:

The Word became flesh, and lived among us. We saw his glory, such glory as of the one and only Son of the Father, full of grace and truth.

From his fullness we all received grace upon grace.

For the law was given through Moses. Grace and truth were realized through Jesus Christ.

No one has seen God at any time. The one and only Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, he has declared him.

John testified, saying, "I have seen the Spirit descending like a dove out of heaven, and it remained on him.

I have seen, and have testified that this is the Son of God."

and he looked at Jesus as he walked, and said, "Behold, the Lamb of God!"

The two disciples heard him speak, and they followed Jesus.

He said to them, "Come, and see." They came and saw where he was staying, and they stayed with him that day. It was about the tenth hour.

He first found his own brother, Simon, and said to him, "We have found the Messiah!" (which is, being interpreted, Christ).

He brought him to Jesus. Jesus looked at him, and said, "You are Simon the son of Jonah. You shall be called Cephas" (which is by interpretation, Peter).

On the next day, he was determined to go out into Galilee, and he found Philip. Jesus said to him, "Follow me."

Philip found Nathanael, and said to him, "We have found him, of whom Moses in the law, and the prophets, wrote: Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph."

Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and said about him, "Behold, an Israelite indeed, in whom is no deceit!"

Nathanael said to him, "How do you know me?" Jesus answered him, "Before Philip called you, when you were under the fig tree, I saw you."

Nathanael answered him, "Rabbi, you are the Son of God! You are King of Israel!"

Jesus answered him, "Because I told you, 'I saw you underneath the fig tree,' do you believe? You will see greater things than these!"

He said to him, "Most certainly, I tell you, hereafter you will see heaven opened, and the angels of God ascending and descending on the Son of Man."

Jesus also was invited, with his disciples, to the marriage.

When the wine ran out, Jesus' mother said to him, "They have no wine."

Jesus said to her, "Woman, what does that have to do with you and me? My hour has not yet come."

This beginning of his signs Jesus did in Cana of Galilee, and revealed his glory; and his disciples believed in him.

The Passover of the Jews was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

He made a whip of cords, and threw all out of the temple, both the sheep and the oxen; and he poured out the changers' money, and overthrew their tables.

To those who sold the doves, he said, "Take these things out of here! Don't make my Father's house a marketplace!"

Jesus answered them, "Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up."

But he spoke of the temple of his body.

When therefore he was raised from the dead, his disciples remembered that he said this, and they believed the Scripture, and the word which Jesus had said.

Now when he was in Jerusalem at the Passover, during the feast, many believed in his name, observing his signs which he did.

But Jesus didn't trust himself to them, because he knew everyone,

and because he didn't need for anyone to testify concerning man; for he himself knew what was in man.

The same came to him by night, and said to him, "Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God, for no one can do these signs that you do, unless God is with him."

Jesus answered him, "Most certainly, I tell you, unless one is born anew, he can't see the Kingdom of God."

Jesus answered, "Most certainly I tell you, unless one is born of water and spirit, he can't enter into the Kingdom of God!

Jesus answered him, "Are you the teacher of Israel, and don't understand these things?

No one has ascended into heaven, but he who descended out of heaven, the Son of Man, who is in heaven.

As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up,

that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

For God didn't send his Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world should be saved through him.

After these things, Jesus came with his disciples into the land of Judea. He stayed there with them, and baptized.

He who comes from above is above all. He who is from the Earth belongs to the Earth, and speaks of the Earth. He who comes from heaven is above all.

What he has seen and heard, of that he testifies; and no one receives his witness.

He who has received his witness has set his seal to this, that God is true.

The Father loves the Son, and has given all things into his hand.

Therefore when the Lord knew that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John

(although Jesus himself didn't baptize, but his disciples),

A woman of Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, "Give me a drink."

Jesus answered her, "If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who says to you, 'Give me a drink,' you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water."

Jesus answered her, "Everyone who drinks of this water will thirst again,

Jesus said to her, "Go, call your husband, and come here."

for you have had five husbands; and he whom you now have is not your husband. This you have said truly."

Jesus said to her, "Woman, believe me, the hour comes, when neither in this mountain, nor in Jerusalem, will you worship the Father.

The woman said to him, "I know that Messiah comes," (he who is called Christ). "When he has come, he will declare to us all things."

Jesus said to her, "I am he, the one who speaks to you."

But he said to them, "I have food to eat that you don't know about."

Jesus said to them, "My food is to do the will of him who sent me, and to accomplish his work.

I sent you to reap that for which you haven't labored. Others have labored, and you have entered into their labor."

So when the Samaritans came to him, they begged him to stay with them. He stayed there two days.

Many more believed because of his word.

After the two days he went out from there and went into Galilee.

For Jesus himself testified that a prophet has no honor in his own country.

So when he came into Galilee, the Galileans received him, having seen all the things that he did in Jerusalem at the feast, for they also went to the feast.

Jesus came therefore again to Cana of Galilee, where he made the water into wine. There was a certain nobleman whose son was sick at Capernaum.

When he heard that Jesus had come out of Judea into Galilee, he went to him, and begged him that he would come down and heal his son, for he was at the point of death.

Jesus therefore said to him, "Unless you see signs and wonders, you will in no way believe."

Jesus said to him, "Go your way. Your son lives." The man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him, and he went his way.

So the father knew that it was at that hour in which Jesus said to him, "Your son lives." He believed, as did his whole house.

This is again the second sign that Jesus did, having come out of Judea into Galilee.

After these things, there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

When Jesus saw him lying there, and knew that he had been sick for a long time, he asked him, "Do you want to be made well?"

Jesus said to him, "Arise, take up your mat, and walk."

But he who was healed didn't know who it was, for Jesus had withdrawn, a crowd being in the place.

Afterward Jesus found him in the temple, and said to him, "Behold, you are made well. Sin no more, so that nothing worse happens to you."

The man went away, and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had made him well.

For this cause the Jews persecuted Jesus, and sought to kill him, because he did these things on the Sabbath.

But Jesus answered them, "My Father is still working, so I am working, too."

For this cause therefore the Jews sought all the more to kill him, because he not only broke the Sabbath, but also called God his own Father, making himself equal with God.

Jesus therefore answered them, "Most certainly, I tell you, the Son can do nothing of himself, but what he sees the Father doing. For whatever things he does, these the Son also does likewise.

"Most certainly I tell you, he who hears my word, and believes him who sent me, has eternal life, and doesn't come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life.

Most certainly, I tell you, the hour comes, and now is, when the dead will hear the Son of God's voice; and those who hear will live.

He also gave him authority to execute judgment, because he is a son of man.

I can of myself do nothing. As I hear, I judge, and my judgment is righteous; because I don't seek my own will, but the will of my Father who sent me.

"If I testify about myself, my witness is not valid.

But the testimony which I receive is not from man. However, I say these things that you may be saved.

But the testimony which I have is greater than that of John, for the works which the Father gave me to accomplish, the very works that I do, testify about me, that the Father has sent me.

The Father himself, who sent me, has testified about me. You have neither heard his voice at any time, nor seen his form.

"You search the Scriptures, because you think that in them you have eternal life; and these are they which testify about me.

Yet you will not come to me, that you may have life.

I don't receive glory from men.

But I know you, that you don't have God's love in yourselves.

I have come in my Father's name, and you don't receive me. If another comes in his own name, you will receive him.

For if you believed Moses, you would believe me; for he wrote about me.

But if you don't believe his writings, how will you believe my words?"

After these things, Jesus went away to the other side of the sea of Galilee, which is also called the Sea of Tiberias.

A great multitude followed him, because they saw his signs which he did on those who were sick.

Jesus went up into the mountain, and he sat there with his disciples.

Jesus therefore lifting up his eyes, and seeing that a great multitude was coming to him, said to Philip, "Where are we to buy bread, that these may eat?"

This he said to test him, for he himself knew what he would do.

Jesus said, "Have the people sit down." Now there was much grass in that place. So the men sat down, in number about five thousand.

Jesus took the loaves; and having given thanks, he distributed to the disciples, and the disciples to those who were sitting down; likewise also of the fish as much as they desired.

When they were filled, he said to his disciples, "Gather up the broken pieces which are left over, that nothing be lost."

When therefore the people saw the sign which Jesus did, they said, "This is truly the prophet who comes into the world."

Jesus therefore, perceiving that they were about to come and take him by force, to make him king, withdrew again to the mountain by himself.

and they entered into the boat, and were going over the sea to Capernaum. It was now dark, and Jesus had not come to them.

But he said to them, "It is I. Don't be afraid."

However boats from Tiberias came near to the place where they ate the bread after the Lord had given thanks.

Jesus answered them, "Most certainly I tell you, you seek me, not because you saw signs, but because you ate of the loaves, and were filled.

Don't 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 God the Father has sealed him."

Jesus answered them, "This is the work of God, that you believe in him whom he has sent."

Jesus therefore said to them, "Most certainly, I tell you, it wasn't Moses who gave you the bread out of heaven, but my Father gives you the true bread out of heaven.

Jesus said to them, "I am the bread of life. He who comes to me will not be hungry, and he who believes in me will never be thirsty.

For I have come down from heaven, not to do my own will, but the will of him who sent me.

This is the will of my Father who sent me, that of all he has given to me I should lose nothing, but should raise him up at the last day.

This is the will of the one who sent me, that everyone who sees the Son, and believes in him, should have eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day."

The Jews therefore murmured concerning him, because he said, "I am the bread which came down out of heaven."

Therefore Jesus answered them, "Don't murmur among yourselves.

No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him, and I will raise him up in the last day.

It is written in the prophets, 'They will all be taught by God.' Therefore everyone who hears from the Father, and has learned, comes to me.

Not that anyone has seen the Father, except he who is from God. He has seen the Father.

Most certainly, I tell you, he who believes in me has eternal life.

I am the bread of life.

I am the living bread which came down out of heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. Yes, the bread which I will give for the life of the world is my flesh."

Jesus therefore said to them, "Most certainly I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you don't have life in yourselves.

He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.

For my flesh is food indeed, and my blood is drink indeed.

He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood lives in me, and I in him.

As the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father; so he who feeds on me, he will also live because of me.

He said these things in the synagogue, as he taught in Capernaum.

But Jesus knowing in himself that his disciples murmured at this, said to them, "Does this cause you to stumble?

It is the spirit who gives life. The flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and are life.

But there are some of you who don't believe." For Jesus knew from the beginning who they were who didn't believe, and who it was who would betray him.

He said, "For this cause have I said to you that no one can come to me, unless it is given to him by my Father."

Jesus said therefore to the twelve, "You don't also want to go away, do you?"

Simon Peter answered him, "Lord, to whom would we go? You have the words of eternal life.

We have come to believe and know that you are the Christ, the Son of the living God."

Jesus answered them, "Didn't I choose you, the twelve, and one of you is a devil?"

After these things, Jesus was walking in Galilee, for he wouldn't walk in Judea, because the Jews sought to kill him.

His brothers therefore said to him, "Depart from here, and go into Judea, that your disciples also may see your works which you do.

For even his brothers didn't believe in him.

Jesus therefore said to them, "My time has not yet come, but your time is always ready.

The world can't hate you, but it hates me, because I testify about it, that its works are evil.

You go up to the feast. I am not yet going up to this feast, because my time is not yet fulfilled."

Having said these things to them, he stayed in Galilee.

The Jews therefore sought him at the feast, and said, "Where is he?"

There was much murmuring among the multitudes concerning him. Some said, "He is a good man." Others said, "Not so, but he leads the multitude astray."

But when it was now the midst of the feast, Jesus went up into the temple and taught.

The Jews therefore marveled, saying, "How does this man know letters, having never been educated?"

Jesus therefore answered them, "My teaching is not mine, but his who sent me.

If anyone desires to do his will, he will know about the teaching, whether it is from God, or if I am speaking from myself.

He who speaks from himself seeks his own glory, but he who seeks the glory of him who sent him is true, and no unrighteousness is in him.

Jesus answered them, "I did one work, and you all marvel because of it.

If a boy receives circumcision on the Sabbath, that the law of Moses may not be broken, are you angry with me, because I made a man completely healthy on the Sabbath?

Therefore some of them of Jerusalem said, "Isn't this he whom they seek to kill?

Behold, he speaks openly, and they say nothing to him. Can it be that the rulers indeed know that this is truly the Christ?

However we know where this man comes from, but when the Christ comes, no one will know where he comes from."

Jesus therefore cried out in the temple, teaching and saying, "You both know me, and know where I am from. I have not come of myself, but he who sent me is true, whom you don't know.

I know him, because I am from him, and he sent me."

They sought therefore to take him; but no one laid a hand on him, because his hour had not yet come.

But of the multitude, many believed in him. They said, "When the Christ comes, he won't do more signs than those which this man has done, will he?"

Then Jesus said, "I will be with you a little while longer, then I go to him who sent me.

You will seek me, and won't find me; and where I am, you can't come."

Now on the last and greatest day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, "If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink!

But he said this about the Spirit, which those believing in him were to receive. For the Holy Spirit was not yet given, because Jesus wasn't yet glorified.

Many of the multitude therefore, when they heard these words, said, "This is truly the prophet."

Others said, "This is the Christ." But some said, "What, does the Christ come out of Galilee?

Hasn't the Scripture said that the Christ comes of the seed of David, and from Bethlehem, the village where David was?"

So there arose a division in the multitude because of him.

The officers answered, "No man ever spoke like this man!"

Have any of the rulers believed in him, or of the Pharisees?

but Jesus went to the Mount of Olives.

Now very early in the morning, he came again into the temple, and all the people came to him. He sat down, and taught them.

But when they continued asking him, he looked up and said to them, "He who is without sin among you, let him throw the first stone at her."

Again he stooped down, and with his finger wrote on the ground.

They, when they heard it, being convicted by their conscience, went out one by one, beginning from the oldest, even to the last. Jesus was left alone with the woman where she was, in the middle.

Jesus, standing up, saw her and said, "Woman, where are your accusers? Did no one condemn you?"

Again, therefore, Jesus spoke to them, saying, "I am the light of the world. He who follows me will not walk in the darkness, but will have the light of life."

Jesus answered them, "Even if I testify about myself, my testimony is true, for I know where I came from, and where I am going; but you don't know where I came from, or where I am going.

You judge according to the flesh. I judge no one.

I am one who testifies about myself, and the Father who sent me testifies about me."

They said therefore to him, "Where is your Father?" Jesus answered, "You know neither me, nor my Father. If you knew me, you would know my Father also."

Jesus spoke these words in the treasury, as he taught in the temple. Yet no one arrested him, because his hour had not yet come.

Jesus said therefore again to them, "I am going away, and you will seek me, and you will die in your sins. Where I go, you can't come."

He said to them, "You are from beneath. I am from above. You are of this world. I am not of this world.

They said therefore to him, "Who are you?" Jesus said to them, "Just what I have been saying to you from the beginning.

I have many things to speak and to judge concerning you. However he who sent me is true; and the things which I heard from him, these I say to the world."

Jesus therefore said to them, "When you have lifted up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am he, and I do nothing of myself, but as my Father taught me, I say these things.

He who sent me is with me. The Father hasn't left me alone, for I always do the things that are pleasing to him."

Jesus answered them, "Most certainly I tell you, everyone who commits sin is the bondservant of sin.

I say the things which I have seen with my Father; and you also do the things which you have seen with your father."

But now you seek to kill me, a man who has told you the truth, which I heard from God. Abraham didn't do this.

You do the works of your father." They said to him, "We were not born of sexual immorality. We have one Father, God."

Therefore Jesus said to them, "If God were your father, you would love me, for I came out and have come from God. For I haven't come of myself, but he sent me.

Why don't you understand my speech? Because you can't hear my word.

But because I tell the truth, you don't believe me.

Which of you convicts me of sin? If I tell the truth, why do you not believe me?

Jesus answered, "I don't have a demon, but I honor my Father, and you dishonor me.

But I don't seek my own glory. There is one who seeks and judges.

Most certainly, I tell you, if a person keeps my word, he will never see death."

Jesus answered, "If I glorify myself, my glory is nothing. It is my Father who glorifies me, of whom you say that he is our God.

You have not known him, but I know him. If I said, 'I don't know him,' I would be like you, a liar. But I know him, and keep his word.

Jesus said to them, "Most certainly, I tell you, before Abraham came into existence, I AM."

Therefore they took up stones to throw at him, but Jesus was hidden, and went out of the temple, having gone through the midst of them, and so passed by.

As he passed by, he saw a man blind from birth.

Jesus answered, "Neither did this man sin, nor his parents; but, that the works of God might be revealed in him.

I must work the works of him who sent me, while it is day. The night is coming, when no one can work.

While I am in the world, I am the light of the world."

When he had said this, he spat on the ground, made mud with the saliva, anointed the blind man's eyes with the mud,

He answered, "A man called Jesus made mud, anointed my eyes, and said to me, 'Go to the pool of Siloam, and wash.' So I went away and washed, and I received sight."

It was a Sabbath when Jesus made the mud and opened his eyes.

His parents said these things because they feared the Jews; for the Jews had already agreed that if any man would confess him as Christ, he would be put out of the synagogue.

They said to him again, "What did he do to you? How did he open your eyes?"

Jesus heard that they had thrown him out, and finding him, he said, "Do you believe in the Son of God?"

Jesus said to him, "You have both seen him, and it is he who speaks with you."

Jesus said, "I came into this world for judgment, that those who don't see may see; and that those who see may become blind."

Those of the Pharisees who were with him heard these things, and said to him, "Are we also blind?"

Jesus said to them, "If you were blind, you would have no sin; but now you say, 'We see.' Therefore your sin remains.

Jesus spoke this parable to them, but they didn't understand what he was telling them.

The thief only comes to steal, kill, and destroy. I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly.

Therefore the Father loves me, because I lay down my life, that I may take it again.

No one takes it away from me, but I lay it down by myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. I received this commandment from my Father."

Many of them said, "He has a demon, and is insane! Why do you listen to him?"

It was winter, and Jesus was walking in the temple, in Solomon's porch.

Jesus answered them, "I told you, and you don't believe. The works that I do in my Father's name, these testify about me.

I give eternal life to them. They will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand.

My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all. No one is able to snatch them out of my Father's hand.

I and the Father are one."

Jesus answered them, "I have shown you many good works from my Father. For which of those works do you stone me?"

Jesus answered them, "Isn't it written in your law, 'I said, you are gods?'

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?'

If I don't do the works of my Father, don't believe me.

But if I do them, though you don't believe me, believe the works; that you may know and believe that the Father is in me, and I in the Father."

They sought again to seize him, and he went out of their hand.

He went away again beyond the Jordan into the place where John was baptizing at first, and there he stayed.

Many believed in him there.

It was that Mary who had anointed the Lord with ointment, and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother, Lazarus, was sick.

The sisters therefore sent to him, saying, "Lord, behold, he for whom you have great affection is sick."

But when Jesus heard it, he said, "This sickness is not to death, but for the glory of God, that God's Son may be glorified by it."

Now Jesus loved Martha, and her sister, and Lazarus.

When therefore he heard that he was sick, he stayed two days in the place where he was.

Then after this he said to the disciples, "Let's go into Judea again."

Jesus answered, "Aren't there twelve hours of daylight? If a man walks in the day, he doesn't stumble, because he sees the light of this world.

He said these things, and after that, he said to them, "Our friend, Lazarus, has fallen asleep, but I am going so that I may awake him out of sleep."

So Jesus said to them plainly then, "Lazarus is dead.

So when Jesus came, he found that he had been in the tomb four days already.

Therefore Martha said to Jesus, "Lord, if you would have been here, my brother wouldn't have died.

Jesus said to her, "Your brother will rise again."

Jesus said to her, "I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will still live, even if he dies.

She said to him, "Yes, Lord. I have come to believe that you are the Christ, God's Son, he who comes into the world."

Now Jesus had not yet come into the village, but was in the place where Martha met him.

Therefore when Mary came to where Jesus was, and saw him, she fell down at his feet, saying to him, "Lord, if you would have been here, my brother wouldn't have died."

When Jesus therefore saw her weeping, and the Jews weeping who came with her, he groaned in the spirit, and was troubled,

Jesus wept.

Jesus therefore, again groaning in himself, came to the tomb. Now it was a cave, and a stone lay against it.

Jesus said, "Take away the stone." Martha, the sister of him who was dead, said to him, "Lord, by this time there is a stench, for he has been dead four days."

Jesus said to her, "Didn't I tell you that if you believed, you would see God's glory?"

So they took away the stone from the place where the dead man was lying. Jesus lifted up his eyes, and said, "Father, I thank you that you listened to me.

When he had said this, he cried with a loud voice, "Lazarus, come out!"

He who was dead came out, bound hand and foot with wrappings, and his face was wrapped around with a cloth. Jesus said to them, "Free him, and let him go."

But some of them went away to the Pharisees, and told them the things which Jesus had done.

and not for the nation only, but that he might also gather together into one the children of God who are scattered abroad.

Jesus therefore walked no more openly among the Jews, but departed from there into the country near the wilderness, to a city called Ephraim. He stayed there with his disciples.

Then they sought for Jesus and spoke one with another, as they stood in the temple, "What do you think--that he isn't coming to the feast at all?"

Then six days before the Passover, Jesus came to Bethany, where Lazarus was, who had been dead, whom he raised from the dead.

Mary, therefore, took a pound of ointment of pure nard, very precious, and anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his feet with her hair. The house was filled with the fragrance of the ointment.

But Jesus said, "Leave her alone. She has kept this for the day of my burial.

For you always have the poor with you, but you don't always have me."

A large crowd therefore of the Jews learned that he was there, and they came, not for Jesus' sake only, but that they might see Lazarus also, whom he had raised from the dead.

because on account of him many of the Jews went away and believed in Jesus.

Jesus, having found a young donkey, sat on it. As it is written,

His disciples didn't understand these things at first, but when Jesus was glorified, then they remembered that these things were written about him, and that they had done these things to him.

The multitude therefore that was with him when he called Lazarus out of the tomb, and raised him from the dead, was testifying about it.

For this cause also the multitude went and met him, because they heard that he had done this sign.

The Pharisees therefore said among themselves, "See how you accomplish nothing. Behold, the world has gone after him."

These, therefore, came to Philip, who was from Bethsaida of Galilee, and asked him, saying, "Sir, we want to see Jesus."

Philip came and told Andrew, and in turn, Andrew came with Philip, and they told Jesus.

Jesus answered them, "The time has come for the Son of Man to be glorified.

"Now my soul is troubled. What shall I say? 'Father, save me from this time?' But for this cause I came to this time.

Father, glorify your name!" Then there came a voice out of the sky, saying, "I have both glorified it, and will glorify it again."

Jesus answered, "This voice hasn't come for my sake, but for your sakes.

And I, if I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all people to myself."

But he said this, signifying by what kind of death he should die.

The multitude answered him, "We have heard out of the law that the Christ remains forever. How do you say, 'The Son of Man must be lifted up?' Who is this Son of Man?"

Jesus therefore said to them, "Yet a little while the light is with you. Walk while you have the light, that darkness doesn't overtake you. He who walks in the darkness doesn't know where he is going.

But though he had done so many signs before them, yet they didn't believe in him,

Jesus cried out and said, "Whoever believes in me, believes not in me, but in him who sent me.

He who sees me sees him who sent me.

I have come as a light into the world, that whoever believes in me may not remain in the darkness.

If anyone listens to my sayings, and doesn't believe, I don't judge him. For I came not to judge the world, but to save the world.

For 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.

I know that his commandment is eternal life. The things therefore which I speak, even as the Father has said to me, so I speak."

Now before the feast of the Passover, Jesus, knowing that his time had come that he would depart from this world to the Father, having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end.

Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands, and that he came forth from God, and was going to God,

arose from supper, and laid aside his outer garments. He took a towel, and wrapped a towel around his waist.

Then he poured water into the basin, and began to wash the disciples' feet, and to wipe them with the towel that was wrapped around him.

Then he came to Simon Peter. He said to him, "Lord, do you wash my feet?"

Jesus answered him, "You don't know what I am doing now, but you will understand later."

Peter said to him, "You will never wash my feet!" Jesus answered him, "If I don't wash you, you have no part with me."

Jesus said to him, "Someone who has bathed only needs to have his feet washed, but is completely clean. You are clean, but not all of you."

For he knew him who would betray him, therefore he said, "You are not all clean."

So when he had washed their feet, put his outer garment back on, and sat down again, he said to them, "Do you know what I have done to you?

You call me, 'Teacher' and 'Lord.' You say so correctly, for so I am.

If I then, the Lord and the Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another's feet.

For I have given you an example, that you also should do as I have done to you.

Most certainly I tell you, a servant is not greater than his lord, neither one who is sent greater than he who sent him.

I don't speak concerning all of you. I know whom I have chosen. But that the Scripture may be fulfilled, 'He who eats bread with me has lifted up his heel against me.'

From now on, I tell you before it happens, that when it happens, you may believe that I am he.

Most certainly I tell you, he who receives whomever I send, receives me; and he who receives me, receives him who sent me."

When Jesus had said this, he was troubled in spirit, and testified, "Most certainly I tell you that one of you will betray me."

One of his disciples, whom Jesus loved, was at the table, leaning against Jesus' breast.

He, leaning back, as he was, on Jesus' breast, asked him, "Lord, who is it?"

Jesus therefore answered, "It is he to whom I will give this piece of bread when I have dipped it." So when he had dipped the piece of bread, he gave it to Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot.

After the piece of bread, then Satan entered into him. Then Jesus said to him, "What you do, do quickly."

Now no man at the table knew why he said this to him.

When he had gone out, Jesus said, "Now the Son of Man has been glorified, and God has been glorified in him.

If God has been glorified in him, God will also glorify him in himself, and he will glorify him immediately.

Little children, I will be with you a little while longer. You will seek me, and as I said to the Jews, 'Where I am going, you can't come,' so now I tell you.

A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another, just like I have loved you; that you also love one another.

Simon Peter said to him, "Lord, where are you going?" Jesus answered, "Where I am going, you can't follow now, but you will follow afterwards."

Jesus answered him, "Will you lay down your life for me? Most certainly I tell you, the rooster won't crow until you have denied me three times.

"Don't let your heart be troubled. Believe in God. Believe also in me.

In my Father's house are many homes. If it weren't so, I would have told you. I am going to prepare a place for you.

If I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and will receive you to myself; that where I am, you may be there also.

Where I go, you know, and you know the way."

Jesus said to him, "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.

If you had known me, you would have known my Father also. From now on, you know him, and have seen him."

Philip said to him, "Lord, show us the Father, and that will be enough for us."

Jesus said to him, "Have I been with you such a long time, and do you not know me, Philip? He who has seen me has seen the Father. How do you say, 'Show us the Father?'

Don't you believe that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? The words that I tell you, I speak not from myself; but the Father who lives in me does his works.

Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father in me; or else believe me for the very works' sake.

Most certainly I tell you, he who believes in me, the works that I do, he will do also; and he will do greater works than these, because I am going to my Father.

Whatever you will ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.

If you love me, keep my commandments.

I will pray to the Father, and he will give you another Counselor, that he may be with you forever,--

I will not leave you orphans. I will come to you.

Yet a little while, and the world will see me no more; but you will see me. Because I live, you will live also.

In that day you will know that I am in my Father, and you in me, and I in you.

One who has my commandments, and keeps them, that person is one who loves me. One who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him, and will reveal myself to him."

Judas (not Iscariot) said to him, "Lord, what has happened that you are about to reveal yourself to us, and not to the world?"

Jesus answered him, "If a man loves me, he will keep my word. My Father will love him, and we will come to him, and make our home with him.

He who doesn't love me doesn't keep my words. The word which you hear isn't mine, but the Father's who sent me.

I have said these things to you, while still living with you.

But the Counselor, 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.

Peace I leave with you. My peace I give to you; not as the world gives, give I to you. Don't let your heart be troubled, neither let it be fearful.

You heard how I told you, 'I go away, and I come to you.' If you loved me, you would have rejoiced, because I said 'I am going to my Father;' for the Father is greater than I.

Now I have told you before it happens so that, when it happens, you may believe.

I will no more speak much with you, for the prince of the world comes, and he has nothing in me.

But that the world may know that I love the Father, and as the Father commanded me, even so I do. Arise, let us go from here.

"I am the true vine, and my Father is the farmer.

Every branch in me that doesn't bear fruit, he takes away. Every branch that bears fruit, he prunes, that it may bear more fruit.

You are already pruned clean because of the word which I have spoken to you.

I am the vine. You are the branches. He who remains in me, and I in him, the same bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.

If you remain in me, and my words remain in you, you will ask whatever you desire, and it will be done for you.

"In this is my Father glorified, that you bear much fruit; and so you will be my disciples.

Even as the Father has loved me, I also have loved you. Remain in my love.

If you keep my commandments, you will remain in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and remain in his love.

I have spoken these things to you, that my joy may remain in you, and that your joy may be made full.

"This is my commandment, that you love one another, even as I have loved you.

You are my friends, if you do whatever I command you.

No longer do I call you servants, for the servant doesn't know what his lord does. But I have called you friends, for everything that I heard from my Father, I have made known to you.

You didn't choose me, but I chose you, and appointed you, that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain; that whatever you will ask of the Father in my name, he may give it to you.

"I command these things to you, that you may love one another.

If the world hates you, you know that it has hated me before it hated you.

But all these things will they do to you for my name's sake, because they don't know him who sent me.

He who hates me, hates my Father also.

If I hadn't done among them the works which no one else did, they wouldn't have had sin. But now have they seen and also hated both me and my Father.

"When the Counselor has come, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father, he will testify about me.

You will also testify, because you have been with me from the beginning.

"These things have I spoken to you, so that you wouldn't be caused to stumble.

They will do these things because they have not known the Father, nor me.

But I have told you these things, so that when the time comes, you may remember that I told you about them. I didn't tell you these things from the beginning, because I was with you.

But now I am going to him who sent me, and none of you asks me, 'Where are you going?'

But because I have told you these things, sorrow has filled your heart.

Nevertheless I tell you the truth: It is to your advantage that I go away, for if I don't go away, the Counselor won't come to you. But if I go, I will send him to you.

about righteousness, because I am going to my Father, and you won't see me any more;

"I have yet many things to tell you, but you can't bear them now.

He will glorify me, for he will take from what is mine, and will declare it to you.

All things whatever the Father has are mine; therefore I said that he takes of mine, and will declare it to you.

A little while, and you will not see me. Again a little while, and you will see me."

Some of his disciples therefore said to one another, "What is this that he says to us, 'A little while, and you won't see me, and again a little while, and you will see me;' and, 'Because I go to the Father?'"

They said therefore, "What is this that he says, 'A little while?' We don't know what he is saying."

Therefore Jesus perceived that they wanted to ask him, and he said to them, "Do you inquire among yourselves concerning this, that I said, 'A little while, and you won't see me, and again a little while, and you will see me?'

Most certainly I tell you, that you will weep and lament, but the world will rejoice. You will be sorrowful, but your sorrow will be turned into joy.

Therefore you now have sorrow, but I will see you again, and your heart will rejoice, and no one will take your joy away from you.

"In that day you will ask me no questions. Most certainly I tell you, whatever you may ask of the Father in my name, he will give it to you.

Until now, you have asked nothing in my name. Ask, and you will receive, that your joy may be made full.

I have spoken these things to you in figures of speech. But the time is coming when I will no more speak to you in figures of speech, but will tell you plainly about the Father.

In that day you will ask in my name; and I don't say to you, that I will pray to the Father for you,

for the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me, and have believed that I came forth from God.

I came out from the Father, and have come into the world. Again, I leave the world, and go to the Father."

Now we know that you know all things, and don't need for anyone to question you. By this we believe that you came forth from God."

Jesus answered them, "Do you now believe?

Behold, the time is coming, yes, and has now come, that you will be scattered, everyone to his own place, and you will leave me alone. Yet I am not alone, because the Father is with me.

I have told you these things, that in me you may have peace. In the world you have oppression; but cheer up! I have overcome the world."

Jesus said these things, and lifting up his eyes to heaven, he said, "Father, the time has come. Glorify your Son, that your Son may also glorify you;

This is eternal life, that they should know you, the only true God, and him whom you sent, Jesus Christ.

I glorified you on the earth. I have accomplished the work which you have given me to do.

I revealed your name to the people whom you have given me out of the world. They were yours, and you have given them to me. They have kept your word.

Now they have known that all things whatever you have given me are from you,

for the words which you have given me I have given to them, and they received them, and knew for sure that I came forth from you, and they have believed that you sent me.

I pray for them. I don't pray for the world, but for those whom you have given me, for they are yours.

I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, keep them through your name which you have given me, that they may be one, even as we are.

While I was with them in the world, I kept them in your name. Those whom you have given me I have kept. None of them is lost, except the son of destruction, that the Scripture might be fulfilled.

But now I come to you, and I say these things in the world, that they may have my joy made full in themselves.

I have given them your word. The world hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.

I pray not that you would take them from the world, but that you would keep them from the evil one.

As you sent me into the world, even so I have sent them into the world.

For their sakes I sanctify myself, that they themselves also may be sanctified in truth.

Not for these only do I pray, but for those also who believe in me through their word,

that they may all be one; even as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be one in us; that the world may believe that you sent me.

I in them, and you in me, that they may be perfected into one; that the world may know that you sent me, and loved them, even as you loved me.

Father, I desire that they also whom you have given me be with me where I am, that they may see my glory, which you have given me, for you loved me before the foundation of the world.

Righteous Father, the world hasn't known you, but I knew you; and these knew that you sent me.

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."

When Jesus had spoken these words, he went out with his disciples over the brook Kidron, where there was a garden, into which he and his disciples entered.

Now Judas, who betrayed him, also knew the place, for Jesus often met there with his disciples.

Jesus therefore, knowing all the things that were happening to him, went forth, and said to them, "Who are you looking for?"

They answered him, "Jesus of Nazareth." Jesus said to them, "I am he." Judas also, who betrayed him, was standing with them.

When therefore he said to them, "I am he," they went backward, and fell to the ground.

Again therefore he asked them, "Who are you looking for?" They said, "Jesus of Nazareth."

Jesus answered, "I told you that I am he. If therefore you seek me, let these go their way,"

that the word might be fulfilled which he spoke, "Of those whom you have given me, I have lost none."

Jesus therefore said to Peter, "Put the sword into its sheath. The cup which the Father has given me, shall I not surely drink it?"

Simon Peter followed Jesus, as did another disciple. Now that disciple was known to the high priest, and entered in with Jesus into the court of the high priest;

The high priest therefore asked Jesus about his disciples, and about his teaching.

Jesus answered him, "I spoke openly to the world. I always taught in synagogues, and in the temple, where the Jews always meet. I said nothing in secret.

Why do you ask me? Ask those who have heard me what I said to them. Behold, these know the things which I said."

When he had said this, one of the officers standing by slapped Jesus with his hand, saying, "Do you answer the high priest like that?"

Jesus answered him, "If I have spoken evil, testify of the evil; but if well, why do you beat me?"