The New Testament Part 19

3 [6:34]Then they said to him, Sir, always give us this bread.

[6:35]Jesus said to them, I am the bread of life; he that comes to me shall never hunger, and he that believes in me shall never thirst.

[6:36]But I said to you, that you have seen me and believe not.

[6:37]Every thing which the Father gives to me shall come to me, and him that comes to me I will by no means cast out; [6:38]for I came down from heaven not to do my will, but the will of him that sent me.

[6:39]And this is the will of him that sent me; that I should lose nothing of all that he has given me, but should raise it up at the last day. [6:40]For this is the will of my Father, that every one who sees the Son and believes in him should have eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day.

4 [6:41]Then the Jews complained of him because he said, I am the bread which came down from heaven. [6:42]And they said, Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? how, then, does he say, I came down from heaven? [6:43]Then Jesus answered and said to them, Complain not among yourselves. [6:44]No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me shall draw him; and I will raise him up at the last day. [6:45]It is written in the prophets, And all shall be taught of G.o.d. Every one who has heard and learned of the Father comes to me. [6:46]Not that any one has seen the Father except he that is from G.o.d; he has seen the Father.

5 [6:47]I tell you most truly, He that believes has eternal life.

[6:48]I am the bread of life. [6:49]Your fathers eat manna in the wilderness, and died; [6:50]this is the bread which comes down from heaven, that one may eat of it and not die. [6:51]I am the living bread which came down from heaven; if any one eats of this bread, he shall live forever; and the bread which I will give for the life of the world is my flesh.

6 [6:52]Then the Jews contended one with another, saying, How can this man give us his flesh to eat? [6:53]Then Jesus said to them, I tell you most truly, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of man and drink his blood, you have no life in you. [6:54]He that eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.

[6:55]For my flesh is the true food, and my blood is the true drink.

[6:56]He that eats my flesh and drinks my blood continues in me, and I in him. [6:57]As the living Father sent me and I live by the Father, so he that eats me shall live by me. [6:58]This is the bread which came down from heaven; not as your fathers eat and died, he that eats this bread shall live forever. [6:59]These things he said in a synagogue, teaching in Capernaum.

7 [6:60]Then many of his disciples hearing him said, This is a hard saying; who can hear him? [6:61]And Jesus knowing in himself that his disciples complained of this, said to them, Does this offend you?

[6:62][What], then if you should see the Son of man ascend where he was formerly? [6:63]The Spirit is that which makes alive; the flesh profits nothing; the words which I have spoken to you are spirit and life.

[6:64]But there are some of you who believe not. For Jesus knew from the beginning who they were that believed not, and who he was that would betray him. [6:65]And on that account he said, I told you that no one can come to me unless it has been given him by my Father.

8 [6:66]From this time many of his disciples went away from following him, and walked no more with him. [6:67]Then Jesus said to the twelve Will you also go away? [6:68]Simon Peter answered him, Lord, to whom shall we go? you have words of eternal life, [6:69]and we have believed and know that you are the Holy [Son] of G.o.d. [6:70]He answered them, Have I not chosen you twelve? and of you one is a devil. [6:71]But he spoke of Judas the son of Simon Iscariot, for he was about to betray him, being one of the twelve. [7:1]And after these things Jesus walked in Galilee, for he would not walk in Judea because the Jews sought to kill him.

CHAPTER X.

CHRIST AT THE FEAST OF TABERNACLES.

1 [7:2]AND the feast of the Jews was nigh, the feast of tabernacles.

[7:3]Then his brothers said to him, Go down from here, and go into Judea, that your disciples also may see your works which you do; [7:4]for no one does any thing in secret, and seeks himself to be in public. If you do these things, show yourself to the world. [7:5]For his brothers did not believe on him. [7:6]Then Jesus said to them, My time has not yet come, but your time is always ready. [7:7]The world cannot hate you, but me it hates, because I testify of it that its works are evil. [7:8]Do you go up to the feast; I go not up to this feast, because my time has not yet fully come. [7:9]Having said these things he continued in Galilee.

2 [7:10]But when his brothers had gone up, then he also went up to the feast, not openly, but as it were in secret. [7:11]Then the Jews sought him at the feast, and said, Where is he? [7:12]And there was much complaining concerning him among the mult.i.tude; some said, He is a good man; others said, No; but he deceives the people. [7:13]Nevertheless, no one spoke openly for him from fear of the Jews.

3 [7:14]And in the midst of the feast Jesus went up into the temple and taught. [7:15]Then the Jews wondered, saying, How does this man know letters, not having learned? [7:16]Then Jesus answered them and said, My teaching is not mine but his that sent me. [7:17]If any one will do his will, he shall know of the teaching whether it is from G.o.d or whether I speak from myself. [7:18]He that speaks from himself seeks his own glory; but he that seeks the glory of him that sent him, this [man] is true, and no unrighteousness is in him. [7:19]Did not Moses give you the law? and no one of you performs the law. Why do you seek to kill me? [7:20]The mult.i.tude answered, You have a demon; who seeks to kill you? [7:21]Jesus answered and said to them, I performed one work and you all wonder. [7:22]Moses gave you circ.u.mcision, not that it is of Moses but of the fathers, and you circ.u.mcise a man on the sabbath. [7:23]If a man receives circ.u.mcision on the sabbath, that the law of Moses may not be broken, are you angry with me because I made a man entirely sound on the sabbath? [7:24]Judge not according to the appearance, but judge a righteous judgment.

4 [7:25]Then some of the inhabitants of Jerusalem said, Is not this he whom they seek to kill? [7:26]And behold, he speaks boldly, and they say nothing to him. Have the rulers at length learned that this is the Christ? [7:27]But we know this man whence he is; but when the Christ comes, no one knows whence he is. [7:28]Then Jesus cried, teaching in the temple and saying, You both know me and know whence I am; and I have not come of myself; but he that sent me is true, whom you know not; [7:29]I know him, because I am from him, and he sent me.

[7:30]Then they sought to take him by force; but no man laid a hand on him, for his hour had not yet come.

5 [7:31]And many of the mult.i.tude believed on him, and said, When the Christ comes will he perform more miracles than this man has performed?

[7:32]The Pharisees heard the mult.i.tude saying these things concerning him, and the chief priests and Pharisees sent to take him by force.

[7:33]Then Jesus said, Yet a little while am I with you, and I go to him that sent me. [7:34]You shall seek and shall not find, and where I am you cannot come. [7:35]Then the Jews said one to another, Where is this man about to go, that we shall not find him? Will he go to the dispersion of the Greeks, and teach the Greeks? [7:36]What does the word which he said mean; You shall seek and shall not find me, and where I am you cannot come?

6 [7:37]And on the last day, the great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any one thirsts, let him come to me and drink.

[7:38]He that believes in me, as the Scripture has said, out of him shall flow rivers of living water. [7:39]But he said this of the Spirit which those believing in him were about to receive; for the Spirit was not yet [given], because Jesus was not yet glorified. [7:40]Then some of the mult.i.tude hearing these words, said, This is truly the prophet; [7:41]others said, This is the Christ; others said, [No]; for does the Christ come from Galilee? [7:42]Has not the Scripture said that the Christ comes from the offspring of David, and from Bethlehem, the village where David was? [7:43]Then there was a division among the mult.i.tude on his account; [7:44]and some of them wished to take him by force, but no one laid hands on him.

7 [7:45]Then came the officers to the chief priests and Pharisees, and they said to them, Why have you not brought him? [7:46]The officers answered, A man never spoke thus. [7:47]The Pharisees answered them, Are you also deceived? [7:48]Has any one of the rulers believed on him, or of the Pharisees? [7:49] But this mult.i.tude which know not the law are accursed. [7:50]Nicodemus, he that came to him, being one of them, said to them, [7:51]Does our law judge a man unless it first hears from him and knows what he does? [7:52]They answered and said to him, Are you also from Galilee? search and see; for no prophet is raised up from Galilee.

8 [7:53][An early interpolation, but probably true]. And every man went to his own house; [8:1]and Jesus went to the Mount of Olives. [8:2]And in the morning he went again to the temple, and all the people came to him, and he sat and taught them. [8:3]And the scribes and Pharisees brought him a woman taken in adultery, and placing her in the midst [8:4]said to him, Teacher, this woman was taken in adultery, in the very act. [8:5]In the law, Moses commanded us that such should be stoned; what therefore do you say? [8:6]They said this to try him, that they might have something of which to accuse him. But Jesus, stooping down, wrote with his finger on the ground. [8:7]And when they continued asking him, rising up, he said to them, Let him that has not sinned among you first cast the stone at her. [8:8]And again stooping down he wrote on the ground. [8:9]But they hearing, and being convicted by their consciences, went out, one by one, beginning with the oldest, even to the last; and Jesus was left alone, and the woman standing in the midst. [8:10]And Jesus rising up and seeing no one but the woman, said to her, Woman, where are those your accusers? Has no man condemned you? [8:11]And she said, No man, Lord. And Jesus said to her, Neither do I condemn you; go, and sin no more.

CHAPTER XI.

CHRIST DECLARING HIMSELF THE SON OF G.o.d.

1 [8:12]THEN Jesus spoke to them again, saying, I am the light of the world; he that follows me shall not walk in darkness but shall have the light of life. [8:13]Then the Pharisees said to him, You testify of yourself; your testimony is not true. [8:14]Jesus answered and said to them, Even if I testify of myself, my testimony is true, for I know whence I came and whither I go; but you know not whence I come or whither I go. [8:15]You judge according to the flesh; I judge no one; [8:16]and even if I judge, my judgment is true, because I am not alone, but I and the Father who sent me. [8:17]And it is written also in your law, that the testimony of two men is true; [8:18]I am one, testifying of myself, and the Father who sent me testifies of me. [8:19]Then they said to him, Where is your Father? Jesus answered, You have neither known me nor my Father; if you had known me you would also have known my Father. [8:20]These words he said in the treasury, teaching in the temple; and no one took him by force, for his hour had not yet come.

2 [8:21]Then Jesus said to them again, I go away, and you shall seek me and die in your sin; where I go, you cannot come. [8:22]Then the Jews said, Will he kill himself, that 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, You shall die in your sins; for if you believe not that I am [the Christ], you shall die in your sins. [8:25] Then they said to him, Who are you? And Jesus said to them, What at the beginning, and what I tell you [now]. [8:26]I have many things to say and judge of you; but he that sent me is true; and what I have heard from him, these things I speak in the world. [8:27]They understood not that he spoke to them of the Father. [8:28]Then Jesus said to them, When you shall lift up the Son of man, then shall you know that I am [the Christ]; and I do nothing of myself; but I speak these things as the Father has taught me; [8:29]and he having sent me is with me, he has not left me alone, for I always do the things which please him.

3 [8:30]When he said these things many believed on him. [8:31]Then Jesus said to the Jews who believed on him, If you continue in my word, you are my disciples indeed; [8:32]and you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. [8:33]They answered him, We are children of Abraham, and were never in servitude to any one; how say you, You shall become free? [8:34]Jesus answered them, I tell you most truly, that every one who commits sin is a servant of the sin.

[8:35]But the servant continues not in the house for ever; the Son continues for ever. [8:36]If, therefore, the Son shall make you free, you shall be free indeed. [8:37]I know that you are children of Abraham; but you seek to kill me because my word has no place in you.

[8:38]What I have seen with my Father I speak, and you also do what you have heard from your father. [8:39]They answered and said to him, Our father is Abraham. Jesus said to them, If you were children of Abraham, you would have done the works of Abraham; [8:40]but now you seek to kill me, a man who has told you the truth, which I have heard from G.o.d; Abraham did not do this. [8:41]You do the works of your father. They said to him, We were not born by fornication, we have one father, G.o.d.

[8:42]Jesus said to them, If G.o.d was your father you would have loved me; for I came forth and come from G.o.d; for I came not of myself, but he sent me. [8:43]Why do you not understand my speech? because you cannot hear my word. [8:44]You are of your father the devil, and the desires of your father you will to do. He was a murderer from the beginning and stood not by the truth; for truth is not in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own; for he is a liar, and the father of him [that lies]. [8:45]But because I tell you the truth you believe me not. [8:46]Who of you convicts me of a sin? If I say the truth, why do you not believe me? [8:47]He that is of G.o.d hears the words of G.o.d; you, therefore, hear not, because you are not of G.o.d.

4 [8:48]The Jews answered and said to him, Say we not well that you are a Samaritan, and have a demon? [8:49]Jesus answered, I have not a demon; but I honor my Father, and you dishonor me. [8:50]But I seek not my glory; there is one that seeks and judges. [8:51]I tell you most truly, if any one shall keep my word he shall never see 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 any one shall keep my word he shall never taste death. [8:53]Are you greater than our father Abraham, who died? and the prophets died; whom do you make yourself? [8:54]

Jesus answered, If I glorify myself, my glory is nothing; it is my Father who glorifies me, of whom you say, He is our G.o.d; [8:55]and you have not known him, but I have known him; and if I should say I do not know him, I should be a liar like you; but I know him and keep his word. [8:56]Abraham your father rejoiced to see my day, and he saw, and was glad. [8:57]Then the Jews said to him, You have not yet fifty years, and have you seen Abraham? [8:58]Jesus said to them, I tell you most truly, that before Abraham existed, I am. [8:59]Then they took up stones to cast at him; but Jesus hid himself, and went out of the temple.

CHAPTER XII.

CHRIST CURING A MAN BORN BLIND, AND HIS PARABLE OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD.

1 [9:1]AND pa.s.sing by he saw a man that was blind from birth; [9:2]and his disciples asked him, saying, Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind? [9:3]Jesus answered, Neither did this man sin, nor his parents, but that the works of G.o.d might appear in him. [9:4]I must perform the works of him that sent me, while it is day; night comes when no man can work. [9:5]While I am in the world I am the light of the world. [9:6]Saying these things he spit on the ground, and made a paste of the spittle, and put the paste on his eyes, [9:7]and said to him, Go, and wash in the pool of the Siloam; which is interpreted, Sent. Then he went away and washed, and came seeing.

2 [9:8]Then the neighbors and those who had seen him before, because he was a beggar, said, Is not this he that sat and begged? [9:9]Some said, This is he; others said, No, but he is like him; he said, I am he.

[9:10]Then they said to him, How then were your eyes opened? [9:11]He answered, A man called Jesus made paste and anointed my eyes, and said to me, Go to the Siloam and wash; then I went and washed, and obtained sight. [9:12]They said to him, Where is he? He said, I know not.

3 [9:13]They brought to the Pharisees him that was formerly blind; [9:14]and it was on the sabbath when Jesus made the paste and opened his eyes. [9:15]Then the Pharisees also asked him again how he obtained sight. And he said to them, He put a paste on my eyes, and I washed, and see. [9:16]Then some of the Pharisees said, This man is not of G.o.d, for he does not keep the sabbath. Others said, How can a sinful man perform such miracles? And there was a division among them. [9:17]They said to the blind man again, What do you say of him, because he opened your eyes? And he said, He is a prophet.

4 [9:18]Then the Jews did not believe of him that he had been blind and received his sight, till they called the parents of him that had received his sight. [9:19]And they asked them, saying, Is this your son, of whom you say that he was born blind? How then does he now see?

[9:20]His parents answered and said, We know that this is our son, and that he was born blind; [9:21]but how he now sees we know not, or who has opened his eyes we know not; ask him, he is of age, he will speak for himself. [9:22]His parents said these things because they feared the Jews; for already the Jews had agreed that if any one confessed him to be Christ, he should be put out of the synagogue; [9:23] therefore his parents said, He is of age, ask him.

5 [9:24]Then they called the man who had been blind, a second time, and said to him, Give glory to G.o.d; we know that this man is a sinner.

[9:25]Then he answered, Whether he is a sinner I know not; one thing I know, that having been blind, I now see. [9:26]Then they said to him, What did he do to you? how did he open your eyes? [9:27]He answered them, I have told you already, and you did not hear; why do you wish to hear again? Do you also wish to be his disciples? [9:28]They reproached him, and said, You are his disciple, but we are disciples of Moses.

[9:29]We know that G.o.d spoke to Moses, but we know not whence this man is. [9:30]The man answered and said to them, It is a strange thing, that you know not whence he is, and he has opened my eyes. [9:31]We know that G.o.d hears not sinners; but if one is a wors.h.i.+pper of G.o.d, and does his will, him he hears. [9:32]Since the world began it has not been heard that any one opened the eyes of one born blind; [9:33]unless this man was from G.o.d he would have been able to do nothing. [9:34]They answered and said to him, You were born entirely in sins, and do you teach us? And they cast him without.

6 [9:35]Jesus heard that they had cast him without, and finding him he said to him, Do you believe in the Son of G.o.d? [9:36]And he answered and said, Who is he, sir, that I shall believe on him? [9:37]Jesus said to him, You have both seen him, and he that speaks to you is he.

[9:38]And he said, Lord, I believe, and wors.h.i.+pped him. [9:39]And Jesus said, I came into this world for judgment, that those not seeing may see, and those seeing become blind.

7 [9:40]And the Pharisees who were with him heard these things and said to him, Are we also blind? [9:41]Jesus said to them, If you were blind you would not have had sin; but now you say, We see, your sin remains.

[10:1]I tell you most truly, he that enters not by the door into the sheepfold, but climbs in at some other place, he is a thief and robber; [10:2]but he that enters by the door is the shepherd of the sheep.

[10:3]To him the gate-keeper opens, and the sheep hear his voice, and he calls his sheep by name, and leads them out. [10:4]When he puts out all his sheep he goes before them, and the sheep follow him; for they know his voice. [10:5]But a stranger they will not follow, but will flee from him, for they know not the voice of strangers. [10:6]This parable spoke Jesus to them, but they knew not what the words which he spoke to them meant.

8 [10:7]Then said Jesus to them again, I tell you most truly, I am the door of the sheep. [10:8]All who came before me are thieves and robbers; but the sheep have not heard them. [10:9]I am the door; by me if any one enters in he shall be saved, and go in and out, and find pasturage. [10:10]The thief comes not, except to steal, and kill, and destroy; I came that they may have life, and have it abundantly.

9 [10:11]I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd gives his life for the sheep. [10:12]But the hired servant, and one who is not a shepherd, who does not own the sheep, sees the wolf coming, and leaves the sheep and flees, and the wolf seizes and scatters them; [10:13]for he is a hired servant and cares not for the sheep. [10:14]I am the good shepherd, and I know mine and mine know me, [10:15]as the Father knows me and I know the Father; and I give my life for the sheep.