Chapter 1
John 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God,
and the Word was God.
John 1:2 He was in the beginning with God.
John 1:3 All things came into being through Him, and apart from Him
nothing came into being that has come into being.
John 1:4 In Him was life, and the life was the Light of men.
John 1:5 The Light shines in the darkness, and
the darkness did not comprehend it.
John 1:6 There came a man sent from God, whose name was John.
John 1:7 He came as a witness, to testify about the Light, so that
all might believe through him.
Chapter 1
John 1:8 He was not the Light, but he came to testify about the
Light.
John 1:9 There was the true Light which, coming into the world,
enlightens every man.
John 1:10 He was in the world, and the world was made through
Him, and the world did not know Him.
John 1:11 He came to His own, and those who were His own did
not receive Him.
John 1:12 But as many as received Him, to them He gave the
right to become children of God, even to those who believe in His
name,
John 1:13 who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the
flesh nor of the will of man, but of God.
John 1:14 And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us, and
we saw His glory, glory as of the only begotten from the Father,
full of grace and truth.
John 1:15 John testified about Him and cried out, saying,
“This was He of whom I said, ‘He who comes after me has a higher
rank than I, for He existed before me.’”
John 1:16 For of His fullness we have all received, and grace
upon grace.
John 1:17 For the Law was given through Moses; grace and truth
were realized through Jesus Christ.
John 1:18 No one has seen God at any time; the only begotten
God who is in the bosom of the Father, He has explained Him.
John 1:19 This is the testimony of John, when the Jews sent to
him priests and Levites from
Jerusalem to ask him, “Who are you?”
John 1:20 And he confessed and did not deny, but confessed, “I
am not the Christ.”
John 1:21 They asked him, “What then? Are you Elijah?” And he
said, “I am not.” “Are you the Prophet?” And he answered, “No.”
John 1:22 Then they said to him, “Who are you, so that we may
give an answer to those who sent us? What do you say about
yourself?”
John 1:23 He said, “I am a voice of one crying in the
wilderness, ‘Make straight the way of the Lord,’ as Isaiah the
prophet said.”
John 1:24 Now they had been sent from the Pharisees.
John 1:25 They asked him, and said to him, “Why then are you
baptizing, if you are not the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the Prophet?”
John 1:26 John answered them saying, “I baptize in water, but
among you stands One whom you do not know.
John 1:27 “It is He who comes after me, the thong of whose
sandal I am not worthy to untie.”
John 1:28 These things took place in
Bethany beyond the
Jordan, where
John was baptizing.
John 1:29 The next day he saw Jesus coming to him and said,
“Behold, the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!
John 1:30 “This is He on behalf of whom I said, ‘After me
comes a Man who has a higher rank than I, for He existed before me.’
John 1:31 “I did not recognize Him, but so that He might be
manifested to
Israel, I came
baptizing in water.”
John 1:32 John testified saying, “I have seen the Spirit
descending as a dove out of heaven, and He remained upon Him.
John 1:33 “I did not recognize Him, but He who sent me to
baptize in water said to me, ‘He upon whom you see the Spirit
descending and remaining upon Him, this is the One who baptizes in
the Holy Spirit.’
John 1:34 “I myself have seen, and have testified that this is
the Son of God.”
John 1:35 Again the next day John was standing with two of his
disciples,
John 1:36 and he looked at Jesus as He walked, and said,
“Behold, the Lamb of God!”
John 1:37 The two disciples heard him speak, and they followed
Jesus.
John 1:38 And Jesus turned and saw them following, and said to
them, “What do you seek?” They said to Him, “Rabbi (which translated
means Teacher), where are You staying?”
John 1:39 He said to them, “Come, and you will see.” So they
came and saw where He was staying; and they stayed with Him that
day, for it was about the tenth hour.
John 1:40 One of the two who heard John speak and followed
Him, was Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother.
John 1:41 He found first his own brother Simon and said to
him, “We have found the Messiah” (which translated means Christ).
John 1:42 He brought him to Jesus. Jesus looked at him and
said, “You are Simon the son of John; you shall be called Cephas”
(which is translated Peter).
John 1:43 The next day He purposed to go into
Galilee, and He found Philip. And Jesus said to him,
“Follow Me.”
John 1:44 Now Philip was from
Bethsaida, of the city of Andrew and
Peter.
John 1:45 Philip found Nathanael and said to him, “We have
found Him of whom Moses in the Law and also the Prophets wrote—Jesus
of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.”
John 1:46 Nathanael said to him, “Can any good thing come out
of Nazareth?” Philip
said to him, “Come and see.”
John 1:47 Jesus saw Nathanael coming to Him, and said of him,
“Behold, an Israelite indeed, in whom there is no deceit!”
John 1:48 Nathanael said to Him, “How do You know me?” Jesus
answered and said to him, “Before Philip called you, when you were
under the fig tree, I saw you.”
John 1:49 Nathanael answered Him, “Rabbi, You are the Son of
God; You are the King of Israel.”
John 1:50 Jesus answered and said to him, “Because I said to
you that I saw you under the fig tree, do you believe? You will see
greater things than these.”
John 1:51 And He said to him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, you
will see the heavens opened and the angels of God ascending and
descending on the Son of Man.”
Chapter 2
John 2:1 On the third day there was a wedding in Cana of Galilee,
and the mother of Jesus was there;
John 2:2 and both Jesus and His disciples were invited to the
wedding.
John 2:3 When the wine ran out, the mother of Jesus said to Him,
“They have no wine.”
John 2:4 And Jesus said to her, “Woman, what does that have to do
with us? My hour has not yet come.”
John 2:5 His mother said to the servants, “Whatever He says to you,
do it.”
John 2:6 Now there were six stone waterpots set there for the Jewish
custom of purification, containing twenty or thirty gallons each.
John 2:7 Jesus said to them, “Fill the waterpots with water.” So
they filled them up to the brim.
John 2:8 And He said to them, “Draw some out now and take it to the
headwaiter.” So they took it to him.
John 2:9 When the headwaiter tasted the water which had become wine,
and did not know where it came from (but the servants who had drawn
the water knew), the headwaiter called the bridegroom,
John 2:10 and said to him, “Every man serves the good wine first,
and when the people have drunk freely, then he serves the poorer
wine; but you have kept the good wine until now.”
John 2:11 This beginning of His signs Jesus did in Cana of
Galilee, and manifested His glory, and His disciples believed in
Him.
John 2:12 After this He went down to
Capernaum, He and His mother and His
brothers and His disciples; and they stayed there a few days.
John 2:13 The Passover of the Jews was near, and Jesus went up
to Jerusalem.
John 2:14 And He found in the temple those who were selling
oxen and sheep and doves, and the money changers seated at their
tables.
John 2:15 And He made a scourge of cords, and drove them all
out of the temple, with the sheep and the oxen; and He poured out
the coins of the money changers and overturned their tables;
John 2:16 and to those who were selling the doves He said,
“Take these things away; stop making My Father’s house a place of
business.”
John 2:17 His disciples remembered that it was written, “Zeal
for Your house will consume me.”
John 2:18 The Jews then said to Him, “What sign do You show us
as your authority for doing these things?”
John 2:19 Jesus answered them, “Destroy this temple, and in
three days I will raise it up.”
John 2:20 The Jews then said, “It took forty-six years to
build this temple, and will You raise it up in three days?”
John 2:21 But He was speaking of the temple of His body.
John 2:22 So when He was raised from the dead, His disciples
remembered that He said this; and they believed the Scripture and
the word which Jesus had spoken.
John 2:23 Now when He was in
Jerusalem at the Passover, during
the feast, many believed in His name, observing His signs which He
was doing.
John 2:24 But Jesus, on His part, was not entrusting Himself
to them, for He knew all men,
John 2:25 and because He did not need anyone to testify
concerning man, for He Himself knew what was in man.
Chapter 3
John 3:1 Now there was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a
ruler of the Jews;
John 3:2 this man came to Jesus by night and said to Him, “Rabbi, we
know that You have come from God as a teacher; for no one can do
these signs that You do unless God is with him.”
John 3:3 Jesus answered and said to
him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot
see the
kingdom of
God.”
John 3:4 Nicodemus said to Him, “How can a man be born when he is
old? He cannot enter a second time into his mother’s womb and be
born, can he?”
John 3:5 Jesus answered, “Truly,
truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit he
cannot enter into the
kingdom of
God.
John 3:6 “That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which
is born of the Spirit is spirit.
John 3:7 “Do not be amazed that I said to you, ‘You must be born
again.’
John 3:8 “The wind blows where it wishes and you hear the sound of
it, but do not know where it comes from and where it is going; so is
everyone who is born of the Spirit.”
John 3:9 Nicodemus said to Him, “How can these things be?”
John 3:10 Jesus answered and said to him, “Are you the teacher
of Israel
and do not understand these things?
John 3:11 “Truly, truly, I say to you, we speak of what we
know and testify of what we have seen, and you do not accept our
testimony.
John 3:12 “If I told you earthly things and you do not
believe, how will you believe if I tell you heavenly things?
John 3:13 “No one has ascended into heaven, but He who
descended from heaven: the Son of Man.
John 3:14 “As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness,
even so must the Son of Man be lifted up;
John 3:15 so that whoever believes will in Him have eternal
life.
John 3:16 “For God so loved the world, that He gave His only
begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but
have eternal life.
John 3:17 “For God did not send the Son into the world to
judge the world, but that the world might be saved through Him.
John 3:18 “He who believes in Him is not judged; he who does
not believe has been judged already, because he has not believed in
the name of the only begotten Son of God.
John 3:19 “This is the judgment, that the Light has come into
the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the Light, for
their deeds were evil.
John 3:20 “For everyone who does evil hates the Light, and
does not come to the Light for fear that his deeds will be exposed.
John 3:21 “But he who practices the truth comes to the Light,
so that his deeds may be manifested as having been wrought in God.”
John 3:22 After these things Jesus and His disciples came into
the land of
Judea, and there He was spending time
with them and baptizing.
John 3:23 John also was baptizing in Aenon near Salim, because
there was much water there; and people were coming and were being
baptized—
John 3:24 for John had not yet been thrown into prison.
John 3:25 Therefore there arose a discussion on the part of
John’s disciples with a Jew about purification.
John 3:26 And they came to John and said to him, “Rabbi, He
who was with you beyond the Jordan, to whom you have testified,
behold, He is baptizing and all are coming to Him.”
John 3:27 John answered and said, “A man can receive nothing
unless it has been given him from heaven.
John 3:28 “You yourselves are my witnesses that I said, ‘I am
not the Christ,’ but, ‘I have been sent ahead of Him.’
John 3:29 “He who 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. So this joy of mine has been made
full.
John 3:30 “He must increase, but I must decrease.
John 3:31 “He who comes from above is above all, he who is of
the earth is from the earth and speaks of the earth. He who comes
from heaven is above all.
John 3:32 “What He has seen and heard, of that He testifies;
and no one receives His testimony.
John 3:33 “He who has received His testimony has set his seal
to this, that God is true.
John 3:34 “For He whom God has sent speaks the words of God;
for He gives the Spirit without measure.
John 3:35 “The Father loves the Son and has given all things
into His hand.
John 3:36 “He who believes in the Son has eternal life; but he
who does not obey the Son will not see life, but the wrath of God
abides on him.”
Chapter 4
John 4:1 Therefore when the Lord knew that the Pharisees had heard
that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John
John 4:2 (although Jesus Himself was not baptizing, but His
disciples were),
John 4:3 He left
Judea
and went away again into Galilee.
John 4:4 And He had to pass through
Samaria.
John 4:5 So He came to a city of
Samaria called Sychar, near the
parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph;
John 4:6 and Jacob’s well was there. So Jesus, being wearied from
His journey, was sitting thus by the well. It was about the sixth
hour.
John 4:7 There came a woman of
Samaria to draw water. Jesus said to
her, “Give Me a drink.”
John 4:8 For His disciples had gone away into the city to buy food.
John 4:9 Therefore the Samaritan woman said to Him, “How is it that
You, being a Jew, ask me for a drink since I am a Samaritan woman?”
(For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.)
John 4:10 Jesus answered and said to 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.”
John 4:11 She said to Him, “Sir, You have nothing to draw with
and the well is deep; where then do You get that living water?
John 4:12 “You are not greater than our father Jacob, are You,
who gave us the well, and drank of it himself and his sons and his
cattle?”
John 4:13 Jesus answered and said to her, “Everyone who drinks
of this water will thirst again;
John 4:14 but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him shall
never thirst; but the water that I will give him will become in him
a well of water springing up to eternal life.”
John 4:15 The woman said to Him, “Sir, give me this water, so
I will not be thirsty nor come all the way here to draw.”
John 4:16 He said to her, “Go, call your husband and come
here.”
John 4:17 The woman answered and said, “I have no husband.”
Jesus said to her, “You have correctly said, ‘I have no husband’;
John 4:18 for you have had five husbands, and the one whom you
now have is not your husband; this you have said truly.”
John 4:19 The woman said to Him, “Sir, I perceive that You are
a prophet.
John 4:20 “Our fathers worshiped in this mountain, and you
people say that in Jerusalem
is the place where men ought to worship.”
John 4:21 Jesus said to her, “Woman, believe Me, an hour is
coming when neither in this mountain nor in
Jerusalem will you worship the
Father.
John 4:22 “You worship what you do not know; we worship what
we know, for salvation is from the Jews.
John 4:23 “But an hour is coming, and now is, when the true
worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth; for such
people the Father seeks to be His worshipers.
John 4:24 “God is spirit, and those who worship Him must
worship in spirit and truth.”
John 4:25 The woman said to Him, “I know that Messiah is
coming (He who is called Christ); when that One comes, He will
declare all things to us.”
John 4:26 Jesus said to her, “I who speak to you am He.”
John 4:27 At this point His disciples came, and they were
amazed that He had been speaking with a woman, yet no one said,
“What do You seek?” or, “Why do You speak with her?”
John 4:28 So the woman left her waterpot, and went into the
city and said to the men,
John 4:29 “Come, see a man who told me all the things that I
have done; this is not the Christ, is it?”
John 4:30 They went out of the city, and were coming to Him.
John 4:31 Meanwhile the disciples were urging Him, saying,
“Rabbi, eat.”
John 4:32 But He said to them, “I have food to eat that you do
not know about.”
John 4:33 So the disciples were saying to one another, “No one
brought Him anything to eat, did he?”
John 4:34 Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of
Him who sent Me and to accomplish His work.
John 4:35 “Do you not say, ‘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 white for harvest.
John 4:36 “Already he who reaps is receiving wages and is gathering
fruit for life eternal; so that he who sows and he who reaps may
rejoice together.
John 4:37 “For in this case the saying is true, ‘One sows and
another reaps.’
John 4:38 “I sent you to reap that for which you have not
labored; others have labored and you have entered into their labor.”
John 4:39 From that city many of the Samaritans believed in
Him because of the word of the woman who testified, “He told me all
the things that I have done.”
John 4:40 So when the Samaritans came to Jesus, they were
asking Him to stay with them; and He stayed there two days.
John 4:41 Many more believed because of His word;
John 4:42 and they were saying to the woman, “It is no longer
because of what you said that we believe, for we have heard for
ourselves and know that this One is indeed the Savior of the world.”
John 4:43 After the two days He went forth from there into
Galilee.
John 4:44 For Jesus Himself testified that a prophet has no
honor in his own country.
John 4:45 So when He came to Galilee, the Galileans received Him,
having seen all the things that He did in Jerusalem at the feast;
for they themselves also went to the feast.
John 4:46 Therefore He came again to Cana of Galilee where He
had made the water wine. And there was a royal official whose son
was sick at
Capernaum.
John 4:47 When he heard that Jesus had come out of Judea into
Galilee, he went to Him and was imploring Him to come down and heal
his son; for he was at the point of death.
John 4:48 So Jesus said to him, “Unless you people see signs
and wonders, you simply will not believe.”
John 4:49 The royal official said to Him, “Sir, come down
before my child dies.”
John 4:50 Jesus said to him, “Go; your son lives.” The man
believed the word that Jesus spoke to him and started off.
John 4:51 As he was now going down, his slaves met him, saying
that his son was living.
John 4:52 So he inquired of them the hour when he began to get
better. Then they said to him, “Yesterday at the seventh hour the
fever left him.”
John 4:53 So the father knew that it was at that hour in which Jesus
said to him, “Your son lives”; and he himself believed and his whole
household.
John 4:54 This is again a second sign that Jesus performed
when He had come out of Judea into
Galilee.
Chapter 5
John 5:1 After these things there was
a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to
Jerusalem.
John 5:2 Now there is in
Jerusalem by the sheep gate a pool,
which is called in Hebrew Bethesda, having five porticoes.
John 5:3 In these lay a multitude of those who were sick, blind,
lame, and withered, [waiting for the moving of the waters;
John 5:4 for an angel of the Lord went down at certain seasons into
the pool and stirred up the water; whoever then first, after the
stirring up of the water, stepped in was made well from whatever
disease with which he was afflicted.]
John 5:5 A man was there who had been ill for thirty-eight years.
John 5:6 When Jesus saw him lying there, and knew that he had
already been a long time in that condition, He said to him, “Do you
wish to get well?”
John 5:7 The sick man answered Him, “Sir, I have no man to put me
into the pool when the water is stirred up, but while I am coming,
another steps down before me.”
John 5:8 Jesus said to him, “Get up, pick up your pallet and walk.”
John 5:9 Immediately the man became well, and picked up his pallet
and began to walk. Now it was the Sabbath on that day.
John 5:10 So the Jews were saying to the man who was cured,
“It is the Sabbath, and it is not permissible for you to carry your
pallet.”
John 5:11 But he answered them, “He who made me well was the
one who said to me, ‘Pick up your pallet and walk.’”
John 5:12 They asked him, “Who is the man who said to you,
‘Pick up your pallet and walk’?”
John 5:13 But the man who was healed did not know who it was,
for Jesus had slipped away while there was a crowd in that place.
John 5:14 Afterward Jesus found him in the temple and said to
him, “Behold, you have become well; do not sin anymore, so that
nothing worse happens to you.”
John 5:15 The man went away, and told the Jews that it was
Jesus who had made him well.
John 5:16 For this reason the Jews were persecuting Jesus,
because He was doing these things on the Sabbath.
John 5:17 But He answered them, “My Father is working until
now, and I Myself am working.”
John 5:18 For this reason therefore the Jews were seeking all the
more to kill Him, because He not only was breaking the Sabbath, but
also was calling God His own Father, making Himself equal with God.
John 5:19 Therefore Jesus answered and was saying to them,
“Truly, truly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing of Himself,
unless it is something He sees the Father doing; for whatever the
Father does, these things the Son also does in like manner.
John 5:20 “For the Father loves the Son, and shows Him all things
that He Himself is doing; and the Father will show Him greater works
than these, so that you will marvel.
John 5:21 “For just as the Father raises the dead and gives
them life, even so the Son also gives life to whom He wishes.
John 5:22 “For not even the Father judges anyone, but He has
given all judgment to the Son,
John 5:23 so that all will honor the Son even as they honor
the Father. He who does not honor the Son does not honor the Father
who sent Him.
John 5:24 “Truly, truly, I say to you, he who hears My word,
and believes Him who sent Me, has eternal life, and does not come
into judgment, but has passed out of death into life.
John 5:25 “Truly, truly, I say to you, an hour is coming and now is,
when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who
hear will live.
John 5:26 “For just as the Father has life in Himself, even so
He gave to the Son also to have life in Himself;
John 5:27 and He gave Him authority to execute judgment,
because He is the Son of Man.
John 5:28 “Do not marvel at this; for an hour is coming, in which
all who are in the tombs will hear His voice,
John 5:29 and will come forth; those who did the good deeds to
a resurrection of life, those who committed the evil deeds to a
resurrection of judgment.
John 5:30 “I can do nothing on My own initiative. As I hear, I
judge; and My judgment is just, because I do not seek My own will,
but the will of Him who sent Me.
John 5:31 “If I alone testify about Myself, My testimony is
not true.
John 5:32 “There is another who testifies of Me, and I know
that the testimony which He gives about Me is true.
John 5:33 “You have sent to John, and he has testified to the
truth.
John 5:34 “But the testimony which I receive is not from man,
but I say these things so that you may be saved.
John 5:35 “He was the lamp that was burning and was shining
and you were willing to rejoice for a while in his light.
John 5:36 “But the testimony which I have is greater than the
testimony of John; for the works which the Father has given Me to
accomplish—the very works that I do—testify about Me, that the
Father has sent Me.
John 5:37 “And the Father who sent Me, He has testified of Me.
You have neither heard His voice at any time nor seen His form.
John 5:38 “You do not have His word abiding in you, for you do
not believe Him whom He sent.
John 5:39 “You search the Scriptures because you think that in
them you have eternal life; it is these that testify about Me;
John 5:40 and you are unwilling to come to Me so that you may
have life.
John 5:41 “I do not receive glory from men;
John 5:42 but I know you, that you do not have the love of God
in yourselves.
John 5:43 “I have come in My Father’s name, and you do not
receive Me; if another comes in his own name, you will receive him.
John 5:44 “How can you believe, when you receive glory from
one another and you do not seek the glory that is from the one and
only God?
John 5:45 “Do not think that I will accuse you before the
Father; the one who accuses you is Moses, in whom you have set your
hope.
John 5:46 “For if you believed Moses, you would believe Me,
for he wrote about Me.
John 5:47 “But if you do not believe his writings, how will
you believe My words?”
Chapter 6
John 6:1 After these things Jesus went
away to the other side of the Sea of Galilee
(or Tiberias).
John 6:2 A large crowd followed Him, because they saw the signs
which He was performing on those who were sick.
John 6:3 Then Jesus went up on the mountain, and there He sat down
with His disciples.
John 6:4 Now the Passover, the feast of the Jews, was near.
John 6:5 Therefore Jesus, lifting up His eyes and seeing that a
large crowd was coming to Him, said to Philip, “Where are we to buy
bread, so that these may eat?”
John 6:6 This He was saying to test him, for He Himself knew what He
was intending to do.
John 6:7 Philip answered Him, “Two hundred denarii worth of bread is
not sufficient for them, for everyone to receive a little.”
John 6:8 One of His disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother, said
to Him,
John 6:9 “There is a lad here who has five barley loaves and two
fish, but what are these for so many people?”
John 6:10 Jesus said, “Have the people sit down.” Now there
was much grass in the place. So the men sat down, in number about
five thousand.
John 6:11 Jesus then took the loaves, and having given thanks,
He distributed to those who were seated; likewise also of the fish
as much as they wanted.
John 6:12 When they were filled, He said to His disciples,
“Gather up the leftover fragments so that nothing will be lost.”
John 6:13 So they gathered them up, and filled twelve baskets with
fragments from the five barley loaves which were left over by those
who had eaten.
John 6:14 Therefore when the people saw the sign which He had
performed, they said, “This is truly the Prophet who is to come into
the world.”
John 6:15 So Jesus, perceiving that they were intending to
come and take Him by force to make Him king, withdrew again to the
mountain by Himself alone.
John 6:16 Now when evening came, His disciples went down to
the sea,
John 6:17 and after getting into a boat, they started to cross
the sea to Capernaum. It
had already become dark, and Jesus had not yet come to them.
John 6:18 The sea began to be stirred up because a strong wind
was blowing.
John 6:19 Then, when they had rowed about three or four miles, they
saw Jesus walking on the sea and drawing near to the boat; and they
were frightened.
John 6:20 But He said to them, “It is I; do not be afraid.”
John 6:21 So they were willing to receive Him into the boat,
and immediately the boat was at the land to which they were going.
John 6:22 The next day the crowd that stood on the other side of the
sea saw that there was no other small boat there, except one, and
that Jesus had not entered with His disciples into the boat, but
that His disciples had gone away alone.
John 6:23 There came other small boats from Tiberias near to
the place where they ate the bread after the Lord had given thanks.
John 6:24 So when the crowd saw that Jesus was not there, nor
His disciples, they themselves got into the small boats, and came to
Capernaum seeking Jesus.
John 6:25 When they found Him on the other side of the sea,
they said to Him, “Rabbi, when did You get here?”
John 6:26 Jesus answered them and said, “Truly, truly, I say
to you, you seek Me, not because you saw signs, but because you ate
of the loaves and were filled.
John 6:27 “Do not work for the food which perishes, but for the food
which endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to
you, for on Him the Father, God, has set His seal.”
John 6:28 Therefore they said to Him, “What shall we do, so
that we may work the works of God?”
John 6:29 Jesus answered and said to them, “This is the work
of God, that you believe in Him whom He has sent.”
John 6:30 So they said to Him, “What then do You do for a
sign, so that we may see, and believe You? What work do You perform?
John 6:31 “Our fathers ate the manna in the wilderness; as it
is written, ‘He gave them bread out of heaven to eat.’”
John 6:32 Jesus then said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, it
is not Moses who has given you the bread out of heaven, but it is My
Father who gives you the true bread out of heaven.
John 6:33 “For the bread of God is that which comes down out
of heaven, and gives life to the world.”
John 6:34 Then they said to Him, “Lord, always give us this
bread.”
John 6:35 Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life; he who
comes to Me will not hunger, and he who believes in Me will never
thirst.
John 6:36 “But I said to you that you have seen Me, and yet do
not believe.
John 6:37 “All that the Father gives Me will come to Me, and
the one who comes to Me I will certainly not cast out.
John 6:38 “For I have come down from heaven, not to do My own
will, but the will of Him who sent Me.
John 6:39 “This is the will of Him who sent Me, that of all that He
has given Me I lose nothing, but raise it up on the last day.
John 6:40 “For this is the will of My Father, that everyone who
beholds the Son and believes in Him will have eternal life, and I
Myself will raise him up on the last day.”
John 6:41 Therefore the Jews were grumbling about Him, because
He said, “I am the bread that came down out of heaven.”
John 6:42 They were saying, “Is not this Jesus, the son of
Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How does He now say, ‘I
have come down out of heaven’?”
John 6:43 Jesus answered and said to them, “Do not grumble
among yourselves.
John 6:44 “No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me
draws him; and I will raise him up on the last day.
John 6:45 “It is written in the prophets, ‘And they shall all
be taught of God.’ Everyone who has heard and learned from the
Father, comes to Me.
John 6:46 “Not that anyone has seen the Father, except the One
who is from God; He has seen the Father.
John 6:47 “Truly, truly, I say to you, he who believes has
eternal life.
John 6:48 “I am the bread of life.
John 6:49 “Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and
they died.
John 6:50 “This is the bread which comes down out of heaven,
so that one may eat of it and not die.
John 6:51 “I am the living bread that came down out of heaven; if
anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever; and the bread also
which I will give for the life of the world is My flesh.”
John 6:52 Then the Jews began to argue with one another,
saying, “How can this man give us His flesh to eat?”
John 6:53 So Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless
you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink His blood, you have no
life in yourselves.
John 6:54 “He who eats My flesh and drinks My blood has
eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.
John 6:55 “For My flesh is true food, and My blood is true
drink.
John 6:56 “He who eats My flesh and drinks My blood abides in
Me, and I in him.
John 6:57 “As the living Father sent Me, and I live because of
the Father, so he who eats Me, he also will live because of Me.
John 6:58 “This is the bread which came down out of heaven;
not as the fathers ate and died; he who eats this bread will live
forever.”
John 6:59 These things He said in the synagogue as He taught
in Capernaum.
John 6:60 Therefore many of His disciples, when they heard this
said, “This is a difficult statement; who can listen to it?”
John 6:61 But Jesus, conscious that His disciples grumbled at this,
said to them, “Does this cause you to stumble?
John 6:62 “What then if you see the Son of Man ascending to where He
was before?
John 6:63 “It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits
nothing; the words that I have spoken to you are spirit and are
life.
John 6:64 “But there are some of you who do not believe.” For Jesus
knew from the beginning who they were who did not believe, and who
it was that would betray Him.
John 6:65 And He was saying, “For this reason I have said to you,
that no one can come to Me unless it has been granted him from the
Father.”
John 6:66 As a result of this many of His disciples withdrew and
were not walking with Him anymore.
John 6:67 So Jesus said to the twelve, “You do not want to go away
also, do you?”
John 6:68 Simon Peter answered Him, “Lord, to whom shall we go? You
have words of eternal life.
John 6:69 “We have believed and have come to know that You are the
Holy One of God.”
John 6:70 Jesus answered them, “Did I Myself not choose you, the
twelve, and yet one of you is a devil?”
John 6:71 Now He meant Judas the son of Simon Iscariot, for he, one
of the twelve, was going to betray Him.
Chapter 7
John 7:1 After these things Jesus was
walking in Galilee, for He was unwilling to
walk in
Judea because the Jews were seeking to kill Him.
John 7:2 Now the feast of the Jews, the Feast of Booths, was near.
John 7:3 Therefore His brothers said
to Him, “Leave here and go into Judea, so
that Your disciples also may see Your works which You are doing.
John 7:4 “For no one does anything in secret when he himself seeks
to be known publicly. If You do these things, show Yourself to the
world.”
John 7:5 For not even His brothers were believing in Him.
John 7:6 So Jesus said to them, “My time is not yet here, but your
time is always opportune.
John 7:7 “The world cannot hate you, but it hates Me because I
testify of it, that its deeds are evil.
John 7:8 “Go up to the feast yourselves; I do not go up to this
feast because My time has not yet fully come.”
John 7:9 Having said these things to
them, He stayed in Galilee.
John 7:10 But when His brothers had gone up to the feast, then
He Himself also went up, not publicly, but as if, in secret.
John 7:11 So the Jews were seeking Him at the feast and were
saying, “Where is He?”
John 7:12 There was much grumbling among the crowds concerning
Him; some were saying, “He is a good man”; others were saying, “No,
on the contrary, He leads the people astray.”
John 7:13 Yet no one was speaking openly of Him for fear of
the Jews.
John 7:14 But when it was now the midst of the feast Jesus
went up into the temple, and began to teach.
John 7:15 The Jews then were astonished, saying, “How has this
man become learned, having never been educated?”
John 7:16 So Jesus answered them and said, “My teaching is not
Mine, but His who sent Me.
John 7:17 “If anyone is willing to do His will, he will know
of the teaching, whether it is of God or whether I speak from
Myself.
John 7:18 “He who speaks from himself seeks his own glory; but
He who is seeking the glory of the One who sent Him, He is true, and
there is no unrighteousness in Him.
John 7:19 “Did not Moses give you the Law, and yet none of you
carries out the Law? Why do you seek to kill Me?”
John 7:20 The crowd answered, “You have a demon! Who seeks to
kill You?”
John 7:21 Jesus answered them, “I did one deed, and you all
marvel.
John 7:22 “For this reason Moses has given you circumcision
(not because it is from Moses, but from the fathers), and on the
Sabbath you circumcise a man.
John 7:23 “If a man receives circumcision on the Sabbath so
that the Law of Moses will not be broken, are you angry with Me
because I made an entire man well on the Sabbath?
John 7:24 “Do not judge according to appearance, but judge
with righteous judgment.”
John 7:25 So some of the people of
Jerusalem were saying, “Is this not
the man whom they are seeking to kill?
John 7:26 “Look, He is speaking publicly, and they are saying
nothing to Him. The rulers do not really know that this is the
Christ, do they?
John 7:27 “However, we know where this man is from; but
whenever the Christ may come, no one knows where He is from.”
John 7:28 Then Jesus cried out in the temple, teaching and
saying, “You both know Me and know where I am from; and I have not
come of Myself, but He who sent Me is true, whom you do not know.
John 7:29 “I know Him, because I am from Him, and He sent Me.”
John 7:30 So they were seeking to seize Him; and no man laid
his hand on Him, because His hour had not yet come.
John 7:31 But many of the crowd believed in Him; and they were
saying, “When the Christ comes, He will not perform more signs than
those which this man has, will He?”
John 7:32 The Pharisees heard the crowd muttering these things
about Him, and the chief priests and the Pharisees sent officers to
seize Him.
John 7:33 Therefore Jesus said, “For a little while longer I
am with you, then I go to Him who sent Me.
John 7:34 “You will seek Me, and will not find Me; and where I
am, you cannot come.”
John 7:35 The Jews then said to one another, “Where does this
man intend to go that we will not find Him? He is not intending to
go to the Dispersion among the Greeks, and teach the Greeks, is He?
John 7:36 “What is this statement that He said, ‘You will seek
Me, and will not find Me; and where I am, you cannot come’?”
John 7:37 Now on the last day, the great day of the feast,
Jesus stood and cried out, saying, “If anyone is thirsty, let him
come to Me and drink.
John 7:38 “He who believes in Me, as the Scripture said, ‘From
his innermost being will flow rivers of living water.’”
John 7:39 But this He spoke of the Spirit, whom those who believed
in Him were to receive; for the Spirit was not yet given, because
Jesus was not yet glorified.
John 7:40 Some of the people therefore, when they heard these
words, were saying, “This certainly is the Prophet.”
John 7:41 Others were saying, “This is the Christ.” Still
others were saying, “Surely the Christ is not going to come from
Galilee, is He?
John 7:42 “Has not the Scripture said that the Christ comes
from the descendants of David, and from
Bethlehem, the village where David
was?”
John 7:43 So a division occurred in the crowd because of Him.
John 7:44 Some of them wanted to seize Him, but no one laid
hands on Him.
John 7:45 The officers then came to the chief priests and
Pharisees, and they said to them, “Why did you not bring Him?”
John 7:46 The officers answered, “Never has a man spoken the
way this man speaks.”
John 7:47 The Pharisees then answered them, “You have not also
been led astray, have you?
John 7:48 “No one of the rulers or Pharisees has believed in
Him, has he?
John 7:49 “But this crowd which does not know the Law is
accursed.”
John 7:50 Nicodemus (he who came to Him before, being one of
them) said to them,
John 7:51 “Our Law does not judge a man unless it first hears
from him and knows what he is doing, does it?”
John 7:52 They answered him, “You are not also from
Galilee, are you? Search, and see that no prophet arises
out of Galilee.”
John 7:53 [Everyone went to his home.
Chapter 8
John 8:1 But Jesus went to the
Mount of Olives.
John 8:2 Early in the morning He came again into the temple, and all
the people were coming to Him; and He sat down and began to teach
them.
John 8:3 The scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman caught in
adultery, and having set her in the center of the court,
John 8:4 they said to Him, “Teacher, this woman has been caught in
adultery, in the very act.
John 8:5 “Now in the Law Moses commanded us to stone such women;
what then do You say?”
John 8:6 They were saying this, testing Him, so that they might have
grounds for accusing Him. But Jesus stooped down and with His finger
wrote on the ground.
John 8:7 But when they persisted in asking Him, He straightened up,
and said to them, “He who is without sin among you, let him be the
first to throw a stone at her.”
John 8:8 Again He stooped down and wrote on the ground.
John 8:9 When they heard it, they began to go out one by one,
beginning with the older ones, and He was left alone, and the woman,
where she was, in the center of the court.
John 8:10 Straightening up, Jesus said to her, “Woman, where
are they? Did no one condemn you?”
John 8:11 She said, “No one, Lord.” And Jesus said, “I do not
condemn you, either. Go. From now on sin no more.”]
John 8:12 Then Jesus again 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.”
John 8:13 So the Pharisees said to Him, “You are testifying
about Yourself; Your testimony is not true.”
John 8:14 Jesus answered and said to 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 do not know where I come from or where I
am going.
John 8:15 “You judge according to the flesh; I am not judging
anyone.
John 8:16 “But even if I do judge, My judgment is true; for I
am not alone in it, but I and the Father who sent Me.
John 8:17 “Even in your law it has been written that the
testimony of two men is true.
John 8:18 “I am He who testifies about Myself, and the Father
who sent Me testifies about Me.”
John 8:19 So they were saying 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.”
John 8:20 These words He spoke in the treasury, as He taught
in the temple; and no one seized Him, because His hour had not yet
come.
John 8:21 Then He said again to them, “I go away, and you will
seek Me, and will die in your sin; where I am going, you cannot
come.”
John 8:22 So the Jews were saying, “Surely He will not kill
Himself, will He, since He says, ‘Where I am going, you cannot
come’?”
John 8:23 And He was saying to them, “You are from below, I am from
above; you are of this world, I am not of this world.
John 8:24 “Therefore I said to you that you will die in your
sins; for unless you believe that I am He, you will die in your
sins.”
John 8:25 So they were saying to Him, “Who are You?” Jesus
said to them, “What have I been saying to you from the beginning?
John 8:26 “I have many things to speak and to judge concerning
you, but He who sent Me is true; and the things which I heard from
Him, these I speak to the world.”
John 8:27 They did not realize that He had been speaking to
them about the Father.
John 8:28 So Jesus said, “When you lift up the Son of Man, then you
will know that I am He, and I do nothing on My own initiative, but I
speak these things as the Father taught Me.
John 8:29 “And He who sent Me is with Me; He has not left Me
alone, for I always do the things that are pleasing to Him.”
John 8:30 As He spoke these things, many came to believe in
Him.
John 8:31 So Jesus was saying to those Jews who had believed
Him, “If you continue in My word, then you are truly disciples of
Mine;
John 8:32 and you will know the truth, and the truth will make
you free.”
John 8:33 They answered Him, “We are Abraham’s descendants and
have never yet been enslaved to anyone; how is it that You say, ‘You
will become free’?”
John 8:34 Jesus answered them, “Truly, truly, I say to you,
everyone who commits sin is the slave of sin.
John 8:35 “The slave does not remain in the house forever; the
son does remain forever.
John 8:36 “So if the Son makes you free, you will be free
indeed.
John 8:37 “I know that you are Abraham’s descendants; yet you
seek to kill Me, because My word has no place in you.
John 8:38 “I speak the things which I have seen with My
Father; therefore you also do the things which you heard from your
father.”
John 8:39 They answered and said to Him, “Abraham is our
father.” Jesus said to them, “If you are Abraham’s children, do the
deeds of Abraham.
John 8:40 “But as it is, you are seeking to kill Me, a man who
has told you the truth, which I heard from God; this Abraham did not
do.
John 8:41 “You are doing the deeds of your father.” They said
to Him, “We were not born of fornication; we have one Father: God.”
John 8:42 Jesus said to them, “If God were your Father, you would
love Me, for I proceeded forth and have come from God, for I have
not even come on My own initiative, but He sent Me.
John 8:43 “Why do you not understand what I am saying? It is
because you cannot hear My word.
John 8:44 “You are of your father the devil, and you want to
do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning,
and does not stand in the truth because there is no truth in him.
Whenever he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own nature, for he is a
liar and the father of lies.
John 8:45 “But because I speak the truth, you do not believe
Me.
John 8:46 “Which one of you convicts Me of sin? If I speak
truth, why do you not believe Me?
John 8:47 “He who is of God hears the words of God; for this
reason you do not hear them, because you are not of God.”
John 8:48 The Jews answered and said to Him, “Do we not say
rightly that You are a Samaritan and have a demon?”
John 8:49 Jesus answered, “I do not have a demon; but I honor
My Father, and you dishonor Me.
John 8:50 “But I do not seek My glory; there is One who seeks
and judges.
John 8:51 “Truly, truly, I say to you, if anyone keeps My word
he will never see death.”
John 8:52 The Jews said to Him, “Now we know that You have a
demon. Abraham died, and the prophets also; and You say, ‘If anyone
keeps My word, he will never taste of death.’
John 8:53 “Surely You are not greater than our father Abraham,
who died? The prophets died too; whom do You make Yourself out to
be?”
John 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 God’;
John 8:55 and you have not come to know Him, but I know Him; and if
I say that I do not know Him, I will be a liar like you, but I do
know Him and keep His word.
John 8:56 “Your father Abraham rejoiced to see My day, and he
saw it and was glad.”
John 8:57 So the Jews said to Him, “You are not yet fifty
years old, and have You seen Abraham?”
John 8:58 Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you,
before Abraham was born, I am.”
John 8:59 Therefore they picked up stones to throw at Him, but
Jesus hid Himself and went out of the temple.
Chapter 9
John 9:1 As He passed by, He saw a man blind from birth.
John 9:2 And His disciples asked Him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man
or his parents, that he would be born blind?”
John 9:3 Jesus answered, “It was neither that this man sinned, nor
his parents; but it was so that the works of God might be displayed
in him.
John 9:4 “We must work the works of Him who sent Me as long as it is
day; night is coming when no one can work.
John 9:5 “While I am in the world, I am the Light of the world.”
John 9:6 When He had said this, He spat on the ground, and made clay
of the spittle, and applied the clay to his eyes,
John 9:7 and said to him, “Go, wash in the pool of Siloam” (which is
translated, Sent). So he went away and washed, and came back seeing.
John 9:8 Therefore the neighbors, and those who previously saw him
as a beggar, were saying, “Is not this the one who used to sit and
beg?”
John 9:9 Others were saying, “This is he,” still others were saying,
“No, but he is like him.” He kept saying, “I am the one.”
John 9:10 So they were saying to him, “How then were your eyes
opened?”
John 9:11 He answered, “The man who is called Jesus made clay,
and anointed my eyes, and said to me, ‘Go to Siloam and wash’; so I
went away and washed, and I received sight.”
John 9:12 They said to him, “Where is He?” He said, “I do not
know.”
John 9:13 They brought to the Pharisees the man who was
formerly blind.
John 9:14 Now it was a Sabbath on the day when Jesus made the
clay and opened his eyes.
John 9:15 Then the Pharisees also were asking him again how he
received his sight. And he said to them, “He applied clay to my
eyes, and I washed, and I see.”
John 9:16 Therefore some of the Pharisees were saying, “This
man is not from God, because He does not keep the Sabbath.” But
others were saying, “How can a man who is a sinner perform such
signs?” And there was a division among them.
John 9:17 So they said to the blind man again, “What do you
say about Him, since He opened your eyes?” And he said, “He is a
prophet.”
John 9:18 The Jews then did not believe it of him, that he had been
blind and had received sight, until they called the parents of the
very one who had received his sight,
John 9:19 and questioned them, saying, “Is this your son, who
you say was born blind? Then how does he now see?”
John 9:20 His parents answered them and said, “We know that
this is our son, and that he was born blind;
John 9:21 but how he now sees, we do not know; or who opened
his eyes, we do not know. Ask him; he is of age, he will speak for
himself.”
John 9:22 His parents said this because they were afraid of the
Jews; for the Jews had already agreed that if anyone confessed Him
to be Christ, he was to be put out of the synagogue.
John 9:23 For this reason his parents said, “He is of age; ask
him.”
John 9:24 So a second time they called the man who had been
blind, and said to him, “Give glory to God; we know that this man is
a sinner.”
John 9:25 He then answered, “Whether He is a sinner, I do not
know; one thing I do know, that though I was blind, now I see.”
John 9:26 So they said to him, “What did He do to you? How did
He open your eyes?”
John 9:27 He answered them, “I told you already and you did
not listen; why do you want to hear it again? You do not want to
become His disciples too, do you?”
John 9:28 They reviled him and said, “You are His disciple,
but we are disciples of Moses.
John 9:29 “We know that God has spoken to Moses, but as for
this man, we do not know where He is from.”
John 9:30 The man answered and said to them, “Well, here is an
amazing thing, that you do not know where He is from, and yet He
opened my eyes.
John 9:31 “We know that God does not hear sinners; but if
anyone is God-fearing and does His will, He hears him.
John 9:32 “Since the beginning of time it has never been heard
that anyone opened the eyes of a person born blind.
John 9:33 “If this man were not from God, He could do
nothing.”
John 9:34 They answered him, “You were born entirely in sins,
and are you teaching us?” So they put him out.
John 9:35 Jesus heard that they had put him out, and finding
him, He said, “Do you believe in the Son of Man?”
John 9:36 He answered, “Who is He, Lord, that I may believe in
Him?”
John 9:37 Jesus said to him, “You have both seen Him, and He
is the one who is talking with you.”
John 9:38 And he said, “Lord, I believe.” And he worshiped
Him.
John 9:39 And Jesus said, “For judgment I came into this
world, so that those who do not see may see, and that those who see
may become blind.”
John 9:40 Those of the Pharisees who were with Him heard these
things and said to Him, “We are not blind too, are we?”
John 9:41 Jesus said to them, “If you were blind, you would
have no sin; but since you say, ‘We see,’ your sin remains.
Chapter 10
John 10:1 “Truly, truly, I say to you, he who does not enter by the
door into the fold of the sheep, but climbs up some other way, he is
a thief and a robber.
John 10:2 “But he who enters by the door is a shepherd of the sheep.
John 10:3 “To him the doorkeeper opens, and the sheep hear his
voice, and he calls his own sheep by name and leads them out.
John 10:4 “When he puts forth all his own, he goes ahead of them,
and the sheep follow him because they know his voice.
John 10:5 “A stranger they simply will not follow, but will flee
from him, because they do not know the voice of strangers.”
John 10:6 This figure of speech Jesus spoke to them, but they did
not understand what those things were which He had been saying to
them.
John 10:7 So Jesus said to them again, “Truly, truly, I say to you,
I am the door of the sheep.
John 10:8 “All who came before Me are thieves and robbers, but the
sheep did not hear them.
John 10:9 “I am the door; if anyone enters through Me, he will be
saved, and will go in and out and find pasture.
John 10:10 “The thief comes only to steal and kill and
destroy; I came that they may have life, and have it abundantly.
John 10:11 “I am the good shepherd; the good shepherd lays
down His life for the sheep.
John 10:12 “He who is a hired hand, and not a shepherd, who is not
the owner of the sheep, sees the wolf coming, and leaves the sheep
and flees, and the wolf snatches them and scatters them.
John 10:13 “He flees because he is a hired hand and is not
concerned about the sheep.
John 10:14 “I am the good shepherd, and I know My own and My
own know Me,
John 10:15 even as the Father knows Me and I know the Father;
and I lay down My life for the sheep.
John 10:16 “I have other sheep, which are not of this fold; I
must bring them also, and they will hear My voice; and they will
become one flock with one shepherd.
John 10:17 “For this reason the Father loves Me, because I lay
down My life so that I may take it again.
John 10:18 “No one has taken it away from Me, but I lay it
down on My own initiative. I have authority to lay it down, and I
have authority to take it up again. This commandment I received from
My Father.”
John 10:19 A division occurred again among the Jews because of
these words.
John 10:20 Many of them were saying, “He has a demon and is
insane. Why do you listen to Him?”
John 10:21 Others were saying, “These are not the sayings of
one demon-possessed. A demon cannot open the eyes of the blind, can
he?”
John 10:22 At that time the Feast of the Dedication took place
at Jerusalem;
John 10:23 it was winter, and Jesus was walking in the temple
in the portico of Solomon.
John 10:24 The Jews then gathered around Him, and were saying
to Him, “How long will You keep us in suspense? If You are the
Christ, tell us plainly.”
John 10:25 Jesus answered them, “I told you, and you do not
believe; the works that I do in My Father’s name, these testify of
Me.
John 10:26 “But you do not believe because you are not of My
sheep.
John 10:27 “My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they
follow Me;
John 10:28 and I give eternal life to them, and they will
never perish; and no one will snatch them out of My hand.
John 10:29 “My Father, who has given them to Me, is greater than
all; and no one is able to snatch them out of the Father’s hand.
John 10:30 “I and the Father are one.”
John 10:31 The Jews picked up stones again to stone Him.
John 10:32 Jesus answered them, “I showed you many good works
from the Father; for which of them are you stoning Me?”
John 10:33 The Jews answered Him, “For a good work we do not
stone You, but for blasphemy; and because You, being a man, make
Yourself out to be God.”
John 10:34 Jesus answered them, “Has it not been written in
your Law, ‘I said, you are gods’?
John 10:35 “If he called them gods, to whom the word of God
came (and the Scripture cannot be broken),
John 10:36 do you say of Him, whom the Father sanctified and
sent into the world, ‘You are blaspheming,’ because I said, ‘I am
the Son of God’?
John 10:37 “If I do not do the works of My Father, do not
believe Me;
John 10:38 but if I do them, though you do not believe Me,
believe the works, so that you may know and understand that the
Father is in Me, and I in the Father.”
John 10:39 Therefore they were seeking again to seize Him, and
He eluded their grasp.
John 10:40 And He went away again beyond the
Jordan to the
place where John was first baptizing, and He was staying there.
John 10:41 Many came to Him and were saying, “While John
performed no sign, yet everything John said about this man was
true.”
John 10:42 Many believed in Him there.
Chapter 11
John 11:1 Now a certain man was sick,
Lazarus of Bethany, the village
of
Mary and her sister Martha.
John 11:2 It was the Mary who anointed the Lord with ointment, and
wiped His feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick.
John 11:3 So the sisters sent word to Him, saying, “Lord, behold, he
whom You love is sick.”
John 11:4 But when Jesus heard this, He said, “This sickness is not
to end in death, but for the glory of God, so that the Son of God
may be glorified by it.”
John 11:5 Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus.
John 11:6 So when He heard that he was sick, He then stayed two days
longer in the place where He was.
John 11:7 Then after this He said to
the disciples, “Let us go to Judea
again.”
John 11:8 The disciples said to Him, “Rabbi, the Jews were just now
seeking to stone You, and are You going there again?”
John 11:9 Jesus answered, “Are there not twelve hours in the day? If
anyone walks in the day, he does not stumble, because he sees the
light of this world.
John 11:10 “But if anyone walks in the night, he stumbles,
because the light is not in him.”
John 11:11 This He said, and after that He said to them, “Our
friend Lazarus has fallen asleep; but I go, so that I may awaken him
out of sleep.”
John 11:12 The disciples then said to Him, “Lord, if he has
fallen asleep, he will recover.”
John 11:13 Now Jesus had spoken of his death, but they thought
that He was speaking of literal sleep.
John 11:14 So Jesus then said to them plainly, “Lazarus is
dead,
John 11:15 and I am glad for your sakes that I was not there,
so that you may believe; but let us go to him.”
John 11:16 Therefore Thomas, who is called Didymus, said to
his fellow disciples, “Let us also go, so that we may die with Him.”
John 11:17 So when Jesus came, He found that he had already
been in the tomb four days.
John 11:18 Now
Bethany was near
Jerusalem, about two miles off;
John 11:19 and many of the Jews had come to Martha and Mary,
to console them concerning their brother.
John 11:20 Martha therefore, when she heard that Jesus was
coming, went to meet Him, but Mary stayed at the house.
John 11:21 Martha then said to Jesus, “Lord, if You had been
here, my brother would not have died.
John 11:22 “Even now I know that whatever You ask of God, God
will give You.”
John 11:23 Jesus said to her, “Your brother will rise again.”
John 11:24 Martha said to Him, “I know that he will rise again
in the resurrection on the last day.”
John 11:25 Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the
life; he who believes in Me will live even if he dies,
John 11:26 and everyone who lives and believes in Me will
never die. Do you believe this?”
John 11:27 She said to Him, “Yes, Lord; I have believed that
You are the Christ, the Son of God, even He who comes into the
world.”
John 11:28 When she had said this, she went away and called
Mary her sister, saying secretly, “The Teacher is here and is
calling for you.”
John 11:29 And when she heard it, she got up quickly and was
coming to Him.
John 11:30 Now Jesus had not yet come into the village, but
was still in the place where Martha met Him.
John 11:31 Then the Jews who were with her in the house, and
consoling her, when they saw that Mary got up quickly and went out,
they followed her, supposing that she was going to the tomb to weep
there.
John 11:32 Therefore, when Mary came where Jesus was, she saw
Him, and fell at His feet, saying to Him, “Lord, if You had been
here, my brother would not have died.”
John 11:33 When Jesus therefore saw her weeping, and the Jews
who came with her also weeping, He was deeply moved in spirit and
was troubled,
John 11:34 and said, “Where have you laid him?” They said to
Him, “Lord, come and see.”
John 11:35 Jesus wept.
John 11:36 So the Jews were saying, “See how He loved him!”
John 11:37 But some of them said, “Could not this man, who
opened the eyes of the blind man, have kept this man also from
dying?”
John 11:38 So Jesus, again being deeply moved within, came to
the tomb. Now it was a cave, and a stone was lying against it.
John 11:39 Jesus said, “Remove the stone.” Martha, the sister
of the deceased, said to Him, “Lord, by this time there will be a
stench, for he has been dead four days.”
John 11:40 Jesus said to her, “Did I not say to you that if
you believe, you will see the glory of God?”
John 11:41 So they removed the stone. Then Jesus raised His
eyes, and said, “Father, I thank You that You have heard Me.
John 11:42 “I knew that You always hear Me; but because of the
people standing around I said it, so that they may believe that You
sent Me.”
John 11:43 When He had said these things, He cried out with a
loud voice, “Lazarus, come forth.”
John 11:44 The man who had died came forth, bound hand and
foot with wrappings, and his face was wrapped around with a cloth.
Jesus said to them, “Unbind him, and let him go.”
John 11:45 Therefore many of the Jews who came to Mary, and
saw what He had done, believed in Him.
John 11:46 But some of them went to the Pharisees and told
them the things which Jesus had done.
John 11:47 Therefore the chief priests and the Pharisees
convened a council, and were saying, “What are we doing? For this
man is performing many signs.
John 11:48 “If we let Him go on like this, all men will
believe in Him, and the Romans will come and take away both our
place and our nation.”
John 11:49 But one of them, Caiaphas, who was high priest that
year, said to them, “You know nothing at all,
John 11:50 nor do you take into account that it is expedient
for you that one man die for the people, and that the whole nation
not perish.”
John 11:51 Now he did not say this on his own initiative, but being
high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus was going to die for
the nation,
John 11:52 and not for the nation only, but in order that He
might also gather together into one the children of God who are
scattered abroad.
John 11:53 So from that day on they planned together to kill
Him.
John 11:54 Therefore Jesus no longer continued to walk
publicly among the Jews, but went away from there to the country
near the wilderness, into a city called Ephraim; and there He stayed
with the disciples.
John 11:55 Now the Passover of the Jews was near, and many
went up to Jerusalem out
of the country before the Passover to purify themselves.
John 11:56 So they were seeking for Jesus, and were saying to
one another as they stood in the temple, “What do you think; that He
will not come to the feast at all?”
John 11:57 Now the chief priests and the Pharisees had given
orders that if anyone knew where He was, he was to report it, so
that they might seize Him.
Chapter 12
John 12:1 Jesus, therefore, six days
before the Passover, came to Bethany
where Lazarus was, whom Jesus had raised from the dead.
John 12:2 So they made Him a supper there, and Martha was serving;
but Lazarus was one of those reclining at the table with Him.
John 12:3 Mary then took a pound of very costly perfume of pure
nard, and anointed the feet of Jesus and wiped His feet with her
hair; and the house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume.
John 12:4 But Judas Iscariot, one of His disciples, who was
intending to betray Him, said,
John 12:5 “Why was this perfume not sold for three hundred denarii
and given to poor people?”
John 12:6 Now he said this, not because he was concerned about the
poor, but because he was a thief, and as he had the money box, he
used to pilfer what was put into it.
John 12:7 Therefore Jesus said, “Let her alone, so that she may keep
it for the day of My burial.
John 12:8 “For you always have the poor with you, but you do not
always have Me.”
John 12:9 The large crowd of the Jews then learned that He was
there; and they came, not for Jesus’ sake only, but that they might
also see Lazarus, whom He raised from the dead.
John 12:10 But the chief priests planned to put Lazarus to
death also;
John 12:11 because on account of him many of the Jews were
going away and were believing in Jesus.
John 12:12 On the next day the large crowd who had come to the
feast, when they heard that Jesus was coming to
Jerusalem,
John 12:13 took the branches of the palm trees and went out to
meet Him, and began to shout, “Hosanna! Blessed is He who comes in
the name of the Lord, even the King of Israel.”
John 12:14 Jesus, finding a young donkey, sat on it; as it is
written,
John 12:15 “Fear not, daughter of
Zion; behold, your King is coming,
seated on a donkey’s colt.”
John 12:16 These things His disciples did not understand at
the first; but when Jesus was glorified, then they remembered that
these things were written of Him, and that they had done these
things to Him.
John 12:17 So the people, who were with Him when He called
Lazarus out of the tomb and raised him from the dead, continued to
testify about Him.
John 12:18 For this reason also the people went and met Him,
because they heard that He had performed this sign.
John 12:19 So the Pharisees said to one another, “You see that
you are not doing any good; look, the world has gone after Him.”
John 12:20 Now there were some Greeks among those who were
going up to worship at the feast;
John 12:21 these then came to Philip, who was from Bethsaida
of Galilee, and began to ask him, saying, “Sir, we wish to see
Jesus.”
John 12:22 Philip came and told Andrew; Andrew and Philip came
and told Jesus.
John 12:23 And Jesus answered them, saying, “The hour has come
for the Son of Man to be glorified.
John 12:24 “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless a grain of
wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains alone; but if it
dies, it bears much fruit.
John 12:25 “He who loves his life loses it, and he who hates
his life in this world will keep it to life eternal.
John 12:26 “If anyone serves Me, he must follow Me; and where
I am, there My servant will be also; if anyone serves Me, the Father
will honor him.
John 12:27 “Now My soul has become troubled; and what shall I
say, ‘Father, save Me from this hour’? But for this purpose I came
to this hour.
John 12:28 “Father, glorify Your name.” Then a voice came out
of heaven: “I have both glorified it, and will glorify it again.”
John 12:29 So the crowd of people who stood by and heard it
were saying that it had thundered; others were saying, “An angel has
spoken to Him.”
John 12:30 Jesus answered and said, “This voice has not come
for My sake, but for your sakes.
John 12:31 “Now judgment is upon this world; now the ruler of
this world will be cast out.
John 12:32 “And I, if I am lifted up from the earth, will draw
all men to Myself.”
John 12:33 But He was saying this to indicate the kind of
death by which He was to die.
John 12:34 The crowd then answered Him, “We have heard out of the
Law that the Christ is to remain forever; and how can You say, ‘The
Son of Man must be lifted up’? Who is this Son of Man?”
John 12:35 So Jesus said to them, “For a little while longer
the Light is among you. Walk while you have the Light, so that
darkness will not overtake you; he who walks in the darkness does
not know where he goes.
John 12:36 “While you have the Light, believe in the Light, so
that you may become sons of Light.” These things Jesus spoke, and He
went away and hid Himself from them.
John 12:37 But though He had performed so many signs before
them, yet they were not believing in Him.
John 12:38 This was to fulfill the word of Isaiah the prophet
which he spoke: “Lord, who has believed our report? And to whom has
the arm of the Lord been revealed?”
John 12:39 For this reason they could not believe, for Isaiah
said again,
John 12:40 “He has blinded their eyes and He hardened their
heart, so that they would not see with their eyes and perceive with
their heart, and be converted and I heal them.”
John 12:41 These things Isaiah said because he saw His glory,
and he spoke of Him.
John 12:42 Nevertheless many even of the rulers believed in Him, but
because of the Pharisees they were not confessing Him, for fear that
they would be put out of the synagogue;
John 12:43 for they loved the approval of men rather than the
approval of God.
John 12:44 And Jesus cried out and said, “He who believes in
Me, does not believe in Me but in Him who sent Me.
John 12:45 “He who sees Me sees the One who sent Me.
John 12:46 “I have come as Light into the world, so that
everyone who believes in Me will not remain in darkness.
John 12:47 “If anyone hears My sayings and does not keep them,
I do not judge him; for I did not come to judge the world, but to
save the world.
John 12:48 “He who rejects Me and does not receive My sayings,
has one who judges him; the word I spoke is what will judge him at
the last day.
John 12:49 “For I did not speak on My own initiative, but the
Father Himself who sent Me has given Me a commandment as to what to
say and what to speak.
John 12:50 “I know that His commandment is eternal life;
therefore the things I speak, I speak just as the Father has told
Me.”
Chapter 13
John 13:1 Now before the Feast of the Passover, Jesus knowing that
His hour had come that He would depart out of this world to the
Father, having loved His own who were in the world, He loved them to
the end.
John 13:2 During supper, the devil having already put into the heart
of Judas Iscariot, the son of Simon, to betray Him,
John 13:3 Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into
His hands, and that He had come forth from God and was going back to
God,
John 13:4 got up from supper, and laid aside His garments; and
taking a towel, He girded Himself.
John 13:5 Then He poured water into the basin, and began to wash the
disciples’ feet and to wipe them with the towel with which He was
girded.
John 13:6 So He came to Simon Peter. He said to Him, “Lord, do You
wash my feet?”
John 13:7 Jesus answered and said to him, “What I do you do not
realize now, but you will understand hereafter.”
John 13:8 Peter said to Him, “Never shall You wash my feet!” Jesus
answered him, “If I do not wash you, you have no part with Me.”
John 13:9 Simon Peter said to Him, “Lord, then wash not only my
feet, but also my hands and my head.”
John 13:10 Jesus said to him, “He who has bathed needs only to
wash his feet, but is completely clean; and you are clean, but not
all of you.”
John 13:11 For He knew the one who was betraying Him; for this
reason He said, “Not all of you are clean.”
John 13:12 So when He had washed their feet, and taken His
garments and reclined at the table again, He said to them, “Do you
know what I have done to you?
John 13:13 “You call Me Teacher and Lord; and you are right,
for so I am.
John 13:14 “If I then, the Lord and the Teacher, washed your
feet, you also ought to wash one another’s feet.
John 13:15 “For I gave you an example that you also should do
as I did to you.
John 13:16 “Truly, truly, I say to you, a slave is not greater than
his master, nor is one who is sent greater than the one who sent
him.
John 13:17 “If you know these things, you are blessed if you
do them.
John 13:18 “I do not speak of all of you. I know the ones I
have chosen; but it is that the Scripture may be fulfilled, ‘He who
eats My bread has lifted up his heel against Me.’
John 13:19 “From now on I am telling you before it comes to
pass, so that when it does occur, you may believe that I am He.
John 13:20 “Truly, truly, I say to you, he who receives
whomever I send receives Me; and he who receives Me receives Him who
sent Me.”
John 13:21 When Jesus had said this, He became troubled in
spirit, and testified and said, “Truly, truly, I say to you, that
one of you will betray Me.”
John 13:22 The disciples began looking at one another, at a
loss to know of which one He was speaking.
John 13:23 There was reclining on Jesus’ bosom one of His
disciples, whom Jesus loved.
John 13:24 So Simon Peter gestured to him, and said to him,
“Tell us who it is of whom He is speaking.”
John 13:25 He, leaning back thus on Jesus’ bosom, said to Him,
“Lord, who is it?”
John 13:26 Jesus then answered, “That is the one for whom I
shall dip the morsel and give it to him.” So when He had dipped the
morsel, He took and gave it to Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot.
John 13:27 After the morsel, Satan then entered into him.
Therefore Jesus said to him, “What you do, do quickly.”
John 13:28 Now no one of those reclining at the table knew for
what purpose He had said this to him.
John 13:29 For some were supposing, because Judas had the money box,
that Jesus was saying to him, “Buy the things we have need of for
the feast”; or else, that he should give something to the poor.
John 13:30 So after receiving the morsel he went out
immediately; and it was night.
John 13:31 Therefore when he had gone out, Jesus said, “Now is
the Son of Man glorified, and God is glorified in Him;
John 13:32 if God is glorified in Him, God will also glorify
Him in Himself, and will glorify Him immediately.
John 13:33 “Little children, I am with you a little while
longer. You will seek Me; and as I said to the Jews, now I also say
to you, ‘Where I am going, you cannot come.’
John 13:34 “A new commandment I give to you, that you love one
another, even as I have loved you, that you also love one another.
John 13:35 “By this all men will know that you are My
disciples, if you have love for one another.”
John 13:36 Simon Peter said to Him, “Lord, where are You
going?” Jesus answered, “Where I go, you cannot follow Me now; but
you will follow later.”
John 13:37 Peter said to Him, “Lord, why can I not follow You
right now? I will lay down my life for You.”
John 13:38 Jesus answered, “Will you lay down your life for
Me? Truly, truly, I say to you, a rooster will not crow until you
deny Me three times.
Chapter 14
John 14:1 “Do not let your heart be troubled; believe in God,
believe also in Me.
John 14:2 “In My Father’s house are many dwelling places; if it were
not so, I would have told you; for I go to prepare a place for you.
John 14:3 “If I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again
and receive you to Myself, that where I am, there you may be also.
John 14:4 “And you know the way where I am going.”
John 14:5 Thomas said to Him, “Lord, we do not know where You are
going, how do we know the way?”
John 14:6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the
life; no one comes to the Father but through Me.
John 14:7 “If you had known Me, you would have known My Father also;
from now on you know Him, and have seen Him.”
John 14:8 Philip said to Him, “Lord, show us the Father, and it is
enough for us.”
John 14:9 Jesus said to him, “Have I been so long with you, and yet
you have not come to know Me, Philip? He who has seen Me has seen
the Father; how can you say, ‘Show us the Father’?
John 14:10 “Do you not believe that I am in the Father, and
the Father is in Me? The words that I say to you I do not speak on
My own initiative, but the Father abiding in Me does His works.
John 14:11 “Believe Me that I am in the Father and the Father
is in Me; otherwise believe because of the works themselves.
John 14:12 “Truly, truly, I say to you, he who believes in Me, the
works that I do, he will do also; and greater works than these he
will do; because I go to the Father.
John 14:13 “Whatever you ask in My name, that will I do, so that the
Father may be glorified in the Son.
John 14:14 “If you ask Me anything in My name, I will do it.
John 14:15 “If you love Me, you will keep My commandments.
John 14:16 “I will ask the Father, and He will give you another
Helper, that He may be with you forever;
John 14:17 that is the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot
receive, because it does not see Him or know Him, but you know Him
because He abides with you and will be in you.
John 14:18 I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to
you.
John 14:19 “After a little while the world will no longer see Me,
but you will see Me; because I live, you will live also.
John 14:20 “In that day you will know that I am in My Father, and
you in Me, and I in you.
John 14:21 “He who has My commandments and keeps them is the one who
loves Me; and he who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will
love him and will disclose Myself to him.”
John 14:22 Judas (not Iscariot) said to Him, “Lord, what then has
happened that You are going to disclose Yourself to us and not to
the world?”
John 14:23 Jesus answered and said to him, “If anyone loves Me, he
will keep My word; and My Father will love him, and We will come to
him and make Our abode with him.
John 14:24 “He who does not love Me does not keep My words; and the
word which you hear is not Mine, but the Father’s who sent Me.
John 14:25 “These things I have spoken to you while abiding with
you.
John 14:26 “But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will
send in My name, He will teach you all things, and bring to your
remembrance all that I said to you.
John 14:27 “Peace I leave with you; My peace I give to you; not as
the world gives do I give to you. Do not let your heart be troubled,
nor let it be fearful.
John 14:28 “You heard that I said to you, ‘I go away, and I will
come to you.’ If you loved Me, you would have rejoiced because I go
to the Father, for the Father is greater than I.
John 14:29 “Now I have told you before it happens, so that when it
happens, you may believe.
John 14:30 “I will not speak much more with you, for the ruler of
the world is coming, and he has nothing in Me;
John 14:31 but so that the world may know that I love the Father, I
do exactly as the Father commanded Me. Get up, let us go from here.
Chapter 15
John 15:1 “I am the true vine, and My Father is the vinedresser.
John 15:2 “Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit, He takes
away; and every branch that bears fruit, He prunes it so that it may
bear more fruit.
John 15:3 “You are already clean because of the word which I have
spoken to you.
John 15:4 “Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear
fruit of itself unless it abides in the vine, so neither can you
unless you abide in Me.
John 15:5 “I am the vine, you are the branches; he who abides in Me
and I in him, he bears much fruit, for apart from Me you can do
nothing.
John 15:6 “If anyone does not abide in Me, he is thrown away as a
branch and dries up; and they gather them, and cast them into the
fire and they are burned.
John 15:7 “If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, ask
whatever you wish, and it will be done for you.
John 15:8 “My Father is glorified by this, that you bear much fruit,
and so prove to be My disciples.
John 15:9 “Just as the Father has loved Me, I have also loved you;
abide in My love.
John 15:10 “If you keep My commandments, you will abide in My love;
just as I have kept My Father’s commandments and abide in His love.
John 15:11 “These things I have spoken to you so that My joy may be
in you, and that your joy may be made full.
John 15:12 “This is My commandment, that you love one another, just
as I have loved you.
John 15:13 “Greater love has no one than this, that one lay down his
life for his friends.
John 15:14 “You are My friends if you do what I command you.
John 15:15 “No longer do I call you slaves, for the slave does not
know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for
all things that I have heard from My Father I have made known to
you.
John 15:16 “You did not choose Me but I chose you, and appointed you
that you would go and bear fruit, and that your fruit would remain,
so that whatever you ask of the Father in My name He may give to
you.
John 15:17 “This I command you, that you love one another.
John 15:18 “If the world hates you, you know that it has hated Me
before it hated you.
John 15:19 “If you were of the world, the world would love its own;
but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the
world, because of this the world hates you.
John 15:20 “Remember the word that I said to you, ‘A slave is not
greater than his master.’ If they persecuted Me, they will also
persecute you; if they kept My word, they will keep yours also.
John 15:21 “But all these things they will do to you for My name’s
sake, because they do not know the One who sent Me.
John 15:22 “If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not
have sin, but now they have no excuse for their sin.
John 15:23 “He who hates Me hates My Father also.
John 15:24 “If I had not done among them the works which no one else
did, they would not have sin; but now they have both seen and hated
Me and My Father as well.
John 15:25 “But they have done this to fulfill the word that is
written in their Law, ‘They hated Me without a cause.’
John 15:26 “When the Helper comes, whom I will send to you from the
Father, that is the Spirit of truth who proceeds from the Father, He
will testify about Me,
John 15:27 and you will testify also, because you have been with Me
from the beginning.
Chapter 16
John 16:1 “These things I have spoken to you so that you may be kept
from stumbling.
John 16:2 “They will make you outcasts from the synagogue, but an
hour is coming for everyone who kills you to think that he is
offering service to God.
John 16:3 “These things they will do because they have not known the
Father or Me.
John 16:4 “But these things I have spoken to you, so that when their
hour comes, you may remember that I told you of them. These things I
did not say to you at the beginning, because I was with you.
John 16:5 “But now I am going to Him who sent Me; and none of you
asks Me, ‘Where are You going?’
John 16:6 “But because I have said these things to you, sorrow has
filled your heart.
John 16:7 “But I tell you the truth, it is to your advantage that I
go away; for if I do not go away, the Helper will not come to you;
but if I go, I will send Him to you.
John 16:8 “And He, when He comes, will convict the world concerning
sin and righteousness and judgment;
John 16:9 concerning sin, because they do not believe in Me;
John 16:10 and concerning righteousness, because I go to the Father
and you no longer see Me;
John 16:11 and concerning judgment, because the ruler of this world
has been judged.
John 16:12 “I have many more things to say to you, but you cannot
bear them now.
John 16:13 “But when He, the Spirit of truth, comes, He will guide
you into all the truth; for He will not speak on His own initiative,
but whatever He hears, He will speak; and He will disclose to you
what is to come.
John 16:14 “He will glorify Me, for He will take of Mine and will
disclose it to you.
John 16:15 “All things that the Father has are Mine; therefore I
said that He takes of Mine and will disclose it to you.
John 16:16 “A little while, and you will no longer see Me; and again
a little while, and you will see Me.”
John 16:17 Some of His disciples then said to one another, “What is
this thing He is telling us, ‘A little while, and you will not see
Me; and again a little while, and you will see Me’; and, ‘because I
go to the Father’?”
John 16:18 So they were saying, “What is this that He says, ‘A
little while’? We do not know what He is talking about.”
John 16:19 Jesus knew that they wished to question Him, and He said
to them, “Are you deliberating together about this, that I said, ‘A
little while, and you will not see Me, and again a little while, and
you will see Me’?
John 16:20 “Truly, truly, I say to you, that you will weep and
lament, but the world will rejoice; you will grieve, but your grief
will be turned into joy.
John 16:21 “Whenever a woman is in labor she has pain, because her
hour has come; but when she gives birth to the child, she no longer
remembers the anguish because of the joy that a child has been born
into the world.
John 16:22 “Therefore you too have grief now; but I will see you
again, and your heart will rejoice, and no one will take your joy
away from you.
John 16:23 “In that day you will not question Me about anything.
Truly, truly, I say to you, if you ask the Father for anything in My
name, He will give it to you.
John 16:24 “Until now you have asked for nothing in My name; ask and
you will receive, so that your joy may be made full.
John 16:25 “These things I have spoken to you in figurative
language; an hour is coming when I will no longer speak to you in
figurative language, but will tell you plainly of the Father.
John 16:26 “In that day you will ask in My name, and I do not say to
you that I will request of the Father on your behalf;
John 16:27 for the Father Himself loves you, because you have loved
Me and have believed that I came forth from the Father.
John 16:28 “I came forth from the Father and have come into the
world; I am leaving the world again and going to the Father.”
John 16:29 His disciples said, “Lo, now You are speaking plainly and
are not using a figure of speech.
John 16:30 “Now we know that You know all things, and have no need
for anyone to question You; by this we believe that You came from
God.”
John 16:31 Jesus answered them, “Do you now believe?
John 16:32 “Behold, an hour is coming, and has already come, for you
to be scattered, each to his own home, and to leave Me alone; and
yet I am not alone, because the Father is with Me.
John 16:33 “These things I have spoken to you, so that in Me you may
have peace. In the world you have tribulation, but take courage; I
have overcome the world.”
Chapter 17
John 17:1 Jesus spoke these things; and lifting up His eyes to
heaven, He said, “Father, the hour has come; glorify Your Son, that
the Son may glorify You,
John 17:2 even as You gave Him authority over all flesh, that to all
whom You have given Him, He may give eternal life.
John 17:3 “This is eternal life, that they may know You, the only
true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent.
John 17:4 “I glorified You on the earth, having accomplished the
work which You have given Me to do.
John 17:5 “Now, Father, glorify Me together with Yourself, with the
glory which I had with You before the world was.
John 17:6 “I have manifested Your name to the men whom You gave Me
out of the world; they were Yours and You gave them to Me, and they
have kept Your word.
John 17:7 “Now they have come to know that everything You have given
Me is from You;
John 17:8 for the words which You gave Me I have given to them; and
they received them and truly understood that I came forth from You,
and they believed that You sent Me.
John 17:9 “I ask on their behalf; I do not ask on behalf of the
world, but of those whom You have given Me; for they are Yours;
John 17:10 and all things that are Mine are Yours, and Yours are
Mine; and I have been glorified in them.
John 17:11 “I am no longer in the world; and yet they themselves are
in the world, and I come to You. Holy Father, keep them in Your
name, the name which You have given Me, that they may be one even as
We are.
John 17:12 “While I was with them, I was keeping them in Your name
which You have given Me; and I guarded them and not one of them
perished but the son of perdition, so that the Scripture would be
fulfilled.
John 17:13 “But now I come to You; and these things I speak in the
world so that they may have My joy made full in themselves.
John 17:14 “I have given them Your word; and the world has hated
them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the
world.
John 17:15 “I do not ask You to take them out of the world, but to
keep them from the evil one.
John 17:16 “They are not of the world, even as I am not of the
world.
John 17:17 “Sanctify them in the truth; Your word is truth.
John 17:18 “As You sent Me into the world, I also have sent them
into the world.
John 17:19 “For their sakes I sanctify Myself, that they
themselves also may be sanctified in truth.
John 17:20 “I do not ask on behalf of these alone, but for
those also who believe in Me through their word;
John 17:21 that they may all be one; even as You, Father, are in Me
and I in You, that they also may be in Us, so that the world may
believe that You sent Me.
John 17:22 “The glory which You have given Me I have given to them,
that they may be one, just as We are one;
John 17:23 I in them and You in Me, that they may be perfected in
unity, so that the world may know that You sent Me, and loved them,
even as You have loved Me.
John 17:24 “Father, I desire that they also, whom You have given Me,
be with Me where I am, so that they may see My glory which You have
given Me, for You loved Me before the foundation of the world.
John 17:25 “O righteous Father, although the world has not
known You, yet I have known You; and these have known that You sent
Me;
John 17:26 and I have made Your name known to them, and will make it
known, so that the love with which You loved Me may be in them, and
I in them.”
Chapter 18
John 18:1 When Jesus had spoken these words, He went forth with His
disciples over the ravine of the Kidron, where there was a garden,
in which He entered with His disciples.
John 18:2 Now Judas also, who was betraying Him, knew the place, for
Jesus had often met there with His disciples.
John 18:3 Judas then, having received the Roman cohort and officers
from the chief priests and the Pharisees, came there with lanterns
and torches and weapons.
John 18:4 So Jesus, knowing all the things that were coming upon
Him, went forth and said to them, “Whom do you seek?”
John 18:5 They answered Him, “Jesus the Nazarene.” He said to them,
“I am He.” And Judas also, who was betraying Him, was standing with
them.
John 18:6 So when He said to them, “I am He,” they drew back and
fell to the ground.
John 18:7 Therefore He again asked them, “Whom do you seek?” And
they said, “Jesus the Nazarene.”
John 18:8 Jesus answered, “I told you that I am He; so if you seek
Me, let these go their way,”
John 18:9 to fulfill the word which He spoke, “Of those whom You
have given Me I lost not one.”
John 18:10 Simon Peter then, having a sword, drew it and struck the
high priest’s slave, and cut off his right ear; and the slave’s name
was Malchus.
John 18:11 So Jesus said to Peter, “Put the sword into the
sheath; the cup which the Father has given Me, shall I not drink
it?”
John 18:12 So the Roman cohort and the commander and the
officers of the Jews, arrested Jesus and bound Him,
John 18:13 and led Him to Annas first; for he was
father-in-law of Caiaphas, who was high priest that year.
John 18:14 Now Caiaphas was the one who had advised the Jews
that it was expedient for one man to die on behalf of the people.
John 18:15 Simon Peter was following Jesus, and so was another
disciple. Now that disciple was known to the high priest, and
entered with Jesus into the court of the high priest,
John 18:16 but Peter was standing at the door outside. So the
other disciple, who was known to the high priest, went out and spoke
to the doorkeeper, and brought Peter in.
John 18:17 Then the slave-girl who kept the door said to
Peter, “You are not also one of this man’s disciples, are you?” He
said, “I am not.”
John 18:18 Now the slaves and the officers were standing there,
having made a charcoal fire, for it was cold and they were warming
themselves; and Peter was also with them, standing and warming
himself.
John 18:19 The high priest then questioned Jesus about His
disciples, and about His teaching.
John 18:20 Jesus answered him, “I have spoken openly to the
world; I always taught in synagogues and in the temple, where all
the Jews come together; and I spoke nothing in secret.
John 18:21 “Why do you question Me? Question those who have
heard what I spoke to them; they know what I said.”
John 18:22 When He had said this, one of the officers standing
nearby struck Jesus, saying, “Is that the way You answer the high
priest?”
John 18:23 Jesus answered him, “If I have spoken wrongly,
testify of the wrong; but if rightly, why do you strike Me?”
John 18:24 So Annas sent Him bound to Caiaphas the high
priest.
John 18:25 Now Simon Peter was standing and warming himself.
So they said to him, “You are not also one of His disciples, are
you?” He denied it, and said, “I am not.”
John 18:26 One of the slaves of the high priest, being a relative of
the one whose ear Peter cut off, said, “Did I not see you in the
garden with Him?”
John 18:27 Peter then denied it again, and immediately a
rooster crowed.
John 18:28 Then they led Jesus from Caiaphas into the
Praetorium, and it was early; and they themselves did not enter into
the Praetorium so that they would not be defiled, but might eat the
Passover.
John 18:29 Therefore Pilate went out to them and said, “What
accusation do you bring against this Man?”
John 18:30 They answered and said to him, “If this Man were
not an evildoer, we would not have delivered Him to you.”
John 18:31 So Pilate said to them, “Take Him yourselves, and
judge Him according to your law.” The Jews said to him, “We are not
permitted to put anyone to death,”
John 18:32 to fulfill the word of Jesus which He spoke,
signifying by what kind of death He was about to die.
John 18:33 Therefore Pilate entered again into the Praetorium,
and summoned Jesus and said to Him, “Are You the King of the Jews?”
John 18:34 Jesus answered, “Are you saying this on your own
initiative, or did others tell you about Me?”
John 18:35 Pilate answered, “I am not a Jew, am I? Your own
nation and the chief priests delivered You to me; what have You
done?”
John 18:36 Jesus answered, “My kingdom is not of this world.
If My kingdom were of this world, then My servants would be fighting
so that I would not be handed over to the Jews; but as it is, My
kingdom is not of this realm.”
John 18:37 Therefore Pilate said to Him, “So You are a king?”
Jesus answered, “You say correctly that I am a king. For this I have
been born, and for this I have come into the world, to testify to
the truth. Everyone who is of the truth hears My voice.”
John 18:38 Pilate said to Him, “What is truth?” And when he
had said this, he went out again to the Jews and said to them, “I
find no guilt in Him.
John 18:39 “But you have a custom that I release someone for
you at the Passover; do you wish then that I release for you the
King of the Jews?”
John 18:40 So they cried out again, saying, “Not this Man, but
Barabbas.” Now Barabbas was a robber.
Chapter 19
John 19:1 Pilate then took Jesus and scourged Him.
John 19:2 And the soldiers twisted together a crown of thorns and
put it on His head, and put a purple robe on Him;
John 19:3 and they began to come up to Him and say, “Hail, King of
the Jews!” and to give Him slaps in the face.
John 19:4 Pilate came out again and said to them, “Behold, I am
bringing Him out to you so that you may know that I find no guilt in
Him.”
John 19:5 Jesus then came out, wearing the crown of thorns and the
purple robe. Pilate said to them, “Behold, the Man!”
John 19:6 So when the chief priests and the officers saw Him, they
cried out saying, “Crucify, crucify!” Pilate said to them, “Take Him
yourselves and crucify Him, for I find no guilt in Him.”
John 19:7 The Jews answered him, “We have a law, and by that law He
ought to die because He made Himself out to be the Son of God.”
John 19:8 Therefore when Pilate heard this statement, he was even
more afraid;
John 19:9 and he entered into the Praetorium again and said to
Jesus, “Where are You from?” But Jesus gave him no answer.
John 19:10 So Pilate said to Him, “You do not speak to me? Do
You not know that I have authority to release You, and I have
authority to crucify You?”
John 19:11 Jesus answered, “You would have no authority over
Me, unless it had been given you from above; for this reason he who
delivered Me to you has the greater sin.”
John 19:12 As a result of this Pilate made efforts to release
Him, but the Jews cried out saying, “If you release this Man, you
are no friend of Caesar; everyone who makes himself out to be a king
opposes Caesar.”
John 19:13 Therefore when Pilate heard these words, he brought Jesus
out, and sat down on the judgment seat at a place called The
Pavement, but in Hebrew, Gabbatha.
John 19:14 Now it was the day of preparation for the Passover;
it was about the sixth hour. And he said to the Jews, “Behold, your
King!”
John 19:15 So they cried out, “Away with Him, away with Him,
crucify Him!” Pilate said to them, “Shall I crucify your King?” The
chief priests answered, “We have no king but Caesar.”
John 19:16 So he then handed Him over to them to be crucified.
John 19:17 They took Jesus, therefore, and He went out,
bearing His own cross, to the place called the Place of a Skull,
which is called in Hebrew, Golgotha.
John 19:18 There they crucified Him, and with Him two other
men, one on either side, and Jesus in between.
John 19:19 Pilate also wrote an inscription and put it on the
cross. It was written, “JESUS THE NAZARENE, THE KING OF THE JEWS.”
John 19:20 Therefore many of the Jews read this inscription, for the
place where Jesus was crucified was near the city; and it was
written in Hebrew, Latin and in Greek.
John 19:21 So the chief priests of the Jews were saying to Pilate,
“Do not write, ‘The King of the Jews’; but that He said, ‘I am King
of the Jews.’”
John 19:22 Pilate answered, “What I have written I have written.”
John 19:23 Then the soldiers, when they had crucified Jesus, took
His outer garments and made four parts, a part to every soldier and
also the tunic; now the tunic was seamless, woven in one piece.
John 19:24 So they said to one another, “Let us not tear it, but
cast lots for it, to decide whose it shall be”; this was to fulfill
the Scripture: “They divided My outer garments among them, and for
My clothing they cast lots.”
John 19:25 Therefore the soldiers did these things. But standing by
the cross of Jesus were His mother, and His mother’s sister, Mary
the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene.
John 19:26 When Jesus then saw His mother, and the disciple whom He
loved standing nearby, He said to His mother, “Woman, behold, your
son!”
John 19:27 Then He said to the disciple, “Behold, your mother!” From
that hour the disciple took her into his own household.
John 19:28 After this, Jesus, knowing that all things had
already been accomplished, to fulfill the Scripture, said, “I am
thirsty.”
John 19:29 A jar full of sour wine was standing there; so they put a
sponge full of the sour wine upon a branch of hyssop and brought it
up to His mouth.
John 19:30 Therefore when Jesus had received the sour wine, He
said, “It is finished!” And He bowed His head and gave up His
spirit.
John 19:31 Then the Jews, because it was the day of
preparation, so that the bodies would not remain on the cross on the
Sabbath (for that Sabbath was a high day), asked Pilate that their
legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away.
John 19:32 So the soldiers came, and broke the legs of the
first man and of the other who was crucified with Him;
John 19:33 but coming to Jesus, when they saw that He was
already dead, they did not break His legs.
John 19:34 But one of the soldiers pierced His side with a
spear, and immediately blood and water came out.
John 19:35 And he who has seen has testified, and his
testimony is true; and he knows that he is telling the truth, so
that you also may believe.
John 19:36 For these things came to pass to fulfill the
Scripture, “Not a bone of Him shall be broken.”
John 19:37 And again another Scripture says, “They shall look
on Him whom they pierced.”
John 19:38 After these things Joseph of Arimathea, being a
disciple of Jesus, but a secret one for fear of the Jews, asked
Pilate that he might take away the body of Jesus; and Pilate granted
permission. So he came and took away His body.
John 19:39 Nicodemus, who had first come to Him by night, also
came, bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about a hundred pounds
weight.
John 19:40 So they took the body of Jesus and bound it in
linen wrappings with the spices, as is the burial custom of the
Jews.
John 19:41 Now in the place where He was crucified there was a
garden, and in the garden a new tomb in which no one had yet been
laid.
John 19:42 Therefore because of the Jewish day of preparation,
since the tomb was nearby, they laid Jesus there.
Chapter 20
John 20:1 Now on the first day of the week Mary Magdalene came early
to the tomb, while it was still dark, and saw the stone already
taken away from the tomb.
John 20:2 So she ran and came to Simon Peter and to the other
disciple whom Jesus loved, and said to them, “They have taken away
the Lord out of the tomb, and we do not know where they have laid
Him.”
John 20:3 So Peter and the other disciple went forth, and they were
going to the tomb.
John 20:4 The two were running together; and the other disciple ran
ahead faster than Peter and came to the tomb first;
John 20:5 and stooping and looking in, he saw the linen wrappings
lying there; but he did not go in.
John 20:6 And so Simon Peter also came, following him, and entered
the tomb; and he saw the linen wrappings lying there,
John 20:7 and the face-cloth which had been on His head, not lying
with the linen wrappings, but rolled up in a place by itself.
John 20:8 So the other disciple who had first come to the tomb then
also entered, and he saw and believed.
John 20:9 For as yet they did not understand the Scripture, that He
must rise again from the dead.
John 20:10 So the disciples went away again to their own
homes.
John 20:11 But Mary was standing outside the tomb weeping; and
so, as she wept, she stooped and looked into the tomb;
John 20:12 and she saw two angels in white sitting, one at the head
and one at the feet, where the body of Jesus had been lying.
John 20:13 And they said to her, “Woman, why are you weeping?”
She said to them, “Because they have taken away my Lord, and I do
not know where they have laid Him.”
John 20:14 When she had said this, she turned around and saw
Jesus standing there, and did not know that it was Jesus.
John 20:15 Jesus said to her, “Woman, why are you weeping?
Whom are you seeking?” Supposing Him to be the gardener, she said to
Him, “Sir, if you have carried Him away, tell me where you have laid
Him, and I will take Him away.”
John 20:16 Jesus said to her, “Mary!” She turned and said to
Him in Hebrew, “Rabboni!” (which means, Teacher).
John 20:17 Jesus said to her, “Stop clinging to Me, for I have not
yet ascended to the Father; but go to My brethren and say to them,
‘I ascend to My Father and your Father, and My God and your God.’”
John 20:18 Mary Magdalene came, announcing to the disciples,
“I have seen the Lord,” and that He had said these things to her.
John 20:19 So when it was evening on that day, the first day of the
week, and when the doors were shut where the disciples were, for
fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in their midst and said to
them, “Peace be with you.”
John 20:20 And when He had said this, He showed them both His
hands and His side. The disciples then rejoiced when they saw the
Lord.
John 20:21 So Jesus said to them again, “Peace be with you; as
the Father has sent Me, I also send you.”
John 20:22 And when He had said this, He breathed on them and
said to them, “Receive the Holy Spirit.
John 20:23 “If you forgive the sins of any, their sins have
been forgiven them; if you retain the sins of any, they have been
retained.”
John 20:24 But Thomas, one of the twelve, called Didymus, was
not with them when Jesus came.
John 20:25 So the other disciples were saying to him, “We have
seen the Lord!” But he said to them, “Unless I see in His hands the
imprint of the nails, and put my finger into the place of the nails,
and put my hand into His side, I will not believe.”
John 20:26 After eight days His disciples were again inside,
and Thomas with them. Jesus came, the doors having been shut, and
stood in their midst and said, “Peace be with you.”
John 20:27 Then He said to Thomas, “Reach here with your
finger, and see My hands; and reach here your hand and put it into
My side; and do not be unbelieving, but believing.”
John 20:28 Thomas answered and said to Him, “My Lord and my
God!”
John 20:29 Jesus said to him, “Because you have seen Me, have
you believed? Blessed are they who did not see, and yet believed.”
John 20:30 Therefore many other signs Jesus also performed in
the presence of the disciples, which are not written in this book;
John 20:31 but these have been written so that you may believe that
Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing you may have
life in His name.
Chapter 21
John 21:1 After these things Jesus
manifested Himself again to the disciples at the
Sea of
Tiberias, and He manifested Himself
in this way.
John 21:2 Simon Peter, and Thomas
called Didymus, and Nathanael of Cana in Galilee,
and the sons of Zebedee, and two others of His disciples were
together.
John 21:3 Simon Peter said to them, “I am going fishing.” They said
to him, “We will also come with you.” They went out and got into the
boat; and that night they caught nothing.
John 21:4 But when the day was now breaking, Jesus stood on the
beach; yet the disciples did not know that it was Jesus.
John 21:5 So Jesus said to them, “Children, you do not have any
fish, do you?” They answered Him, “No.”
John 21:6 And He said to them, “Cast the net on the right-hand side
of the boat and you will find a catch.” So they cast, and then they
were not able to haul it in because of the great number of fish.
John 21:7 Therefore that disciple whom Jesus loved said to Peter,
“It is the Lord.” So when Simon Peter heard that it was the Lord, he
put his outer garment on (for he was stripped for work), and threw
himself into the sea.
John 21:8 But the other disciples came in the little boat, for they
were not far from the land, but about one hundred yards away,
dragging the net full of fish.
John 21:9 So when they got out on the land, they saw a charcoal fire
already laid and fish placed on it, and bread.
John 21:10 Jesus said to them, “Bring some of the fish which
you have now caught.”
John 21:11 Simon Peter went up and drew the net to land, full
of large fish, a hundred and fifty-three; and although there were so
many, the net was not torn.
John 21:12 Jesus said to them, “Come and have breakfast.” None
of the disciples ventured to question Him, “Who are You?” knowing
that it was the Lord.
John 21:13 Jesus came and took the bread and gave it to them,
and the fish likewise.
John 21:14 This is now the third time that Jesus was
manifested to the disciples, after He was raised from the dead.
John 21:15 So when they had finished breakfast, Jesus said to
Simon Peter, “Simon, son of John, do you love Me more than these?”
He said to Him, “Yes, Lord; You know that I love You.” He said to
him, “Tend My lambs.”
John 21:16 He said to him again a second time, “Simon, son of
John, do you love Me?” He said to Him, “Yes, Lord; You know that I
love You.” He said to him, “Shepherd My sheep.”
John 21:17 He said to him the third time, “Simon, son of John,
do you love Me?” Peter was grieved because He said to him the third
time, “Do you love Me?” And he said to Him, “Lord, You know all
things; You know that I love You.” Jesus said to him, “Tend My
sheep.
John 21:18 “Truly, truly, I say to you, when you were younger, you
used to gird yourself and walk wherever you wished; but when you
grow old, you will stretch out your hands and someone else will gird
you, and bring you where you do not wish to go.”
John 21:19 Now this He said, signifying by what kind of death
he would glorify God. And when He had spoken this, He said to him,
“Follow Me!”
John 21:20 Peter, turning around, saw the disciple whom Jesus
loved following them; the one who also had leaned back on His bosom
at the supper and said, “Lord, who is the one who betrays You?”
John 21:21 So Peter seeing him said to Jesus, “Lord, and what
about this man?”
John 21:22 Jesus said to him, “If I want him to remain until I
come, what is that to you? You follow Me!”
John 21:23 Therefore this saying went out among the brethren that
that disciple would not die; yet Jesus did not say to him that he
would not die, but only, “If I want him to remain until I come, what
is that to you?”
John 21:24 This is the disciple who is testifying to these
things and wrote these things, and we know that his testimony is
true.
John 21:25 And there are also many other things which Jesus
did, which if they were written in detail, I suppose that even the
world itself would not contain the books that would be written.