Concerning the Identity of Jesus the Nazarene

35 On the next day, John again was standing with two of his students. And after looking at Jesus walking, he said, "Look! God's lamb!" And the two students followed Jesus when they heard John say that. Now Jesus turned around and watched them following him. So he said to them, "What do you seek?" To him they replied, "Rabbi," [which, translated, means "teacher"] "Where do you live?" He said to them, "Come, and you will see."
Then they went and saw where he lived, and they stayed with him that day.
39 It was about the tenth hour. Andreas, Simon Peter's brother, was one of those two who had heard from John and followed Jesus. The first thing he did was to find his own brother Simon. And he said to him, "We have found the Messiah." [which, translated, means "Anointed One"] He brought him to Jesus. After looking at him, Jesus said, "You are Simon, the son of Yohanan. You will be called Kefa." [which, translated, means "Rock"]
43 On the next day, Jesus wanted to go out into Galilaiah. And so he found Filippos. And Jesus said to him, "Follow me."
Now Filippos was from Bethsaida, the city of Andreas and Peter. Filippos found Nathanael and said to him, "We have found the one written about in the Torah by Moses, and in the Prophets: this Jesus, Yosef's son, from Nazareth." And Nathanael said to him, "Can any good thing come from Nazareth?" And Philippos replied to him, "Come and see."
Jesus noticed Nathanael coming toward him and said about him, "Look! A true Israelite, in whom there is no deceit." Nathanael said to him, "Where do you know me from?" Jesus replied, saying to him, "Before Filippos called you, I noticed you under the fig tree." Nathanael answered, "Rabbi, you are the son of God. You are the King of Israel." Jesus answered, saying, "Because I told you that I noticed you beneath the fig tree, you believe. You will see greater things than this." He continued, "Indeed I assure you, you will see heaven opened, and God's messengers ascending and descending on the Son of Man."

12 After this, Jesus and his mother and his brothers and his students all went down to Kafar-Nahum. But they didn't stay there for many days. The Passover of the Jews was near, and so Jesus went up to Jerusalem. And in the temple courts, he found money changers sitting there, along with those who sold oxen, sheep, and doves. So he made a whip from rushes and drove them all out of the temple court, including the sheep and oxen. He also poured out the money changers' coins and overturned the tables. And to those selling doves he said, "Take these things away. Don't make my Father's house a marketplace." And his students remembered that it was written, "Jealousy for your house will consume me."
Then the Jews answered, saying to him, "What sign will you show us to justify your doing these things? Jesus answered, saying, "Knock down this temple, and in three days I will raise it." Then the Jews said, "This temple took forty-six years to build, and in three days you will erect it?" But he was speaking about the temple of his body: therefore when he was raised from the dead, his students remembered that he had said this, and they trusted the writing and also the saying which Jesus had said.

but whoever does not trust has already been judged,

22 After these things, Jesus and his students went into the Judean land, and he stayed there with them and was baptizing. Now John was also baptizing in Aenon, near Saleim, because there were many springs there. And people were coming and being baptized (for John had not yet been thrown into prison).
A dispute then occurred between John's students and a Jew about ritual cleansing. And they came to John and said to him, "Rabbi, look! The one who was with you beyond the Jordan--the one for whom you testified--he is baptizing, and everyone is coming to him."
John answered, saying, "No person is able to receive anything unless it has been given to him from heaven. You yourselves are testifying to me that I said, 'I am not the Anointed One; but I have been sent before him.'
"The one who has the bride is the bridegroom, but the bridegroom's friend, who stands and hears him, rejoices greatly to hear the bridegroom's voice. So, my joy has been made complete in this.
"He must increase, but I must decrease. The one who comes from above is above all things. The one who comes from the land, is of the land and speaks of the land. The one who comes from heaven is above all things."
32 What he has seen and heard, this he testifies about, yet no one receives his testimony. Whoever receives his testimony has set his seal that God is true. For the one that God has sent speaks the declarations of God; for he doesn't give the breath by measure. The Father loves the son, and everything has been given into his hand. Whoever trusts in the son has eternal life. Whoever is not persuaded by the son will not see life, but God's anger stays with him.

5:1 After these things, there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. Now there is in Jerusalem, by the sheep gate, a swimming pool, called in Hebrew Beth-saida, which has five covered porches. Under these a large number of sick people were lying, with the blind, lame, and withered. And a certain man was there who had been in feeble health for thirty-eight years.
Noticing him lying there, and knowing that he had been that way for a long time, Jesus said to him, "Do you want to become well?" The one who was sick replied, "Sir, I have no one who would put me into the swimming pool when the water is stirred up. But just as I am coming, another goes down ahead of me."
Jesus said to him, "Rise. Take up your mat and walk." And the man immediately became well, and took up his mat, and walked.
9 Now that day was a Sabbath. Therefore, the Jews said to the one who had been healed, "It is a Sabbath, and it is illegal for you to carry the mat."
But he answered them, "The one who made me well said to me, 'Take up your mat and walk.'"
They asked him, "Who is the one who told you to take it up and walk?" But the man who had been healed didn't know who it was, for Jesus had slipped out easily, since there was a crowd in the place.
14 After these things, Jesus found him in the temple courts and said to him, "Look! You have become well. Sin no longer, so that nothing worse may happen to you." The person went away and told the Jews that Jesus was the one who had made him well. And for this reason the Jews persecuted Jesus: because he did these things on a Sabbath.
But he replied to them, "My Father works until now, and so I am working." Therefore, because of this, the Jews sought even more to kill him, because not only was he breaking the Sabbath, but also he said that God was his own father, making himself equal to God.
Then Jesus answered, saying, "Indeed I assure you: the son can't do anything of himself, except what he sees the Father doing. For whatever he may do, in the same way the son does these things as well. For the Father loves the son and shows him everything that he does. And he is showing him greater deeds than these, so that you may wonder.
"For as the Father raises and makes alive the dead, so also the son makes alive whomever he wishes. For not even the Father judges anyone, but he has given all judgment to the son, so that all may honor the son just like they honor the Father.
"Whoever does not honor the son is not honoring that Father who sent him. Indeed I assure you that whoever hears my message and trusts the one who sent me has eternal life and is not coming into judgment but has passed out of death into life.
25 "Indeed I assure you that an hour is coming, and now is here, when the dead will hear the voice of God's son, and those who have heard will live. For as the Father has life in himself, similarly he gave the son life to have in himself. Also he gave him authority, even to execute judgment, because he is a mortal.
"Don't wonder about this, because an hour is coming in which all those in the tombs will hear his voice and will come out: those who have done good things will come out to a resurrection of life; and those who have practiced foul things will come out to a resurrection of judgment.
30 "By myself, I can do nothing. Just as I hear, I judge, and my judgment is just, because I am not seeking what I want but the wishes of the one who sent me. If I were to testify about myself, isn't my testimony true? Another person is testifying about me, and I know that the testimony that he gives on my behalf is true. You have sent for John, and he has testified to the truth.
"But I am not receiving testimony from a human being. On the contrary, I am saying these things so that you might be saved. He was the burning and shining lamp, and you were willing to rejoice for an hour in his light. But I have greater testimony than that of John, for the deeds which the Father gave me to finish, these deeds that I do testify about me: they testify that the Father has sent me.
"And the Father who sent me, he himself has testified about me. You have neither heard his voice at any time, nor have you seen his form, and you don't have his message dwelling in you, because you don't trust the one that he sent. You search the writings because you think that they have eternal life in them. And they are the ones who are testifying about me, yet you aren't willing to come to me so that you might have life.
"Glory from people I do not receive, but I have known you: you don't have God's love in you. I have come in my Father's name, and you don't receive me. If another came in his own name, you would receive him. How can you trust when you are receiving glory from one another and are not seeking that glory from the only God?
"Don't think that I will accuse you to the Father. Moses, in whom you have hoped, is the one who is accusing you. For if you trusted Moses, you would certainly trust me, since he wrote about me. But if you don't trust his writings, how will you trust my oral declarations?"

6:1 After these things, Jesus went over the Sea of Galilaiah called Tiberias. Now a large crowd was following him because they had been watching with amazement the signs that he was performing on those who were sick. Now Jesus went into the mountain, and he was sitting there with his students. And the Passover, the feast of the Jews, was near. Then Jesus lifted up his eyes and, watching a great crowd heading his way, said to Filippos, "Where will we buy loaves, so that these folks may eat?" Now this he said to test him, for he knew what he was about to do.
Filippos answered him, "Two hundred denarii worth of loaves is not enough for each one to receive a little!"
One of his students, Andreas, Simon Peter's brother, said to Jesus, "One little boy is here who has five barley loaves and two small fish, but what are these for so many?"
Said Jesus, "Make the people recline." Now there was a lot of grass in the place. Therefore the men reclined: they numbered about five thousand. And Jesus took the loaves and, after giving thanks, distributed to those who were reclining. In the same way also he passed out what they wanted of the fish. And when they were full, he said to his students, "Collect the remaining pieces, so that none would be lost."
So they collected the pieces and filled twelve baskets with pieces from the five loaves of barley that were left by those who had eaten. Therefore when the people noticed that sign that Jesus had performed, they said, "This truly is that prophet coming into creation." Then, knowing that they were about to come and take hold of him to make him a king, Jesus retreated again into the mountain alone by himself.
16 And as evening occurred, his students went down on the sea and got into the boat. They were going over the sea into Kafar-nahum. It had now become dark, and Jesus had not yet happened by them. And the sea was being stirred by a great wind that was blowing.
Then, after sailing for about twenty-five or thirty stadia, they observed Jesus walking on the sea and coming near the boat, and they were afraid. But he said to them, "It is I; don't be afraid."
Therefore, they were willing to let him come into the boat, and immediately the boat happened to be at the land where they were going.

22 On the next day, the crowd that was standing across the sea noticed that no other boat was there but the one, and that Jesus hadn't gone with his students--but his students had gone away alone. [Now, other boats came from Tiberias near the place where they ate the bread when the Lord gave thanks.] So when the crowd noticed that neither Jesus nor his students were there, they themselves entered into boats and went to Kafar-Nahum, seeking Jesus. And, after finding him across the sea, they said to him, "Rabbi, when did you get here?" Jesus answered, saying, "Indeed I assure you: you're not seeking me because you noticed the signs, but because you ate the loaves and were well fed.
"Don't work for perishable food, but for that food which remains into eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you, for the Father, God, has sealed him."
So they said to him, "What should we do, so that we may work the works of God?"
Jesus answered, saying to them, "This is God's work: that you trust in the one whom he sent."
30 Then they said to him, "What sign are you doing, so that we may notice and trust you?
"What are you working? Our ancestors ate the manna in the desert, as it was written, "Bread from heaven he gave them to eat.""
Then Jesus said to them, "Indeed I assure you: Moses didn't give you the bread from heaven. On the contrary, my Father is giving you the true bread from heaven. For God's bread is the one that descends from heaven and gives life to the creation."
They then said to him, "Sir, always give us this bread."
35 Jesus said to them, "I am the bread of life. The one who comes to me will by no means hunger, and the one who trusts in me will by no means ever thirst.
"But, I said to you that you have even seen me, and you don't trust. All that the Father gives to me will come to me, and the one who comes to me I will by no means cast out, because I have come down from heaven--not so that I may do what I want, but to do what the one who sent me wants.
"Now this is what the one who sent me wants: that I might not lose any of what he has given to me, but might raise it up in the last day.
"For this is what the one who sent me wants: that all who observe the son and who trust in him would have eternal life, and I will raise him up in the last day."
41 Then the Jews were grumbling about him because he said, "I am that bread that came down from heaven." And they said, "Isn't this Jesus, Yosef's son, whose father and mother we know? How then can he say this, 'From heaven I have descended?'"
Jesus answered them, saying, "Don't grumble with one another. No one can come to me unless the Father who has sent me draws him, and I will raise him up in the last day.
"It is written in the Prophets, "And they will all be taught of God." Each one who has heard from the Father and has learned, comes to me. Not that anyone has seen the Father, except the one who is from God; this one has seen the Father.
47 "Indeed I assure you: the one who trusts has eternal life. I am the bread of life. Your ancestors ate the manna in the desert, and they died. This is that bread which comes down from heaven, so that anyone may eat of it and may not die.
"I am the bread, the living bread, which has come down from heaven. If anyone should eat of this bread, he will live for the age.
"Now also, the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give on behalf of the life of creation."
The Jews therefore were contending with one another, saying, "How can this man give us his flesh to eat?"
53 Then Jesus said to them, "Indeed I assure you: unless you should eat the Son of Man's flesh, and drink his blood, you do not have life in yourselves. The one who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up in the last day.
"For my flesh is the true food, and my blood is the true drink. The one who eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me, and I in him. As the living Father sent me, and as I live through the Father, also the one who eats me, he will also live through me.
"This is that bread which has come down from heaven, not bread like the ancestors ate and died: the one who eats this bread will live for the age."
59 These things he said as he taught in a gathering in Kafar-Nahum. Therefore many of his students who heard said, "This saying is hard. Who can hear it?"
But Jesus, knowing within himself that his students were murmuring about this, said to them, "Does this make you stumble? Then what would happen if you should view with wonder the Son of Man ascending to where he was before?
"The spirit is what makes alive; the flesh profits nothing. The declarations that I have spoken to you are spirit and are life. But there are some of you who don't trust." For Jesus knew from the beginning who those were who were untrusting and who was the one about to betray him.
And he said, "Because of this, I have said to you that 'No one can come to me if it has not been given to him from the Father.'"
From this time, many of his students went back to the things they had left behind, and were no longer walking with him. So Jesus said to the Twelve, "Do you want to go too?"
Simon Peter answered him, "Sir, to whom shall we go? You have the declarations of eternal life, and we have believed and have known that you are God's holy one."
Jesus answered them, "Didn't I choose the twelve of you, and of you one is an accuser?" Now he spoke of Judah, son of Simon Iscariot, for this one--who was one of the Twelve--was about to betray him.

7:1 After these things, Jesus was walking in Galilaiah, for he didn't want to walk in Judea; the Jews were seeking him to kill him. Now the feast of the Jews, the Feast of Tabernacles, was near. Therefore his brothers said to him, "Leave here and go into Judea, so that your students also may view with wonder the deeds that you are doing. For no one does anything in secret, and a teacher seeks to have freedom of speech. If you are doing these things, show yourself to creation." Not even his brothers trusted in him.
Then Jesus said to them, "My season is not yet present. But your season is always ready. The creation cannot hate you; but me it hates, because I am testifying about it: that its deeds are evil.
"You go up to this feast. I'm not going up to this feast because my season hasn't yet fully come." Saying these things to them, he remained in Galilaiah.
10 Now when his brothers had gone up, then also he went up to the feast, not openly but in secret. Then the Jews sought him in the feast, saying, "Where is he?" And much grumbling about him existed among the crowds. Some said, "He is good." Others said, "But no. He is deceiving the crowd." However, no one spoke with freedom about him, because they feared the Jews.

14 Now when the feast was already half over, Jesus went up into the temple court and taught. And the Jews wondered, saying, "How does this one know how to write, without having learned?"
Then Jesus answered them, saying, "My teaching is not mine, but it comes from the one who sent me. If anyone may wish to do what he wants, he will know about the teaching, whether it is from God or if I am speaking from myself. The one who speaks from himself seeks his own glory. But the one who seeks the glory of the one who sent him, this one is true, and there is no wrong in him.
19 "Hasn't Moses given you the Torah? And none of you is following the Torah. Why are you seeking to kill me?"
The crowd answered, "You have a spirit being! Who is seeking to kill you?"
Jesus answered, saying to them, "One deed I did, and you all wonder. Through this Moses has given you circumcision (not that it is from Moses but from the patriarchs) and on a Sabbath you circumcise a man. If a man receives circumcision on a Sabbath so that the Torah of Moses will not be let go, are you angry with me because I made a person entirely well on a Sabbath? Don't judge according to appearance, but judge a just judgment."
25 Then some of the Jerusalemites said, "Isn't this the one that they seek to kill? And look, he is speaking freely, and they are saying nothing to him. Did the rulers truly know that this is the Anointed One?
"But this one, we know where he is from. But the Anointed One, when he comes, no one will know where he is from."
Then Jesus called out in the temple court, teaching and saying, "You know me, and you know where I am from. And I have not come of myself, but the one who sent me is true. Him you do not know. I know him, because I am from him, and he sent me."
30 Then they sought to seize him, but no one laid hands on him because his hour had not yet come. But many of those in the crowd trusted in him and said, "The Anointed One, when he comes, will he do more signs than this one has?" The Perushim heard the crowd grumbling these things about him, and the Perushim and the high priests sent officers, that they might seize him.
Then Jesus said, "For yet a little time I am with you, and I am going to the one who sends me. You will seek me, and you will not find. And where I will be, you are unable to come."
The Jews said to themselves, "Where is this that he is about to go, that we won't find him? Is he about to go into the dispersion of the Hellenists, and teach the Hellenists? What is this saying that He said: 'You will seek me, and you will not find. And where I will be, you are unable to come'?"

37 Now on the last, the great, day of the feast, Jesus stood and called out, saying, "If anyone thirsts, let him come [to me], and let him drink. The one who trusts in me, as the writing said, "Out of his belly will flow rivers of living water."" Now he said this about the spirit, which those who trusted in him were about to receive. (For there was yet no spirit, because Jesus had not yet been glorified.)
Then after hearing the message, many of the crowd said, "This is truly the prophet." Others said, "This is the Anointed One." Now some said, "The Anointed One doesn't come from Galilaiah. Didn't the writing say that the Anointed One is coming out of the seed of David and from the village of Beth-Lehem, where David was?"
Then a division in the crowd occurred because of him. Now some wanted to seize him, but no one laid hands on him. Then the officers came to the high priests and Perushim, and these ones said to them, "Why didn't you bring him?"
Replied the officers, "Never has anyone spoken [as this person speaks]."
Then the Perushim answered them, "Have you been deceived too? None of the rulers trusted in him, nor any of the Perushim, but this crowd, who does not know the Torah, is cursed."
Then Nikodemos (the one who had come to him earlier), who was one of them, said, "Does our code judge anyone without hearing from him first and knowing what he is doing?"
They answered, saying to him, "Are you also from Galilaiah? Search and notice that no prophet is arriving out of Galilaiah."

10 Then again he said to them, "I am going, and you will seek me, and in your sin you will die. Where I am going, you are unable to come."
Therefore the Jews said, "Will he kill himself, that he says, 'Where I am going, you are unable to come'?"
Then he said to them, "You are from below. I am from above. You are from this world. I am not from this world. Therefore I said to you that you will die in your sins. For if you don't believe that I am the Anointed One, you will die in your sins."
14 Then they said to him, "Who are you?"
Jesus said to them, "Even what I told you from the beginning. Many things I have to say about you--and to judge--but the one who sent me is true, and what I heard from him, these are the things that I am saying to the world." They didn't know that he was speaking to them about the Father.
Therefore, Jesus said [to them], "When you lift up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am he. And from myself, I am doing nothing, but I am saying these things just as my Father taught me.
"And the one who sent me is with me. He hasn't left me alone, because I always do the things that are pleasing to him." As he was saying these things, many trusted in him.
20 Then Jesus said to the Jews who trusted him, "If you remain in my message, you are truly my students, and you will know the truth, and the truth will free you."
They answered him: "We are the seed of Abraham, and to no one have we been slaves at any time. How can you say, 'You will become free'?"
Jesus answered them, "Indeed I assure you that everyone who does a sin is a slave to the sin. Now the slave does not remain in the house for the age; the son remains for the age. Therefore if the son makes you free, you will be free indeed.
26 "I know that you are Abraham's seed, but you are seeking to kill me, because my message holds no place in you. I am speaking about what I have seen from the Father, and so you are doing what you have heard from your father."
They answered, saying to him, "Our father is Abraham."
Jesus said to them, "If you were children of Abraham, you would do the deeds of Abraham. But now you are seeking to kill me, a person who has spoken the truth to you, which I learned from God. This Abraham didn't do. You are doing the deeds of your father."
Then they said to him, "We were not born out of prostitution. One Father we have: God."
Jesus said to them, "If God were your father, you would love me, for I came out from God and am now here. For neither did I come of my own will, but he sent me.
32 "You do not know my speech for this reason: because you cannot hear my message. You are from your father the Accuser, and you want to do your father's desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, and he hasn't stood in the truth because there is no truth in him. When someone tells a lie, he speaks like his own family does, because his father is also a liar. But because I am telling the truth, you don't trust me. Which of you convicts me of sin? If I am telling the truth, why don't you trust me?
"The one who is from God hears God's declarations. You don't hear for this reason: because you are not from God."
37 The Jews answered, saying to him, "Do we say well, that you are a Samaritan, and you have a spirit being?"
Answered Jesus, "I have no spirit being, but I am honoring my Father, and you are dishonoring me. Yet I am not seeking my glory. There is one who seeks and judges. Indeed I assure you: if anyone may keep my message, he will by no means behold death--for the age."
The Jews said to him, "Now we know that you have a spirit being! Abraham died, as did the prophets, and you say, 'If anyone may keep my message, he will by no means taste death--for the age.'
"Are you greater than our father Abraham, who died? And the prophets died. Whom do you make yourself to be?"
Jesus answered, "If I glorify myself, my glory is nothing. The one who is glorifying me is my Father, whom you say is your god. And you haven't known him, but I know him. If I were to say that I don't know him, I would be a liar like you. But I do know him and keep his message.
"Abraham your father rejoiced that he might notice my day: and he noticed, and was happy."
Then the Jews said to him, "You aren't even fifty years old, and you have seen Abraham?"
Jesus said to them, "Indeed I assure you: before Abraham was born, I am."
48 Therefore they picked up stones to throw at him. But Jesus hid and left the temple court. And as he passed through town, he noticed a person who was blind from birth. And his students asked him, "Rabbi, who sinned--this one or his parents--that he should be born blind?"
9:3 Jesus answered, "Neither did this one sin nor his parents, but he is blind so that God's deeds may be displayed in him. It is necessary for us to work the deeds of the one who sent us while it is day. Night is coming, when no one is able to work.
"While I am in the creation, I am the light of the creation."
Saying these things, he spit on the ground and made clay out of the spit and rubbed the clay onto the blind man's eyes, and he said to him, "Go. Wash in the pool of Siloam [which, translated, means "having been sent"]." So he went away and washed himself, and he came away seeing.
Then his neighbors and those who had beheld him before (because he was a beggar) said, "Isn't this the one who sits and begs?" Others said that it was he, but still others said that he only looked like him. He said, "I am he." Then they said to him, "How then were your eyes opened?"
He answered, "The person who is called Jesus made clay and rubbed my eyes and said to me, 'Go into the Siloam and wash.' Then when I went and washed myself, I obtained sight."
Then they said to him, "Where is he?" He said, "I don't know."
13 They led the man who was once blind to the Perushim, and it was a Sabbath on the day Jesus made the clay and opened his eyes. Therefore (again) the Perushim also asked him how he obtained sight.
Now he said to them, "He put clay on my eyes, and I washed myself, and I can see."
16 Then certain ones of the Perushim said, "This person is not from God, because he does not keep the Sabbath." Others said, "How can a sinful person perform such signs?" And there was a division among them.
Then they said again to the blind man, "What do you say about him, because he opened your eyes? " And he said that Jesus was a prophet.
18 Therefore the Jews didn't believe about him that he was blind and obtained sight, until they called the parents of the one who had received sight. And they asked them, "Is this your son, who you say was born blind? Then how can he see now?"
His parents then replied, "We know that he's our son and that he was born blind, but how he now sees we don't know, nor do we know who opened his eyes. Ask him. He's an adult. He will speak about himself." This his parents said because they feared the Jews. (For already the Jews had agreed that if anyone should acknowledge him to be the Anointed One, they would be cast out of the gatherings. Because of this, his parents said, "He's an adult," and, "Question him.")
24 Therefore they called the person who was blind a second time and said to him, "Give glory to God. We know that this person is a sinner."
Then he answered, "I don't know if he's a sinner. One thing I know: I was blind; now I can see."
Then they said to him, "What did he do to you? How did he open your eyes?"
He answered, "I told you already, and didn't you hear? Why do you want to hear it again? Do you want to become his students too?"
And they verbally abused him, saying, "You are his student! But we are students of Moses. We know that God has spoken to Moses; but this person, we don't know where he is from."
The man answered, saying to them, "Here's a wonder: that you don't know where he is from, yet he opened my eyes! We know that God doesn't hear a sinner. However, if anyone is God's worshipper and does what he wants, him God hears.
"From the beginning of this age it's unheard of that someone opened the eyes of someone who was born blind. If he were not a person sent from God, he wouldn't be able to do anything."
They answered, saying to him, "You were born totally sinful, and you are teaching us?" And they threw him out.

22 Then the Feast of Dedication happened in Jerusalem. It was winter. And Jesus was walking in the temple court in Solomon's Porch. Then the Jews surrounded him and said to him, "When will you also stop holding us in suspense? If you are the Anointed One, speak freely to us."
Jesus answered them, "I told you, and you do not trust. The deeds that I do in my Father's name, they testify about me. But you don't trust because you aren't my sheep. My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me, and I have them eternal life. And they will by no means ever be lost, even into the next age. And no one will snatch them out of my hand.
"My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than everyone: no one can snatch them out of the Father's hand. I and the Father are one."
31 Again the Jews picked up stones so that they could stone him. Jesus said to them, "Many good deeds I have shown you from the Father. For which of these deeds are you stoning me?"
The Jews answered him, "We are not stoning you regarding a good deed, but regarding evil speaking, and because you, a human being, are making yourself a god."
Jesus answered them, "Isn't it written in your Torah, "I said you are gods."? If them he called 'gods' to whom God's message came, and the writing cannot be dismissed, are you saying that I am speaking evil because I have said that I am God's son, I whom the Father set apart and sent into creation?
"If I am not doing the deeds of my Father, don't trust me. But if I am, and if you don't trust me, trust my deeds, so that you may know (and you do know) that the Father is in me, and I am in the Father."
Therefore they sought again to seize him, and he went away out of their hands.

17 Then as Jesus came, he found that Lazaros had already been in the tomb for four days. Now Bethany was near Jerusalem, about fifteen stadia away. Now many of the Jews had come to Martha and Miriam to comfort them about the loss of their brother. Then when she heard that Jesus was coming, Martha met him. But Miriam was sitting in the house.
Then Martha said to Jesus, "Sir, if you had been here, my brother wouldn't have died, but I also know now that whatever things you may ask from God, God will give to you."
Jesus said to her, "Your brother will rise again."
Martha said to him, "I know that he will rise again in the resurrection, in the last day."
25 Jesus said to her, "I am the resurrection and the life. The one who trusts in me will live, even if he may die, and all who are living and who trust me will by no means ever die, even into the next age. Do you believe this?"
She said to him, "Yes sir, I have trusted that you are the Anointed One, the son of God, the one who came into creation." After saying these things, she went and called her sister Miriam privately, saying, "The teacher is here and is calling you."
Now when she heard, she rose up quickly and went to him. Now Jesus had not yet come into the village, but was still in the place where Martha met him. Therefore when the Jews who were with Miriam in the house comforting her noticed that Miriam got up quickly and went out, they followed her, thinking that she was going to the tomb to cry there.
32 Then when Miriam got to where Jesus was and noticed him, she fell at his feet, saying to him, "Sir, if you had been here, my brother would not have died."
Therefore, when Jesus noticed that she and those Jews who came with her were crying, he groaned in his spirit and became troubled, and said, "Where have you laid him?" They said to him, "Sir, come and see." Jesus cried.
Then the Jews said, "Notice how he affectionately loved him."
But certain of them said, "Couldn't he, who opened the eyes of the blind, have acted so that this one wouldn't have died?"
38 Then Jesus, again groaning within himself, came to the tomb. Now it was a cave, and a stone was lying on top of it. Jesus said, "Remove the stone." Martha, the sister of the one who had died, said to him, "Sir, he stinks now, for it is the fourth day."
Jesus said to her, "Didn't I tell you that if you would trust, you would see God's glory?" So they removed the stone. And Jesus lifted his eyes above and said, "Father, I thank you because you heard me. Now I knew that you always hear me, but I have spoken on account of those who are standing here, so that they might believe that you have sent me."
When he said these things, he called out with a loud voice, "Lazaros, come out!" The one who had been dead came out, still bound hand and foot with bandages, and his face covered with a head wrapping. Jesus said to them, "Release him, and let him go."
Therefore many of the Jews who had come to Miriam and who observed what he did trusted in him. But certain ones went to the Perushim and told them what Jesus had done.

47 Then the high priests and the Perushim gathered the Sanhedrin together and said, "What are we going to do? This person is performing many signs. If we let him do this, everyone will trust in him, and the Romans will come and take away both our place and our nation."
Now a certain one of them, Kaiaphas, who was a high priest that year, said to them, "You know nothing, nor are you considering that it makes more sense for us that one man die on behalf of the people, and not that the whole nation should be destroyed."
Now this he did not say from himself, but being high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus was about to die on behalf of the nation, and not only on behalf of the nation alone, but also so that he would gather into one the children of God who had been scattered.
So from that day, they were plotting to kill him. Therefore Jesus no longer freely walked among the Jews, but went away from there into the country near the desert, into a city called Ephraim, and there he remained with his students.

12 On the next day, after hearing that Jesus had come into Jerusalem, a great crowd that had come to the feast took branches of the palm trees and went out to meet him, and they called out, "Hosanna! Blessed is the one who comes in the name of Yahweh, the King of Israel!"
Now after finding a young donkey, Jesus sat on it, as it had been written, "Do not fear, daughter of Zion. Look, your king is coming, sitting on a foal of a donkey."
16 These things his students did not know at first. But when Jesus was glorified, then they remembered that these things had been written about him, and that the people had done these things to him. Then the crowd that was with him testified that he called this one called Lazaros out of the tomb and raised him from the dead. For this reason the crowd met him, because they heard that he had performed this sign. Therefore the Perushim said among themselves, "Observe that you are gaining nothing! Look, the whole world is going away after him."

20 Now there were some Hellenists among those who were going up to worship during the feast. So these people came to Filippos from Beth-saida of Galilaiah, and asked him, "Sir, we want to view Jesus." Filippos went and told Andreas. Andreas and Filippos went and told Jesus. Now Jesus answered them, "The hour has come so that the Son of Man may be glorified.
"Indeed I assure you: unless the grain of wheat which falls to the ground should die, it remains alone. But if it dies, it bears much fruit.
"The one who affectionately loves his life [[soul]] will lose it. And the one who hates his life [[soul]] in this world will keep it into eternal life. If anyone serves me, let him follow me. And where I am, there my servant will be as well. If anyone serves me, the Father will honor him.
27 "Now, "My soul is troubled," and what shall I say: 'Father, save me from this hour?' On the contrary, I came to this hour on this account.
"Father, glorify your name."
Then a voice came out of heaven: "I both glorified and again will glorify." Then the crowd who stood and heard said, "Thunder has happened." Others said, "A messenger has spoken to him."
Jesus answered, "This voice has not happened on my account, but on your account.
"Now there is a judgment of this world. Now the ruler of this world will be cast out. And I will draw all to myself, if I am lifted up from the ground." Now this he said signifying by what method of death he was about to die.
34 Therefore the crowd answered him, "We have heard from the Torah that the Anointed One will stay for the age. So how can you say that it is necessary for the Son of Man to be lifted up? Who is this Son of Man?"
Then Jesus said to them, "The light is among you for yet a little time. Walk while you have the light, so that darkness may not overtake you. The one who walks in darkness doesn't know where he is going. While you have the light, trust in the light, so that you may become sons of light." Jesus spoke these things and went away, and he hid from them.

37 Now although he had performed so many signs in their presence, still they didn't trust in him, so that the saying of Isaiah the prophet might be fulfilled, which said, "Lord, who has believed our report? And the arm of Yahweh, to whom was it revealed?"
On this account they could not trust Jesus: because again Isaiah said, "He has blinded their eye and has hardened their hearts, so that they may not view with the eyes, and understand with the heart, and turn back, and I should heal them."
41 These things Isaiah said because he noticed Jesus' glory and spoke about him. Nevertheless, many--truly, even some of the rulers--trusted in him, but on account of the Perushim they did not acknowledge this, so that they would not be put out of the gatherings. For they loved the glory of humanity more than the glory of God.
44 Now Jesus called out, saying, "The one who trusts in me is not trusting in me, but in the one who sent me. And the one who observes me is observing the one who sent me.
"I have come into creation as a light, so that everyone who trusts in me would not remain in darkness. And if anyone hears my declarations and doesn't keep them, I am not judging him, for I didn't come so that I might judge the creation, but so that I might save the creation.
"The one who sets me aside and does not receive my declarations has this judging him: the message that I spoke, that will judge him in the last day. Because I didn't speak from myself, but the Father who sent me, he gave me a precept: what I should say and what I should speak. And I know that his precept is eternal life. Therefore the things I say, I am speaking as the Father has spoken to me."

3 Knowing that the Father had given all things to his hands

and that he came out from God

and was going to God,

concerning sin, indeed, because they don't trust in me;

and concerning what is right, because I am going to my Father,

and you will observe me no longer;

and concerning judgment, because the one who rules creation has been judged.

17 Then some of his students said to one another, "What is this that he is saying to us: 'A little while and you will not observe me. And again a little while and you will see me,' and that, 'I am going to the Father'?" Therefore they said, "What is the 'little while' [that he is talking about]? We don't know what he is talking about."
Jesus knew that they wanted to ask him this, and he said to them, "Are you inquiring with one another about this because I said, 'A little while and you will not observe me. And again a little while and you will see me'?
"Indeed I assure you that you will cry and mourn, but the creation will rejoice. You will be sorrowful, but your sorrow will become joy. When she is giving birth, a woman has sorrow because her hour has come. But when she has given birth to the child, she remembers the anguish no longer, on account of the joy, because a human being was born into the creation.
"And therefore you now have sorrow indeed, but I will see you again. And your hearts will rejoice, and no one will take your joy from you. And in that day, you will ask me nothing. Indeed I assure you: whatever you may ask the Father in my name, he will give you. Until now, you asked nothing in my name. Ask, and you will receive, so that your joy may be made full.
24 "These things I have spoken to you figuratively. An hour is coming when I will no longer speak to you figuratively, but I will tell you openly about the Father.
"In that day, you will ask in my name, and I am not saying to you that I will ask the Father about you: for the Father affectionately loves you, because you have affectionately loved me and have trusted that I came out from God. I came out from the Father and have come into the creation. Again, I am leaving creation and am going to the Father."

29 His students said, "Look! Now you are speaking freely, and you aren't telling even one analogy. Now we know that you know all thing, and you don't need anyone to ask you. In this we trust that you came out from God."
31 Jesus answered them, "Now you trust!"
13:36 {Simon Peter said to him, "Lord, where are you going?"
Jesus answered him, "Where I am going, you are unable to follow me now, but you will follow me afterwards."
Peter said to him, "Lord, why can't I follow you now? I will lay down my life on your behalf."
38 Jesus said, "You will lay down your life on my behalf? Indeed I assure you: a rooster ((or watch trumpet)) will by no means sound until you deny me three times.} Look, an hour is coming, and now has come, when you will be scattered--every man for himself--and will leave me all alone. And I am not alone, because the Father is with me.
16:33 "These things I have spoken to you so that you may have peace in me. In the world, you have affliction. But be of good cheer! I have been victorious over the world!"

18:1 After saying these things, Jesus went out with his students beyond the brook of Kedron, where there was a garden, into which he and his students entered. Now Judah--the one who betrayed him--also knew the place, because Jesus often met there, together with his students.
Therefore, after taking a manipule of soldiers from the high priests and officers from the Perushim, Judah came there with torches, and lamps, and weapons.
Then Jesus, who knew all the things that were going to happen to him, said to them as he went out, "Whom do you seek?"
They answered him, "Jesus the Nazarene."
He said to them, "I am he."
Now Judah who betrayed him was also standing with them. Then when he said to them, "I AM," they went back and fell to the ground. Then again he asked them, "Whom do you seek?" And they said, "Jesus the Nazarene."
Jesus answered, "I told you I am he, so if you are seeking me, permit these ones to go," that the saying that he said would be fulfilled, "Of those whom you have given me, I lost none of them."
Then Simon Peter, who had a sword, drew it and struck the high priest's slave and cut off his right ear. (Now the name of the slave was Malchus.) Then Jesus said to Peter, "Put the sword into the sheath. The cup which the Father has given to me, shouldn't I drink it?"
12 Then the manipule and the commander and the officers of the Jews apprehended Jesus, and bound him, and led him to Annas first, for he was father-in-law to Kaiaphas, who was high priest that year. Now Kaiaphas was the one who had advised the Jews that, "It is better that one person should be destroyed on behalf of the people."
15 Now Simon Peter and another student followed Jesus. Now that student was known to the high priest and went in with Jesus into the palace of the high priest. But Peter stood at the door outside. Therefore, the student (the other one, who was known by the high priest) went out and spoke to the door keeper, and brought Peter in.
Then the servant woman, the door keeper, said to Peter, "Aren't you also this person's student?" He said, "I am not."
Now the slaves and the officers, who had made a coal fire, stood by it and warmed themselves, because it was cold. And Peter was standing with them and warming himself.
Then the high priest asked Jesus about his students and about his teaching. Jesus answered him, "I have spoken freely to the world. I always taught in a gathering and in the temple courts, where all the Jews come together, and I have said nothing in secret. Why are you asking me? Ask those who have heard what I said to them. Look, they know what things I said."
22 Now after he said these things, one of the officers who was standing by threw a punch at Jesus, saying, "You answer the high priest in this manner?!" Jesus answered them, "If I have said a bad thing, testify about the bad thing. But if I said good, why are you beating me?" Then Annas sent him, bound, to Kaiaphas the high priest.
25 Now Simon Peter was standing and warming himself. So they said to him, "Aren't you also one of his students?" He denied, saying, "I am not." One of the slaves of the high priest, who was a relative of the one whose ear Peter had cut off, said, "Didn't I notice you in the garden with him?" Then again Peter denied, and immediately a rooster crew. ((watch trumpet sounded))

28 Then they led Jesus from Kaiaphas into the Praetorium. Now it was morning, and they didn't go into the Praetorium, so that they would not be defiled but might eat the Passover meal. So Pilatus went out to them, and he said, "What charge are you bringing against this person?" They answered, saying to him, "If this one were not an evildoer, we wouldn't have delivered him over to you."
Then Pilatus said to them, "You take him and judge him according to your 'Torah'." The Jews said to him, "It is illegal for us to kill anyone," (so that Jesus' saying would be fulfilled, which he said pointing out by what method of death he was about to die).

33 Then Pilatus went again into the Praetorium and called Jesus, and said to him, "Are you the King of the Jews?"
Jesus answered, "Are you saying this from your own understanding, or have others told you about me?"
Pilatus answered, "I'm not a Jew. Your nation and the high priests have turned you over to me. What did you do?"
Jesus answered, "My kingdom is not of this world. If my kingdom were of this world, my officers would fight, so that I wouldn't be turned over to the Jews. But now my kingdom is not from this place."
Therefore Pilatus said to him, "Then are you not a king?"
Jesus answered, "You are saying that I am a king. For this I have been born and for this I have come into creation: that I might testify to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth hears my voice."
38 Pilatus said to him, "What is truth?"
And saying this, he again went out to the Jews and said to them, "I find not one fault in him. Now it is a custom of yours that I release one prisoner to you during the Passover. So, are you willing that I release to you the King of the Jews?"
Then again they cried out, saying, "Not this one, but Bar-Abbas!" (Now Bar-Abbas was a robber.) So Pilatus then took Jesus and had him whipped. And the soldiers, braiding a crown of acanthus, placed it on his head. And they threw a purple cape around him, and they came toward him and said, "Hail! King of the Jews!" And they punched him.
19:4 And Pilatus went out again and said to them, "Look! I am bringing him out to you, so that you may know that I find not one fault in him."

5 Then Jesus came out, wearing the acanthine crown and the purple cape. And Pilatus said to them, "Look at the man." Then when the high priests and the officers noticed him, they called out, "Crucify! Crucify!"
Pilatus said to them, "You take and crucify him, for I don't find fault with him." The Jews answered him, "We have a code, and according to the code, he is bound to die, because he made himself to be a god's son."
8 Therefore when Pilatus heard this saying he was more afraid, and he went into the Praetorium again and said to Jesus, "Where are you from?" But Jesus did not give him an answer.
So Pilatus said to him, "You aren't speaking to me? Don't you know that I have the authority to release you and the authority to crucify you?"
And Jesus answered, "You would have no authority over me if it had not been given to you from above. On this account, the one who delivered me up to you has greater sin."
12 From this time, Pilatus sought to release him. But the Jews called out, saying, "If you release him, you're not Caesar's friend. Everyone who makes himself king is speaking against Caesar."
Then when Pilatus heard these words, he brought out Jesus and sat down on the Tribunal in a place called the Pavement [Gabbatha in Hebrew]. Now it was the Day of Preparation of the Passover. It was about the sixth hour. And he said to the Jews, "Look at your king!"
Then they called out, "Away! Away! Crucify him!"
Pilatus said to them, "Shall I crucify your king?"
The high priests said, "We have no king except for Caesar." So then he turned Jesus over to them so that he would be crucified.

16 Then they took Jesus, [and as he carried his cross,] he went out into the place that is called a Skull [which is called in Hebrew, Golgotha], where they crucified him--and with him two others, on the left and right, and Jesus in the middle. And Pilatus also wrote a title and placed it on the cross. And what was written was, "Jesus the Nazarene: King of the Jews."
Consequently, many of the Jews read this title because the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city. Also, it had been written in Hebrew, Latin, and Greek. Then the high priests of the Jews said to Pilatus, "Don't write, 'The King of the Jews', but that he said, 'I am a king of the Jews.'"
Pilatus answered, "What I have written, I have written."

23 Then when they crucified Jesus, the soldiers took his garments [and coat] and made four parts--a part for each soldier. But the coat was seamless, woven from the top through the whole. So they said to one another, "Let's not tear it, but let's cast lots about it, to determine whose it will be." So that the writing would be fulfilled which said, "They divided my garments for themselves, and they cast a lot on my clothing." So indeed the soldiers did these things.
Now his mother stood by Jesus' cross; also his mother's sister, Miriam the wife of Klopas ((Alphaeus)), and Miriam the Magdalene. Therefore, when he noticed his mother and the student whom he loved standing by, Jesus said to his mother, "Woman, look at your son." Then he said to the student, "Look at your mother." And from that hour, the student took her into his own care.

25 After this, Jesus (who knew that everything had already been completed) said, "I am thirsty," so that the writing might be fulfilled. A vessel full of vinegar was standing there. So they put a sponge full of vinegar onto a "hyssop stalk" and brought it to his mouth. Then when he took the vinegar, Jesus said, "It has been completed!" And, nodding his head, he gave up the spirit.

31 Then, since it was the Day of Preparation, the Jews asked Pilatus to have the legs of those on the crosses broken, and to have them taken away, so that the bodies would not remain on the cross on the Sabbath (for the day of that Sabbath was a great one). Therefore the soldiers came and indeed they broke the legs of the first, and of the other that had been crucified with him. But when they came to Jesus and noticed that he had already died, they did not break his legs. But one of the soldiers pierced his side with a spear, and blood and water came out immediately.
And the one who saw these things has testified, and true is his testimony. And he knows that he is saying true things, so that you also might trust. For these things happened so that the writing might be fulfilled: "No bone of his will be broken." And again another writing says, "They will see into the one whom they pierced."

38 Now after these things, Yosef from Arimathaiah (who was a student of Jesus, although hidden on account of his fear of the Jews) asked Pilatus to allow him to take away Jesus' body, and Pilatus allowed it. Therefore, he came and took away his body. Now Nikodemos also came (the one who came to him by night at the first), bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes--about a hundred litra in weight.
So they took Jesus' body and wrapped it with linen cloths--with the spices, just as it is customary for Jews to embalm. Now there was a garden in the place where he was crucified, and in the garden was a new tomb, in which no one had yet been placed. So they laid Jesus there, on account of the Preparation of the Jews, because the tomb was nearby.

10 Then the students went away again by themselves, but Miriam stood just outside the tomb, crying. Therefore as she cried, she stooped down into the tomb and beheld two messengers in white, seated one at the head and one at the feet of where Jesus' body had been put. And they said to her, "Woman, why are you crying?"
She said to them, "Because they took away my Lord, and I don't know where they have laid him."
After saying these things, she turned around and beheld Jesus standing there; yet she didn't know that it was Jesus.
Jesus said to her, "Woman, why are you crying? Whom do you seek?"
Assuming that he was the gardener, she said to him, "Sir, if you carried him off, tell me where you laid him, and I will take him away."
Jesus said to her, "Miriam."
Turning around, she said to him in Hebrew, "Rabboni!" [that is to say, "Teacher!"]
Jesus said to her, "Stop clinging to me, for I have not yet ascended to the Father. Now go to my brothers, and say to them that I am ascending to my Father and your Father: that is, my god and your god."
Miriam the Magdalene came and announced to the students that she had seen the Lord, and that he had said these things to her.

19 Then, since it was the evening of the first day of the week, and since the doors had been shut at the place where the students were staying (on account of their fear of the Jews), Jesus came and stood in their midst, and he said to them, "Peace to you." And after saying this, he showed them his hands and side. So the students rejoiced upon seeing the Lord. Then again [Jesus] said to them, "Peace to you. As the Father sent me, also I am sending you." And having said this, he breathed on them and said to them, "Receive holy breath. Whoever's sins you may let go, they are let go. Whoever's sins you hold, they have been held."
24 Now Thomas, one of the Twelve, the one called a twin, wasn't with them when Jesus came. So the other students said to him, "We have seen the Lord!"
But he said to them, "Unless I see the mark of the nails in his hands, and put my finger into the mark of the nails, and put my hand into his side, I will by no means believe."
And after eight days, his students were again inside, and Thomas was with them. After the doors had been shut, Jesus came and stood in their midst, and he said, "Peace to you."
Afterwards, he said to Thomas, "Bring your finger here, and look at my hands, and bring your hand, and put it into my side; and do not be distrusting, but trusting."
Thomas answered, saying to him, "My Lord, and my God!"
Jesus said to him, "Because you have seen me, you trust. Blessed are those who haven't seen and still have trusted."
And then indeed, Jesus did many other signs in the presence of his students which have not been written in this scroll. Now these have been written so that you might believe that Jesus is the Anointed One--God's son--and so that, trusting, you might have life in his name.
21:1 After these things, Jesus showed himself again to the students, on the Sea of Tiberias. Now he showed himself this way:
Simon Peter, and Thomas (the one called a twin), and Nathanael (the one from Kana of Galilaiah), and the sons of Zebediah, and two of his other students were together. Simon Peter said to them, "I am going to fish." They said to him, "We're going with you too."
They went out and entered into the boat, and during that night they caught nothing. But after morning occurred, Jesus now stood at the shore. However, the students didn't know that it was Jesus. Then Jesus said to them, "Children, do you have any food?" They answered him, "No."
Now he said to them, "Cast the net off the right side of the boat, and you will find."
So they cast the net, and they were not strong enough to draw it up, due to the great number of fishes. Then that student whom Jesus loved said to Peter, "It's the Lord!"
Therefore, when he heard that it was the Lord, Simon Peter wrapped himself with his outer garment (for he was undressed) and threw himself into the sea. But the other students came by boat, dragging the net of fish, for they were not far from the land, but about two hundred pecus away.
9 So when they went up onto the land, they saw a coal fire burning there, and a fish lying on it, and bread. Jesus said to them, "Bring some of the fish that you caught just now." So Simon Peter went up and drew the net up to the land, full of one hundred fifty-three large fish. And though there were so many, the net was not torn.
Jesus said to them, "Come eat breakfast."
But none of the students dared to ask him, "Who are you?", knowing that it was the Lord. Jesus came and took the bread, and he gave some to them--and the fish likewise. This third time now Jesus showed himself to the students after being raised from among the dead.
15 Then when they had eaten breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, "Simon, son of Yohanan, do you love me more than these?"
He said to him, "Yes, Lord. You know that I affectionately love you."
He said to him, "Feed my lambs." He said to him again a second time, "Simon, son of Yohanan, do you love me?"
He said to him, "Yes, Lord. You know that I affectionately love you."
He said to him, "Tend my sheep." The third time, he said to him, "Simon, son of Yohanan, do you affectionately love me?"
Peter was upset because he said to him the third time, "Do you affectionately love me?" And he said to him, "Lord, you know all things. You know that I affectionately love you."
Jesus said to him, "Feed my sheep. Indeed I assure you: when you were younger, you dressed yourself and walked where you wanted. But when you are old, you will stretch out your hands, and another will dress you and carry you where you do not want to go." (Now this he said to signify by what method of death he would glorify God.) And after saying this, he said to him, "Follow me."

20 When Peter turned around, he noticed that the student that Jesus loved was following (the one who also reclined on his chest at supper and said, "Lord, who is the one who is betraying you?"). When he noticed him, Peter said to Jesus, "Lord, now what of this one?"
Jesus said to him, "If I want him to remain until I come back, what is it to you? You follow me."
Then this saying went out among the brothers that this student would not die. But Jesus didn't say that he wouldn't die, but, "If I want him to remain until I come back, what is it to you?"
24 This is that student who is testifying about these things, and who wrote these things. And we know that his testimony is true. Now there are also many other things that Jesus did, which (if each one were written down), I suppose that not even the universe itself could hold the written scrolls.