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1.–IN the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made by him, and without him nothing was made. In him was life, and the life was the light of men. And the light shone in darkness; but the darkness did not received it.

SECTION I.
The Testimony of Yohanan the Immerser.

6.–A MAN, named Yohanan, was sent from God. This man came as a witness to testify concerning the light, that through him all might believe. He was not himself that light, but came to testify concerning the light. The true light was he, who, coming into the world, enlightens every man.

10.–He was in the world, and the world was made by him; yet the world did not know him. He came to his own land, and his own people did not receive him: but to as many as received him, believing in his name, he granted the privilege of being the children of God; who derive their birth, not from blood, or from the desire of the flesh, or from the will of man, but from God.

14.–And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only unique son of the Father,) full of favor and truth. (It was concerning him Yohanan testified, when he cried, This is He, of whom I said, He that comes after me, has a higher rank than me; for he was before me.) Of his fullness we all have received, favor upon favor: for the law was given by Moses;– favor and the truth came by Yeshua The Anointed. No one ever saw God; it is the only unique God the Son, who is in the heart of the Father, who has unfolded (or declared) him.

19.–Now this is the testimony of Yohanan. When the Jews sent priests and Levites, from Yerushalem, to ask him, Who are you? he acknowledged, and did not deny, but acknowledged saying, I am not the Anointed. And they asked him, Who, then? Are you Eliyah? He said, I am not. Are you the Forthteller? He answered, No. They said, Tell then, who you are, that we may return an answer to those who sent us. What do you say of yourself? He answered, I am he whose voice proclaims in the wilderness, “Make straight the way of the Lord,” as the forthteller Yeshayah said. Now those who were sent, were Pharisees. And they questioned him further, Why then do you immerse, if you are not the Anointed, nor Eliyah, nor the Forthteller? Yohanan answered, I immerse in water, but there is one among you whom you do not know. It is he who comes after me, and was before me, whose shoe-string I am not worthy to untie. This happened at Bethania, (Bethany:date house) beyond the Yarden, where Yohanan was immersing.

29.–On the next day, Yohanan saw Yeshua coming to him, and said, Behold the Lamb of God, that takes away the sin of the world. This is He, concerning whom I said, After me a man comes, who is high rank to me; for he was before me. As for me, I did not know him ; but, that he might be made clear to Ysrael, I came immersing in water. Yohanan testified further, saying, I saw the Spirit descending from heaven, like a dove, and remaining upon him. For my part, I would not have known him, had not He, who sent me to immerse in water, told me, Upon whom you shall see the Spirit descending, and remaining, the same is He, who immerses in the Holy Spirit. Having, therefore, seen this, I testify, that he is the Son of God.

35.–The next day, Yohanan, being with two of his disciples, observed Yeshua passing, and said, Behold the Lamb of God. The two disciples hearing this, followed Yeshua. And Yeshua, turning about, saw them following, and said to them, What do you seek? They answered; Rabbi, (which signifies Teacher,) where are you staying? He replied, Come, and see. They went, and saw where he dwelt; and it being about the tenth hour, stayed with him that day. One of the two, who, having heard Yohanan, followed Yeshua, was Andrew, the brother of Simon (Heb:Shimown ; hearing) Peter (Gk:Petros a piece of rock). The first one he met, was his own brother, Simon , to whom he said, We have found the Messiah, (a name equivalent to The Anointed.) And he brought him to Yeshua. Yeshua looking upon him, said, You are Simon, the son of Yonah; you shall be called Cephas, (Lit: Kephas; of Aramaic origin, the Rock) (which denotes the same as Peter.) (Gk:Petros, a piece of rock)

43.–The next day, he resolved to go to Galilee, and meeting Philip, said to him, Follow me. Now Philip was of Bethsaida, the city of Andrew and Peter. Philip met Nathaniel, and said to him, We have found the person described by Moses in the law, and by the forthtellers, Yeshua, the son of Yowceph, of Nazareth. Nathaniel said to him, Can any good thing come out of Nazareth? Philip answered, Come, and see. Yeshua saw Nathaniel coming to him, and said, concerning him, Behold an Ysraelite in whom is no deceit. Nathaniel said to him, How do you know me? Yeshua answered, I saw you, when you were under the fig tree, before Philip called you. Nathaniel replying, said to him, Teacher, you are the Son of God: you are the king of Ysrael. Yeshua answered him, saying, Because I told you, that I saw you under the fig tree, you believe! You shall see greater things than this. He added, Amen, Amen (truth), I say to you, hereafter you shall see heaven open, and the messengers of God ascending from the Son of Man, and descending to him.

Chapter 2

SECTION II.
The Entrance on the Ministry.

II.–THREE days after, there was a marriage in Cana, in Galilee, and the mother of Yeshua was there. Also Yeshua, and his disciples, were invited to the marriage. The wine falling short, the mother of Yeshua said to him, They have no wine. Yeshua answered, Woman, what have you to do with me? My hour has not yet come. His mother said to the servants, Do whatever he shall tell you. Now there were six water pots of stone, containing two or three measures each (perhaps 30 gallons), placed there for the Jewish rites of cleansing. Yeshua said to them, Fill the pots with water. And they filled them to the brim. Then he said, Draw now, and carry to the director of the feast. And they did so. When the director of the feast had tasted the wine, made of water, not knowing where it was from, (but the servants who drew the water knew,) he said, addressing the bridegroom, Every person presents the best wine first, and the worse wine afterwards, when the guests have drunk well (and are intoxicated) ; but you have reserved the best until now. This first miracle Yeshua worked in Cana, of Galilee, displaying his glory: and his disciples believed in him.

12.–Afterwards, he went down to Capernaum, he and his mother, and his brothers, and his disciples; but they did not stay not there many days.

13.–And the Jewish Passover being near, Yeshua went to Yerushalem; and finding changers sitting in the temple, and people who sold cattle, and sheep and doves; he made a whip of cords, and drove them all out of the temple, with the sheep and cattle, scattering the coin of changers, and oversetting their tables; and said to them, who sold doves, Take these things away. Do not make my Father’s house a house of commerce. (Then his disciples remembered these words of the scripture, “My zeal for your house consumes me.”

18.–Therefore the Jews answered and said to him, By what sign to you show us since you do these things? Yeshua answering, said to them, Destroy this temple, and I will raise it again in three days. The Jews replied, Forty and six years did it take to build this temple; and you would raise it in three days? (But, by the temple, he meant his body.) When, he was risen from the dead, his disciples remembered, that he had said this, and they understood the scripture, and the word which Yeshua had spoken.

23.–While he was at Yerushalem, during the feast of the Passover, many believed in him, when they saw the miracles which he performed. But Yeshua did not trust himself with them, because he knew them all. He did not need to receive testimony from others on a character of any man, for he knew what was in man.

Chapter 3

III.–Now there was a Pharisee, called Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews, who came to Yeshua by night, and said to him, Teacher, we know that you are a teacher who comes from God; for no man can do these miracles, which you do, unless God is with him. Yeshua answering, said to him, Amen, Amen (truth), I say to you, unless a man is born again from above, he cannot discern the Reign of God.

4 Nicodemus replied, How can a grown man be born? Can he enter his mother’s womb again, and be born? Yeshua answered, Amen, Amen (truth), I say to you, unless a man is born of water and Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh; that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. Do not wonder then, that I said to you, You must be born again from above. The Spirit breathes where he pleases, and you hear the report of him, but do not know where he comes, or where he goes; so is everyone who is born of the Spirit.

9 Nicodemus answered, How can these things be? Yeshua replied, Are you the teacher of Ysrael, and do not know these things? Amen, Amen (truth), I say to you, we speak what we know, and testify what we have seen; yet you do not receive our testimony. If you do not understand when I told you earthly things, how will you understand, when I tell you heavenly things? For none has ascended into heaven, but he who descended from heaven; the Son of man, whose abode is heaven. As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up; that whoever believes in him, may not perish, but obtain eternal life.

16 For God so loved (agape) the world, as to give his only unique Son, that whoever believes in him, may not perish, but obtain eternal life. For God has sent his Son into the world, not to condemn the world, but that the world may be saved by him. He who believes in him, shall not be condemned; he who does not believe, is already condemned, because he has not believed in the name of the only unique son of God. Now this is the judgment, that light has come into the world, and men have preferred the darkness to the light, because their deeds were evil. For whoever does evil, hates the light, and shuns it, for fear his deeds should be detected. But he who obeys the truth, comes to the light, that it may be made clear, that his actions are shaped in God.

22.–After this, Yeshua went, with his disciples, into the territory of Yehuda, where he remained with them, and immersing. Yohanan also was immersing in Enon, near Salim, because there was much water there; and people came and were immersed. For Yohanan was not yet cast into prison.

25.–Now Yohanan’s disciples had a dispute with a Jew, about purification. They went to Yohanan, and said to him, Teacher, he who was with you near the Yarden, of whom you gave witness; he too immerses, and the people flock to him. Yohanan answered, A man can have no power, but what he derives from heaven. You yourselves are witness for me, that I said, I am not the Anointed, but am sent before him. The bridegroom is he, who has the bride, but the friend of the bridegroom, who assists him, rejoices to hear the bridegroom’s voice: this my joy therefore is complete. He must increase, while I decrease. He who comes from above, is above all. He who is from the earth is earthly, and speaks as being from the earth. He who comes from heaven, is above all. What he testifies, is what he has seen and heard; yet his testimony is not received. He who receives his testimony has set his seal that God is true. For he, whom God has sent speaks God’s own words; for to him God gives the Spirit without measure. The Father loves the Son, and has subjected all things to him. He who believes in the Son, has life eternal; he who rejects the Son, shall not see life; but the vengeance of God awaits him.

Chapter 4 SECTION III.
The Journey to Galilee.

IV.–YESHUA, knowing that the Pharisees were informed, that he made and immersed more disciples than Yohanan, (though it was not Yeshua himself, but his disciples, who immersed,) left Yehuda, and returned to Galilee.

4.–Being obliged to pass through Samaria, he came to a Samaritan city, called Sychar, near the land which Yaqob gave his son Yowceph. Now Yaqob’s well was there. And Yeshua, wearied with the journey, sat down by the well, it being about the sixth hour.

7.–A woman of Samaria having come to draw water, Yeshua said to her, Give me a drink, (for his disciples were gone into the city to buy food;). The Samaritan woman answered, How is it that you, who are a Jew, ask a drink from me, a Samaritan? (for the Jews have no friendly interaction with the Samaritans.) Yeshua replied, If you knew the bounty of God, and who it is that says to you, give me a drink, you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water. She answered, Sir, you have no bucket, and the well is deep: where did you get the living water? Are you greater than our father Yaqob, who gave us the well, and drank of it himself, and his sons, and his cattle? Yeshua replied, Whoever drinks of this water, will thirst again; but whoever will drink of the water, which I shall give him, will never thirst again; but the water which I shall give him, shall be in him a fountain springing up to everlasting life.

15 The woman answered, Sir, give me this water, that I may never be thirsty, nor need to come to draw. Yeshua said to her, Go, call your husband, and come back. She answered, I have no husband. Yeshua replied, You say well, I have no husband; for you have had five husbands; and he whom you now have, is not your husband. In this you have spoken the truth. The woman said, Sir, I perceive that you are a forthteller. Our fathers worshipped on this mountain; and you say, that Yerushalem is the place, where men ought to worship. Yeshua answered, Woman, believe me, the time approaches, when you shall neither come to this mountain, or go to Yerushalem, to worship the Father. You worship what you do not know; we worship what we know: for salvation is from the Jews. But the time will come, or rather is come, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and truth: for such are the worshippers whom the Father requires. God is Spirit, and those that worship him, must worship him in spirit and truth. The woman replied, I know that the Messiah will come, (that is, The Anointed;) when he comes, he will teach us all things. Yeshua said to her, I who speak to you, am he.

27.–Upon this, his disciples came, and wondered that he talked with a woman; yet none of them said, What do you seek? or, Why do you talk with her? Then the woman left her pitcher, and having gone into the city, said to the people, Come, see a man, who has told me all that ever I did. Is not this the Anointed? They, accordingly, went out of the city, and came to hm.

31.–Meanwhile, the disciples told him, Teacher, eat. He answered, I have food to eat, which you do not know about.–Then his disciples said , one to another, Has any man brought him food? Yeshua answered, My food is to do the will of him who sent me, and to finish his work. Do you not say, After four months comes the harvest? But I say, Lift up your eyes, and survey the fields; for they are already white enough for harvest. The reaper receives wages, and gathers the fruits for eternal life, that both the sower and the reaper may rejoice together. For in this the proverb is verified, One sows, and another reaps. I sent you to reap that on which you have not labored: others labored, and you have entered their labors.

39.–Now, many Samaritans of that city believed in him, on the testimony of the woman, who said, He told me all that I ever did. When, therefore, they came to him, they sought him to stay with them; and he stayed there two days. And many more believed, because of what they heard from him; and they said to the woman, It is not, now, on account of what you have reported, that we believe; for we have heard him ourselves, and know, that this is truly the Savior of the world, the Anointed.

43.–After the two days, Yeshua departed and went to Galilee, for he had himself declared, that a forthteller is not regarded in his own country. Having come into Galilee, he was well received by the Galileans, who had seen all that he did at Yerushalem, during the festival; for they also attended the festival.

46.–Then Yeshua returned to Cana, of Galilee, where he had made the water wine. And there was a certain nobleman of the court, whose son lay sick at Capernaum, who having heard that Yeshua had come from Yehuda into Galilee, went to him, and asked him to come and cure his son, who was dying. Yeshua said to him, Unless you see signs and miracles, you will not believe. The nobleman answered, Come, sir, before my child dies. Yeshua replied, Go your way. Your son is well. And the man believed the word which Yeshua had spoken, and went his way. As he was returning, his servants met him, and informed him that his son was well. He then inquired of them the hour, when he began to get better. They answered, Yesterday, at the seventh hour, the fever left him. Then the father knew, that it was the same hour, in which Yeshua said to him, Your son is well; and he, and all his family, believed. This is second miracle Yeshua performed, after returning from Yehuda to Galilee.

Chapter 5 SECTION IV.
The Cure at Bethesda.

V.–AFTERWWARDS there was a Jewish festival, and Yeshua went to Yerushalem. Now there is at Yerushalem, near the sheep gate, a bath pool, called in Hebrew Bethesda, which has five covered walks. In these lay a great number of sick, blind, lame, and withered people, waiting for the moving of the water, (for a messenger at times descended into the bath, and agitated the water; and the first that stepped in, after the agitation of the water, was cured of whatever disease he had.)

5.–Now, there was one there, who had an infirmity thirty-eight years. Yeshua, who saw him lying, and knew that he had been ill a long time, said to him, Do you desire to be healed? The feeble man answered, Sir, I have no person to put me into the bath, when the water is agitated; but while I am going, another gets down before me. Yeshua said to him, Arise, take up your couch, and walk. Instantly the man was made healthy, and took up his couch, and walked.

10.–Now, that day was the Day of Rest. The Jews, therefore, said to him that was cured, This is the Day of Rest. It is not lawful for you to carry the couch. He answered, He who healed me, said to me, Take up your couch and walk. They asked him then, Who is the man that said to you, Take up your couch and walk. But he that had been healed did not know who it was; for Yeshua had slipped away, there being a crowd in the place.

14.–Yeshua afterwards finding him in the temple, said to him, Behold, you are cured; sin no more, in fear something worse happens to you. The man went, and told the Jews, that it was Yeshua, who had cured him. Therefore, the Jews persecuted Yeshua, because he had done this on the Day of Rest.

17.–But Yeshua answered them, My Father works until now; and I also work. For this reason the Jews were more intent to kill him, because he had not only broken the Day of Rest, but, by calling God his real Father, had equaled himself to God. Then Yeshua addressed them, saying, Amen, Amen (truth), I say to you, the Son can do nothing of himself, but as he sees the Father doing: for whatever things he does, the Son does likewise. For the Father loves (phileo) the Son, and shows him all that he himself does: and the Father will show him greater works than these, which will astonish you. For as the Father raises and gives life to the dead, the Son also gives life whom he will: for the Father judges no person, having committed the power of judging entirely to the Son, that all might honor the Son; as they honor the Father. He that does not honor the Son, does not honor the Father, who sent him.

24 Amen, Amen (truth), I say to you, he who hears my teaching, and believes him who sent me, has eternal life, and shall not suffer condemnation, having passed from death to life. Amen, Amen (truth), I say to you, the time will come, or rather is come, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God; and hearing, they shall live. For, as the Father has life in himself, so has he given to the Son life in himself; and has given him even the authority to execute judgment, because he is a Son of Man. Do not wonder at this; for the time is coming when all that are in their graves shall hear his voice, and shall come forth. Those who have done good, shall arise to enjoy life; those who have done evil, shall arise to suffer punishment. I can do nothing of myself; as I hear, I judge; and my judgment is just, because I do not seek to please myself, but to please him who sent me.

31.—If I alone testify concerning myself, my testimony is not to be regarded: there is another who testifies concerning me; and I know that his testimony of me ought to be regarded. You have, sent to Yohanan, and he bore testimony to the truth. As for me, the testimony I received is not from man; I say the things so you may be saved. He was the blazing and shining lamp; and for a while you were glad to enjoy his light.

36.–But I have greater testimony than Yohanan’s; for the works, which the Father has empowered me to perform, the works the same works which I do, testify for me, that the Father has sent me.

37.–No, the Father, who sent me, has himself testified of me. Did you ever hear his voice, or see his form? You do not have his word abiding in you, for you do not believe in him, whom he sent.

39.–You search the scriptures, because you think to obtain in them, eternal life. Now these also are witnesses for me; yet you will not come to me, that you may obtain life. I do not desire honor from men; but I know you, that you are strangers to the love (agape) of God. I come in my Father’s name, and you do not receive me; if another comes in his own name, you will receive him. How can you believe, while you court honor from one another, and do not seek the honor which comes from God alone? Do not think, that I am he, who will accuse you to the Father? Your accuser is Moses, in whom you set your hope. For if you believed Moses, you would believe me: for he wrote concerning me. But if you do not believe his writings, how shall you believe my words?

Chapter 6 SECTION V.
The People twice fed in the Desert.

VI.–AFTERWARDS Yeshua crossed the sea of Galilee, also called Tiberias: and a great multitude followed him, because they had seen the miraculous cures, which he had performed. And Yeshua went up on a mountain; where he sat down with his disciples. Now the Passover, the Jewish festival, was near.

5.–Yeshua lifting up his eyes, and perceiving that a great multitude was flocking to him, said to Philip, Where shall we buy bread to feed these people? (This he said to test him; for he knew himself, what he was to do.) Philip answered, Two hundred denarii (one is a day’s wage) would not purchase bread enough to afford everyone a morsel. One of his disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother, said to him, Here is a boy who has five barley loaves, and two small fishes; but what are they among so many? Yeshua said, Make the men recline. Now, there was much grass in the place. So they reclined; in number, about five thousand. And Yeshua took the loaves, and having given thanks, distributed them to those who had reclined. He gave them also the fishes, as much as they wanted. When they had eaten sufficiently, he said to his disciples, Gather up the fragments which remain, that nothing is lost. They gathered, and the fragments which the people had left, and of the five barley loaves, they filled twelve baskets. When those men had seen the miracle, which Yeshua had worked, they said, This is certainly the Forthteller who comes into the world. Then Yeshua knowing that they intended to come, and carry him off, to make him king, withdrew again, alone, to the mountain.

16.–In the evening, his disciples went to the sea, and having sailed, were passing by sea to Capernaum. It was dark; and Yeshua had not yet come to them. And the water was raised up by a strong wind. When they had rowed 25 to 30 stadion (3 or 4 miles), they observed Yeshua walking on the sea, very near the boat, and were afraid. But he said to them, It is I, (Lit: I am) do not be afraid. Then they gladly received him into the boat; and the boat was immediately at the place where they were going.

22.–On the next day, the people who were on the sea side, knowing that there had been but one boat there, and that Yeshua did not go in the boat with his disciples, who went alone, (other boats, however, arrived from Tiberias, near the place where they had eaten, after the Lord had given thanks;) knowing, besides, that neither Yeshua nor his disciples were there, they sailed in other boats, and went to Capernaum, seeking Yeshua.

25.–Having found him, on the opposite shore, they said to him, Teacher, when did you come here? Yeshua answered, Amen, Amen (truth), I say to you, you seek me, not because you saw miracles, but because you ate the loaves, and were satisfied. Do not work for the food which perishes, but for the food which endures through eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you; for to him the Father, that is, God, has given his seal. They asked him, What are the works which God requires us to do? Yeshua answered, This is the work which God requires, that you believe in him, whom he has sent forth. They replied, What miracle then do you, so that seeing it, we may believe you? What do you perform? Our fathers ate the manna in the desert; as it is written, “He gave them bread of heaven to eat.” Yeshua said to them, Amen, Amen (truth), I say to you, Moses did not give you the bread of heaven; but my Father gives you the true bread of heaven: for the bread of God is that, which descends from heaven, and gives life to the world. They said, to him, Master, give us always this bread. Yeshua answered, I am the bread of life. He who comes to me, shall never hunger; and he who believes in me, shall never thirst.

36.–But, as I told you, though you have seen me, you do not believe. All the Father gives me, will come to me; and to him who comes to me, I will not cast out. For I descended from heaven to do, not my own will, but the will of him who sent me. Now, this is the will of him who sent me, that I should lose none of all he has given me, but raise the whole again at the last day. This is the will of him who sent me, that whoever recognizes the Son, and believes in him, should obtain eternal life, and that I should raise him again at the last day.

41.–The Jews, then, murmured against him, because he said, I am the bread which descended from heaven: and they said, Is not this Yeshua, the son of Yowceph, whose father and mother we know? How then does he say, I descended from heaven? Yeshua answered, Do not murmur among yourselves: no man can come to me, unless the Father, who has sent me, draws him; and him I will raise again at the last day. It is written in the Forthtellers, “They shall be all taught of God.” Everyone who has heard, and learned from the Father, comes to me. Not that any man, except him who is from God, has seen the Father. He , has seen the Father. Amen, Amen (truth), I say to you, he who believes in me has eternal life. I am the bread of life. Your fathers ate the manna in the desert, and died. This is the bread which descended from heaven, that whoever eats of it, may not die. I am the living bread, which descended from heaven. Whoever eats of this bread, shall live forever; and the bread that I will give, is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.

52.–The Jews then debated among themselves, saying, How can this man give us his flesh to eat? Yeshua, therefore, said to them, Amen, Amen (truth), I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man, and drink his blood, you have no life in you. He that eats my flesh, and drinks my blood, has eternal life; and I will raise him again at the last day: for my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink. He who eats my flesh, and drinks my blood, abides in me, and I abide in him. As the Father lives, who sent me; and I live by the Father; even so he, who feeds on me, shall live by me. This is the bread, which descended from heaven. It is not like what your fathers ate, for they died: he that eats this bread, shall live forever. This message he spoke in the synagogue, teaching in Capernaum.

60.–Many of his disciples, having heard it, said, This is a hard teaching; who can understand it? Yeshua knowing in himself, that his disciples murmured at it, said to them, Does this offend you? What if you should see the Son of Man re-ascending to, where he was before? It is the Spirit that gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The words which I speak to you, are spirit and life. But there are some of you, who do not believe. (For Yeshua knew from the beginning, who they were that did not believe, and who he was that would betray him.) He added, Therefore, I say to you, that no man can come to me, unless it be given him by my Father.

66.–From this time on many of his disciples withdrew, and were not walking with him any longer. Then Yeshua said to the twelve, Will you also go away? Simon (Heb:Shimown ; hearing) Peter (Gk:Petros a piece of rock) answered, Master, to whom should we go? You have the words of eternal life: and we believe and know, that you are the Holy One of God. Yeshua answered them, Have not I chosen you twelve? yet one of you is a devil (diabolos, slanderer). He meant Yehuwdah Iscariot; son of Simon; for it was he, who was to betray him, though he was one of the twelve.

Chapter 7

VII.–After this, Yeshua travelled about in Galilee; for, he would not reside in Yehuda, because the Jews sought to kill him.

SECTION VI.
The Feast of Tabernacles.

2.–NOW, the Jewish feast of tabernacles was near. His brothers, therefore, said to him, Leave this country, and go into Yehuwdah, that your disciples may also see the works which you do. For whoever seeks renown, does nothing in secret: since you perform such things, show yourself to the world. (For not even his brothers believed on him.) Yeshua answered, My time has not yet come; your time is always ready. The world cannot hate you; but it hates me, because I disclose the wickedness of its actions. You go to this festival: I do not go, because it is not my time. Having said this, he remained in Galilee.

10.–But when his brothers were gone, he also went to the festival; not publicly, but rather privately. At the festival, the Jews inquired after him, and said, Where is he? And there was much grumbling among the people, concerning him. Some said, He is a good man. Others, No; he seduces the multitude. No person, however, spoke openly about him, for fear of the Jews.

14.–About the middle of the festival, Yeshua went into the temple, and was teaching. And the Jews said, with astonishment, Where did this man’s learning come from, who was never taught? Yeshua said, My teaching is not mine, but his who sent me. If anyone will do his will, he shall know whether my teaching proceeds from God, or from myself. Whoever teaches what proceeds from himself, seeks his own glory: whoever seeks the glory of him who sent him, is true and there is no unrighteousness in him. Did not Moses give you the law? Yet none of you keeps the law. Why do you seek to kill me? The people answered, You are possessed. Who seeks to kill you? Yeshua replied, I have performed one action, which surprises you all. Moses instituted circumcision among you, (not that it is from Moses, but from the patriarchs,) and you circumcise on the Day of Rest. If, on the Day of Rest, a man receives circumcision, that the law of Moses may not be violated; why are you incensed against me, because, on the Day of Rest, I have cured a man, whose whole body was disabled? Judge not according to appearance, but judge according to righteous justice.

25.–Then some inhabitants of Yerushalem said, Is not this he, whom they seek to kill? Lo! he speaks boldly, and they say nothing to him. Do the rulers, acknowledge that this is the Anointed? But we know where this man is from; but when the Anointed shall come, no person will know where he is from. Yeshua, who was then teaching in the temple, cried, You know who I am, and where I am from. I have not come of myself. But he is true, who sent me, whom you do not know. As for me, I know him, because I came from him, and am sent out by him. Then they sought to apprehend him, but no one laid hands on him; for his hour had not yet come. Many of the people, however, believed in him, and said, When the Anointed shall come, will he do more miracles than this man does?

32.–When the Pharisees heard, that the people muttered such things, concerning him, they and the chief priests dispatched officers to seize him. Yeshua therefore said, Yet a little while I remain with you; then I go to him who sent me. You shall seek me, but shall not find me; or be able to come where I am. The Jews said among themselves, Where shall he go, that we shall not find him? Will he go to the dispersed Greeks, and teach the Greeks? What does he mean by saying, You shall seek me, but shall not find me, or be able to get to, where I shall be?

37.–On the last and greatest day of the festival, Yeshua stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come to me, and drink. He who believes in me, as the scripture says, shall have rivers out of his inner most being flow living water. This he spoke of the Spirit, which they, who believed in him, were to receive; for the Holy Spirit was not yet given, because Yeshua was not yet glorified. Many of the people, having heard what was spoken, said, This is certainly the Forthteller. Some said, This is the Anointed. Others, Does the Anointed come from Galilee? Does not the scripture say, that the Anointed will be of the seed of David, and come from Bethlehem, the village where David was? So the people were divided concerning him; and some of them would have seized him, but no person laid hands on him.

45.–Then the officers returned to the chief priests and Pharisees, who asked them, Why have you not brought him? The officers answered, Never has a man spoken like this man. The Pharisees replied, Are you also seduced? Has any of the rulers, or the Pharisees, believed in him? But this rabble, which does not know the law, is accursed. Nicodemus, one of them, (he who came to Yeshua by night,) said to them, Does our law permit us to judge a man, without hearing him, and knowing what he has done? They answered him, Are you also a Galilean? Search, and you will find, that no forthtellers arise out of Galilee. Then every man went to his own house;

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but Yeshua went to the Mount of Olives.

–Early in the morning, he returned to the temple, and all the people came to him. He sat down and taught them. Then the scribes and Pharisees brought to him a woman, seized for adultery; and having placed her in the middle, said to him, Teacher, this woman was seized for adultery in the very in the act. Now, Moses has commanded in the law, that such should be stoned; and what do you say? They said this to test him, that they might have a matter for accusing him. But Yeshua having stooped down, was writing with his finger upon the ground. As they continued asking him, he raised himself, and said to them, Let him who is without sin among you, throw the first stone at her. Again having stooped down, he wrote upon the ground. They hearing that, withdrew, one after another, the eldest first, until Yeshua was left alone, with the woman standing in the middle. Yeshua raising himself, and seeing none but the woman, said to her, Woman, where are your accusers? Has no person passed sentence on you? She answered, No person, sir. Yeshua said to her, Neither do I pass sentence on you. Go, and sin no more.

12.–Again Yeshua addressed the people, saying, I am the light of the world: he who follows me, shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life. The Pharisees therefore replied, You testify concerning yourself; but your testimony is not to be regarded. Yeshua answered, though I testify concerning myself, my testimony ought to be regarded; because I know where I came from, and where I go. As for you, you know not where I came from, and where I go. You judge from the flesh; I judge no person: and if I do judge, my judgment is true, for I am not alone, but I am with the Father, who sent me. It is in your law, that the testimony of two is true. Now I am one who testifies concerning myself; the Father that sent me is another that testifies of me. Then they asked him, Where is your Father? Yeshua answered, You know neither me, or my Father: if you knew me, you would know my Father also. These things he spoke in the treasury, as he taught in the temple: and no person seized him, for his hour had not yet come.

21.–Again Yeshua said to them, I am going away; you will seek me, and shall die in your sins; Where I go, you cannot come. Then said the Jews, Will he kill himself, since he says, Where I go, you cannot come? He said to them, You are from beneath; I am from above. You are of this world; I am not of this world: therefore I said, You shall die in your sins; for if you do not believe that I am he, you shall die in your sins. They, therefore, asked him, Who are you? Yeshua answered, It is the same as I told you formerly. I have many things to say of you, and to judge in you: but he who sent me is true; and I proclaim to the world, what I have learned from him. They did not perceive, that he meant the Father. Yeshua, therefore, said to them, When you have raised the Son of Man on high, then you shall know what I am; and that I do nothing of myself, and say nothing which the Father has not taught me. And he who sent me is with me. The Father has not left me alone, because I always do what pleases him. While he spoke this , many believed in him. Yeshua, therefore, said to those Jews who believed him, if you persevere in my teaching, you are my disciples . And you shall know the truth: and the truth shall make you free.

33.–Some made an answer, We are Abraham’s offspring, and were never enslaved to any man. How do you say, You shall be made free? Yeshua replied, Amen, Amen (truth), I say to you, whoever commits sin is a slave of sin. Now the slave does not remain in the house perpetually, the Son remains perpetually. If, therefore, the Son makes you free, you will be free indeed. I know that you are Abraham’s offspring; yet you seek to kill me, because my teaching has no place in you. I speak what I have seen with my Father: and you do what you have learned from your father.

39 They answered, Abraham is our father. If you were Abraham’s children, you would act as Abraham acted. But now you seek to kill me, a man who has told you the truth, which I received from God. Abraham did not act this way. You do the deeds of your father. They answered, We were not born of fornication. We have one Father, even God. Yeshua replied, If God were your Father, you would love me; for I proceeded forth, and have come from God. I did not come of myself. He sent me. Why do you not understand my language? It is because you cannot hear my teaching. The Accuser (Gk:diabolos, devil, Satan) is your father, and the desires of your father you will do: he was a manslayer from the beginning: he did not remain in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he tells a lie, he speaks suitably to his character; for he is a liar, and the father of lying. As for me, because I speak the truth, you do not believe me. Who of you convicts me of falsehood? And if I speak truth, why do you not believe me? He who is of God, regards God’s words. You do not regard them because you are not of God.

48.–The Jews then answered, Do we not have reason to say, You are a Samaritan, and have a demon? Yeshua replied, I do not have a demon: but I honor my Father, and you dishonor me. As for me, I do not seek my own glory; another seeks it, who judges. Amen, Amen (truth), I say to you, whoever keeps my word, shall never see death. The Jews then said to him, Now we are certain that you have a demon: Abraham is dead, and the forthtellers; yet you say, Whoever keeps my word, shall never taste death. Are you greater than our father Abraham, who is dead? The forthtellers also are dead: whom you make yourself out to be? Yeshua answered, If I glorify myself, my glory is nothing: it is my Father, whom you call your God, who glorifies me. Nevertheless, you do not know him; but I know him: and if I should say, I do not know him , I would speak falsely, like you: but I know him, and keep his word. Abraham, your father, rejoiced that he should see my day; and he did see it, and was glad. The Jews replied, You are not yet fifty years old, and you have seen Abraham? Yeshua answered, Amen, Amen (truth), I say to you, before Abraham was, I am. Then they took up stones to throw at him; but Yeshua concealed himself, and went out of the temple.

Chapter 9 SECTION VII.
The Cure of the Man born Blind.

IX.–AS Yeshua passed along, he saw a man who had been born blind. And his disciples asked him, saying, Teacher, who sinned; this man, or his parents, that he was born blind? Yeshua answered, Neither this man or his parents sinned. It was only that the works of God might be displayed upon him. I must do the work of him who sent me, while it is day; when night comes no man can work. While I am in the world, I am the light of the world. Having said this, he spit upon the ground, and with the clay, which he made with the spittle, anointed the blind man’s eyes, and said to him, Go wash in the pool of Siloam, (which signifies Sent.) He went, therefore, and washed , and returned seeing.

8.–Then the neighbors, and those who had before seen him blind, said, Is this not he, who sat and begged? Some said, It is he; others were saying, He is like him. He said, I am he. They asked him then, How did you receive your sight? He answered, A man called Yeshua, made clay and anointed my eyes, and said to me, Go to the pool of Siloam, and wash your eyes. I went accordingly, and washed them, and received sight. Then they asked him, Where is he? He answered, I know not.

13.–Then they brought him, who had been blind, to the Pharisees: (now it was on a Day of Rest, that Yeshua had made clay, and gave him his sight.) The Pharisees likewise, therefore, asked him how he had received his sight. He answered, He put clay on my eyes, and I washed them, and now I can see. Upon this some of the Pharisees said, This man is not from God, for he does not observe the Day of Rest. Others said, How can one that is a sinner perform such miracles? And they were divided among themselves. Again they asked the man, who had been blind, What do you say about him, for giving you sight? He answered, He is a forthteller.

18.–But the Jews did not believe that the man had been blind, and had received his sight; until they called his parents, and asked them, Do you say, that this is your son, who was born blind? How then does he now see? His parents answered, We know that this is our son, and that he was born blind: but how he now sees, or who opened his eyes, we know not. He is of age, ask him; he will answer for himself. His parents spoke this way, because they feared the Jews: for the Jews had already determined, that whoever acknowledged Yeshua to be the Anointed, should be expelled the Synagogue. For this reason his parents said, He is of age, ask him.

24.–A second time, therefore, they called the man, who had been born blind, and said to him, Give glory to God; we know, that this man is a sinner. He replied, Whether he is a sinner, I do not know: one thing I know that though I was blind, I now can see. They said to him again, What did he do to you? How did he make you see? He answered, I told you before; and did you not hear? Why would you hear it repeated? Will you, also be his disciples? They reviled him and said, You are his disciple. As for us, we are disciples of Moses. We know, that God spoke to Moses: as for this man, we do not know where he is from. The man replied, This is surprising, that you do not know where he is from, although he has given me sight. We know that God does not hear sinners; but if any man worships God, and obeys him, that man he hears. Never was it heard before, that any man gave sight to one born blind. If this man were not from God, he could do nothing. They replied, You were entirely born in sins, and do you teach us? And they threw him out.

35.–Yeshua heard that they had thrown him out, and having met him, said to him, Do you believe in the Son of God? He answered, Who is he, sir, that I may believe in him? Yeshua said to him, Not only have you seen him; but it is he, who talks with you. And he cried, Master, I believe: and threw himself prostrate before him. And Yeshua said, For judgment I have come into this world, that those who do not see, may see; and that those who see, may become blind. Some Pharisees, who were present, hearing this, said to him, Are we also blind? Yeshua answered, If you were blind, you would not have sin: but you say, We see: therefore your sin remains.

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X.–Amen, Amen (truth), I say to you, he who does not enter by the door into the sheep yard, but climbs over the fence, is a thief and a robber. The shepherd always enters by the door. To him the door keeper opens, and the sheep obey his voice. He calls His own sheep by name, and leads them out. And having put out his sheep, he walks before them, and they follow him; because they know his voice. They will not follow a stranger, but flee from him; because they do not know the voice of strangers. Yeshua addressed this comparison to them, but they did not comprehend what he said. He therefore added, Amen, Amen (truth), I say to you, I am the door of the sheep. All who preceded me were thieves and robbers; but the sheep did not obey them. I am the door: those who enter by me shall be safe: they shall go in and out, and find pasture. The thief comes only to steal, to slay, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and have it abundantly.

11.–I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd gives his life for the sheep. The hired hand, is not the shepherd, and sheep are not his. When he sees the wolf coming, he abandons the sheep, and flees; and the wolf tears them, and disperses the flock. He is a wage worker, and does not care for the sheep. I am the good shepherd. And I know my own, and am known by them: (even as the Father knows me, and I know the Father;) and I give my life for the sheep. I have other sheep besides, which are not of this yard. I must also bring them; and they will obey my voice; and there shall be one flock and one shepherd. For this the Father loves me, because I lay down my life, that I may take it up again. No one forces it from me: but I give it of myself. I have the power of choice to lay it down, and I have the power of choice to take it up. This commandment I have received from my Father.

19.–Again there was a division among the Jews, occasioned by this message. Many of them said, He has a demon, and is mad: why do you hear him? Others said, These are not the words of one with a demon. Can a demon give sight to the blind?

22.–Afterward, when they were celebrating the feast of the dedication, at Yerushalem, it being winter; as Yeshua walked in the temple, in Solomon’s portico, the Jews surrounded and, said to him, How long will you keep us in suspense? If you are the Anointed, tell us plainly. Yeshua answered, I told you; but you did not believe. The works, which I do in my Father’s name, testify of me. But you do not believe, for you are not of my sheep. My sheep obey my voice as I told you; I know them, and they follow me. Besides, I give them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any one seize them out of my hands. My Father, who gave them me, is greater than all; and none can seize them out of my Father’s hand. I and the Father are one.

31.–Then the Jews again took up stones to stone him. Yeshua said to them, Many good works I have shown you from my Father; for which of these works do you stone me? The Jews answered, For a good work we do not stone you, but for evil speaking; because you, being a man, make yourself God. Yeshua replied, Is it not written in your law, “I said, You are gods?” If the law called them gods, to whom the word of God was addressed, and if the language of scripture cannot be loosened : do you charge him with evil speaking, whom the Father has made holy and sent to the world. You say I speak evil for saying I am the Son of God? If I do not do the works of my Father, do not believe me. But if I do them, though you do not believe me, believe the works, that you may know (and continue to know) and believe, that the Father is in me, and I am in him.

39.–They then attempted again to seize him; but he escaped out of their hands, and went again towards the Yarden, and stayed in the place where Yohanan first immersed. And many were seeking him, who said, Yohanan worked no miracle: but all that Yohanan spoke of this man is true. And many believed in him there.

Chapter 11 SECTION VIII.
Lazarus raised from the Dead.

XI.—NOW a certain man was sick, Lazarus of Bethany, also the village of Mary and her sister Martha. (It was that Mary, who anointed the Lord with perfume, and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick.) The sisters, therefore, sent to tell Yeshua: Master, lo! he whom you love (phileo) is sick. Yeshua hearing it, said, This sickness will not prove fatal; but to the glory of God, that the Son of God may be glorified by it. Now, Yeshua loved Martha, and her sister, and Lazarus. Having heard, that he was sick, Yeshua stayed two days in the place where he was.

7.–Afterwards, he said to the disciples, Let us return to Yehuda. The disciples answered, Teacher, but lately the Jews would have stoned you, and would you return? Yeshua replied, Are there not twelve hours in the day? If any man walks in the day, he does not stumble: because he sees the light of this world: but if he walks in the night, he stumbles; because there is no light. Having spoken this, he added, Our friend Lazarus sleeps; but I go to awake him. Then said his disciples, Master, if he sleeps, he will recover. Yeshua spoke of his death; but they thought, that he spoke of taking rest in sleep. Then Yeshua told them plainly, Lazarus is dead. And on your account, I am glad that I was not there, that you may believe; but let us go to him. Then Thomas, that is Didymus, said to his fellow disciples, Let us also go, that we may die with him.

17.–When Yeshua came, he found that Lazarus had been already four days in the tomb. Now, (Bethany being about 2 miles from Yerushalem,) many of the Jews came to Martha and Mary, to comfort them on the death of their brother. Martha, having heard that Yeshua was coming, went and met him; but Mary remained in the house. Then Martha said to Yeshua, Master, if you had been here, my brother have not died. But I know that even now, whatever you shall ask of God, God will give you. Yeshua said to her, Your brother shall rise again. Martha replied, I know that he will rise at the resurrection, on the last day. Yeshua said to her, I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me, though he were dead, shall live; and no man who lives and believes in me, shall ever die. Do you believe this? She answered, yes, Master, I believe that you are the Anointed, the Son of God, and He who comes into the world.

28 Having said this, she went and called Mary her sister privately, saying, The Teacher has come, and calls for you. When Mary heard this, she instantly rose and went to him. Now Yeshua had not yet entered the village, but was in the place, where Martha met him. The Jews, then, who were consoling Mary in the house, when they saw, that she rose quickly, followed her, saying, She is going to the tomb to weep there. Mary having come to the place where Yeshua was, and seeing him, threw herself at his feet, saying, Had you been here, Master, my brother would have not died. When Yeshua saw her weeping, and the Jews weeping who came with her, he groaned deeply, and was troubled, and said, Where have you laid him? They answered, and said, Master, come and see. Yeshua wept. The Jews, therefore, said, Behold how he loved (phileo) him. But some of them said, Could not he who gave sight to the blind man, even have prevented this man’s death?

38 Yeshua therefore again groaning, came to the tomb. It was a cave, the entrance of which was shut up with a stone. Yeshua said, Remove the stone. Martha, the sister of the deceased, answered, Sir, by this time the smell is offensive, for this is the fourth day. Yeshua replied, Did I not say to you, If you believe, you shall see the glory of God? Then they removed the stone. And Yeshua lifting up his eyes, said, Father, I thank you, that you have heard me. As for me, I know that you hear me always; but I speak for the people’s sake, who surround me, that they may believe that you have sent me. After these words, raising his voice, he cried, Lazarus, come forth! He who had been dead came forth, bound hand and foot with grave cloths, and his face wrapped in a handkerchief. Yeshua said to them, Unbind him, and let him go. Therefore many of the Jews who had come to Mary, and seen what he did, believed in him. But some of them went to the Pharisees, who told them what Yeshua had done.

47.–Then the chief priests and the Pharisees assembled the Sanhedrin (Gk:sunedrion, any assembly or the great council at Yerusalem), and said, What are we doing? for this man works many miracles. If we let him go on this way, everyone will believe in him, and the Romans will come and destroy both our place and nation. One of them, named Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, said to them, You are utterly at a loss, and do not consider, that it is better for us, that one man die for the people, than the whole nation should be ruined. This he spoke, not of himself; but being high priest that year, he Forthtold that Yeshua should die for the nation; and not for that nation only, but that he should assemble into one body the dispersed children of God. Therefore from that day on they discussed how they might destroy him. For this reason, Yeshua appeared no longer publicly among the Jews, but went to the country, near the desert, to a city called Ephraim; and continued there with his disciples.

55.–Meanwhile the Jewish Passover approached, and many went to Yerushalem from the country, before the Passover, to purify themselves. These were seeking Yeshua, and said one to another, as they stood in the temple, What do you think? Will he not come to the festival? Now, the chief priests and the Pharisees had issued an order, that whoever knew where he was, should make it known, that they might apprehend him.

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XII.–Six days before the Passover, Yeshua came to Bethany, where Lazarus was, whom he had raised from the dead. There they made him a supper, and Martha served: and Lazarus was one of those, who was at table with him. Then Mary, taking a litra (Roman pound: 12 ounces) of the perfume of spikenard, which was very valuable, anointed the feet of Yeshua, and wiped them with her hair, so that the house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume. Then one of his disciples, Yehuwdah Iscariot, Simon’s son, who was to betray him, said, Why was this perfume not sold for three hundred denarii (300 days wages), which might have been given to the poor? This he said, not that he cared for the poor; but because he was a thief, and had the money box, and stole what was put in it. Then Yeshua said, Let her alone. She has done this to prepare me for the day of my burial. For you will always have the poor among you; but you will not always have me.

9.–A great number of Jews, knowing where he was, flocked there, not on account of Yeshua only, but also to see Lazarus, whom he had raised from the dead. The chief priests, therefore, determined to kill Lazarus also; because he was the reason, that many Jews left them, and believed in Yeshua.

SECTION IX.
The Entry into Yerushalem.

12.–ON the next day, a great multitude, who had come to the festival, hearing that Yeshua was on the road to Yerushalem, took branches of palm trees, and went out to meet him, crying, Hosanna! (hosanna; of Hebrew origin; oh save!, an exclamation of adoration) blessed be Ysrael’s King, who comes in the name of the Lord. Now Yeshua having found a young donkey, was riding on it, as it is written, “Fear not, daughter of Zion; behold your King comes, sitting on an donkey’s colt.” These things the disciples did not understand, at first; but after Yeshua was glorified, they remembered, that this it had been written concerning him, and that this had done to him. And the people, who had been present, witnessed that he had called Lazarus out of the tomb, and raised him from the dead. It was that he had worked this miracle, which made the people crowd to meet him. The Pharisees, therefore, said among themselves, Are you aware that you are not doing anything useful? Behold the world has gone after him.

20.–Now, among those who came to worship at the festival, were some Greeks. These approached Philip, of Bethsaida, in Galilee, making this request, Sir, we wish to see Yeshua. Philip went and told Andrew; then Andrew and Philip told Yeshua.23.–Yeshua answered them, saying, The time is come, when the Son of Man must be glorified. Amen, Amen (truth), I say to you, when a grain of wheat is thrown into the ground, unless it dies, it remains single; but if it dies, it becomes very fruitful. He who loves (phileo) his life, shall lose it; and he who hates his life in this world, shall preserve it eternally in the next. Would any man serve me? let him follow me; and where I am, there shall my servant shall also be. If any man serves me, my Father will reward him.

27.–Now my soul troubled, and what shall I say? Father, save me from this hour? But I came on purpose for this hour. Father, glorify your name. Then there came a voice from heaven, which said, I have both glorified it, and will again glorify it. The people present heard the sound, and said, It thundered: others said, A messenger spoke to him. Yeshua said, This voice did not come for my sake, but for yours. Now must this world be judged. Now must the prince of this world be thrown out. As for me, when I shall be lifted up from the earth, I will draw all men to myself. This he said, alluding to the death, which he was to suffer. The people answered, We have learned, from the law, that the Anointed will live forever. How do you say, then, that the Son of Man must be lifted up? Who is this Son of Man? Yeshua said to them, Yet a little while the light continues with you; walk, while you have it, so that darkness does not overtake you: for he that walks in darkness, does not know where he goes. Have faith in the light, while you have it, that you may be sons of light. Having spoken these words, he withdrew himself privately from them.

37.–But though he had performed so many miracles before them, they did not believe in him; so that the word of the forthteller Yeshayah was verified, “Lord, who has believed our report?” and, “To whom is the arm of the Lord revealed?” For this reason they could not believe; Yeshayah having said also, “He has blinded their eyes, and blunted their understanding, that they might not see with their eyes, or comprehend with their heart, and be converted, that I might heal them.” These things Yeshayah said, when he saw this glory, and spoke concerning him. Nevertheless, there were several, of the rulers, who believed in him; but, for fear of the Pharisees, did not confess it, so that they would not be expelled the synagogue; for they preferred the approval of men to the approval of God.

44.–Then Yeshua, raising his voice, said, He who believes in me, believes not in me only; but in him who sent me. And he who beholds me, beholds him who sent me. I am came as a light into the world, that whoever believes in me, may not remain in darkness. And if any man hears my words, but does not observe them; it is not I, who judges him; for I came, not to judge the world, but to save the world. He who despises me, and rejects my instructions, has one who judges him. The teaching which I have taught will condemn him on the last day. For I have not said anything from myself; but the Father who sent me, has commanded me what I should command, and what I should teach. And I know, that his commandment is eternal life. Whatever, I say, I speak as the Father has given me.

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XIII.–Yeshua having perceived, before the feast of the Passover, that his time to depart out of this world to his Father, had come; and having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the last. Now while they were at supper, (the The Accuser having already put it into the heart of Yehuwdah Iscariot, Simon’s son, to betray him,) Yeshua, though he knew that the Father had subjected everything to him, and that he came from God, and was returning to God; arose from supper, and laying aside his garment, wrapped himself about with a towel. Then he poured water into a basin, and began to wash the feet of his disciples, and to wipe them with the towel with which he was wrapped.

6.–When he came to Simon Peter. Peter said to him, Master, would you wash my feet? Yeshua answered, At present you do not comprehend what I am doing; but you shall know hereafter. Peter replied, You shall never wash my feet. Yeshua answered, Unless I wash you, you can have no part with me. Simon Peter said to him, Master, then not my feet only; but also my hands and my head. Yeshua replied, He who has been bathing, needs only to wash his feet; the rest of his body being completely clean. You are clean, but not all. For he knew who would betray him; therefore he said, You are not all clean.

12.–After he had washed their feet, he put on his garment, and he reclined again at table, said to them, Do you understand what I have been doing to you? You call me the Teacher and the Master; and you are right; for so I am. If I, then, the Master and the Teacher, have washed your feet; you also ought to wash one another’s feet. For I have given you an example, that you should do as I have done to you. Amen, Amen (truth) I say to you, the slave is not greater than his master, nor is the delegate greater than he who sends him. Blessed are you, who know these things, provided you practice them.

18.–I do not speak to all of you. I know whom I have chosen; but that scripture may be fulfilled, “He that eats at my table, has lifted up his heel against me.” I tell you this now, before it happens; that when it happens, you may believe that, I am the Anointed. Amen, Amen (truth), I say to you, he that receives whomever I send, receives me; and he that receives me, receives him who sent me.

21.–After uttering these words, Yeshua was troubled in spirit, and declared, saying, Amen Amen (truth) I say to you, one of you will betray me. Then the disciples looked upon one another, not knowing of whom he spoke. Now one of his disciples, one whom Yeshua loved, was lying close to his chest: Simon Peter, therefore, made a sign to him, to inquire whom he meant. He, then, reclining on Yeshua’ chest, said to him, Master, who is it? Yeshua answered, It is he to whom I shall give this morsel, after I have dipped it. And having dipped the morsel, he gave it to Yehuwdah Iscariot, the Son of Simon. After receiving the morsel, The Adversary entered into him. And Yeshua said to him, What you do, do quickly. But none at the table knew, why he gave this order. Some imagined, because Yehuwdah had the money chest, that Yeshua had signified to him to buy necessaries for the festival; or, to give something to the poor. When Yehuwdah had taken the morsel, he immediately went out: and it was night.

31.–When he was gone, Yeshua said, The Son of Man is now glorified, and God is glorified by him. If God is glorified by him, God also will glorify him by himself, and that without delay. My children, I have now but a little time to be with you. You will seek me, and as I said to the Jews, Where I go, you cannot come; I say now to you. A new commandment I give you, that you love one another; as I have loved you, you also love one another. By this shall all men know, that you are my disciples; if you have love one to another.

36.—Simon (Heb:Shimown ; hearing) Peter (Gk:Petros a piece of rock) said to him, Master, Where are you going? Yeshua answered, Where I am going, you cannot follow me now; but afterwards you shall follow me. Peter replied, Master, why cannot I follow you now? I will lay down my life for your sake? Yeshua answered him, Will you lay down your life for my sake. Amen, Amen (truth), I say to you, the cock shall not crow, until you have denied me three times.

Chapter 14

SECTION X.
Consolation to the Disciples.

XIV.–LET not your heart be troubled; believe in God, and believe in me. In my Father’s house are many dwelling places. Were it otherwise, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you: and after I shall have gone, and prepared a place for you; I will return and take you with me, that where I am, there you may be also. And where I am going, you know, and the way you know. Thomas said to him, Master, we do not know where you are going. How, then, can we know the way? Yeshua answered, I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no man comes to the Father, but by me. Had you known me, you would have known my Father also: and from now on you know him, and have seen him.

8.–Philip said to him, Master, show us the Father, and it will satisfy us. Yeshua replied, Have I been with you so long, and do you not yet know me, Philip? He that has seen me, has seen the Father. How do you say, then, show us the Father? Do you not believe, that I am in the Father, and the Father is in me? The words which I speak to you proceed not from myself: as to the works, it is the Father dwelling in me who does them. Believe me, that I am in the Father, and the Father in me; if not on my testimony, be convinced by the works themselves. Amen, Amen (truth), I say to you, he who believes in me, shall himself do such works as I do; No, even greater than these he shall do; because I go to my Father, and will do whatever you shall ask in my name. That the Father may be glorified in the Son, whatever you shall ask in my name, I do.

15.–If you love me, keep my commandments; and I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Advocate (Gk:parakletos an intercessor, one called alongside to help), to continue with you forever; even the Spirit of Truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor knows him; but you shall know him, because he will remain with you, and be in you. I will not leave you as orphans (Gk:orphanos, bereaved); I will return to you. Yet a little while, and the world shall see me no more; but you shall see me; because I live, you also shall live. On that day you shall know, that I am in my Father, and you in me; and I in you. He that has my commandments, and keeps them, is he who loves me; and he who loves me, will be loved by my Father, and I will love him, and disclose myself to him. Yehuwdah (not Iscariot) said to him, Master, Why will you make yourself clear to us, and not to the world? Yeshua answering, said to him, If a man loves me, he will observe my word; and my Father will love him; and we will come to him, and dwell with him. He who does not love me, disregards my words; yet the word which you hear is not mine, but the Father’s, who sent me.

25.–I tell you these things, while I remain with you. But the helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name; will teach you all things, and remind you of all that I have told you. Peace I leave you; my peace I give you; not as the world gives, do I give to you. Do not let your heart be troubled; do not be fearful. You have heard me say, I go away, and will return to you. If you loved (agape) me, you would rejoice that I go to the Father; because my Father is greater than I. This I tell you now, before it happens, that when it happens, you may believe. I shall not have much conversation with you, from now on; for the ruler of this world is coming, though he will find nothing in me; but this must be, that the world may know that I love the Father, and do whatever he commands me. Get up, let us go from this place.

Chapter 15

XV.–I am the true vine, and my Father is the land worker. Every barren branch in me, he lops off: every fruitful branch he cleans by pruning, to render it more fruitful. As for you, you are already clean through the instructions I have given you. Remain in me, and I will remain in you: as the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, unless it remains on the vine, so neither can you, unless you remain in me. I am the vine; you are the branches. He who remains in me, and I in him produces much fruit: for severed from me, you can do nothing. If any man does not remain in me, he is thrown out like withered branches, which are gathered for fuel, and burnt. If you remain in me, and my words remain in you, you may ask what you will, and it shall be granted you.

8.–In this is my Father glorified, that you produce much fruit; so shall you be my disciples. As the Father loves me, so I love you: continue in my love. If you keep my commandments, you shall continue in my love (agape); as I have kept my Father’s commandments, and continue in his love (agape). I give you these commands, that I may continue to have joy in you, and that your joy may be complete. This is my commandment, that you love (agape) one another, as I love (agape) you. No man has greater love (agape) than this, than to lay down his life for his friends. You are my friends, if you do whatever I command you. From now on I do not call you slaves; for the slave does not know what his master will do: but I name you friends; for whatever I have learned from my Father, I impart to you. It is not you, who have chosen me; but it is I, who have chosen you, and appointed you, to go and bear fruit; fruit which will prove permanent, so that the Father may give you, whatever you shall ask him in my name.

17.–This I command you, that you love (agape) one another. If the world hates you; consider that it hated me, before it hated you. If you were of the world, the world would love (phileo) its own. But because you are not of the world, I having chose you from the world, the world hates you. Remember what I said to you, The slave is not greater than his master. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they attend to my word, they will also attend to yours. But all this treatment they will give you on my account, because they do not know him who sent me. If I had not come, and spoken to them, they would not have had sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin. He that hates me, hates my Father also. If I had not done among them such works, as no one else ever did, they would not have sin; but now they have seen them, and hated both me and my Father. Therefore the passage in their law is fulfilled, “They hated me without cause.” But when the Advocate comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, he will testify concerning me. And you also will testify, because you have been with me from the beginning.

Chapter 16

XVI.–These things I tell you, that you may not stumble. They will expel you from the synagogue; No, the time is coming, when, whoever kills you, will think he offers service to God. And these things they will do, because they do not know the Father, or me. Of these things I now warn you, that when the time shall come, you may remember, that I mentioned them to you. I did not mention them at the beginning, because I was with you myself. And now I go away to him who sent me; yet none of you ask me, Where do you go? But, because of those things which I have foretold you, your heart is full of grief.

7.–Nevertheless, I tell you the truth; it is for your advantage that I depart; for if I do not depart, the Advocate will not come to you; but if I go away, I will send him to you. And when he comes, he will refute the world concerning sin, righteousness and judgment.

In respect to sin because they did not believe in me. In respect to righteousness for I go to my Father, and you will see me no longer. In respect to judgment, because the ruler of this world is judged.

12.–I have many things still to tell you, but you cannot yet bear them. But when the Spirit of Truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth: for his words will not proceed from himself; but whatever he shall have heard, he will speak, and show you things to come. He will glorify me: for he will take of mine, and make it known to you. Whatever is the Father’s, is mine; therefore, I say that he will take of mine to make it known to you.

16.–A little while you shall not see me; a little while after, you shall see me. Some of the disciples said, among themselves, What does he mean by this; a little while you shall not see me; a little while after, you shall see me; because I go to the Father? What does this little while mean, of which he speaks? We do not comprehend it. Yeshua perceiving that they were desired to ask him, said to them, Do you inquire among yourselves about this that I said, A little while you shall not see me; a little while after, you shall see me. Amen, Amen (truth), I say to you, you will weep and lament, but the world will rejoice: you will be sorrowful; but your sorrow shall be turned into joy. A woman in birthing has sorrow, because her hour has come. But when her child is born, she does not remember her anguish any longer; because she has joy that she has brought a human into the world. So you, at present, are in grief; but I will visit you again, and your hearts shall be joyful, and no one shall rob you of your joy. On that day you will not question me about anything. Amen, Amen (truth), I say to you, whatever you shall ask the Father, in my name, he will give you. Until now you have asked nothing in my name; ask, and you shall receive, that your joy may be complete.

25.–These things I have spoken to you in figures of speech: the time is approaching, when I shall no longer speak to you in comparisons; but instruct you plainly concerning the Father. Then you will ask in my name, and I say now, that I will not ask the Father for you: for the Father himself loves (phileo) you, because you have loved (phileo) me, and believed that I came from God. From the presence of the Father I came into the world. Again I leave the world, and return to the Father. His disciples replied, Lo now you are speaking plainly, and without figures of speech.. Now we are convinced, that you know all things, and have no need that to put any questions to you. By this we believe that you came forth from God. Yeshua answered them, Do you now believe? Behold the time will come, or rather has come, when you shall scatter, every one to his own home, and shall leave me alone; yet I am not alone, because the Father is with me. These things I have spoken to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you will have affliction. But take courage! I have overcome the world.

Chapter 17

XVII.–When Yeshua had spoken, lifting up his eyes to heaven, he said Father, the hour has come; glorify your Son, that your Son also may glorify you; as you have given him authority over all flesh, that he may bestow eternal life, on all those whom you have given him. Now this is the life eternal, to know the only true God, and Yeshua the Anointed, the One Sent. I have glorified you on the earth; I have finished the work, which you gave me to do. And now, Father, glorify me in your own presence, with that glory which I enjoyed with you, before the world was.

6.–I have made known your name to the men, whom you have given me out of the world. They were yours; and you have given them to me; and they have kept your word. Whatever you have given me, they now know to have come from you, and that you have imparted to me the teaching, which I have imparted to them. They have received it, knowing for certain, that I came forth from you, and am sent by you. It is for them that I pray. I pray not for the world, but for those whom you have given me; because they are yours. And all mine are yours, and yours mine, and I am glorified in them. I no longer continue in the world; but these continue in the world, and I come to you.

Holy Father, preserve them in your name, whom you have given me, that they may be one, as we are. While I was with them in the world, I kept them in your name; those whom you have given me, I have preserved. None of them are lost, except the son of destruction, as the scripture foretold. But now that I am coming to you, I speak these things in the world, that their joy in me may be complete. I have delivered your word to them, and the world hates them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. I do not pray to remove them out of the world, but to preserve them from the evil one. They are not of the world, as I am not of the world. Make them dedicated (sanctified) to you by the truth; your word is truth. As you have made me your Delegate to the world, I have made them my Delegates to the world. And I make myself holy for them, that they may be made holy through the truth.

20.—I do not pray for these alone, but for those also who shall believe in me through their teaching; that all may be one, that as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, they also may be one in us, that the world may believe that you have sent me; and that you gave me the glory, which I have given them; that they may be one, as we are one; I in them, and you in me, that their union may be completely into one; and that the world may know that you have sent me, and that you love (agape) them, as you love (agape) me. Father, I ask that where I shall be, those whom you have given me may be with me; that they may behold your glory, which you gave me, because you loved (agape) me before the formation of the world. Righteous Father, though the world does not know you, I know you; and these know that I have been sent by you. And to them I have declared, and will declare, your name; that I being in them, they may share in the love (agape) with which you love (agape) me.

Chapter 18 SECTION XI.
The Crucifixion.

XVIII.–WHEN Yeshua had spoken these words, he passed with his disciples over the brook Kidron; where there was a garden, into which he entered, and his disciples. Now Yehuwdah, who betrayed him, knew the place; because Yeshua often turned to it with his disciples. Then Yehuwdah, having got the band (up to 600 soldiers) and officers from the chief priests and the Pharisees, came with lanterns, and torches, and weapons. But Yeshua, who knew all that was coming upon him, went forth, and said to them, Whom do you seek? They answered him, Yeshua the Nazarene. Yeshua replied, I am he. Now Yehuwdah, who betrayed him, was with them. He had no sooner said to them, I am he, than they, going backwards, fell to the ground. He therefore asked them again, Whom do you seek? They said, Yeshua the Nazarene. Yeshua answered, I have told you, that I am he. If, therefore, you seek me, let these go away. So was that which he had spoken was fulfilled, Of those whom you gave me, I have lost none. Then Simon Peter, who had a sword, drew it, and struck the high priest’s slave, and cut off his right ear. Now the slave’s name was Malchus. Yeshua then said to Peter, Put the sword into the scabbard. Shall I not drink the cup, which the Father has given me?

12.–Then the band, and their commander, and the Jewish officers, seized Yeshua; and having bound him, brought him first to Annas, because he was father-in-law to Caiaphas, who was high priest that year. Now it was Caiaphas, who had said in council to the Jews, It is expedient that one man dies for the people.

15.–Meantime Simon (Heb:Shimown ; hearing) Peter (Gk:Petros a piece of rock), and another disciple followed Yeshua. That disciple, was known to the high priest, and entered his court with Yeshua. But Peter stood outside, at the door.–Therefore the other disciple, who was known to the high priest, went out, and spoke to the doorkeeper, and brought in Peter. Then the maid servant, who was the doorkeeper, said to Peter, Are you not also one of this man’s disciples? He answered, I am not. Now the servants and the officers stood near a fire, which they had made, because it was cold, and warmed themselves. And Peter was standing with them, and warming himself.

19.–Then the high priest interrogated Yeshua concerning his disciples and his teaching. Yeshua answered, I spoke openly to the world; I always taught in the synagogues and in the temple, where the Jews always assemble. I said nothing in secret. Why do you examine me? Examine those who heard me teach. They know what I said. When he had spoken this, one of the officers at hand slapped him, and said, Do you answer the high priest this way? Yeshua replied, If I have spoken improperly testify to the wrong ; but if well, why do you hit me? Now Annas sent him bound to Caiaphas, the high priest.

25.–As Peter stood warming himself, they asked him, Are not you also one of his disciples? He denied it, and said, I am not. One of the slaves of the high priest, a kinsman to him whose ear Peter had cut off, said, Did I not see you in the garden with him? Peter denied it again; and immediately the cock crowed.

28.–Then they led Yeshua from the house of Caiaphas to the pretorium (the palace of the governor): it was now morning; but the Jews did not enter the pretorium, so they would not be defiled, and so not be in a condition to eat the Passover. Pilate, went out to them, and said, Of what do you accuse this man? They answered, If he were not a criminal, we would not have delivered him to you. Pilate said, Then take him yourselves, and judge him according to your law. The Jews replied, We are not permitted to put any man to death. This fulfilled what Yeshua had spoken, signifying what death he should die.

33.–Then Pilate returned to the pretorium, and having called Yeshua, said to him, Are you the King of the Jews? Yeshua answered, Do you say this of yourself, or did others tell you concerning me? Pilate replied, Am I a Jew? Your own nation, the chief priests, have delivered you to me. What have you done? Yeshua answered, My kingdom is not of this world. If my kingdom were of this world, my servants would have fought to prevent my falling into the hands of the Jews; but my kingdom is not here. Then Pilate said, You are a King then? Yeshua answered, You say that I am a King. For this I was born; and for this I came into the world, to give testimony to the truth. Whoever is of the truth, listens to me. Pilate asked him, What is truth? and so saying, went out again to the Jews, and said to them, For my part, I find no cause in this man. But since it is customary, that I release to you one at the Passover, do you will that I release to you the King of the Jews? Then they all cried, saying, Not this man, but Barabbas. Now Barabbas was a robber.

Chapter 19

XIX.–Then Pilate had him scourged. And the soldiers crowned him with a crown of thorns, which they had braided; and having thrown a purple cloak about him, said, Hail! King of the Jews! and gave him slaps on the face. Pilate went out again, and said to them, See, I bring him out to you, that you may know that I find in him no fault. Yeshua then went out wearing the crown of thorns and the purple cloak, and Pilate said to them, Behold the man! When the chief priests and the officers saw him, they cried, saying, Crucify, crucify him! Pilate said to them, Take him yourselves, and crucify him; for my part, I find no fault in him. The Jews answered, We have a law, and by that law he ought to die, because he assumed the title of Son of God.

8.–When Pilate heard this, he was more afraid; and having returned to the pretorium, said to Yeshua, Where are you from? But Yeshua gave him no answer. Then Pilate said to him, Will you not speak to me? Do you not know that I have power to crucify you, and power to release you? Yeshua replied, You have no authority against me, unless it was given to you from above; Therefore he, who delivered me to you, has the greater sin. From that time Pilate sought to release him; but the Jews cried out, If you release this man, you are not Caesar’s friend. Whoever calls himself King, opposes Caesar. (Lit:Kaisar; of Latin origin; Caesar, a title of the Roman emperor)

13.–Pilate, on hearing these words, ordered Yeshua to be brought out, and sat down on the tribunal, in a place named The Pavement, in Hebrew, Gabbatha. (Now it was the preparation of the Passover Day, about the sixth hour.) And he said to the Jews, Behold your king. But they cried out, Away, away with him; crucify him. Pilate said to them, Shall I crucify your King? The chief priests answered, We have no King but Caesar. He surrendered him to them, to be crucified.

17.–Then they took Yeshua and led him away. And he carried his cross, and went out to a place called The Place of Skulls, which is in Hebrew, is Golgotha, where they crucified him, and two others with him; one on each side, and Yeshua in the middle. Pilate also wrote a title, and put it on the cross. The words were, YESHUA THE NAZARENE, THE KING OF THE JEWS. (Jews=Gk:Ioudaios, Heb:yadah) And many of the Jews read this title, (for the place, where Yeshua was crucified was near the city,) and it was written in Hebrew, Greek, and Latin: then the chief priests said to Pilate, Do not write The King of the Jews; but Who calls himself King of the Jews. Pilate answered, What I have written, I have written.

23.–When the soldiers had nailed Yeshua to the cross, they took his garment, and divided it into four parts, one to every soldier: they also took the coat, which was seamless, woven from the top throughout; and said, among themselves, Let us not tear it, but determine by lot whose it shall be; by this fulfilling the scripture, which says, “They shared my garments among them, and cast lots for my clothing.” Therefore the soldiers did these things.

25.– There stood now near the cross of Yeshua, his mother, and her sister, Mary the wife of Cleopas, and Mary the Magdalene. Then Yeshua observing his mother, and the disciple whom he loved, standing by, said to his mother, Woman, Lo! your son. Then he said to the disciple, Lo! your mother. And from that hour the disciple took her to his own home.

28.–After this, Yeshua, (knowing that all was now accomplished,) that the scripture might be fulfilled, said, I thirst. As there was a vessel there full of vinegar, they filled a sponge with vinegar, and, having fastened it to a twig of hyssop, held it to his mouth. When Yeshua had received the vinegar, he said, it is finished; and bowing his head, yielded up his spirit.

31.–The Jews, therefore, so that the bodies should not remain on the cross on the Day of Rest, (for it was the preparation, and that Day of Rest was a great day,) sought Pilate that their legs might be broken, and the bodies might be removed. Accordingly, the soldiers came, and broke the legs of the first, and of the other, who were crucified with him. But when they came to Yeshua, and found that he was already dead, and they did not break his legs. But one of the soldiers, with a spear, pierced his side, where blood and water immediately came out. He that saw this was an eye-witness, and his evidence is true. He knows that he speaks the truth, that you may believe. For these things happened, that the scripture might be fulfilled, “None of his bones shall be broken.” Again, the scripture elsewhere says, “They shall look on him whom they have pierced.”

SECTION XII.
The Resurrection.

38.–AFTER this, Yowceph, the Arimathean, who was a disciple of Yeshua, but a concealed disciple for fear of the Jews, asked permission of Pilate to take away the body of Yeshua. Pilate having granted this, he went, and took the body of Yeshua. Nicodemus also, who had formerly gone to Yeshua by night, came, and brought a mixture of myrrh and aloes, weighing about a hundred pounds. (Gk:litra) These men took the body of Yeshua, and wound it in linen bandages, with the spices, which is the Jewish manner of burial. Now, in the place where he was crucified, there was a garden, and in the garden a new tomb, in which no one had ever yet been laid. Because it was the Jewish preparation and the tomb was near they placed Yeshua there.

Chapter 20

XX.–The first day of the week, Mary the Magdalene, went early to the tomb, while it was still dark, and saw that the stone had been removed from the entrance. Then she came running to Simon Peter, and that other disciple whom Yeshua loved (phileo), and said to them, They have taken the Master out of the tomb, and we do not know where they have laid him. Immediately Peter and the other disciple went out to go to the tomb. and both ran together, but the other disciple outran Peter, and came to the tomb first; and stooping down, he saw the linen bandages lying, but did not go in. Then Simon Peter came who followed him, and went into the tomb, where he saw the bandages lying; and the handkerchief which had been wrapped about his head, not laid beside bandages, but folded up in a place by itself. Then the other disciple, who came first to the tomb, entered also; and he saw, and believed the report. For, as yet, they did not understand from the scriptures, that he was to rise from the dead. Then the disciples returned to their companions.

11.–But Mary stood outside, near the tomb, weeping. As she wept, stooping down to look into the tomb, she saw two messengers in white, sitting where the body of Yeshua had lain, one at the head, the other at the feet. And they said to her, Woman, why do you weep? She answered, Because they have taken away my Master, and I do not know where they have laid him. Having said this, she turned about, and saw Yeshua standing, but did not know that it was Yeshua. Yeshua said to her, Woman, why do you weep? Whom do you seek? She, supposing him to be the gardener, answered, Sir, if you have removed him, tell me where you have laid him, and I will take him away. Yeshua said to her, Mary. She turning, said to him, Rabboni; that is Teacher. Yeshua said to her, Do not cling to me, for I have not yet ascended to my Father; but go to my brethren, and say to them, I ascend to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God. Mary, the Magdalene, went and informed the disciples, that she had seen the Master, and that he had spoken these things to her.

19.–In the evening of that day, the first of the week, Yeshua came where the disciples were assembled, (the doors having been shut for fear of the Jews,) and stood in the middle, and said to them, Peace be to you. Having said this, he showed them his hands and his side. The disciples, therefore, rejoiced when they saw it was their Master. Yeshua said again to them, Peace be to you. As the Father has sent me, so do I send you. After these words he breathed on them, and said to them, Receive the Holy Spirit. Those whose sins you remit, are remitted for them; and whose sins you retain, are retained.

24.–Now Thomas, that is, Didymus, one of the twelve, was not with them, when Yeshua came. The other disciples, therefore, said to him, We have seen the Master. But he answered, Unless I see in his hands the print of the nails, and put my finger to the print of the nails, and my hand to his side, I will not believe. Eight days after, the disciples were again in the house, and Thomas was with them, Yeshua came, the doors having been shut, and stood in the middle, and said, Peace be to you. Then turning to Thomas, Reach into your finger, he said, and look at my hands; reach also your hand, and feel my side; and be do not be faithless, but believe. Thomas answered, and said to him, My Lord, and my God! Yeshua replied, Because you see me, you believe: Blessed are they, who, having never seen, shall believe.

30.–Many other miracles Yeshua likewise performed in the presence of his disciples, which are not recorded in this book. But these are recorded, that you may believe that Yeshua is the Anointed, the Son of God; and, that believing, you may have life through his name.

Chapter 21

XXI.–Afterwards, Yeshua again appeared to the disciples, at the sea of Tiberias; and this is the manner in which he appeared. Simon (Heb:Shimown ; hearing) Peter (Gk:Petros a piece of rock) and Thomas, that is, Didymus, Nathaniel of Cana, in Galilee, the sons of Zebedee, and two other disciples of Yeshua, were together, Simon Peter said, I am going fishing. They answered, We will go with you. Immediately they went, and got aboard a boat, but that night they caught nothing. In the morning Yeshua stood on the shore; the disciples, however, did not know that it was Yeshua. Yeshua said to them, Young children, do have you any food? They answered, No. Cast the net, he said, on the right side of the boat, and you will find. They did so, but were not able to draw it in, by reason of the multitude of fish. Then that disciple whom Yeshua loved (agape), said to Peter, It is the Master. Simon Peter, hearing that it was the Master, put on his outer garment (for he was naked) and threw himself into the sea. But the other disciples came in the boat, (for they were not far from land than about two hundred cubits, perhaps 300 feet) dragging the net with the fishes. When they came ashore, they saw a fire burning, and fish laid on it, and bread. Yeshua said to them, Bring some the fishes which you have now taken. Simon Peter went back, and drew the net to land, full of large fishes, a hundred and fifty-three; and the net was not torn, even with such a number. Yeshua said to them, Come and dine. Meantime none of the disciples ventured to ask him, Who are you? knowing that it was the Master. Yeshua drew near, and taking bread and fish, distributed among them. This is the third time that Yeshua appeared to his disciples, after his resurrection.

15.–When they had dined, Yeshua said to Simon Peter, Simon, son of Jonas, Do you love (agape) me more than these? He answered, Yes, Lord, you know that I love (phileo) you. Yeshua replied, Feed my lambs. A second time he said, Simon, son of Jonas, do you love (agape) me? He answered, Yes, Lord, you know that I love (phileo) you. Yeshua replied, Tend my sheep. A third time he said, Simon, son of Jonas, do you love (phileo) me? Peter, grieved at his asking this question a third time, answered, Lord, you know all things; you know that I love (phileo) you. Yeshua replied, Feed my sheep. Amen, Amen (truth), I say to you, in your youth you bound yourself, and went where you wanted; but in your old age, you shall stretch out your hands, and another will bind you, and carry you where you do not want to. This he spoke, signifying by what death he should glorify God. After these words he said to them, Follow me.

20.–And Peter turning about, saw the disciple, whom Yeshua loved, following, (the same who, leaning on his chest at the supper, had asked who it was, that would betray him.) Peter seeing him, said to Yeshua, And what, Lord, shall become of this man? Yeshua answered, If I will that he remains until my return, what is that to you? Follow me. A rumor spread among the brethren, that that disciple should not die; nevertheless Yeshua did not say that he should not die; but, If I will, that he remains until my return, what is that to you? 24.–This is that disciple, who witnessed these things, and wrote this account; and we know that his testimony is true. There were many other things also performed by Yeshua, which if were they to be all recorded, I imagine, the world itself could not contain the volumes that would be written.

THETESTIMONYOFYOHANAN,THE DELEGATE.

SECTION I.The Testimony of Yohanan the Immerser.

SECTION II.The Entrance on the Ministry.

Chapter 4

SECTION III.The Journey to Galilee.

Chapter 5

SECTION IV.The Cure at Bethesda.

Chapter 6

SECTION V.The People twice fed in the Desert.

SECTION VI.The Feast of Tabernacles.

Chapter 9

SECTION VII.The Cure of the Man born Blind.

Chapter 11

SECTION VIII.Lazarus raised from the Dead.

SECTION IX.The Entry into Yerushalem.

SECTION X.Consolation to the Disciples.

Chapter 18

SECTION XI.The Crucifixion.

SECTION XII.The Resurrection.

THE
TESTIMONY
OF
YOHANAN,
THE DELEGATE.

SECTION I.
The Testimony of Yohanan the Immerser.

SECTION II.
The Entrance on the Ministry.

SECTION III.
The Journey to Galilee.

SECTION IV.
The Cure at Bethesda.

SECTION V.
The People twice fed in the Desert.

SECTION VI.
The Feast of Tabernacles.

SECTION VII.
The Cure of the Man born Blind.

SECTION VIII.
Lazarus raised from the Dead.

SECTION IX.
The Entry into Yerushalem.

SECTION X.
Consolation to the Disciples.

SECTION XI.
The Crucifixion.

SECTION XII.
The Resurrection.