John.
John 1.
1 The word’s in the beginning. The word’s with God. The word is God.
2 He’s in the beginning with God. 3 Everything came to be through him.
Nothing that exists came to be without him. 4 What came to be through him, was life.
Life’s the light of humanity. 5 Light shines in darkness, and darkness can’t get hold of it.
6 A person came who’d been sent by God, named John, 7 who came to testify.
When he testified about the light, everyone might believe because of him.
8 He wasn’t the light, but he’d testify about the light.
9 The actual light, who lights every person, was coming into the world.
10 He’s in the world, and the world came to be through him.
Yet the world doesn’t know him.
11 He came to his own people, and his own people don’t accept him;
12 of those who do accept him, those who put faith in his name,
he gives them power to become God’s children.
13 Not by blood, nor bodily will, nor a man’s will, but generated by God.
14 The word was made flesh. He encamped with us.
We got a good look at his significance—
the significance of a father’s only son—filled with grace and truth.
15 John testifies about him, saying as he called out, “This is the one I spoke of!
‘The one coming after me has got in front of me’—because he’s first.”
16 All of us received things out of his fullness. Grace after grace:
17 The Law which Moses gave; the grace and truth which Christ Jesus became.
18 Nobody’s ever seen God.
The only Son, God who’s in the Father’s womb, he explains God.
19 This is John’s testimony when the Judeans sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem
so they could ask him, “Who are you?”
20 He conferred with them, and didn’t refuse to answer: “I’m not Messiah.”
21 They questioned John: “Then what? Are you Elijah?” He said, “I’m not.”
“Are you the Prophet?” He answered, “No.”
22 So they told him, “Then what?—so we can give an answer to those who sent us.
What do you say about yourself?”
23 John said, “I’m the voice shouting in the wilderness, ‘Straighten the Master’s road!’ Is 40.3
like the prophet Isaiah said.”
24 These people had been sent by the Pharisees.
25 Questioning John, they told him, “So why do you baptize,
if you’re neither Messiah nor Elijah nor Prophet?”
26 Answering them, John said, “I baptize in water.
In the midst of you stands someone you don’t know, 27 who comes after me.
I’m not worthy to loose his sandal strap.”
28 This happened at Bethany-beyond-the-Jordan, where John was baptizing.
29 The next day John saw Jesus coming to him.
He said, “Look: God’s ram, taking up the world’s sin! 30 This is the one I spoke of!
‘The one coming after me has got in front of me’—because he’s first over me. Jn 1.15
31 And I hadn’t seen him! But I came baptizing in water so he’d be revealed to Israel.”
32 John testified, saying this: “I’ve seen the Spirit,
descending like a pigeon from the sky, and staying on him.
33 And I hadn’t seen him, but he who sent me to baptize in water
—yes, him—told me, “On whomever you see the Spirit come down and stay on,
that’s who baptizes with the Holy Spirit.’
34 And I’ve seen. I testify: This is God’s son.”
35 Next day, John was again standing with two of his students.
36 Watching Jesus walk, he said, “Look: God’s ram.”
37 His two students heard what he was saying, and followed Jesus.
38 Jesus, turning round, watching them follow, told them, “Whom do you seek?”
They told him, “Rabbi,” (i.e. teacher) “where are you staying?” 39 He told them, “Come look.”
So they came, saw where he was staying, and stayed with him that day.
It was the tenth hour after sunrise.
40 Andrew is Simon Peter’s brother.
He was one of the two who heard John, and followed Jesus.
41 First he found his brother Simon and told him, “We’ve found Messiah!” (i.e. anointed king).
42 He brought Simon to Jesus.
Looking at him, Jesus said, “You’re Simon bar John.
You’ll be called Kifa” (i.e. Rock/Peter).
43 Next day, Jesus wanted to go to the Galilee, found Philip, and told him, “Follow me.”
44 Philip was from Beit Sayid, Andrew and Peter’s town.
45 Philip found Nathanael and told him, “The one written of by Moses in the Law, by the Prophets—
we’ve found him! He’s Jesus bar Joseph, from Nazareth.”
46 Nathanael told him, “From Nazareth? Can he be any good?”
Philip told him, “Come see.”
47 Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and said about him, “Look!
An Israeli who’s truly without trickery!” 48 Nathanael told him, “How do you know me?”
In reply Jesus told him, “Before Philip went to call you, I saw you standing under the fig tree.”
49 Nathanael told him, “Rabbi, you’re God’s son. You’re Israel’s king.”
50 In reply Jesus told him, “Since I told you I saw you beneath the fig tree, you believe me?
Oh, you’ll see greater than that.”
51 Jesus told him, “Amen amen! I promise you all, you’ll see the skies have opened,
and God’s angels are coming and going before the Son of Man.”
John 2.
1 For three days there was a wedding-feast in Cana, in the Galilee. Jesus’s mother was there.
2 Jesus was invited to the wedding-feast, as were his students.
3 Since the wine was late in coming, Jesus’s mother told him, “They have no wine.”
4 Jesus told her, “What’s that to me and you, ma’am? My time isn’t come.”
5 His mother told the servers, “Do whatever he tells you.”
6 There were six stone barrels placed there for Jewish ritual cleansing.
each containing about two or three buckets’ of liquid.
7 Jesus told them, “Fill the barrels with water,” and they filled them till full.
8 He told them, “Now ladle and bring some to the wedding-planner,” and they brought it to him.
9 As the wedding-planner tasted the water, it’d become wine.
He hadn’t known where it was. The servants, who ladled the water, had known.
The wedding-planner called the bridegroom 10 and told him, “Everyone first puts out the good wine.
Once people get drunk, the lesser wine. You kept the good wine till now?”
11 Jesus did this, the first of his signs, in Cana in the Galilee.
He revealed his glory, and his students believed in him.
12 After this, Jesus went down to Kfar Nahum with his mother, his siblings, and his students.
They stayed there—not many days; 13 it was nearly the Judeans’ Passover.
Jesus went up to Jerusalem, 14 and in temple he found cattle-, sheep-, and pigeon-sellers,
and coin-changers taking up residence.
15 Making a whip out of ropes, Jesus threw everyone, plus sheep and cattle, out of temple.
He poured out the money-changers’ coins, and flipped over the tables.
16 He told the pigeon-sellers, “Get these things out of here!
Don’t make my Father’s house a market-house!”
17 His students were reminded it’s written,
“The zeal of your house will eat me up.” Ps 69.9
18 So in reply, the Judeans told Jesus, “What sign are you showing us so you can do this?”
19 In reply Jesus told them, “Break down this shrine. In three days I’ll re-raise it.”
20 So the Judeans said, “This shrine took 46 years to build, and in three days you’ll re-raise it?”
21 Jesus was speaking about the shrine of his body.
22 So when Jesus was raised from the dead, his students remembered he said this.
They believed the scriptures, and the word Jesus said.
23 When Jesus was in Jerusalem at Passover for the feast,
many believed in his name, having seen the miraculous signs he did.
24 But Jesus himself didn’t believe them. He knew them all.
He had no need for anyone to testify about these people. He knows what’s in people.
John 3.
1 A person named Nicodemus, a Judean senator, was sent by the Pharisees.
2 Nicodemus came one night to speak to Jesus, and told him,
“Rabbi, we’ve known you were sent from God as a teacher.
When God isn’t with them, nobody’s able to do these miraculous signs you do.”
3 In reply Jesus told him, “Amen amen, I promise you:
When anyone’s not re-generated, they can’t see God’s kingdom.”
4 Nicodemus told him, “How can an old man be generated?
They can’t enter their mother’s womb to be generated a second time.”
5 Jesus answered, “Amen amen, I promise you:
When anyone’s not generated by ‘water’ and Spirit, they can’t go into God’s kingdom.
6 What’s generated by flesh is flesh. What’s generated by the Spirit is spirit.
7 Don’t be confused by my telling you, ‘It’s necessary for you to be re-generated.’
8 The Spirit breathes where he wants. You hear his voice, but don’t know how he comes and goes.
Likewise with everything generated by the Spirit.”
9 In reply Nicodemus told him, “How are these people able to be generated?”
10 In reply Jesus told him, “You’re Israel’s teacher, and you don’t already know this?”
11 Amen amen: I promise you we know what we’re talking about.
We saw what we’re testifying about—and none of you accept our witness.
12 If people won’t believe it when I tell you of earthly things,
how will you believe it when I tell people of heavenly things?
13 Nobody’s gone up to heaven but the one who came down from heaven:
The Son of Man.” [Who’s in heaven.]
14 “The Son of Man has to be lifted up, just like Moses lifted up the snake in the wilderness,
15 so all who trust in him might have life—
in the age to come, 16 for God likewise loves the world.
Therefore he gave his only-begotten Son, so all who trust him might not be destroyed.
Instead they might have life in the age to come.
17 God didn’t send the Son into the world so he could judge the world,
but so, through the Son, he’d save the world.
18 Those who trust the Son aren’t judged.
Non-believers are judged already: They don’t trust the only-begotten Son of God’s name.
19 This is the judgment: The light’s come into the world.
Yet people love the dark more than the light, for their actions are evil.
20 Every evildoer hates the light, and won’t come to the light lest their actions come into question.
21 Truth-doers come to the light, so he might reveal their actions had been done in God.”
22 After these things, Jesus and his students went elsewhere in the Judean province.
They stayed there with the people, and were baptizing.
23 John was also baptizing in Aenon-by-Salím:
Lots of water was there, and people came and were baptized.
24 John had not yet been thrown into prison.
25 So a debate about ritual cleansing arose among John’s students and a Judean.
26 They went to John and told him, “Rabbi, ‘the one who comes after you,’ Jn 1.15
whom you testified about beyond the Jordan: Look, he’s baptizing.
And everyone is coming to him.”
27 In reply John said, “If it wasn’t given to him from heaven,
this person can’t take a single thing.
28 You yourselves heard me testify: I said I’m not Messiah.
Instead I’m the one who’d been sent ahead of him.
Jn 3.29:
Joy.
29 The groom’s the one with the bride.
The groom’s friend, joyfully standing and listening, rejoices at the groom’s voice.
So this joy of mine is full:
30 He has to grow—and I, shrink.
31 The one who came from above is above everything.
The one from earth is from earth. He speaks from earth.
The one who came from heaven is above everything;
32 is the one who sees and hears the things he testifies about.
Nobody accepts his testimony.
33 The one who accepts his testimony, confirms God is true.
34 For he whom God sent, speaks God’s words. He gives the Spirit without limit.
35 The Father loves the Son and has put everything in his hand.
36 One who believes in the Son has life in the next age.
One who disobeys the Son won’t see life. God’s wrath stays on them.”
John 4.
1 Once Jesus knew the Pharisees heard, “Jesus has many students and baptizes, like John”—
2 though Jesus himself wasn’t baptizing; his students were—
3 he left Judea behind and went to the Galilee again.
4 He needed to pass through Samaria.
5 Hence he came a Samaritan town called Sykhár,
near the field Jacob gave his son Joseph. 6 Jacob’s Well is there.
Jesus, tired from walking the road, was sitting there by the well the sixth hour after sunrise.
7 A Samaritan woman came to draw water.
Jesus told her, “Give me a drink,”
8 for his students had gone into town so they could buy food.
9 The Samaritan woman told him, “How can you be near me, Judean? I’m a Samaritan woman.
You ask me for a drink?—Judeans have no use for Samaritans.”
10 In reply Jesus told her, “If you knew God’s gift, who’s telling you ‘Give me a drink,’
maybe you’d ask him, and maybe he’d give you living water.”
11 The woman told Jesus, “You don’t have a bucket, sir.
The well’s deep. How do you have living water?
12 You’re no greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well.
He drank from it himself, along with his children and animals.”
13 In reply Jesus told her, “All who drink this water will be thirsty again.
14 Whoever would drink the water I give them, won’t be thirsty in the age to come.
Instead, the water I give them will become a water spring within them,
bubbling up into eternal life.”
15 The woman told Jesus, “Sir, give me this water,
so I wouldn’t be thirsty and needn’t come through here to draw water.”
16 Jesus told the Samaritan, “Go call your man and come back here.”
17 In reply the woman told him, “I don’t have a man.”
Jesus told her, “Well said, ‘I don’t have a man’—
18 You had five men, and the one you now have isn’t your man. You spoke the truth.”
19 The woman told Jesus, “Master, I see you’re a prophet.
20 Our ancestors worshiped on this hill.
You say Jerusalem is the place where worship must be done.”
21 Jesus told the Samaritan, “Trust me, ma’am:
The time’s come when you’ll worship the Father neither on this hill, nor Jerusalem.
22 You worship One whom you haven’t known.
We worship One whom we know: Salvation comes from Jews.
23 But the time’s come—it’s now!—when true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth.
The Father seeks such people to worship him.
24 God is spirit, and must be worshiped by his worshipers in spirit and truth.”
25 The woman told Jesus, “I know Messiah comes, who’s called Christ.
Whenever he comes, he’ll explain everything to us.”
26 Jesus told her, “I am the one speaking to you.”
27 At this point, Jesus’s students came back.
They were wondering why he was speaking with a woman.
Yet nobody said, “What’re you asking?” or “Why are you speaking with her?”
28 So the Samaritan left her jar and went back into the town.
She told the people, “Come see a person who told me everything I’ve done!
It’s not Christ, is it?”
30 They came out of the town, and were coming to him.
31 The students were saying, between questions, “Rabbi, eat.”
32 Jesus told them, “You don’t realize I have food to eat.”
33 So the students asked one another, “Nobody brought him food, right?”
34 Jesus told them, “My food is I can do my Sender’s will, and finish his work.
35 Don’t you say, ‘The harvest is coming in four more months’?
Look, I tell you. Raise your eyes and see the land. It’s white with harvest.
36 Reapers are already earning their pay, and gather fruit
for life in the age to come, where planters can rejoice together with harvesters.
37 Hence the saying is true: ‘One is the planter; another is the harvester.’
38 I sent you to harvest where you hadn’t worked.
Another had worked. And you entered into their work.”
39 Many Samaritans from that town believed in Jesus
due to the message the woman shared: “He told me everything I’ve done.” Jn 4.28
40 The Samaritans came to Jesus, asking him to stay with them.
He stayed there two days, 41 and many more believed because of his message.
42 They told the woman, “We no longer believe because of your say-so; we’ve heard him.
We realize this is truly the Christ, the one who saves the world.”
43 After the two days, Jesus left Samaria for the Galilee,
44 for Jesus himself testified that in their own homeland, prophets have no value.
45 So when Jesus came to the Galilee, the Galileans received him.
They’d seen all he did in Jerusalem at the festival, for they also went to the festival.
46 He went to Cana, Galilee, where he made the water wine, again.
There was a certain prince. His son fell ill in Kfar Nahum.
47 When this prince heard Jesus came to the Galilee out of Judea, he went to Jesus
and asked whether Jesus would come down there and heal his son, who was about to die.
48 So Jesus told him, “If there are no signs and wonders you people can see, you can’t believe.”
49 The prince told him, “Sir, come down before my child is dead!”
50 Jesus told him, “Off you go. Your son lives.”
The prince trusted the message which Jesus told him, and went.
51 Now before the prince went back down, his slaves came to meet him, saying that his child lived.
52 So the prince asked them what hour the boy had recovered.
So the slaves told him this: “Yesterday, the seventh hour after sunrise, the fever left him.”
53 So the father knew this was the hour when Jesus told him, “Your son lives.” Jn 4.50
He believed—he and his whole house.
54 Jesus did this second sign after he came out of Judea to the Galilee.
John 5.
1 After these things Jesus went up to Jerusalem for a Jewish festival.
2 There’s a pool with five shaded areas by Jerusalem’s Sheep Gate, called Beit Eshdáthayin in Aramaic.
3 By it lie a large number of sickly, blind, injured, or disabled people.
[They wait for the water to move,
4 for sometimes an angel came down to the pool and stirred the water.
Whenever the water stirred, the first in got better from whatever ailment they had.]
5 There was a certain person who’d been sickly 38 years. 6 Jesus saw him laying there.
He knew he’d been there a long time, and told him, “You want to get better?”
7 The sickly man answered him, “Master, whenever the water gets stirred up,
I have nobody who could throw me in the pool. I get into it; others go in before me.”
8 Jesus told him, “Get up. Pick up your cot and walk.”
9 Next, the person got better, took up his cot, and walked.
This day was Sabbath, 10 so the Judeans were telling the healed man:
“It’s Sabbath! You’re not allowed to carry your cot.”
11 He answered them, “The one who made me better told me, ‘Pick up your cot and walk.’ ”
12 They asked, “Which person told you, ‘Pick up and walk’?”
13 The healed man hadn’t known who he was—
in that place, Jesus had his face turned to the crowd.
14 Later Jesus found him in temple, and told him, “Look! You got better.
Sin no more: Worse things could happen.”
15 The person left, and reported to the Judeans, “Jesus is the one who made me better.”
16 The Judeans were hassling Jesus for this reason: He worked on Sabbath.
17 Jesus answered them, “My Father works today, just like I work.”
18 So the Judeans all the more wanted him dead for this reason:
Not only was he dismissing Sabbath custom,
but he said God was his own Father, making himself equal to God.
19 So in reply Jesus also told them, “Amen amen!
I promise you the Son can’t work anything by himself unless he sees the Father working.
For the Father might do anything, and the Son will do likewise,
20 for the Father cares for the Son, and shows him everything he does.
The Father’ll show him greater works—so you might be astounded!—
21 for just as the Father raises the dead and creates life,
so also the Son creates life in whomever he wants.
22 For the Father doesn’t judge anyone: Instead all the judgment was given to the Son,
23 so everyone might respect the Son like they respect the Father.
Disrespecting the Son disrespects the Father, his sender.
24 Amen amen! I promise you the hearers of my word, the believers in my sender,
have life in the next age and don’t come into judgment.
Instead they passed over: Out of death, into life.
25 Amen amen! I promise you the hour’s come:
Now is when the dead will hear the Son of God’s voice, and the hearers will live.
26 For just as the Father has life in himself, so also he gives life to the Son, to have in himself.
27 The Father gave him authority to make judgment, because he’s the Son of Man.
28 Oh, don’t be astounded at this: The hour is come!
In it, everyone in the tombs hears the Son’s voice 29 and will come out!
Those who did good enter the resurrection of life.
Those who achieved irrelevant things enter the resurrection of judgment.
30 I can’t do anything by myself. I judge as I hear, and my judgment is right:
I don’t seek my own will, but the will of my sender.
31 “When I testify about myself, my testimony ‘isn’t valid’:
32 The one who testifies about me must be another person.
Fine. I know a witness who is valid, who testified about me:
33 You sent for John, and he answered truthfully.
34 I don’t accept testimony from people, but I say this so you can be saved:
35 John’s a burning, shining lamp, and you wanted to rejoice in his light for an hour.
36 I have a greater witness than John: The works the Father gave me so I’d complete them.
These works I do testify about me that the Father sent me.
37 The Father who sent me: He testified about me.
You’d never heard his voice, nor heard his form, before.
38 You don’t have his word living in you.
He sent it to you, and you don’t trust it.
39 Study the scriptures! You expect life in the age to come to be there?
They’re a witness about me— 40 and you don’t want to come to me so you can have life.
41 I don’t accept people’s opinion, 42 because I know you:
You don’t have God’s love in yourselves.
43 I came in my Father’s name, and you don’t accept me.
Yet whenever some other person comes in their own name, you’ll accept them.
44 How can you trust me?—you who accept the opinions of one another,
and never seek the opinions which come from God alone.
45 Don’t assume I’m the plaintiff against you before the Father.
Your plaintiff is Moses, in whom you put your hope.
46 For if you trust Moses, you should trust me: He wrote about me!
47 If you don’t trust what Moses wrote, how’ll you trust my words?”
John 6.
59 Jesus said this while teaching in the Kfar Nahum synagogue.
60 All his listening students said, “This teaching is hardcore. Can anyone heed it?”
61 Jesus, realizing his students were whispering to one another about this,
told them, “Does this freak out out?
62 Suppose you see the Son of Man ascend to where he previously was?
63 Spirit’s what makes you alive. Flesh doesn’t help you any.
The things I’m telling you are spirit. They’re life. 64 But some of you won’t believe it.”
For Jesus knew from the start there are unbelievers—
and a certain one will be turning him in.
65 He said, “This is why I’ve told you this: Nobody can come to me
when they’d not been given me by the Father.”
66 From this, many of his students went back to where they came from.
They were no longer walking with him.
67 So Jesus told the Twelve, “Don’t you also want to go?”
68 Simon Peter answered him, “Master, to whom would we go?
You have the words of life in the age to come,
69 and we believed and knew: You’re God’s saint.”
John 7.
30 So they were trying to arrest him.
But nobody laid a hand on him, for his time hadn’t yet come.
53 [Each of them went to their own house,]
John 8.
1 [and Jesus went to Mount Olivet.
2 Early in the morning, Jesus went to temple again.
The people were all coming to him, and he was teaching them as he sat.
3 Scribes and Pharisees brought Jesus a woman who’d been caught in adultery.
They stood her in the middle 4and told Jesus, “Teacher:
This woman has been caught in the act of adultering.
5 In our Law, Moses commanded us to stone such people. So what do you say?”
6 They said this to test Jesus, so they could have an accusation on him.
Stooping, Jesus wrote on the ground with his finger 7 as they continued to question him.
Then Jesus stood and told them, “Whoever’s not sinned among you: Throw the first stone at her.”
8 Again Jesus bent down to write on the ground.
9 One by one Jesus’s listeners, convicted by their consciences, left, beginning with the elders.
Only Jesus and the woman in the middle were left.
10 Standing, seeing no one but the woman,
Jesus told her, “Woman, where are they? No one condemned you?”
11 She said, “No one, master.”
Jesus told her, “I don’t condemn you either. Go home. From now on, don’t sin.”]
12 So Jesus spoke to them again, saying: “I’m the world’s light.
My followers shouldn’t walk in the dark. Instead they’ll have life’s light.”
13 So the Pharisees told Jesus, “You testify about yourself. Your testimony isn’t valid.”
20 He spoke these messages in the treasury while teaching in temple.
Nobody arrested him: His time hadn’t yet come.
43 “How come you can’t recognize my speech? You aren’t able to hear my message!
44 You’re from your father—the devil. You want to do what your father desires.
From the beginning, it’s been into manslaughter. It doesn’t stand in the truth; truth isn’t in it.
Whenever it speaks lies, it speaks its own language. Lying is also its father.
45 Because I tell the truth, you don’t believe me. 46 Who among you accuses me of sin?
If I tell the truth, how come you don’t believe me? 47 The one from God, hears God’s words.
For this reason you don’t hear me: You aren’t from God.”
John 9.
35 Jesus heard they’d thrown him out of synagogue.
Finding him, he said, “You believe in the Son of Man?”
36 In reply this man said, “And who’s he, master?—so I can believe in him.”
37 Jesus told him, “You’ve even seen him: He’s the one speaking with you.”
38 He agreed, “I believe, Master!” and worshiped him.
39 Jesus said, “I came into this world to provoke judgment.
Thus those who can’t see may see—and those who see may become blind.”
40 Some of the Pharisees with Jesus heard this and told him, “Surely we’re not also blind?”
41 Jesus told them, “If you’re blind, you didn’t sin!
But now you say ‘We see!’—so your sin stays on you.”
John 10.
7B “Amen amen! I promise you I’m the sheep-gate.
8 Everybody who climbs in over me is a thief and predator—
but the flock won’t listen to them.
9 I’m the gate. When anyone enters through me, they’ll be saved.
They’ll enter, they’ll exit, they’ll find pasture.
10 The thief doesn’t enter other than to steal, murder, and destroy.
I came so they can have life—and have more than they ever expected.”
14 “I’m the good shepherd. I know my own, and my own know me,
15 just as my Father knows me, and I know the Father. I prioritize my life for the sheep.
16 I have other sheep who aren’t from this pen. I have to bring them here too.
They’ll hear my voice and become one flock, with one shepherd.
17 This is why the Father loves me: I put down my life so I can pick it up again.
18 Nobody takes it away from me; I put it down on my own.
I have the power to put it down, and the power to pick it up again.
I received this commission from my Father.”
24 The Judeans encircled Jesus and told him, “How long will you leave us hanging?
If you’re Messiah, tell us boldly.”
25 Jesus answered them, “I told you. You don’t believe me.
I testified about myself in these works I do in my Father’s name, 26 but you don’t believe me.
You’re not my sheep. 27 My sheep listen to my voice. I know them. They follow me.
28 I give them eternal life. They’ll never die in the age to come.
No one will snatch them from my hand. 29 My Father, who gave them to me, is greater than anyone.
Nobody can snatch them from the Father’s hand. 30 I and the Father are one.”
31 Again the Judeans picked up rocks to stone him with.
32 Jesus answered them, “I showed you many good works from my Father.
Which one of them are you going to stone me for?
33 The Judeans answered him, “We’re not stoning you for good works, but slander.
You’re a human, who makes yourself God!”
34 Jesus answered them, “Isn’t it written in your Law, ‘I say you’re gods’? Ps 82.6
35 If God called these people who received God’s word ‘gods,’ the scriptures can’t be undone.
36 He whom the Father set apart and sent into the world—you call him a slanderer.
For I said I’m God’s son. 37 If I don’t do my Father’s works, don’t believe me!
38 And if I do… Even if you don’t believe me, believe the works!
This way you’ll know and understand the Father’s in me, and I’m in the Father.”
John 11.
23 Jesus told her, “Your brother will rise again.”
24 Martha told him, “I know he’ll rise again in the resurrection, on the last day.”
25 Jesus told her, “I’m the resurrection. And life: Believers in me might die, but later they’ll live.
26 Everybody who lives and believes in me: They can never die in the age to come.
Do you believe this?” 27 Martha told Jesus, “Yes Master.
I’ve believed you’re Messiah, God’s Son, who came into the world.”
41 So they lifted up the stone, and Jesus lifted up his eyes.
He said, “Father, thank you for hearing me. 42 I know; you always hear me.
But I say this because of the crowd around, so they’d believe you sent me.”
John 12.
37 Though Jesus performed so many miracles in front of them, they wouldn’t trust in him.
38 Thus, the word of the prophet Isaiah could be fulfilled, which said,
“Lord, who trusts our news? To whom was shown the Lord’s arm?” Is 53.1
39 This is why weren’t able to trust: Isaiah again said,
40 “God blinded their eyes and hardened their minds,
so they couldn’t see with their eyes and think it out with their minds,
and repent, and he would cure them. Is 6.10
John 13.
“This is how everybody will know you’re my students:
When you have love for one another.”
John 14.
13 You can ask whatever in my name. I’ll do it so, in the Son, the Father can be thought well of.
14 When what you ask me is in my name, I’ll do it.”
21 “Those who have my commands and keep them: These are the ones who love me.
Those who love me will be loved by my Father, and I’ll love them. I’ll show myself to them.”
25 “While I’m with you I’ve told you these things.
26 The adviser, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name:
He’ll teach you everything.
He’ll remind you of everything I told you.”
John 15.
1 “I’m the true grapevine. My Father’s the gardener.
2 He lifts off the ground my every branch which doesn’t bear fruit.
He prunes every branch which does, so it can bear even more fruit.
3 You’ve already been trimmed by the message I gave you:
4 Stay in me, and I in you,
like a branch which can’t bear fruit all by itself when it doesn’t stay in the grapevine.
When you don’t stay in me, you never produce.
5 I’m the grapevine. You’re the branches.
Those who stay in me, and I in them, produce a lot of fruit.
You can’t do anything apart from me.
6 When anyone won’t stay in me, they’re thrown out like a branch:
They wither, are gathered up, tossed into fire, and burned.
7 When you stay in me and my words stay in you,
whenever you want, ask! It’ll happen for you.
8 My Father is glorified by it when you produce a lot of fruit,
and become my students.”
12 “This is my command, so you may love one another like I love you.
13 Nothing has greater love than this: One prioritizes their life for their friends.
14 You’re my friends when you do as I command you.
15 I no longer say you’re slaves, since a slave never knows what their master is doing.
I say you’re friends, since I’ve explained to you everything I heard from my Father.
16 It’s not you choosing me, but me choosing you,
appointing you so you’d go off and produce fruit, and your fruit would last—
so whenever anyone asks the Father in my name, he could give it to you.
17 This is my command, so you may love one another.”
John 16.
Jn 16.20-22:
Joy.
20 “Amen amen! I promise you: You’ll all weep and mourn—and the world will rejoice.
You’ll all grieve. But your grief will turn to joy!
21 It’s like a woman giving birth. She has grief because her time’s come.
When she gives birth to the child, she no longer remembers the tribulation,
because of joy: A person was born into the world!
22 You all have grief now. I’ll see you again—and your hearts will rejoice,
and nobody will take your joy from you.”
24 “Till now you’ve never asked anything in my name.
Ask!—and you’ll receive, so your joy can be fulfilled.”
John 17.
20 “I don’t request only for these students, but for all who believe in me through their word,
21 so they all can be one, like you in me, Father, and I in you—so the world can believe you sent me.
22 I gave them the honor you gave me, so they can be one like we’re one.
23 I in them and you in me, so they can be perfect as one—
so the world can know you sent me, and love them like you love me.
24 Father, those you gave me: I want to be where they are, and they with me,
so they can see my honor you gave me. For you loved me before the world’s foundation.”
John 18.
1 When he said this, Jesus with his students went over the Kidron ravine,
where there was a garden. He and his students entered it.
2 Judas Iscariot, who was selling him out, had known of the place,
because Jesus often gathered there with his students.
3 So Judas, bringing 200 men, plus servants of the head priests and Pharisees,
came there with torches, lamps… and arms.
4 Jesus, who’d known everything that was coming to him,
came forward and told them, “Whom are you seeking?”
5 They replied, “Jesus the Nazarene.”
He told them, “I’m him.”
Judas, who was turning him in, stood with them.
6 When Jesus told them, “I’m him,” they went backward and fell to the ground.
7 So he asked them again, “Whom are you seeking?”
They said, “Jesus the Nazarene.”
8 Jesus replied, “I tell you, I’m him.
So if you’re seeking me, let these others go away.”
9 Thus fulfilling his word which said,
“Those you gave me: I lost none of them.” Jn 17.12
10 Simon Peter, having a machete, drew it and struck the head priest’s slave;
he sliced off his right ear. The slave’s name was Malchus.
11 So Jesus told Peter, “Sheath your machete.
This is the cup the Father gave me. Shouldn’t I drink it?”
12 So the 200 men, the general, and the Judean servants arrested Jesus and tied him up.
13 They brought Jesus to Annas first:
Annas was the father-in-law of Joseph Caiaphas, who was head priest that term.
14 Caiaphas had advised the Judeans, “Best that one person die for the people.” Jn 11.50
15 Simon Peter and another student followed Jesus.
That student was known by the head priest.
He went in, with Jesus, to the head priest’s courtyard. 16 Peter stood at the door outside.
So the other student, known to the head priest, came out and spoke to the doorman, who brought Peter in.
17 The doorman, a slavewoman, told Peter, “Aren’t you also one of this person’s students?”
Peter said, “I’m not.”
18 The slaves and servants stationed there had made a charcoal fire; it was cold.
They warmed themselves. Peter was also with them, standing and warming.
19 So the head priest Annas asked Jesus about his students and teaching.
20 Jesus answered him, “I boldly spoke to the world.
I always taught in synagogue and in temple, where every Judean gathered.
I said nothing in private, 21 so why do you ask me?
Ask the listeners whom I spoke to. Look, they know what I said.”
22 Once he said these things, one of the bystanding underlings gave Jesus a slap,
saying, “You answer the head priest this way?”
23 Jesus answered him, “If I speak evil, testify about the evil. If I speak good, why rough me up?”
24 So Annas sent Jesus, still tied up, to the head priest Caiaphas.
25 Simon Peter was standing and warming.
They told him, “Aren’t you also one of his students?”
He denied it and said, “I’m not.”
26 One of the head priest’s slaves, a relative of Malchus whose ear Peter cut off,
said, “Didn’t I see you in the garden with him?”
27 Again Peter denied it. And immediately a rooster crowed.
28 So they brought Jesus from Joseph Kahiáfa to the pretorium. It was morning.
They didn’t enter the pretorium, lest they be defiled instead of eating Passover.
29 So Pontius Pilate came outside to them.
He said, “You bring me a certain accusation against this person.”
30 In reply they told him, “We’d never hand him over to you unless he were an evildoer.”
31 Pilate told them, “Take him yourself. Judge him by your Law.”
The Judeans told him, “We’re not allowed to kill anyone.”
32 Thus Jesus’s word could be fulfilled—
which he said to signify which kind of death he was about to die.
33 Pilate entered the Praetorium again, called Jesus, and told him, “You’re the king of Judea?”
34 Jesus replied, “You say this on your own? Or did others tell you about me?”
35 Pilate replied, “Do I look Judean to you?
Your nation and head priests handed you over to me. What did you do?”
36 Jesus replied, “My kingdom’s not from this world.
If my kingdom’s from this world, my servants would fight lest I be handed over to the Judeans.
Now, my kingdom doesn’t exist yet.”
37 So Pilate told him, “Therefore you’re not a king.”
Jesus replied, “You say so because I am a king.
I was born into it. I came into the world into it. Thus I can testify to truth.
Everybody who’s of the truth hears my voice.”
38 Pilate told him, “What’s ‘truth’?”
On saying this, he went out again to the Judeans and told them, “I find nothing of guilt in him.”
John 19.
17 Carrying his own cross, they came to what’s called Skull Place,
which in Aramaic is called Gulgálta, 18 where they crucified Jesus
and two others with him, on this side and that, Jesus in the middle.
19 Pontius Pilate also wrote a title, and they put it on the cross.
The writing was, “Jesus the Nazarene, king of the Judeans.”
20 Thus many of the Judeans read this title,
because the place Jesus was crucified was near the city,
and it was written in Aramaic, Latin, and Greek.
21 So the Judean head priests told Pilate, “Don’t write ‘king of the Judeans’;
instead, ‘This man said, “I’m king of the Judeans.”’ ”
22 Pilate answered, “I’ve written what I’ve written.”
23 So when they crucified Jesus, the soldiers took his clothes and made four shares—
a share to each soldier.
And the tunic: The tunic was seamless, woven from top to bottom, 24 so they told one another,
“We shouldn’t split it. Instead we should throw dice for who’ll get it.”
Thus the scripture was fulfilled which says,
“They divided up my clothing for themselves, and threw dice over my clothing.” Ps 22.18
For indeed, the soldiers did this.
28 After this Jesus, knowing everything was now finished,
said to fulfill the scripture, “I thirst.”
29 A full jar of vinegar was sitting there.
So a sponge full of vinegar, with hyssop put on it, was brought to Jesus’s mouth.
30 When he tasted the vinegar, Jesus said, “It’s finished.”
He bent his head and handed over his spirit.
31 So the Judeans, since it’s Preparation Friday, lest bodies stay on the cross on Sabbath
(for this Sabbath was a great day), asked Pilate
so their legs might be broken, and they taken away.
32 So the soldiers came and broke the legs of the first man, and the other crucified with him.
33 Coming over to Jesus, they saw he’d died already. They didn’t break his legs.
34 Instead one soldier stabbed Jesus’s side with his spear.
Blood and water quickly came out.
35 The one who witnessed it testifies: It’s a true testimony.
This man knows he tells the truth, so you can also believe.
36 For this happened so the scripture might be fulfilled: “They won’t break his bones.”
37 Again, another scripture says, “They’ll see to whom they stabbed.”
John 20.
1 On Sunday, Mary the Magdalene came early, while still dark, to the tomb.
She saw the rock was taken away from the tomb; 2 then ran.
Mary came to Simon Peter, and the other student whom Jesus befriended, and told them,
“They took the Master away from the tomb, and we don’t know where they’ve put him!”
3 So Peter and the other student left and went to the tomb, 4 running together.
The other student outran Peter, and got to the tomb first.
5 Bending down, he looked in, saw the strips laying there, yet didn’t go in.
6 Simon Peter followed behind him, and went into the tomb.
Peter saw the strips laying there,
7 with the facecloth (which had wrapped Jesus’s head) not laying with the strips,
but in its own place, folded.
8 Then the other student—the one who arrived at the tomb first—came in and saw, and believed.
9 The students didn’t yet know the scripture that Jesus must rise again from the dead.
10 Then the students went away again, to their people,
11 and Mary stood outside the tomb, mourning.
As she mourned, she then bent down into the tomb, 12 and saw two angels in white,
one sitting at the head, one at the feet, where Jesus’s body was placed.
13 They told her, “Ma’am, why do you mourn?”
She told them this: “They took my Master away, and I don’t know where they put him.”
14 Saying this, she turned round and saw Jesus standing—and didn’t know it was Jesus.
15 Jesus told her, “Ma’am, why do you mourn? Whom are you looking for?”
Figuring he was the groundskeeper, she told him, “Master, if you took him away,
tell me where you put him, and I’ll take him away.”
16 Jesus told her, “Mary.”
She turned and told him, “Rabbani!” (i.e. “teacher”).
17 Jesus told her, “Don’t clutch me. I’ve not gone up to my Father yet.
Go to my brothers and tell them, ‘I’m going up to my Father and yours; to my God and yours.’ ”
18 Mary the Magdalene came and told the students she’d seen the Master,
and he’d said these things to her.
22 This said, Jesus blew on them
and told them, “Take the Holy Spirit.
23 When you forgive people their sins, they’ve been forgiven.
When you take charge of people, they’ve been charged.”
24 Thomas, one of the Twelve, called Twin, wasn’t with the others when Jesus came.
25 The other students told him, “We saw the Master!”
He told them, “Unless I see the nail-marks on his hands,
and put my finger on the nail-scars,
and put my hand on the scar on his side, I can’t believe it.”
26 Eight days later the students, Thomas included, were indoors again.
Though the door was closed, Jesus came, stood in the middle of them, and said, “Peace to you.”
27 Then he told Thomas, “Put your finger here and see my hands.
Put your hand on my side. Don’t be an unbeliever. Believe!”
28 In reply, Thomas said, “My Master and my God!”
29 Jesus told him, “This you believe because you saw me?
How awesome for those who don’t see me, yet believe.”
30 So indeed, Jesus did many other signs before his students
—which aren’t written in this book.
31 These were written—so you can all believe Jesus is the Christ, God’s son;
so in believing, you can have life in his name.
John 21.
24 This is the student who testified about these things, who wrote them down.
We know his testimony’s genuine.