John

 

1   The message was in the beginning. And the message was with God, and the message was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things came to be through him, and not even one thing which has become, came to be without him. Life was in him, and the life was the light of mankind. The light appeared in the darkness, and the darkness didn’t overpower it.

   A person came who had been sent from God. His name was Yohannes. He came as a testimony, so that he should testify about the light, so that everyone would trust through him. He wasn’t the light, but that he should testify about the light. The true light, which brings light to every person, was the one who was coming into the world.

   He was in the world, and the world came to be through him, but the world didn’t perceive him. He came to his own, but those who were his own didn’t accept him. But to as many as did accept him, he gave them the authority to become children of God, to those who trusted in his name. Who were born, not on the basis of blood, nor on the basis of the will of the flesh, nor on the basis of the will of a man, but on the basis of God.

   And the message became flesh, and encamped among us, and we gazed upon his glory, the glory like that of an only child with a father, full of grace and truth. Yohannes testified about him and cried out saying, “This was the one of whom I said, ‘The one who comes after me is more important than me because he was before me.’”

   And we have all received from his fullness, and grace upon grace. Because the law was given through Moses, but the grace and the truth came through Yeshua the Anointed. Nobody has ever seen God. The only son, the one who is in the bosom of the father - he has related him in full.

   And this is the testimony of Yohannes when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, “Who are you?” He acknowledged and didn’t deny. He acknowledged, “I myself am not the Anointed.” And they asked him, “What then? Are you Elijah?” and he said, “I am not.” “Are you the prophet?”, and he answered, “I am not.” Then they said to him, “Who are you? So we may give an answer to those who sent us. What do you say about yourself?” He declared, “I am a voice of one who shouts in the wilderness, ‘Straighten the path of the lord’, just as Isaiah the prophet has said.” And those who had been sent were from the Pharisees, and they asked him and said to him, “Why do you immerse then? If you aren’t the Anointed, nor Elijah, nor the prophet?” Yohannes answered them, saying, “I immerse in water, but in the midst of you stands one whom you don’t know. He is the one who comes after me, who is more important than me, of whom I’m not worthy that I should untie the strap of his sandal.”

   These things occurred in Bethany on the other side of the Jordan where Yohannes was immersing. The next day, Yohannes observed Yeshua coming towards him, and he said, “See the lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world. This is the one about whom I said, ‘A man is coming after me who is more important than me because he was before me.’ And I didn’t know him, but that he would be manifested to Yisrael. Because of this I came immersing in water.” And Yohannes testified, saying, “I have gazed at the spirit descend like a dove from the sky and remain on him. And I didn’t know him, but the one who sent me to immerse in water, he said to me, ‘The one on whom you see the spirit descend and remain on him, this is the one who immerses in the holy spirit.’ And I have seen, and I have testified that this is the son of God.”

   Again on the next day, Yohannes was standing with two of his disciples. And looking at Yeshua walking he said, “See the lamb of God.” And the two disciples heard him speaking, and they followed after Yeshua. And Yeshua turned and gazed at them following, and he said to them, “What are you looking for?” And they said to him, “Rabbi^a, (which is translated as Teacher), where are you staying?” He said to them, “Come and see.” And they went and saw where he was staying. And they stayed there that day since it was the tenth hour^b.

   One of the two who had heard from Yohannes and followed him was Andreas the brother of Shimon Petros. Who first found his own brother, Shimon, and said to him, “We have found the Messiah^c”, (which is translated as The Anointed). And he led him to Yeshua. But when he looked at him, Yeshua said, “You are Shimon, the son of Yonah. You will be called Cephas^d”, (which is translated as Petros [Stone]).

   The next day he wanted to go to Galilee, and he found Philippos and said to him, “Follow me.” And Philippos was from Bethsaida, from the town of Andreas and Petros. Philippos found Nathanael and said to him, “We have found the one whom Moses wrote about in the law, and the prophets - Yeshua the son of Yosef, from Nazareth.” And Nathanael said to him, “Is anything from Nazareth able to be good?” Philippos said to him, “Come and see!”

   Yeshua saw Nathanael coming toward him and said about him, “See! Truly a Yisraelite in whom there is no deceit.” Nathanael said to him, “Where do you know me from?” Yeshua answered and said, “I saw you under the fig tree, before Philippos called you.” Nathanael answered and he said to him, “Rabbi^a, you are the son of God. You are the king of Yisrael.” Yeshua answered and he said to him, “You trust me because I said to you that I saw you underneath the fig tree. You will view greater things than these.” And he said to him, “Amen^e, amen, I say to you, from now on you will view the sky opened and the messengers of God ascending and descending on the Son of Man.”

2   And on the third day, there came to be a wedding feast in Cana in Galilee. And Yeshua’s mother was there. And Yeshua and his disciples were invited to the wedding feast. And when they were lacking wine, Yeshua’s mother said to him, “They don’t have any wine.” Yeshua said to her, “What is that to me and to you woman? My hour hasn’t yet arrived.” His mother said to the servants, “Do whatever he tells you.”

   There were six stone water jars placed there for the cleansing of the Jews. Each one had room for two or three metretes^a, [about 100 liters]. Yeshua said to them, “Fill the water jars full of water.” And they filled them full to the brim. And he said to them, “Now scoop some out and carry it to the master of the dining room^b.” And they carried it.

   But when the master tasted the water, it had become wine. And he didn’t know where it had come from, (but the servants who had scooped the water knew). And the master called the bridegroom and said to him, “Everyone puts out the good quality wine first, and then when they are drunk, the inferior. But you have kept the good quality wine until now.”

   This was the beginning of the signs which Yeshua did in Cana in Galilee, and he manifested his glory, and his disciples trusted in him. After this he went down to Capernaum, himself and his mother, and his brothers, and his disciples. And they stayed there for a few days.

   The Passover of the Jews was near and Yeshua went up to Jerusalem. And he found people selling oxen and sheep and doves, and money changers sitting in the temple. And when he had made a whip out of cords, he threw them all out of the temple, along with the sheep and the oxen, and he poured out the small coins of the money exchangers, and overturned the tables. And to those who were selling doves he said, “Take these things away from here. Don’t make the household of my father a household of merchandise.” And his disciples were reminded that it has been written, “Zeal for your house has consumed me.”

   Then the Jews answered and said to him, “What sign do you show us, that you do these things?” Yeshua answered and he said to them, “Break apart this temple and in three days I will raise it up.” The Jews then said, “This temple took forty six years to build, and you will raise it up in three days?” But the one he had spoken about was the temple of his body. (Later, when he was raised from the dead, his disciples were reminded that he had said this, and they trusted the writing and the message which Yeshua had spoken).

   And while he was in Jerusalem, at the Passover and during the festival, many who observed the signs which he did trusted in his name. But Yeshua himself didn’t entrust himself to them, because he knew everyone, and because he had no need that anyone should testify about anyone, for he himself perceived what was in the person.

3   Now there was a person from the Pharisees whose name was Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews, who came to him at night and said to him, “Rabbi^a, we know that you are a teacher who has come from God, for nobody is able to do the signs you do unless God is with him.” And Yeshua answered and said to him, “Amen^b, amen, I say to you, unless anyone is born from above they aren’t able to see the kingdom of God.” Nicodemus said to him, “How is a person able to be born when he is an old man? He isn’t able to enter the belly of his mother a second time and be born, is he?” Yeshua answered, “Amen, amen, I say to you, unless anyone is born on the basis of water and of spirit, they aren’t able to enter into the kingdom of God.” That which is born on the basis of flesh is flesh, and that which is born on the basis of the spirit is spirit.

   You shouldn’t marvel that I said to you, ‘You must be born from above.’ The wind^c blows where it wants, and you hear its sound but you don’t know where it comes from or where it is going. Everyone who has been born on the basis of the spirit is like this.” Nicodemus answered and said to him, “How are these things possible?” Yeshua answered and said to him, “You are the teacher of Yisrael and you don’t perceive these things? Amen, amen, I say to you, that we speak the things which we know, and we testify to the things which we have seen, but you don’t accept our testimony. If you don’t trust the earthly things I tell you, how will you trust when I tell you heavenly things?

   Nobody has ascended into heaven except the one who descended from heaven, the Son of Man, the one who is in heaven. And just as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, in the same way the Son of Man must be lifted up, so that everyone who trusts in him won’t be destroyed but may have everlasting life.” For in this way God loved the world - he gave his only born son so that everyone who trusts in him will not be destroyed but may have everlasting life.

   For God didn’t send his son into the world so that he should judge the world, but so that the world might be saved through him. The one who trusts in him isn’t judged, but the one who doesn’t trust has already been judged because he hasn’t trusted in the name of the only born son of God. And this is the judgement, that the light has come into the world but the people loved the darkness more than the light, for their works were wicked. For everyone who practises low things hates the light, and doesn’t come towards the light so their works won’t be exposed. But the one who does the truth comes towards the light so that their works might be manifested, because they have been enacted in God.

   After these things, Yeshua and his disciples went into the land of Judea, and he stayed there with them and immersed. And Yohannes was also immersing in Aenon near Salem because there was a lot of water there, and they came to him and were immersed. For Yohannes hadn’t yet been thrown into the jail.

   And then an inquiry arose between the disciples of Yohannes and a Jew about purification. And they went to Yohannes and said to him, “Rabbi^a, the one who was with you on the other side of the Jordan, about whom you testified. Look! He is immersing and everyone is going to him.” Yohannes answered and said, “A person isn’t able to take anything if it hasn’t been given to them from heaven. You yourselves are witnesses that I said, ‘I’m not the Anointed, but I have been sent ahead of him.’ The one who has the bride is the bridegroom, but the friend of the bridegroom, the one who stands by and hears his joy, rejoices because of the voice of the bridegroom. This then is my joy which has been fulfilled. He must increase but I must be decreased.

   The one who comes from above is over all. The one who is from the earth is on the basis of the earth, and speaks on the basis of the earth. The one who comes on the basis of heaven is over all. And he testifies to that which he has seen and heard, but nobody accepts his testimony. The one who has accepted his testimony has confirmed^d that God is true. For the one whom God has sent speaks the declarations of God, for God gives the spirit without measure. The father loves the son and has given all things into his hand. The one who trusts in the son has everlasting life, but the one who disobeys the son won’t see life, but the wrath of God remains on them.

4   Then, since the lord had perceived that the Pharisees had heard that Yeshua was making and immersing more disciples than Yohannes, (although Yeshua himself wasn’t immersing, but it was his disciples), he left Judea and went away to Galilee. And so he had to pass through Samaria. And he came to a town of Samaria called Sychar, which neighbours the property which Yaakov gave to his son Yosef. And there was a spring of Yaakov there, and Yeshua was tired from the journey and in this way he was sitting above the spring. It was about the sixth hour^a.

   And a woman from Samaria came to scoop water, and Yeshua said to her, “Give me something to drink.” (For his disciples had gone into the town to buy food). Then the Samaritan woman said to him, “How can you, a Jew, request a drink from me, a Samaritan woman?” (For Jews don’t have anything to do with Samaritans). Yeshua answered and said to her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who says to you ‘Give me something to drink’, then you would have requested living water from him, and he would have given it to you.” The woman said to him, “Lord, you have no scoop and the well is deep. Where did you get the living water from then? You aren’t greater than our father Yaakov who gave us the well, and who drank from it himself, as did his sons and his livestock, are you?”

   Yeshua answered and said to her, “All who drink this water will be thirsty again. But whoever drinks the water which I will give them won’t be thirsty at all, into the age. But the water which I give them will become a spring of water in them, leaping up into everlasting life.” The woman said to him, “Lord, give me this water so that I may not be thirsty, nor come to this place to scoop.” Yeshua said to her, “Go off and call your husband and come here.” The woman answered and said, “I don’t have a husband.” Yeshua said to her, “You spoke well, ‘I don’t have a husband.’ For you have had five husbands, and the one you have now isn’t your husband. You have spoken the truth.”

   The woman said to him, “Lord, I observe that you are a prophet. Our fathers worshipped on this mountain, but you say that the place where we must worship is in Jerusalem.” Yeshua said to her, “Woman. Trust me that an hour is coming when you will worship the father neither on this mountain, nor even in Jerusalem. You worship that which you don’t know. We worship what we know, because salvation is from the Jews. But an hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshippers will worship the father in spirit and in truth. For the father also seeks those who worship him in this way. God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and in truth.” The woman said to him, “I know that the Messiah^b is coming. The one called the Anointed. Whenever he comes, he will report everything to us.” Yeshua said to her, “I, the one who speaks to you, am him.”

   Just then his disciples came, and they marvelled that he spoke with a woman. Nevertheless nobody asked, “What are you looking for?” or “Why are you talking with her?” Then the woman left her water jar behind and went into the town and said to the people, “Come here and see a person who told me everything I ever did. Is this not the Anointed?” And they came out of the town and went to him. And in the meantime his disciples were saying, “Rabbi^c. Eat.” But he said to them, “I have food to eat which you know nothing about^d.” Then the disciples said to one another, “Nobody brought him anything to eat, did they?” Yeshua said to them, “My food is that I do the will of the one who sent me, and that I should complete his work. Don’t you say, ‘It is still four months until the harvest is coming’? Look! I say to you, lift up your eyes and look around, the countryside is already white to harvest, and the one who reaps receives a reward, and he collects fruit for everlasting life, so that the one who sows, and likewise the one who reaps, may rejoice. For in this the saying is true, that one is the one who sows and another is the one who reaps. I have sent you to reap that for which you haven’t laboured. Others have laboured and you have entered into their labour.”

   And from that town many of the Samaritans trusted in him, because of the message of the woman who testified, “He told me everything which I ever did.” Then, when the Samaritans came to him, they asked him to stay with them. And he stayed there for two days. And many more trusted because of his message, and they said to the woman, “We no longer trust just because of what you said, for we ourselves trust because we have heard and because we know that this truly is the saviour of the world - the Anointed.” But after the two days he went on from there and went to Galilee.

   Now Yeshua himself testified that a prophet has no honour in his own home town^e. And when he came to Galilee, the Galileans welcomed him, having seen all the things which he had done in Jerusalem during the festival, (for they themselves had gone to the festival). So then Yeshua came again to Cana in Galilee where he had made the water into wine.

   And there was a certain royal in Capernaum whose son was ill. And when he heard that Yeshua was arriving in Galilee from Judea, he went to him and asked him to come down and to heal his son, for he was about to die. Then Yeshua said to him, “Unless you see signs and miracles you won’t trust at all.” The royal said to him, “Lord, come down before my little child dies.” Yeshua said to him, “Go, your son lives.” And the person trusted what Yeshua had said to him and went. And while he was still going down, his slaves met him and reported, saying, “Your child is alive.” Then he inquired of them the hour in which he had recovered. They said to him, “The fever left him yesterday at the seventh hour^f” Then the father knew that it was at that hour in which Yeshua had said to him, “Your son lives.” and he himself trusted, and his whole household. This was again a second sign which Yeshua did when he had come to Galilee from Judea.

5   After these things was the festival of the Jews, and Yeshua went up to Jerusalem. Now in Jerusalem, above the sheep gate, there is a bathing pool, the one called Bethesda in Hebrew, and which has five covered colonnades, in which a multitude was lying down, many of the ill, the blind, the lame, the withered, all waiting for the movement of the water. (Because from time to time a messenger descended into the pool and disturbed the water. Then the first to step in after the disturbance of the water would be made well from whatever disease had once restrained them).

   And a certain person was there who had been ill for thirty eight years. When Yeshua saw him lying there, he perceived that he had already been there a long time, and he said to him, “Do you want to be made well?” The ill person answered him, “Lord. I don’t have a person to place me into the pool when the water is disturbed. So while I am coming someone else goes down before me.” Yeshua said to him, “Get up, pick up your mat and walk.” And straightaway the person was made well, and he picked up his mat and walked.

   But it was a Sabbath on that day. And the Jews said to the one who had been cured, “It is a Sabbath, you aren’t permitted to pick up your mat.” But he answered them, “The one who made me well, he said to me, ‘Pick up your mat and walk’.” Then they asked him, “Who is the person who said to you, ‘Pick up your mat and walk’?” But the one who had been healed didn’t know who it was, for Yeshua had slipped away, (since there was a crowd in that place).

   After these things Yeshua found him in the temple and said to him, “Look! You have been made well. Sin no longer so that nothing worse happens to you.” The person went away and reported to the Jews that Yeshua was the one who had made him well. And because of this the Jews pursued Yeshua, and they sought him to kill him because he had done these things on a Sabbath. But Yeshua answered them, “My father has been working until now, and I am also working.” Because of this then the Jews sought him even more to kill him, because not only did he break the Sabbath, but he also called God his own father, making himself equal to God.

   Then Yeshua answered and said to them, “Amen^a, amen, I say to you, the son isn’t able to do anything of himself except what he sees the father do. For whatever he does, likewise the son also does those things. For the father is fond of the son and shows him everything that he himself does. And he will show him greater works than these things, so that you may marvel. For just as the father raises the dead and makes alive, so in the same way the son also makes alive whomever he wants. For neither does the father judge anyone, but he has given all judgement to the son. So that all may honour the son just as they honour the father. Not honouring the son is not honouring the father who sent him.

   Amen, amen, I say to you, that the one who hears my message and trusts the one who sent me has everlasting life, and won’t come into judgement but has crossed over from death to life.

   Amen, amen, I say to you, that an hour is coming, and now is, when the dead will hear the voice of the son of God, and those who have heard will live. For just as the father has life in himself, in the same way he has also granted to the son to have life in himself. And he also gave him authority to pass judgement because he is the Son of Man. Don’t marvel at this, because an hour is coming in which all those in the tombs will hear his voice, and those who did good things will come out to a resurrection of life, but those who practised low things to a resurrection of judgement.

   I am not able to do anything of myself, I judge just as I hear, and my judgement is just because I don’t seek my own will but the will of the father who sent me. If only I testify about myself, then my testimony isn’t true. But there is another who testifies about me, and I know that the testimony which they testify about me is true. You have sent to Yohannes and he has testified to the truth.

   I don’t accept the testimony of a person, but I say these things so that you may be saved. He was the burning and shining lamp, and you were willing to rejoice for an hour in his light. But I have a greater testimony than that of Yohannes, for the works which the father gave to me that I should complete, these works themselves which I do testify about me that the father has sent me. And the father who sent me has testified himself about me. You have never heard his voice at any time, nor even seen his form. And you haven’t kept his message among you, because you don’t trust the one whom he sent.

   You search the writings because you assume that in them you have everlasting life, but those are the very ones who testify about me. And you aren’t willing to come to me so that you may have life. I don’t accept glory from people. But I perceive you, that you don’t have the love of God among yourselves. I have come in the name of my father and you don’t accept me. If another comes in his own name you will accept him. How are you able to trust, you who accept glory from one another, and who don’t seek only the glory of God.

   Don’t assume that I will accuse you to the father. Moses, in whom you have set your expectation, is the one who accuses you. For if you had trusted Moses you would have trusted me, for he wrote about me. But if you don’t trust his writings how will you trust my declarations?”

6   After these things Yeshua went to the other side of the Sea of Galilee, (of Tiberius). And a large crowd followed him because they had seen the signs which he had done on those who were ill. And Yeshua went up into the mountain and sat down there with his disciples. Now the Passover, a festival of the Jews, was near. And Yeshua lifted his eyes and gazed because of the large crowd coming towards him, and he said to Philippos, “Where will we buy loaves of bread so they may eat?” But he said this to test him, for he himself knew what he was about to do. Philippos answered him, “Two hundred denarii^a wouldn’t be sufficient to buy enough loaves of bread for each one of them to get even a little.” One of his disciples, Andreas, the brother of Shimon Petros, said to him, “There is a little boy here who has five loaves of barley bread and two fish^b. But what are these for so many?” But Yeshua said, “Make the people recline.” There was a lot of grass in the place where they reclined, and the number of men was about five thousand.

   And Yeshua took the loaves of bread, and when he had given thanks, he distributed them to the disciples, and the disciples to those who were reclining. Likewise also from the fish, as much as they wanted. And when they were filled, he said to his disciples, “Gather together the leftover pieces so that nothing is wasted.” And then they gathered them together, and they filled twelve baskets, full of pieces of the five loaves of barley bread which were left over by those who had been fed. Then the people who had seen the sign which Yeshua had done, said, “This truly is the prophet who is to come into the world.”

   Then Yeshua, perceiving that they were about to come and seize him so they could make him king, withdrew again into the mountain by himself. And when evening came, his disciples went down to the sea, and when they had stepped into the boat, they went to the other side of the sea, to Capernaum. (Darkness had already come and Yeshua hadn’t yet come to them). The sea was being stirred up with a great wind blowing. Then, when they had rowed about twenty five or thirty stadia^c, [about five kilometres], they saw Yeshua walking on the sea and coming near to the boat. And they were afraid, but he said to them, “It is me. Don’t be afraid.” So they were willing to accept him into the boat. And straightaway the boat came to be at the land which they were going to.

   The next day the crowd which had stood on the other side of the sea saw that there was no other skiff there except the one which his disciples had stepped into, and that Yeshua hadn’t gone with his disciples in the skiff, but that his disciples had gone off alone. But some other skiffs had come from Tiberius, near the place where they had eaten the bread, when the lord had given thanks. Therefore, when the crowd saw that Yeshua wasn’t there, nor were his disciples, they themselves stepped into the boats and went to Capernaum looking for Yeshua.

   And when they found him on the other side of the sea, they said to him, “Rabbi, when did you come here?” Yeshua answered them and said, “Amen^d, amen, I say to you, you look for me, not because you have seen signs, but because you ate the loaves of bread and were satisfied. Don’t work for the food which is destroyed, but for the food that remains into everlasting life, which the Son of Man will give to you because God the father has sealed him.” Then they said to him, “What should we do so that we are working the works of God?” Yeshua answered and said to them, “This is the work of God, that you trust in the one whom he has sent.”

   Then they said to him, “What sign then will you do so that we may see and trust you? What are you working? Our fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, just as it has been written, ‘He gave them bread from heaven.’” Then Yeshua said to them, “Amen, amen, I say to you, it wasn’t Moses who gave you bread from heaven, but my father gives you the true bread of heaven. For the bread of God is the one who comes down from heaven and who gives life to the world.” So they said to him, “Lord, give us this bread all the time.”

   And Yeshua said to them, “I am the bread of life. The one who comes to me won’t be hungry at all, and the one who trusts in me will never be thirsty at all. But I have said to you that you have also seen me, and you haven’t trusted. Everyone whom the father gives to me will be present with me, and the one who comes to me won’t be thrown outside at all. Because I have come down from heaven, not so that I may do my will, but the will of the one who sent me. And this is the will of the father who sent me, that I shouldn’t lose anyone whom he has given me, and that I will raise them up in the last day. And this is the will of the one who sent me, that everyone who looks at the son and trusts in him may have everlasting life, and I will raise them up in the last day.”

   Then the Jews murmured about him because he said “I am the bread which came down from heaven.” And they said, “Isn’t this Yeshua, the son of Yosef, whose father and mother we know? How then does he say, ‘I have come down from heaven’?” Then Yeshua answered and said to them, “Don’t murmur among one another. Nobody is able to come to me unless the father who sent me draws them. And I will raise them up on the last day. It has been written in the prophets, “And they will all be taught by God.” Everyone then who hears from the father and learns, comes to me. Not that anyone has seen the father, except the one who is with God - he has seen the father.

   Amen, amen, I say to you, the one who trusts in me has everlasting life. I am the bread of life. Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness and they died. This is the bread that came down out of heaven so that anyone may eat of it and they won’t die. I am the living bread which came down from heaven, if anyone eats this bread they will live, into the age. And the bread which I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the sake of the life of the world.”

   Then the Jews quarrelled with one another, saying, “How is he able to give us his flesh to eat?” Then Yeshua said to them, “Amen, amen, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man, and you drink his blood, you will have no life among yourselves. The one who feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood has everlasting life, and I will raise them up on the last day. For my flesh is truly food, and my blood is truly drink. The one who feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me and I in him. Just as the living father has sent me, and I live because of the father, the one who feeds on me, that one too will live because of me. This is the bread which came down from heaven, not as your fathers ate the manna and died, but the one who feeds on this bread will live into the age.”

   He said these things in the synagogue while teaching in Capernaum. Many then of the disciples who had heard it, said, “This message is hard. Who is able to hear it?” But Yeshua, knowing in himself that his disciples were murmuring about this, said to them, “Does this offend you? Then what if you observe the Son of Man going up to where he was before? It is the spirit which makes alive, the flesh doesn’t benefit anything. The declarations which I speak to you are spirit, and they are life. But there are some of you who don’t trust”, (for Yeshua had known from the beginning who were the ones who didn’t trust, and who would hand him over). And he said, “Because of this I have said to you that nobody is able to come to me unless it has been given to them from my father.”

   On the basis of this many of his disciples went away and no longer walked with him. Then Yeshua said to the twelve “Don’t you also want to go away?” Then Shimon Petros answered him, “Lord. Who will we go to? You have the declarations of everlasting life. And we have trusted and have perceived that you are the Anointed, the son of the living God.” Yeshua answered them, “Didn’t I select you, the twelve? But one of you is a slanderer, [or one of you is Diabolos^e].” He spoke of Yehuda, Shimon Iscarioth, for he was about to hand him over, and he was one of the twelve.

7   And after these things Yeshua walked in Galilee, for he didn’t want to walk in Judea because the Jews were seeking to kill him. But the festival of the Jews, the Feast of Tents, was near and so his brothers said to him, “Cross over from here and go off into Judea so that your disciples may look upon the works which you do. For nobody does anything in secret when they themselves seek to be in the open. If you do these things, then manifest yourself to the world.” (For his brothers hadn’t yet trusted in him). Then Yeshua said to them, “My time isn’t yet at hand, but your time is always ready. The world isn’t able to hate you, but it hates me because I testify about it - that its works are wicked. You go up to the festival, I’m not going up to this festival yet because my time isn’t yet fulfilled.” And having said these things to them, he stayed in Galilee.

   But when his brothers had gone up, he himself also went up to the festival, not openly, but as if in secret. The Jews then were seeking him in the festival and they said, “Where is he?” And there was a lot of murmuring about him among the crowds. Indeed they said, “He is good”, and others said, “On the contrary, he leads the crowd astray.” Nevertheless nobody spoke openly about him because of the fear of the Jews.

   And it was already the middle of the festival when Yeshua went up to the temple and taught. And the Jews marvelled, saying, “How does he know the writings when he hasn’t studied?” Then Yeshua answered them and said, “My teaching isn’t mine, but of the one who sent me. If anyone is willing to do his will, then he will perceive whether the teaching is of God or whether I speak from myself. The one who speaks from himself seeks his own glory, but the one who seeks the glory of the one who sent him, this one is true, and there is no unrighteousness in him.

   Didn’t Moses give you the law? Yet none of you practises the law. Why do you seek to kill me?” The crowd answered and said, “You have a demon! Who is seeking to kill you?” Yeshua answered and said to them, “I did one work and you are all marvelling. Because of this Moses gave you the circumcision, not that it was from Moses, but it was from the fathers, and you circumcise a person on a Sabbath. If a person receives circumcision on a Sabbath so that the law of Moses isn’t broken, then why are you bitterly angry with me that I made a whole person well on a Sabbath? Don’t judge according to sight, but judge with righteous judgement.”

   Then some of those who lived in Jerusalem said, “Isn’t this the one they are seeking to kill? And look! He is speaking openly and yet they say nothing to him. Can it really be that the rulers have perceived that he is truly the Anointed? And we know where he is from, but the Anointed, whenever he comes, no one perceives where he is from.” Then Yeshua cried out in the temple, teaching and saying, “You know me, and you know where I am from. And I haven’t come of myself, but the one who sent me is true, and you don’t know him. I know him because I am with him, and he sent me.” Then they sought to lay hold of him, but nobody laid a hand on him because his hour hadn’t yet come.

   But many of the crowd trusted in him and they said, “The anointed, whenever he comes, won’t do more signs than these which this person has done, will he?” The Pharisees heard the crowd murmuring these things about him, and the Pharisees and the chief priests sent attendants to seize him. Then Yeshua said to them, “Still a little time with you and then I am going away to the one who sent me. You will seek me but you won’t find me. And you aren’t able to come to where I am.” Then the Jews said to themselves, “Where is he about to go that we won’t find him? He isn’t about to go to the dispersion^a of the Greeks and teach the Greeks is he? What is this thing that he said, ‘You will seek me be but you won’t find me. And you aren’t able to come to where I am.’”

   And on the last day of the great festival, Yeshua stood up and cried out, saying, “If anyone is thirsty, let them come to me and let them drink. The one who trusts in me, just as the writing has said, rivers of living water will stream out of their belly.” He said this about the spirit, whom those who trusted in him were about to receive - for the holy spirit wasn’t yet [received] because Yeshua hadn’t yet been glorified. Then many of the crowd who had heard the message said, “This is truly the prophet.” Others said, “This is the Anointed.” But others said, “No, because the Anointed doesn’t come from Galilee. Doesn’t the writing say that the Anointed will come from the seed of David, and from Bethlehem, the village where David was?” Then a division arose among the crowd because of him. And some of them wanted to lay hold of him, but nobody laid hands on him.

   Then the attendants went to the chief priests and Pharisees and they said to them, “Why haven’t you brought him?” The attendants answered, “Never has any person spoken in the way this person speaks.” Then the Pharisees answered them, “You haven’t been led astray too have you?” None of the rulers have trusted in him have they? Or any of the Pharisees? But this crowd, who don’t perceive the law, are more accursed.” Nicodemus, who had come to him at night, and who was one of them, said them, “Our law doesn’t judge the person unless it hears from them first and perceives what they are doing, does it?” And they answered, saying to him, “You aren’t from Galilee too are you? Search and see that no prophet has been raised out of Galilee.” And each one went away to their own household.

8   But Yeshua went to the Mount of Olives. And at daybreak he came into the temple again and all the people went to him, and he sat down and taught them. And the scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman to him who had been caught in adultery, and they stood her in the middle and said to him, “Teacher, we found this woman who was caught in the act of committing adultery. And in our law Moses directed that such people be stoned. You then, what do you say?” But they said this to test him, so that they might have an accusation against him. But Yeshua bent down, and he wrote in the ground with his finger as if he hadn’t heard them. But since they kept asking him, he straightened up and said to them, “Let the sinless one among you throw the first stone at her.” And he bent down again and wrote in the ground. And those who had heard were exposed by their conscience and they were going off one by one, beginning with the elders, until the last ones. And only Yeshua was left behind, and the woman who was standing in the middle. And when he straightened up and didn’t see anybody except the woman, Yeshua said to her, “Woman. Where are they, those accusers of yours? Nobody condemns you?” And she said, “Nobody lord.” And Yeshua said to her, “Neither do I condemn you. Go, and from now on don’t sin any longer.”

   Then Yeshua spoke to them again, saying, “I am the light of the world. The one who follows me won’t walk in the darkness at all but they will have the light of life.” Then the Pharisees said to him, “You testify about yourself. Your testimony isn’t true.” Yeshua answered and said to them, “My testimony is true even if I testify about myself, because I know where I came from and where I am going. But you don’t know where I come from or where I am going. You judge according to the flesh. I don’t judge anyone. But even if I do judge, my judgement is true because I am not alone, but it is me and the father who sent me. And also in your law it has been written that the testimony of two people is true. I am the one who testifies about myself, and the father who sent me testifies about me.” Then they said to him, “Where is your father?” Yeshua answered, “You know neither me nor my father. If you had known me you would have also known my father.” Yeshua spoke these declarations in the treasury, teaching in the temple, and nobody laid hold of him because his hour hadn’t yet come.

   Then Yeshua said to them again, “I am going away and you will seek me but you will die in your sin. Where I am going you aren’t able to come.” Then the Jews said, “He won’t kill himself will he? Because he is saying, ‘Where I am going you aren’t able to come’?” And he said to them, “You are from below, I am from above. You are from this world, I’m not from this world. Therefore I said to you that you will die in your sins, for unless you trust that I am, you will die in your sins.” Then they said to him, “Who are you?” And Yeshua said to them, “What I said to you in the beginning. I have many things to say about you, and to judge, but the one who sent me is true, and I, the things which I hear from him, I say these things to the world.” They didn’t perceive that he spoke to them of the father.

   Then Yeshua said to them, “When you have lifted up the Son of Man, then you will perceive that I am, and that I do nothing from myself, but just as my father teaches me, I speak these things. And the one who sent me is with me. The father didn’t send me off alone because I always do the things that are pleasing to him.” When he spoke these things, many trusted in him.

   Then Yeshua said to those Jews who had trusted in him, “If you remain in my message you are truly my disciples and you will perceive the truth, and the truth will free you.” They answered him, “We are the seed of Abraham, and we have never been enslaved by anyone. How are you saying, ‘You will become free’?” Yeshua answered them, “Amen^a, amen, I say to you, that everyone who practises sin is a slave of sin. And the slave doesn’t remain in the house into the age, but the son remains, to the age. So then, if the son frees you then you will really be free.

   I know that you are the seed of Abraham, but you are seeking to kill me because my message has no room [space] among you. I speak that which I have seen with my father, and you then, you do that which you have seen with your father.” And they answered and said to him, “Abraham is our father.” Yeshua said to them, “If you were children of Abraham you would have done the works of Abraham. But now you seek to kill me, a person who has told you the truth which I have heard from God. Abraham didn’t do this. You are doing the works of your father.”

   Then they said to him, “We weren’t born as a result of fornication. We have one father - God.” Then Yeshua said to them, “If God was your father you would have loved me, because I came from God. And I haven’t come on my own accord, but because he sent me. So why don’t you perceive my speech? Because you aren’t able to hear my message. You are of your father, Diabolos^b. And you want to do the desires of your father - he was a murderer from the beginning, and he hasn’t stood in the truth because there is no truth in him. Whenever he talks he speaks a lie, because he is a liar and the father of it. But because I speak the truth you don’t trust me. Which one of you exposes me concerning sin? But if I speak the truth then why don’t you trust me? The one who is from God hears the declarations of God. This is why you don’t hear, because you aren’t from God.”

   Then the Jews answered and said to him, “Aren’t we correct in saying that you are a Samaritan, and you have a demon?” Yeshua answered, “I don’t have a demon, but I honour my father and you dishonour me. But I don’t seek my own glory. There is one who seeks and judges. Amen, amen, I say to you, if anyone keeps my message they won’t look upon death at all, into the age.” Then the Jews said to him, “Now we know that you have a demon. Abraham died, as did the prophets, and you are saying, ‘If anyone keeps my message they won’t taste death at all, into the age.’ You aren’t greater than our father Abraham are you? He died, and the prophets died. Who are you making yourself to be?” Yeshua answered, “If I glorify myself then my glory is nothing. It is my father, whom you say is your god, who glorifies me. And you haven’t perceived him, but I know him. And if I say that I don’t know him then I will be a liar like you. But I know him and I keep his message. Your father Abraham rejoiced that he might see my day, and he saw it, and he rejoiced.” Then the Jews said to him, “You don’t yet have fifty years, and you have seen Abraham?” Yeshua said to them, “Amen, amen, I say to you, before Abraham was born, I am.” Then they picked up stones so they could throw them at him. But Yeshua concealed himself and went out of the temple, passing through the middle of them, and in that way he passed on his way.

9   And passing by he saw a person who was blind from birth. And his disciples asked him, saying, “Rabbi^a. Who sinned, this person or his parents, so that he was born blind?” Yeshua answered, “Neither this person nor his parents sinned, but so that the works of God may be manifested in him. I must work the works of the one who sent me while it is day. Night is coming when nobody is able to work. While I am in the world I am the light of the world.”

   When he had said these things he spat on the ground and made mud from the saliva, and he smeared the mud on the eyes of the blind man. And he said to him, “Go off and wash in the Pool of Siloam, (which is translated as Sent).” And he went away and washed, and came back seeing.

   Then the neighbours and those who had previously seen him blind, said “Isn’t this the one who sat and begged?” Others said, “This is him.” And others, “It looks like him.” He himself said, “I am.” Then they said to him, “How were your eyes opened?” He answered and said, “The person called Yeshua made mud and smeared it on my eyes and said to me, ‘Go off to the Pool of Siloam and wash’. And when I had gone forth and washed, I recovered my sight.” Then they said to him, “Where is he?” He said, “I don’t know.”

   They led the one who used to be blind to the Pharisees. But it was a Sabbath day when Yeshua had made mud and opened his eyes. Again then the Pharisees asked him how he had recovered his sight. And he said to them, “He placed mud on my eyes and I washed and I see.” Then some of the Pharisees said, “This person isn’t with God because he doesn’t keep the Sabbath.” Others said, “How is a sinful person able to do such signs?” And there was a division among them.

   Again they said to the blind man, “What do you say about the one who opened your eyes?” And he said, “He is a prophet.” Then the Jews didn’t trust that he had been blind and that he had recovered his sight - until they called the parents of the one who had recovered his sight and they asked them, saying, “Is this your son, whom you say was born blind? How then is he now able to see?” And his parents answered them, and said, “We know that this is our son, and that he was born blind. But we don’t know how he is now able to see, and we don’t know who opened his eyes. He himself is an adult, ask him and he will speak for himself.” (His parents said these things because they were afraid of the Jews. For the Jews had already agreed together that if anyone acknowledged the Anointed they would be expelled from the synagogue. Because of this his parents said, “He is an adult, ask him.”)

   Then they called the person who had been blind a second time, and they said to him, “Give glory to God. We know that this person is sinful.” Then he answered and said, “I don’t know if he is sinful, but I know one thing, I was blind but now I see.” Then they said to him again, “What did he do to you? How did he open your eyes?” He answered them, “I already told you and you didn’t hear. Why do you want to hear again? You don’t want to become his disciples too do you?” Then they criticised^b him and said, “You yourself are his disciple, but we are disciples of Moses. We know that Moses talked to God, but this one, we don’t know where he is from.”

   The person answered and said to them, “Now this is marvellous, that you don’t know where he is from and he opened my eyes! And we know that God doesn’t hear sinners, but if anyone is god-revering and does his will, he hears them. From the age nobody has heard of anyone opening the eyes of one who has been born blind. If this person wasn’t with God he wouldn’t have been able to do anything.” And they answered and said to him, “You were completely born in sins, and you teach us!” And they threw him outside.

   Yeshua heard that they had thrown him outside, and when he found him, he said to him, “Do you trust in the son of God?” He answered and said, “Who is he lord? So that I might trust in him.” But Yeshua said to him, “You have seen him, and the one who speaks with you is him.” And he declared, “I trust lord!” and he worshipped him. And Yeshua said, “I came into this world for condemnation, so that those who don’t see might see, and those who see might become blind.” And those of the Pharisees who were with him heard these things, and they said to him, “We aren’t blind too, are we?” Yeshua said to them, “If you were blind you wouldn’t have sin, but now that you say, ‘We see’ then your sin remains.

10   Amen^a, amen, I say to you, the one who doesn’t enter into the sheep-pen through the gate, but who climbs over somewhere else, that is a thief and a robber. But the one who enters in through the gate is the shepherd of the sheep. The gatekeeper opens for him, and the sheep hear his voice, and he calls his own sheep by their name, and he leads them out. And whenever he puts his own sheep out he goes along in front of them, and the sheep follow him because they know his voice. But they won’t follow a stranger, and they will run away from him because they don’t know the voice of strangers.” Yeshua told them this allegory, but those people didn’t perceive what he was saying to them.

   Then Yeshua said to them again, “Amen, amen, I say to you, that I am the gate for the sheep. All who ever came before are thieves and robbers, but the sheep didn’t hear them. I am the gate. If anyone enters in through me then they will be saved, and they will come in, and they will go out, and they will find pasture. The thief doesn’t come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I came so that they may have life, and they may have much more.

   I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sake of the sheep. But the hired one, who isn’t a shepherd, and whose the sheep are not, looks at the wolf coming, and he leaves the sheep behind and runs away. And the wolf snatches them away and scatters the sheep. But the hired one flees because he is a hired one and he doesn’t care about the sheep. I am the good shepherd and I perceive my own, and I am perceived by my own. Just as the father perceives me and I also perceive the father. And I lay my life down for the sake of sheep.

   And I have other sheep which aren’t from this pen, and I must lead those also. And they will hear my voice and it will become one flock, one shepherd. Because of this my father loves me, because I lay down my life so that I may take it up again. Nobody takes it away from me but I lay it down myself. I have authority to lay it down, and I have authority to take it up again. I received this command from my father.” Then a division arose again among those Jews because of these messages. And many of them said, “He has a demon, and he is mad. Why do you listen to him?” Others said, “These aren’t the declarations of a demon possessed person. A demon isn’t able to open the eyes of the blind, is it?”

   And it came to be the Feast of Dedication in Jerusalem. And it was winter. And Yeshua walked around the temple, in Solomon’s Colonnade. Then the Jews surrounded him and said to him, “How long will you hold our life in suspense? If you are the Anointed then tell us openly.” Yeshua answered them, “I told you and you didn’t trust me. The works which I do in the name of my father, these things testify about me. But you don’t trust for you aren’t of my sheep, just as I said to you. My sheep hear my voice and I perceive them, and they follow me. And I give them everlasting life, and they won’t be destroyed at all into the age, and nobody will snatch them from my hand. My father, who has given them to me, is greater than all, and nobody is able to snatch them out of my father’s hand. The father and I are one.

   Then those Jews picked up stones again to stone him. Yeshua answered them, “I have shown you many good works from my father. For which one of them are you stoning me?” The Jews answered him, saying, “We aren’t stoning you for a good work, but for speaking evil, and because you, being a person, are making yourself a god.” Yeshua answered them, “Has it not been written in your law, ‘I said, “You are gods”’? If he called those to whom the message of God came, gods, (and the writing isn’t able to be undone), are you saying to the one whom the father made holy and sent into the world, ‘You are speaking evil’, because I said I am the son of God? If I don’t do the works of my father, don’t trust me. But if I do, then even if you don’t trust me, then trust the works, so that you may perceive and may trust that the father is in me, and I am in him.”

   Then they sought again to seize him but he went away out of their hand. And he went away again to the other side of the Jordan, to the place where Yohannes was first immersing, and he stayed there. And many came to him and they said, “Yohannes indeed performed no sign, but everything that he said about this one was true.” And many trusted in him there.

11   But a certain person was ill, Lazarus from Bethany, the village of Maria and her sister Martha. And it was the Maria who had anointed the lord with perfume and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was ill. Then the sisters sent to him, saying, “Lord. Look! The one you are fond of is ill.” And when he heard this Yeshua said, “This illness is not to death, but for the sake of the glory of God, so that the son of God should be glorified through it. And Yeshua loved Martha, and her sister, and Lazarus. So when he heard that he was ill, then indeed, he stayed in the place he was in for two days.

   Then after that he said to the disciples, “Let’s go to Judea again.” The disciples said to him, “Rabbi^a. Just now the Jews sought to stone you, and you are going off there again?” Yeshua answered, “Aren’t there twelve hours of daylight? If anyone walks in the day they won’t trip up because they can see by the light of this world. But if anyone walks in the night, they trip up because there is no light in it.”

   He said these things, and after this he said to them, “Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep, but I am going so that I may awaken him.” Then his disciples said, “Lord. If he has fallen asleep then he will get well.” But Yeshua had been speaking about his death, and they had assumed that he was speaking about lying down to sleep. Therefore Yeshua then said to them plainly, “Lazarus has died. And I rejoice because I wasn’t there - so that you might trust. But let us go to him.” Then Thomas, the one called Didymus^b, said to the fellow disciples, “Let us go too, so we may die with him.”

   Then, when he had come, Yeshua found that he had already been in the tomb for four days. Now Bethany was near Jerusalem, about fifteen stadia^c, [about two and a half kilometres], and many of the Jews had come to Martha and Maria so they could comfort them about their brother. Then when Martha heard that Yeshua was coming she went out to meet him, but Maria kept sitting in the house. Then Martha said to Yeshua, “Lord, if you were here my brother would never have died. But even now I know that whatever you should request from God, God will give it to you.” Yeshua said to her, “Your brother will rise up.” Martha said to him, “I know that he will rise up at the resurrection on the last day.” Yeshua said to her, “I am the resurrection. And the life. The one who trusts in me will live, even if they die. And everyone who lives and trusts in me won’t die at all, into the age. Do you trust this?” She said to him, “Yes lord, I trust that you are the Anointed, the son of God who is coming into the world.”

   And when she had said these things, she went away and secretly called Maria, her sister, saying, “The teacher is here, and he is calling you.” And when she heard, she got up quickly and went to him. Now Yeshua hadn’t yet come in to the village but he was in the place where Martha had gone out to meet him. Then when the Jews, who were with her in the house, and who were comforting her, saw that Maria got up quickly and went out, they followed her, saying, “She is going off to the tomb so she may weep there.” Then when Maria came to where Yeshua was and saw him, she fell down at his feet, saying to him, “Lord. If you had been here my brother would never have died.” Then when Yeshua saw her weeping, and the Jews who had come with her weeping, he was deeply moved by the spirit, and was disturbed himself.

   And he said, “Where have you laid him?” They said to him, “Lord, come and see.” Yeshua cried. Then the Jews said, “Look how fond he was of him!” But some of them said, “Couldn’t this person who opened the eyes of the blind have also done something so that this person wouldn’t have died?”

   Then, again deeply moved in himself, Yeshua came to the tomb. And it was a cave, and a stone had been placed over it. Yeshua said, “Lift away the stone.” Martha, the sister of the one who had died, said to him, “Lord, it already smells for it is the fourth day.” Yeshua said to her, “Didn’t I say to you that if you trusted you would see the glory of God?” Then they lifted away the stone where the one who had died was lying, and Yeshua lifted his eyes upward and said, “Father. I give thanks to you because you have heard me. And I know that you always hear me, but I said it because of the crowd who are standing here, so that they should trust that you sent me.” And when he had said these things, he cried out in a loud voice, “Lazarus. Come out here.” And the one who had died came out, with his feet and hands bound in strips of linen, and his face wrapped in a napkin. Yeshua said to them, “Untie him and let him go.”

   Then many of the Jews who had come to Maria and had seen what Yeshua had done, trusted in him. But some of them went away to the Pharisees and told them what Yeshua had done. Then the chief priests and the Pharisees gathered together the Sanhedrin and they said, “What will we do? Because this person performs many signs. If we let him go like this all will trust in him, and the Romans will come and they will take away both our place and our nation.”

   But a certain one of them, Caiaphas, who was the chief priest of that year, said to them, “You don’t know anything! Nor do you understand that it is beneficial to us that one person dies for the sake of the people, and not that the whole nation be destroyed.” But he didn’t speak this of himself, but being chief priest of that year he prophesied that Yeshua was about to die for the sake of the nation. And not only for the sake of the nation, but so that he may gather up the children of God who have been scattered abroad, into one.

   Then from that day they conspired together to kill him. Then Yeshua no longer walked openly among those Jews, but he went away from there into the region near the wilderness, into a town called Ephraim, and he stayed there with his disciples. But the Passover of the Jews was near, and many from the region went up into Jerusalem before the Passover so they could purify themselves. Then they looked for Yeshua, and said to one another as they stood in the temple, “What do you suppose? That he might not come to the festival at all?” But the chief priests and the Pharisees had given a command that if anyone knew where he was, they should divulge it so they might seize him.

12   Then, six days before the Passover, Yeshua come to Bethany where Lazarus was, the one who had died, whom Yeshua had raised from the dead. Then they made him a meal^a there and Martha served. And Lazarus was one of those who reclined with him.

   Then Maria took a litra^b of very expensive genuine nard^c perfume, and she anointed the feet of Yeshua and wiped his feet off with her hair. And the house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume. Then one of his disciples, Yehuda of Shimon Iscarioth, who was about to hand him over, said, “Why wasn’t this perfume sold for three hundred denarii^d, and given to the poor?” (But he didn’t say this because he cared about the poor, but because he was a thief, and he had the money bag, and he carried what was put in it). Then Yeshua said, “Pardon her that she kept it for the day of my entombment. For you will always have the poor among you, but you won’t always have me.”

   Then a great crowd of the Jews perceived that he was there, and they came, not only because of Yeshua, but also to see Lazarus whom he had raised from the dead. So the chief priests conspired together to kill Lazarus too. Because many of the Jews went off because of him and trusted in Yeshua.

   The next day a large crowd which had come to the festival heard that Yeshua was coming to Jerusalem. They took fronds from the palm trees and they came out to meet him. And they cried out, “Hosanna^e, blessed is the one who comes in the name of the lord, the king of Yisrael.” And when they had found a donkey, Yeshua sat on it just as it had been written, “Don’t be afraid daughter of Zion^f. Look! Your king is coming sitting on a foal of a donkey.” His disciples didn’t perceive these things at first, but when Yeshua was glorified, then they were reminded that these things had been written about him, and that they had done these things to him.

   Then the crowd who were with him testified that he had called Lazarus out of the tomb and had raised him from the dead. The crowd had also come to meet him because of this, because they had heard that he had done the sign. Then the Pharisees said to themselves, “You see that you aren’t achieving anything. Look, the world has gone off after him.”

   But there were some Greeks among those who had gone up to worship in the festival. They then approached Philippos, who was from Bethsaida in Galilee, and they asked him saying, “Lord, we want to see Yeshua.” Philippos went and told Andreas, and then Andreas and Philippos told Yeshua. But Yeshua answered them saying, “The hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified.

   Amen^g, amen, I say to you, unless the kernel of wheat falls to the ground and dies it remains alone. But if it dies, it bears much fruit. The one who is fond of their life will lose it, but the one who hates their life in this world will keep it into everlasting life. If anyone serves me let them follow me, and where I am my servant will also be there. And if anyone serves me, the father will honour him.

   Now my soul has been disturbed, and what will I say? ‘Father, save me from this hour’? But because of this I came to this hour. Father, glorify your name.” Then a voice came from the sky, “I have glorified it and I will glorify it again.” Then the crowd which had been standing near and had heard it said, “It was thunder.” Others said, “A messenger has spoken to him.” Yeshua answered and said, “This voice didn’t come because of me, but because of you. Now is a judgement of this world. Now the ruler of this world will be thrown outside. And I, if I am lifted up from the earth, I will draw everyone to myself.” (But he said this to signify by what death he was about to die). The crowd answered him, “We heard from the law that the Anointed remains into the age. So how are you saying, ‘The Son of Man must be lifted up’? Who is this Son of Man?”

   Then Yeshua said to them, “The light is among you still a little while. Walk while you have the light so that the darkness might not overtake you. The one who walks in the darkness doesn’t know where he is going. While you have the light, trust in the light so that you may become sons of light.” Yeshua spoke these things and went forth, and he was hidden from them.

   Even though he had done so many of his signs in front of them, they didn’t trust in him, so that the message of Isaiah the prophet might be fulfilled which said, “Lord. Who trusted what we said? And to whom was the arm of the lord revealed?” Because of this they weren’t able to trust, for Isaiah had also said, “He has blinded their eyes and he has hardened their heart, so that they may not see with their eyes and comprehend with their heart, and may turn back and I would heal them.” Isaiah had said these things when he saw his glory, and he spoke about him.

   Nevertheless, even many of the rulers also trusted in him, but because of the Pharisees they didn’t acknowledge it, so that they might not be expelled from the synagogue. For they loved the glory of the people rather than the glory of God. But Yeshua cried out and said, “The one who trusts in me, doesn’t trust in me but in the one who sent me. And the one who looks at me, looks at the one who sent me. I have come as a light into the world so that everyone who trusts in me won’t remain in the darkness. And if anyone hears my declarations and doesn’t trust me, I won’t judge them - for I didn’t come to judge the world, but so that I should save the world. The one who sets me aside and doesn’t accept my declarations has one who judges him - the message which I spoke, that will judge him in the last day because I didn’t speak from myself but from the father who sent me. He himself gave me a command, what I may declare and what I should speak. And I know that his command is everlasting life. Then, what I speak, according to what the father declared to me, I speak in the same way.”

13   And before the festival of the Passover, knowing that his hour had come, that he would cross over out of this world to the father, and having loved his own who were in the world, Yeshua loved them to the end. And during the main meal, (Diabolos^a had already put it into the heart of Yehuda of Shimon Iscarioth to hand him over), Yeshua, (who knew that the father had given all things into his hands, and that he had come from God, and was going away to God), rose up from the meal, lay down his clothes, and he took a towel and girded^b himself. Then he poured water into the basin and began to wash the feet of the disciples, and to wipe them with the towel with which he was girded^b.

   Then he came to Shimon Petros and he [Petros] said to him, “Lord. Are you washing my feet?” Yeshua answered and said to him, “You don’t know what I am doing now, but later you will perceive these things.” Petros said to him, “No, you shouldn’t wash my feet at all, into the age.” Yeshua answered to him, “If I don’t wash you then you have no part with me.” Shimon Petros said to him, “Lord. Not only my feet but also my hands and head!” Yeshua said to him, “The one who has been bathed doesn’t have a need to wash, except the feet, and he is completely clean. And you^c are clean, but not all [of you].” (For he knew the one who was handing him over. Because of this he had said, “Not all of you are clean.”)

   Then when he had washed their feet, and he had taken his clothes and reclined again, he said to them, “Do you perceive what I have done to you? You call me ‘The Teacher’, and ‘The Lord’, and you speak well, for I am. If then I, The Lord and The Teacher, have washed your feet then you also ought to wash one another’s feet. For I gave you an example so that just as I did to you, you should also do.

   Amen^d, amen, I say to you, a slave isn’t greater than their master, neither is an ambassador greater than the one who sent them. If you know these things then you are blessed if you do them. I am not speaking about all of you. I know those whom I have selected, but so that the writing might be fulfilled the one who eats the bread with me has lifted up his heel over me. From now on I say to you, before it comes to pass, so that when it does come to pass you should trust that I am. Amen, amen, I say to you, the one who accepts anyone whom I send, accepts me. And the one who accepts me, accepts the one who sent me.”

   Having said these things, Yeshua was disturbed by the spirit and he testified, and said, “Amen, amen, I say to you that one of you will hand me over.” Then the disciples looked at one another, at a loss about whom he was speaking. But one of his disciples was reclining at the bosom of Yeshua, one whom Yeshua loved. Then Shimon Petros nodded to him to inquire who it might be about whom he was speaking. And leaning back on the chest of Yeshua he said to him, “Lord, who is it?” Yeshua answered him, “It is the one to whom I will give the piece of bread I have dipped. And he dipped the piece of bread and he gave it to Yehuda of Shimon Iscarioth. And after the piece of bread Satan^e entered into him. Then Yeshua said to him, “Do what you are doing quickly.” But nobody who was reclining knew why he said this to him. For some were assuming that since Yehuda had the money bag that Yeshua had said to him “Buy what we have a need for for the festival” or that he should give something to the poor.

   Then he took the piece of bread and he went out straightaway. And it was night. When he had gone, Yeshua said, “Now the Son of Man is glorified, and God is glorified in him. If God is glorified in him, God will also glorify him in himself, and he will glorify him straightaway. Little children. I am among you still a little while. You will seek me and just as I said to those Jews, ‘You aren’t able to go where I am going.’ I also say it to you now. I give you a new command, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you so you should also love one another. In this everyone will perceive that you are disciples to me, if you have love for one another.”

   Shimon Petros said to him, “Lord, where are you going?” Yeshua answered to him, “Where I am going you aren’t able to follow me now, but later you will follow me.” Petros said to him, “Lord, why can’t I follow you now? I will lay down my life for your sake.” Yeshua answered him, “You will lay down your life for my sake. Amen, amen, I say to you the rooster won’t crow until you have renounced me three times.”

14   “Don’t let your heart be disturbed. Trust in God and trust in me. In my father’s house there are many places to stay. (If not I would have told you). I am going to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you then I will come again and take you to myself, so that you may also be where I am. You know where I am going, and you know the way.” Thomas said to him, “Lord, we don’t know where you are going, so how can we know the way?” Yeshua said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. Nobody comes to the father except through me.

   If you had perceived me, you would have perceived my father. And from now on you do perceive him and you have seen him.” Philippos said to him, “Lord, show us the father and it is enough for us.” Yeshua said to him, “I am among you such a long time and you haven’t perceived me Philippos? The one who has seen me has seen the father. How can you say, ‘Show us the father’? Don’t you trust that I am in the father and the father is in me? I don’t speak the declarations which I say to you from myself. But the father who remains in me does the works himself. Trust me that I am in the father and the father is in me. And if not, trust me because of the works themselves.

   Amen^a, amen, I say to you, the one who trusts in me will also do the works which I do, and they will do greater than these because I am going to my father. And whatever you request in my name I will do, so the father will be glorified in the son. If you request anything in my name, I will do it.

   If you love me, keep my commands. And I will ask the father, and he will give another assister to you so that he may remain among you, into the age - the spirit of truth, whom the world isn’t able to accept because it doesn’t look at him, nor does it perceive him. But you^b perceive him because he remains with you, and will be among you. I won’t leave you orphaned. I will come to you. Still a little while and the world will no longer look upon me. But you look upon me because I am alive, and you will be alive. On that day you will perceive that I am in my father, and you are in me, and I am in you.

   The one who has my commands and keeps them is the one who loves me. And the one who loves me will be loved by my father, and I will love them and will disclose myself to them. Yehuda, (not Iscarioth), said to him, “Lord, how is it that you are about to disclose yourself to us but not to the world?” Yeshua answered and said to him, “If anyone loves me they will keep my message, and my father will love them, and we will come to them and make a place to stay with them. The one who doesn’t love me doesn’t keep my messages. And the message which you hear isn’t mine, but the father’s who sent me.

   I have said these things to you while staying with you. But the assister, the holy spirit, whom the father will send in my name, will teach you all things and he will remind you of all the things which I said to you. I leave peace with you. I give you my peace. I don’t give to you in the way the world gives. Don’t let your heart be disturbed, nor let it be afraid because you heard what I said to you, ‘I am going away and I am coming back to you’. If you loved me you would have rejoiced that I said, ‘I am going to the father’, because my father is greater than me. And now I have told you before it comes to pass, so that when it does come to pass you should trust. I won’t talk with you much longer, for the ruler of the world is coming and he doesn’t have anything in me. But so that the world may perceive that I love the father, and that I do things just as the father directs me to do - get up, let us go from here.”

15   “I am the true grape vine, and my father is the farmer. He takes away every branch in me which isn’t bearing fruit. And he prunes every one which is bearing fruit so that it bears more fruit. You are already pruned because of the message which I have spoken to you. Remain in me and I in you. Just as the branch isn’t able to bear fruit from itself unless it remains in the vine, so in the same way, neither are you unless you remain in me. I am the grape vine, you are the branches. The one who remains in me, and I in them, bears much fruit - for without me you aren’t able to do anything. Unless anyone remains in me they are thrown out like a branch, and they wither, and they are gathered together, and they are thrown into the fire and burned. If you remain in me, and my declarations remain among you, you will request whatever you want and it will come to pass for you. In this my father is glorified, that you bear much fruit and become disciples to me.

   Just as the father has loved me, I have also loved you. Remain in my love. If you keep my commands you will remain in my love, just as I have kept the commands of my father and I remain in his love. I have told you these things so that my joy might remain among you, and so that your joy may be made complete.

   This is my command, that you love one another just as I have loved you. Nobody has greater love than this, that someone should lay down his life for the sake of his friends. You are my friends if you do whatever I direct you. I no longer call you slaves because the slave doesn’t know what his master does. But I call you friends because I have made everything which I heard from my father known to you. You didn’t select me, but I selected you. And I appointed you so that you would go off and bear fruit, and that your fruit might remain, so that the father might give you whatever you request from him in my name. I am commanding you these things so that you love one another.

   If the world hates you, you perceive that it hated me before it hated you. If you were from the world, the world would be fond of its own, but because you aren’t from the world, but I selected you out of the world, the world hates you because of this. Recall the message which I said to you, ‘A slave isn’t greater than his master’. If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they keep my message, they will keep yours too. But they will do all these things to you because of my name, because they don’t know the one who sent me.

   If I hadn’t come and spoken to them, they wouldn’t have had sin, but now they don’t have an excuse for their sin. The one who hates me also hates my father. If I hadn’t done the works among them which nobody else has done, they wouldn’t have had sin, but now they have both seen and hated both me and my father. (So that the message which has been written in their law might be fulfilled, ‘They hated me for no reason’). But when the assister comes, whom I will send to you from the father - the spirit of truth who is with the father - when he is sent out he will testify about me. And you also testify because you have been with me from the beginning.

16   “I have told you these things so that you might not be stumbled^a. They will expel you from the synagogues, and an hour is coming when everyone who kills you will assume they are offering service to God. And they will do these things to you because they haven’t perceived the father, nor me. But I have told you these things so that when the hour comes, you may recall them, that I have said them to you. But I didn’t say these things to you from the beginning because I was among you. But now I am going away to the one who sent me, and none of you asks me, ‘Where are you going?’ But because I have told you these things, sadness has filled your heart.

   But I say the truth to you, it is beneficial to you that I go away, for if I don’t go away the assister won’t come to you. But if I go away, I will send him to you. And when he has come, he will expose the world concerning sin, and concerning righteousness, and concerning judgement. Concerning sin indeed, because they don’t trust in me. And concerning righteousness because I am going away to my father and you will no longer look upon me. And concerning judgement because the ruler of this world has been judged.

   I still have much to say to you, but you aren’t able to bear it at present. And when he, the spirit of truth, comes he will guide you into all the truth, for he won’t speak from himself, but he will speak whatever he hears, and he will report to you things which are to come. He will glorify me because he will receive from me and report it to you. All things, whatever the father has, are mine. Because of this I have said that he will receive from me and report to you.

   A little while and you will no longer look upon me, and again a little while and you will see me, because I am going away to the father.” Then some of his disciples said to one another, “What is this that he is saying to us, ‘A little while and you will no longer look upon me, and again a little while and you will see me’, and ‘because I am going away to the father’?” Then they said, “What is this which he is saying, ‘A little while’. We don’t know what he is talking about.” Then Yeshua perceived that they wanted to ask him, and he said to them, “Are you seeking this with one another because I have said ‘a little while and you will no longer look upon me, and again a little while and you will see me’? Amen^b, amen, I say to you that you will weep and wail but the world will rejoice. And you will be saddened, but your sadness will become joy.

   A woman, when she is giving birth, has sadness because her hour has come, but when she gives birth to the little child, she no longer recalls the duress because of the joy that a person was born into the world. And you then, now you indeed have sadness, but I will see you again and your heart will rejoice, and nobody takes your joy away from you. And in that day you won’t ask me anything.

   Amen, amen, I say to you that whatever you request from the father in my name he will give to you. Until now you haven’t requested anything in my name. Request and you will receive, so that your joy may be made complete. I have told you these things in allegories, but an hour is coming when I will no longer talk to you in allegories, but I will report plainly to you about the father. In that day you will request in my name. And I am not saying to you that I will ask the father about you. For the father himself is fond of you, because you have been fond of me, and you have trusted that I came from being with God. I came from being with the father and I have come into the world. Again, I am leaving the world and I am going to the father.”

   His disciples said to him, “Look! Now you are talking plainly and not speaking an allegory. Now we know that you know all things, and that you have no need for anyone to ask you. In this we trust that you came from God.” Yeshua answered them, “Now you trust! Look! An hour is coming and has now come that you will be scattered, each one to his own. And you will leave me alone, but I am not alone because the father is with me. I have told you these things so that in me you might have peace. In the world you have duress, but have courage, I have conquered the world.”

17   When he had said these things, Yeshua lifted his eyes up to the sky and said, “Father, the hour has come. Glorify your son so that your son may glorify you. Just as you gave him authority over all flesh so that he will give everlasting life to all whom you have given to him. And this is everlasting life, that they may perceive you, the only true God, and Yeshua the Anointed whom you have sent.

   I have glorified you on the earth. I have finished the work which you have given me to do. And now father, glorify me with yourself, to the glory which I had with you before the world was. I have manifested your name to those people whom you gave me from the world. They were yours and you gave them to me, and they have kept your message. Now they have perceived that all things, whatever you have given to me, are with you. Because I have given them the declarations which you have given me, and they have accepted them. And they have perceived that I truly came from being with you, and they have trusted that you sent me.

   I ask about them, I don’t ask about the world but about those whom you have given to me, because they are yours. And all mine are yours, and yours are mine, and I have been glorified among them. And I am no longer in the world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to you holy father. Keep them, those whom you have given me, in your name so that they may be one just as we are. When I was with them in the world, I kept them in your name. I guarded those whom you have given me, and none of them was lost, except the son of destruction, so that the writing may be fulfilled.

   But now I am coming to you and I say these things in the world so that they may have my joy completed among them. I have given them your message and the world hates them because they aren’t of the world, just as I am not of the world. I am not asking that you should lift them out of the world, but that you should keep them from the wicked one. They aren’t of the world, just as I am not of the world. Make them holy in your truth. Your message is the truth. Just as you sent me into the world, I have also sent them into the world. And for their sake I make myself holy so that they themselves may be made holy in the truth.

   And I am not only asking about them, but also about those who trust in me through their message. That they all may be one just as you father are in me, and I am in you. That they also may be one in us so that the world should trust that you sent me. And the glory which you gave me, I have also given to them so that they may be one just as we are one. I in them and you in me, so that they may be made complete in one, and so that the world may perceive that you sent me, and that you have loved them just as you have loved me.

   Father, for those whom you have given to me, I want that where I am they may be with me, so that they may look upon my glory, which you have given me because you loved me before the foundation of the world. Righteous father, the world hasn’t perceived you, but I have perceived you, and these have perceived that you sent me. And I have made your name known to them, and I will make it known that the love with which you have loved me may be among them, and I also may be among them.”

18   When he had said these things, Yeshua went off with his disciples to the other side of the winter flow of the Kedron, where there was a garden which he and his disciples went into. But Yehuda, the one who was handing him over, knew that place because Yeshua had gathered there many times with his disciples. Then Yehuda took the troops [Roman] and the attendants of the chief priests and the Pharisees, and they went there with torches, and lamps, and weapons.

   Then Yeshua, who knew everything that was coming upon him, went out and said to them, “Whom are you seeking?” They answered him, “Yeshua the Nazarene.” Yeshua said to them, “I am him.” And Yehuda, the one who handed him over, was standing there with them. So when he said to them, “I am him”, they drew back and fell to the ground. Then he questioned them again, “Whom are you seeking?” And they said, “Yeshua the Nazarene.” Yeshua answered, “I told you that I am him. If you are seeking me, then allow these to go away.” (So that the message may be fulfilled which he had said, “I haven’t lost one of those whom you have given to me.”)

   Then Shimon Petros, who had a sword, drew it and struck the slave of the chief priest, cutting off his right ear. (The name of the slave was Malchus.) Then Yeshua said to Petros, “Put your sword back into the scabbard. Will I not drink the cup which the father has given to me at all?” Then the troops, and the commander^a, and the attendants of the Jews, together took Yeshua and bound him. And first they led him away to Annas, for he was the father-in-law of Caiaphas, who was the chief priest of that year. But Caiaphas was the one who had advised the Jews that it was beneficial for one person to be destroyed for the sake of the people.

   And Shimon Petros and the other disciple were following Yeshua, and that disciple was known to the chief priest and he entered into the courtyard of the chief priest together with Yeshua. But Petros stood outside at the gate. Then the other disciple who was known to the chief priest, went out and spoke to the gatekeeper, and he brought Petros inside. Then the slave girl who was the gatekeeper said to Petros, “You aren’t also one of the disciples of this person, are you?” He said, “I am not.” And the slaves and the attendants were standing there, (having made a fire of coals because it was cold), and they warmed themselves. And Petros was standing with them and warming himself.

   Then the chief priest asked Yeshua about his disciples and about his teaching. Yeshua answered him, “I have spoken openly to the world. I always taught in a synagogue, and in the temple where the Jews are always coming together, and I haven’t spoken anything in secret. Why are you questioning me? Question those who have heard what I said to them. Look! These are aware of what I said.” And when he had said these things, one of the attendants who was standing nearby gave Yeshua a slap to the face, saying, “You are answering the chief priest like this?” Yeshua answered him, “If I spoke evilly, then testify about the evil, but if good, then why do you whip me?”

   Then Annas sent him off, having been bound, to Caiaphas the chief priest. But Shimon Petros was standing and warming himself. Then they said to him, “You aren’t also one of his disciples, are you?” Then he denied it and he said, “I am not.” One of the slaves of the chief priest, a relative of the one whose ear Petros had cut off, said “Didn’t I see you in the garden with him?” Then again Petros denied it. And straightaway a rooster crowed.

   Then they led Yeshua from Caiaphas into the governor’s residence. But it was early morning and they themselves didn’t enter into the governor’s residence so they would not be defiled, and so they may eat the Passover. Then Pilate came out to them and said, “What accusation do you bring against this person?” And they answered and said to him, “If this wasn’t an evildoer we wouldn’t have handed him over to you.” Then Pilate said to them, “You take him, and judge him according to your law.” Then the Jews said to him, “We are not permitted to kill anyone.” (So that the message of Yeshua might be fulfilled which he had said signifying what kind of death he was about to die).

   Then Pilate entered into the governor’s residence again and called Yeshua, and said to him, “You are the king of the Jews?” Yeshua answered him, “Do you say this from yourself or have others told you about me?” Pilate answered, “I’m not a Jew am I? Your nation and the chief priests handed you over to me. What did you do?” Yeshua answered, “My kingdom isn’t of this world. If my kingdom was of this world then my attendants would have fought so that I wouldn’t have been handed over to the Jews. But now, my kingdom is not from here.” Then Pilate said to him, “Then you are a king?” Yeshua answered, “You are saying that I am a king. For this I have been born, and for this I have come into the world, so that I should testify to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth hears my voice.” Pilate said to him, “What is truth?”

   And when he had said this, he went out again to the Jews and said to them, “I find no blame in him.” But it is a custom for you that I should release one person to you during the Passover. Do you intend that I should release the king of the Jews to you then?” Then they all cried out again, saying, “Not this one, but Barabbas^b!” But Barabbas was a robber.

19   Therefore then Pilate took Yeshua and flogged him. And the soldiers plaited a wreath from thornbushes and they placed it on his head, and they threw a purple cloak around him. And they said, “Rejoice. King of the Jews.” and they gave him slaps to the face.

   Then Pilate went outside again and said to them, “Look! I am bringing him outside to you so that you may perceive that I find no blame in him.” Then Yeshua came outside wearing the thorny wreath and the purple cloak and he said to them, “Look! The person.” Then, when the chief priests and the attendants saw him, they cried out, saying, “Execute^a! Execute him!” Pilate said to them, “You take him yourselves and execute^a him because I don’t find any blame in him.” The Jews answered him, “We have a law, and according to our law he ought to die because he made himself son of God.” Then, when Pilate heard this message he was even more afraid.

   And he entered into the residence again and said to Yeshua, “Where are you from?” But Yeshua didn’t give him an answer. Then Pilate said to him, “You aren’t talking to me? Don’t you know that I have authority to execute^a you, and I have authority to release you?” Yeshua answered, “You would have no authority against me at all unless it had been given to you from above. Because of this, the one who handed me over to you has a greater sin.”

   From then on Pilate sought to release him. But the Jews cried out saying, “If you release this person then you aren’t a friend of Caesar. Everyone who makes themselves king opposes Caesar.” Then when Pilate heard this message he led Yeshua outside, and he sat on the judgement platform, in the place called “The Pavement”, but in Hebrew “Gabbatha”^b. And it was the preparation for the Passover, and it was about the sixth hour^c and he said to the Jews, “Look! Your king.” But they cried out, “Take him away! Take him away! Execute^a him!” Pilate said to them, “Shall I execute^a your king?” The chief priests answered, “We don’t have a king, except Caesar.” Therefore then, he handed him over to them so that he would be executed^a. And they took Yeshua and led him away.

   And carrying his stake^d, he went out to a place called The Skull, a place which in Hebrew is called Golgotha^e, where they executed^a him and two others with him, one on each side with Yeshua in the middle. And Pilate also wrote an inscription and put it above the stake^d. And “Yeshua, the Nazarene, the king of the Jews” had been written there. Then many of the Jews read this inscription because the place where Yeshua was executed^a was near the town, and it had been written in Hebrew, Greek and Latin^f. Then the chief priests of the Jews said to Pilate, “You shouldn’t write ‘The king of the Jews’, but that he said ‘I am king of the Jews.’” Pilate answered, “What I have written, I have written.”

   Then when the soldiers had executed^a Yeshua, they took his clothes and made four shares, one share for each soldier, and also the tunic. But the tunic was seamless, woven in one piece from the top down, so they said to one another, “We shouldn’t tear it, but we should draw lots about whose it will be.” (So that the writing may be fulfilled which says, “They distributed my clothes among themselves and cast a lot on my garment). Then the soldiers indeed did these things.

   And beside the stake^d of Yeshua stood his mother, and his mother’s sister, Maria of Clopas, and Maria the Magdalene^g. Then when Yeshua saw his mother, and the disciple whom he loved standing by, he said to his mother, “Woman. Look! Your son.” After that he said to the disciple, “Look! Your mother.” And from that hour the disciple took her as his own.

   After this, knowing that everything had already been finished, so that the writing would be fulfilled, Yeshua said, “I am thirsty.” Then there was a vessel filled with cheap wine laying there, and when they had filled a sponge with wine, and had put it on a hyssop branch, they held it up to his mouth. Then, when he took the wine, Yeshua said, “It has been finished”, and he lowered his head and he handed over the spirit.

   Then, so that the bodies wouldn’t remain on the stake^d on the Sabbath, (since it was preparation, for that Sabbath was a great day^h), the Jews asked Pilate that their legs would be broken, and they might be taken away. Then the soldiers came and indeed broke the legs of the first one, and of the other one who was executed^a with him. But when they came to Yeshua, they saw that he had already died, and they didn’t break his legs. But one of the soldiers punctured his side with a spear, and straightaway blood and water came out.

   And the one who has seen has testified, and his testimony is true, and he knows that what he speaks is true, so that you should trust. For these things came to be so that the writing may be fulfilled, “Not a bone from him will be crushed.” And again, another writing says, “They will look on him whom they pierced.”

   And after these things, Yosef from Arimathea, who was a disciple of Yeshua, (but secretly for fear of the Jews), asked Pilate that he could take away the body of Yeshua. And Pilate permitted him. Then he came and took away the body of Yeshua. And Nicodemus also came, the one who first went to Yeshua at night, carrying a mixture of about a hundred litraⁱ of myrrh and aloe, [about fifty kilograms]. Then they took they body of Yeshua, and they bound it in strips of linen cloth with the spices, as was the custom of the Jews for burial. And in the place where he was executed^a there was a garden, and in the garden there was a new tomb in which no one had yet been placed. Then they placed Yeshua there, because of the preparation of the Jews, and because the tomb was nearby.

20   But on the Sunday^a Maria the Magdalene^b came to the tomb in the morning, while it was still dark. And she saw that the stone had been taken away from the tomb. Then she came running to Shimon Petros and the other disciple whom Yeshua was fond of, and said to them, “They have carried off the lord from the tomb and we don’t know where they have placed him.” Then Petros and the other disciple went out and went to the tomb.

   And the two ran together, but the other disciple ran quickly ahead of Petros and he came to the tomb first. And when he peered in he observed the strips of linen lying there. But he didn’t however enter in. Then Shimon Petros came following him, and he entered into the tomb and looked at the strips of linen cloth lying there. And the napkin which had been on his head wasn’t lying with the strips of linen cloth, but it was separate and had been folded up in one place. Therefore then the other disciple, who had come to the tomb first, entered in. And he saw, and he trusted. (For they didn’t yet know the writing that he must rise from the dead).

   Then the disciples went away again to their own. But Maria stood outside the tomb weeping. And as she wept she stooped sideways to look into the tomb. And she looked upon two messengers in white, who were sitting, one near the head, and one near the feet, where the body of Yeshua had been laid. And they said to her, “Woman. Why are you weeping?” She said to them, “Because they have carried my lord away and I don’t know where they have placed him.” And when she had said these things, she turned around and saw Yeshua standing there, (but she didn’t realise that it was Yeshua). Yeshua said to her, “Woman. Why are you weeping? Who are you seeking?” Assuming that he was the gardener, she said to him, “Lord, if you carried him, tell me where you placed him, and I will take him away.” Yeshua said to her, “Maria!” She turned and said to him, “Rabboni”, which means “Teacher”. Yeshua said to her, “Don’t touch me because I haven’t yet ascended to my father, but go to my brothers and tell them I am ascending to my father, and your father, and my god and your god.” Maria the Magdalene^b came and reported to the disciples that she had seen the lord and that he had said these things to her.

   Then, when it was evening of the day which was Sunday^a, and the doors had been locked where the disciples had been gathered, (through fear of the Jews), Yeshua came and stood in the middle and said to them, “Peace to you.” And when he had said this he showed them his hands and his side. Then the disciples rejoiced when they had seen the lord. Then Yeshua said to them again, “Peace to you. Just as the father has sent me, I also send you.” And when he had said this, he blew on them and he said, “Receive the holy spirit^c. If you pardon the sins of any, they are pardoned. If you hold on to the sins of any, they are held.”

   But Thomas, one of the twelve, the one called Didymus^d, wasn’t with them when Yeshua came. Then the other disciples said to him, “We saw the lord.” But he said to them, “Unless I see the mark of the nails in his hands, and push my finger into the mark of the nails, and I push my hand into his side, I won’t trust at all.” And eight days later his disciples were again inside, and Thomas was with them. And Yeshua came, (the doors had been locked), and stood in the middle, and he said, “Peace to you.” Then he said to Thomas, “Bring your finger here and see my hands. And bring your hand and push it into my side, and don’t become untrusting, but trusting.” And Thomas answered and said to him, “My lord, and my god.” Yeshua said to him, “You trust because you have seen me. Those who haven’t seen me and have trusted are blessed.”

   Then indeed Yeshua did many other signs in front of his disciples which haven’t been written in this scroll. But these things have been written so that you should trust that Yeshua is the Anointed, the son of God, and that when you trust you may have life in his name.

21   After these things Yeshua manifested himself again to the disciples at the Sea of Tiberias. And he manifested himself in this way: Shimon Petros, and Thomas, the one called Didymus^a, and Nathanael, the one from Cana in Galilee, and the sons of Zebedee, and two others of his disciples were together. Shimon Petros said to them, “I’m going off to fish.” They said to him, “We’re coming with you too.” And they went off and got into the boat straightaway, and during that night they caught nothing. But when morning had already come, Yeshua stood on the shore. (The disciples however didn’t know that it was Yeshua). Then Yeshua said to them, “Little children. You don’t have anything to eat do you?” They answered him, “No.” But he said to them, “Throw the net to the right of the boat and you will find some.” Then they threw it, and they were no longer able to pull it in because of the multitude of the fish^b.

   Then the disciple whom Yeshua loved said to Petros, “It is the lord.” Then when Shimon Petros heard that it was the lord, he girded^c his robe, (for he was naked), and threw himself into the sea. But the other disciples came in the skiff, (for they weren’t far from the land - only around two hundred cubits^d [about a hundred meters]), dragging the net of fish^b. Then, when they stepped out onto the land, they saw a fire of coals there, with small fish^e laid on it, and bread. Yeshua said to them, “Bring some of the small fish^e which you just caught.” Shimon Petros went up and pulled the net onto the land, filled with large fish^b, (a hundred and fifty three). And although there were so many the net wasn’t torn.

   Yeshua said to them, “Come here and eat breakfast.” But none of the disciples dared to question him, “Who are you?”, knowing that he was the lord. Then Yeshua came and took the bread and gave it to them, and did the same with the small fish^e. This was already the third time Yeshua was manifested to his disciples when he had been raised from the dead.

   Then when they had eaten, Yeshua said to Shimon Petros, “Shimon, of Yonah, do you love me more than these?” He said to him, “Yes lord, you know that I am fond of you.” He said to him, “Graze my lambs.” He said to him again a second time, “Shimon, of Yonah, do you love me?” He said to him, “Yes lord, you know that I am fond of you.” He said to him, “Shepherd my sheep.” The third time he said to him, “Shimon of Yonah, are you fond of me?” Petros was saddened because the third time he had said to him, “Are you fond of me?” and he said to him, “Lord, you know everything. You perceive that I am fond of you.” Yeshua said to him, “Graze my sheep.

   Amen^f, amen, I say to you, when you were younger you girded yourself and you walked where you wanted. But when you grow old you will stretch out your hands and another will gird^f you and they will take you where you don’t want to go.” And he said this to signify by what kind of death he will glorify God. And when he had said this, he said to him, “Follow me.”

   But when he turned around Petros observed the disciple whom Yeshua loved following them, (the one who had also reclined on his chest during the meal, and had said, “Lord, who is the one who is handing you over?”). And when he saw him, Petros said to Yeshua, “Lord, and what about him?” Yeshua said to him, “If I want him to remain until I come, what is that to you? You follow me.” Then this story went out among the brothers that that disciple wouldn’t die. But Yeshua hadn’t said that he wouldn’t die, but “If I want him to remain until I come, what is that to you?” This is the disciple who is testifying about these things, and who wrote these things. And we know that his testimony is true. And there are also many other things which Yeshua did. Things which, if they were written down one by one, I imagine that the world itself wouldn’t have enough room for the scrolls which were written.

   Amen^g.