The Gospel According to John

The “Berkeley Version”

Part 2 – Chapters 11-21

Chapter Eleven

A man by the name of Lazarus, of Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha, was ill.—²The Mary whose brother Lazarus was ill, was the one who anointed the Lord with perfume and wiped His feet with her hair.—³So the sisters sent Him a message: “Lord, mind that the one you love is ill.” ⁴Hearing it, Jesus said, “This illness is not to culminate in death; but it is for the glory of God, so that through it the Son of God may be glorified.”

⁵Now Jesus was a dear friend to Martha and her sister and Lazarus; ⁶so when He heard that he was ill, He stayed at the place where He was two more days ⁷and, with those ended, He said to the disciples, “Let us go back into Judea.” ⁸The disciples told Him, “Rabbi, as it is, the Jews want to stone you, and you go back there?” ⁹Jesus replied, “Are there not twelve hours in the day? If one walks about during the day he does not stumble, for he sees the world’s light; ¹⁰but if he walks about during the night, he stumbles because in him there is no light.”

¹¹He said this to them and then added, “Our friend Lazarus is asleep, but I am setting out to wake him up.” ¹²The disciples remarked to Him, “Lord, if he is sleeping, he will recover”; ¹³but Jesus had spoken of his death. As they supposed He spoke about the repose of sleep, ¹⁴Jesus then told them plainly: “Lazarus is dead, ¹⁵and for your sakes I am glad I was not present, so that you may believe. However, let us go to him.”

¹⁶Thomas—called the Twin—then said to his fellow disciples, “Let us go, too, so that we may die with him.”

¹⁷When Jesus arrived, He found that he had already been buried for four days. ¹⁸Now Bethany is near Jerusalem, about two miles distance; ¹⁹so, many of the Jews had gone in with Martha and Mary to console them about their brother. ²⁰As soon then as Martha learned that Jesus had come, she went to meet Him; but Mary was sitting in the house.

²¹Then Martha accosted Jesus, “Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died, ²²and I know that even now whatever you ask of God He will grant you.” ²³Jesus said to her, “Your brother will rise again.” ²⁴Martha replied, “I know that he will rise again in the resurrection on the Last Day.” ²⁵Jesus assured her, “I am the Resurrection and the Life; the believer in Me will live even when he dies, ²⁶and everyone who lives and believes in Me shall never, never die. Do you believe this?” ²⁷She responded, “Yes, Lord, I have faith that Thou art the Christ, the Son of God, who was to come into the world.”

²⁸This said, she went off and called her sister Mary with the private message, “The Teacher is here and He calls you!” ²⁹Hurriedly Mary arose when she heard it and went to Him; ³⁰but Jesus had not yet entered the village; He was still at the spot where Martha had met Him.

³¹As the Jews, who were with her in the house to comfort her, noticed that Mary got up quickly and left, they followed her, supposing she went out to the tomb to weep there. ³²Mary, however, when she arrived at the place where Jesus was and saw Him, fell at His feet with the words, “Lord, had you been here, my brother would not have died.” ³³Then Jesus, when He saw her weeping, as well as the weeping Jews that came along with her, was deeply indignant in spirit and disquieted.

³⁴He asked, “Where did you lay him away?” They told Him, “Lord, come and see!” ³⁵Jesus wept. ³⁶The Jews then remarked, “Notice how he loved him!” ³⁷But some of them said, “Could not he, the opener of the blind man’s eyes, have prevented his death?”

³⁸Again deeply vexed inwardly, Jesus approached the tomb; it was a cave with a stone laid against it. ³⁹Jesus said, “Remove the stone.” Martha, sister of the deceased, said to Him, “Lord, by now there is an odor, for it is four days.” ⁴⁰Jesus said to her, “Did I not tell you, if you will believe you will see the glory of God?” ⁴¹So they removed the stone.

Then Jesus raised His eyes on high and said: “Father, I thank Thee for having heard Me, ⁴²and I know that Thou always dost hear Me; but on account of the people around here I spoke, so that they may believe that Thou hast sent Me.”

⁴³This said, He called out strongly, “Lazarus, come out!” ⁴⁴Out came the one who had died, feet and hands tied with bandages and his face wrapped in a towel. Jesus told them, “Untie him and give him a chance to move.”

⁴⁵Then many of the Jews, who had visited Mary and had observed what He had done, believed in Him; ⁴⁶but some of them went off to the Pharisees and informed them of Jesus’ activities. ⁴⁷So the chief priests and the Pharisees summoned the Sanhedrin and said, “What shall we do? For this man performs numerous signs. ⁴⁸If we let him go on this way, everyone will believe in him, and the Romans will come to take away from us both place and people.” ⁴⁹But one of them, Caiaphas, that year’s high priest, suggested to them, “You do not know a thing; ⁵⁰you do not reason out that it is preferable for you to have one person die on behalf of the people, rather than have the whole nation ruined.”

⁵¹He said this not from his own initiative but, being that year’s high priest, he foretold how Jesus was to die for the nation, ⁵²and not alone for the nation, but to gather into unison all the scattered children of God.

⁵³From that day on, therefore, they laid plans to kill Him. ⁵⁴So Jesus no longer went around openly among the Jews, but withdrew to the country near the desert, to a town called Ephraim, and there He stayed with the disciples.

⁵⁵The Jews’ Passover was approaching, and many went up from the country to Jerusalem to consecrate themselves for the Passover; ⁵⁶so they looked for Jesus and remarked as they were standing together in the temple: “What do you think? Is he not coming to the Feast?” ⁵⁷But the chief priests and the Pharisees had given orders that, if anyone knew where He was, he should report so that they might get hold of Him.

 

Chapter Twelve

Six days previous to the Passover, Jesus came to Bethany where Lazarus lived whom Jesus had raised from the dead. ²There they prepared a supper for Him and Martha waited tables while Lazarus was among those reclining with Him.

³Then Mary, procuring a pound of costly perfume, purest nard, anointed the feet of Jesus and dried His feet with her hair. So the house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume.

⁴But Judas Iscariot, one of His disciples—who was to betray Him—said, ⁵“For what reason was not this perfume sold at 300 denares and that donated to the poor?” ⁶He did not say this because he cared for the poor, but because he was a thief; he had charge of the money-bag and pilfered the collections. ⁷Then Jesus said, “Let her alone. She took care of it against the day of My burial. ⁸For the poor you have always with you, but Me you do not always have.”

⁹Then a great crowd of Jews learned that He was there and came not merely on account of Jesus, but also to see Lazarus whom He had raised from the dead. ¹⁰But the chief priests made plans to kill Lazarus, too; ¹¹for many of the Jews went out on his account and believed in Jesus.

¹²Next day an immense body of people, who were coming to the Feast, heard that Jesus was on the way to Jerusalem, ¹³so they took palm branches and went out to meet Him, shouting all the while: “Hosanna! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord, even the King of Israel!” ¹⁴And, finding a young donkey, Jesus rode it, as it is written, ¹⁵Have no fear, daughter of Zion! See, your king is coming, seated on an ass’ colt. ¹⁶At first His disciples did not understand this, but when Jesus had been glorified, they remembered how this had been written of Him and how this they had done to Him.

¹⁷The people who were with Him when He called Lazarus from the tomb and raised him from the dead, bore witness about it, ¹⁸and for that reason the crowd went out to meet Him; for they had heard that He had performed this sign. ¹⁹Then the Pharisees said among themselves, “You see how you are getting nowhere! Look, the world is running after him!”

²⁰There were certain Greeks among those going up to worship at the Feast, ²¹who came to Philip of Bethsaida in Galilee and asked him, “Sir, we want to see Jesus.” ²²Philip came and told Andrew; then Andrew and Philip went to let Jesus know. ²³Jesus answered them, “The hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified. ²⁴Truly I assure you, unless the grain of wheat that drops into the earth, dies, it remains single, but if it dies, it produces a rich yield. ²⁵The lover of his life loses it, and the hater of his life in this world preserves it for eternal life. ²⁶Let one who serves Me follow Me; then where I am, there too will My servant be. If one serves Me, the Father will honor him.

²⁷“Now is my soul disturbed, and what shall I say? ‘Father, save Me from this hour?’ But for this I came to this hour. ²⁸Father, glorify Thy name!”

Then a voice came from heaven, “I have glorified it and shall glorify it again!” ²⁹The people that stood and listened said, “It thundered!” Others said, “An angel spoke to him!” ³⁰Jesus replied, “This voice did not come for My sake but for yours. ³¹Now is this world’s sentence; now shall the ruler of this world be expelled, ³²and I, when I am lifted up from the earth, shall draw everyone to Myself.” ³³This He said signifying what kind of death He was to die.

³⁴The people came back at Him, “We have learned from the Law that the Christ remains forever, and how can you say that the Son of Man must be ‘lifted up’? Who is this ‘Son of Man’?” ³⁵So Jesus told them, “For a little while the Light still shines among you; walk while you have the Light so that darkness may not overtake you. One who walks in darkness does not know where he is going. ³⁶While you have the Light, put faith in the Light so you may become sons of the Light.”

After saying this, Jesus went away and hid from them. ³⁷But in spite of all the signs He had done in their presence, they put no faith in Him; ³⁸so that the saying of Isaiah the prophet was fulfilled: Lord, who has believed our report and to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed? ³⁹For this reason they could not believe, for again Isaiah said: ⁴⁰He has blinded their eyes and has calloused their hearts, so they may neither see with their eyes nor understand in their hearts and repent and I should heal them. ⁴¹Isaiah said this, for he saw His glory and spoke of Him.

⁴²Nevertheless, many even of the leaders believed in Him but, due to the Pharisees, failed to confess it so they might not be put out of the synagogue; ⁴³for they preferred men’s esteem to divine approval.

⁴⁴But Jesus strongly called out: “The believer in Me does not believe in Me but in My Sender, ⁴⁵and one looking on Me looks on My Sender. ⁴⁶I am come into the world a Light, so that no believer in Me may remain in the dark. ⁴⁷And if anyone hears My teachings and fails to observe them, I pass no sentence on him; for I did not come to judge the world but to save the world. ⁴⁸He who rejects Me and does not accept My teachings has his judge: My spoken word, it shall sentence him on the Last Day. ⁴⁹For I have not spoken of My own accord, but the Father who sent Me, He gave Me orders what to declare and what to talk over. ⁵⁰I know, too, that His bidding means eternal life; so, what I relate I discuss, just as the Father has told Me.”

 

Chapter Thirteen

Before the Passover Feast, Jesus, aware that for Him the time had come to leave this world for the Father, showed His own whom He loved in the world that He loved them to the end. ²At supper time, when the devil had already poured the purpose into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son, to betray Him, ³Jesus, conscious that the Father placed everything into His hands and that He came from God and was going to God, ⁴rose from the table, put away His robe and, taking a towel, girded Himself. ⁵Then He poured water into the basin and began to wash the feet of the disciples and to dry them with the towel with which He was girded.

⁶So He approached Simon Peter who told Him, “Lord, you wash my feet?” ⁷Jesus answered him, “Just now you do not understand what I do, but you will know later on.” ⁸Peter rejoined, “You shall never, never wash my feet!” To which Jesus replied, “If I do not wash you, you are not sharing with Me.” ⁹Simon Peter said to Him, “Lord, not only my feet but also my hands and my head!” ¹⁰“A bathed person,” Jesus assured him, does not need to be washed further (than the feet), but is completely cleansed, and you are cleansed—but not all of you.” ¹¹For He knew His betrayer; so He said, “Not all of you are cleansed.”

¹²After washing their feet and redressing, He reclined again and told them, “Do you understand what I have done to you? ¹³You call Me ‘Teacher’ and ‘Lord,’ and rightly so because I am. ¹⁴Then if I, your Lord and Teacher, wash your feet, you surely ought to wash one another’s feet; ¹⁵for I have set you an example so that you might do just as I did to you. ¹⁶I assure you with all truth: A servant is not superior to his master nor a messenger to his sender. ¹⁷If you grasp these teachings, blessed are you if you practice them.

¹⁸“I am not speaking of you all; I know those I have chosen; but the Scripture is to be fulfilled, The one eating my bread has raised his heel against me! ¹⁹Right now I tell you this before it occurs, so that when it does occur you may believe that I am He. ²⁰With twofold assurance I tell you, He who welcomes whom I send, welcomes Me, and he who welcomes Me, welcomes My Sender.”

²¹At saying this, Jesus was inwardly disturbed, and testified, “Most assuredly I tell you that one of you shall betray Me.” ²²The disciples looked at each other, undecided to whom He referred. ²³One of His disciples, whom Jesus loved, was reclining next to Jesus, ²⁴so Simon Peter nodded to him, “Ask whom He means!” ²⁵Then he, leaning back toward Jesus’ bosom, asked Him, “Lord, who is it?” ²⁶Then Jesus replied, “The one to whom I give the bit of bread after dipping.” So He took and dipped the mouthful and gave it to Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son. ²⁷And after the mouthful Satan entered into him. Then Jesus said to him, “Do quickly what you are doing!” ²⁸But none of those at the table knew why He told him that. ²⁹Some had an idea, since Judas had charge of the money-bag, that Jesus remarked to him, “Buy what we need for the Feast,” or, “Give something to the poor!” ³⁰Then at once, after taking the bite of bread, he went out. But it was night.

³¹When he had left, Jesus said, “Now the Son of Man is glorified and in Him God is glorified. ³²If God is glorified in Him, then God will in Himself glorify Him and shall glorify Him at once. ³³Little children, I am with you but a little longer. You will be looking for Me and, as I told the Jews so I tell you now, where I go you cannot come. ³⁴I give you a new command, That you love one another. Just as I love you, so you should love one another. ³⁵By this everyone will recognize that you are My disciples, if you love one another.”

³⁶Simon Peter asked Him, “Lord, where are you going?” Jesus replied, “Where I am going you cannot follow Me now, but later on you will follow.” ³⁷Peter said to Him, “Lord, for what reason can I not follow you now? I will lay down my life for you!” ³⁸Jesus replied, “Will you lay down your life for Me? With twofold affirmation I tell you, The rooster shall not crow until you have thrice disclaimed Me.”

 

Chapter Fourteen

“Let not your hearts be troubled; you believe in God, believe also in Me. ²In My Father’s house are many homes. If this were not so, I would have told you. For I go away to prepare a place for you. ³And when I have gone and have prepared a place for you, I will come again and take you along to Myself so that where I am, you also will be. ⁴And where I am going, you know the way.”

⁵Thomas remarked to Him, “Lord, we do not know where you are going; (and) how do we know the way?” ⁶To which Jesus replied, “I am the Way and the Truth and the Life; no one comes to the Father except through Me. ⁷Had you recognized Me, you would have known My Father as well. From now on you do know Him; yes, you have looked at Him.”

⁸Philip said to Him, “Lord, show us the Father and it is enough for us.” ⁹Jesus replied, “How long have I been with you without your recognizing Me, Philip! He who has looked on Me, has looked on the Father. What do you mean by saying, ‘Show us the Father’? ¹⁰Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father in Me? The messages I relate to you all, I do not tell just from Myself; the Father, who dwells in Me carries on His activities. ¹¹Believe Me, that I am in the Father and the Father in Me, and if not, then believe on account of the deeds themselves. ¹²Doubly I assure you, the believer in Me shall himself do the deeds I do, and shall do greater things than these, for I go to the Father, ¹³and I will bring about whatever you ask in My name, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son. ¹⁴I will do whatever you may ask in My name.

¹⁵“If you love Me you will keep My commands, ¹⁶and I will ask the Father and He will give you another Comforter to stay with you forever, ¹⁷the Spirit of Truth whom the world cannot receive, because it neither observes nor understands Him. You know Him, for He remains with you and will be within you.

¹⁸“I shall not leave you orphans; I will come to you. ¹⁹In a little while the world no longer sees Me; but you will see Me, for I live and you, too, shall live. ²⁰On that day you will recognize that I am in My Father, and you in Me and I in you. ²¹He who has My orders and observes them, he loves Me and he who loves Me shall be loved by My Father. I, too, shall love him and show Myself to him.”

²²Judas—not Iscariot—asked Him, “Lord, how does it happen that you are going to show yourself to us and not to the world?” ²³Jesus answered him, “If anyone loves Me, he will observe My message and My Father will love him and We will visit him and make Our dwelling with him. ²⁴One who does not love Me, does not observe My message—though the word you hear is not Mine, but the Father’s who sent Me.

²⁵“I have been telling you this while I am still with you; ²⁶but the Comforter, the Holy Spirit, which the Father will send in My name, He will teach you everything and will remind you of all that I have told you.

²⁷“Peace I bequeath to you; My peace I give to you. I do not give you gifts such as the world gives. Do not allow your hearts to be unsettled or intimidated. ²⁸You heard how I told you: ‘I go away’ and ‘I come to you.’ If you loved Me, you would be glad that I go to the Father, for the Father is greater than I.

²⁹“I have just told you this before it takes place so that, when it does happen, you may have faith. ³⁰I shall not talk over many things with you any more; for the world’s ruler comes. He has no claim on Me; ³¹but I act as I do in order that the world may learn that I love the Father and act in full agreement with His orders. Rise! Let us go away from here!”

 

Chapter Fifteen

“I am the true Vine and My Father is the Tiller. ²Every branch in Me that bears no fruit He prunes away, and whichever bears fruit, He cleans so that it may bear more fruit. ³You are already clean through the teaching I have talked over with you. ⁴Remain in Me and I in you. Just as the branch cannot bear fruit by itself without staying on the vine, so you cannot without staying in Me. ⁵I am the Vine, you are the branches. He who remains in Me—and I in him—bears rich fruit. Apart from Me, though, you can do nothing.

⁶“Whoever does not remain in Me, is thrown away as a root-sprout and withers; they gather it, throw it into the fire, and it burns. ⁷If you remain in Me and My words remain in you, then you may ask what you want and it will take place for you.

⁸“My father is honored in this, that you produce rich fruit; then you will be My disciples. ⁹Just as the Father has loved Me so I have loved you; continue in this love of Mine. ¹⁰You will remain in My love, if you observe My instructions, just as I observe My Father’s instructions and remain in His love.

¹¹“I have talked these matters over with you so that My joy may be in you and your joy be made complete. ¹²This is My instruction, that you love one another as I have loved you. ¹³No one has greater love than this: to lay down his life for his friends. ¹⁴You are My friends if you do what I command you. ¹⁵I no longer call you ‘servants’, for a servant does not know what his master is working out; but I have called you ‘friends’ because I have acquainted you with everything I heard from My Father. ¹⁶You have not chosen Me; but I have chosen you and I have appointed you to go out and produce fruit and keep on producing, so that whatever you may ask the Father in My name He may grant you. ¹⁷These are My injunctions to you: Love one another!

¹⁸“If the world hates you, consider that it hated Me first. ¹⁹If you belonged to the world, the world would love its own; but because you are not of the world and I have selected you from the world, therefore the world hates you. ²⁰Remember My suggestion to you: A servant is not greater than his master. If they persecuted Me, they will persecute you; if they observed My word, they will observe yours; ²¹but they will do all this to you on account of My name, for they do not know My Sender.

²²“Had I not come and spoken to them, they would not be guilty; but now they have no excuse for their sin. ²³He who hates Me, hates My Father as well. ²⁴Had I not accomplished the works among them which none other ever accomplished, they would be blameless; but now they have seen and have hated both Me and My Father. ²⁵But so the saying in their Law should be fulfilled; They hated Me without just cause.

²⁶“When the Comforter comes, whom I will send you from the Father, the Spirit of Truth which goes out from the Father, He will testify regarding Me; ²⁷but you too will testify, for you were with Me from the beginning.

 

Chapter Sixteen

“I have talked these matters over with you, so you may not be trapped. ²They will shut you out from the synagogue; in fact the time comes when whoever kills you supposes that he is rendering service to God. ³And they will do these things because they know neither the Father nor Me. ⁴So I tell you these things in order that, when the time comes, you may remember them.

“I did not tell you this from the start, for I was with you; ⁵but now I leave for My Sender. Yet, none of you asks Me, ‘Where are you going?’ ⁶Instead, your hearts are filled with sorrow because I related these things to you. ⁷However, I tell you the truth: My going is for your benefit; for if I do not leave, the Comforter will not come to you; but if I go, then I will send Him to you.

⁸“When He comes, He will convict the world regarding sin, and righteousness, and judgment—⁹regarding sin on the one hand because they do not believe in Me; ¹⁰regarding righteousness on the other, because I go to the Father and you see Me no more; ¹¹also regarding judgment because the ruler of this world is judged.

¹²“I have still many things to tell you; but you cannot take them on you now. ¹³When He comes, however, the Spirit of Truth, He will guide you into every truth; for He will not speak on His own account but will say whatever He hears—and He will make known to you what is to eventuate. ¹⁴He will glorify Me, for He will take from what is Mine and will announce it to you. ¹⁵Everything the Father has is Mine; so I said, He will take from what is Mine and announce it to you.

¹⁶“Just a little while and you will see Me no longer; then again a little while and you will see Me.” ¹⁷Then the disciples said to one another, “What does he mean by saying to us, ‘A little while and you will not see Me and again a little while and you will see Me,’ and ‘I go away to the Father’?” ¹⁸So they said, “What does he mean by a little while? We have no idea what he is talking about!”

¹⁹Jesus knew that they wanted to ask Him, and told them, “You are questioning among each other about My saying, ‘A little while and you will not see Me and again a little while and you will see Me’? ²⁰Truly I assure you that you will be weeping and moaning while the world feels glad; you will be grieved, but your grief will turn to joy. ²¹The mother in childbirth has anguish because her time is come, but when she has borne the child she no longer remembers her affliction, because a human being has been born into the world. ²²So you have grief at present, but I will see you again and your hearts will be glad—and no one shall be able to deprive you of that joy.

²³“At that time you will question Me on nothing. Truly I assure you, whatever you ask the Father, He will grant you in My name. ²⁴Thus far you have asked nothing in My name. Ask and you will receive, so that your joy may be complete.

²⁵“I have told you these things in illustrations; a time approaches when I shall no longer talk to you in figures but shall plainly inform you about the Father. ²⁶At that time you will pray in My name, and I do not say that I will make request of the Father on your behalf, ²⁷for the Father Himself loves you, since you have loved Me and have believed that I came from the Father. ²⁸I did come from the Father and have entered the world; again I leave the world and go to the Father.”

²⁹His disciples said (to Him), “Now you are speaking plainly and not in figures; ³⁰now we know that you are acquainted with everything and do not need anyone to tell you. From this we believe that you came from God.”

³¹Jesus replied, “You believe just now? ³²Note, the hour is coming and it has arrived, when you will be scattered each to his place and you will leave Me alone; but I am not alone, for the Father is with Me. ³³I have talked over these things with you so that in Me you may have peace. In the world you are under pressure; but be confident! I have overcome the world.”

 

Chapter Seventeen

Jesus said this, then raised His eyes toward heaven and said: “Father, the hour is come. Glorify Thy Son, so that the Son may glorify Thee; ²as Thou hast given Him authority over all humankind so that He may give eternal life to all whom Thou hast granted Him.

³“And this is eternal life: To know Thee, the only true God and Jesus Christ whom Thou has sent. ⁴I have glorified Thee on the earth; I have completed the task Thou gavest Me to do; ⁵now glorify Thou Me, Father, with Thine own glory which I had in Thy presence before the world existed. ⁶I have made Thy name known to the persons whom Thou gavest Me from the world; they were Thine and Thou gavest them to Me and they have kept Thy word. ⁷Now they have realized that all, whom Thou hast given Me, belong to Thee; ⁸for I gave them the words Thou gavest Me, and they have accepted them and have really understood that I came from Thee and they have believed that Thou didst send Me.

⁹“I pray for them. I do not pray for the world, but for those whom Thou hast granted Me, for they belong to Thee. ¹⁰Yes, all who are Mine, are Thine and Thine are Mine, and in them I am glorified. ¹¹My presence in the world is over, but these are in the world while I come to Thee. Holy Father, preserve in Thy name those whom Thou hast given Me, so that they may be one as We are. ¹²While I was with them I preserved and guarded in Thy name those whom Thou gavest Me and none of them perished except the son of perdition; so that the Scripture was fulfilled. ¹³But now I come to Thee and say these things while still in the world, so that they may have My joy completed in their hearts.

¹⁴“I have given them Thy word and the world has hated them, for they are not worldly, just as I am not worldly. ¹⁵I do not pray that Thou wilt take them out of the world, but that Thou wilt preserve them from the evil one. ¹⁶As I am not worldly, so they are not worldly. ¹⁷Consecrate them by the truth. Thy word is truth.

¹⁸“As Thou hast sent Me into the world, so I have sent them into the world, ¹⁹and on their behalf I consecrate Myself, so that they, too, may be consecrated by truth.

²⁰“I am not praying only for them, but also for the believers in Me through their teaching, ²¹so that all may be one, as Thou Father in Me and I in Thee, so they may be in Us, and so that the world may believe Thou hast sent Me. ²²I have given them the glory which Thou gavest Me, so they may be one as We are one—²³I in them and Thou in Me, so that we may be completed into one; that the world may recognize that Thou hast sent Me and hast loved them as Thou hast loved me.

²⁴“Father, I would have those whom Thou hast given Me, to be with Me where I am, so they may see My glory, which Thou gavest Me out of love before the founding of the world.

²⁵“Righteous Father, the world has not known Thee, but I know Thee continually, and these have realized that Thou hast sent Me. ²⁶I both have made known and will make known to them Thy name, so that Thy love for Me as well as I Myself may be in them.”

 

Chapter Eighteen

This spoken, Jesus went out with His disciples across the Kidron brook to a garden which He and His disciples entered. ²But Judas, His betrayer, knew the spot; for Jesus often met there with His disciples. ³So Judas, taking charge of a detachment and of the chief priests’ and Pharisees’ attendants, arrived there with torches, lamps, and weapons.

⁴Then Jesus, aware of everything that would befall Him, went out and asked them, “For whom are you looking?” ⁵They replied, “Jesus of Nazareth.” Jesus told them, “I am He.” And Judas, His betrayer, was standing with them.

⁶When He said to them, “I am He,” they started backward and fell to the ground. ⁷Once more He asked them, “Whom do you seek?” And they said, “Jesus of Nazareth.” ⁸Jesus replied, “I told you that I am He, so if you are after Me, let these escape.” ⁹Thus the word He had spoken was verified, None of those Thou gavest Me, I let go to destruction.

¹⁰Then Simon Peter drew the sword he had, and struck the high priest’s servant, severing his right ear—the servant’s name was Malchus. ¹¹But Jesus said to Peter, “Sheathe your sword. The cup which My Father has given Me, shall I not drink it?”

¹²Then the detachment and the colonel together with the Jewish attendants took hold of Jesus, bound Him ¹³and conducted Him first to Annas, for he was father-in-law to Caiaphas, that year’s high priest—¹⁴the Caiaphas who advised the Jews that one man’s death would benefit the people.

¹⁵But Simon Peter followed Jesus with another disciple, and as that disciple was acquainted with the high priest, he entered along with Jesus in the high priest’s courtyard, ¹⁶while Peter stood outside by the door. Then that other disciple, the high priest’s acquaintance, came out to speak to the porteress and brought in Peter.

¹⁷The girl in charge of the door then said to Peter, “Are you not one of that man’s disciples, too?” He replied, “I am not!” ¹⁸But the servants and the attendants stood by a pile of burning coals they had made and warmed themselves, for it was cold. And Peter, standing with them, also warmed himself.

¹⁹Meanwhile the high priest examined Jesus regarding His disciples and about His teaching. ²⁰Jesus answered him, “I have openly spoken to the world; I have been teaching right along in the synagogue and in the temple, where all the Jews gathered, and I have said nothing in secret. ²¹Why do you examine Me? Examine those who heard what I told them; they know what I said.”

²²When Jesus said this, one of the by standing attendants slapped Him in the face, saying, “Is this the way to answer the high priest?” ²³Jesus answered him, “If I spoke wrongly, give evidence of the wrong; but if properly, why do you hit Me?” ²⁴Then Annas sent Him bound to the high priest Caiaphas.

²⁵But Simon Peter was standing and warming himself, when they said to him, “Are not you a disciple of his?” He denied it and said, “I am not!” ²⁶One of the high priest’s servants, a relative of the one whose ear Peter had cut off, said, “Did not I see you in the garden with him?” ²⁷Then Peter again made denial, and instantly the rooster crowed.

²⁸Then they conducted Jesus from Caiaphas to the praetorium. But it was early morning and they did not personally enter the palace, so they might not be defiled but might eat the Passover. ²⁹So Pilate went out to them and asked, “What charge do you bring against this man?” ³⁰They answered him, “If he were not a criminal, we would not have committed him to you.”

³¹Pilate told them, “You take him and sentence him according to your law.” The Jews then rejoined, “We have no right to execute anyone.” ³²So the word of Jesus came true which He had spoken indicating the nature of His impending death.

³³Then Pilate entered the palace again and summoned Jesus, whom he asked, “Are you the king of the Jews?” ³⁴Jesus replied, “Do you say this of your own accord or have others told you about Me?” ³⁵Pilate came back with, “I am not a Jew, am I? Your own nation and the chief priests have handed you over to me. What have you done?”

³⁶Jesus answered, “My kingdom is not of this world. If My kingdom were of this world, my attendants would have struggled to prevent My being delivered to the Jews. But really the source of My kingdom is not here.” ³⁷Pilate then said to Him, “You are a king, then?” To which Jesus replied, “You say correctly that I am a king. For this purpose was I born and for this I entered the world, that I might testify to the truth. Every one who lives on truth listens to My voice.” ³⁸Pilate remarked to Him, “What is truth?”

With these words he went outside again to the Jews and told them, “I find him not guilty at all; ³⁹but it is your custom to have me set one free for you at the Passover; so, do you want me to liberate for you the king of the Jews?” ⁴⁰Then they shouted repeatedly, “Not this fellow, but Barabbas.” Yet Barabbas was a robber.

 

Chapter Nineteen

Thereupon Pilate took Jesus and let Him be lashed. ²Besides, the soldiers wove together a crown of thorns and set it down on His head; they also dressed Him in a purple robe, stepped in front of Him ³and said, “Hail, king of the Jews!” And they slapped Him in the face.

⁴Once more Pilate came out and addressed them, “Notice, I bring him out to you, so you may know I find him not guilty.” ⁵Then Jesus came outside, wearing the thorny crown and the purple robe. Pilate said to them, “Behold! The man!”

⁶When the chief priests and their attendants saw Him, they shouted, “Crucify! Crucify!” Pilate told them, “You take him and do the crucifying, for I find no guilt in him!” ⁷The Jews replied, “We have a Law and by that Law he ought to die, for he made himself God’s Son.”

⁸At hearing that word, Pilate felt still more alarmed. ⁹Again he entered the palace and asked Jesus, “Where are you from?” But Jesus gave him no answer. ¹⁰Pilate said to Him, “You do not talk to me? Do you not know that I have power to liberate you and I have power to crucify you?” ¹¹Jesus replied, “You have no power whatever of your own, but only what is granted you from above. For this reason My betrayer has greater sin than you have.”

¹²From then on Pilate was anxious to set Him free; but the Jews kept shouting, “If you liberate him, you are no friend of Caesar’s. Whoever makes himself king, rebels against Caesar!”

¹³On hearing their words, Pilate led Jesus out and sat down in the judgment seat at a place called Mosaic Pavement, or in Hebrew, Gabbatha. ¹⁴It was Passover Preparation, about twelve o’clock.

He said to the Jews, “Behold! Your king!” ¹⁵Then they cried out, “Away, away with him! Crucify him!” Pilate asked them, “Shall I crucify your king?” The chief priests answered, “We have no king except Caesar!” ¹⁶Then he handed Him over to be crucified.

So they took Jesus along ¹⁷and, carrying the cross Himself, He went away to a place called Skull, that is in Hebrew, Golgotha, ¹⁸where they crucified Him, and with Him two others, one on each side with Jesus in the center. ¹⁹Pilate wrote a title and put it on the cross. It was written, “Jesus the Nazarene, the king of the Jews.” ²⁰Many of the Jews read the title, for the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city and it was written in Hebrew, Latin, and Greek.

²¹Then the chief priests of the Jews said to Pilate: “Do not write, ‘The king of the Jews,’ but that he himself said, ‘I am the king of the Jews.’” ²²Pilate answered, “What I have written, I have written.”

²³When the soldiers crucified Jesus, they took His clothes and divided them in four parts, a part for each soldier; the robe, too, but as it was seamless, woven all the way from the neck down, ²⁴they said to each other, “Let us not tear it, but draw lots whose it will be.” So that the Scripture was fulfilled They divided my clothes among themselves and over my robe they cast the lot. So then the soldiers did this.

²⁵But by the cross of Jesus stood His mother, and His mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene. ²⁶Then Jesus, seeing His mother and the disciple whom He loved standing there, said to His mother, “Woman, see your son!” ²⁷Then to the disciple He said, “See your mother!” And from that moment the disciple took her into his home.

²⁸After this, since Jesus knew that everything was already completed to the fulfillment of the Scripture, He said, “I am thirsty.” ²⁹A vessel full of vinegar stood there; so they stuck a sponge soaked in vinegar to a hyssop stick and held it to His mouth. ³⁰When Jesus had taken the vinegar, He said, “It is finished”; then bowing the head He yielded up the spirit.

³¹Now since it was Preparation, the Jews, in order not to have the goodies remain on the cross over the Sabbath, which was an especially important day, requested Pilate to have the legs broken and the bodies removed. ³²So the soldiers came and broke the legs of the first and of the other who was crucified with Him; ³³but when they came to Jesus and saw that He was already dead, they did not break His legs. ³⁴However, one of the soldiers pierced His side with a spear and instantly blood and water came out. ³⁵The eye-witness has testified and his testimony is true; he knows that he tells the truth in order that you may believe. ³⁶For these things happened so that the Scripture might be carried out, Not a bone of his shall be broken. ³⁷And once more another Scripture says, They shall look on him whom they have pierced.

³⁸After this, Joseph of Arimathea, a disciple of Jesus, but secretly for fear of the Jews, asked Pilate if he might remove the body of Jesus and Pilate gave permission; so he went and removed His body. ³⁹Nicodemus, who had earlier called on Him at night, also came and brought a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about a hundred pounds. ⁴⁰Then they took the body of Jesus and wrapped it with the aromatics in the linen clothes as was the Jewish custom for burial.

⁴¹Now there was near the place where He was crucified a garden and in the garden a new tomb in which none had ever yet been laid; ⁴²there they laid Jesus because it was the Jews’ Preparation, and the tomb was close by.

 

Chapter Twenty

But early the first day of the week, when it was still dark, Mary Magdalene came to the sepulcher and noticed the stone removed from the tomb. ²Then she ran and went to Simon Peter and to the other disciple whom Jesus loved, and told them, “They have taken the Lord out of the tomb and we do not know where they have laid Him.”

³Then Peter and the other disciple came out and made their way to the sepulcher. ⁴The two came running together; but the other disciple ran ahead, faster than Peter and arrived at the tomb first. ⁵As he stooped, he saw the linen clothes lying; however, he did not go in. ⁶Then Simon Peter came behind him, entered the tomb and saw the linens lying, ⁷also the handkerchief that had been around His head, not lying with the linens but wrapped by itself in its particular place. ⁸Then the other disciple, who had reached the sepulcher first, entered in, too, and saw and believed—⁹for as yet they did not understand the Scripture that He must rise from the dead. ¹⁰Then the disciples went home again.

¹¹But Mary stood outside the tomb, weeping, and weeping that way she stooped to look into the tomb ¹²and saw two angels in white sitting down, one at the head and the other at the feet where the body of Jesus had lain. ¹³They said to her, “Woman, why are you crying?” She told them, “Because they have taken away my Lord and I do not know where they have placed Him.”

¹⁴On saying this, she turned while stepping backward and saw Jesus standing, without recognizing Him. ¹⁵Jesus said to her, “Woman, why are you crying? Whom do you seek?” Supposing He was the gardener, she told Him, “Sir, if you have carried Him off, tell me where you put Him and I will carry Him.” ¹⁶Jesus said to her, “Mary!” Turning completely round, she said to Him in Hebrew, “Rabboni,” which means My Teacher.

¹⁷Jesus told her, “Do not touch Me, for I have not yet ascended to the Father; but go to My brothers and tell them: ‘I ascend to My Father and your Father, to My God and your God.’” ¹⁸Mary Magdalene went away, bringing the disciples news, “I have seen the Lord and He told me this.”

¹⁹As it was evening that same first day of the week and, out of fear for the Jews, the doors were shut where the disciples met, Jesus came and stood in their midst and said to them, “Peace to you!” ²⁰Upon saying this He showed them His hands and side; so the disciples were glad to see the Lord. ²¹Then He said to them again, “Peace to you! Just as the Father sent Me forth so I send you.” ²²This said, He breathed on them and said, “Receive the Holy Spirit! ²³If you forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven them; if you retain those of anyone they are retained.”

²⁴But Thomas, one of the twelve, called ‘the Twin’, was not with them when Jesus came; ²⁵so the other disciples told him, “We have seen the Lord!” But he replied, “Unless I see in his hands the print of the nails and put my finger in the mark of the nails and thrust my hand in his side, I will not at all believe.”

²⁶A week later His disciples were again indoors and Thomas with them. Though the doors were shut, Jesus came and stood in their midst and said, “Peace to You!” ²⁷He then spoke to Thomas, “Reach your finger here and see My hands; reach and thrust your hand into My side and become no unbeliever but a believer!” ²⁸Thomas answered Him, “My Lord and my God!” ²⁹Jesus said to him, “You have believed because you have seen Me (Thomas). Blessed are those who believe without seeing.”

³⁰Many other signs Jesus wrought, indeed, with His disciples present, that are not written in this book; ³¹but these are written so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that, believing, you may have life through His name.

 

Chapter Twenty-one

After this, Jesus showed Himself again to the disciples, by the sea of Tiberias, and this was the way He appeared: ²There were together Simon Peter, and Thomas, called the Twin, and Nathaniel of Cana in Galilee, also the sons of Zebedee and two more of His disciples. ³Simon Peter told them, “I go off fishing!” They said, “And we are coming with you!”

So they went off and (at once) boarded the boat and that night they caught nothing. ⁴Day had already dawned when Jesus stood on the shore—the disciples, however, did not know it was Jesus. ⁵Then Jesus said to them, “Children, have you nothing besides bread?” They answered Him, “No!” ⁶But He told them, “Cast the net to the right of the boat and you will catch!” So they cast, and could not draw up the net any more, due to the mass of fish.

⁷The disciple whom Jesus loved then said to Peter, “It is the Lord!” So Simon Peter, hearing, “It is the Lord!” wrapped his work-jacket around him, for he was stripped, and flung himself into the sea. ⁸The rest of the disciples came with the boat—for they were near shore, only about a hundred yards away—hauling in the net of fish.

⁹As (soon as) they disembarked for shore they saw a charcoal fire on the ground with fish on it and bread. ¹⁰Jesus told them, “Bring some of the fish you have just caught.” ¹¹Simon Peter embarked and hauled the net to shore, filled with a hundred and fifty-three large fishes, and though there were so many the net did not tear.

¹²Jesus told them, “You come and have breakfast!” None of the disciples dared ask Him, “Who art Thou?” for they knew it was the Lord. ¹³Jesus came and took the bread and gave it to them and similarly the fish. ¹⁴That was, indeed, the third time Jesus appeared to the disciples after rising from the dead.

¹⁵When they had breakfasted, Jesus said to Simon Peter, “Simon, son of John, do you prize Me more dearly than these do?” He said to Him, “Yes, Lord, Thou knowest that I love Thee!” He told him, “Feed My lambs.” ¹⁶For the second time Jesus asked him, “Simon, son of John, do you prize Me dearly?” He replied, “Yes, Lord, Thou knowest that I love Thee!” Jesus told him, “Tend My sheep.” ¹⁷The third time He asked him, Simon, son of John, do you love Me?” Peter felt distressed because the third time He asked him, “Do you love Me?” and said to Him, “Lord, Thou knowest everything, Thou knowest that I love Thee!” Jesus told him, “Feed My sheep. ¹⁸Truly I assure you, when you were young you girded yourself and went about where you wished; but when you grow old, you will hold out your hands and another will gird you and conduct you where you do not want to go.”

¹⁹He said this to indicate with what kind of death he would glorify God. On saying this to him, He added, “Follow Me!” ²⁰Peter turned round and saw the disciple following, whom Jesus loved, who at the Supper had leaned at His bosom to say, “Lord, who is your betrayer?” ²¹Noticing him, Peter asked Jesus, “Lord, what about him?” ²²Jesus told him, “If I want him to remain until I come, what is it to you? You follow Me!”

²³The word then went out among the brotherhood, that said disciple would not die; however, Jesus did not say, “He shall not die!” but, “If I want him to remain till I come, what is it to you?”

²⁴This is the disciple who testifies to these facts and has written them, and we know that his testimony is true.

²⁵There are, besides, many other activities in which Jesus engaged, but if they were all described in detail, I suppose the world itself would not have room for the written volumes.