John 7-9

John 7

¹After this, Jesus went from place to place in Galilee. He did not go about in Judaea, because the Jews were looking for a chance to put him to death.

²But the feast of the Jews, the feast of tents, was near.

³So his brothers said to him, Go away from here into Judaea so that your disciples may see the works which you do.

⁴Because no man does things secretly if he has a desire that men may have knowledge of him. If you do these things, let yourself be seen by all men.

⁵For even his brothers had no belief in him.

⁶Jesus said to them, My time is still to come, but any time is good for you.

⁷It is not possible for you to be hated by the world; but I am hated by it, because I give witness that what it does is evil.

⁸Go you up to the feast: I am not going up now to the feast because my time has not fully come.

⁹Having said these things to them, he still kept in Galilee.

¹⁰But after his brothers had gone up to the feast, then he went up, not publicly, but in secret.

¹¹At the feast the Jews were looking for him and saying, Where is he?

¹²And there was much discussion about him among the mass of the people. Some said, He is a good man; but others said, No, he is giving people false ideas.

¹³But no man said anything about him openly for fear of the Jews.

¹⁴Now in the middle of the feast Jesus went up to the Temple and was teaching.

¹⁵Then the Jews were surprised and said, How has this man got knowledge of books? He has never been to school.

¹⁶Jesus gave them this answer: It is not my teaching, but his who sent me.

¹⁷If any man is ready to do God's pleasure he will have knowledge of the teaching and of where it comes from — from God or from myself.

¹⁸The man whose words come from himself is looking for glory for himself, but he who is looking for the glory of him who sent him — that man is true and there is no evil in him.

¹⁹Did not Moses give you the law? Even so, not one of you keeps the law. Why have you a desire to put me to death?

²⁰The people said in answer, You have an evil spirit: who has any desire to put you to death?

²¹This was the answer of Jesus: I have done one work and you are all surprised at it.

²²Moses gave you circumcision — not that it comes from Moses, but from the fathers — and even on the Sabbath you give a child circumcision.

²³If a child is given circumcision on the Sabbath so that the law of Moses may not be broken, why are you angry with me because I made a man completely well on the Sabbath?

²⁴Let not your decisions be based on what you see, but on righteousness.

²⁵Then some of the people of Jerusalem said, Is not this the man whose death is desired?

²⁶And here he is talking openly and they say nothing to him! Is it possible that the rulers have knowledge that this is truly the Christ?

²⁷However, it is clear to us where this man comes from: but when the Christ comes no one will have knowledge where he comes from.

²⁸Then, when he was teaching in the Temple, Jesus said with a loud voice, You have knowledge of me and you have knowledge of where I come from; and I have not come of myself; but there is One who has sent me; he is true, but you have no knowledge of him.

²⁹I have knowledge of him because I came from him and he sent me.

³⁰Then they had a desire to take him: but no man put hands on him because his hour was still to come.

³¹And numbers of the people had belief in him, and they said, When the Christ comes will he do more signs than this man has done?

³²This discussion of the people came to the ears of the Pharisees; and the chief priests and the Pharisees sent servants to take him.

³³Then Jesus said, I will be with you a little longer and then I go to him who sent me.

³⁴You will be looking for me, and you will not see me: and where I am you may not come.

³⁵So the Jews said among themselves, To what place is he going where we will not see him? will he go to the Jews living among the Greeks and become the teacher of the Greeks?

³⁶What is this saying of his, You will be looking for me and will not see me, and where I am you may not come?

³⁷On the last day, the great day of the feast, Jesus got up and said in a loud voice, If any man is in need of drink let him come to me and I will give it to him.

³⁸He who has faith in me, out of his body, as the Writings have said, will come rivers of living water.

³⁹This he said of the Spirit which would be given to those who had faith in him: the Spirit had not been given then, because the glory of Jesus was still to come.

⁴⁰When these words came to their ears, some of the people said, This is certainly the prophet.

⁴¹Others said, This is the Christ. But others said, Not so; will the Christ come from Galilee?

⁴²Do not the Writings say that the Christ comes of the seed of David and from Beth-lehem, the little town where David was?

⁴³So there was a division among the people because of him.

⁴⁴And some of them had a desire to take him; but no man put hands on him.

⁴⁵Then the servants went back to the chief priests and Pharisees, who said to them, Why have you not got him with you?

⁴⁶The servants made answer, No man ever said things like this man.

⁴⁷Then the Pharisees said to them, Have you, like the others, been given false ideas?

⁴⁸Have any of the rulers belief in him, or any one of the Pharisees?

⁴⁹But these people who have no knowledge of the law are cursed.

⁵⁰Nicodemus — he who had come to Jesus before, being himself one of them — said to them,

⁵¹Is a man judged by our law before it has given him a hearing and has knowledge of what he has done?

⁵²This was their answer: And do you come from Galilee? Make search and you will see that no prophet comes out of Galilee.

⁵³[And every man went to his house;

John 8

¹But Jesus went to the Mountain of Olives.

²And early in the morning he came again into the Temple and all the people came to him and he was seated teaching them.

³Now the scribes and Pharisees came, with a woman who had been taken in the act of sinning against the married relation;

⁴And putting her forward, they said to him, Master, this woman has been taken in the very act of sinning against the married relation.

⁵Now in the law Moses gave directions that such women were to be stoned; what do you say about it?

⁶They said this, testing him, so that they might have something against him. But Jesus, with his head bent down, made letters on the floor with his finger.

⁷But when they went on with their questions, he got up and said to them, Let him among you who is without sin be the first to send a stone at her.

⁸And again, with bent head, he made letters on the floor.

⁹And when his words came to their ears, they went out one by one, starting with the oldest even to the last, because they were conscious of what was in their hearts: and Jesus was there by himself with the woman before him.

¹⁰Then Jesus got up, and seeing nobody but the woman, he said to her, Where are the men who said things against you? did no one give a decision against you?

¹¹And she said, No man, Lord. And Jesus said, And I do not give a decision against you: go, and never do wrong again.]

¹²Then again Jesus said to them, I am the light of the world; he who comes with me will not be walking in the dark but will have the light of life.

¹³So the Pharisees said to him, The witness you give is about yourself: your witness is not true.

¹⁴Jesus said in answer, Even if I give witness about myself, my witness is true, because I have knowledge of where I came from and where I am going; but you have no knowledge of where I come from or of where I am going.

¹⁵You are judging from what you see; I am judging no man.

¹⁶Even if I am judging, my decision is right, because I am not by myself — with me is the Father who sent me.

¹⁷Even in your law it is said that the witness of two men is true.

¹⁸I give witness about myself and the Father who sent me gives witness about me.

¹⁹Then they said to him, Where is your Father? Jesus said in answer, You have no knowledge of me or of my Father: if you had knowledge of me you would have knowledge of my Father.

²⁰Jesus said these words in the place where the offerings were stored, while he was teaching in the Temple: but no man took him because his time was still to come.

²¹Then he said to them again, I am going away and you will be looking for me, but death will overtake you in your sins. It is not possible for you to come where I am going.

²²So the Jews said, Will he take his life? Is that why he says, Where I go it is not possible for you to come?

²³And he said to them, You are of the earth; I am from heaven: you are of this world; I am not of this world.

²⁴For this reason I said to you that death will overtake you in your sins: for if you have not faith that I am he, death will come to you while you are in your sins.

²⁵Then they said to him, Who are you? Jesus said, What I said to you from the first.

²⁶I have much to say about you and against you: but he who sent me is true and what he has said to me I say to the world.

²⁷They did not see that his words were about the Father.

²⁸So Jesus said, When the Son of man has been lifted up by you, then it will be clear to you who I am, and that I do nothing of myself, but say as the Father gave me teaching.

²⁹He who sent me is with me; he has not gone from me, because at all times I do the things which are pleasing to him.

³⁰When he said this a number came to have faith in him.

³¹Then Jesus said to the Jews who had faith in him, If you keep my word, then you are truly my disciples;

³²And you will have knowledge of what is true, and that will make you free.

³³They said to him in answer, We are Abraham's seed and have never been any man's servant: why do you say, You will become free?

³⁴And this was the answer Jesus gave them: Truly I say to you, Everyone who does evil is the servant of sin.

³⁵Now the servant does not go on living in the house for ever, but the son does.

³⁶If then the son makes you free, you will be truly free.

³⁷I am conscious that you are Abraham's seed; but you have a desire to put me to death because my word has no place in you.

³⁸I say the things which I have seen in my Father's house: and you do the things which come to you from your father's house.

³⁹In answer they said to him, Our father is Abraham. Jesus said to them, If you were Abraham's children you would do what Abraham did.

⁴⁰But now you have a desire to put me to death, a man who has said to you what is true, as I had it from God: Abraham did not do that.

⁴¹You are doing the works of your father. They said to him, We are true sons of Abraham; we have one Father, who is God.

⁴²Jesus said to them, If God was your Father you would have love for me, because it was from God I came and am here. I did not come of myself, but he sent me.

⁴³Why are my words not clear to you? It is because your ears are shut to my teaching.

⁴⁴You are the children of your father the Evil One and it is your pleasure to do his desires. From the first he was a taker of life; and he did not go in the true way because there is no true thing in him. When he says what is false, it is natural to him, for he is false and the father of what is false.

⁴⁵But because I say what is true, you have no belief in me.

⁴⁶Which of you is able truly to say that I am a sinner? If I say what is true, why have you no belief in me?

⁴⁷He who is a child of God gives ear to the words of God: your ears are not open to them because you are not from God.

⁴⁸The Jews said to him in answer, Are we not right in saying that you are of Samaria and have an evil spirit?

⁴⁹And this was the answer of Jesus: I have not an evil spirit; but I give honour to my Father and you do not give honour to me.

⁵⁰I, however, am not in search of glory for myself: there is One who is searching for it and he is judge.

⁵¹Truly I say to you, If a man keeps my word he will never see death.

⁵²The Jews said to him, Now we are certain that you have an evil spirit. Abraham is dead, and the prophets are dead; and you say, If a man keeps my word he will never see death.

⁵³Are you greater than our father Abraham, who is dead? and the prophets are dead: who do you say that you are?

⁵⁴Jesus said in answer, If I take glory for myself, my glory is nothing: it is my Father who gives me glory, of whom you say that he is your God.

⁵⁵You have no knowledge of him, but I have knowledge of him; and if I said I have no knowledge of him I would be talking falsely like you: but I have full knowledge of him, and I keep his word.

⁵⁶Your father Abraham was full of joy at the hope of seeing my day: he saw it and was glad.

⁵⁷Then the Jews said to him, You are not fifty years old; have you seen Abraham?

⁵⁸Jesus said to them, Truly I say to you, Before Abraham came into being, I am.

⁵⁹So they took up stones to send at him: but Jesus got secretly out of their way and went out of the Temple.

John 9

¹And when he went on his way, he saw a man blind from birth.

²And his disciples put a question to him, saying, Master, was it because of this man's sin, or the sin of his father and mother, that he has been blind from birth?

³Jesus said in answer, It was not because of his sin, or because of his father's or mother's; it was so that the works of God might be seen openly in him.

⁴While it is day we have to do the works of him who sent me: the night comes when no work may be done.

⁵As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.

⁶Having said these words, he put earth, mixed with water from his mouth, on the man's eyes,

⁷And said to him, Go and make yourself clean in the bath of Siloam (the sense of the name is, Sent). So he went away and, after washing, came back able to see.

⁸Then the neighbours and others who had seen him before in the street, with his hand out for money, said, Is not this the man who got money from people?

⁹Some said, It is he: others said, No, but he is like him. He said, I am he.

¹⁰So they said to him, How then were your eyes made open?

¹¹His answer was: The man who is named Jesus put earth mixed with water on my eyes, and said to me, Go and make yourself clean in Siloam: so I went away and, after washing, am now able to see.

¹²And they said to him, Where is he? His answer was: I have no knowledge.

¹³They took him before the Pharisees — this man who had been blind.

¹⁴Now the day on which the earth was mixed by Jesus and the man's eyes were made open was the Sabbath.

¹⁵So the Pharisees put more questions to him about how his eyes had been made open. And he said to them, He put earth on my eyes, and I had a wash and am able to see.

¹⁶Then some of the Pharisees said, That man has not come from God, for he does not keep the Sabbath. Others said, How is it possible for a sinner to do such signs? So there was a division among them.

¹⁷Again they said to the blind man, What have you to say about him for opening your eyes? And he said, He is a prophet.

¹⁸Now the Jews had no belief in the statement that he had been blind and was now able to see, till they sent for the father and mother of the man whose eyes had been made open,

¹⁹And put the question to them, saying, Is this your son, of whom you say that he was blind at birth? how is it then that he is now able to see?

²⁰In answer his father and mother said, We are certain that this is our son and that he was blind at birth:

²¹But how it is he is now able to see, or who made his eyes open, we are not able to say: put the question to him; he is old enough to give an answer for himself.

²²They said this because of their fear of the Jews: for the Jews had come to an agreement that if any man said that Jesus was the Christ he would be put out of the Synagogue.

²³That was the reason why they said, He is old enough; put the question to him.

²⁴So they sent a second time for the man who had been blind and they said to him, Give glory to God: it is clear to us that this man is a sinner.

²⁵He said in answer, I have no knowledge if he is a sinner or not, but one thing I am certain about; I was blind, and now I see.

²⁶Then they said to him, What did he do to you? how did he give you the use of your eyes?

²⁷His answer was: I have said it before, but your ears were shut: why would you have me say it again? is it your desire to become his disciples?

²⁸And they were angry with him and said, You are his disciple, but we are disciples of Moses.

²⁹We are certain that God gave his word to Moses: but as for this man, we have no knowledge where he comes from.

³⁰The man said in answer, Why, here is a strange thing! You have no knowledge where he comes from though he gave me the use of my eyes.

³¹We have knowledge that God does not give ear to sinners, but if any man is a worshipper of God and does his pleasure, to him God's ears are open.

³²In all the years nobody has ever before seen the eyes of a man blind from birth made open.

³³If this man did not come from God he would be unable to do anything.

³⁴Their answer was: You came to birth through sin; do you make yourself our teacher? And they put him out of the Synagogue.

³⁵It came to the ears of Jesus that they had put him out, and meeting him he said, Have you faith in the Son of man?

³⁶He said in answer, And who is he, Lord? Say, so that I may have faith in him.

³⁷Jesus said to him, You have seen him; it is he who is talking to you.

³⁸And he said, Lord, I have faith. And he gave him worship.

³⁹And Jesus said, I came into this world to be a judge, so that those who do not see may see, and those who see may become blind.

⁴⁰These words came to the ears of the Pharisees who were with him and they said to him, Are we, then, blind?

⁴¹Jesus said to them, If you were blind you would have no sin: but now that you say, We see; your sin is there still.