Weymouth New Testament in Modern Speech, John

Produced by Martin Ward

Weymouth New Testament in Modern Speech, John

Third Edition 1913

R. F. Weymouth

Book 43 John

001:001 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

001:002 He was in the beginning with God.

001:003 All things came into being through Him, and apart from Him nothing that exists came into being.

001:004 In Him was Life, and that Life was the Light of men.

001:005 The Light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overpowered it.

001:006 There was a man sent from God, whose name was John.

001:007 He came as a witness, in order that he might give testimony
concerning the Light—so that all might believe through him.

001:008 He was not the Light, but he existed that he might give
testimony concerning the Light.

001:009 The true Light was that which illumines every man by its coming
into the world.

001:010 He was in the world, and the world came into existence through Him,
and the world did not recognize Him.

001:011 He came to the things that were His own, and His own people
gave Him no welcome.

001:012 But all who have received Him, to them—that is, to those who
trust in His name—He has given the privilege of becoming
children of God;

001:013 who were begotten as such not by human descent, nor through
an impulse of their own nature, nor through the will of a
human father, but from God.

001:014 And the Word came in the flesh, and lived for a time in our midst,
so that we saw His glory—the glory as of the Father's only Son,
sent from His presence. He was full of grace and truth.

001:015 John gave testimony concerning Him and cried aloud, saying,
"This is He of whom I said, `He who is coming after me has
been put before me,' for He was before me."

001:016 For He it is from whose fulness we have all received,
and grace upon grace.

001:017 For the Law was given through Moses; grace and truth came
through Jesus Christ.

001:018 No human eye has ever seen God: the only Son, who is in
the Father's bosom—He has made Him known.

001:019 This also is John's testimony, when the Jews sent to him a deputation of Priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him who he was.

001:020 He avowed—he did not conceal the truth, but avowed, "I am
not the Christ."

001:021 "What then?" they inquired; "are you Elijah?" "I am not," he said.
"Are you the Prophet?" "No," he answered.

001:022 So they pressed the question. "Who are you?"
they said—"that we may take an answer to those who sent us.
What account do you give of yourself?"

001:023 "I am the voice," he replied, "of one crying aloud,
`Make straight the Lord's way in the Desert,' fulfilling the words
of the Prophet Isaiah."

001:024 They were Pharisees who had been sent.

001:025 Again they questioned him. "Why then do you baptize," they said,
"if you are neither the Christ nor Elijah nor the Prophet?"

001:026 "I baptize in water only," John answered, "but in your midst
stands One whom you do not know—

001:027 He who is to come after me, and whose sandal-strap I am not
worthy to unfasten."

001:028 This conversation took place at Bethany beyond the Jordan,
where John was baptizing.

001:029 The next day John saw Jesus coming towards him and exclaimed, "Look, that is the Lamb of God who is to take away the sin of the world!

001:030 This is He about whom I said, `After me is to come One who has
been put before me, because He was before me.'

001:031 I did not yet know Him; but that He may be openly shown to Israel
is the reason why I have come baptizing in water."

001:032 John also gave testimony by stating: "I have seen the Spirit
coming down like a dove out of Heaven; and it remained upon Him.

001:033 I did not yet know Him, but He who sent me to baptize in water said to me, "`The One on whom you see the Spirit coming down, and remaining, He it is who baptizes in the Holy Spirit.'

001:034 "This I have seen, and I have become a witness that He is the Son of God."

001:035 Again the next day John was standing with two of his disciples,

001:036 when he saw Jesus passing by, and said, "Look! that is the Lamb of God!"

001:037 The two disciples heard his exclamation, and they followed Jesus.

001:038 Then Jesus turned round, and seeing them following He asked them,
"What is your wish?" "Rabbi," they replied—`Rabbi'
means `Teacher'—"where are you staying?"

001:039 "Come and you shall see," He said. So they went and saw where He
was staying, and they remained and spent that day with Him.
It was then about ten o'clock in the morning.

001:040 Andrew, Simon Peter's brother, was one of the two who heard
John's exclamation and followed Jesus.

001:041 He first found his own brother Simon, and said to him,
"We have found the Messiah!"—that is to say, the Anointed One.

001:042 He brought him to Jesus. Jesus looked at him and said, "You are Simon, son of John: you shall be called Cephas"— that is to say, Peter (or `Rock').

001:043 The next day, having decided to leave Bethany and go into Galilee, Jesus found Philip, and invited him to follow Him.

001:044 (Now Philip came from Bethsaida, the same town as Andrew and Peter.)

001:045 Then Philip found Nathanael, and said to him, "We have found him about whom Moses in the Law wrote, as well as the Prophets—Jesus, the son of Joseph, a man of Nazareth."

001:046 "Can anything good come out of Nazareth?" replied Nathanael.
"Come and see," said Philip.

001:047 Jesus saw Nathanael approaching, and said of him, "Look! here
is a true Israelite, in whom there is no deceitfulness!"

001:048 "How do you know me?" Nathanael asked. "Before Philip called you,"
said Jesus, "when you were under the fig-tree I saw you."

001:049 "Rabbi," cried Nathanael, "you are the Son of God,
you are Israel's King!"

001:050 "Because I said to you, `I saw you under the fig-tree,'"
replied Jesus, "do you believe? You shall see greater
things than that."

001:051 "I tell you all in most solemn truth," He added, "that you
shall see Heaven opened wide, and God's angels going up,
and coming down to the Son of Man."

002:001 Two days later there was a wedding at Cana in Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there,

002:002 and Jesus also was invited and His disciples.

002:003 Now the wine ran short; whereupon the mother of Jesus said
to Him, "They have no wine."

002:004 "Leave the matter in my hands," He replied; "the time for me
to act has not yet come."

002:005 His mother said to the attendants, "Whatever he tells you
to do, do it."

002:006 Now there were six stone jars standing there (in accordance with the Jewish regulations for purification), each large enough to hold twenty gallons or more.

002:007 Jesus said to the attendants, "Fill the jars with water."
And they filled them to the brim.

002:008 Then He said, "Now, take some out, and carry it to the President
of the feast."

002:009 So they carried some to him. And no sooner had the President tasted the water now turned into wine, than—not knowing where it came from, though the attendants who had drawn the water knew— he called to the bridegroom

002:010 and said to him, "It is usual to put on the good wine first,
and when people have drunk freely, then that which is inferior.
But you have kept the good wine till now."

002:011 This, the first of His miracles, Jesus performed at Cana
in Galilee, and thus displayed His glorious power; and His
disciples believed in Him.

002:012 Afterwards He went down to Capernaum—He, and His mother,
and His brothers, and His disciples; and they made a
short stay there.

002:013 But the Jewish Passover was approaching, and for this Jesus
went up to Jerusalem.

002:014 And He found in the Temple the dealers in cattle and sheep
and in pigeons, and the money-changers sitting there.

002:015 So He plaited a whip of rushes, and drove all—both sheep and bullocks—out of the Temple. The small coin of the brokers He upset on the ground and overturned their tables.

002:016 And to the pigeon-dealers He said, "Take these things away.
Do not turn my Father's house into a market."

002:017 This recalled to His disciples the words of Scripture, "My zeal
for Thy House will consume me."

002:018 So the Jews asked Him, "What proof of your authority do you
exhibit to us, seeing that you do these things?"

002:019 "Demolish this Sanctuary," said Jesus, "and in three days I
will rebuild it."

002:020 "It has taken forty-six years," replied the Jews, "to build
this Sanctuary, and will you rebuild it in three days?"

002:021 But He was speaking of the Sanctuary of His body.

002:022 When however He had risen from among the dead, His disciples
recollected that He had said this; and they believed
the Scripture and the teaching which Jesus had given them.

002:023 Now when He was in Jerusalem, at the Festival of the Passover,
many became believers in Him through watching the miracles
He performed.

002:024 But for His part, Jesus did not trust Himself to them,
because He knew them all,

002:025 and did not need any one's testimony concerning a man,
for He of Himself knew what was in the man.

003:001 Now there was one of the Pharisees whose name was Nicodemus—
a ruler among the Jews.

003:002 He came to Jesus by night and said, "Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher from God; for no one can do these miracles which you are doing, unless God is with him.

003:003 "In most solemn truth I tell you," answered Jesus, "that unless a man is born anew he cannot see the Kingdom of God."

003:004 "How is it possible," Nicodemus asked, "for a man to be born
when he is old? Can he a second time enter his mother's womb
and be born?"

003:005 "In most solemn truth I tell you," replied Jesus, "that unless
a man is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter
the Kingdom of God.

003:006 Whatever has been born of the flesh is flesh, and whatever
has been born of the Spirit is spirit.

003:007 Do not be astonished at my telling you, `You must all
be born anew.'

003:008 The wind blows where it chooses, and you hear its sound, but you do not know where it comes from or where it is going. So is it with every one who has been born of the Spirit."

003:009 "How is all this possible?" asked Nicodemus.

003:010 "Are you," replied Jesus, "`the Teacher of Israel,' and yet do you not understand these things?

003:011 In most solemn truth I tell you that we speak what we know, and give testimony of that of which we were eye-witnesses, and yet you all reject our testimony.

003:012 If I have told you earthly things and none of you believe me, how will you believe me if I tell you of things in Heaven?

003:013 There is no one who has gone up to Heaven, but there is One who has come down from Heaven, namely the Son of Man whose home is in Heaven.

003:014 And just as Moses lifted high the serpent in the Desert,
so must the Son of Man be lifted up,

003:015 in order that every one who trusts in Him may have the Life
of the Ages."

003:016 For so greatly did God love the world that He gave His only Son, that every one who trusts in Him may not perish but may have the Life of Ages.

003:017 For God did not send His Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world might be saved through Him.

003:018 He who trusts in Him does not come up for judgement.
He who does not trust has already received sentence, because he has
not his trust resting on the name of God's only Son.

003:019 And this is the test by which men are judged—the Light has
come into the world, and men loved the darkness more than they
loved the Light, because their deeds were wicked.

003:020 For every wrongdoer hates the light, and does not come to the light, for fear his actions should be exposed and condemned.

003:021 But he who does what is honest and right comes to the light, in order that his actions may be plainly shown to have been done in God.

003:022 After this Jesus and His disciples went into Judaea;
and there He made a stay in company with them and baptized.

003:023 And John too was baptizing at Aenon, near Salim, because there were
many pools of water there; and people came and received baptism.

003:024 (For John was not yet in prison.)

003:025 As the result, a discussion having arisen on the part of John's disciples with a Jew about purification,

003:026 they came to John and reported to him, "Rabbi, he who was with you on the other side of the Jordan and to whom you bore testimony is now baptizing, and great numbers of people are resorting to him."

003:027 "A man cannot obtain anything," replied John, "unless it has
been granted to him from Heaven.

003:028 You yourselves can bear witness to my having said, `I am not
the Christ,' but `I am His appointed forerunner.'

003:029 He who has the bride is the bridegroom; and the bridegroom's friend who stands by his side and listens to him, rejoices heartily on account of the bridegroom's happiness. Therefore this joy of mine is now complete.

003:030 He must grow greater, but I must grow less.

003:031 He who comes from above is above all. He whose origin is from the earth is not only himself from the earth, his teaching also is from the earth. He who comes from Heaven is above all.

003:032 What He has seen and heard, to that He bears witness;
but His testimony no one receives.

003:033 Any man who has received His testimony has solemnly declared
that God is true.

003:034 For He whom God has sent speaks God's words; for God does
not give the Spirit with limitations."

003:035 The Father loves the Son and has entrusted everything
to His hands.

003:036 He who believes in the Son has the Life of the Ages;
he who disobeys the Son will not enter into Life, but God's
anger remains upon him.

004:001 Now as soon as the Master was aware that the Pharisees
had heard it said, "Jesus is gaining and baptizing more
disciples than John"—

004:002 though Jesus Himself did not baptize them, but His disciples did—

004:003 He left Judaea and returned to Galilee.

004:004 His road lay through Samaria,

004:005 and so He came to Sychar, a town in Samaria near the piece of land that Jacob gave to his son Joseph.

004:006 Jacob's Well was there: and accordingly Jesus, tired out with His journey, sat down by the well to rest. It was about six o'clock in the evening.

004:007 Presently there came a woman of Samaria to draw water. Jesus asked her to give Him some water;

004:008 for His disciples were gone to the town to buy provisions.

004:009 "How is it," replied the woman, "that a Jew like you
asks me, who am a woman and a Samaritan, for water?"
(For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.)

004:010 "If you had known God's free gift," replied Jesus, "and who it
is that said to you, `Give me some water,' you would have
asked Him, and He would have given you living water."

004:011 "Sir," she said, "you have nothing to draw with, and the well
is deep; so where can you get the living water from?

004:012 Are you greater than our forefather Jacob, who gave us the well,
and himself drank from it, as did also his sons and his cattle?"

004:013 "Every one," replied Jesus, "who drinks any of this water
will be thirsty again;

004:014 but whoever drinks any of the water that I shall give him will never, never thirst. But the water that I shall give him will become a fountain within him of water springing up for the Life of the Ages."

004:015 "Sir," said the woman, "give me that water, that I may never be thirsty, nor continually come all the way here to draw from the well."

004:016 "Go and call your husband," said Jesus; "and come back."

004:017 "I have no husband," she replied. "You rightly say that you have no husband," said Jesus;

004:018 "for you have had five husbands, and the man you have at present is not your husband. You have spoken the truth in saying that."

004:019 "Sir," replied the woman, "I see that you are a Prophet.

004:020 Our forefathers worshipped on this mountain, but you Jews say
that the place where people must worship is in Jerusalem."

004:021 "Believe me," said Jesus, "the time is coming when you will
worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem.

004:022 You worship One of whom you know nothing. We worship One whom
we know; for salvation comes from the Jews.

004:023 But a time is coming—nay, has already come—when the true worshippers will worship the Father with true spiritual worship; for indeed the Father desires such worshippers.

004:024 God is Spirit; and those who worship Him must bring Him
true spiritual worship."

004:025 "I know," replied the woman, "that Messiah is coming—`the Christ,'
as He is called. When He has come, He will tell us everything."

004:026 "I am He," said Jesus—"I who am now talking to you."

004:027 Just then His disciples came, and were surprised to find Him talking with a woman. Yet not one of them asked Him, "What is your wish?" or "Why are you talking with her?"

004:028 The woman however, leaving her pitcher, went away to the town,
and called the people.

004:029 "Come," she said, "and see a man who has told me everything
I have ever done. Can this be the Christ, do you think?"

004:030 They left the town and set out to go to Him.

004:031 Meanwhile the disciples were urging Jesus. "Rabbi," they said, "eat something."

004:032 "I have food to eat," He replied, "of which you do not know."

004:033 So the disciples began questioning one another. "Can it be,"
they said, "that some one has brought Him something to eat?"

004:034 "My food," said Jesus, "is to be obedient to Him who sent me,
and fully to accomplish His work.

004:035 Do you not say, `It wants four months yet to the harvest'?
But look round, I tell you, and observe these plains—
they are already ripe for the sickle.

004:036 The reaper gets pay and gathers in a crop in preparation
for the Life of the Ages, that so the sower and the reapers
may rejoice together.

004:037 For it is in this that you see the real meaning of the saying,
`The sower is one person, and the reaper is another.'

004:038 I sent you to reap a harvest which is not the result of your
own labours. Others have laboured, and you are getting
benefit from their labours."

004:039 Of the Samaritan population of that town a good many believed
in Him because of the woman's statement when she declared,
"He has told me all that I have ever done."

004:040 When however the Samaritans came to Him, they asked Him on
all sides to stay with them; and He stayed there two days.

004:041 Then a far larger number of people believed because of
His own words,

004:042 and they said to the woman, "We no longer believe in Him simply because of your statements; for we have now heard for ourselves, and we know that this man really is the Saviour of the world."

004:043 After the two days He departed, and went into Galilee;

004:044 though Jesus Himself declared that a Prophet has no honour in his own country.

004:045 When however He reached Galilee, the Galilaeans welcomed Him eagerly, having been eye-witnesses of all that He had done in Jerusalem at the Festival; for they also had been to the Festival.

004:046 So He came once more to Cana in Galilee, where He had made
the water into wine. Now there was a certain officer
of the King's court whose son was ill at Capernaum.

004:047 Having heard that Jesus had come from Judaea to Galilee,
he came to Him and begged Him to go down and cure his son;
for he was at the point of death.

004:048 "Unless you and others see miracles and marvels," said Jesus, "nothing will induce you to believe."

004:049 "Sir," pleaded the officer, "come down before my child dies."

004:050 "You may return home," replied Jesus; "your son has recovered."
He believed the words of Jesus, and started back home;

004:051 and he was already on his way down when his servants met him
and told him that his son was alive and well.

004:052 So he inquired of them at what hour he had shown improvement.
"Yesterday, about seven o'clock," they replied,
"the fever left him."

004:053 Then the father recollected that that was the time at
which Jesus had said to him, "Your son has recovered,"
and he and his whole household became believers.

004:054 This is the second miracle that Jesus performed, after coming
from Judaea into Galilee.

005:001 After this there was a Festival of the Jews, and Jesus went
up to Jerusalem.

005:002 Now there is in Jerusalem near the Sheep Gate a pool,
called in Hebrew `Bethesda.' It has five arcades.

005:003 In these there used to lie a great number of sick persons,
and of people who were blind or lame or paralyzed.

005:004 []

005:005 And there was one man there who had been an invalid for thirty-eight years.

005:006 Jesus saw him lying there, and knowing that he had been a long
time in that condition, He asked him, "Do you wish to have
health and strength?"

005:007 "Sir," replied the sufferer, "I have no one to put me into
the pool when the water is moved; but while I am coming
some one else steps down before me."

005:008 "Rise," said Jesus, "take up your mat and walk."

005:009 Instantly the man was restored to perfect health, and he took
up his mat and began to walk.

005:010 That day was a Sabbath. So the Jews said to the man who had
been cured, "It is the Sabbath: you must not carry your mat."

005:011 "He who cured me," he replied, "said to me, `Take up your
mat and walk.'"

005:012 "Who is it," they asked, "that said to you, `Take up your
mat and walk'?"

005:013 But the man who had been cured did not know who it was;
for Jesus had passed out unnoticed, there being a crowd
in the place.

005:014 Afterwards Jesus found him in the Temple and said to him,
"You are now restored to health. Do not sin any more,
or a worse thing may befall you."

005:015 The man went and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had restored
him to health;

005:016 and on this account the Jews began to persecute Jesus—
because He did these things on the Sabbath.

005:017 His reply to their accusation was, "My Father works unceasingly,
and so do I."

005:018 On this account then the Jews were all the more eager to put
Him to death—because He not only broke the Sabbath,
but also spoke of God as being in a special sense His Father,
thus putting Himself on a level with God.

005:019 "In most solemn truth I tell you," replied Jesus, "that the Son
can do nothing of Himself—He can only do what He sees
the Father doing; for whatever He does, that the Son does
in like manner.

005:020 For the Father loves the Son and reveals to Him all that He Himself is doing. And greater deeds than these will He reveal to Him, in order that you may wonder.

005:021 For just as the Father awakens the dead and gives them life,
so the Son also gives life to whom He wills.

005:022 The Father indeed does not judge any one, but He has entrusted
all judgement to the Son,

005:023 that all may honour the Son even as they honour the Father. The man who withholds honour from the Son withholds honour from the Father who sent Him.

005:024 "In most solemn truth I tell you that he who listens to my teaching and believes Him who sent me, has the Life of the Ages, and does not come under judgement, but has passed over out of death into Life.

005:025 "In most solemn truth I tell you that a time is coming— nay, has already come—when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear it will live.

005:026 For just as the Father has life in Himself, so He has also given
to the Son to have life in Himself.

005:027 And He has conferred on Him authority to act as Judge,
because He is the Son of Man.

005:028 Wonder not at this. For a time is coming when all who are
in the graves will hear His voice and will come forth—

005:029 they who have done what is right to the resurrection of Life,
and they whose actions have been evil to the resurrection
of judgement.

005:030 "I can of my own self do nothing. As I am bidden, so I judge;
and mine is a just judgement, because it is not my own will
that guides me, but the will of Him who sent me.

005:031 "If I give testimony concerning myself, my testimony
cannot be accepted.

005:032 There is Another who gives testimony concerning me, and I know
that the testimony is true which He offers concerning me.

005:033 "You sent to John, and he both was and still is a witness
to the truth.

005:034 But the testimony on my behalf which I accept is not from man;
though I say all this in order that you may be saved.

005:035 He was the lamp that burned and shone, and for a time you
were willing to be gladdened by his light.

005:036 "But the testimony which I have is weightier than that of John; for the work the Father has assigned to me for me to bring it to completion—the very work which I am doing— affords testimony concerning me that the Father has sent me.

005:037 And the Father who sent me, *He* has given testimony concerning me. None of you have ever either heard His voice or seen what He is like.

005:038 Nor have you His word dwelling within you, for you refuse to believe Him whom *He* has sent.

005:039 "You search the Scriptures, because you suppose that in them you will find the Life of the Ages; and it is those Scriptures that yield testimony concerning me;

005:040 and yet you are unwilling to come to me that you may have Life.

005:041 "I do not accept glory from man,

005:042 but I know you well, and I know that in your hearts you do not really love God.

005:043 I have come as my Father's representative, and you do not
receive me. If some one else comes representing only himself,
him you will receive.

005:044 How is it possible for you to believe, while you receive glory
from one another and have no desire for the glory that comes
from the only God?

005:045 "Do not suppose that I will accuse you to the Father.
There is one who accuses you, namely Moses, on whom
your hope rests.

005:046 For if you believe Moses, you would believe me; for he wrote about me.

005:047 But if you disbelieve his writings, how are you to believe my words?"

006:001 After this Jesus went away across the Lake of Galilee (that is,
the Lake of Tiberias).

006:002 A vast multitude followed Him, because they witnessed the miracles
on the sick which He was constantly performing.

006:003 Then Jesus went up the hill, and sat there with His disciples.

006:004 The Jewish Festival, the Passover, was at hand.

006:005 And when He looked round and saw an immense crowd coming towards Him, He said to Philip, "Where shall we buy bread for all these people to eat?"

006:006 He said this to put Philip to the test, for He Himself knew
what He was going to do.

006:007 "Seven pounds' worth of bread," replied Philip, "is not enough
for them all to get even a scanty meal."

006:008 One of His disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter's brother,
said to Him,

006:009 "There is a boy here with five barley loaves and a couple of fish:
but what is that among so many?"

006:010 "Make the people sit down," said Jesus. The ground was
covered with thick grass; so they sat down, the adult men
numbering about 5,000.

006:011 Then Jesus took the loaves, and after giving thanks He
distributed them to those who were resting on the ground;
and also the fish in like manner—as much as they desired.

006:012 When all were fully satisfied, He said to His disciples,
"Gather up the broken portions that remain over, so that
nothing be lost."

006:013 Accordingly they gathered them up; and with the fragments
of the five barley loaves—the broken portions that remained
over after they had done eating—they filled twelve baskets.

006:014 Thereupon the people, having seen the miracle He had performed, said, "This is indeed the Prophet who was to come into the world."

006:015 Perceiving, however, that they were about to come and carry Him off by force to make Him a king, Jesus withdrew again up the hill alone by Himself.

006:016 When evening came on, His disciples went down to the Lake.

006:017 There they got on board a boat, and pushed off to cross the Lake to Capernaum. By this time it had become dark, and Jesus had not yet joined them.

006:018 The Lake also was getting rough, because a strong wind was blowing.

006:019 When, however, they had rowed three or four miles, they saw
Jesus walking on the water and coming near the boat.

006:020 They were terrified; but He called to them. "It is I," He said,
"do not be afraid."

006:021 Then they were willing to take Him on board; and in a moment
the boat reached the shore at the point to which they were going.

006:022 Next morning the crowd who were still standing about on the other side of the Lake found that there had been but one small boat there, and they had seen that Jesus did not go on board with His disciples, but that His disciples went away without Him.

006:023 Yet a number of small boats came from Tiberias to the neighbourhood
of the place where they had eaten the bread after the Lord
had given thanks.

006:024 When however the crowd saw that neither Jesus nor His disciples
were there, they themselves also took boats and came to Capernaum
to look for Jesus.

006:025 So when they had crossed the Lake and had found Him, they asked Him, "Rabbi, when did you come here?"

006:026 "In most solemn truth I tell you," replied Jesus, "that you are searching for me not because you have seen miracles, but because you ate the loaves and had a hearty meal.

006:027 Bestow your pains not on the food which perishes, but on the food that remains unto the Life of the Ages— that food which will be the Son of Man's gift to you; for on Him the Father, God, has set His seal."

006:028 "What are we to do," they asked, "in order to carry out the things
that God requires?"

006:029 "This," replied Jesus, "is above all the thing that God requires—
that you should be believers in Him whom He has sent."

006:030 "What miracle then," they asked, "do you perform for us to see
and become believers in you? What do you *do*?

006:031 Our forefathers ate the manna in the Desert, as it is written,
`He gave them bread out of Heaven to eat'."

006:032 "In most solemn truth I tell you," replied Jesus, "that Moses did not give you the bread out of Heaven, but my Father is giving you the bread—the true bread—out of Heaven.

006:033 For God's bread is that which comes down out of Heaven and gives Life to the world."

006:034 "Sir," they said, "always give us that bread."

006:035 "I am the bread of Life," replied Jesus; "he who comes to me shall
never hunger, and he who believes in me shall never, never thirst.

006:036 But it is as I have said to you: you have seen me and yet
you do not believe.

006:037 Every one whom the Father gives me will come to me, and him
who comes to me I will never on any account drive away.

006:038 For I have left Heaven and have come down to earth not to seek
my own pleasure, but to do the will of Him who sent me.

006:039 And this is the will of Him who sent me, that of all that He
has given me I should lose nothing, but should raise it
to life on the last day.

006:040 For this is my Father's will, that every one who fixes his gaze
on the Son of God and believes in Him should have the Life
of the Ages, and I will raise him to life on the last day."

006:041 Now the Jews began to find fault about Him because of His claiming to be the bread which came down out of Heaven.

006:042 They kept asking, "Is not this man Joseph's son? Is he not Jesus, whose father and mother we know? What does he mean by now saying, `I have come down out of Heaven'?"

006:043 "Do not thus find fault among yourselves," replied Jesus;

006:044 "no one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him; then I will raise him to life on the last day.

006:045 It stands written in the Prophets, `And they shall all of them be taught by God'. Every one who listens to the Father and learns from Him comes to me.

006:046 No one has ever seen the Father—except Him who is from God.
He has seen the Father.

006:047 "In most solemn truth I tell you that he who believes has
the Life of the Ages.

006:048 I am the bread of Life.

006:049 Your forefathers ate the manna in the Desert, and they died.

006:050 Here is the bread that comes down out of Heaven that a man may eat it and not die.

006:051 I am the living bread come down out of Heaven. If a man eats this bread, he shall live for ever. Moreover the bread which I will give is my flesh given for the life of the world."

006:052 This led to an angry debate among the Jews. "How can this man," they argued, "give us his flesh to eat?"

006:053 "In most solemn truth I tell you," said Jesus, "that unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink His blood, you have no Life in you.

006:054 He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has the Life of the Ages, and I will raise him up on the last day.

006:055 For my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink.

006:056 He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in union with me,
and I remain in union with him.

006:057 As the ever-living Father has sent me, and I live because of
the Father, so also he who eats me will live because of me.

006:058 This is the bread which came down out of Heaven; it is unlike that which your forefathers ate—for they ate and yet died. He who eats this bread shall live for ever."

006:059 Jesus said all this in the synagogue while teaching at Capernaum.

006:060 Many therefore of His disciples, when they heard it, said,
"This is hard to accept. Who can listen to such teaching?"

006:061 But, knowing in Himself that His disciples were dissatisfied
about it, Jesus asked them,

006:062 "Does this seem incredible to you? What then if you were to see
the Son of Man ascending again where He was before?

006:063 It is the spirit which gives Life. The flesh confers no
benefit whatever. The words I have spoken to you are spirit
and are Life.

006:064 But there are some of you who do not believe." For Jesus
knew from the beginning who those were that did not believe,
and who it was that would betray Him.

006:065 So He added, "That is why I told you that no one can come
to me unless it be granted him by the Father."

006:066 Thereupon many of His disciples left Him and went away,
and no longer associated with Him.

006:067 Jesus therefore appealed to the Twelve. "Will you go also?"
He asked.

006:068 "Master," replied Simon Peter, "to whom shall we go?
Your teachings tell us of the Life of the Ages.

006:069 And we have come to believe and know that *you* are indeed
the Holy One of God."

006:070 "Did not I choose you—the Twelve?" said Jesus, "and even of you
one is a devil."

006:071 He alluded to Judas, the son of Simon the Iscariot.
For he it was who, though one of the Twelve, was afterwards
to betray Him.

007:001 After this Jesus moved from place to place in Galilee.
He would not go about in Judaea, because the Jews were seeking
an opportunity to kill Him.

007:002 But the Jewish Festival of the Tent-Pitching was approaching.

007:003 So His brothers said to Him, "Leave these parts and go into Judaea,
that not only we but your disciples also may witness the miracles
which you perform.

007:004 For no one acts in secret, desiring all the while to be
himself known publicly. Since you are doing these things,
show yourself openly to the world."

007:005 For even His brothers were not believers in Him.

007:006 "My time," replied Jesus, "has not yet come, but for you any
time is suitable.

007:007 It is impossible for the world to hate you; but me it does hate,
because I give testimony concerning it that its conduct is evil.

007:008 As for you, go up to the Festival. I do not now go up
to this Festival, because my time is not yet fully come."

007:009 Such was His answer, and He remained in Galilee.

007:010 When however His brothers had gone up to the Festival,
then He also went up, not openly, but as it were privately.

007:011 Meanwhile the Jews at the Festival were looking for Him
and were inquiring, "Where is he?"