Jesus Claims Divine Authority in Jerusalem

1. The sons of Judah: Perez, Hezron, Carmi, Hur, and Shobal. 2. Reaiah the son of Shobal became the father of Jahath; and Jahath became the father of Ahumai and Lahad. These are the families of the Zorathites. 3. These were the sons of the father of Etam: Jezreel, Ishma, and Idbash. The name of their sister was Hazzelelponi. 4. Penuel was the father of Gedor and Ezer the father of Hushah. These are the sons of Hur, the firstborn of Ephrathah, the father of Bethlehem. 5. Ashhur the father of Tekoa had two wives, Helah and Naarah. 6. Naarah bore him Ahuzzam, Hepher, Temeni, and Haahashtari. These were the sons of Naarah. 7. The sons of Helah were Zereth, Izhar, and Ethnan. 8. Hakkoz became the father of Anub, Zobebah, and the families of Aharhel the son of Harum. 9. Jabez was more honorable than his brothers. His mother named him Jabez, saying, “Because I bore him with sorrow.” 10. Jabez called on the God of Israel, saying, “Oh that you would bless me indeed, and enlarge my border! May your hand be with me, and may you keep me from evil, that I may not cause pain!” God granted him that which he requested. 11. Chelub the brother of Shuhah became the father of Mehir, who was the father of Eshton. 12. Eshton became the father of Beth Rapha, Paseah, and Tehinnah the father of Ir Nahash. These are the men of Recah. 13. The sons of Kenaz: Othniel and Seraiah. The sons of Othniel: Hathath. 14. Meonothai became the father of Ophrah: and Seraiah became the father of Joab the father of Ge Harashim; for they were craftsmen. 15. The sons of Caleb the son of Jephunneh: Iru, Elah, and Naam. The son of Elah: Kenaz. 16. The sons of Jehallelel: Ziph, Ziphah, Tiria, and Asarel. 17. The sons of Ezrah: Jether, Mered, Epher, and Jalon; and she bore Miriam, Shammai, and Ishbah the father of Eshtemoa. 18. His wife the Jewess bore Jered the father of Gedor, Heber the father of Soco, and Jekuthiel the father of Zanoah. These are the sons of Bithiah the daughter of Pharaoh, whom Mered took. 19. The sons of the wife of Hodiah, the sister of Naham, were the father of Keilah the Garmite, and Eshtemoa the Maacathite. 20. The sons of Shimon: Amnon, Rinnah, Ben Hanan, and Tilon. The sons of Ishi: Zoheth, and Ben Zoheth. 21. The sons of Shelah the son of Judah: Er the father of Lecah, Laadah the father of Mareshah, and the families of the house of those who worked fine linen, of the house of Ashbea; 22. and Jokim, and the men of Cozeba, and Joash, and Saraph, who had dominion in Moab, and Jashubilehem. These records are ancient. 23. These were the potters, and the inhabitants of Netaim and Gederah: they lived there with the king for his work. 24. The sons of Simeon: Nemuel, Jamin, Jarib, Zerah, Shaul; 25. Shallum his son, Mibsam his son, and Mishma his son. 26. The sons of Mishma: Hammuel his son, Zaccur his son, Shimei his son. 27. Shimei had sixteen sons and six daughters; but his brothers didn’t have many children, and all their family did not multiply like the children of Judah. 28. They lived at Beersheba, Moladah, Hazarshual, 29. at Bilhah, at Ezem, at Tolad, 30. at Bethuel, at Hormah, at Ziklag, 31. at Beth Marcaboth, Hazar Susim, at Beth Biri, and at Shaaraim. These were their cities until David’s reign. 32. Their villages were Etam, Ain, Rimmon, Tochen, and Ashan, five cities; 33. and all their villages that were around the same cities, to Baal. These were their settlements, and they have their genealogy. 34. Meshobab, Jamlech, Joshah the son of Amaziah, 35. Joel, Jehu the son of Joshibiah, the son of Seraiah, the son of Asiel, 36. Elioenai, Jaakobah, Jeshohaiah, Asaiah, Adiel, Jesimiel, Benaiah, 37. and Ziza the son of Shiphi, the son of Allon, the son of Jedaiah, the son of Shimri, the son of Shemaiah— 38. these mentioned by name were princes in their families. Their fathers’ houses increased greatly. 39. They went to the entrance of Gedor, even to the east side of the valley, to seek pasture for their flocks. 40. They found fat pasture and good, and the land was wide, and quiet, and peaceful; for those who lived there before were descended from Ham. 41. These written by name came in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, and struck their tents. The Meunim who were found there, and they destroyed them utterly to this day, and lived in their place; because there was pasture there for their flocks. 42. Some of them, even of the sons of Simeon, five hundred men, went to Mount Seir, having for their captains Pelatiah, Neariah, Rephaiah, and Uzziel, the sons of Ishi. 43. They struck the remnant of the Amalekites who escaped, and have lived there to this day. 1. The sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel (for he was the firstborn; but, because he defiled his father’s couch, his birthright was given to the sons of Joseph the son of Israel; and the genealogy is not to be listed according to the birthright. 2. For Judah prevailed above his brothers, and from him came the prince; but the birthright was Joseph’s)— 3. the sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel: Hanoch, Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi. 4. The sons of Joel: Shemaiah his son, Gog his son, Shimei his son, 5. Micah his son, Reaiah his son, Baal his son, 6. and Beerah his son, whom Tilgath Pilneser king of Assyria carried away captive. He was prince of the Reubenites. 7. His brothers by their families, when the genealogy of their generations was listed: the chief, Jeiel, and Zechariah, 8. and Bela the son of Azaz, the son of Shema, the son of Joel, who lived in Aroer, even to Nebo and Baal Meon; 9. and he lived eastward even to the entrance of the wilderness from the river Euphrates, because their livestock were multiplied in the land of Gilead. 10. In the days of Saul, they made war with the Hagrites, who fell by their hand; and they lived in their tents throughout all the land east of Gilead. 11. The sons of Gad lived over against them, in the land of Bashan to Salecah: 12. Joel the chief, Shapham the second, Janai, and Shaphat in Bashan. 13. Their brothers of their fathers’ houses: Michael, Meshullam, Sheba, Jorai, Jacan, Zia, and Eber, seven. 14. These were the sons of Abihail, the son of Huri, the son of Jaroah, the son of Gilead, the son of Michael, the son of Jeshishai, the son of Jahdo, the son of Buz; 15. Ahi the son of Abdiel, the son of Guni, chief of their fathers’ houses. 16. They lived in Gilead in Bashan, and in its towns, and in all the suburbs of Sharon, as far as their borders. 17. All these were listed by genealogies in the days of Jotham king of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam king of Israel. 18. The sons of Reuben, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh, of valiant men, men able to bear buckler and sword, and to shoot with bow, and skillful in war, were forty-four thousand seven hundred sixty, that were able to go out to war. 19. They made war with the Hagrites, with Jetur, and Naphish, and Nodab. 20. They were helped against them, and the Hagrites were delivered into their hand, and all who were with them; for they cried to God in the battle, and he answered them, because they put their trust in him. 21. They took away their livestock; of their camels fifty thousand, and of sheep two hundred fifty thousand, and of donkeys two thousand, and of men one hundred thousand. 22. For many fell slain, because the war was of God. They lived in their place until the captivity. 23. The children of the half-tribe of Manasseh lived in the land: they increased from Bashan to Baal Hermon, Senir, and Mount Hermon. 24. These were the heads of their fathers’ houses: even Epher, Ishi, Eliel, Azriel, Jeremiah, Hodaviah, and Jahdiel, mighty men of valor, famous men, heads of their fathers’ houses. 25. They trespassed against the God of their fathers, and played the prostitute after the gods of the peoples of the land, whom God destroyed before them. 26. So the God of Israel stirred up the spirit of Pul king of Assyria, and the spirit of Tilgath Pilneser king of Assyria, and he carried them away, even the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh, and brought them to Halah, Habor, Hara, and to the river of Gozan, to this day. 1. The sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari. 2. The sons of Kohath: Amram, Izhar, and Hebron, and Uzziel. 3. The children of Amram: Aaron, Moses, and Miriam. The sons of Aaron: Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar. 4. Eleazar became the father of Phinehas, Phinehas became the father of Abishua, 5. Abishua became the father of Bukki. Bukki became the father of Uzzi. 6. Uzzi became the father of Zerahiah. Zerahiah became the father of Meraioth. 7. Meraioth became the father of Amariah. Amariah became the father of Ahitub. 8. Ahitub became the father of Zadok. Zadok became the father of Ahimaaz. 9. Ahimaaz became the father of Azariah. Azariah became the father of Johanan. 10. Johanan became the father of Azariah, who executed the priest’s office in the house that Solomon built in Jerusalem. 11. Azariah became the father of Amariah. Amariah became the father of Ahitub. 12. Ahitub became the father of Zadok. Zadok became the father of Shallum. 13. Shallum became the father of Hilkiah. Hilkiah became the father of Azariah. 14. Azariah became the father of Seraiah. Seraiah became the father of Jehozadak. 15. Jehozadak went into captivity, when Yahweh carried Judah and Jerusalem away by the hand of Nebuchadnezzar. 16. The sons of Levi: Gershom, Kohath, and Merari. 17. These are the names of the sons of Gershom: Libni and Shimei. 18. The sons of Kohath were Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel. 19. The sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi. These are the families of the Levites according to their fathers’ households. 20. Of Gershom: Libni his son, Jahath his son, Zimmah his son, 21. Joah his son, Iddo his son, Zerah his son, and Jeatherai his son. 22. The sons of Kohath: Amminadab his son, Korah his son, Assir his son, 23. Elkanah his son, and Ebiasaph his son, Assir his son, 24. Tahath his son, Uriel his son, Uzziah his son, and Shaul his son. 25. The sons of Elkanah: Amasai and Ahimoth. 26. As for Elkanah, the sons of Elkanah: Zophai his son, Nahath his son, 27. Eliab his son, Jeroham his son, and Elkanah his son. 28. The sons of Samuel: the firstborn, Joel, and the second, Abijah. 29. The sons of Merari: Mahli, Libni his son, Shimei his son, Uzzah his son, 30. Shimea his son, Haggiah his son, Asaiah his son. 31. These are they whom David set over the service of song in Yahweh’s house, after the ark came to rest there. 32. They ministered with song before the tabernacle of the Tent of Meeting, until Solomon had built Yahweh’s house in Jerusalem. They performed the duties of their office according to their order. 33. These are those who served, and their sons. Of the sons of the Kohathites: Heman the singer, the son of Joel, the son of Samuel, 34. the son of Elkanah, the son of Jeroham, the son of Eliel, the son of Toah, 35. the son of Zuph, the son of Elkanah, the son of Mahath, the son of Amasai, 36. the son of Elkanah, the son of Joel, the son of Azariah, the son of Zephaniah, 37. the son of Tahath, the son of Assir, the son of Ebiasaph, the son of Korah, 38. the son of Izhar, the son of Kohath, the son of Levi, the son of Israel. 39. His brother Asaph, who stood on his right hand, even Asaph the son of Berechiah, the son of Shimea, 40. the son of Michael, the son of Baaseiah, the son of Malchijah, 41. the son of Ethni, the son of Zerah, the son of Adaiah, 42. the son of Ethan, the son of Zimmah, the son of Shimei, 43. the son of Jahath, the son of Gershom, the son of Levi. 44. On the left hand their brothers the sons of Merari: Ethan the son of Kishi, the son of Abdi, the son of Malluch, 45. the son of Hashabiah, the son of Amaziah, the son of Hilkiah, 46. the son of Amzi, the son of Bani, the son of Shemer, 47. the son of Mahli, the son of Mushi, the son of Merari, the son of Levi. 48. Their brothers the Levites were appointed for all the service of the tabernacle of God’s house. 49. But Aaron and his sons offered on the altar of burnt offering, and on the altar of incense, for all the work of the most holy place, and to make atonement for Israel, according to all that Moses the servant of God had commanded. 50. These are the sons of Aaron: Eleazar his son, Phinehas his son, Abishua his son, 51. Bukki his son, Uzzi his son, Zerahiah his son, 52. Meraioth his son, Amariah his son, Ahitub his son, 53. Zadok his son, and Ahimaaz his son. 54. Now these are their dwelling places according to their encampments in their borders: to the sons of Aaron, of the families of the Kohathites (for theirs was the first lot), 55. to them they gave Hebron in the land of Judah, and its suburbs around it; 56. but the fields of the city, and its villages, they gave to Caleb the son of Jephunneh. 57. To the sons of Aaron they gave the cities of refuge, Hebron; Libnah also with its suburbs, Jattir, Eshtemoa with its suburbs, 58. Hilen with its suburbs, Debir with its suburbs, 59. Ashan with its suburbs, and Beth Shemesh with its suburbs; 60. and out of the tribe of Benjamin, Geba with its suburbs, Allemeth with its suburbs, and Anathoth with its suburbs. All their cities throughout their families were thirteen cities. 61. To the rest of the sons of Kohath were given by lot, out of the family of the tribe, out of the half-tribe, the half of Manasseh, ten cities. 62. To the sons of Gershom, according to their families, out of the tribe of Issachar, and out of the tribe of Asher, and out of the tribe of Naphtali, and out of the tribe of Manasseh in Bashan, thirteen cities. 63. To the sons of Merari were given by lot, according to their families, out of the tribe of Reuben, and out of the tribe of Gad, and out of the tribe of Zebulun, twelve cities. 64. The children of Israel gave to the Levites the cities with their suburbs. 65. They gave by lot out of the tribe of the children of Judah, and out of the tribe of the children of Simeon, and out of the tribe of the children of Benjamin, these cities which are mentioned by name. 66. Some of the families of the sons of Kohath had cities of their borders out of the tribe of Ephraim. 67. They gave to them the cities of refuge, Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim with its suburbs; Gezer also with its suburbs, 68. Jokmeam with its suburbs, Beth Horon with its suburbs, 69. Aijalon with its suburbs, Gath Rimmon with its suburbs; 70. and out of the half-tribe of Manasseh, Aner with its suburbs, and Bileam with its suburbs, for the rest of the family of the sons of Kohath. 71. To the sons of Gershom were given, out of the family of the half-tribe of Manasseh, Golan in Bashan with its suburbs, and Ashtaroth with its suburbs; 72. and out of the tribe of Issachar, Kedesh with its suburbs, Daberath with its suburbs, 73. Ramoth with its suburbs, and Anem with its suburbs; 74. and out of the tribe of Asher, Mashal with its suburbs, Abdon with its suburbs, 75. Hukok with its suburbs, and Rehob with its suburbs; 76. and out of the tribe of Naphtali, Kedesh in Galilee with its suburbs, Hammon with its suburbs, and Kiriathaim with its suburbs. 77. To the rest of the Levites, the sons of Merari, were given, out of the tribe of Zebulun, Rimmono with its suburbs, Tabor with its suburbs; 78. and beyond the Jordan at Jericho, on the east side of the Jordan, were given them, out of the tribe of Reuben, Bezer in the wilderness with its suburbs, and Jahzah with its suburbs, 79. Kedemoth with its suburbs, and Mephaath with its suburbs; 80. and out of the tribe of Gad, Ramoth in Gilead with its suburbs, Mahanaim with its suburbs, 81. Heshbon with its suburbs, and Jazer with its suburbs.

1. After these things, there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. 2. Now in Jerusalem by the sheep gate, there is a pool, which is called in Hebrew, “Bethesda”, having five porches. 3. In these lay a great multitude of those who were sick, blind, lame, or paralyzed, waiting for the moving of the water; 4. for an angel went down at certain times into the pool, and stirred up the water. Whoever stepped in first after the stirring of the water was healed of whatever disease he had. 5. A certain man was there, who had been sick for thirty-eight years. 6. When Jesus saw him lying there, and knew that he had been sick for a long time, he asked him, “Do you want to be made well?” 7. The sick man answered him, “Sir, I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up, but while I’m coming, another steps down before me.” 8. Jesus said to him, “Arise, take up your mat, and walk.” 9. Immediately, the man was made well, and took up his mat and walked. Now it was the Sabbath on that day. 10. So the Jews said to him who was cured, “It is the Sabbath. It is not lawful for you to carry the mat.” 11. He answered them, “He who made me well, the same said to me, ‘Take up your mat, and walk.’” 12. Then they asked him, “Who is the man who said to you, ‘Take up your mat, and walk’?” 13. But he who was healed didn’t know who it was, for Jesus had withdrawn, a crowd being in the place. 14. Afterward Jesus found him in the temple, and said to him, “Behold, you are made well. Sin no more, so that nothing worse happens to you.” 15. The man went away, and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had made him well. 16. For this cause the Jews persecuted Jesus, and sought to kill him, because he did these things on the Sabbath. 17. But Jesus answered them, “My Father is still working, so I am working, too.” 18. For this cause therefore the Jews sought all the more to kill him, because he not only broke the Sabbath, but also called God his own Father, making himself equal with God. 19. Jesus therefore answered them, “Most certainly, I tell you, the Son can do nothing of himself, but what he sees the Father doing. For whatever things he does, these the Son also does likewise. 20. For the Father has affection for the Son, and shows him all things that he himself does. He will show him greater works than these, that you may marvel. 21. For as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, even so the Son also gives life to whom he desires. 22. For the Father judges no one, but he has given all judgment to the Son, 23. that all may honor the Son, even as they honor the Father. He who doesn’t honor the Son doesn’t honor the Father who sent him. 24. “Most certainly I tell you, he who hears my word, and believes him who sent me, has eternal life, and doesn’t come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life. 25. Most certainly, I tell you, the hour comes, and now is, when the dead will hear the Son of God’s voice; and those who hear will live. 26. For as the Father has life in himself, even so he gave to the Son also to have life in himself. 27. He also gave him authority to execute judgment, because he is a son of man. 28. Don’t marvel at this, for the hour comes, in which all that are in the tombs will hear his voice, 29. and will come out; those who have done good, to the resurrection of life; and those who have done evil, to the resurrection of judgment. 30. I can of myself do nothing. As I hear, I judge, and my judgment is righteous; because I don’t seek my own will, but the will of my Father who sent me. 31. “If I testify about myself, my witness is not valid. 32. It is another who testifies about me. I know that the testimony which he testifies about me is true. 33. You have sent to John, and he has testified to the truth. 34. But the testimony which I receive is not from man. However, I say these things that you may be saved. 35. He was the burning and shining lamp, and you were willing to rejoice for a while in his light. 36. But the testimony which I have is greater than that of John, for the works which the Father gave me to accomplish, the very works that I do, testify about me, that the Father has sent me. 37. The Father himself, who sent me, has testified about me. You have neither heard his voice at any time, nor seen his form. 38. You don’t have his word living in you; because you don’t believe him whom he sent. 39. “You search the Scriptures, because you think that in them you have eternal life; and these are they which testify about me. 40. Yet you will not come to me, that you may have life. 41. I don’t receive glory from men. 42. But I know you, that you don’t have God’s love in yourselves. 43. I have come in my Father’s name, and you don’t receive me. If another comes in his own name, you will receive him. 44. How can you believe, who receive glory from one another, and you don’t seek the glory that comes from the only God? 45. “Don’t think that I will accuse you to the Father. There is one who accuses you, even Moses, on whom you have set your hope. 46. For if you believed Moses, you would believe me; for he wrote about me. 47. But if you don’t believe his writings, how will you believe my words?” 1. After these things, Jesus went away to the other side of the sea of Galilee, which is also called the Sea of Tiberias. 2. A great multitude followed him, because they saw his signs which he did on those who were sick. 3. Jesus went up into the mountain, and he sat there with his disciples. 4. Now the Passover, the feast of the Jews, was at hand. 5. Jesus therefore lifting up his eyes, and seeing that a great multitude was coming to him, said to Philip, “Where are we to buy bread, that these may eat?” 6. This he said to test him, for he himself knew what he would do. 7. Philip answered him, “Two hundred denarii worth of bread is not sufficient for them, that everyone of them may receive a little.” 8. One of his disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother, said to him, 9. “There is a boy here who has five barley loaves and two fish, but what are these among so many?” 10. Jesus said, “Have the people sit down.” Now there was much grass in that place. So the men sat down, in number about five thousand. 11. Jesus took the loaves; and having given thanks, he distributed to the disciples, and the disciples to those who were sitting down; likewise also of the fish as much as they desired. 12. When they were filled, he said to his disciples, “Gather up the broken pieces which are left over, that nothing be lost.” 13. So they gathered them up, and filled twelve baskets with broken pieces from the five barley loaves, which were left over by those who had eaten. 14. When therefore the people saw the sign which Jesus did, they said, “This is truly the prophet who comes into the world.” 15. Jesus therefore, perceiving that they were about to come and take him by force, to make him king, withdrew again to the mountain by himself. 16. When evening came, his disciples went down to the sea, 17. and they entered into the boat, and were going over the sea to Capernaum. It was now dark, and Jesus had not come to them. 18. The sea was tossed by a great wind blowing. 19. When therefore they had rowed about twenty-five or thirty stadia, they saw Jesus walking on the sea, and drawing near to the boat; and they were afraid. 20. But he said to them, “It is I. Don’t be afraid.” 21. They were willing therefore to receive him into the boat. Immediately the boat was at the land where they were going. 22. On the next day, the multitude that stood on the other side of the sea saw that there was no other boat there, except the one in which his disciples had embarked, and that Jesus hadn’t entered with his disciples into the boat, but his disciples had gone away alone. 23. However boats from Tiberias came near to the place where they ate the bread after the Lord had given thanks. 24. When the multitude therefore saw that Jesus wasn’t there, nor his disciples, they themselves got into the boats, and came to Capernaum, seeking Jesus. 25. When they found him on the other side of the sea, they asked him, “Rabbi, when did you come here?” 26. Jesus answered them, “Most certainly I tell you, you seek me, not because you saw signs, but because you ate of the loaves, and were filled. 27. Don’t work for the food which perishes, but for the food which remains to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you. For God the Father has sealed him.” 28. They said therefore to him, “What must we do, that we may work the works of God?” 29. Jesus answered them, “This is the work of God, that you believe in him whom he has sent.” 30. They said therefore to him, “What then do you do for a sign, that we may see, and believe you? What work do you do? 31. Our fathers ate the manna in the wilderness. As it is written, ‘He gave them bread out of heaven to eat.’” 32. Jesus therefore said to them, “Most certainly, I tell you, it wasn’t Moses who gave you the bread out of heaven, but my Father gives you the true bread out of heaven. 33. For the bread of God is that which comes down out of heaven, and gives life to the world.” 34. They said therefore to him, “Lord, always give us this bread.” 35. Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life. He who comes to me will not be hungry, and he who believes in me will never be thirsty. 36. But I told you that you have seen me, and yet you don’t believe. 37. All those whom the Father gives me will come to me. He who comes to me I will in no way throw out. 38. For I have come down from heaven, not to do my own will, but the will of him who sent me. 39. This is the will of my Father who sent me, that of all he has given to me I should lose nothing, but should raise him up at the last day. 40. This is the will of the one who sent me, that everyone who sees the Son, and believes in him, should have eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day.” 41. The Jews therefore murmured concerning him, because he said, “I am the bread which came down out of heaven.” 42. They said, “Isn’t this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How then does he say, ‘I have come down out of heaven?’” 43. Therefore Jesus answered them, “Don’t murmur among yourselves. 44. No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him, and I will raise him up in the last day. 45. It is written in the prophets, ‘They will all be taught by God.’ Therefore everyone who hears from the Father, and has learned, comes to me. 46. Not that anyone has seen the Father, except he who is from God. He has seen the Father. 47. Most certainly, I tell you, he who believes in me has eternal life. 48. I am the bread of life. 49. Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died. 50. This is the bread which comes down out of heaven, that anyone may eat of it and not die. 51. I am the living bread which came down out of heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. Yes, the bread which I will give for the life of the world is my flesh.” 52. The Jews therefore contended with one another, saying, “How can this man give us his flesh to eat?” 53. Jesus therefore said to them, “Most certainly I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you don’t have life in yourselves. 54. He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day. 55. For my flesh is food indeed, and my blood is drink indeed. 56. He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood lives in me, and I in him. 57. As the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father; so he who feeds on me, he will also live because of me. 58. This is the bread which came down out of heaven—not as our fathers ate the manna, and died. He who eats this bread will live forever.” 59. He said these things in the synagogue, as he taught in Capernaum. 60. Therefore many of his disciples, when they heard this, said, “This is a hard saying! Who can listen to it?” 61. But Jesus knowing in himself that his disciples murmured at this, said to them, “Does this cause you to stumble? 62. Then what if you would see the Son of Man ascending to where he was before? 63. It is the spirit who gives life. The flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and are life. 64. But there are some of you who don’t believe.” For Jesus knew from the beginning who they were who didn’t believe, and who it was who would betray him. 65. He said, “For this cause I have said to you that no one can come to me, unless it is given to him by my Father.” 66. At this, many of his disciples went back, and walked no more with him. 67. Jesus said therefore to the twelve, “You don’t also want to go away, do you?” 68. Simon Peter answered him, “Lord, to whom would we go? You have the words of eternal life. 69. We have come to believe and know that you are the Christ, the Son of the living God.” 70. Jesus answered them, “Didn’t I choose you, the twelve, and one of you is a devil?” 71. Now he spoke of Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot, for it was he who would betray him, being one of the twelve. 1. After these things, Jesus was walking in Galilee, for he wouldn’t walk in Judea, because the Jews sought to kill him. 2. Now the feast of the Jews, the Feast of Booths, was at hand. 3. His brothers therefore said to him, “Depart from here, and go into Judea, that your disciples also may see your works which you do. 4. For no one does anything in secret, and himself seeks to be known openly. If you do these things, reveal yourself to the world.” 5. For even his brothers didn’t believe in him. 6. Jesus therefore said to them, “My time has not yet come, but your time is always ready. 7. The world can’t hate you, but it hates me, because I testify about it, that its works are evil. 8. You go up to the feast. I am not yet going up to this feast, because my time is not yet fulfilled.” 9. Having said these things to them, he stayed in Galilee. 10. But when his brothers had gone up to the feast, then he also went up, not publicly, but as it were in secret. 11. The Jews therefore sought him at the feast, and said, “Where is he?” 12. There was much murmuring among the multitudes concerning him. Some said, “He is a good man.” Others said, “Not so, but he leads the multitude astray.” 13. Yet no one spoke openly of him for fear of the Jews. 14. But when it was now the middle of the feast, Jesus went up into the temple and taught. 15. The Jews therefore marveled, saying, “How does this man know letters, having never been educated?” 16. Jesus therefore answered them, “My teaching is not mine, but his who sent me. 17. If anyone desires to do his will, he will know about the teaching, whether it is from God, or if I am speaking from myself. 18. He who speaks from himself seeks his own glory, but he who seeks the glory of him who sent him is true, and no unrighteousness is in him. 19. Didn’t Moses give you the law, and yet none of you keeps the law? Why do you seek to kill me?” 20. The multitude answered, “You have a demon! Who seeks to kill you?” 21. Jesus answered them, “I did one work, and you all marvel because of it. 22. Moses has given you circumcision (not that it is of Moses, but of the fathers), and on the Sabbath you circumcise a boy. 23. If a boy receives circumcision on the Sabbath, that the law of Moses may not be broken, are you angry with me, because I made a man completely healthy on the Sabbath? 24. Don’t judge according to appearance, but judge righteous judgment.” 25. Therefore some of them of Jerusalem said, “Isn’t this he whom they seek to kill? 26. Behold, he speaks openly, and they say nothing to him. Can it be that the rulers indeed know that this is truly the Christ? 27. However we know where this man comes from, but when the Christ comes, no one will know where he comes from.” 28. Jesus therefore cried out in the temple, teaching and saying, “You both know me, and know where I am from. I have not come of myself, but he who sent me is true, whom you don’t know. 29. I know him, because I am from him, and he sent me.” 30. They sought therefore to take him; but no one laid a hand on him, because his hour had not yet come. 31. But of the multitude, many believed in him. They said, “When the Christ comes, he won’t do more signs than those which this man has done, will he?” 32. The Pharisees heard the multitude murmuring these things concerning him, and the chief priests and the Pharisees sent officers to arrest him. 33. Then Jesus said, “I will be with you a little while longer, then I go to him who sent me. 34. You will seek me, and won’t find me; and where I am, you can’t come.” 35. The Jews therefore said among themselves, “Where will this man go that we won’t find him? Will he go to the Dispersion among the Greeks, and teach the Greeks? 36. What is this word that he said, ‘You will seek me, and won’t find me; and where I am, you can’t come’?” 37. Now on the last and greatest day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink! 38. He who believes in me, as the Scripture has said, from within him will flow rivers of living water.” 39. But he said this about the Spirit, which those believing in him were to receive. For the Holy Spirit was not yet given, because Jesus wasn’t yet glorified. 40. Many of the multitude therefore, when they heard these words, said, “This is truly the prophet.” 41. Others said, “This is the Christ.” But some said, “What, does the Christ come out of Galilee? 42. Hasn’t the Scripture said that the Christ comes of the offspring of David, and from Bethlehem, the village where David was?” 43. So there arose a division in the multitude because of him. 44. Some of them would have arrested him, but no one laid hands on him. 45. The officers therefore came to the chief priests and Pharisees, and they said to them, “Why didn’t you bring him?” 46. The officers answered, “No man ever spoke like this man!” 47. The Pharisees therefore answered them, “You aren’t also led astray, are you? 48. Have any of the rulers believed in him, or of the Pharisees? 49. But this multitude that doesn’t know the law is accursed.” 50. Nicodemus (he who came to him by night, being one of them) said to them, 51. “Does our law judge a man, unless it first hears from him personally and knows what he does?” 52. They answered him, “Are you also from Galilee? Search, and see that no prophet has arisen out of Galilee.” 53. Everyone went to his own house, 1. but Jesus went to the Mount of Olives. 2. Now very early in the morning, he came again into the temple, and all the people came to him. He sat down, and taught them. 3. The scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman taken in adultery. Having set her in the middle, 4. they told him, “Teacher, we found this woman in adultery, in the very act. 5. Now in our law, Moses commanded us to stone such women. What then do you say about her?” 6. They said this testing him, that they might have something to accuse him of. But Jesus stooped down, and wrote on the ground with his finger. 7. But when they continued asking him, he looked up and said to them, “He who is without sin among you, let him throw the first stone at her.” 8. Again he stooped down, and with his finger wrote on the ground. 9. They, when they heard it, being convicted by their conscience, went out one by one, beginning from the oldest, even to the last. Jesus was left alone with the woman where she was, in the middle. 10. Jesus, standing up, saw her and said, “Woman, where are your accusers? Did no one condemn you?” 11. She said, “No one, Lord.” Jesus said, “Neither do I condemn you. Go your way. From now on, sin no more.” 12. Again, therefore, Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world. He who follows me will not walk in the darkness, but will have the light of life.” 13. The Pharisees therefore said to him, “You testify about yourself. Your testimony is not valid.” 14. Jesus answered them, “Even if I testify about myself, my testimony is true, for I know where I came from, and where I am going; but you don’t know where I came from, or where I am going. 15. You judge according to the flesh. I judge no one. 16. Even if I do judge, my judgment is true, for I am not alone, but I am with the Father who sent me. 17. It’s also written in your law that the testimony of two people is valid. 18. I am one who testifies about myself, and the Father who sent me testifies about me.” 19. They said therefore to him, “Where is your Father?” Jesus answered, “You know neither me, nor my Father. If you knew me, you would know my Father also.” 20. Jesus spoke these words in the treasury, as he taught in the temple. Yet no one arrested him, because his hour had not yet come. 21. Jesus said therefore again to them, “I am going away, and you will seek me, and you will die in your sins. Where I go, you can’t come.” 22. The Jews therefore said, “Will he kill himself, because he says, ‘Where I am going, you can’t come’?” 23. He said to them, “You are from beneath. I am from above. You are of this world. I am not of this world. 24. I said therefore to you that you will die in your sins; for unless you believe that I am he, you will die in your sins.” 25. They said therefore to him, “Who are you?” Jesus said to them, “Just what I have been saying to you from the beginning. 26. I have many things to speak and to judge concerning you. However he who sent me is true; and the things which I heard from him, these I say to the world.” 27. They didn’t understand that he spoke to them about the Father. 28. Jesus therefore said to them, “When you have lifted up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am he, and I do nothing of myself, but as my Father taught me, I say these things. 29. He who sent me is with me. The Father hasn’t left me alone, for I always do the things that are pleasing to him.” 30. As he spoke these things, many believed in him. 31. Jesus therefore said to those Jews who had believed him, “If you remain in my word, then you are truly my disciples. 32. You will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.” 33. They answered him, “We are Abraham’s offspring, and have never been in bondage to anyone. How do you say, ‘You will be made free’?” 34. Jesus answered them, “Most certainly I tell you, everyone who commits sin is the bondservant of sin. 35. A bondservant doesn’t live in the house forever. A son remains forever. 36. If therefore the Son makes you free, you will be free indeed. 37. I know that you are Abraham’s offspring, yet you seek to kill me, because my word finds no place in you. 38. I say the things which I have seen with my Father; and you also do the things which you have seen with your father.” 39. They answered him, “Our father is Abraham.” Jesus said to them, “If you were Abraham’s children, you would do the works of Abraham. 40. But now you seek to kill me, a man who has told you the truth, which I heard from God. Abraham didn’t do this. 41. You do the works of your father.” They said to him, “We were not born of sexual immorality. We have one Father, God.” 42. Therefore Jesus said to them, “If God were your father, you would love me, for I came out and have come from God. For I haven’t come of myself, but he sent me. 43. Why don’t you understand my speech? Because you can’t hear my word. 44. You are of your father, the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and doesn’t stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks on his own; for he is a liar, and the father of lies. 45. But because I tell the truth, you don’t believe me. 46. Which of you convicts me of sin? If I tell the truth, why do you not believe me? 47. He who is of God hears the words of God. For this cause you don’t hear, because you are not of God.” 48. Then the Jews answered him, “Don’t we say well that you are a Samaritan, and have a demon?” 49. Jesus answered, “I don’t have a demon, but I honor my Father, and you dishonor me. 50. But I don’t seek my own glory. There is one who seeks and judges. 51. Most certainly, I tell you, if a person keeps my word, he will never see death.” 52. Then the Jews said to him, “Now we know that you have a demon. Abraham died, and the prophets; and you say, ‘If a man keeps my word, he will never taste of death.’ 53. Are you greater than our father, Abraham, who died? The prophets died. Who do you make yourself out to be?” 54. Jesus answered, “If I glorify myself, my glory is nothing. It is my Father who glorifies me, of whom you say that he is our God. 55. You have not known him, but I know him. If I said, ‘I don’t know him,’ I would be like you, a liar. But I know him, and keep his word. 56. Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day. He saw it, and was glad.” 57. The Jews therefore said to him, “You are not yet fifty years old, and have you seen Abraham?” 58. Jesus said to them, “Most certainly, I tell you, before Abraham came into existence, I AM.” 59. Therefore they took up stones to throw at him, but Jesus was hidden, and went out of the temple, having gone through the middle of them, and so passed by.

1. God of my praise, don’t remain silent, 2. for they have opened the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of deceit against me. They have spoken to me with a lying tongue. 3. They have also surrounded me with words of hatred, and fought against me without a cause. 4. In return for my love, they are my adversaries; but I am in prayer. 5. They have rewarded me evil for good, and hatred for my love. 6. Set a wicked man over him. Let an adversary stand at his right hand. 7. When he is judged, let him come out guilty. Let his prayer be turned into sin. 8. Let his days be few. Let another take his office. 9. Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow. 10. Let his children be wandering beggars. Let them be sought from their ruins. 11. Let the creditor seize all that he has. Let strangers plunder the fruit of his labor. 12. Let there be no one to extend kindness to him, neither let there be anyone to have pity on his fatherless children. 13. Let his posterity be cut off. In the generation following let their name be blotted out. 14. Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered by Yahweh. Don’t let the sin of his mother be blotted out. 15. Let them be before Yahweh continually, that he may cut off their memory from the earth; 16. because he didn’t remember to show kindness, but persecuted the poor and needy man, the broken in heart, to kill them. 17. Yes, he loved cursing, and it came to him. He didn’t delight in blessing, and it was far from him. 18. He clothed himself also with cursing as with his garment. It came into his inward parts like water, like oil into his bones. 19. Let it be to him as the clothing with which he covers himself, for the belt that is always around him. 20. This is the reward of my adversaries from Yahweh, of those who speak evil against my soul. 21. But deal with me, Yahweh the Lord, for your name’s sake, because your loving kindness is good, deliver me; 22. for I am poor and needy. My heart is wounded within me. 23. I fade away like an evening shadow. I am shaken off like a locust. 24. My knees are weak through fasting. My body is thin and lacks fat. 25. I have also become a reproach to them. When they see me, they shake their head. 26. Help me, Yahweh, my God. Save me according to your loving kindness; 27. that they may know that this is your hand; that you, Yahweh, have done it. 28. They may curse, but you bless. When they arise, they will be shamed, but your servant shall rejoice. 29. Let my adversaries be clothed with dishonor. Let them cover themselves with their own shame as with a robe. 30. I will give great thanks to Yahweh with my mouth. Yes, I will praise him among the multitude. 31. For he will stand at the right hand of the needy, to save him from those who judge his soul.