Loyalty Tested, Blindness Healed, Truth Revealed

1. David fled from Naioth in Ramah, and came and said before Jonathan, “What have I done? What is my iniquity? What is my sin before your father, that he seeks my life?” 2. He said to him, “Far from it; you will not die. Behold, my father does nothing either great or small, but that he discloses it to me. Why would my father hide this thing from me? It is not so.” 3. David swore moreover, and said, “Your father knows well that I have found favor in your eyes; and he says, ‘Don’t let Jonathan know this, lest he be grieved:’ but truly as Yahweh lives, and as your soul lives, there is but a step between me and death.” 4. Then Jonathan said to David, “Whatever your soul desires, I will even do it for you.” 5. David said to Jonathan, “Behold, tomorrow is the new moon, and I should not fail to dine with the king; but let me go, that I may hide myself in the field to the third day at evening. 6. If your father misses me at all, then say, ‘David earnestly asked leave of me that he might run to Bethlehem his city; for it is the yearly sacrifice there for all the family.’ 7. If he says, ‘It is well;’ your servant shall have peace: but if he is angry, then know that evil is determined by him. 8. Therefore deal kindly with your servant; for you have brought your servant into a covenant of Yahweh with you; but if there is iniquity in me, kill me yourself; for why should you bring me to your father?” 9. Jonathan said, “Far be it from you; for if I should at all know that evil were determined by my father to come on you, then wouldn’t I tell you that?” 10. Then David said to Jonathan, “Who will tell me if your father answers you roughly?” 11. Jonathan said to David, “Come, and let us go out into the field.” They both went out into the field. 12. Jonathan said to David, “By Yahweh, the God of Israel, when I have sounded my father about this time tomorrow, or the third day, behold, if there is good toward David, won’t I then send to you, and disclose it to you? 13. Yahweh do so to Jonathan, and more also, should it please my father to do you evil, if I don’t disclose it to you, and send you away, that you may go in peace. May Yahweh be with you, as he has been with my father. 14. You shall not only while yet I live show me the loving kindness of Yahweh, that I not die; 15. but you shall also not cut off your kindness from my house forever; no, not when Yahweh has cut off every one of the enemies of David from the surface of the earth.” 16. So Jonathan made a covenant with David’s house, saying, “Yahweh will require it at the hand of David’s enemies.” 17. Jonathan caused David to swear again, for the love that he had to him; for he loved him as he loved his own soul. 18. Then Jonathan said to him, “Tomorrow is the new moon, and you will be missed, because your seat will be empty. 19. When you have stayed three days, go down quickly, and come to the place where you hid yourself when this started, and remain by the stone Ezel. 20. I will shoot three arrows on its side, as though I shot at a mark. 21. Behold, I will send the boy, saying, ‘Go, find the arrows!’ If I tell the boy, ‘Behold, the arrows are on this side of you. Take them;’ then come; for there is peace to you and no danger, as Yahweh lives. 22. But if I say this to the boy, ‘Behold, the arrows are beyond you;’ then go your way; for Yahweh has sent you away. 23. Concerning the matter which you and I have spoken of, behold, Yahweh is between you and me forever.” 24. So David hid himself in the field. When the new moon had come, the king sat himself down to eat food. 25. The king sat on his seat, as at other times, even on the seat by the wall; and Jonathan stood up, and Abner sat by Saul’s side, but David’s place was empty. 26. Nevertheless Saul didn’t say anything that day, for he thought, “Something has happened to him. He is not clean. Surely he is not clean.” 27. On the next day after the new moon, the second day, David’s place was empty. Saul said to Jonathan his son, “Why doesn’t the son of Jesse come to eat, either yesterday, or today?” 28. Jonathan answered Saul, “David earnestly asked permission of me to go to Bethlehem. 29. He said, ‘Please let me go, for our family has a sacrifice in the city. My brother has commanded me to be there. Now, if I have found favor in your eyes, please let me go away and see my brothers.’ Therefore he has not come to the king’s table.” 30. Then Saul’s anger burned against Jonathan, and he said to him, “You son of a perverse rebellious woman, don’t I know that you have chosen the son of Jesse to your own shame, and to the shame of your mother’s nakedness? 31. For as long as the son of Jesse lives on the earth, you will not be established, nor will your kingdom. Therefore now send and bring him to me, for he shall surely die!” 32. Jonathan answered Saul his father, and said to him, “Why should he be put to death? What has he done?” 33. Saul cast his spear at him to strike him. By this Jonathan knew that his father was determined to put David to death. 34. So Jonathan arose from the table in fierce anger, and ate no food the second day of the month; for he was grieved for David, because his father had treated him shamefully. 35. In the morning, Jonathan went out into the field at the time appointed with David, and a little boy with him. 36. He said to his boy, “Run, find now the arrows which I shoot.” As the boy ran, he shot an arrow beyond him. 37. When the boy had come to the place of the arrow which Jonathan had shot, Jonathan cried after the boy, and said, “Isn’t the arrow beyond you?” 38. Jonathan cried after the boy, “Go fast! Hurry! Don’t delay!” Jonathan’s boy gathered up the arrows, and came to his master. 39. But the boy didn’t know anything. Only Jonathan and David knew the matter. 40. Jonathan gave his weapons to his boy, and said to him, “Go, carry them to the city.” 41. As soon as the boy was gone, David arose out of the south, and fell on his face to the ground, and bowed himself three times. They kissed one another, and wept one with another, and David wept the most. 42. Jonathan said to David, “Go in peace, because we have both sworn in Yahweh’s name, saying, ‘Yahweh is between me and you, and between my offspring and your offspring, forever.’” He arose and departed; and Jonathan went into the city. 1. Then David came to Nob to Ahimelech the priest. Ahimelech came to meet David trembling, and said to him, “Why are you alone, and no man with you?” 2. David said to Ahimelech the priest, “The king has commanded me to do something, and has said to me, ‘Let no one know anything about the business about which I send you, and what I have commanded you. I have sent the young men to a certain place.’ 3. Now therefore what is under your hand? Please give me five loaves of bread in my hand, or whatever is available.” 4. The priest answered David, and said, “I have no common bread, but there is holy bread; if only the young men have kept themselves from women.” 5. David answered the priest, and said to him, “Truly, women have been kept from us as usual these three days. When I came out, the vessels of the young men were holy, though it was only a common journey. How much more then today shall their vessels be holy?” 6. So the priest gave him holy bread; for there was no bread there but the show bread that was taken from before Yahweh, to put hot bread in the day when it was taken away. 7. Now a certain man of the servants of Saul was there that day, detained before Yahweh; and his name was Doeg the Edomite, the best of the herdsmen who belonged to Saul. 8. David said to Ahimelech, “Isn’t there here under your hand spear or sword? For I have neither brought my sword nor my weapons with me, because the king’s business required haste.” 9. The priest said, “Behold, the sword of Goliath the Philistine, whom you killed in the valley of Elah, is here wrapped in a cloth behind the ephod. If you would like to take that, take it; for there is no other except that here.” David said, “There is none like that. Give it to me.” 10. David arose, and fled that day for fear of Saul, and went to Achish the king of Gath. 11. The servants of Achish said to him, “Isn’t this David the king of the land? Didn’t they sing to one another about him in dances, saying, ‘Saul has slain his thousands, and David his ten thousands?’” 12. David laid up these words in his heart, and was very afraid of Achish the king of Gath. 13. He changed his behavior before them, and pretended to be insane in their hands, and scribbled on the doors of the gate, and let his spittle fall down on his beard. 14. Then Achish said to his servants, “Look, you see the man is insane. Why then have you brought him to me? 15. Do I lack madmen, that you have brought this fellow to play the madman in my presence? Should this fellow come into my house?” 1. David therefore departed from there, and escaped to the cave of Adullam. When his brothers and all his father’s house heard it, they went down there to him. 2. Everyone who was in distress, everyone who was in debt, and everyone who was discontented, gathered themselves to him; and he became captain over them. There were with him about four hundred men. 3. David went from there to Mizpeh of Moab, and he said to the king of Moab, “Please let my father and my mother come out with you, until I know what God will do for me.” 4. He brought them before the king of Moab; and they lived with him all the time that David was in the stronghold. 5. The prophet Gad said to David, “Don’t stay in the stronghold. Depart, and go into the land of Judah.” Then David departed, and came into the forest of Hereth. 6. Saul heard that David was discovered, with the men who were with him. Now Saul was sitting in Gibeah, under the tamarisk tree in Ramah, with his spear in his hand, and all his servants were standing around him. 7. Saul said to his servants who stood around him, “Hear now, you Benjamites! Will the son of Jesse give everyone of you fields and vineyards? Will he make you all captains of thousands and captains of hundreds, 8. that all of you have conspired against me, and there is no one who discloses to me when my son makes a treaty with the son of Jesse, and there is none of you who is sorry for me, or discloses to me that my son has stirred up my servant against me, to lie in wait, as it is today?” 9. Then Doeg the Edomite, who stood by the servants of Saul, answered and said, “I saw the son of Jesse coming to Nob, to Ahimelech the son of Ahitub. 10. He inquired of Yahweh for him, gave him food, and gave him the sword of Goliath the Philistine.” 11. Then the king sent to call Ahimelech the priest, the son of Ahitub, and all his father’s house, the priests who were in Nob; and they all came to the king. 12. Saul said, “Hear now, you son of Ahitub.” He answered, “Here I am, my lord.” 13. Saul said to him, “Why have you conspired against me, you and the son of Jesse, in that you have given him bread, and a sword, and have inquired of God for him, that he should rise against me, to lie in wait, as it is today?” 14. Then Ahimelech answered the king, and said, “Who among all your servants is so faithful as David, who is the king’s son-in-law, and is taken into your council, and is honorable in your house? 15. Have I today begun to inquire of God for him? Be it far from me! Don’t let the king impute anything to his servant, nor to all the house of my father; for your servant knows nothing of all this, less or more.” 16. The king said, “You shall surely die, Ahimelech, you, and all your father’s house.” 17. The king said to the guard who stood about him, “Turn, and kill the priests of Yahweh; because their hand also is with David, and because they knew that he fled, and didn’t disclose it to me.” But the servants of the king wouldn’t put out their hand to fall on the priests of Yahweh. 18. The king said to Doeg, “Turn and attack the priests!” Doeg the Edomite turned, and he attacked the priests, and he killed on that day eighty-five people who wore a linen ephod. 19. He struck Nob, the city of the priests, with the edge of the sword, both men and women, children and nursing babies, and cattle and donkeys and sheep, with the edge of the sword. 20. One of the sons of Ahimelech, the son of Ahitub, named Abiathar, escaped, and fled after David. 21. Abiathar told David that Saul had slain Yahweh’s priests. 22. David said to Abiathar, “I knew on that day, when Doeg the Edomite was there, that he would surely tell Saul. I am responsible for the death of all the persons of your father’s house. 23. Stay with me. Don’t be afraid, for he who seeks my life seeks your life. For you will be safe with me.”

1. As he passed by, he saw a man blind from birth. 2. His disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?” 3. Jesus answered, “Neither did this man sin, nor his parents; but, that the works of God might be revealed in him. 4. I must work the works of him who sent me, while it is day. The night is coming, when no one can work. 5. While I am in the world, I am the light of the world.” 6. When he had said this, he spat on the ground, made mud with the saliva, anointed the blind man’s eyes with the mud, 7. and said to him, “Go, wash in the pool of Siloam” (which means “Sent”). So he went away, washed, and came back seeing. 8. The neighbors therefore, and those who saw that he was blind before, said, “Isn’t this he who sat and begged?” 9. Others were saying, “It is he.” Still others were saying, “He looks like him.” He said, “I am he.” 10. They therefore were asking him, “How were your eyes opened?” 11. He answered, “A man called Jesus made mud, anointed my eyes, and said to me, ‘Go to the pool of Siloam, and wash.’ So I went away and washed, and I received sight.” 12. Then they asked him, “Where is he?” He said, “I don’t know.” 13. They brought him who had been blind to the Pharisees. 14. It was a Sabbath when Jesus made the mud and opened his eyes. 15. Again therefore the Pharisees also asked him how he received his sight. He said to them, “He put mud on my eyes, I washed, and I see.” 16. Some therefore of the Pharisees said, “This man is not from God, because he doesn’t keep the Sabbath.” Others said, “How can a man who is a sinner do such signs?” There was division among them. 17. Therefore they asked the blind man again, “What do you say about him, because he opened your eyes?” He said, “He is a prophet.” 18. The Jews therefore did not believe concerning him, that he had been blind, and had received his sight, until they called the parents of him who had received his sight, 19. and asked them, “Is this your son, whom you say was born blind? How then does he now see?” 20. His parents answered them, “We know that this is our son, and that he was born blind; 21. but how he now sees, we don’t know; or who opened his eyes, we don’t know. He is of age. Ask him. He will speak for himself.” 22. His parents said these things because they feared the Jews; for the Jews had already agreed that if any man would confess him as Christ, he would be put out of the synagogue. 23. Therefore his parents said, “He is of age. Ask him.” 24. So they called the man who was blind a second time, and said to him, “Give glory to God. We know that this man is a sinner.” 25. He therefore answered, “I don’t know if he is a sinner. One thing I do know: that though I was blind, now I see.” 26. They said to him again, “What did he do to you? How did he open your eyes?” 27. He answered them, “I told you already, and you didn’t listen. Why do you want to hear it again? You don’t also want to become his disciples, do you?” 28. They insulted him and said, “You are his disciple, but we are disciples of Moses. 29. We know that God has spoken to Moses. But as for this man, we don’t know where he comes from.” 30. The man answered them, “How amazing! You don’t know where he comes from, yet he opened my eyes. 31. We know that God doesn’t listen to sinners, but if anyone is a worshiper of God, and does his will, he listens to him. 32. Since the world began it has never been heard of that anyone opened the eyes of someone born blind. 33. If this man were not from God, he could do nothing.” 34. They answered him, “You were altogether born in sins, and do you teach us?” They threw him out. 35. Jesus heard that they had thrown him out, and finding him, he said, “Do you believe in the Son of God?” 36. He answered, “Who is he, Lord, that I may believe in him?” 37. Jesus said to him, “You have both seen him, and it is he who speaks with you.” 38. He said, “Lord, I believe!” and he worshiped him. 39. Jesus said, “I came into this world for judgment, that those who don’t see may see; and that those who see may become blind.” 40. Those of the Pharisees who were with him heard these things, and said to him, “Are we also blind?” 41. Jesus said to them, “If you were blind, you would have no sin; but now you say, ‘We see.’ Therefore your sin remains. 1. “Most certainly, I tell you, one who doesn’t enter by the door into the sheep fold, but climbs up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber. 2. But one who enters in by the door is the shepherd of the sheep. 3. The gatekeeper opens the gate for him, and the sheep listen to his voice. He calls his own sheep by name, and leads them out. 4. Whenever he brings out his own sheep, he goes before them, and the sheep follow him, for they know his voice. 5. They will by no means follow a stranger, but will flee from him; for they don’t know the voice of strangers.” 6. Jesus spoke this parable to them, but they didn’t understand what he was telling them. 7. Jesus therefore said to them again, “Most certainly, I tell you, I am the sheep’s door. 8. All who came before me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep didn’t listen to them. 9. I am the door. If anyone enters in by me, he will be saved, and will go in and go out, and will find pasture. 10. The thief only comes to steal, kill, and destroy. I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly. 11. I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep. 12. He who is a hired hand, and not a shepherd, who doesn’t own the sheep, sees the wolf coming, leaves the sheep, and flees. The wolf snatches the sheep, and scatters them. 13. The hired hand flees because he is a hired hand, and doesn’t care for the sheep. 14. I am the good shepherd. I know my own, and I’m known by my own; 15. even as the Father knows me, and I know the Father. I lay down my life for the sheep. 16. I have other sheep, which are not of this fold. I must bring them also, and they will hear my voice. They will become one flock with one shepherd. 17. Therefore the Father loves me, because I lay down my life, that I may take it again. 18. No one takes it away from me, but I lay it down by myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. I received this commandment from my Father.” 19. Therefore a division arose again among the Jews because of these words. 20. Many of them said, “He has a demon, and is insane! Why do you listen to him?” 21. Others said, “These are not the sayings of one possessed by a demon. It isn’t possible for a demon to open the eyes of the blind, is it?” 22. It was the Feast of the Dedication at Jerusalem. 23. It was winter, and Jesus was walking in the temple, in Solomon’s porch. 24. The Jews therefore came around him and said to him, “How long will you hold us in suspense? If you are the Christ, tell us plainly.” 25. Jesus answered them, “I told you, and you don’t believe. The works that I do in my Father’s name, these testify about me. 26. But you don’t believe, because you are not of my sheep, as I told you. 27. My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me. 28. I give eternal life to them. They will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand. 29. My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all. No one is able to snatch them out of my Father’s hand. 30. I and the Father are one.” 31. Therefore Jews took up stones again to stone him. 32. Jesus answered them, “I have shown you many good works from my Father. For which of those works do you stone me?” 33. The Jews answered him, “We don’t stone you for a good work, but for blasphemy: because you, being a man, make yourself God.” 34. Jesus answered them, “Isn’t it written in your law, ‘I said, you are gods?’ 35. If he called them gods, to whom the word of God came (and the Scripture can’t be broken), 36. do you say of him whom the Father sanctified and sent into the world, ‘You blaspheme,’ because I said, ‘I am the Son of God?’ 37. If I don’t do the works of my Father, don’t believe me. 38. But if I do them, though you don’t believe me, believe the works; that you may know and believe that the Father is in me, and I in the Father.” 39. They sought again to seize him, and he went out of their hand. 40. He went away again beyond the Jordan into the place where John was baptizing at first, and there he stayed. 41. Many came to him. They said, “John indeed did no sign, but everything that John said about this man is true.” 42. Many believed in him there. 1. Now a certain man was sick, Lazarus from Bethany, of the village of Mary and her sister, Martha. 2. It was that Mary who had anointed the Lord with ointment, and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother, Lazarus, was sick. 3. The sisters therefore sent to him, saying, “Lord, behold, he for whom you have great affection is sick.” 4. But when Jesus heard it, he said, “This sickness is not to death, but for the glory of God, that God’s Son may be glorified by it.” 5. Now Jesus loved Martha, and her sister, and Lazarus. 6. When therefore he heard that he was sick, he stayed two days in the place where he was. 7. Then after this he said to the disciples, “Let’s go into Judea again.” 8. The disciples told him, “Rabbi, the Jews were just trying to stone you, and are you going there again?” 9. Jesus answered, “Aren’t there twelve hours of daylight? If a man walks in the day, he doesn’t stumble, because he sees the light of this world. 10. But if a man walks in the night, he stumbles, because the light isn’t in him.” 11. He said these things, and after that, he said to them, “Our friend, Lazarus, has fallen asleep, but I am going so that I may awake him out of sleep.” 12. The disciples therefore said, “Lord, if he has fallen asleep, he will recover.” 13. Now Jesus had spoken of his death, but they thought that he spoke of taking rest in sleep. 14. So Jesus said to them plainly then, “Lazarus is dead. 15. I am glad for your sakes that I was not there, so that you may believe. Nevertheless, let’s go to him.” 16. Thomas therefore, who is called Didymus, said to his fellow disciples, “Let’s go also, that we may die with him.” 17. So when Jesus came, he found that he had been in the tomb four days already. 18. Now Bethany was near Jerusalem, about fifteen stadia away. 19. Many of the Jews had joined the women around Martha and Mary, to console them concerning their brother. 20. Then when Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went and met him, but Mary stayed in the house. 21. Therefore Martha said to Jesus, “Lord, if you would have been here, my brother wouldn’t have died. 22. Even now I know that, whatever you ask of God, God will give you.” 23. Jesus said to her, “Your brother will rise again.” 24. Martha said to him, “I know that he will rise again in the resurrection at the last day.” 25. Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will still live, even if he dies. 26. Whoever lives and believes in me will never die. Do you believe this?” 27. She said to him, “Yes, Lord. I have come to believe that you are the Christ, God’s Son, he who comes into the world.” 28. When she had said this, she went away, and called Mary, her sister, secretly, saying, “The Teacher is here, and is calling you.” 29. When she heard this, she arose quickly, and went to him. 30. Now Jesus had not yet come into the village, but was in the place where Martha met him. 31. Then the Jews who were with her in the house, and were consoling her, when they saw Mary, that she rose up quickly and went out, followed her, saying, “She is going to the tomb to weep there.” 32. Therefore when Mary came to where Jesus was, and saw him, she fell down at his feet, saying to him, “Lord, if you would have been here, my brother wouldn’t have died.” 33. When Jesus therefore saw her weeping, and the Jews weeping who came with her, he groaned in the spirit, and was troubled, 34. and said, “Where have you laid him?” They told him, “Lord, come and see.” 35. Jesus wept. 36. The Jews therefore said, “See how much affection he had for him!” 37. Some of them said, “Couldn’t this man, who opened the eyes of him who was blind, have also kept this man from dying?” 38. Jesus therefore, again groaning in himself, came to the tomb. Now it was a cave, and a stone lay against it. 39. Jesus said, “Take away the stone.” Martha, the sister of him who was dead, said to him, “Lord, by this time there is a stench, for he has been dead four days.” 40. Jesus said to her, “Didn’t I tell you that if you believed, you would see God’s glory?” 41. So they took away the stone from the place where the dead man was lying. Jesus lifted up his eyes, and said, “Father, I thank you that you listened to me. 42. I know that you always listen to me, but because of the multitude standing around I said this, that they may believe that you sent me.” 43. When he had said this, he cried with a loud voice, “Lazarus, come out!” 44. He who was dead came out, bound hand and foot with wrappings, and his face was wrapped around with a cloth. Jesus said to them, “Free him, and let him go.” 45. Therefore many of the Jews, who came to Mary and saw what Jesus did, believed in him. 46. But some of them went away to the Pharisees, and told them the things which Jesus had done. 47. The chief priests therefore and the Pharisees gathered a council, and said, “What are we doing? For this man does many signs. 48. If we leave him alone like this, everyone will believe in him, and the Romans will come and take away both our place and our nation.” 49. But a certain one of them, Caiaphas, being high priest that year, said to them, “You know nothing at all, 50. nor do you consider that it is advantageous for us that one man should die for the people, and that the whole nation not perish.” 51. Now he didn’t say this of himself, but being high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus would die for the nation, 52. and not for the nation only, but that he might also gather together into one the children of God who are scattered abroad. 53. So from that day forward they took counsel that they might put him to death. 54. Jesus therefore walked no more openly among the Jews, but departed from there into the country near the wilderness, to a city called Ephraim. He stayed there with his disciples. 55. Now the Passover of the Jews was at hand. Many went up from the country to Jerusalem before the Passover, to purify themselves. 56. Then they sought for Jesus and spoke one with another, as they stood in the temple, “What do you think—that he isn’t coming to the feast at all?” 57. Now the chief priests and the Pharisees had commanded that if anyone knew where he was, he should report it, that they might seize him. 1. Then six days before the Passover, Jesus came to Bethany, where Lazarus was, who had been dead, whom he raised from the dead. 2. So they made him a supper there. Martha served, but Lazarus was one of those who sat at the table with him. 3. Mary, therefore, took a pound of ointment of pure nard, very precious, and anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his feet with her hair. The house was filled with the fragrance of the ointment. 4. Then Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son, one of his disciples, who would betray him, said, 5. “Why wasn’t this ointment sold for three hundred denarii, and given to the poor?” 6. Now he said this, not because he cared for the poor, but because he was a thief, and having the money box, used to steal what was put into it. 7. But Jesus said, “Leave her alone. She has kept this for the day of my burial. 8. For you always have the poor with you, but you don’t always have me.” 9. A large crowd therefore of the Jews learned that he was there, and they came, not for Jesus’ sake only, but that they might see Lazarus also, whom he had raised from the dead. 10. But the chief priests conspired to put Lazarus to death also, 11. because on account of him many of the Jews went away and believed in Jesus. 12. On the next day a great multitude had come to the feast. When they heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem, 13. they took the branches of the palm trees, and went out to meet him, and cried out, “Hosanna! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord, the King of Israel!” 14. Jesus, having found a young donkey, sat on it. As it is written, 15. “Don’t be afraid, daughter of Zion. Behold, your King comes, sitting on a donkey’s colt.” 16. His disciples didn’t understand these things at first, but when Jesus was glorified, then they remembered that these things were written about him, and that they had done these things to him. 17. The multitude therefore that was with him when he called Lazarus out of the tomb, and raised him from the dead, was testifying about it. 18. For this cause also the multitude went and met him, because they heard that he had done this sign. 19. The Pharisees therefore said among themselves, “See how you accomplish nothing. Behold, the world has gone after him.” 20. Now there were certain Greeks among those that went up to worship at the feast. 21. These, therefore, came to Philip, who was from Bethsaida of Galilee, and asked him, saying, “Sir, we want to see Jesus.” 22. Philip came and told Andrew, and in turn, Andrew came with Philip, and they told Jesus. 23. Jesus answered them, “The time has come for the Son of Man to be glorified. 24. Most certainly I tell you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains by itself alone. But if it dies, it bears much fruit. 25. He who loves his life will lose it. He who hates his life in this world will keep it to eternal life. 26. If anyone serves me, let him follow me. Where I am, there will my servant also be. If anyone serves me, the Father will honor him. 27. “Now my soul is troubled. What shall I say? ‘Father, save me from this time?’ But for this cause I came to this time. 28. Father, glorify your name!” Then there came a voice out of the sky, saying, “I have both glorified it, and will glorify it again.” 29. The multitude therefore, who stood by and heard it, said that it had thundered. Others said, “An angel has spoken to him.” 30. Jesus answered, “This voice hasn’t come for my sake, but for your sakes. 31. Now is the judgment of this world. Now the prince of this world will be cast out. 32. And I, if I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all people to myself.” 33. But he said this, signifying by what kind of death he should die. 34. The multitude answered him, “We have heard out of the law that the Christ remains forever. How do you say, ‘The Son of Man must be lifted up?’ Who is this Son of Man?” 35. Jesus therefore said to them, “Yet a little while the light is with you. Walk while you have the light, that darkness doesn’t overtake you. He who walks in the darkness doesn’t know where he is going. 36. While you have the light, believe in the light, that you may become children of light.” Jesus said these things, and he departed and hid himself from them. 37. But though he had done so many signs before them, yet they didn’t believe in him, 38. that the word of Isaiah the prophet might be fulfilled, which he spoke, “Lord, who has believed our report? To whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?” 39. For this cause they couldn’t believe, for Isaiah said again, 40. “He has blinded their eyes and he hardened their heart, lest they should see with their eyes, and perceive with their heart, and would turn, and I would heal them.” 41. Isaiah said these things when he saw his glory, and spoke of him. 42. Nevertheless even of the rulers many believed in him, but because of the Pharisees they didn’t confess it, so that they wouldn’t be put out of the synagogue, 43. for they loved men’s praise more than God’s praise. 44. Jesus cried out and said, “Whoever believes in me, believes not in me, but in him who sent me. 45. He who sees me sees him who sent me. 46. I have come as a light into the world, that whoever believes in me may not remain in the darkness. 47. If anyone listens to my sayings, and doesn’t believe, I don’t judge him. For I came not to judge the world, but to save the world. 48. He who rejects me, and doesn’t receive my sayings, has one who judges him. The word that I spoke, the same will judge him in the last day. 49. For I spoke not from myself, but the Father who sent me, he gave me a commandment, what I should say, and what I should speak. 50. I know that his commandment is eternal life. The things therefore which I speak, even as the Father has said to me, so I speak.”

1. Many times they have afflicted me from my youth up. Let Israel now say, 2. many times they have afflicted me from my youth up, yet they have not prevailed against me. 3. The plowers plowed on my back. They made their furrows long. 4. Yahweh is righteous. He has cut apart the cords of the wicked. 5. Let them be disappointed and turned backward, all those who hate Zion. 6. Let them be as the grass on the housetops, which withers before it grows up; 7. with which the reaper doesn’t fill his hand, nor he who binds sheaves, his bosom. 8. Neither do those who go by say, “The blessing of Yahweh be on you. We bless you in Yahweh’s name.”