John 10-12

John 10

¹Truly I say to you, He who does not go through the door into the place where the sheep are kept, but gets in by some other way, is a thief and an outlaw.

²He who goes in by the door is the keeper of the sheep.

³The porter lets him in; and the sheep give ear to his voice; he says over the names of the sheep, and takes them out.

⁴When he has got them all out, he goes before them, and the sheep go after him, for they have knowledge of his voice.

⁵They will not go after another who is not their keeper, but will go from him in flight, because his voice is strange to them.

⁶In this Jesus was teaching them in the form of a story: but what he said was not clear to them.

⁷So Jesus said again, Truly I say to you, I am the door of the sheep.

⁸All who came before me are thieves and outlaws: but the sheep did not give ear to them.

⁹I am the door: if any man goes in through me he will have salvation, and will go in and go out, and will get food.

¹⁰The thief comes only to take the sheep and to put them to death: he comes for their destruction: I have come so that they may have life and have it in greater measure.

¹¹I am the good keeper of sheep: the good keeper gives his life for the sheep.

¹²He who is a servant, and not the keeper or the owner of the sheep, sees the wolf coming and goes in flight, away from the sheep; and the wolf comes down on them and sends them in all directions:

¹³Because he is a servant he has no interest in the sheep.

¹⁴I am the good keeper; I have knowledge of my sheep, and they have knowledge of me,

¹⁵Even as the Father has knowledge of me and I of the Father; and I am giving my life for the sheep.

¹⁶And I have other sheep which are not of this field: I will be their guide in the same way, and they will give ear to my voice, so there will be one flock and one keeper.

¹⁷For this reason am I loved by the Father, because I give up my life so that I may take it again.

¹⁸No one takes it away from me; I give it up of myself. I have power to give it up, and I have power to take it again. These orders I have from my Father.

¹⁹There was a division again among the Jews because of these words.

²⁰And a number of them said, He has an evil spirit and is out of his mind; why do you give ear to him?

²¹Others said, These are not the words of one who has an evil spirit. Is it possible for an evil spirit to make blind people see?

²²Then came the feast of the opening of the Temple in Jerusalem: it was winter;

²³And Jesus was walking in the Temple, in Solomon's covered way.

²⁴Then the Jews came round him, saying, how long are you going to keep us in doubt? If you are the Christ, say so clearly.

²⁵Jesus said in answer, I have said it and you have no belief: the works which I do in my Father's name, these give witness about me.

²⁶But you have no belief because you are not of my sheep.

²⁷My sheep give ear to my voice, and I have knowledge of them, and they come after me:

²⁸And I give them eternal life; they will never come to destruction, and no one will ever take them out of my hand.

²⁹That which my Father has given to me has more value than all; and no one is able to take anything out of the Father's hand.

³⁰I and my Father are one.

³¹Then the Jews took up stones again to send at him.

³²Jesus said to them in answer, I have let you see a number of good works from the Father; for which of those works are you stoning me?

³³This was their answer: We are not stoning you for a good work but for evil words; because being a man you make yourself God.

³⁴In answer, Jesus said, Is there not a saying in your law, I said, You are gods?

³⁵If he said they were gods, to whom the word of God came (and the Writings may not be broken),

³⁶Do you say of him whom the Father made holy and sent into the world, Your words are evil; because I said, I am God's Son?

³⁷If I am not doing the works of my Father, do not have belief in me;

³⁸But if I am doing them, then have belief in the works even if you have no belief in me; so that you may see clearly and be certain that the Father is in me and I am in the Father.

³⁹Then again they made an attempt to take him; but he got away from them.

⁴⁰And he went again to the other side of the Jordan, to the place where John first gave baptism; and he was there for a time.

⁴¹And a great number of people came to him, saying, John did no sign: but everything John said of this man was true.

⁴²And a number came to have faith in him there.

John 11

¹Now a certain man named Lazarus was ill; he was of Bethany, the town of Mary and her sister Martha.

²(The Mary whose brother Lazarus was ill, was the Mary who put perfumed oil on the Lord and made his feet dry with her hair.)

³So the sisters sent to him, saying, Lord, your dear friend is ill.

⁴When this came to his ears, Jesus said, The end of this disease is not death, but the glory of God, so that the Son of God may have glory because of it.

⁵Now Jesus had love in his heart for Martha and her sister and Lazarus.

⁶So when the news came to him that Lazarus was ill, he did not go from the place where he was for two days.

⁷Then after that time he said to his disciples, Let us go into Judaea again.

⁸The disciples said to him, Master, the Jews were attempting only the other day to have you stoned, and are you going back there again?

⁹Then Jesus said in answer, Are there not twelve hours in the day? A man may go about in the day without falling, because he sees the light of this world.

¹⁰But if a man goes about in the night, he may have a fall because the light is not in him.

¹¹These things said he: and after that he said to them, Lazarus our friend is at rest; but I go so that I may make him come out of his sleep.

¹²Then his disciples said to him, Lord, if he is resting he will get well.

¹³Jesus, however, was talking of his death: but they had the idea that he was talking about taking rest in sleep.

¹⁴Then Jesus said to them clearly, Lazarus is dead.

¹⁵And because of you I am glad I was not there, so that you may have faith; but let us go to him.

¹⁶Then Thomas, who was named Didymus, said to the other disciples, Let us go so that we may be with him in death.

¹⁷Now when Jesus came, he made the discovery that Lazarus had been put into the earth four days before.

¹⁸Now Bethany was near to Jerusalem, about two miles away;

¹⁹And a number of Jews had come to Martha and Mary to give them comfort about their brother.

²⁰When Martha had the news that Jesus was on the way, she went out to him, but Mary did not go from the house.

²¹Then Martha said to Jesus, Lord, if you had been here my brother would not be dead.

²²But I am certain that, even now, whatever request you make to God, God will give it to you.

²³Jesus said to her, Your brother will come to life again.

²⁴Martha said to him, I am certain that he will come to life again when all come back from the dead at the last day.

²⁵Jesus said to her, I am myself that day and that life; he who has faith in me will have life even if he is dead;

²⁶And no one who is living and has faith in me will ever see death. Is this your faith?

²⁷She said to him, Yes, Lord: my faith is that you are the Christ, the Son of God, who was to come into the world.

²⁸And having said this, she went away and said secretly to her sister Mary, The Master is here and has sent for you.

²⁹And Mary, hearing this, got up quickly and went to him.

³⁰Now Jesus had not at this time come into the town, but was still in the place where Martha had seen him.

³¹Then the Jews who were with her in the house, comforting her, when they saw Mary get up quickly and go out, went after her in the belief that she was going to the place of the dead and would be weeping there.

³²When Mary came to where Jesus was and saw him, she went down at his feet, saying, Lord, if you had been here my brother would not be dead.

³³And when Jesus saw her weeping, and saw the Jews weeping who came with her, his spirit was moved and he was troubled,

³⁴And said, Where have you put him? They said, Come and see, Lord.

³⁵And Jesus himself was weeping.

³⁶So the Jews said, See how dear he was to him!

³⁷But some of them said, This man, who made open the eyes of the blind man, was he not able to keep his friend from death?

³⁸So Jesus, deeply troubled in heart, came to the place of the dead. It was a hole in the rock, and a stone was over the opening.

³⁹Jesus said, Take away the stone. Martha, the sister of him who was dead, said, Lord, by this time the body will be smelling, for he has been dead four days.

⁴⁰Jesus said to her, Did I not say to you that if you had faith you would see the glory of God?

⁴¹So they took away the stone. And Jesus, looking up to heaven, said, Father, I give praise to you for hearing me.

⁴²I was certain that your ears are at all times open to me, but I said it because of these who are here, so that they may see that you sent me.

⁴³Then he said in a loud voice, Lazarus, come out!

⁴⁴And he who was dead came out, with linen bands folded tightly about his hands and feet, and a cloth about his face. Jesus said to them, Make him free and let him go.

⁴⁵Then a number of the Jews who had come to Mary and had seen the things which Jesus did had belief in him.

⁴⁶But some of them went to the Pharisees with the news of what Jesus had done.

⁴⁷Then the high priests and the Pharisees had a meeting and said, What are we doing? This man is doing a number of signs.

⁴⁸If we let him go on in this way, everybody will have belief in him and the Romans will come and take away our place and our nation.

⁴⁹But one of them, Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, said to them, You have no knowledge of anything;

⁵⁰You do not see that it is in your interest for one man to be put to death for the people, so that all the nation may not come to destruction.

⁵¹He did not say this of himself, but being the high priest that year he said, as a prophet, that Jesus would be put to death for the nation;

⁵²And not for that nation only, but for the purpose of uniting in one body the children of God all over the world.

⁵³And from that day they took thought together how to put him to death.

⁵⁴So Jesus no longer went about publicly among the Jews, but went from there into the country near to the waste land, to a town named Ephraim, where he was for some time with the disciples.

⁵⁵Now the Passover of the Jews was near, and numbers of people went up from the country to Jerusalem to make themselves clean before the Passover.

⁵⁶They were looking for Jesus and saying to one another while they were in the Temple, What is your opinion? Will he not come to the feast?

⁵⁷Now the chief priests and the Pharisees had given orders that if anyone had knowledge where he was, he was to give them word, so that they might take him.

John 12

¹Then, six days before the Passover, Jesus came to Bethany where Lazarus was, whom Jesus had made to come back from the dead.

²So they made him a meal there, and he was waited on by Martha, and Lazarus was among those who were seated with him at table.

³Then Mary, taking a pound of perfumed oil of great value, put it on the feet of Jesus and made them dry with her hair: and the house became full of the smell of the perfume.

⁴But one of his disciples, Judas Iscariot (who was to give him up), said,

⁵Why was not this perfume traded for three hundred pence, and the money given to the poor?

⁶(He said this, not because he had any love for the poor; but because he was a thief, and, having the money-bag, took for himself what was put into it.)

⁷Then Jesus said, Let her be. Let her keep what she has for the day of my death.

⁸The poor you have ever with you, but me you have not for ever.

⁹Then a great number of the Jews had news that he was there: and they came, not only because of Jesus, but so that they might see Lazarus who had been dead and to whom he had given life.

¹⁰Now there was talk among the chief priests of putting Lazarus to death;

¹¹For because of him a great number of the Jews went away and had belief in Jesus.

¹²The day after, a great number of people who were there for the feast, when they had the news that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem,

¹³Took branches of palm-trees and went out to him, crying, A blessing on him who comes in the name of the Lord, the King of Israel!

¹⁴And Jesus saw a young ass and took his seat on it; as the Writings say,

¹⁵Have no fear, daughter of Zion: see your King is coming, seated on a young ass.

¹⁶(These things were not clear to his disciples at first: but when Jesus had been lifted up into his glory, then it came to their minds that these things in the Writings were about him and that they had been done to him.)

¹⁷Now the people who were with him when his voice came to Lazarus in the place of the dead, and gave him life again, had been talking about it.

¹⁸And that was the reason the people went out to him, because it had come to their ears that he had done this sign.

¹⁹Then the Pharisees said one to another, You see, you are unable to do anything: the world has gone after him.

²⁰Now there were some Greeks among the people who had come up to give worship at the feast:

²¹They came to Philip, who was of Beth-saida in Galilee, and made a request, saying, Sir, we have a desire to see Jesus.

²²Philip went and gave word of it to Andrew; and Andrew went with Philip to Jesus.

²³And Jesus said to them in answer, The hour of the glory of the Son of man has come.

²⁴Truly I say to you, If a seed of grain does not go into the earth and come to an end, it is still a seed and no more; but through its death it gives much fruit.

²⁵He who is in love with life will have it taken from him; and he who has no care for his life in this world will keep it for ever and ever.

²⁶If any man is my servant, let him come after me; and where I am, there will my servant be. If any man becomes my servant, my Father will give him honour.

²⁷Now is my soul troubled; and what am I to say? Father, keep me from this hour. No: for this purpose have I come to this hour.

²⁸Father, give glory to your name. Then there came a voice out of heaven, saying, I have given it glory, and I will give it glory again.

²⁹Hearing the sound, a number of people who were there said that it was thunder: others said, An angel was talking to him.

³⁰Jesus said in answer, This voice came not for me but for you.

³¹Now is this world to be judged: now will the ruler of this world be sent out.

³²And I, if I am lifted up from the earth, will make all men come to me.

³³(This he said, pointing to the sort of death he would have.)

³⁴Then the people in answer said to him, The law says that the Christ will have life without end: how say you then that it is necessary for the Son of man to be lifted up? Who is this Son of man?

³⁵Jesus said to them, For a little time longer the light will be among you; while you have the light go on walking in it, so that the dark may not overtake you: one walking in the dark has no knowledge of where he is going.

³⁶In so far as you have the light, put your faith in the light so that you may become sons of light. With these words Jesus went away and for a time was not seen again by them.

³⁷But though he had done such a number of signs before them, they still had no belief in him:

³⁸So that the words of the prophet Isaiah might come true, when he said, Lord, who has any belief in our preaching? and the arm of the Lord, to whom has it been unveiled?

³⁹For this reason they were unable to have belief, because Isaiah said again,

⁴⁰He has made their eyes blind, and their hearts hard; for fear that they might see with their eyes and get knowledge with their hearts, and be changed, and I might make them well.

⁴¹(Isaiah said these words because he saw his glory. His words were about him.)

⁴²However, a number even of the rulers had belief in him, but because of the Pharisees they did not say so openly for fear that they might be shut out from the Synagogue:

⁴³For the praise of men was dearer to them than the approval of God.

⁴⁴Then Jesus said with a loud voice, He who has faith in me, has faith not in me, but in him who sent me.

⁴⁵And he who sees me, sees him who sent me.

⁴⁶I have come as a light into the world, so that no one who has faith in me will go on living in the dark.

⁴⁷And if any man gives ear to my words and does not keep them, I am not his judge: I did not come to be judge of the world but to give salvation to the world.

⁴⁸He who puts me on one side and does not take my words to heart, is not without a judge: the word which I have said will be his judge on the last day.

⁴⁹For I have not said it on my authority, but the Father who sent me gave me orders what to say and how to say it.

⁵⁰And I have knowledge that his order is eternal life: so that the things which I say, I say them even as the Father says them to me.