The Gospel Narrative: From the Word to the Resurrection

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Prologue: The Word and Creation

The "Word" (Logos) existed from the beginning, was with God, and was God.
Through the Word all things were created; He is the source of life and light that darkness cannot extinguish.
John the Baptist

John, sent as a messenger, prepares the way, proclaiming a coming light greater than himself.
He denies being the Messiah, Elijah, or the Prophet, quoting Isaiah: "Make a straight path for the Lord."
John baptizes with water and points to the one who will baptize with the Holy Spirit.
Jesus' Early Ministry

Jesus is identified as the Lamb of God who takes away the world’s sin.
He calls the first disciples (Andrew, Peter, Philip, Nathanael) and reveals their true identities (e.g., Simon becomes Cephas/Peter).
The wedding at Cana marks His first miracle, turning water into wine, revealing His glory.
Miracles and Teachings

Cleansing of the Temple: Jesus drives out merchants, fulfilling Scripture.
Nicodemus Encounter: Discusses being "born again" and the work of the Spirit.
Samaritan Woman at the Well: Offers "living water," reveals Himself as the Messiah.
Feeding the 5,000: Multiplies loaves and fish, showing compassion and divine provision.
Walking on Water & Calming the Storm: Demonstrates authority over nature.
Healing the Blind, the Lame, and the Sick: Includes the man born blind (John 9) and the healing at the pool of Bethesda.
Parables: The Good Shepherd, the True Vine, and the Gate illustrate relationship with believers.
Bread of Life Discourse: Declares Himself the living bread; those who eat His flesh and drink His blood receive eternal life.
The Passion

Triumphal Entry: Jesus enters Jerusalem on a donkey, fulfilling prophecy.
Last Supper: Institutes the Eucharist, washes the disciples’ feet, predicts betrayal.
Gethsemane: Prays for strength; Judas betrays Him.
Arrest and Trials: Faces Sanhedrin and Pilate; declares His kingdom is not of this world.
Crucifixion: Endures mockery, crown of thorns, and death on the cross; fulfills numerous prophecies (e.g., pierced side, no broken bones).
Burial: Joseph of Arimathea and Nicodemus lay Him in a new tomb.
Resurrection and Appearances

Empty Tomb: Women discover the stone rolled away; angels announce He has risen.
Appearances: Jesus appears to Mary Magdalene, the disciples (including doubting Thomas), and many others, showing His wounds.
Great Commission: Sends the disciples to preach, promises the Holy Spirit, and assures eternal life to believers.
Final Ascension: Jesus ascends to the Father, leaving the promise of His return.
The Great Commission and Final Exhortation

Love one another as He has loved them.
Remain in Him, the true vine, to bear fruit.
Trust in the promised Holy Spirit for guidance and power.
Live in the hope of eternal life, knowing that belief in the Son grants salvation.
The core message of the transcript is that Jesus, the pre‑existent Word made flesh, fulfills the prophetic promises of the Old Testament, offers salvation through His life, death, and resurrection, and calls all believers to a transformative relationship with Him, empowered by the Holy Spirit and marked by love, obedience, and the hope of eternal life.
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In the beginning the Word already existed; 
The Word was with God, and the Word was God.
From the very beginning the Word was with God. 
Through Him God made all things; Not one thing in  
all creation was made without Him. The 
Word was the source of life, and this life  
brought light to people. The light shines in the 
darkness, and the darkness has never put it out.
God sent his messenger, a man named John,  
who came to tell people about the light, so 
that all should hear the message and believe.  
He himself was not the light; 
he came to tell about the light.  
This was the real light - the light that 
comes into the world and shines on all people.
The Word was in the world, and though 
God made the world through him,  
yet the world did not recognize him.
He came to his own country, but 
his own people did not receive him.
Some, however, did receive him and 
believed in him; so he gave them the right  
to become God's children. They did not 
become God's children by natural means,  
that is, by being born as the children of a 
human Father; God himself was their Father.
The Word became a human being
and, full of grace and truth, lived among us.
We saw his glory the glory which he 
received as the father's only Son.  
John spoke about him. "This is the one I was 
talking about when I said, "He comes after me,
But he is greater than I am, because 
he existed before i was born." '
Out of the fullness of his grace he has blessed 
us all, giving us one blessing after another.  
God gave the law through Moses, but 
grace and truth came through Jesus Christ
No one has ever seen God. The only Son, who is 
the same as God and is at the father's side,  
he has made him known
The Jewish authorities in Jerusalem 
sent some priests and Levites to John.  
"Who are you?" John did not refuse to 
answer, but spoke out openly and clearly.
"I am not the messiah." "Who 
are you then?" "Are you Elijah?"  
"No i'm not." "Are you the Prophet." "No." 
"Then tell us who you are." "We have to  
take an answer back to those who sent 
us." "What do you say about yourself?"
John answered by quoting the prophet Isaiah: "I 
am the voice of someone shouting in the desert:  
Make a straight path for the lord to travel!"
The messengers, who had been sent 
by the Pharisees, then asked John,  
"If you're not the Messiah nor Elijah 
nor the Prophet, why do you baptize?"
I baptize with water,
but among you stands the one you do not know. 
He is coming after me, but I'm not good enough  
even to untie his sandals."
All this happened in Bethany on the east side 
of the Jordan river, where John was baptizing.  
The next day John saw Jesus coming to him.
"There is the Lamb of God, who 
takes away the sin of the world!
This is the one I was talking about 
when I said, "A man is coming after me,  
but he is greater than I am, because 
he existed before i was born.'
i did not know who he would be
but i came baptizing with water in order 
to make him known to the people of israel  
and john gave this testimony i saw the spirit 
come down like a dove from heaven and stay on him
i still did not know that he was the one but God 
who sent me to baptize with water had said to me  
you will see the spirit 
come down and stay on a man  
he is the one who baptizes with the holy spirit
i have seen it and i tell 
you that he is the son of God
the next day john was standing there again with 
two of his disciples when he saw Jesus walking by  
there's the lamb of God the two disciples 
heard him say this and went with Jesus
jesus turned saw them following him
what are you looking for um where do you 
live rabbi rabbi this word means teacher
come and see
it was then about four o'clock in the afternoon 
so they went with him and saw where he lived  
and spent the rest of that day with him
one of them was andrew simon peter's brother
and once he found his brother
we have found the messiah this word means christ
then he took simon to jesus
jesus looked at him
your name is simon son of john
but you will be called cephas
this is the same as peter and means a rock
the next day jesus decided to go to galilee
he found phillip
and said to him come with me philip was from 
bethsaida the town where andrew and peter lived
philip found nathanael
we have found the one who moses wrote about in the 
book of the law and whom the prophets also wrote  
about he is jesus son of joseph from nazareth 
can anything good come from nazareth come and see
when jesus saw nathanael 
coming to him he said about him  
here is a real israelite 
there is nothing false in him
how do you know me i saw you when you were 
under the fig tree before philip called you
i know
teacher
you are the son of God
you are the king of Israel do you believe just 
because i told you i saw you when you were  
under the victory you will see much greater 
things than this i am telling you the truth  
you will see heaven open and God's angels 
going up and coming down on the Son of man
Days later there was a wedding 
in the town of Cana in Galilee
jesus mother was there and jesus and his 
disciples have also been invited to the wedding
when the wine had given out jesus mother 
said to him they are out of wine madam
what do you have to do with this
my time has not yet come
do whatever he tells you
the jews have rules about ritual washing 
and for this purpose six stone water jars  
were there each one large enough 
to hold between 20 and 30 gallons
fill these jars with water
they filled them to the brim now draw some water 
out and take it to the mana chart of the feast
they took him the water which now 
had turned into wine and he tasted it
he did not know where this wine 
had come from but of course  
the servants who had drawn out the 
water knew so he called the bridegroom
everyone else serves the best wine first 
and after the guests have drunk a lot  
he served the ordinary wine but you 
have kept the best wine until now
jesus performed this first 
miracle in cana in galilee  
there he revealed his glory and his 
disciples believed in him after this  
jesus and his mother brothers and disciples 
went to capernaum and stayed there a few days
it was almost time for the passover 
festival so jesus went to jerusalem
bye
there in the temple he found people selling cattle  
sheep and pigeons and also the money 
changers sitting at their table
so he made a whip from cords and drove 
all the animals out of the temple  
both the sheep and the cattle
he overturned the tables of the money 
changers and scattered their coins  
he ordered those who sold pigeons
stop making my father's house a marketplace
his disciples remember that 
the scripture says my devotion  
to your house oh God burns in me like a fire
the jewish authorities came back at him with a 
question what miracle can you perform to show us  
that you have the right to do this tear down this 
temple and in three days i will build it again  
are you going to build it again in three days 
it has taken 46 years to build this temple  
but the temple jesus was 
speaking about was his body
so when he was raised from 
death his disciples remember  
that he had said this and they believed 
the scripture and what jesus had
said while jesus was in jerusalem during the 
passover festival many believed in him as they saw  
the miracles he performed but jesus did not trust 
himself to them because he knew them all there  
was no need for anyone to tell him about them 
because he himself knew what was in their hearts
there was a jewish leader named nicodemus 
who belonged to the party of the pharisees  
one night he went to Jesus
rabbi we know that you are a teacher sent by God 
no one could perform the miracles you are doing  
unless God were with him 
i am telling you the truth
no one can see the kingdom of God without being 
born again how can a grown man be born again he  
certainly cannot enter his mother's womb and be 
born a second time i am telling you the truth
no one can enter the kingdom of God 
without being born of water in the spirit  
a person is born physically of human parents 
but is born spiritually of the spirit
do not be surprised because i tell 
you that you must all be born again
the wind blows wherever it wishes  
you hear the sound it makes but you do not 
know where it comes from or where it is going  
it is like that with everyone who was 
born of the spirit how can this be
you are a great teacher in 
israel and you don't know this
i am telling you the truth
we speak of what we know 
and report what we have seen  
yet none of you is willing to accept our message
you do not believe me when i tell 
you about the things of this world
uh will you ever believe me then when 
i tell you about the things of heaven  
that no one has ever gone up to heaven except 
the son of man who came down from heaven
as moses lifted up the bronze snake on a pole in 
the desert in the same way the son of man must be  
lifted up so that everyone who believes in him may 
have eternal life for God loved the world so much  
but he gave his only son so that everyone who 
believes in him may not die but have eternal life  
for God did not send his son 
into the world to be its judge  
but to be its savior those who believe in the 
son are not judged but those who do not believe  
have already been judged because they 
have not believed in God's only son
this is how the judgment works the light has come 
into the world but people love the darkness rather  
than the light because their deeds are evil those 
who do evil things hate the light and will not  
come to the light because they do not want their 
evil deed to be shown up but those who do what is  
true come to the light in order that the light may 
show that what they did was in obedience to God
after this jesus and his disciples went 
to the province of judea where he spent  
some time with him and baptized john also 
was baptizing in aenon not far from salim  
because there was plenty of water in 
that place people were going to him  
and he was baptizing them this was 
before john had been put in prison  
some of John's disciples began arguing with 
a Jew about the matter of ritual washing  
you remember the man who was with you on the 
east side of Jordan the one you spoke about  
well he is baptizing now and everyone's going to 
him no one can have anything unless God gives it  
you yourselves are my witnesses that i said i am 
not the Messiah but i've been sent ahead of him  
the bridegroom is the one to whom the 
pride belongs but the bridegroom's friend  
who stands by and listens is glad 
when he hears the bridegroom's voice  
this is how my own happiness is made complete
he must become more important well i become less 
important he who comes from above is greater than  
all he who is from the earth belongs to the earth 
and speaks about earthly matters but he who comes  
from heaven is above all he tells what he has 
seen and heard yet no one accepts his message  
but whoever accepts his message 
confirms by this that God is truthful  
the one whom God has sent speaks God's words 
because God gives him the fullness of his spirit  
the Father loves his son and has put everything in 
his power whoever believes in the son has eternal  
life whoever disobeys the sign will not have 
light but will remain under God's punishment
the pharisees heard that Jesus was winning 
and baptizing more disciples than john  
actually Jesus himself did not baptize anyone only 
his disciples did so when Jesus heard what was  
being said he left judea and went back to galilee 
on his way there he had to go through samaria
in samaria he came to a town named sikka 
which was not far from the field that  
jacob had given to his son joseph
jacob's well was there and jesus tired out by 
the trip sat down by the well it was about noon
mmm a samaritan woman came to draw some water
give me a drink of water his 
disciples had gone into town  
to buy food you're a jew and i'm a samaritan
so how can you ask me for a drink jews will not 
use the same cups and bowls that samaritans use  
if you only knew what God gives and who it is 
that is asking you for a drink you would ask  
him and he would give you a life-giving water 
sir you don't have a bucket and the well is  
deep where would you get that life-giving water 
it was our ancestor jacob who gave us this well  
he and his children and his flocks all drank from 
it you don't claim to be greater than jacob do you  
those who drink this water will get thirsty again 
but those who drink the water that i will give  
them will never be thirsty again the water that i 
will give them will become in them a spring which  
will provide them with life-giving water and 
give them eternal life sir give me that water  
then i will never be thirsty again no 
will i have to come here to draw water
go and call your husband and come back
i don't have a husband you're right 
when you say you don't have a husband  
you've been married to five men and the man 
you live with now is not really your husband  
you have told me the truth i see you are a prophet 
sir my samaritan ancestors worshiped God on this  
mountain but you jews say that Jerusalem is the 
place where we should worship God believe me woman  
the time will come when people will not worship 
the father either on this mountain or in Jerusalem
you samaritans do not really know whom you worship  
but we jews know whom we worship because 
it is from the jews the salvation gums  
but the time is coming and is already 
here when by the power of God's spirit  
people will worship the father as he really 
is offering him the true worship that he wants
God is spirit and only by the power of his 
spirit can people worship him as he really is
i know that the messiah will come and when 
he comes he will tell us everything i am he  
i who i'm talking with you
at that moment jesus disciples returned and they 
were greatly surprised to find him talking with a  
woman but none of them said to her what do you 
want or asked him why are you talking with her  
then the woman left her water 
jar and went back to the town
come and see the man who told 
me everything i've ever done  
could he be the messiah so they left the town and 
went to jesus in the meantime the disciples were  
begging jesus teacher have something to eat but he 
answered i have food to eat that you know nothing  
about so the disciples started asking among 
themselves could somebody have brought him food  
my food is to obey the will of the one who sent me 
and to finish the work he gave me to do you have  
a saying four more months and then the harvest 
but i tell you take a good look at the fields  
the crops are now ripe and ready to be harvested 
the one who reaps the harvest is being paid and  
gathers the crops for eternal life so the one who 
plants and the one who reaps will be glad together  
for the saying is true someone plants someone 
else reefs i have sent you to reap the harvest  
in a field where you did not work others 
worked there and you profit from their work
many of the samaritans in 
that town believed in jesus  
because the woman had said he told 
me everything i have ever done  
so when the samaritans came to him they begged him 
to stay with him and jesus stayed there two days  
many more believed because of his 
message and they told the woman  
we believe now not because of what you said  
but because we ourselves have heard him and we 
know that he really is the savior of the world
after spending two days there 
jesus left and went to galilee  
for he himself had said prophets are 
not respected in their own country
when he arrived in galilee the people there 
welcomed him because they had gone to the  
passover festival in jerusalem and had seen 
everything that he had done during the festival
then jesus went back to cana in galilee 
where he had turned the water into wine
a government official was there 
whose son was sick in capernaum  
when he heard that jesus had come 
from judea to galilee he went to him
and asked him to go to capernaum and 
heal his son who was about to die
none of you will ever believe unless you 
see miracles and wonders sir come with me
before my child dies
go
your son will live
the man believed jesus words and went
on his way home his servants met him with the news
your boy is going to live he asked them 
what time it was when his son got better  
it was one o'clock yesterday afternoon 
when the people left him then the father  
remembered that it was at that very hour 
when jesus had told him your son will live
so he and all his family believed  
this was the second miracle that jesus 
performed after coming from judea to galilee
after this jesus went to 
jerusalem for a religious festival
near the sheepgate in jerusalem there is a 
pool with five porches in hebrew it is called
a large crowd of sick people were lying on the 
porches the blind the lame and the paralyzed
a man was there who had been sick for 38 years
jesus saw him lying there and he knew that 
the man had been sick for such a long time
do you want to get well
sir i don't have anyone here to put me 
in the pool when the water is stirred up  
while i'm trying to get in 
somebody else gets there first
get up
pick up your mat and walk
immediately the man got well
he picked up his mouth and started walking
the day this happened was a sabbath so the jewish 
authorities told the man who had been healed  
this is a sabbath and it is against 
our law for you to carry your matt  
the man who made me well told 
me to pick up my mat and walk
who is the man who told you to do this but the 
man who had been healed did not know who jesus was  
for there was a crowd in that 
place and jesus had slipped away
afterwards jesus found him in the temple
you are well now so stop sinning or 
something worse may happen to you
then the man left and told the jewish 
authorities that it was jesus who had healed him
so they began to persecute jesus because 
he had done this healing on a sabbath  
jesus answered them my father is always working
and i too must work this saying made the jewish 
authorities all the more determined to kill him  
not only had he broken the sabbath law but 
he had said that God was his own father  
and in this way had made himself equal with God 
so Jesus answered them i tell you the truth the  
son can do nothing on his own it is only what 
he sees his father doing what the father does  
the son also does for the father loves the son 
and shows them all that he himself is doing  
he will show him even greater things to do than 
this and you will all be amazed just as the  
father raises the dead and gives them life in the 
same way the son gives life to those he wants to  
nor does the father himself judge anyone he 
has given his son the full right to judge  
so that all will honor the son in the 
same way as the honor of the father  
whoever does not honor the son does 
not honor the father who sent him  
i am telling you the truth those who hear 
my words and believe in him who sent me  
have eternal life they will not be judged 
but i've already passed from death to life  
i am telling you the truth the time is coming 
the time has already come when the dead  
will hear the voice of the son of God 
and those who hear it will come to life  
just as the father is himself the source of 
life in the same way he has made his son to  
be the source of life and he has given the son 
the right to judge because he is the son of man
do not be surprised at this
the time is coming when all the dead will hear 
his voice and come out of their graves those  
who have done good will rise and live and those 
who have done evil will rise and be condemned  
i can do nothing on my own authority i judge 
only as God tells me so my judgment is right  
because i am not trying to do what i 
want but only what he who sent me once  
if i testify on my own behalf what i say is 
not to be accepted as real proof but there is  
someone else who testifies on my behalf and 
i know that what he says about me is true  
john is the one to whom you sent your messengers 
and he spoke on behalf of the truth it is not  
that i must have a human witness i say 
this only in order that you may be saved  
john was like a lamp burning and shining and you 
were willing for a while to enjoy his light but i  
have a witness on my behalf which is even greater 
than the witness that john gave what i do that is  
the deeds my father gave me to do these speak on 
my behalf and show that the father has sent me and  
the father who sent me also testifies on my behalf 
you have never heard his voice or seen his face  
and you do not keep his message in your hearts 
but you do not believe in the one whom he sent  
you study the scriptures because you think 
that in them you will find eternal life and  
these very scriptures speak about me yet you are 
not willing to come to me in order to have life
i am not looking for human praise but 
i know what kind of people you are  
and i know that you have no 
love for God in your hearts  
i have come with my father's 
authority but you have not received me  
when however someone comes with his own 
authority you will receive him you like to  
receive praise from one another but you do not 
try to win praise from the one who alone is God  
how then can you believe me do not think 
however that i'm the one who will accuse  
you to my father Moses in whom you have put 
your hope is the very one who will accuse you  
if you had really believed Moses you would 
have believed me because he wrote about me  
but since you do not believe what he 
wrote how can you believe what i say
after this jesus went across lake galilee 
or lake tiberias as it is also called
a large crowd followed him because they 
had seen his miracles of healing the sick
jesus went up a hill and 
sat down with his disciples  
the time for the passover festival was near  
jesus looked around and saw that 
a large crowd was coming to him
where can we buy enough food 
to feed all these people  
he said this to test philip actually he 
already knew what he would do for everyone  
to have even a little it would take more 
than 200 silver coins to buy enough bread
another one of his disciples andrew 
who was simon peter's brother  
said there is a boy here who has five 
loaves of barley bread and two fish
but they will certainly not 
be enough for all these people
make the people sit down 
there was a lot of grass there  
so all the people sat down there 
were about five thousand men
Jesus took the bread gave thanks to God
and distributed to the 
people who were sitting there
he did the same with the fish
and they all had as much as they wanted
when they were all full he said to his 
disciples gather the pieces left over
let us not waste a bit so they gathered 
them all and filled 12 baskets with the  
pieces left over from the five barley 
loaves which the people had eaten
seeing this miracle that jesus had 
performed the people there said  
surely this is the prophet 
who was to come into the world
jesus knew that they were about 
to come and seize him in order  
to make him king by force so he went 
off again to the hills by himself
when evening came jesus 
disciples went down to the lake  
got into a boat and went back 
across the lake towards capernaum
night came on and jesus still had not come to them  
by then a strong wind was 
blowing and stirring up the water
the disciples had ruled about three or four 
miles when they saw jesus walking on the water
and they were terrified
don't be afraid it is i
then they willingly took him into the boat
and immediately the boat reached land 
at the place they were heading for
next day the crowd which had stayed on the 
other side of the lake realized that there  
had only been one boat there they knew that jesus 
had not gone in it with his disciples but that  
they had left without him other boats which were 
from tiberias came to shore near the place where  
the crowd had eaten the bread after the lord had 
given thanks when the crowd saw that jesus was not  
there nor his disciples they got into those 
boats and went to capernaum looking for him
when the people found jesus on the 
other side of the lake they said to him  
teacher when did you get here
i am telling you the truth you were looking for me 
because you ate the bread and had all you wanted  
not because you understood my miracles 
do not work for food that spoils
work for the food that lasts for eternal 
life this is the food which the son of man  
will give you because God the father 
has put his mark of approval on him
what can we do in order to do what God wants us to 
do what God wants you to do is to believe in the  
one he said what miracle will you perform so that 
we may see it and believe you what will you do
he gave them bread from heaven to eat i am 
telling you the truth what Moses gave you was  
not the bread from heaven it is my father 
who gives you the real bread from heaven  
for the bread that God gives is he who 
comes down from heaven and gives life to the
i am world bread of life
those who come to me will never be hungry 
those who believe in me will never be thirsty  
now i told you that you've 
seen me but will not believe  
everyone whom my father gives me will come to 
me i will never turn away anyone who comes to me  
because i have come down from heaven to do not 
my own will but the will of him who sent me  
and it is the will of him who sent me that i 
should not lose any of all those he has given me  
but that i should raise them 
all to life for the last day  
for what my father wants is that all who see the 
son and believe in him should have eternal life  
and i will raise them to life on the last day the 
people started grumbling about him because he said  
i am the bread that came down from heaven 
this man is jesus son of joseph isn't he
we know his father and mother how then 
does he now say he came down from heaven
stop grumbling among yourselves
people cannot come to me unless the 
father who sent me draws them to me
and i will raise them to life on the last day
the prophets wrote
everyone will be taught by God
anyone who hears the father 
and learns from him comes to me
this does not mean that 
anyone is seeing the father  
he who is from God is the only one who has 
seen the father i am telling you the truth
he who believes has eternal life
am the bread of life
your ancestors ate manna 
in the desert but they died  
but the bread that comes down from heaven is of 
such a kind that whoever eats it will not die  
i am the living bread that came down from heaven 
if you eat this bread you will live forever
the bread that i will give you is my flesh which 
i give so that the world may live this started an  
angry argument among them how can this man give 
us his flesh to eat i am telling you the truth
the son of man and drink his blood 
you will not have life in yourselves  
those who eat my flesh and drink my blood 
have eternal life and i will raise them  
to life on the last day for my flesh is 
the real food my blood is the real drink  
those who eat my flesh and drink my 
blood live in me and i live in them
the living father sent me and 
because of him i live also
in the same way whoever eats me will live 
because of me this then is the bread that  
came down from heaven it is not like the bread 
that your ancestors ate but then later died
those who eat this bread
jesus said this as he taught 
in the synagogue in capernaum
many of his followers heard this and said 
this teaching is too hard who can listen to it
without being told jesus knew that they were 
grumbling about this does this make you want to  
give up suppose then that you should see the son 
of man go back up to the place where he was before  
what gives life is God's spirit 
human power is of no use at all  
the words i have spoken to you 
bring God's life-giving spirit
yet some of you do not believe Jesus knew 
from the very beginning who were the ones  
that would not believe and which one would 
betray him this is the very reason i told you  
that no people can come to me unless the 
father makes it possible for them to do so  
because of this many of jesus followers 
turned back and would not go with him anymore
and you
would you also like to leave lord to whom would 
we go you have the words that give eternal life  
and now we believe and know that you 
are the holy one who has come from God
i chose the twelve of you didn't i
yet one of you is a devil he was talking about 
Judas the son of simon iscariot for judas  
even though he was one of the twelve 
disciples was going to betray him  
after this jesus traveled in galilee  
he did not want to travel in judea because the 
jewish authorities there were wanting to kill him  
the time for the festival of shelters 
was near so jesus brothers said to him  
leave this place and go to judea so that your 
followers will see the things that you're doing  
people don't hide what they're doing if they want 
to be well known since you are doing these things  
let the whole world know about you not even 
his brothers believed in him the right time  
for me is not yet cow any time is right for 
you the world cannot hate you but it hates me  
because i keep telling it that its ways are bad
you go on to the festival i 
am not going to this festival  
because the right time has not come for me 
he said this and then stayed on in galilee  
after his brothers had gone to the festival 
jesus also went however he did not go openly  
but secretly the jewish authorities 
were looking for him at the festival  
where is he they asked there was much 
whispering about him in the crowd  
he is a good man some people said 
no others said he fools the people
but no one talked about him openly because 
they were afraid of the jewish authorities
the festival was nearly half over when 
jesus went to the temple and began teaching
the jewish authorities were greatly surprised  
how does this man know so much 
when he's never been to school  
what i teach is not my own teaching but 
it comes from God who sent me whoever is  
willing to do what God wants will know whether 
what i teach comes from God or whether i speak  
on my own authority those who speak on their own 
authority are trying to gain glory for themselves  
but he who wants glory for the one who sent 
him is honest and there is nothing false in him  
moses gave you the law didn't he but not 
one of you obeys the lord why are you  
trying to kill me you have a demon in you who 
is trying to kill you i performed one miracle  
and you were all surprised moses ordered 
you to circumcise your sons although it  
was not moses but your ancestors who started 
it and so you circumcise a boy in the sabbath  
if a boy is circumcised on the sabbath 
so that moses law is not broken  
why are you angry with me because i made 
a man completely well on the sabbath  
stop judging by external standards 
and judge by true standards
some of the people of jerusalem said 
isn't this the man the authorities  
are trying to kill look he is talking in 
public and they say nothing against him
can it be that they really know that he 
is the messiah but when the messiah comes  
no one will know where he is from and 
we all know where this man comes from
as jesus taught in the temple 
he said in a loud voice  
do you really know me and know where i am from
i have not come on my own authority 
he who sent me however is truthful  
you do not know him but i know him 
because i come from him and he sent me
then they tried to seize him
so
but no one laid a hand on him 
because his hour had not yet come
but many in the crowd believed 
in him when the messiah comes  
will he perform more miracles than this man has
the pharisees heard the crowd 
whispering these things about jesus
so they and the chief priest 
sent some guards to arrest him
i shall be with you a little while longer
and then i shall go away to him who sent me 
you will look for me but you will not find me  
because you cannot go where i will be
jewish authorities said among themselves where 
is he about to go so that we shall not find him  
will he go to the greek cities where our 
people live and teach the greeks he says  
that we will look for him but will not find 
him and that we cannot go where he will be
what does he mean on the last and 
most important day of the festival  
jesus stood up and said in a loud voice whoever 
is thirsty should come to me and whoever believes  
in me should drink as the scripture says streams 
of life giving water will pour out from his side  
jesus said this about the spirit which those 
who believed in him were going to receive  
at that time the spirit had not yet been given 
because jesus had not been raised to glory  
some of the people in the crowd heard him 
say this this man is really the prophet  
the messiah will not come from galilee the 
scripture says that the messiah will be a  
descendant of king david and will be born 
in bethlehem the town where david lived
so there was a division in 
the crowd because of jesus  
some wanted to seize him but 
no one laid a hand on him
when the guards went back the chief priests and 
pharisees asked them why did you not bring him  
nobody has ever talked the way this man does 
did he fool you too have you ever known one of  
the authorities or one pharisee to believe in 
him this crowd does not know the law of Moses
so they are under God's curse one 
of the pharisees there was nicodemus  
the man who had gone to see Jesus before 
according to our law we cannot condemn  
people before hearing them and finding out what 
they have done well are you also from Galilee
study the scriptures and you will learn 
that no prophet ever comes from galilee
then everyone went home but 
jesus went to the mount of olives
early the next morning he went back to the temple 
all the people gathered around him and he sat down  
and began to teach them the teachers of the 
law and the pharisees brought in a woman  
who had been caught committing adultery 
and they made a stand before them all
this woman was caught in the 
very act of committing adultery  
in our law moses commanded that 
such a woman must be stoned to death
now what do you say they said this to 
trap jesus so that they could accuse him
but he bent over and wrote 
on the ground with his finger
as they stood there asking him 
questions he straightened up
whichever one of you has committed no 
sin may throw the first stone at her
then he bent over again and wrote on the ground
when they heard this they all left 
one by one the older ones first
uh
jesus was left alone with the woman 
still standing there he straightened up
where are they
is there no one left to condemn you no one sir
well then
i do not condemn you either
go
but do not sin again
jesus spoke to the pharisees again i am the 
light of the world whoever follows me will  
have the light of life and will never walk in 
darkness now you are testifying on your own  
behalf what you say proves nothing no even though 
i do testify on my own behalf what i say is true  
because i know where i came 
from and where i'm going  
you do not know where i came from or where i'm 
going you make judgments in a purely human way  
i pass judgment on no one but if i 
were to do so my judgment would be  
true because i'm not alone in this 
the father who sent me is with me
it is written in your law that when two 
witnesses agree what they say is true
i testify on my own behalf and the father who 
sent me also testifies on my behalf where is  
your father you know neither me nor my father 
if you knew me you would know my father also  
jesus said all this as he taught in the temple 
in the room where the offering boxes were placed  
and no one arrested him 
because his hour had not come
i will go away you will look for 
me but you will die in your sins
you cannot go where i am going he says 
that we cannot go where he is going does  
this mean that he will kill himself you belong 
to this world here below but i come from above  
you are from this world but i am not from this 
world that is why i told you that you will die  
in your sins and you will die in your sins if 
you do not believe that i am who i am who are you
what i have told you from the very beginning
i have much to say about 
you much to condemn you for  
the one who sent me however is truthful then 
i tell the world only what i've heard from him
they did not understand that jesus 
was talking to them about the father  
when you lift up the son of man 
you will know that i am who i am  
then you will know that i do nothing on 
my own authority but i say only what the  
father has instructed me to say and he who 
sent me is with me he has not left me alone  
because i always do what pleases him many who 
heard jesus say these things believed in him
if you obey my teaching you are really my 
disciples you will know the truth and the  
truth will set you free we are the descendants 
of abraham and we have never been anybody slaves
what do you mean then by saying you 
will be free i am telling you the truth  
everyone who sins is a slave of sin a slave does 
not belong to a family permanently but a son  
belongs there forever if the sun sets you 
free then you will be really free i know you  
are abraham's descendants yet you are trying to 
kill me because you will not accept my teaching  
i talk about what my father has shown me 
but you do what your father has told you  
my father is abraham if you really were abraham's 
children you would do the same things that he did  
all i have ever done is to tell you the truth 
i heard from God yet you were trying to kill me  
abraham did nothing like this you 
were doing what your father did  
God himself is the only father we 
have and we are his true children  
if God really were your father you would 
love me because i came from God and now i  
am here i did not come on my own authority but 
he sent me why do you not understand what i say
it is because you cannot 
bear to listen to my message  
you are the children of your father the devil 
and you want to follow your father's desires  
from the very beginning he was a murderer and 
has never been on the side of truth because  
there is no truth in him but he tells a lie he 
is only doing what is natural to him because he  
is a liar and the father of all lies but i tell 
the truth and that is why you do not believe me
which one of you can prove that i am guilty of sin 
if i tell the truth then why do you not believe me  
he who comes from God listens to God's words 
you however are not from God and that is why  
you will not listen were we not right in saying 
that you are a samaritan and have a demon in your
honor my father but you dishonor me 
i am not seeking honor for myself  
but there is one who is seeking it and who 
judges in my favor i am telling you the truth  
whoever obeys my teaching will never die now we 
know for sure that you have a demon abraham died  
and the prophets died yet you say that whoever 
obeys your teaching will never die our father  
abraham died you do not claim to be greater 
than abraham do you and the prophets also died
who do you think you are if i were to honor myself 
that honor would be worth nothing the one who  
honors me is my father the very one you say is 
your God you have never known him but i know if  
i were to say that i do not know him i would be a 
lie like you but i do know him and i obey his word  
your father abraham rejoiced that he was 
to see the time of my coming he saw it  
and was glad you're not even 50 
years old and you have seen abraham
i am telling you the truth
before abraham was born
i am to throw at him
but jesus hid himself and left the temple
as jesus was walking along he 
saw a man who had been born blind
teacher whose sin caused him to be born 
blind was it his own or his parents sin
his blindness has nothing to do with his sins or 
his barren sins he is blind so that God's power  
might be seen at work in him as long as it is they 
we must keep on doing the work of him who sent me
night is coming
but no one can work
while i'm in the world
i am the light for the world
uh
after he said this jesus spat on the 
ground and made some mud with the spittle  
he rubbed the mud on the man's eyes
go and wash your face in the pool 
of salon this name means ascent
uh
so the man went washed his face and came 
back seeing his neighbors then and the people  
who had seen him begging before this asked 
isn't this the man who used to sit and play  
he's the one no he isn't he just looks like 
him i am the man how is it that you can now see  
the man called jesus made some mud rubbed 
it on my eyes and told me to go to shalom  
and wash my face so i went and as soon as i 
watched i could see where is he i don't know
then they took to the pharisees 
the man who had been blind  
the day that Jesus made the mud and 
cured him of his blindness was a sabbath  
the pharisees then asked the man again how 
he had received his sight he put some mud  
on my eyes i washed my face and now i can 
see the man who did this cannot be from God  
but he does not obey the sabbath law how could a 
man who is a sinner perform such miracles as these  
and there was division among them you 
say he cured you of your blindness  
well what do you say about him he is a 
prophet the Jewish authorities however were  
not willing to believe that he had been blind 
and could now see until they called his parents
is this your son
you say that he was born blind how is it then 
that he can now see we know that he is our  
son and we know that he was born blind but we 
don't know how it is that he is now able to see  
nor do we know who cured him of his blindness ask 
him he is old enough and he can answer for himself  
his parents said this because they were afraid 
of the jewish authorities who had already agreed  
that anyone who said he believed that jesus was 
the messiah would be expelled from the synagogue  
that is why his parents said he is old 
enough ask him a second time they called  
back the man who had been born blind promise 
before God that you will tell the truth
we know that this man who cured you is a 
sinner i do not know if he is a sinner or not  
one thing i do know i was blind
and now i see
what did he do to you how did he cure you of your 
blindness i have already told you and you would  
not listen why do you want to hear it again 
maybe you too would like to be his disciples  
they insulted him and said you are that fellow's 
disciple but we are Moses disciples we know that  
God spoke to Moses as for that fellow however 
we do not even know where he comes from  
what a strange thing that is you do not know where 
he comes from but he cured me of my blindness  
we know that God does not listen to sinners he 
does listen to people who respect him and do  
what he wants them to do since the beginning of 
the world nobody has ever heard of anyone giving  
sight to a person born blind unless this man 
came from God he would not be able to do a thing
and they expelled him from the synagogue
uh
when jesus heard what had happened he found 
the man do you believe in the son of man
tell me who he is so that i can believe in him  
you have already seen him and he's 
the one who is talking with you now
i believe lord and he knelt down before 
jesus i came to this world to judge  
so that the blind should see and those who 
see should become blind some pharisees who  
were there with him heard him say this and asked 
him surely you don't mean that we are blind to
if you were blind then you would not be guilty  
but since you claim that you can see 
this means that you are still guilty
i am telling you the truth  
the man who does not enter the sheep pen by the 
gate but climbs in some other way as a thief and  
a robber the man who goes in through the gate is 
the shepherd of the sheep the gatekeeper opens the  
gate for him the sheep hear his voice as he calls 
his own sheep by name and he leads them out when  
he has brought them out he goes ahead of them and 
the sheep follow him because they know his voice  
they will not follow someone else instead 
they will run away from such a person  
because they do not know his voice jesus 
told them this parable but they did not  
understand what he meant so jesus said again i am 
telling you the truth i am the gate for the sheep  
all others who came before me are thieves and 
robbers but the sheep did not listen to them  
i am the gates those who come in by me will 
be saved they will come in and go out and find  
pasture the thief comes only in order to steal 
kill and destroy i have come in order that you  
might have life life in all its fullness i am 
the good shepherd who is willing to die for the  
sheep when the hired man who is not a shepherd 
and does not own the sheep sees a wolf coming  
he leaves the sheep and runs away so the wolf 
snatches the sheep and scatters them the hired man  
runs away because he is only a hired man and does 
not care about the sheep i am the good shepherd  
as the father knows me and i know the father in 
the same way i know my sheep and they know me
and i am willing to die for them
there are other sheep which belong 
to me that are not in this sea pen  
i must bring them to they will listen to my voice 
and they will become one flock with one shepherd  
the father loves me because i am willing to give 
up my life in order that i may receive it back  
again no one takes my life away from me i give 
it up of my own free will i have the right to  
give it up and i have the right to take it back 
this is what my father has commanded me to do  
again there was division among the people because 
of these words he's crazy why do you listen to him  
a man with a demon could not talk like this 
how could a demon give sat to blind people
it was winter and the festival of the dedication 
of the temple was being celebrated in jerusalem
jesus was walking in solomon's porch in the 
temple when the people gathered round him how  
long are you going to keep us in suspense tell us 
the plain truth are you the messiah i have already  
told you but you would not believe me the deeds 
i do by my father's authority speak on my behalf
but you will not believe for you are not my sheep
my sheep listen to my voice i know them and they 
follow me i give them eternal life and they shall  
never die no one can snatch them away from me what 
my father has given me is greater than everything  
and no one can snatch them away from the 
father's care the father and i are one  
and the people again picked 
up stones to throw at him
i have done many good deeds in your 
presence which the father gave me to do  
for which one of these do you want to stone me we 
do not want to stone you because of any good deeds  
but because of your blasphemy you're only a 
man but you're trying to make yourself gone
it is written in your own law 
that God said you are Gods  
we know that what the scripture says is true 
forever and God called those people Gods  
the people to whom his message was given as for 
me the father chose me and sent me into the world  
how then can you say that i blaspheme because 
i said that i am the son of God do not believe  
me then if i am not doing the things my 
father wants me to do but if i do them  
even though you do not believe me you should at 
least believe my deeds in order that you may know  
once and for all that the father is 
in me and that i am in the father
once more they tried to seize jesus 
but he slipped out of their hands
jesus then went back again across the 
jordan river to the place where john  
had been baptizing and he stayed there
many people came to him john performed 
no miracles they said but everything he  
said about this man was true and 
many people there believed in him
a man named lazarus who 
lived in bethany became sick
bethany was the town where mary 
and her sister martha lived
this mary was the one who poured the perfume 
on the lord's feet and wiped them with her hair
it was her brother lazarus who was sick
the sisters sent jesus the message 
lord your dear friend is sick
when jesus heard it he said the final result of 
this sickness will not be the death of lazarus  
this has happened in order to bring glory to God  
and it will be the means by which 
the son of God will receive glory
jesus loved martha and her sister and lazarus yet 
when he received the news that lazarus was sick he  
stayed where he was for two more days then he 
said to his disciples let us go back to judea  
teacher just a short time ago the people there 
wanted to stone you and are you planning to go  
back a day has 12 hours doesn't it so those who 
walk in broad deal i do not stumble but they see  
the light of this world but if they walk during 
the night they stumble because they have no light  
our friend lazarus has fallen 
asleep but i will go and wake him up
if he is asleep lord he will get well 
jesus meant that lazarus had died but  
they thought he meant natural sleep so 
jesus told them plainly lazarus is dead
but for your sake i am glad that i was 
not with him so that you will believe
let us go to him thomas called the 
twin said to his fellow disciples  
let us all go along with the 
teacher so that we may die with him
when jesus arrived he found that 
lazarus had been buried four days before
bethany was less than two miles from jerusalem 
and many judeans had come to see martha and mary  
to comfort them about their brother's death when 
martha heard that jesus was coming she went out  
to meet him but mary stayed in the house if you 
had been here lord my brother would not have died  
but i know that even now God will 
give you whatever you ask him for  
your brother will rise to life i know 
that he will rise to life on the last day
i am the resurrection and the life those who 
believe in me will live even though they die  
and those who live and 
believe in me will never die
do you believe this
yes lord i do believe that you are the messiah 
the son of God who is to come into the world
after martha said this she went back 
and called her sister mary privately
the teacher is here and is asking for you  
when mary heard this she got 
up and hurried out to meet him
jesus had not yet arrived in the village but 
was still in the place where martha had met him  
the people who were in the house with mary 
comforting her followed her when they saw  
her get up and hurry out they thought that 
she was going to the grave to weep there
mary arrived where jesus was and as 
soon as she saw him she fell at his feet
lord
if you had been here my 
brother would not have died  
jesus saw her weeping and he saw how 
the people with her were weeping also
his heart was touched and he was deeply moved
where have you buried him
come and see lord
jesus wept see how much he loved him the 
people said but some of them said he gave  
sight to the blind man didn't he could he not 
have kept lazarus from dying deeply moved once  
more jesus went to the tomb which was a 
cave with a stone placed at the entrance
take the stone away there will be a bad smell lord  
he has been buried four days didn't i tell you 
that you would see God's glory if you believed
they took the stone away
jesus looked up i thank you father that you 
listen to me i know that you always listen to me  
but i say this for the sake of the people here 
so that they will believe that you sent me
after he had said this he 
called out in a loud voice
lazarus
come out
he came out
his hands and feet wrapped in grave clothes
and with a cloth round his face
untie him and let him go  
many of the people who had come to visit mary 
saw what jesus did and they believed in him
but some of them returned to the pharisees 
and told them what jesus had done  
so the pharisees and the chief priests met with 
the council and said what shall we do look at  
all the miracles this man is performing if we let 
him go on in this way everyone will believe in him  
the roman authorities will take action 
and destroy our temple and our nation
one of them named caiaphas who was high 
priest that year said what fools you are  
don't you realize that it is better for 
you to have let one man die for the people  
instead of having the whole nation destroyed
actually he did not say this 
of his own accord rather  
as he was high priest that year he was prophesying 
that Jesus was going to die for the jewish people  
and not only for them but also to bring together 
into one body all the scattered people of God  
from that day on the jewish authorities made 
plans to kill Jesus so Jesus did not travel  
openly in Judea but left and went to a place 
near the desert to a town named Ephraim where  
he stayed with his disciples the time for the 
passover festival was near and many people went  
up from the country to jerusalem to perform 
the ritual of purification before the festival
they were looking for jesus and as they gathered 
in the temple they asked one another what do you  
think surely he will not come to the festival 
will he the chief priests and the pharisees had  
given orders that if anyone knew where jesus was 
he must report it so that they could arrest him
six days before the passover jesus went to bethany  
the home of lazarus the man 
he had raised from death
they prepared a dinner for him 
there which martha helped serve
lazarus was one of those who were 
sitting at the table with jesus
then mary took a whole pint of a very 
expensive perfume made of pure nod
poured it on jesus feet
and wiped them with her hair
the sweet smell of the 
perfume filled the whole house
one of jesus disciples judas iscariot  
the one who was going to betray him 
said why wasn't this perfume sold
for 300 silver coins
and the money given to the poor he said 
this not because he cared about the poor  
but because he was a thief he carried the 
money back and would help himself from it  
leave her alone better keep what 
she has for the day of my burial
you will always have four people with 
you but you will not always have me
a large number of people heard that jesus was 
in bethany so they went there not only because  
of jesus but also to see lazarus whom jesus had 
raised from death so the chief priests made plans  
to kill lazarus too because on his account many 
jews were rejecting them and believing in jesus
the next day the large crowd that had 
come to the passover festival heard  
that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem so they took 
branches of palm trees and went out to meet him  
shouting praise God God bless him 
who comes in the name of the lord  
God bless the king of Israel Jesus found a 
donkey and rode on it just as the scripture says  
do not be afraid city of Zion here 
comes your king riding on a young donkey
his disciples did not understand this at the 
time but when jesus had been raised to glory  
they remembered that the scripture said this 
about him and that they had done this for him
the people who had been with jesus when he called 
lazarus out of the grave and raised him from death  
had reported what had happened 
that was why the crowd met him  
because they heard he had performed this 
miracle the pharisees then said to one another  
you see we are not succeeding at all 
look the whole world is following him
some greeks were among those who had gone 
to jerusalem to worship during the festival  
they went to philip he was from bethsaida 
in galilee and said sir we want to see jesus
philip went and told andrew and 
the two of them went and told jesus
the hour has now come for the 
son of man to receive great glory
i'm telling you the truth a grain of 
wheat remains no more than a single grain  
unless it is dropped into the ground and dies
if it does die then it produces many grains
those who love their own life will lose it
those who hate their own life in this 
world will keep it for life eternal
whoever wants to serve me must follow me  
so that my servant will be with me where i am 
and my father will honor anyone who serves me
now my heart is troubling what shall i say
shall i say father do not 
let this hour come upon me
but that is why i came
so that i might go through this hour of suffering
father bring glory to your name
then a voice spoke from heaven i have 
brought glory to it and i will do so again
the crowd standing there heard the voice 
and some of them said it was thunder  
while others said an angel spoke to him it is not 
for my sake that this voice spoke but for yours  
now is the time for this world to be judged 
now the ruler of this world will be overthrown  
when i am lifted up from the earth i will draw 
everyone to me in saying this he indicated the  
kind of death he was going to suffer our law 
tells us that the messiah will live forever  
how then can you say that the son of man 
must be lifted up who is the son of man
the light will be among you a little longer
continue on your way while you have the light 
so that the darkness will not come upon you  
for the one who walks in the dark 
does not know where he is going  
believe in the light then while you have it 
so that you will be the people of the light
after jesus said this he went 
off and hid himself from them  
even though he had performed all these miracles 
in their presence they did not believe in him  
so that what the prophet Isaiah had said might 
come true lord who believed the message we told  
to whom did the lord reveal his power and so they 
were not able to believe because Isaiah also said  
God has blinded their eyes and closed their 
minds so that their eyes would not see and  
their minds would not understand and they would 
not turn to me says God for me to heal them
isaiah said this because he saw 
jesus glory and spoke about him
even then many of the jewish authorities 
believed in Jesus but because of the  
pharisees they did not talk about it openly 
so as not to be expelled from the synagogue  
they loved human approval rather than the approval 
of God Jesus said in a loud voice whoever believes  
in me believes not only in me but also in him who 
sent me whoever sees me sees also him who sent me  
have come into the world as light so that 
everyone who believes in me should not remain  
in the darkness if people hear my message 
and do not obey i will not judge them i came  
not to judge the world but to save it those 
who reject me and do not accept my message  
have one who will judge them the words i have 
spoken will be their judge on the last day  
this is true because i have not spoken on my 
own authority but the father who sent me has  
commanded me what i must say and speak and 
i know that his command brings eternal life  
what i say then is what the 
father has told me to say
it was now the day before the passover festival  
jesus knew that the hour had come for him to 
leave this world and go to the father he had  
always loved those in the world who were 
his own and he loved them to the very end
jesus and his disciples were at supper
the devil had already put into the 
heart of judas the son of Simon Iscariot  
the thought of betraying Jesus
Jesus knew that the father 
had given him complete power  
he knew that he had come 
from God and was going to God
so he rose from the table took off his outer 
garment and tied a towel around his waist
then he poured some water into a wash 
basin and began to wash the disciples feet  
then dry them with the towel around his waist
he came to simon peter are 
you going to wash my feet lord
you do not understand now what i am doing 
but you will understand later never at any  
time will you wash my feet if i do not wash 
your feet you will no longer be my disciple
lord
do not wash only my feet 
then wash my hands and had to
those who have taken a bath are completely 
clean and do not need to wash themselves  
except for their feet
all of you are clean
all except one jesus already 
knew who was going to betray him  
that is why he said all of 
you except one are clean
after jesus had washed their feet 
he put his outer garment back on  
and returned to his place at the table do 
you understand what i've just done to you
you call me teacher and lord and it is right 
that you should do so because that is what i am  
i your lord and teacher have just washed your 
feet you then should wash one another's feet
i have set an example for you so that you will 
do just what i have done for you i am telling  
you the truth no slaves are greater than their 
master and no messengers are greater than the  
one who sent them now that you know this truth 
how happy you will be if you put it into practice
i'm not talking about all of you
i know those i have chosen  
but the scripture must come true that says 
the man who shared my food turned against me
i tell you this now before it happens so that when 
it does happen you will believe that i am who i am  
i am telling you the truth whoever 
receives anyone i send receives me also  
and whoever receives me receives him who sent me
after jesus had said this he was 
deeply troubled and declared openly
i am telling you the truth
one of you is going to betray me
the disciples looked at one another 
completely puzzled about whom he meant
one of the disciples the one whom jesus loved was 
sitting next to jesus simon peter motioned to him
ask him whom he is talking about so that disciple 
moved closer to jesus side who is it lord
i will dip some bread in the sauce and give it in
he is the man
so he took a piece of bread dipped it and 
gave it to judas the son of simon iscariot
as soon as judas took the 
bread satan entered into him
hurry and do what you must
none of the others at the table 
understood why jesus said this to him  
since judas was in charge of the money bag 
some of the disciples thought that jesus had  
told him to go and buy what they needed for 
the festival or to give something to the poor
judas accepted the bread and went out at once
it was night
after judas had left Jesus said now 
the son of man's glory is revealed  
now God's glory is revealed through him 
if God's glorious reveal through him  
then God will reveal the glory 
of the son of man and himself
and he will do so at once
my children
i shall not be with you very much longer  
you will look for me but i tell you 
now what i told the jewish authorities
you cannot go where i am going
and now i give you a new commandment
love one another as i have loved 
you so you must love one another  
if you have love for one another then 
everyone will know that you are my disciples  
where are you going lord you cannot 
follow me now where i am going  
but later you will follow me lord why can't 
i follow you now i am ready to die for you
are you really ready to die for me
i'm telling you the truth
before the rooster crows you will say 
three times that you do not know me  
do not be worried and upset
believe in God and believe also in me 
there are many rooms in my father's house  
and i'm going to prepare a place for you i would 
not tell you this if it were not so and after i go  
and prepare a place for you i will come back and 
take you to myself so that you will be where i am
you know the way that leads to the place where i 
am going lord we do not know where you are going  
so how can we know the way to get there 
i am the way the truth and the life
no one goes to the father except by me
now that you have known me 
you will know my father also  
and from now on you do know 
him and you have seen him lord
show us the father that is all we need
for a long time i have been with you 
all yet you do not know me philip
whoever has seen me has seen the father 
why then do you say sure as the father
do you not believe that i am in 
the father and the father is in me
the words i have spoken to you do not come from 
me the father who remains in me does his own work  
believe me when i say that i am in 
the father and the father is in me  
if not believe because of the things 
i do i am telling you the truth  
those who believe in me will do what i 
do yes they will do even greater things  
because i am going to the father and i 
will do whatever you ask for in my name  
so that the father's glory 
will be shown through the sun
if you ask me for anything in my name
i will do it
if you love me you will obey my commandments  
i will ask the father and he will give you 
another helper who will stay with you forever  
he is the spirit who reveals the truth 
about God the world cannot receive him  
because it cannot see him or know him but you 
know him because he remains with you and is in you  
when i go you will not be left all alone 
i will come back to you in a little while  
the world will see me no more but you will 
see me and because i live you also will live  
when that day comes you will know that 
i am in my father that you are in me  
just as i'm in you those who accept my 
commandments and obey them are the ones  
who love me my father will love those who love me 
i too would love them and reveal myself to them  
judas not judas iscariot said lord how can 
it be that you will reveal yourself to us  
and not to the world those who love me will 
obey my teaching my father will love them and my  
father and i will come to them and live with them 
those who do not love me do not obey my teaching  
and the teaching you have heard is not mine but 
comes from the father who sent me i have told you  
this while i'm still with you the help of the holy 
spirit whom the father will send in my name will  
teach you everything and make you remember all 
that i've told you peace is what i leave with you
it is my own peace that i give you i do not 
give it as the world does do not be worried  
and upset do not be afraid you heard me say 
to you i'm leaving but i will come back to you
if you loved me you would be glad that i'm 
going to the father for he is greater than i
i have told you this now before it all happens 
so that when it does happen you will believe
i cannot talk with you much longer 
because the ruler of this world is coming  
he has no power over me but the world must 
know that i love the father and that is  
why i do everything as he commands 
me come let us go from this place
i am the real vine and my father is the gardener  
he breaks off every branch in 
me that does not bear fruit  
and he prunes every branch that does bear fruit 
so that it will be clean and bear more fruit  
you have been made clean already 
by the teaching i have given you
remain united to me and i 
will remain united to you
a branch cannot bear fruit by itself 
they can do so only if it remains in the  
in vine same way you cannot bear fruit 
unless you remain in me i'm the vine
and you are the branches
those who remain in me and i in them will 
bear much fruit for you can do nothing  
without me those who do not remain in me 
i've thrown out like a branch and dry out  
such branches are gathered up and thrown 
into the fire where they are burned
if you remain in me and my words remain in you  
then you will ask for anything 
you wish then you shall have it
my father's glory is shown by your bearing much 
fruit and in this way you become my disciples  
i love you just as the father 
loves me remain in my love
if you obey my commands you will remain in my 
love just as i have obeyed my father's commands  
and remain in his love i have told you this so 
that my joy may be in you and that your joy may be  
complete my commandment is this love one another 
just as i love you the greatest love you can have  
for your friends is to give your life for them and 
you are my friends if you do what i command you  
i do not call you servants any longer because 
servants do not know what their master is doing  
instead i call you friends because i've told 
you everything i heard from my father you did  
not choose me i chose you and appointed you to go 
and bear much fruit the kind of fruit that endures
and so
the father will give you whatever you ask of 
him in my name this then is what i command you
love one another
if the world hates you just 
remember that it has hated me first
if you belong to the world then 
the world would love you as its own  
but i chose you from this world 
and you do not belong to it  
that is why the world hates you remember what i 
told you slaves are not greater than their master
if people persecuted me 
they will persecute you too
if they obey my teaching they will obey yours too
but they will do all this to you because 
you are mine for they do not know the one  
who sent me they would not have been guilty of 
sin if i had not come and spoken to them as it  
is they no longer have any excuse for their sin 
whoever hates me hates my father also they would  
not have been guilty of sin if i had not done 
among them the things that no one else ever did
as it is they have seen what i did and they hate 
both me and my father this however was bound to  
happen so that what is written in their law may 
come true they hated me for no reason at all
the helper will come the spirit who reveals the 
truth about God and who comes from the father  
i will send him to you from the 
father and he will speak about me  
and you too will speak about me because you 
have been with me from the very beginning  
i have told you this so that 
you will not give up your faith  
you will be expelled from the synagogues and 
the time will come and those who kill you  
will think that by doing this they are serving God
people will do these things to you because 
they have not known either the father or me
but i've told you this so that when the 
time comes for them to do these things you  
will remember what i told you i did not tell you 
these things at the beginning for i was with you  
but now i'm going to him who sent me 
yet none of you asks me where i am going  
and now that i've told you 
your hearts are full of sadness
but i am telling you the truth
it is better for you that i go away because 
if i do not go the helper will not come to you  
but if i do go away then i will send him to you 
and when he comes he will prove to the people  
of the world that they are wrong about sin and 
about what is right and about God's judgment
they are wrong about sin because they do 
not believe in me they are wrong about  
what is right because i am going to the 
father and you will not see me anymore  
and they are on about judgment because the 
ruler of this world has already been judged
i have much more to tell you but now 
it will be too much for you to bear  
when however the spirit comes who reveals the 
truth about God he would lead you into all the  
truth he will not speak on his own authority 
but he will speak of what he hears and will  
tell you of things to come he will give me glory 
because he will take what i say and tell it to you  
all that my father has is mine that 
is why i said that the spirit will  
take what i give him and tell it to you in 
a little while you will not see me anymore
and then a little while later you will see me 
some of his disciples asked among themselves  
what does this mean he tells us that in a little 
while we will not see him and then a little while  
later we will see him and he also says it is 
because i am going to the father what does this a  
little while mean we don't know what he is talking 
about jesus knew that they wanted to question him  
i said in a little while you will not see me and 
then a little while later you will see me is this  
what you are asking about among yourselves i 
am telling you the truth you will cry and weep  
but the world will be glad you will be sad 
but your sadness will turn into gladness  
when a woman is about to give birth she is sad 
because an hour of suffering has come but when the  
baby is born she forgets her suffering because she 
is happy that a baby has been born into the world  
that is how it is with you now you are sad 
but i will see you again and your hearts  
will be filled with gladness the kind of 
gladness that no one can take away from  
when that day comes you 
will not ask me for anything  
i am telling you the truth the father will 
give you whatever you ask of him in my name  
until now you have not asked 
for anything in my name  
ask and you will receive so that 
your happiness may be complete  
i have used figures of speech to tell 
you these things but the time will come  
when i will not use figures of speech but 
will speak to you plainly about the father  
when that day comes you will ask him in my name  
and i do not say that i will ask him on 
your behalf for the father himself loves you  
he loves you because you love me and 
have believed that i came from God
i did come from the father 
and i came into the world
and now i am leaving the world i'm going to the 
father then his disciples said to him now you  
are speaking plainly without using figures of 
speech we know now that you know everything you  
do not need to have someone ask you questions 
this makes us believe that you came from God
do you believe now the time 
is coming it is already here  
when all of you will be scattered each of you 
to your own home and i will be left all alone  
but i am not really alone because the father is 
with me i have told you this so that you will have  
peace by being united to me the world will make 
you suffer but be brave i have defeated the world
after jesus finished saying this 
he looked up to heaven and said
father
the hour has come
give glory to your son
so that the son may give glory to you
for you gave him authority over all people so that 
he might give eternal life to all those you gave  
him and eternal life means to know you the only 
true God and to know jesus christ whom you send  
i have shown your glory on earth i have 
finished the work you gave me to do  
father give me glory in your presence now the same 
glory i had with you before the world was made  
i have made you known to those you gave me out of 
the world they belonged to you and you gave them  
to me they have obeyed your word and now they 
know that everything you gave me comes from you  
i gave them the message that 
you gave me and they received it  
they know that it is true that i came 
from you and they believe that you sent me  
i pray for them i do not pray for the world but 
for those you gave me for they belong to you
all i have is yours and all you have is mine
and my glory is shown through 
them and now i am coming to you  
i am no longer in the world 
but they are in the world  
holy father keep them safe by the power of your 
name the name you gave me so that they may be one  
just as you and i are one while i was with them i 
kept them safe by the power of your name the name  
you gave me i protected them and not one of them 
was lost except the man who was bound to be lost  
so that the scripture might come true and now i am 
coming to you and i say these things in the world  
so that they might have my joy in their hearts and 
all its fullness i gave them your message and the  
world hated them because they do not belong to 
the world just as i do not belong to the world  
i do not ask you to take them out of the world but 
i do ask you to keep them safe from the evil one  
just as i do not belong to the world they do not 
belong to the world dedicate them to yourself by  
means of the truth your word is truth i sent them 
into the world just as you sent me into the world  
for their sake i dedicate myself to you in order 
that they too may be truly dedicated to you  
i pray not only for them but also for those 
who believe in me because of their message  
i pray that they may all be one father may they 
be in us just as you were in me and i'm in you  
may they be one so that the world 
will believe that you sent me  
i gave them the same glory you gave me so 
that they may be one just as you and i are one  
i and them and you and me so 
that they may be completely one  
in order that the world may know that you 
sent me and that you love them as you love me  
father you have given them to me and 
i want them to be with me where i am  
so that they may see my glory the glory you gave 
me for you loved me before the world was made  
righteous father the world does not know you 
but i know you and these know that you sent me  
i made you known to them 
and i will continue to do so  
in order that the love you have for me may 
be amen and so that i also may be in them  
after jesus had said this prayer he left with 
his disciples and went across kidron brooke
there was a garden in that place 
and jesus and his disciples went in
judas the traitor knew where it was because many 
times jesus had met there with his disciples  
so judas went to the garden taking with him 
a group of roman soldiers and some temple  
guards sent by the chief priests and the pharisees 
they were armed and carried lanterns and torches
jesus knew everything that 
was going to happen to him  
so he stepped forward and asked them who is 
that you are looking for jesus of nazareth
judas the traitor was standing there 
with them when jesus said to them  
i am he they moved back and fell to the ground
again jesus asked them
who is it you're looking for jesus of 
nazareth i have already told you that i am he
if then you are looking for me let these others go
he said this so that what 
he had said might come true  
father i have not lost even 
one of those you gave me  
simon peter who had a sword drew it and struck 
the high priest's way cutting off his right ear
the name of the slave was malcus 
put your sword back in his place  
do you think that i will not drink the cup 
of suffrage which my father has given me
then the roman soldiers with their 
commanding officer and the jewish guards  
arrested jesus tied him up 
and took him first to alice  
he was the father-in-law of caiaphas who was high 
priest that year it was caiaphas who had advised  
the jewish authorities that it was better 
that one man should die for all the people
simon peter and another disciple followed jesus  
that other disciple was well known to the 
high priest so he went with jesus into the  
courtyard of the high priest's house 
while peter stayed outside by the gate
then the other disciple went back out spoke to 
the girl at the gate and brought peter inside
aren't you also one of the 
disciples of that man no no no
it was cold so the servants had built a charcoal 
fire and were standing around and warming  
themselves so peter went over and stood with them 
warming himself the high priest questioned jesus  
about his disciples and about his teaching jesus 
answered i have always spoken publicly to everyone  
all my teaching was done in the synagogues and 
in the temple where all the people come together  
i have never said anything in secret
why then do you question me question the 
people who heard me ask them what i told them  
they know what i said
how dare you talk like that thy priest
if i have said anything wrong
tell everyone here what it was but 
if i'm right in what i have said
why do you hate me
then anas sent him still tied 
up to caiaphas the high priest  
peter was still standing there keeping 
himself warm so the others said to him  
aren't you also one of the disciples of 
that man no i am not but peter denied it  
one of the high priests slaves a relative of 
a man whose ear peter had cut off spoke up
didn't i see you with him in the garden no
and at once a rooster crawled
early in the morning jesus was taken from 
caiaphas house to the governor's palace  
the jewish authorities did not go inside the 
palace for they wanted to keep themselves ritually  
clean in order to be able to eat the passover 
meal so pilate went outside to them and asked  
what do you accuse this man of we would not have 
brought him to you if he had not committed a crime  
then you yourselves take him and 
try him according to your own law  
we are not allowed to put anyone to 
death this happened in order to make  
come true what jesus had said when he 
indicated the kind of death he would die
pilate went back into the palace and called jesus
are you the king of the jews does this question 
come from you or have others told you about me
do you think i'm a jew it was your own people 
and the chief priests who handed you over to me
what have you done
my kingdom does not belong to this world
if my kingdom belonged to this 
world my followers would fight  
to keep me from being handed 
over to the jewish authorities  
now my kingdom does not belong here are 
you a king then you say that i am a king  
i was born and came into the world for 
this one purpose to speak about the truth  
whoever belongs to the truth listens to me
and what is truth
then pilate went back outside 
to the people and said to them  
i cannot find any reason to condemn him but  
according to the custom you have i always set 
free a prisoner for you during the passover
do you want me to set free 
for you the king of the jews
was abandoned
then pilate took jesus and had him whipped
the soldiers made a crown out of thorny branches 
and put it on his head then they put a purple  
robe on him and came to him and said long live the 
king of the jews and they went up and slapped him  
pilate went back out once 
more and said to the crowd
look i will bring him out here to you to let you 
see that i cannot find any reason to condemn him
look here is the man so jesus came out wearing the 
crown of thorns from the purple robe crucify him
you take him then and crucify him
i find no reason to condemn him  
we have a law that says he ought to die 
because he claimed to be the son of God
when pilate heard this he was even more afraid
he went back into the palace and 
asked jesus where do you come from  
but jesus did not answer he will not speak to me  
remember i have the authority to set 
you free and also have you crucified
you have authority over me only 
because it was given to you by God
so the man who handed me over to you
is guilty of a worse sin
when pilate heard this he tried 
to find a way to set jesus free
if you set him free that means 
you are not the emperor's friend
anyone who claims to be a king 
is a rebel against the emperor
when pilate heard these words he took 
jesus outside and sat down the judge's  
seat in the place called the stone 
pavement in hebrew the name is gabatha
you
it was then almost noon of 
the day before the passover  
pilate said to the people here is your king
kill him
do you want me to crucify your king 
the only king we have is the emperor
then pilate handed jesus 
over to them to be crucified
oh
so they took charge of jesus he went out carrying 
his cross and came to the place of the skull  
as it is called in hebrew it is called golgotha
there they crucified him and 
they also crucified two other men  
one on each side with jesus between them
pilate wrote a notice and had it put on the cross
jesus of nazareth the king 
of the jews is what he wrote
many people read it because the place where 
jesus was crucified was not far from the city
the notice was written in hebrew latin and greek
the chief priests said to pilate 
do not write the king of the jews  
but rather this man said i am the king of the jews
but i have written stage written
after the soldiers had crucified jesus they took 
his clothes and divided them into four parts  
one part for each soldier
they also took the robe which was made of one 
piece of woven cloth without any seams in it  
the soldiers said to one another let's not tear 
it let's throw dice to see who will get it this  
happened in order to make the scripture come 
true they divided my clothes among themselves and  
gambled for my robe and this is what the soldiers 
did standing close to jesus cross were his mother  
his mother's sister mary the 
wife of kropas and mary magdalene
jesus saw his mother and the disciple 
he loved standing there he is your son
then he said to the disciple she is your mother  
from that time the disciple 
took her to live in his home
jesus knew that by now 
everything had been completed  
and in order to make the 
scripture come true he said
i am thirsty a bull was there full of cheap wine  
so a sponge was soaked in the wine put on 
a stalk of hyssop and lifted up to his lips
jesus drank the wine
it is finished
then he bowed his head and gave up his spirit
then the jewish authorities asked 
pilate to allow them to break the  
legs of the men who had been crucified and 
to take the bodies down from the crosses
they requested this because it was friday 
and they did not want the bodies to stay  
on the crosses on the sabbath since the coming 
sabbath was especially holy so the soldiers went  
and broke the legs of the first man and then of 
the other man who had been crucified with jesus
but when they came to jesus they 
saw that he was already dead  
so they did not break his legs one of the 
soldiers however plunged his spear into jesus
and at once blood and water poured out
the one who saw this happen has spoken 
of it so that you may also believe
what he said is true and he 
knows that he speaks the truth
this was done to make the scripture come 
true not one of his bones will be broken
there is another scripture that says 
people will look at him whom they pierced
after this joseph who was from the town of 
arimathea asked pilate if he could take jesus body  
joseph was a follower of jesus but in secret 
because he was afraid of the jewish authorities  
pilate told him he could 
have the body so joseph went  
and took it away nicodemus who at first had 
gone to see jesus at night went with joseph  
taking with him about 100 pounds of 
spices a mixture of myrrh and aloes
the two men took jesus body 
and wrapped it in linen cloths  
with the spices according to the jewish 
custom of preparing a body for burial
there was a garden in the place 
where jesus had been put to death  
and in it there was a new tomb 
where no one had ever been buried  
since it was the day before the sabbath because 
the tomb was close by they placed jesus body there  
early on sunday morning while it was 
still dark mary magdalene went to the tomb  
and saw that the stone had been 
taken away from the entrance
she went running to simon peter and 
the other disciple whom jesus loved
they have taken the lord from the tomb 
and we don't know where they have put him
then peter and the other disciple went to 
the tomb the two of them were running but  
the other disciple ran faster than 
peter and reached the tomb first
he bent over and saw the linen cloths  
but he did not go in behind him came simon 
peter and he went straight into the tomb
he saw the linen cloths lying there and 
the cloth which had been around jesus head  
it was not lying with the linen cloth 
but was rolled up by itself then the  
other disciple who had reached the tomb 
first also went in he saw and believed  
they still did not understand the scripture 
which said that he must rise from death
then the disciples went back home 
mary stood crying outside the tomb
while she was still crying she 
bent over and looked in the tomb
and saw two angels there dressed in white  
sitting where the body of jesus had been 
one at the head the other at the feet
woman why are you crying they asked 
her they've taken my lord away  
and i do not know where they have put them
then she turned around and saw jesus standing 
there but she did not know that it was jesus  
woman why are you crying who was it that you 
were looking for she thought he was the gardener  
so she said to him if you took him away sir tell 
me where you have put him and i will go get him
mary she turned toward him and served in 
hebrew this means teacher do not hold on to me
because i have not yet gone back up to the 
father but go to my brothers and tell them  
i am returning to him who is my father 
and their father my God and their God
so mary magdalene went and told the 
disciples that she had seen the lord  
and related to them what he had told her  
it was late that Sunday evening and the 
disciples were gathered together behind locked  
doors because they were afraid of the jewish 
authorities then jesus came stood among them  
peace be with you after saying this 
he showed them his hands and his side
the disciples were filled 
with joy at seeing the lord  
jesus said to them again peace be with 
you as the father sent me so i send you
then he breathed on them
receive the holy spirit if you forgive 
people's sins they are forgiven
if you do not forgive them are not forgiven
one of the twelve disciples thomas called 
the twin was not with them when jesus came
so the other disciples told him we have seen 
the lord unless i see the scars of the nails  
in his hands and put my finger on those scars 
and my hand in his side i will not believe  
a week later the disciples 
were together again indoors  
and thomas was with them the doors were 
locked but jesus came and stood among them
peace be with you put your 
finger here and look at my hands
then reach out your hand and put it in my side
stop your doubting and believe my lord and my God
do you believe because you see me
how happy are those who believe without seeing me  
in his disciples presence Jesus performed 
many other miracles which are not written  
down in this book but these have been written 
in order that you may believe that Jesus  
is the messiah the son of God and that 
through your faith in him you may have life  
after this Jesus appeared once more to his 
disciples at lake Tiberias this is how it happened  
Simon Peter thomas called the twin Nathaniel 
the one from canine Galilee the sons of Zebedee  
and two other disciples of Jesus were all together  
simon peter said to the others i'm going 
fishing we will come with you there
so they went out in a boat but all 
that night they did not catch a thing
as the sun was rising jesus 
stood at the water's edge  
but the disciples did not know that it was 
jesus young men haven't you caught anything  
i don't think throw your neck out on the 
right side of the boat and you will cancel
so they threw the net out
and could not pull it back in
because i had caught so many fish
the disciple whom jesus loved 
said to peter it is the lord
when peter heard that it was the lord he 
wrapped his outer garment around him for  
he had taken his clothes off and jumped into the 
water the other disciples came to shore in the  
boat pulling the net full of fish they were not 
very far from land about a hundred yards away  
when they stepped ashore they saw a charcoal 
fire there with fish on it and some bread
bring some of the fish you've just caught simon 
peter went aboard and dragged the net ashore  
full of big fish 153 in all even though there 
were so many still the net did not tear come  
and eat none of the disciples dared ask 
him because they knew it was the lord  
so jesus went over took the bread and gave it 
to him he did the same with the fish this then  
was the third time jesus appeared to his 
disciples after he was raised from death  
after they had eaten jesus said 
to simon peter simon son of john
do you love me more than these others do
yes lord you know that i love 
you take care of my lambs
a second time jesus said to him 
simon son of john do you love me
yes lord you know that i love you
take care of my sheep
a third time jesus said simon son of john
do you love me
peter became sad because jesus asked him the third 
time do you love me and so he said to him lord
you know everything
you know that i love you
take care of my sheep
i am telling you the truth
when you were young you used to get 
ready and go anywhere you wanted to
but when you were old you 
will stretch out your hands  
and someone else will tie you up and 
take you where you don't want to go
in saying this Jesus was indicating 
the way in which peter would die  
and bring glory to God then Jesus said to him 
follow me peter turned round and saw behind him  
that other disciple whom Jesus loved the one who 
had leaned close to Jesus of the meal and asked  
lord who is going to betray you when peter 
saw him he asked lord what about this man
i want him to live until 
i come what is that to you  
follow me so a report spread among the followers 
of jesus that this disciple would not die but  
jesus did not say he would not die he said if i 
want him to live until i come what is that to you  
he is the disciple who spoke of these things the 
one who also wrote them down and we know that  
what he said is true now there are many other 
things that jesus did if they were all written  
down one by one i suppose that the whole world 
could not hold the books that would be written
the apostle John said the purpose of this gospel 
is that we believe that Jesus is the son of God  
now in writing of these events john urges us to 
believe to trust in Jesus who paid the penalty  
for your sin by dying on the cross for God 
loved the world so much but he gave his only son  
so that everyone who believes in him 
may not die but have eternal life
i am telling you the truth those who hear my 
words and believe in him who sent me have eternal  
life and eternal life means to know you the only 
true God and to know Jesus Christ whom you send  
but these have been written in order that you may 
believe that Jesus is the Messiah the son of God  
and that through your faith in him you 
may have life now this means two things  
we need to agree with Jesus 
that we have sinned against  
the holy God and there are wrongs in our 
life no matter how small they may seem to be  
and we need to rely on the fact that Jesus paid 
fully for our sin by his death on the cross the  
death that we deserved when we do this immediately 
God freely gives us eternal life now when the  
apostle thomas was confronted with this reality 
he could only exclaim my lord and my God right now  
if you are willing you can have peace with the 
living God when you make the following affirmation  
i affirm i have sinned against the 
perfect God i affirm that the death  
of Jesus on the cross completely paid for my 
sin and i rely on Jesus payment for my sin  
to receive life everlasting and a perfect 
standing before God my lord and my God