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This is the Gospel of John from the HNV (Hebrew Names Version) of the World English Bible.

1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
2 The same was in the beginning with God.
3 All things were made through him.
Without him was not anything made that has been made.
4 In him was life, and the life was the light of men.
5 The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness hasnt overcome it.
6 There came a man, sent from God, whose name was Yochanan.
7 The same came as a witness, that he might testify about the light, that all might believe through him.
8 He was not the light, but was sent that he might testify about the light.
9 The true light that enlightens everyone was coming into the world.
10 He was in the world, and the world was made through him, and the world didnt recognize him.
11 He came to his own, and those who were his own didnt receive him.
12 But as many as received him, to them he gave the right to become Gods children, to those who believe in his name: 13 who were born not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.
14 The Word became flesh, and lived among us.
We saw his glory, such glory as of the one and only Son of the Father, full of grace and truth.
15 Yochanan testified about him.
He cried out, saying, This was he of whom I said, He who comes after me has surpassed me, for he was before me.
16 From his fullness we all received grace upon grace.
17 For the law was given through Moshe.
Grace and truth came through Yeshua the Messiah.
18 No one has seen God at any time.
The one and only Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, he has declared him.
19 This is Yochanans testimony, when the Yehudim sent Kohanim (priests) and Levites from Yerushalayim to ask him, Who are you? 20 He confessed, and didnt deny, but he confessed, I am not the Messiah.
21 They asked him, What then? Are you Eliyah? He said, I am not.
Are you the Prophet? He answered, No.
22 They said therefore to him, Who are you? Give us an answer to take back to those who sent us.
What do you say about yourself? 23 He said, I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, Make straight the way of the Lord, as Yesha`yahu the prophet said.
24 The ones who had been sent were from the Perushim.
25 They asked him, Why then do you immerse, if you are not the Messiah, nor Eliyah, nor the Prophet? 26 Yochanan answered them, I immerse in water, but among you stands one whom you dont know.
27 He is the one who comes after me, who is preferred before me, whose sandal strap Im not worthy to loosen.
28 These things were done in Beit-Anyah beyond the Yarden, where Yochanan was immersing.
29 The next day, he saw Yeshua coming to him, and said, Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world! 30 This is he of whom I said, After me comes a man who is preferred before me, for he was before me.
31 I didnt know him, but for this reason I came immersing in water: that he would be revealed to Yisra'el.
32 Yochanan testified, saying, I have seen the Spirit descending like a dove out of heaven, and it remained on him.
33 I didnt recognize him, but he who sent me to immerse in water, he said to me, On whomever you will see the Spirit descending, and remaining on him, the same is he who immerses in the Ruach HaKodesh (Holy Spirit).
34 I have seen, and have testified that this is the Son of God.
35 Again, the next day, Yochanan was standing with two of his talmidim (disciples), 36 and he looked at Yeshua as he walked, and said, Behold, the Lamb of God! 37 The two talmidim (disciples) heard him speak, and they followed Yeshua.
38 Yeshua turned, and saw them following, and said to them, What are you looking for? They said to him, Rabbi (which is to say, being interpreted, Teacher), where are you staying? 39 He said to them, Come, and see.
They came and saw where he was staying, and they stayed with him that day.
It was about the tenth hour.
40 One of the two who heard Yochanan, and followed him, was Andrai, Shim`on Rocks brother.
41 He first found his own brother, Shim`on, and said to him, We have found the Messiah! (which is, being interpreted, Anointed One).
42 He brought him to Yeshua.
Yeshua looked at him, and said, You are Shim`on the son of Yonah.
You shall be called Kefa (which is by interpretation, Rock).
43 On the next day, he was determined to go out into the Galil, and he found Pilipos.
Yeshua said to him, Follow me.
44 Now Pilipos was from Beit-Tzaidah, of the city of Andrai and Rock.
45 Pilipos found Natan'el, and said to him, We have found him, of whom Moshe in the law, and the prophets, wrote: Yeshua of Natzeret, the son of Yosef.
46 Natan'el said to him, Can any good thing come out of Natzeret? Pilipos said to him, Come and see.
47 Yeshua saw Natan'el coming to him, and said about him, Behold, an Yisra'elite indeed, in whom is no deceit! 48 Natan'el said to him, How do you know me? Yeshua answered him, Before Pilipos called you, when you were under the fig tree, I saw you.
49 Natan'el answered him, Rabbi, you are the Son of God! You are King of Yisra'el! 50 Yeshua answered him, Because I told you, I saw you underneath the fig tree, do you believe? You will see greater things than these! 51 He said to him, Most assuredly, I tell you, hereafter you will see heaven opened, and the angels of God ascending and descending on the Son of Man.


Chapter 2- 1 The third day, there was a marriage in Kanah of the Galil.
Yeshua#s mother was there.
2 Yeshua also was invited, with his talmidim (disciples), to the marriage.
3 When the wine ran out, Yeshua#s mother said to him, They have no wine.
4 Yeshua said to her, Woman, what does that have to do with you and me? My hour has not yet come.
5 His mother said to the servants, Whatever he says to you, do it.
6 Now there were six water pots of stone set there after the Yehudim manner of purifying, containing two or three metretes apiece.
7 Yeshua said to them, Fill the water pots with water.
They filled them up to the brim.
8 He said to them, Now draw some out, and take it to the ruler of the feast.
So they took it.
9 When the ruler of the feast tasted the water now become wine, and didnt know where it came from (but the servants who had drawn the water knew), the ruler of the feast called the bridegroom, 10 and said to him, Everyone serves the good wine first, and when the guests have drunk freely, then that which is worse.
You have kept the good wine until now! 11 This beginning of his signs Yeshua did in Kanah of the Galil, and revealed his glory; and his talmidim (disciples) believed in him.
12 After this, he went down to Kafar-Nachum, he, and his mother, his brothers, and his talmidim (disciples); and they stayed there a few days.
13 The Pesach of the Yehudim was at hand, and Yeshua went up to Yerushalayim.
14 He found in the temple those who sold oxen, sheep, and doves, and the changers of money sitting.
15 He made a whip of cords, and threw all out of the temple, both the sheep and the oxen; and he poured out the changers money, and overthrew their tables.
16 To those who sold the doves, he said, Take these things out of here! Dont make my Fathers house a marketplace! 17 His talmidim (disciples) remembered that it was written, Zeal for your house will eat me up.
18 The Yehudim therefore answered him, What sign do you show us, seeing that you do these things? 19 Yeshua answered them, Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.
20 The Yehudim therefore said, Forty-six years was this temple in building, and will you raise it up in three days? 21 But he spoke of the temple of his body.
22 When therefore he was raised from the dead, his talmidim (disciples) remembered that he said this, and they believed the Scripture, and the word which Yeshua had said.
23 Now when he was in Yerushalayim at the Pesach, during the feast, many believed in his name, observing his signs which he did.
24 But Yeshua didnt trust himself to them, because he knew everyone, 25 and because he didnt need for anyone to testify concerning man; for he himself knew what was in man.
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Chapter 3- 1 Now there was a man of the Perushim named Nakdimon, a ruler of the Yehudim.
2 The same came to him by night, and said to him, Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God, for no one can do these signs that you do, unless God is with him.
3 Yeshua answered him, Most assuredly, I tell you, unless one is born anew, he cant see the Kingdom of God.
4 Nakdimon said to him, How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mothers womb, and be born? 5 Yeshua answered, Most assuredly I tell you, unless one is born of water and spirit, he cant enter into the Kingdom of God! 6 That which is born of the flesh is flesh.
That which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
7 Dont marvel that I said to you, You must be born anew.
8 The wind blows where it wants to, and you hear its sound, but dont know where it comes from and where it is going.
So is everyone who is born of the Spirit.
9 Nakdimon answered him, How can these things be? 10 Yeshua answered him, Are you the teacher of Yisra'el, and dont understand these things? 11 Most assuredly I tell you, we speak that which we know, and testify of that which we have seen, and you dont receive our witness.
12 If I told you earthly things and you dont believe, how will you believe if I tell you heavenly things? 13 No one has ascended into heaven, but he who descended out of heaven, the Son of Man, who is in heaven.
14 As Moshe lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up, 15 that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.
16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.
17 For God didnt send his Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world should be saved through him.
18 He who believes in him is not judged.
He who doesnt believe has been judged already, because he has not believed in the name of the one and only Son of God.
19 This is the judgment, that the light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light; for their works were evil.
20 For everyone who does evil hates the light, and doesnt come to the light, lest his works would be exposed.
21 But he who does the truth comes to the light, that his works may be revealed, that they have been done in God.
22 After these things, Yeshua came with his talmidim (disciples) into the land of Yehudah.
He stayed there with them, and immersed.
23 Yochanan also was immersing in Einayim near Shalem, because there was much water there.
They came, and were immersed.
24 For Yochanan was not yet thrown into prison.
25 There arose therefore a questioning on the part of Yochanans talmidim (disciples) with some Yehudim about purification.
26 They came to Yochanan, and said to him, Rabbi, he who was with you beyond the Yarden, to whom you have testified, behold, the same immerses, and everyone is coming to him.
27 Yochanan answered, A man can receive nothing, unless it has been given him from heaven.
28 You yourselves testify that I said, I am not the Messiah, but, I have been sent before him.
29 He who has the bride is the bridegroom; but the friend of the bridegroom, who stands and hears him, rejoices greatly because of the bridegrooms voice.
This, my joy, therefore is made full.
30 He must increase, but I must decrease.
31 He who comes from above is above all.
He who is from the Eretz (Earth) belongs to the Eretz (Earth), and speaks of the Eretz (Earth).
He who comes from heaven is above all.
32 What he has seen and heard, of that he testifies; and no one receives his witness.
33 He who has received his witness has set his seal to this, that God is true.
34 For he whom God has sent speaks the words of God; for God gives the Spirit without measure.
35 The Father loves the Son, and has given all things into his hand.
36 One who believes in the Son has eternal life, but one who disobeys the Son wont see life, but the wrath of God remains on him.


Chapter 4- 1 Therefore when the Lord knew that the Perushim had heard that Yeshua was making and immersing more talmidim (disciples) than Yochanan 2 (although Yeshua himself didnt immerse, but his talmidim (disciples)), 3 he left Yehudah, and departed into the Galil.
4 He needed to pass through Shomron.
5 So he came to a city of Shomron, called Shekhem, near the parcel of ground that Ya`akov gave to his son, Yosef.
6 Ya`akovs well was there.
Yeshua therefore, being tired from his journey, sat down by the well.
It was about the sixth hour.
7 A woman of Shomron came to draw water.
Yeshua said to her, Give me a drink.
8 For his talmidim (disciples) had gone away into the city to buy food.
9 The Shomroni woman therefore said to him, How is it that you, being a Yehudi, ask for a drink from me, a Shomroni woman? (For Yehudim have no dealings with Shomroni.
) 10 Yeshua answered her, If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who says to you, Give me a drink, you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.
11 The woman said to him, Sir, you have nothing to draw with, and the well is deep.
From where then have you that living water? 12 Are you greater than our father, Ya`akov, who gave us the well, and drank of it himself, as did his children, and his cattle? 13 Yeshua answered her, Everyone who drinks of this water will thirst again, 14 but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never thirst again; but the water that I will give him will become in him a well of water springing up to eternal life.
15 The woman said to him, Sir, give me this water, so that I dont get thirsty, neither come all the way here to draw.
16 Yeshua said to her, Go, call your husband, and come here.
17 The woman answered, I have no husband.
Yeshua said to her, You said well, I have no husband, 18 for you have had five husbands; and he whom you now have is not your husband.
This you have said truly.
19 The woman said to him, Sir, I perceive that you are a prophet.
20 Our fathers worshiped in this mountain, and you Yehudim say that in Yerushalayim is the place where people ought to worship.
21 Yeshua said to her, Woman, believe me, the hour comes, when neither in this mountain, nor in Yerushalayim, will you worship the Father.
22 You worship that which you dont know.
We worship that which we know; for salvation is from the Yehudim.
23 But the hour comes, and now is, when the true worshippers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father seeks such to be his worshippers.
24 God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.
25 The woman said to him, I know that Messiah comes, (he who is called Anointed One).
When he has come, he will declare to us all things.
26 Yeshua said to her, I am he, the one who speaks to you.
27 At this, his talmidim (disciples) came.
They marveled that he was speaking with a woman; yet no one said, What are you looking for? or, Why do you speak with her? 28 So the woman left her water pot, and went away into the city, and said to the people, 29 Come, see a man who told me everything that I did.
Can this be the Messiah? 30 They went out of the city, and were coming to him.
31 In the meanwhile, the talmidim (disciples) urged him, saying, Rabbi, eat.
32 But he said to them, I have food to eat that you dont know about.
33 The talmidim (disciples) therefore said one to another, Has anyone brought him something to eat? 34 Yeshua said to them, My food is to do the will of him who sent me, and to accomplish his work.
35 Dont you say, There are yet four months until the harvest? Behold, I tell you, lift up your eyes, and look at the fields, that they are white for harvest already.
36 He who reaps receives wages, and gathers fruit to eternal life; that both he who sows and he who reaps may rejoice together.
37 For in this the saying is true, One sows, and another reaps.
38 I sent you to reap that for which you havent labored.
Others have labored, and you have entered into their labor.
39 From that city many of the Shomroni believed in him because of the word of the woman, who testified, He told me everything that I did.
40 So when the Shomroni came to him, they begged him to stay with them.
He stayed there two days.
41 Many more believed because of his word.
42 They said to the woman, Now we believe, not because of your speaking; for we have heard for ourselves, and know that this is indeed the Messiah, the Savior of the world.
43 After the two days he went out from there and went into the Galil.
44 For Yeshua himself testified that a prophet has no honor in his own country.
45 So when he came into the Galil, the Galileans received him, having seen all the things that he did in Yerushalayim at the feast, for they also went to the feast.
46 Yeshua came therefore again to Kanah of the Galil, where he made the water into wine.
There was a certain nobleman whose son was sick at Kafar-Nachum.
47 When he heard that Yeshua had come out of Yehudah into the Galil, he went to him, and begged him that he would come down and heal his son, for he was at the point of death.
48 Yeshua therefore said to him, Unless you see signs and wonders, you will in no way believe.
49 The nobleman said to him, Sir, come down before my child dies.
50 Yeshua said to him, Go your way.
Your son lives.
The man believed the word that Yeshua spoke to him, and he went his way.
51 As he was now going down, his servants met him and reported, saying Your child lives! 52 So he inquired of them the hour when he began to get better.
They said therefore to him, Yesterday at the seventh hour, the fever left him.
53 So the father knew that it was at that hour in which Yeshua said to him, Your son lives.
He believed, as did his whole house.
54 This is again the second sign that Yeshua did, having come out of Yehudah into the Galil.


Chapter 5- 1 After these things, there was a feast of the Yehudim, and Yeshua went up to Yerushalayim.
2 Now in Yerushalayim by the sheep gate, there is a pool, which is called in Hebrew, Beit-Zata, having five porches.
3 In these lay a great multitude of those who were sick, blind, lame, or paralyzed, waiting for the moving of the water; 4 for an angel of the Lord went down at certain times into the pool, and stirred up the water.
Whoever stepped in first after the stirring of the water was made whole of whatever disease he had.
5 A certain man was there, who had been sick for thirty-eight years.
6 When Yeshua saw him lying there, and knew that he had been sick for a long time, he asked him, Do you want to be made well? 7 The sick man answered him, Sir, I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up, but while Im coming, another steps down before me.
8 Yeshua said to him, Arise, take up your mat, and walk.
9 Immediately, the man was made well, and took up his mat and walked.
Now it was the Shabbat on that day.
10 So the Yehudim said to him who was cured, It is the Shabbat.
It is not lawful for you to carry the mat.
11 He answered them, He who made me well, the same said to me, Take up your mat, and walk.
12 Then they asked him, Who is the man who said to you, Take up your mat, and walk? 13 But he who was healed didnt know who it was, for Yeshua had withdrawn, a crowd being in the place.
14 Afterward Yeshua found him in the temple, and said to him, Behold, you are made well.
Sin no more, so that nothing worse happens to you.
15 The man went away, and told the Yehudim that it was Yeshua who had made him well.
16 For this cause the Yehudim persecuted Yeshua, and sought to kill him, because he did these things on the Shabbat.
17 But Yeshua answered them, My Father is still working, so I am working, too.
18 For this cause therefore the Yehudim sought all the more to kill him, because he not only broke the Shabbat, but also called God his own Father, making himself equal with God.
19 Yeshua therefore answered them, Most assuredly, I tell you, the Son can do nothing of himself, but what he sees the Father doing.
For whatever things he does, these the Son also does likewise.
20 For the Father has affection for the Son, and shows him all things that he himself does.
He will show him greater works than these, that you may marvel.
21 For as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, even so the Son also gives life to whom he desires.
22 For the Father judges no one, but he has given all judgment to the Son, 23 that all may honor the Son, even as they honor the Father.
He who doesnt honor the Son doesnt honor the Father who sent him.
24 Most assuredly I tell you, he who hears my word, and believes him who sent me, has eternal life, and doesnt come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life.
25 Most assuredly, I tell you, the hour comes, and now is, when the dead will hear the Son of Gods voice; and those who hear will live.
26 For as the Father has life in himself, even so he gave to the Son also to have life in himself.
27 He also gave him authority to execute judgment, because he is a son of man.
28 Dont marvel at this, for the hour comes, in which all that are in the tombs will hear his voice, 29 and will come out; those who have done good, to the resurrection of life; and those who have done evil, to the resurrection of judgment.
30 I can of myself do nothing.
As I hear, I judge, and my judgment is righteous; because I dont seek my own will, but the will of my Father who sent me.
31 If I testify about myself, my witness is not valid.
32 It is another who testifies about me.
I know that the testimony which he testifies about me is true.
33 You have sent to Yochanan, and he has testified to the truth.
34 But the testimony which I receive is not from man.
However, I say these things that you may be saved.
35 He was the burning and shining lamp, and you were willing to rejoice for a while in his light.
36 But the testimony which I have is greater than that of Yochanan, for the works which the Father gave me to accomplish, the very works that I do, testify about me, that the Father has sent me.
37 The Father himself, who sent me, has testified about me.
You have neither heard his voice at any time, nor seen his form.
38 You dont have his word living in you; because you dont believe him whom he sent.
39 You search the Scriptures, because you think that in them you have eternal life; and these are they which testify about me.
40 Yet you will not come to me, that you may have life.
41 I dont receive glory from men.
42 But I know you, that you dont have Gods love in yourselves.
43 I have come in my Fathers name, and you dont receive me.
If another comes in his own name, you will receive him.
44 How can you believe, who receive glory from one another, and you dont seek the glory that comes from the only God? 45 Dont think that I will accuse you to the Father.
There is one who accuses you, even Moshe, on whom you have set your hope.
46 For if you believed Moshe, you would believe me; for he wrote about me.
47 But if you dont believe his writings, how will you believe my words?

Chapter 6- 1 After these things, Yeshua went away to the other side of the sea of the Galil, which is also called the Sea of Tiberias.
2 A great multitude followed him, because they saw his signs which he did on those who were sick.
3 Yeshua went up into the mountain, and he sat there with his talmidim (disciples).
4 Now the Pesach, the feast of the Yehudim, was at hand.
5 Yeshua therefore lifting up his eyes, and seeing that a great multitude was coming to him, said to Pilipos, Where are we to buy bread, that these may eat? 6 This he said to test him, for he himself knew what he would do.
7 Pilipos answered him, Two hundred denarii worth of bread is not sufficient for them, that everyone of them may receive a little.
8 One of his talmidim (disciples), Andrai, Shim`on Rocks brother, said to him, 9 There is a boy here who has five barley loaves and two fish, but what are these among so many? 10 Yeshua said, Have the people sit down.
Now there was much grass in that place.
So the men sat down, in number about five thousand.
11 Yeshua took the loaves; and having given thanks, he distributed to the talmidim (disciples), and the talmidim (disciples) to those who were sitting down; likewise also of the fish as much as they desired.
12 When they were filled, he said to his talmidim (disciples), Gather up the broken pieces which are left over, that nothing be lost.
13 So they gathered them up, and filled twelve baskets with broken pieces from the five barley loaves, which were left over by those who had eaten.
14 When therefore the people saw the sign which Yeshua did, they said, This is truly the prophet who comes into the world.
15 Yeshua therefore, perceiving that they were about to come and take him by force, to make him king, withdrew again to the mountain by himself.
16 When evening came, his talmidim (disciples) went down to the sea, 17 and they entered into the boat, and were going over the sea to Kafar-Nachum.
It was now dark, and Yeshua had not come to them.
18 The sea was tossed by a great wind blowing.
19 When therefore they had rowed about twenty-five or thirty stadia, they saw Yeshua walking on the sea, and drawing near to the boat; and they were afraid.
20 But he said to them, I AM.
Dont be afraid.
21 They were willing therefore to receive him into the boat.
Immediately the boat was at the land where they were going.
22 On the next day, the multitude that stood on the other side of the sea saw that there was no other boat there, except the one in which his talmidim (disciples) had embarked, and that Yeshua hadnt entered with his talmidim (disciples) into the boat, but his talmidim (disciples) had gone away alone.
23 However boats from Tiberias came near to the place where they ate the bread after the Lord had given thanks.
24 When the multitude therefore saw that Yeshua wasnt there, nor his talmidim (disciples), they themselves got into the boats, and came to Kafar-Nachum, seeking Yeshua.
25 When they found him on the other side of the sea, they asked him, Rabbi, when did you come here? 26 Yeshua answered them, Most assuredly I tell you, you seek me, not because you saw signs, but because you ate of the loaves, and were filled.
27 Dont work for the food which perishes, but for the food which remains to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you.
For God the Father has sealed him.
28 They said therefore to him, What must we do, that we may work the works of God? 29 Yeshua answered them, This is the work of God, that you believe in him whom he has sent.
30 They said therefore to him, What then do you do for a sign, that we may see, and believe you? What work do you do? 31 Our fathers ate the manna in the wilderness.
As it is written, He gave them bread out of heaven to eat.
32 Yeshua therefore said to them, Most assuredly, I tell you, it wasnt Moshe who gave you the bread out of heaven, but my Father gives you the true bread out of heaven.
33 For the bread of God is that which comes down out of heaven, and gives life to the world.
34 They said therefore to him, Lord, always give us this bread.
35 Yeshua said to them, I am the bread of life.
He who comes to me will not be hungry, and he who believes in me will never be thirsty.
36 But I told you that you have seen me, and yet you dont believe.
37 All those who the Father gives me will come to me.
Him who comes to me I will in no way throw out.
38 For I have come down from heaven, not to do my own will, but the will of him who sent me.
39 This is the will of my Father who sent me, that of all he has given to me I should lose nothing, but should raise him up at the last day.
40 This is the will of the one who sent me, that everyone who sees the Son, and believes in him, should have eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day.
41 The Yehudim therefore murmured concerning him, because he said, I am the bread which came down out of heaven.
42 They said, Isnt this Yeshua, the son of Yosef, whose father and mother we know? How then does he say, I have come down out of heaven? 43 Therefore Yeshua answered them, Dont murmur among yourselves.
44 No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him, and I will raise him up in the last day.
45 It is written in the prophets, They will all be taught by God.
Therefore everyone who hears from the Father, and has learned, comes to me.
46 Not that anyone has seen the Father, except he who is from God.
He has seen the Father.
47 Most assuredly, I tell you, he who believes in me has eternal life.
48 I am the bread of life.
49 Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died.
50 This is the bread which comes down out of heaven, that anyone may eat of it and not die.
51 I am the living bread which came down out of heaven.
If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever.
Yes, the bread which I will give for the life of the world is my flesh.
52 The Yehudim therefore contended with one another, saying, How can this man give us his flesh to eat? 53 Yeshua therefore said to them, Most assuredly I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you dont have life in yourselves.
54 He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.
55 For my flesh is food indeed, and my blood is drink indeed.
56 He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood lives in me, and I in him.
57 As the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father; so he who feeds on me, he will also live because of me.
58 This is the bread which came down out of heaven? not as our fathers ate the manna, and died.
He who eats this bread will live forever.
59 These things he said in the synagogue, as he taught in Kafar-Nachum.
60 Therefore many of his talmidim (disciples), when they heard this, said, This is a hard saying! Who can listen to it? 61 But Yeshua knowing in himself that his talmidim (disciples) murmured at this, said to them, Does this cause you to stumble? 62 Then what if you would see the Son of Man ascending to where he was before? 63 It is the spirit who gives life.
The flesh profits nothing.
The words that I speak to you are spirit, and are life.
64 But there are some of you who dont believe.
For Yeshua knew from the beginning who they were who didnt believe, and who it was who would betray him.
65 He said, For this cause have I said to you that no one can come to me, unless it is given to him by my Father.
66 At this, many of his talmidim (disciples) went back, and walked no more with him.
67 Yeshua said therefore to the twelve, You dont also want to go away, do you? 68 Shim`on Rock answered him, Lord, to whom would we go? You have the words of eternal life.
69 We have come to believe and know that you are the Messiah, the Son of the living God.
70 Yeshua answered them, Didnt I choose you, the twelve, and one of you is a devil? 71 Now he spoke of Yehudah, the son of Shim`on Ish-K'riot, for it was he who would betray him, being one of the twelve.


Chapter 7- 1 After these things, Yeshua was walking in the Galil, for he wouldnt walk in Yehudah, because the Yehudim sought to kill him.
2 Now the feast of the Yehudim, the Feast of Sukkot, was at hand.
3 His brothers therefore said to him, Depart from here, and go into Yehudah, that your talmidim (disciples) also may see your works which you do.
4 For no one does anything in secret, and himself seeks to be known openly.
If you do these things, reveal yourself to the world.
5 For even his brothers didnt believe in him.
6 Yeshua therefore said to them, My time has not yet come, but your time is always ready.
7 The world cant hate you, but it hates me, because I testify about it, that its works are evil.
8 You go up to the feast.
I am not yet going up to this feast, because my time is not yet fulfilled.
9 Having said these things to them, he stayed in the Galil.
10 But when his brothers had gone up to the feast, then he also went up, not publicly, but as it were in secret.
11 The Yehudim therefore sought him at the feast, and said, Where is he? 12 There was much murmuring among the multitudes concerning him.
Some said, He is a good man.
Others said, Not so, but he leads the multitude astray.
13 Yet no one spoke openly of him for fear of the Yehudim.
14 But when it was now the midst of the feast, Yeshua went up into the temple and taught.
15 The Yehudim therefore marveled, saying, How does this man know letters, having never been educated? 16 Yeshua therefore answered them, My teaching is not mine, but his who sent me.
17 If anyone desires to do his will, he will know about the teaching, whether it is from God, or if I am speaking from myself.
18 He who speaks from himself seeks his own glory, but he who seeks the glory of him who sent him, the same is true, and no unrighteousness is in him.
19 Didnt Moshe give you the law, and yet none of you keeps the law? Why do you seek to kill me? 20 The multitude answered, You have a demon! Who seeks to kill you? 21 Yeshua answered them, I did one work, and you all marvel because of it.
22 Moshe has given you circumcision (not that it is of Moshe, but of the fathers), and on the Shabbat you circumcise a boy.
23 If a boy receives circumcision on the Shabbat, that the law of Moshe may not be broken, are you angry with me, because I made a man every bit whole on the Shabbat? 24 Dont judge according to appearance, but judge righteous judgment.
25 Therefore some of them of Yerushalayim said, Isnt this he whom they seek to kill? 26 Behold, he speaks openly, and they say nothing to him.
Can it be that the rulers indeed know that this is truly the Messiah? 27 However we know where this man comes from, but when the Messiah comes, no one will know where he comes from.
28 Yeshua therefore cried out in the temple, teaching and saying, You both know me, and know where I am from.
I have not come of myself, but he who sent me is true, whom you dont know.
29 I know him, because I am from him, and he sent me.
30 They sought therefore to take him; but no one laid a hand on him, because his hour had not yet come.
31 But of the multitude, many believed in him.
They said, When the Messiah comes, he wont do more signs than those which this man has done, will he? 32 The Perushim heard the multitude murmuring these things concerning him, and the chief Kohanim (priests) and the Perushim sent officers to arrest him.
33 Then Yeshua said, I will be with you a little while longer, then I go to him who sent me.
34 You will seek me, and wont find me; and where I am, you cant come.
35 The Yehudim therefore said among themselves, Where will this man go that we wont find him? Will he go to the Diaspora among the Yevanim, and teach the Yevanim? 36 What is this word that he said, You will seek me, and wont find me; and where I am, you cant come? 37 Now on the last and greatest day of the feast, Yeshua stood and cried out, If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink! 38 He who believes in me, as the Scripture has said, from within him will flow rivers of living water.
39 But he said this about the Spirit, which those believing in him were to receive.
For the Ruach HaKodesh (Holy Spirit) was not yet given, because Yeshua wasnt yet glorified.
40 Many of the multitude therefore, when they heard these words, said, This is truly the prophet.
41 Others said, This is the Messiah.
But some said, What, does the Messiah come out of the Galil? 42 Hasnt the Scripture said that the Messiah comes of the seed of David, and from Beit-Lechem, the village where David was? 43 So there arose a division in the multitude because of him.
44 Some of them would have arrested him, but no one laid hands on him.
45 The officers therefore came to the chief Kohanim (priests) and Perushim, and they said to them, Why didnt you bring him? 46 The officers answered, No man ever spoke like this man! 47 The Perushim therefore answered them, You arent also led astray, are you? 48 Have any of the rulers believed in him, or of the Perushim? 49 But this multitude that doesnt know the law is accursed.
50 Nakdimon (he who came to him by night, being one of them) said to them, 51 Does our law judge a man, unless it first hears from him personally and knows what he does? 52 They answered him, Are you also from the Galil? Search, and see that no prophet has arisen out of the Galil.
53 Everyone went to his own house,

Chapter 8- 1 but Yeshua went to the Mount of Olives.
2 Now very early in the morning, he came again into the temple, and all the people came to him.
He sat down, and taught them.
3 The Sofrim (scribes) and the Perushim brought a woman taken in adultery.
Having set her in the midst, 4 they told him, Teacher, we found this woman in adultery, in the very act.
5 Now in our law, Moshe commanded us to stone such.
What then do you say about her? 6 They said this testing him, that they might have something to accuse him of.
But Yeshua stooped down, and wrote on the ground with his finger.
7 But when they continued asking him, he looked up and said to them, He who is without sin among you, let him throw the first stone at her.
8 Again he stooped down, and with his finger wrote on the ground.
9 They, when they heard it, being convicted by their conscience, went out one by one, beginning from the oldest, even to the last.
Yeshua was left alone with the woman where she was, in the middle.
10 Yeshua, standing up, saw her and said, Woman, where are your accusers? Did no one condemn you? 11 She said, No one, Lord.
Yeshua said, Neither do I condemn you.
Go your way.
From now on, sin no more.
12 Again, therefore, Yeshua spoke to them, saying, I am the light of the world.
He who follows me will not walk in the darkness, but will have the light of life.
13 The Perushim therefore said to him, You testify about yourself.
Your testimony is not valid.
14 Yeshua answered them, Even if I testify about myself, my testimony is true, for I know where I came from, and where I am going; but you dont know where I came from, or where I am going.
15 You judge according to the flesh.
I judge no one.
16 Even if I do judge, my judgment is true, for I am not alone, but I am with the Father who sent me.
17 Its also written in your law that the testimony of two people is valid.
18 I am one who testifies about myself, and the Father who sent me testifies about me.
19 They said therefore to him, Where is your Father? Yeshua answered, You know neither me, nor my Father.
If you knew me, you would know my Father also.
20 Yeshua spoke these words in the treasury, as he taught in the temple.
Yet no one arrested him, because his hour had not yet come.
21 Yeshua said therefore again to them, I am going away, and you will seek me, and you will die in your sins.
Where I go, you cant come.
22 The Yehudim therefore said, Will he kill himself, that he says, Where I am going, you cant come? 23 He said to them, You are from beneath.
I am from above.
You are of this world.
I am not of this world.
24 I said therefore to you that you will die in your sins; for unless you believe that I am he, you will die in your sins.
25 They said therefore to him, Who are you? Yeshua said to them, Just what I have been saying to you from the beginning.
26 I have many things to speak and to judge concerning you.
However he who sent me is true; and the things which I heard from him, these I say to the world.
27 They didnt understand that he spoke to them about the Father.
28 Yeshua therefore said to them, When you have lifted up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am he, and I do nothing of myself, but as my Father taught me, I say these things.
29 He who sent me is with me.
The Father hasnt left me alone, for I always do the things that are pleasing to him.
30 As he spoke these things, many believed in him.
31 Yeshua therefore said to those Yehudim who had believed him, If you remain in my word, then you are truly my talmidim (disciples).
32 You will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.
33 They answered him, We are Avrahams seed, and have never been in bondage to anyone.
How do you say, You will be made free? 34 Yeshua answered them, Most assuredly I tell you, everyone who commits sin is the bondservant of sin.
35 A bondservant doesnt live in the house forever.
A son remains forever.
36 If therefore the Son makes you free, you will be free indeed.
37 I know that you are Avrahams seed, yet you seek to kill me, because my word finds no place in you.
38 I say the things which I have seen with my Father; and you also do the things which you have seen with your father.
39 They answered him, Our father is Avraham.
Yeshua said to them, If you were Avrahams children, you would do the works of Avraham.
40 But now you seek to kill me, a man who has told you the truth, which I heard from God.
Avraham didnt do this.
41 You do the works of your father.
They said to him, We were not born of sexual immorality.
We have one Father, God.
42 Therefore Yeshua said to them, If God were your Father, you would love me, for I came out and have come from God.
For I havent come of myself, but he sent me.
43 Why dont you understand my speech? Because you cant hear my word.
44 You are of your Father, the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father.
He was a murderer from the beginning, and doesnt stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him.
When he speaks a lie, he speaks on his own; for he is a liar, and the father of it.
45 But because I tell the truth, you dont believe me.
46 Which of you convicts me of sin? If I tell the truth, why do you not believe me? 47 He who is of God hears the words of God.
For this cause you dont hear, because you are not of God.
48 Then the Yehudim answered him, Dont we say well that you are a Shomroni, and have a demon? 49 Yeshua answered, I dont have a demon, but I honor my Father, and you dishonor me.
50 But I dont seek my own glory.
There is one who seeks and judges.
51 Most assuredly, I tell you, if a person keeps my word, he will never see death.
52 Then the Yehudim said to him, Now we know that you have a demon.
Avraham died, and the prophets; and you say, If a man keeps my word, he will never taste of death.
53 Are you greater than our father, Avraham, who died? The prophets died.
Who do you make yourself out to be? 54 Yeshua answered, If I glorify myself, my glory is nothing.
It is my Father who glorifies me, of whom you say that he is our God.
55 You have not known him, but I know him.
If I said, I dont know him, I would be like you, a liar.
But I know him, and keep his word.
56 Your father Avraham rejoiced to see my day.
He saw it, and was glad.
57 The Yehudim therefore said to him, You are not yet fifty years old, and have you seen Avraham? 58 Yeshua said to them, Most assuredly, I tell you, before Avraham came into existence, I AM.
59 Therefore they took up stones to throw at him, but Yeshua was hidden, and went out of the temple, having gone through the midst of them, and so passed by.


Chapter 9- 1 As he passed by, he saw a man blind from birth.
2 His talmidim (disciples) asked him, Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind? 3 Yeshua answered, Neither did this man sin, nor his parents; but, that the works of God might be revealed in him.
4 I must work the works of him who sent me, while it is day.
The night is coming, when no one can work.
5 While I am in the world, I am the light of the world.
6 When he had said this, he spat on the ground, made mud with the saliva, anointed the blind mans eyes with the mud, 7 and said to him, Go, wash in the pool of Shiloach (which means Sent).
So he went away, washed, and came back seeing.
8 The neighbors therefore, and those who saw that he was blind before, said, Isnt this he who sat and begged? 9 Others were saying, It is he.
Still others were saying, He looks like him.
He said, I am he.
10 They therefore were asking him, How were your eyes opened? 11 He answered, A man called Yeshua made mud, anointed my eyes, and said to me, Go to the pool of Shiloach, and wash.
So I went away and washed, and I received sight.
12 Then they asked him, Where is he? He said, I dont know.
13 They brought him who had been blind to the Perushim.
14 It was a Shabbat when Yeshua made the mud and opened his eyes.
15 Again therefore the Perushim also asked him how he received his sight.
He said to them, He put mud on my eyes, I washed, and I see.
16 Some therefore of the Perushim said, This man is not from God, because he doesnt keep the Shabbat.
Others said, How can a man who is a sinner do such signs? There was division among them.
17 Therefore they asked the blind man again, What do you say about him, because he opened your eyes? He said, He is a prophet.
18 The Yehudim therefore did not believe concerning him, that he had been blind, and had received his sight, until they called the parents of him who had received his sight, 19 and asked them, Is this your son, who you say was born blind? How then does he now see? 20 His parents answered them, We know that this is our son, and that he was born blind; 21 but how he now sees, we dont know; or who opened his eyes, we dont know.
He is of age.
Ask him.
He will speak for himself.
22 His parents said these things because they feared the Yehudim; for the Yehudim had already agreed that if any man would confess him as Messiah, he would be put out of the synagogue.
23 Therefore his parents said, He is of age.
Ask him.
24 So they called the man who was blind a second time, and said to him, Give glory to God.
We know that this man is a sinner.
25 He therefore answered, I dont know if he is a sinner.
One thing I do know: that though I was blind, now I see.
26 They said to him again, What did he do to you? How did he open your eyes? 27 He answered them, I told you already, and you didnt listen.
Why do you want to hear it again? You dont also want to become his talmidim (disciples), do you? 28 They insulted him and said, You are his talmid (disciple), but we are talmidim (disciples) of Moshe.
29 We know that God has spoken to Moshe.
But as for this man, we dont know where he comes from.
30 The man answered them, How amazing! You dont know where he comes from, yet he opened my eyes.
31 We know that God doesnt listen to sinners, but if anyone is a worshipper of God, and does his will, he listens to him.
32 Since the world began it has never been heard of that anyone opened the eyes of someone born blind.
33 If this man were not from God, he could do nothing.
34 They answered him, You were altogether born in sins, and do you teach us? They threw him out.
35 Yeshua heard that they had thrown him out, and finding him, he said, Do you believe in the Son of God? 36 He answered, Who is he, Lord, that I may believe in him? 37 Yeshua said to him, You have both seen him, and it is he who speaks with you.
38 He said, Lord, I believe! and he worshiped him.
39 Yeshua said, I came into this world for judgment, that those who dont see may see; and that those who see may become blind.
40 Those of the Perushim who were with him heard these things, and said to him, Are we also blind? 41 Yeshua said to them, If you were blind, you would have no sin; but now you say, We see.
Therefore your sin remains.


Chapter 10- 1 Most assuredly, I tell you, one who doesnt enter by the door into the sheep fold, but climbs up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber.
2 But one who enters in by the door is the shepherd of the sheep.
3 The gatekeeper opens the gate for him, and the sheep listen to his voice.
He calls his own sheep by name, and leads them out.
4 Whenever he brings out his own sheep, he goes before them, and the sheep follow him, for they know his voice.
5 They will by no means follow a stranger, but will flee from him; for they dont know the voice of strangers.
6 Yeshua spoke this parable to them, but they didnt understand what he was telling them.
7 Yeshua therefore said to them again, Most assuredly, I tell you, I am the sheeps door.
8 All who came before me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep didnt listen to them.
9 I am the door.
If anyone enters in by me, he will be saved, and will go in and go out, and will find pasture.
10 The thief only comes to steal, kill, and destroy.
I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly.
11 I am the good shepherd.
The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.
12 He who is a hired hand, and not a shepherd, who doesnt own the sheep, sees the wolf coming, leaves the sheep, and flees.
The wolf snatches the sheep, and scatters them.
13 The hired hand flees because he is a hired hand, and doesnt care for the sheep.
14 I am the good shepherd.
I know my own, and Im known by my own; 15 even as the Father knows me, and I know the Father.
I lay down my life for the sheep.
16 I have other sheep, which are not of this fold.
I must bring them also, and they will hear my voice.
They will become one flock with one shepherd.
17 Therefore the Father loves me, because I lay down my life, that I may take it again.
18 No one takes it away from me, but I lay it down by myself.
I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again.
I received this mitzvah (commandment) from my Father.
19 Therefore a division arose again among the Yehudim because of these words.
20 Many of them said, He has a demon, and is insane! Why do you listen to him? 21 Others said, These are not the sayings of one possessed by a demon.
It isnt possible for a demon to open the eyes of the blind, is it? 22 It was the Feast of Hanukkah at Yerushalayim.
23 It was winter, and Yeshua was walking in the temple, in Shlomos porch.
24 The Yehudim therefore came around him and said to him, How long will you hold us in suspense? If you are the Messiah, tell us plainly.
25 Yeshua answered them, I told you, and you dont believe.
The works that I do in my Fathers name, these testify about me.
26 But you dont believe, because you are not of my sheep, as I told you.
27 My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.
28 I give eternal life to them.
They will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand.
29 My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all.
No one is able to snatch them out of my Fathers hand.
30 I and the Father are one.
31 Therefore Yehudim took up stones again to stone him.
32 Yeshua answered them, I have shown you many good works from my Father.
For which of those works do you stone me? 33 The Yehudim answered him, We dont stone you for a good work, but for blasphemy: because you, being a man, make yourself God.
34 Yeshua answered them, Isnt it written in your law, I said, you are gods? 35 If he called them gods, to whom the word of God came (and the Scripture cant be broken), 36 Do you say of him whom the Father sanctified and sent into the world, You blaspheme, because I said, I am the Son of God? 37 If I dont do the works of my Father, dont believe me.
38 But if I do them, though you dont believe me, believe the works; that you may know and believe that the Father is in me, and I in the Father.
39 They sought again to seize him, and he went out of their hand.
40 He went away again beyond the Yarden into the place where Yochanan was immersing at first, and there he stayed.
41 Many came to him.
They said, Yochanan indeed did no sign, but everything that Yochanan said about this man is true.
42 Many believed in him there.


Chapter 11- 1 Now a certain man was sick, El'azar from Beit-Anyah, of the village of Miryam and her sister, Marta.
2 It was that Miryam who had anointed the Lord with ointment, and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother, El'azar, was sick.
3 The sisters therefore sent to him, saying, Lord, behold, he for whom you have great affection is sick.
4 But when Yeshua heard it, he said, This sickness is not to death, but for the glory of God, that Gods Son may be glorified by it.
5 Now Yeshua loved Marta, and her sister, and El'azar.
6 When therefore he heard that he was sick, he stayed two days in the place where he was.
7 Then after this he said to the talmidim (disciples), Lets go into Yehudah again.
8 The talmidim (disciples) told him, Rabbi, the Yehudim were just trying to stone you, and are you going there again? 9 Yeshua answered, Arent there twelve hours of daylight? If a man walks in the day, he doesnt stumble, because he sees the light of this world.
10 But if a man walks in the night, he stumbles, because the light isnt in him.
11 He said these things, and after that, he said to them, Our friend, El'azar, has fallen asleep, but I am going so that I may awake him out of sleep.
12 The talmidim (disciples) therefore said, Lord, if he has fallen asleep, he will recover.
13 Now Yeshua had spoken of his death, but they thought that he spoke of taking rest in sleep.
14 So Yeshua said to them plainly then, El'azar is dead.
15 I am glad for your sakes that I was not there, so that you may believe.
Nevertheless, lets go to him.
16 T'oma therefore, who is called Didymus, said to his fellow talmidim (disciples), Lets go also, that we may die with him.
17 So when Yeshua came, he found that he had been in the tomb four days already.
18 Now Beit-Anyah was near Yerushalayim, about fifteen stadia away.
19 Many of the Yehudim had joined the women around Marta and Miryam, to console them concerning their brother.
20 Then when Marta heard that Yeshua was coming, she went and met him, but Miryam stayed in the house.
21 Therefore Marta said to Yeshua, Lord, if you would have been here, my brother wouldnt have died.
22 Even now I know that, whatever you ask of God, God will give you.
23 Yeshua said to her, Your brother will rise again.
24 Marta said to him, I know that he will rise again in the resurrection at the last day.
25 Yeshua said to her, I am the resurrection and the life.
He who believes in me, though he die, yet will he live.
26 Whoever lives and believes in me will never die.
Do you believe this? 27 She said to him, Yes, Lord.
I have come to believe that you are the Messiah, Gods Son, he who comes into the world.
28 When she had said this, she went away, and called Miryam, her sister, secretly, saying, The Teacher is here, and is calling you.
29 When she heard this, she arose quickly, and went to him.
30 Now Yeshua had not yet come into the village, but was in the place where Marta met him.
31 Then the Yehudim who were with her in the house, and were consoling her, when they saw Miryam, that she rose up quickly and went out, followed her, saying, She is going to the tomb to weep there.
32 Therefore when Miryam came to where Yeshua was, and saw him, she fell down at his feet, saying to him, Lord, if you would have been here, my brother wouldnt have died.
33 When Yeshua therefore saw her weeping, and the Yehudim weeping who came with her, he groaned in the spirit, and was troubled, 34 and said, Where have you laid him? They told him, Lord, come and see.
35 Yeshua wept.
36 The Yehudim therefore said, See how much affection he had for him! 37 Some of them said, Couldnt this man, who opened the eyes of him who was blind, have also kept this man from dying? 38 Yeshua therefore, again groaning in himself, came to the tomb.
Now it was a cave, and a stone lay against it.
39 Yeshua said, Take away the stone.
Marta, the sister of him who was dead, said to him, Lord, by this time there is a stench, for he has been dead four days.
40 Yeshua said to her, Didnt I tell you that if you believed, you would see Gods glory? 41 So they took away the stone from the place where the dead man was lying.
Yeshua lifted up his eyes, and said, Father, I thank you that you listened to me.
42 I know that you always listen to me, but because of the multitude that stands around I said this, that they may believe that you sent me.
43 When he had said this, he cried with a loud voice, El'azar, come out! 44 He who was dead came out, bound hand and foot with wrappings, and his face was wrapped around with a cloth.
Yeshua said to them, Free him, and let him go.
45 Therefore many of the Yehudim, who came to Miryam and saw what Yeshua did, believed in him.
46 But some of them went away to the Perushim, and told them the things which Yeshua had done.
47 The chief Kohanim (priests) therefore and the Perushim gathered a council, and said, What are we doing? For this man does many signs.
48 If we leave him alone like this, everyone will believe in him, and the Romans will come and take away both our place and our nation.
49 But a certain one of them, Kayafa, being Kohen Gadol (high priest) that year, said to them, You know nothing at all, 50 nor do you consider that it is advantageous for us that one man should die for the people, and that the whole nation not perish.
51 Now he didnt say this of himself, but being Kohen Gadol (high priest) that year, he prophesied that Yeshua would die for the nation, 52 and not for the nation only, but that he might also gather together into one the children of God who are scattered abroad.
53 So from that day forward they took counsel that they might put him to death.
54 Yeshua therefore walked no more openly among the Yehudim, but departed from there into the country near the wilderness, to a city called Efrayim.
He stayed there with his talmidim (disciples).
55 Now the Pesach of the Yehudim was at hand.
Many went up from the country to Yerushalayim before the Pesach, to purify themselves.
56 Then they sought for Yeshua and spoke one with another, as they stood in the temple, What do you think?that he isnt coming to the feast at all? 57 Now the chief Kohanim (priests) and the Perushim had commanded that if anyone knew where he was, he should report it, that they might seize him.


Chapter 12- 1 Then six days before the Pesach, Yeshua came to Beit-Anyah, where El'azar was, who had been dead, whom he raised from the dead.
2 So they made him a supper there.
Marta served, but El'azar was one of those who sat at the table with him.
3 Miryam, therefore, took a pound of ointment of pure nard, very precious, and anointed the feet of Yeshua, and wiped his feet with her hair.
The house was filled with the fragrance of the ointment.
4 Then Yehudah from K'riot, Shim`ons son, one of his talmidim (disciples), who would betray him, said, 5 Why wasnt this ointment sold for three hundred denarii, and given to the poor? 6 Now he said this, not because he cared for the poor, but because he was a thief, and having the money box, used to steal what was put into it.
7 But Yeshua said, Leave her alone.
She has kept this for the day of my burial.
8 For you always have the poor with you, but you dont always have me.
9 A large crowd therefore of the Yehudim learned that he was there, and they came, not for Yeshua#s sake only, but that they might see El'azar also, whom he had raised from the dead.
10 But the chief Kohanim (priests) conspired to put El'azar to death also, 11 because on account of him many of the Yehudim went away and believed in Yeshua.
12 On the next day a great multitude had come to the feast.
When they heard that Yeshua was coming to Yerushalayim, 13 they took the branches of the palm trees, and went out to meet him, and cried out, Hoshia`na! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord, the King of Yisra'el! 14 Yeshua, having found a young donkey, sat on it.
As it is written, 15 Dont be afraid, daughter of Tziyon.
Behold, your King comes, sitting on a donkeys colt.
16 His talmidim (disciples) didnt understand these things at first, but when Yeshua was glorified, then they remembered that these things were written about him, and that they had done these things to him.
17 The multitude therefore that was with him when he called El'azar out of the tomb, and raised him from the dead, was testifying about it.
18 For this cause also the multitude went and met him, because they heard that he had done this sign.
19 The Perushim therefore said among themselves, See how you accomplish nothing.
Behold, the world has gone after him.
20 Now there were certain Yevanim among those that went up to worship at the feast.
21 These, therefore, came to Pilipos, who was from Beit-Tzaidah of the Galil, and asked him, saying, Sir, we want to see Yeshua.
22 Pilipos came and told Andrai, and in turn, Andrai came with Pilipos, and they told Yeshua.
23 Yeshua answered them, The time has come for the Son of Man to be glorified.
24 Most assuredly I tell you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the eretz (earth) and dies, it remains by itself alone.
But if it dies, it bears much fruit.
25 He who loves his life will lose it.
He who hates his life in this world will keep it to eternal life.
26 If anyone serves me, let him follow me.
Where I am, there will my servant also be.
If anyone serves me, the Father will honor him.
27 Now my soul is troubled.
What shall I say? Father, save me from this time? But for this cause I came to this time.
28 Father, glorify your name! Then there came a voice out of the sky, saying, I have both glorified it, and will glorify it again.
29 The multitude therefore, who stood by and heard it, said that it had thundered.
Others said, An angel has spoken to him.
30 Yeshua answered, This voice hasnt come for my sake, but for your sakes.
31 Now is the judgment of this world.
Now the prince of this world will be cast out.
32 And I, if I am lifted up from the eretz (earth), will draw all people to myself.
33 But he said this, signifying by what kind of death he should die.
34 The multitude answered him, We have heard out of the law that the Messiah remains forever.
How do you say, The Son of Man must be lifted up? Who is this Son of Man? 35 Yeshua therefore said to them, Yet a little while the light is with you.
Walk while you have the light, that darkness doesnt overtake you.
He who walks in the darkness doesnt know where he is going.
36 While you have the light, believe in the light, that you may become children of light.
Yeshua said these things, and he departed and hid himself from them.
37 But though he had done so many signs before them, yet they didnt believe in him, 38 that the word of Yesha`yahu the prophet might be fulfilled, which he spoke, Lord, who has believed our report? To whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed? 39 For this cause they couldnt believe, for Yesha`yahu said again, 40 He has blinded their eyes and he hardened their heart, Lest they should see with their eyes, And perceive with their heart, And would turn, And I would heal them.
41 Yesha`yahu said these things when he saw his glory, and spoke of him.
42 Nevertheless even of the rulers many believed in him, but because of the Perushim they didnt confess it, so that they wouldnt be put out of the synagogue, 43 for they loved mens praise more than Gods praise.
44 Yeshua cried out and said, Whoever believes in me, believes not in me, but in him who sent me.
45 He who sees me sees him who sent me.
46 I have come as a light into the world, that whoever believes in me may not remain in the darkness.
47 If anyone listens to my sayings, and doesnt believe, I dont judge him.
For I came not to judge the world, but to save the world.
48 He who rejects me, and doesnt receive my sayings, has one who judges him.
The word that I spoke, the same will judge him in the last day.
49 For I spoke not from myself, but the Father who sent me, he gave me a mitzvah (commandment), what I should say, and what I should speak.
50 I know that his mitzvah (commandment) is eternal life.
The things therefore which I speak, even as the Father has said to me, so I speak.


Chapter 13- 1 Now before the feast of the Pesach, Yeshua knowing that his time had come that he would depart from this world to the Father, having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end.
2 After supper, the devil having already put into the heart of Yehudah from K'riot, Shim`ons son, to betray him, 3 Yeshua, knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands, and that he came forth from God, and was going to God, 4 arose from supper, and laid aside his outer garments.
He took a towel, and wrapped a towel around his waist.
5 Then he poured water into the basin, and began to wash the talmidim (disciples) feet, and to wipe them with the towel that was wrapped around him.
6 Then he came to Shim`on Rock.
He said to him, Lord, do you wash my feet? 7 Yeshua answered him, You dont know what I am doing now, but you will understand later.
8 Rock said to him, You will never wash my feet! Yeshua answered him, If I dont wash you, you have no part with me.
9 Shim`on Rock said to him, Lord, not my feet only, but also my hands and my head! 10 Yeshua said to him, Someone who has bathed only needs to have his feet washed, but is completely clean.
You are clean, but not all of you.
11 For he knew him who would betray him, therefore he said, You are not all clean.
12 So when he had washed their feet, put his outer garment back on, and sat down again, he said to them, Do you know what I have done to you? 13 You call me, Teacher and Lord.
You say so correctly, for so I am.
14 If I then, the Lord and the Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one anothers feet.
15 For I have given you an example, that you also should do as I have done to you.
16 Most assuredly I tell you, a servant is not greater than his lord, neither one who is sent greater than he who sent him.
17 If you know these things, blessed are you if you do them.
18 I dont speak concerning all of you.
I know whom I have chosen.
But that the Scripture may be fulfilled, He who eats bread with me has lifted up his heel against me.
19 From now on, I tell you before it happens, that when it happens, you may believe that I AM.
20 Most assuredly I tell you, he who receives whomever I send, receives me; and he who receives me, receives him who sent me.
21 When Yeshua had said this, he was troubled in spirit, and testified, Most assuredly I tell you that one of you will betray me.
22 The talmidim (disciples) looked at one another, perplexed about whom he spoke.
23 One of his talmidim (disciples), whom Yeshua loved, was at the table, leaning against Yeshua#s breast.
24 Shim`on Rock therefore beckoned to him, and said to him, Tell us who it is of whom he speaks.
25 He, leaning back, as he was, on Yeshua#s breast, asked him, Lord, who is it? 26 Yeshua therefore answered, It is he to whom I will give this piece of bread when I have dipped it.
So when he had dipped the piece of bread, he gave it to Yehudah, the son of Shim`on Ish-K'riot.
27 After the piece of bread, then Hasatan entered into him.
Then Yeshua said to him, What you do, do quickly.
28 Now no man at the table knew why he said this to him.
29 For some thought, because Yehudah had the money box, that Yeshua said to him, Buy what things we need for the feast, or that he should give something to the poor.
30 Therefore, having received that morsel, he went out immediately.
It was night.
31 When he had gone out, Yeshua said, Now the Son of Man has been glorified, and God has been glorified in him.
32 If God has been glorified in him, God will also glorify him in himself, and he will glorify him immediately.
33 Little children, I will be with you a little while longer.
You will seek me, and as I said to the Yehudim, Where I am going, you cant come, so now I tell you.
34 A new mitzvah (commandment) I give to you, that you love one another, just like I have loved you; that you also love one another.
35 By this everyone will know that you are my talmidim (disciples), if you have love for one another.
36 Shim`on Rock said to him, Lord, where are you going? Yeshua answered, Where I am going, you cant follow now, but you will follow afterwards.
37 Rock said to him, Lord, why cant I follow you now? I will lay down my life for you.
38 Yeshua answered him, Will you lay down your life for me? Most assuredly I tell you, the rooster wont crow until you have denied me three times.


Chapter 14- 1 Dont let your heart be troubled.
Believe in God.
Believe also in me.
2 In my Fathers house are many mansions.
If it werent so, I would have told you.
I am going to prepare a place for you.
3 If I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and will receive you to myself; that where I am, you may be there also.
4 Where I go, you know, and you know the way.
5 T'oma says to him, Lord, we dont know where you are going.
How can we know the way? 6 Yeshua said to him, I am the way, the truth, and the life.
No one comes to the Father, except through me.
7 If you had known me, you would have known my Father also.
From now on, you know him, and have seen him.
8 Pilipos said to him, Lord, show us the Father, and that will be enough for us.
9 Yeshua said to him, Have I been with you such a long time, and do you not know me, Pilipos? He who has seen me has seen the Father.
How do you say, Show us the Father? 10 Dont you believe that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? The words that I tell you, I speak not from myself; but the Father who lives in me does his works.
11 Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father in me; or else believe me for the very works sake.
12 Most assuredly I tell you, he who believes in me, the works that I do, he will do also; and greater works than these will he do; because I am going to my Father.
13 Whatever you will ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.
14 If you will ask anything in my name, I will do it.
15 If you love me, keep my mitzvot (commandments).
16 I will pray to the Father, and he will give you another Counselor, that he may be with you forever,? 17 the Spirit of truth, whom the world cant receive; for it doesnt see him, neither knows him.
You know him, for he lives with you, and will be in you.
18 I will not leave you orphans.
I will come to you.
19 Yet a little while, and the world will see me no more; but you will see me.
Because I live, you will live also.
20 In that day you will know that I am in my Father, and you in me, and I in you.
21 One who has my mitzvot (commandments), and keeps them, that person is one who loves me.
One who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him, and will reveal myself to him.
22 Yehudah (not of K'riot) said to him, Lord, what has happened that you are about to reveal yourself to us, and not to the world? 23 Yeshua answered him, If a man loves me, he will keep my word.
My Father will love him, and we will come to him, and make our home with him.
24 He who doesnt love me doesnt keep my words.
The word which you hear isnt mine, but the Fathers who sent me.
25 I have said these things to you, while still living with you.
26 But the Counselor, the Ruach HaKodesh (Holy Spirit), whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things, and will remind you of all that I said to you.
27 Shalom I leave with you.
My shalom I give to you; not as the world gives, give I to you.
Dont let your heart be troubled, neither let it be fearful.
28 You heard how I told you, I go away, and I come to you.
If you loved me, you would have rejoiced, because I said I am going to my Father; for the Father is greater than I.
29 Now I have told you before it happens so that, when it happens, you may believe.
30 I will no more speak much with you, for the prince of the world comes, and he has nothing in me.
31 But that the world may know that I love the Father, and as the Father commanded me, even so I do.
Arise, let us go from here.


Chapter 15- 1 I am the true vine, and my Father is the farmer.
2 Every branch in me that doesnt bear fruit, he takes away.
Every branch that bears fruit, he prunes, that it may bear more fruit.
3 You are already pruned clean because of the word which I have spoken to you.
4 Remain in me, and I in you.
As the branch cant bear fruit by itself, unless it remains in the vine, so neither can you, unless you remain in me.
5 I am the vine.
You are the branches.
He who remains in me, and I in him, the same bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.
6 If a man doesnt remain in me, he is thrown out as a branch, and is withered; and they gather them, throw them into the fire, and they are burned.
7 If you remain in me, and my words remain in you, you will ask whatever you desire, and it will be done for you.
8 In this is my Father glorified, that you bear much fruit; and so you will be my talmidim (disciples).
9 Even as the Father has loved me, I also have loved you.
Remain in my love.
10 If you keep my mitzvot (commandments), you will remain in my love; even as I have kept my Fathers mitzvot (commandments), and remain in his love.
11 I have spoken these things to you, that my joy may remain in you, and that your joy may be made full.
12 This is my mitzvah (commandment), that you love one another, even as I have loved you.
13 Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.
14 You are my friends, if you do whatever I command you.
15 No longer do I call you servants, for the servant doesnt know what his lord does.
But I have called you friends, for everything that I heard from my Father, I have made known to you.
16 You didnt choose me, but I chose you, and appointed you, that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain; that whatever you will ask of the Father in my name, he may give it to you.
17 I command these things to you, that you may love one another.
18 If the world hates you, you know that it has hated me before it hated you.
19 If you were of the world, the world would love its own.
But because you are not of the world, since I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.
20 Remember the word that I said to you: A servant is not greater than his lord.
If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you.
If they kept my word, they will keep yours also.
21 But all these things will they do to you for my names sake, because they dont know him who sent me.
22 If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have had sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin.
23 He who hates me, hates my Father also.
24 If I hadnt done among them the works which no one else did, they wouldnt have had sin.
But now have they seen and also hated both me and my Father.
25 But this happened so that the word may be fulfilled which was written in their law, They hated me without a cause.
26 When the Counselor has come, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father, he will testify about me.
27 You will also testify, because you have been with me from the beginning.


Chapter 16- 1 These things have I spoken to you, so that you wouldnt be caused to stumble.
2 They will put you out of the synagogues.
Yes, the time comes that whoever kills you will think that he offers service to God.
3 They will do these things because they have not known the Father, nor me.
4 But I have told you these things, so that when the time comes, you may remember that I told you about them.
I didnt tell you these things from the beginning, because I was with you.
5 But now I am going to him who sent me, and none of you asks me, Where are you going? 6 But because I have told you these things, sorrow has filled your heart.
7 Nevertheless I tell you the truth: It is to your advantage that I go away, for if I dont go away, the Counselor wont come to you.
But if I go, I will send him to you.
8 When he has come, he will convict the world about sin, about righteousness, and about judgment; 9 about sin, because they dont believe in me; 10 about righteousness, because I am going to my Father, and you wont see me any more; 11 about judgment, because the prince of this world has been judged.
12 I have yet many things to tell you, but you cant bear them now.
13 However when he, the Spirit of truth, has come, he will guide you into all truth, for he will not speak from himself; but whatever he hears, he will speak.
He will declare to you things that are coming.
14 He will glorify me, for he will take from what is mine, and will declare it to you.
15 All things whatever the Father has are mine; therefore I said that he takes of mine, and will declare it to you.
16 A little while, and you will not see me.
Again a little while, and you will see me.
17 Some of his talmidim (disciples) therefore said to one another, What is this that he says to us, A little while, and you wont see me, and again a little while, and you will see me; and, Because I go to the Father? 18 They said therefore, What is this that he says, A little while? We dont know what he is saying.
19 Therefore Yeshua perceived that they wanted to ask him, and he said to them, Do you inquire among yourselves concerning this, that I said, A little while, and you wont see me, and again a little while, and you will see me? 20 Most assuredly I tell you, that you will weep and lament, but the world will rejoice.
You will be sorrowful, but your sorrow will be turned into joy.
21 A woman, when she gives birth, has sorrow, because her time has come.
But when she has delivered the child, she doesnt remember the anguish any more, for the joy that a human being is born into the world.
22 Therefore you now have sorrow, but I will see you again, and your heart will rejoice, and no one will take your joy away from you.
23 In that day you will ask me no questions.
Most assuredly I tell you, whatever you may ask of the Father in my name, he will give it to you.
24 Until now, you have asked nothing in my name.
Ask, and you will receive, that your joy may be made full.
25 I have spoken these things to you in figures of speech.
But the time is coming when I will no more speak to you in figures of speech, but will tell you plainly about the Father.
26 In that day you will ask in my name; and I dont say to you, that I will pray to the Father for you, 27 for the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me, and have believed that I came forth from God.
28 I came out from the Father, and have come into the world.
Again, I leave the world, and go to the Father.
29 His talmidim (disciples) said to him, Behold, now you speak plainly, and speak no figures of speech.
30 Now we know that you know all things, and dont need for anyone to question you.
By this we believe that you came forth from God.
31 Yeshua answered them, Do you now believe? 32 Behold, the time is coming, yes, and has now come, that you will be scattered, everyone to his own place, and you will leave me alone.
Yet I am not alone, because the Father is with me.
33 I have told you these things, that in me you may have shalom.
In the world you have oppression; but cheer up! I have overcome the world.


Chapter 17- 1 Yeshua said these things, and lifting up his eyes to heaven, he said, Father, the time has come.
Glorify your Son, that your Son may also glorify you; 2 even as you gave him authority over all flesh, he will give eternal life to all whom you have given him.
3 This is eternal life, that they should know you, the only true God, and him whom you sent, Yeshua the Messiah.
4 I glorified you on the eretz (earth).
I have accomplished the work which you have given me to do.
5 Now, Father, glorify me with your own self with the glory which I had with you before the world existed.
6 I revealed your name to the people whom you have given me out of the world.
They were yours, and you have given them to me.
They have kept your word.
7 Now they have known that all things whatever you have given me are from you, 8 for the words which you have given me I have given to them, and they received them, and knew for sure that I came forth from you, and they have believed that you sent me.
9 I pray for them.
I dont pray for the world, but for those whom you have given me, for they are yours.
10 All things that are mine are yours, and yours are mine, and I am glorified in them.
11 I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I am coming to you.
Holy Father, keep them through your name which you have given me, that they may be one, even as we are.
12 While I was with them in the world, I kept them in your name.
Those whom you have given me I have kept.
None of them is lost, except the son of destruction, that the Scripture might be fulfilled.
13 But now I come to you, and I say these things in the world, that they may have my joy made full in themselves.
14 I have given them your word.
The world hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
15 I pray not that you would take them from the world, but that you would keep them from the evil one.
16 They are not of the world even as I am not of the world.
17 Sanctify them in your truth.
Your word is truth.
18 As you sent me into the world, even so I have sent them into the world.
19 For their sakes I sanctify myself, that they themselves also may be sanctified in truth.
20 Not for these only do I pray, but for those also who believe in me through their word, 21 that they may all be one; even as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be one in us; that the world may believe that you sent me.
22 The glory which you have given me, I have given to them; that they may be one, even as we are one; 23 I in them, and you in me, that they may be perfected into one; that the world may know that you sent me, and loved them, even as you loved me.
24 Father, I desire that they also whom you have given me be with me where I am, that they may see my glory, which you have given me, for you loved me before the foundation of the world.
25 Righteous Father, the world hasnt known you, but I knew you; and these knew that you sent me.
26 I made known to them your name, and will make it known; that the love with which you loved me may be in them, and I in them.


Chapter 18- 1 When Yeshua had spoken these words, he went out with his talmidim (disciples) over the brook Kidron, where was a garden, into which he and his talmidim (disciples) entered.
2 Now Yehudah, who betrayed him, also knew the place, for Yeshua often resorted there with his talmidim (disciples).
3 Yehudah then, having taken a detachment of soldiers and officers from the chief Kohanim (priests) and the Perushim, came there with lanterns, torches, and weapons.
4 Yeshua therefore, knowing all the things that were happening to him, went forth, and said to them, Who are you looking for? 5 They answered him, Yeshua of Natzeret.
Yeshua said to them, I AM.
Yehudah also, who betrayed him, was standing with them.
6 When therefore he said to them, I AM, they went backward, and fell to the ground.
7 Again therefore he asked them, Who are you looking for? They said, Yeshua of Natzeret.
8 Yeshua answered, I told you that I AM.
If therefore you seek me, let these go their way, 9 that the word might be fulfilled which he spoke, Of those whom you have given me, I have lost none.
10 Shim`on Rock therefore, having a sword, drew it, and struck the Kohen Gadol (high priest)s servant, and cut off his right ear.
The servants name was Melekh.
11 Yeshua therefore said to Rock, Put the sword into its sheath.
The cup which the Father has given me, shall I not surely drink it? 12 So the detachment, the commanding officer, and the officers of the Yehudim, seized Yeshua and bound him, 13 and led him to Anan first, for he was father-in-law to Kayafa, who was Kohen Gadol (high priest) that year.
14 Now it was Kayafa who advised the Yehudim that it was expedient that one man should perish for the people.
15 Shim`on Rock followed Yeshua, as did another talmid (disciple).
Now that talmid (disciple) was known to the Kohen Gadol (high priest), and entered in with Yeshua into the court of the Kohen Gadol (high priest); 16 but Rock was standing at the door outside.
So the other talmid (disciple), who was known to the Kohen Gadol (high priest), went out and spoke to her who kept the door, and brought in Rock.
17 Then the maid who kept the door said to Rock, Are you also one of this mans talmidim (disciples)? He said, I am not.
18 Now the servants and the officers were standing there, having made a fire of coals, for it was cold.
They were warming themselves.
Rock was with them, standing and warming himself.
19 The Kohen Gadol (high priest) therefore asked Yeshua about his talmidim (disciples), and about his teaching.
20 Yeshua answered him, I spoke openly to the world.
I always taught in synagogues, and in the temple, where the Yehudim always meet.
I said nothing in secret.
21 Why do you ask me? Ask those who have heard me what I said to them.
Behold, these know the things which I said.
22 When he had said this, one of the officers standing by slapped Yeshua with his hand, saying, Do you answer the Kohen Gadol (high priest) like that? 23 Yeshua answered him, If I have spoken evil, testify of the evil; but if well, why do you beat me? 24 Anan sent him bound to Kayafa, the Kohen Gadol (high priest).
25 Now Shim`on Rock was standing and warming himself.
They said therefore to him, You arent also one of his talmidim (disciples), are you? He denied it, and said, I am not.
26 One of the servants of the Kohen Gadol (high priest), being a relative of him whose ear Rock had cut off, said, Didnt I see you in the garden with him? 27 Rock therefore denied it again, and immediately the rooster crowed.
28 They led Yeshua therefore from Kayafa into the Praetorium.
It was early, and they themselves didnt enter into the Praetorium, that they might not be defiled, but might eat the Pesach.
29 Pilate therefore went out to them, and said, What accusation do you bring against this man? 30 They answered him, If this man werent an evildoer, we wouldnt have delivered him up to you.
31 Pilate therefore said to them, Take him yourselves, and judge him according to your law.
Therefore the Yehudim said to him, It is not lawful for us to put anyone to death, 32 that the word of Yeshua might be fulfilled, which he spoke, signifying by what kind of death he should die.
33 Pilate therefore entered again into the Praetorium, called Yeshua, and said to him, Are you the King of the Yehudim? 34 Yeshua answered him, Do you say this by yourself, or did others tell you about me? 35 Pilate answered, Im not a Yehudi, am I? Your own nation and the chief Kohanim (priests) delivered you to me.
What have you done? 36 Yeshua answered, My kingdom is not of this world.
If my kingdom were of this world, then my servants would fight, that I wouldnt be delivered to the Yehudim.
But now my kingdom is not from here.
37 Pilate therefore said to him, Are you a king then? Yeshua answered, You say that I am a king.
For this reason I have been born, and for this reason I have come into the world, that I should testify to the truth.
Everyone who is of the truth listens to my voice.
38 Pilate said to him, What is truth? When he had said this, he went out again to the Yehudim, and said to them, I find no basis for a charge against him.
39 But you have a custom, that I should release someone to you at the Pesach.
Therefore do you want me to release to you the King of the Yehudim? 40 Then they all shouted again, saying, Not this man, but Bar-Abba! Now Bar-Abba was a robber.


Chapter 19- 1 So Pilate then took Yeshua, and flogged him.
2 The soldiers twisted thorns into a crown, and put it on his head, and dressed him in a purple garment.
3 They kept saying, Hail, King of the Yehudim! and they kept slapping him.
4 Then Pilate went out again, and said to them, Behold, I bring him out to you, that you may know that I find no basis for a charge against him.
5 Yeshua therefore came out, wearing the crown of thorns and the purple garment.
Pilate said to them, Behold, the man! 6 When therefore the chief Kohanim (priests) and the officers saw him, they shouted, saying, Crucify! Crucify! Pilate said to them, Take him yourselves, and crucify him, for I find no basis for a charge against him.
7 The Yehudim answered him, We have a law, and by our law he ought to die, because he made himself the Son of God.
8 When therefore Pilate heard this saying, he was more afraid.
9 He entered into the Praetorium again, and said to Yeshua, Where are you from? But Yeshua gave him no answer.
10 Pilate therefore said to him, Arent you speaking to me? Dont you know that I have power to release you, and have power to crucify you? 11 Yeshua answered, You would have no power at all against me, unless it were given to you from above.
Therefore he who delivered me to you has greater sin.
12 At this, Pilate was seeking to release him, but the Yehudim cried out, saying, If you release this man, you arent Caesars friend! Everyone who makes himself a king speaks against Caesar! 13 When Pilate therefore heard these words, he brought Yeshua out, and sat down on the judgment seat at a place called The Pavement, but in Hebrew, Gabta.
14 Now it was the Preparation Day of the Pesach, at about the sixth hour.
He said to the Yehudim, Behold, your King! 15 They cried out, Away with him! Away with him! Crucify him! Pilate said to them, Shall I crucify your King? The chief Kohanim (priests) answered, We have no king but Caesar! 16 So then he delivered him to them to be crucified.
So they took Yeshua and led him away.
17 He went out, bearing his cross, to the place called The Place of a Skull, which is called in Hebrew, Gulgolta, 18 where they crucified him, and with him two others, on either side one, and Yeshua in the middle.
19 Pilate wrote a title also, and put it on the cross.
There was written, YESHUA OF NATZERET, THE KING OF THE YEHUDIM.
20 Therefore many of the Yehudim read this title, for the place where Yeshua was crucified was near the city; and it was written in Hebrew, in Latin, and in Yevanit.
21 The chief Kohanim (priests) of the Yehudim therefore said to Pilate, Dont write, The King of the Yehudim, but, he said, I am King of the Yehudim.
22 Pilate answered, What I have written, I have written.
23 Then the soldiers, when they had crucified Yeshua, took his garments and made four parts, to every soldier a part; and also the coat.
Now the coat was without seam, woven from the top throughout.
24 Then they said to one another, Lets not tear it, but cast lots for it to decide whose it will be, that the Scripture might be fulfilled, which says, They parted my garments among them.
For my cloak they cast lots.
Therefore the soldiers did these things.
25 But there were standing by the cross of Yeshua his mother, and his mothers sister, Miryam the wife of Klofah, and Miryam from Magdala.
26 Therefore when Yeshua saw his mother, and the talmid (disciple) whom he loved standing there, he said to his mother, Woman, behold your son! 27 Then he said to the talmid (disciple), Behold, your mother! From that hour, the talmid (disciple) took her to his own home.
28 After this, Yeshua, seeing that all things were now finished, that the Scripture might be fulfilled, said, I am thirsty.
29 Now a vessel full of vinegar was set there; so they put a sponge full of the vinegar on hyssop, and held it at his mouth.
30 When Yeshua therefore had received the vinegar, he said, It is finished.
He bowed his head, and gave up his spirit.
31 Therefore the Yehudim, because it was the Preparation Day, so that the bodies wouldnt remain on the cross on the Shabbat (for that Shabbat was a special one), asked of Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away.
32 Therefore the soldiers came, and broke the legs of the first, and of the other who was crucified with him; 33 but when they came to Yeshua, and saw that he was already dead, they didnt break his legs.
34 However one of the soldiers pierced his side with a spear, and immediately blood and water came out.
35 He who has seen has testified, and his testimony is true.
He knows that he tells the truth, that you may believe.
36 For these things happened, that the Scripture might be fulfilled, A bone of him will not be broken.
37 Again another Scripture says, They will look on him whom they pierced.
38 After these things, Yosef of Ramatayim, being a talmid (disciple) of Yeshua, but secretly for fear of the Yehudim, asked of Pilate that he might take away Yeshua#s body.
Pilate gave him permission.
He came therefore and took away his body.
39 Nakdimon, who at first came to Yeshua by night, also came bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about a hundred pounds.
40 So they took Yeshua#s body, and bound it in linen cloths with the spices, as the custom of the Yehudim is to bury.
41 Now in the place where he was crucified there was a garden.
In the garden a new tomb in which no man had ever yet been laid.
42 Then because of the Yehudim Preparation Day (for the tomb was near at hand) they laid Yeshua there.


Chapter 20- 1 Now on the first day of the week, Miryam from Magdala went early, while it was still dark, to the tomb, and saw the stone taken away from the tomb.
2 Therefore she ran and came to Shim`on Rock, and to the other talmid (disciple) whom Yeshua loved, and said to them, They have taken away the Lord out of the tomb, and we dont know where they have laid him! 3 Therefore Rock and the other talmid (disciple) went out, and they went toward the tomb.
4 They both ran together.
The other talmid (disciple) outran Rock, and came to the tomb first.
5 Stooping and looking in, he saw the linen cloths lying, yet he didnt enter in.
6 Then Shim`on Rock came, following him, and entered into the tomb.
He saw the linen cloths lying, 7 and the cloth that had been on his head, not lying with the linen cloths, but rolled up in a place by itself.
8 So then the other talmid (disciple) who came first to the tomb also entered in, and he saw and believed.
9 For as yet they didnt know the Scripture, that he must rise from the dead.
10 So the talmidim (disciples) went away again to their own homes.
11 But Miryam was standing outside at the tomb weeping.
So, as she wept, she stooped and looked into the tomb, 12 and she saw two angels in white sitting, one at the head, and one at the feet, where the body of Yeshua had lain.
13 They told her, Woman, why are you weeping? She said to them, Because they have taken away my Lord, and I dont know where they have laid him.
14 When she had said this, she turned around and saw Yeshua standing, and didnt know that it was Yeshua.
15 Yeshua said to her, Woman, why are you weeping? Who are you looking for? She, supposing him to be the gardener, said to him, Sir, if you have carried him away, tell me where you have laid him, and I will take him away.
16 Yeshua said to her, Miryam.
She turned and said to him, Rhabbouni! which is to say, Teacher! 17 Yeshua said to her, Dont touch me, for I havent yet ascended to my Father; but go to my brothers, and tell them, I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.
18 Miryam from Magdala came and told the talmidim (disciples) that she had seen the Lord, and that he had said these things to her.
19 When therefore it was evening, on that day, the first day of the week, and when the doors were locked where the talmidim (disciples) were assembled, for fear of the Yehudim, Yeshua came and stood in the midst, and said to them, Shalom be to you.
20 When he had said this, he showed them his hands and his side.
The talmidim (disciples) therefore were glad when they saw the Lord.
21 Yeshua therefore said to them again, Shalom be to you.
As the Father has sent me, even so I send you.
22 When he had said this, he breathed on them, and said to them, Receive the Ruach HaKodesh (Holy Spirit)! 23 Whoevers sins you forgive, they are forgiven them.
Whoevers sins you retain, they have been retained.
24 But T'oma, one of the twelve, called Didymus, wasnt with them when Yeshua came.
25 The other talmidim (disciples) therefore said to him, We have seen the Lord! But he said to them, Unless I see in his hands the print of the nails, and put my hand into his side, I will not believe.
26 After eight days again his talmidim (disciples) were inside, and T'oma was with them.
Yeshua came, the doors being locked, and stood in the midst, and said, Shalom be to you.
27 Then he said to T'oma, Reach here your finger, and see my hands.
Reach here your hand, and put it into my side.
Dont be unbelieving, but believing.
28 T'oma answered him, My Lord and my God! 29 Yeshua said to him, Because you have seen me, you have believed.
Blessed are those who have not seen, and have believed.
30 Therefore Yeshua did many other signs in the presence of his talmidim (disciples), which are not written in this book; 31 but these are written, that you may believe that Yeshua is the Messiah, the Son of God, and that believing you may have life in his name.


Chapter 21- 1 After these things, Yeshua revealed himself again to the talmidim (disciples) at the sea of Tiberias.
He revealed himself this way.
2 Shim`on Rock, T'oma called Didymus, Natan'el of Kanah in the Galil, and the sons of Zavdai, and two others of his talmidim (disciples) were together.
3 Shim`on Rock said to them, Im going fishing.
They told him, We are also coming with you.
They immediately went out, and entered into the boat.
That night, they caught nothing.
4 But when day had already come, Yeshua stood on the beach, yet the talmidim (disciples) didnt know that it was Yeshua.
5 Yeshua therefore said to them, Children, have you anything to eat? They answered him, No.
6 He said to them, Cast the net on the right side of the boat, and you will find some.
They cast it therefore, and now they werent able to draw it in for the multitude of fish.
7 That talmid (disciple) therefore whom Yeshua loved said to Rock, Its the Lord! So when Shim`on Rock heard that it was the Lord, he wrapped his coat around him (for he was naked), and threw himself into the sea.
8 But the other talmidim (disciples) came in the little boat (for they were not far from the land, but about two hundred cubits away), dragging the net full of fish.
9 So when they got out on the land, they saw a fire of coals there, and fish laid on it, and bread.
10 Yeshua said to them, Bring some of the fish which you have just caught.
11 Shim`on Rock went up, and drew the net to land, full of great fish, one hundred fifty-three; and even though there were so many, the net wasnt torn.
12 Yeshua said to them, Come and eat breakfast.
None of the talmidim (disciples) dared inquire of him, Who are you? knowing that it was the Lord.
13 Then Yeshua came and took the bread, gave it to them, and the fish likewise.
14 This is now the third time that Yeshua was revealed to his talmidim (disciples), after he had risen from the dead.
15 So when they had eaten their breakfast, Yeshua said to Shim`on Rock, Shim`on, son of Yonah, do you love me more than these? He said to him, Yes, Lord; you know that I have affection for you.
He said to him, Feed my lambs.
16 He said to him again a second time, Shim`on, son of Yonah, do you love me? He said to him, Yes, Lord; you know that I have affection for you.
He said to him, Tend my sheep.
17 He said to him the third time, Shim`on, son of Yonah, do you have affection for me? Rock was grieved because he asked him the third time, Do you have affection for me? He said to him, Lord, you know everything.
You know that I have affection for you.
Yeshua said to him, Feed my sheep.
18 Most assuredly I tell you, when you were young, you dressed yourself, and walked where you wanted to.
But when you are old, you will stretch out your hands, and another will dress you, and carry you where you dont want to go.
19 Now he said this, signifying by what kind of death he would glorify God.
When he had said this, he said to him, Follow me.
20 Then Rock, turning around, saw a talmid (disciple) following.
This was the talmid (disciple) whom Yeshua sincerely loved, the one who had also leaned on Yeshua#s breast at the supper and asked, Lord, who is going to betray You? 21 Rock seeing him, said to Yeshua, Lord, what about this man? 22 Yeshua said to him, If I desire that he stay until I come, what is that to you? You follow me.
23 This saying therefore went out among the brothers, that this talmid (disciple) wouldnt die.
Yet Yeshua didnt say to him that he wouldnt die, but, If I desire that he stay until I come, what is that to you? 24 This is the talmid (disciple) who testifies about these things, and wrote these things.
We know that his witness is true.
25 There are also many other things which Yeshua did, which if they would all be written, I suppose that even the world itself wouldnt have room for the books that would be written.

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