James Murdock Peshitto

The Holy Gospel, the Proclamation of John the Herald.

I.

  01 In the beginning, was the Word; and the Word was with God; and the Word was God.
  02 He was in the beginning with God.
  03 Every thing was by his hand; and without him, was not any thing whatever that existed.
  04 In him was life ; and the life was the light of man. 
  05 And this light shineth in the darkness; and the darkness apprehended it not.
  06 There was a man sent from God, whose name was John. 
  07 He came for testimony, to bear witness concerning the light.
  08 He was not himself the light, but [came] to bear witness concerning the light.
  09 The true light was that, which enlighteneth every man who cometh into the world.
  10 He was in the world; and the world was by his hand; and the world did not know him.
  11 He came to his own [people]; and his own [people] received him not.
  12 But such as received him, to them gave he the prerogative to be children of God; [even] to them that believe on his name;
  13 who are born, not of blood, nor of the pleasure of the flesh, nor of the pleasure of man, but of God.
  14 And the: Word became flesh, and tabernacled with us: and we saw his glory, a glory as of the only begotten from the Father, that he was full of grace and truth. 
  15 John testified of him, and cried, and said: This is he, of whom I said, That he cometh after me, and is before me; for he was prior to me.
  16 And of his plenitude have we all received, and grace for grace.
  17 For the law was given by the hand of Moses; but the reality and grace was by the hand of Jesus Messiah. 
  18 No man hath ever seen God; the only  begotten God, he who is in the bosom of his Father, he hath declared [him].
  19 And this is the testimony of John, when the Jews of Jerusalem sent to him priests and Levites, to ask him, Who art thou?
  20 And he confessed, and denied not, but confessed I am not the Messiah.
  21 And they asked him again: Who then ? Art thou Elijah ? And he said: I am not. Art thou a prophet? And he said, No.
  22 And they said to him: Who art thou? that we may give answer to them that sent us. What sayest thou of thyself? 
  23 He said: I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, Make smooth the way of the Lord; as said the prophet Isaiah. 
  24 And they who were sent, were of the Pharisees. 
  25 And they asked him, and said to him: Why then baptizest thou, if thou art not the Messiah, nor Elijah, nor a prophet? 
  26 John answered, and said to them; I baptize with water; but among you standeth one, whom ye do not know. 
  27 He it is that cometh after me, and was before me, whose shoe-strings I am not worthy to untie.
  28 These things occurred in Bethany, where John was baptizing.
  29 The day after, John saw Jesus coming towards him, and said: Behold, the Lamb of God, that beareth the sin of the world.
  30 This is he of whom I said, After me cometh a man, who is before me, for he was prior to me.
  31 And I knew him not; but that he might be known to Israel, therefore am I come baptizing with water. 
  32 And John testified, and said: I saw the Spirit descend from heaven, as a dove, and rest upon him.
  33 And I did not know him; but he who sent me to baptize with water, he said to me- On whom thou seest the Spirit descend, and rest upon him, he baptizeth with the Holy Spirit.
  34 And I saw; and I testify, that this is the Son of God.
  35 And the next day, John was standing, and two of his disciples.
  36 And he looked upon Jesus as he walked, and said: Behold, the Lamb of God !
  37 And his two disciples heard him when he said [it], and they went after Jesus.
  38 And Jesus turned, and saw them coming after him, and he said to them: What seek ye? They said to him: Our Rabbi, where stayest thou?
  39 He said to them: Come, and see. And they came and saw where he lodged; and they were with him that day, for it was about the tenth hour.
  40 And one of those who heard John and went after Jesus was Andrew, the brother of Simon.
  41 He first saw Simon his brother, and said to him: We have found the Messiah.
  42 And he brought him to Jesus. And Jesus looked upon him, and said Thou art Simon the son of Jona; thou shalt be called Cephas.
  43 The next day, Jesus was disposed to depart for Galilee: and he found Philip and said to him, Come after me. 
  44 And Philip was of Bethsaida, the city of Andrew and Simon.
  45 And Philip found Nathaniel, and said to him: We have found him, of whom Moses wrote in the law, and the prophets, Jesus the son of Joseph, who is of Nazareth.
  46 Nathaniel said to him: Can there be any good thing from Nazareth? Philip said to him: Come, and see. 
  47 And Jesus saw Nathaniel coming towards him, and said of him: Behold a real Israelite, in whom is no deceit. 
  48 Nathaniel said to him: Whence knowest thou  me? Jesus said to him: Before Philip called thee when thou wast under the fig-tree, I saw thee.
  49 Nathaniel answered, and said to him: Rabbi; thou art the Son of God; thou art the King of Israel. 
  50 Jesus said to him: Because I said to thee, that I saw thee under the fig-tree, believest thou? Thou wilt see greater things than these.
  51 He said to him: Verily, verily, I say to you, That hereafter ye will see heaven opened, and the angels of God ascending and descending unto the Son of man.

II.

  01 And on the third day there was a feast in Cana, a city of Galilee: and the mother of Jesus was there. 
  02 And also Jesus and his disciples were invited to the feast.
  03 And the wine fell short: and his mother said to Jesus: They have no wine.
  04 Jesus said to her: What is [in common] to me and thee ? Not yet hath my hour come.
  05 His mother said to the waiters: Whatever he saith to you, do [it].
  06 And there were there six waterpots of stone, set for the purification of Jews, containing each two or three quadrantalia.
  07 Jesus said to them: Fill those water-pots with water. And they filled them to the top.
  08 He said to them: Draw now, and carry to the master of the feast. And they carried.
  09 And when the master of the feast tasted the water that had become wine, and did not know whence it came, (although the waiters knew, as they had filled the pots with water,) the master of the feast called the bridegroom, 
  10 and said to him: Every man first bringeth forward the good wine, and when they are satiated, then that which is inferior; but thou hast kept the good wine till now. 
  11 This is the first sign, which Jesus wrought at Cana in Galilee, and manifested his glory: and his disciples believed on him.
  12 Afterwards he went down to Capernaum, he and his mother and his brothers and his disciples; and they were there a few days.
  13 And the pass over of the Jews drew near; and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
  14 And he found in the temple those who sold beeves and sheep and doves, and the money-changers sitting [there]. 
  15 And he made himself a whip from a cord, and turned them all out of the temple, and the sheep and the beeves and the money-changers; and he poured out their money, and overset their tables:
  16 and he said to them that sold doves, Take away these things; and make not my Father's house a house of traffic. 
  17 And his disciples remembered, that it is written: The zeal of thy house hath devoured me.
  18 But the Jews replied, and said to him: What sign showest thou to us, since thou doest these things? 
  19 Jesus answered, and said to them: Demolish this temple, and in three days I will again erect it.
  20 The Jews said to him: Forty and six years, this temple was building; and wilt thou build it again in three days? 
  21 But he spake of the temple of his body.
  22 And when he was arisen from the dead, his disciples remembered, that he spoke this: and they believed the scriptures, and the word that Jesus spake.
  23 And while Jesus was in Jerusalem, at the feast of the passover, many believed on him, because they saw the signs he wrought.
  24 But Jesus did not confide himself to them; because he knew all men:
  25 And he needed not that any one should testify to him respecting any man; for he himself knew what is in man.

III.

  01 And there was a man of the Pharisees there, whose name was Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews.
  02 And he came to Jesus by night, and said to him: Rabbi, we know that thou art a teacher sent from God; for no one can work those signs which thou workest, unless God be with him.
  03 Jesus replied, and said to him: Verily, verily, I say to thee, That, unless a man be born anew, he cannot behold the kingdom of God.
  04 Nicodemus said to him: How can an old man be born ? Can he enter a second time into his mother's womb and be born ?
  05 Jesus replied, and said to him Verily, verily, I say to thee, That, unless a man be born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God.
  06 That which is born of the flesh, is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit, is spirit.
  07 Be not surprised that I said to thee, Ye must be born anew.
  08 The wind bloweth where it chooseth; and thou hearest its sound, but knowest not whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one, that is born of the Spirit.
  09 Nicodemus answered, and said to him: How can these things be?
  10 Jesus answered, and said to him: Art thou a teacher of Israel, and knowest not these things?
  11 Verily, verily, I say to thee: We speak, what we know; and we testify to what we have seen; but ye receive not our testimony.
  12 If I have spoken to you of things on earth, and ye believe not; how will ye believe, if I speak of things in heaven?
  13 And no one hath ascended to heaven, but he that descended from heaven, the Son of man who is in heaven.
  14 And as Moses elevated the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of man be lifted up:
  15 that every one who believeth in him, may not perish, but may have life eternal.
  16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth on him, should not perish, but should have life eternal.
  17 For God sent not his Son into the world, to condemn the world; but that the world might live by means of him. 
  18 He that believeth on him is not condemned; but he that believeth not, is already condemned; because he hath not believed on the name of the only begotten Son of God. 
  19 And this is the [ground of] condemnation, that light hath come into the world, and men have loved darkness rather than light, for their deeds have been evil. 
  20 For every one that doeth abominable things, hateth the light, and cometh not to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.
  21 But he that doeth right, cometh to the light, that his works may be known to be done in God.
  22 After these things, came Jesus and his disciples into the land of Judaea; and there he abode with them, and baptized.
  23 And John also was baptizing in 'non, which is near to Salim, because there were many waters there: and the people came, and were baptized.
  24 For John had not yet fallen into prison.
  25 And one of John's disciples and a certain Jew had disputed respecting purification.
  26 And they came to John, and said to him: Our Rabbi, he who was with thee beyond Jordan, and of whom thou gavest testimony, lo, he also baptizeth; and many go after him. 
  27 John answered, and said to them: A man cannot take any thing by his own choice, unless it be given him from heaven.
  28 Ye are witnesses for me, that I said: I am not the Messiah, but am sent to go before him.
  29 He that hath the bride, is the bridegroom: and the friend of the bridegroom, who standeth and listeneth to him, rejoiceth with great joy on account of the bridegroom's voice: this my joy, therefore, lo, it is full.
  30 To him must be increase, and to me decrease.
  31 For he that cometh from above, is above all; and he that is from the earth, is of the earth, and talketh of the earth. He that cometh from heaven, is above all; 
  32 and what he hath seen and heard, he testifieth; and his testimony, no one receiveth.
  33 But he that receiveth his testimony, hath set his seal, that God is true.
  34 For he whom God hath sent, speaketh the words of God; for God hath not given the Spirit by measure [to him].
  35 The Father loveth the Son, and hath given every thing into his hands.
  36 He that believeth on the Son, hath life eternal; but he who obeyeth not the Son, shall not see life. but the wrath of God will abide upon him.

IV.

  01 And Jesus knew, that the Pharisees had heard; that he made many disciples, and baptized more than John. 
  02 Yet Jesus himself did not baptize but his disciples. 
  03 And he left Judaea, and went again into Galilee. 
  04 And in going, he had occasion to pass through the midst of the Samaritans.
  05 And he came to a city of the Samaritans called Sychar, near the field which Jacob gave to his son Joseph. 
  06 And Jacob's well of water was there. And Jesus was weary with the toil of travelling, and seated himself by the well: and it was at the sixth hour.
  07 And a woman from Samaria came to draw water. And Jesus said to her: Give me water to drink.
  08 And his disciples had gone to the city, to buy themselves food.
  09 The Samaritan woman said to him: How dost thou, a Jew, ask drink of me, who am a Samaritan woman? For the Jews have no familiarity with Samaritans.
  10 Jesus replied and said to her: If thou hadst known the gift of God, and who it is that saith to thee, Give me to drink, thou wouldest have asked of him, and he would have given thee living waters.
  11 The woman said to him: My lord, thou hast no bucket, and the well is deep.; how hast thou living waters ? 
  12 Art thou greater than our father Jacob, who gave us this well, and drank from it himself, and his children, and his flocks?
  13 Jesus replied and said to her: Whoever shall drink of these waters, will thirst again;
  14 but whoever shall drink of the waters which I shall give him, will not thirst for ever; but the waters, which I shall give him, will be in him a fountain of waters, springing up unto life eternal.
  15 The woman said to him: My lord, give me of these waters, that I may not thirst again, and may not come to draw from here.
  16 Jesus said to her: Go, call thy husband, and come hither.
  17 She said to him: I have no husband. Jesus said to her: Thou hast well said, I have no husband;
  18 for thou hast had five husbands, and he whom thou now hast, is not thy husband. In this thou didst speak truly.
  19 The woman said to him: My lord, I perceive thou art a prophet.
  20 Our fathers worshipped in this mountain; but ye say, that in Jerusalem is the place where it is proper to worship. 
  21 Jesus said to her: Woman, believe me, the hour cometh, when neither in this mountain, nor in Jerusalem, ye will worship the Father.
  22 Ye worship, ye know not what; but we worship what we know; for life is from the Jews.
  23 But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers will worship the Father in spirit and in truth; for the Father requireth that worshippers be such.
  24 For God is a Spirit; and they that worship him, should worship in spirit and in truth.
  25 The woman said to him: I know that Messiah will come; and when he cometh, he will teach us every thing. 
  26 Jesus said to her: I, who talk with thee, am he.
  27 And while he was speaking, his disciples came. And they wondered that he would converse with the woman; yet no one said, What seekest thou? or, Why talkest thou with her?
  28 And the woman left her water-pot, and went to the city, and said [to the people]:
  29 Come, see a man that told me every thing I ever did: is not this the Messiah ?
  30 And the people went out of the city, and came to him.
  31 In the mean time, his disciples entreated him, and said to him: Our Rabbi, eat.
  32 But he said to them: I have food to eat, of which ye are ignorant.
  33 The disciples said among themselves: Hath any one brought him something to eat ?
  34 Jesus said to them: My food is to do the pleasure of him that sent me, and to accomplish his work. 
  35 Do ye not say, that after four months cometh the harvest? Behold, I say to you, and lift up your eyes, and look upon the grounds, that they are white, and have already come to the harvest.
  36 And he that reapeth, receiveth wages, and gathereth fruits unto life eternal; and the sower and the reaper equally rejoice.
  37 For in this, is the proverb true, that one is the sower, and another the reaper.
  38 I sent you to reap that, on which ye labored not: for others toiled, and ye entered into their labor.
  39 And many Samaritans of that city believed on him, because of the discourse of the woman, who testified, He told me all that I ever did.
  40 And when these Samaritans came to him, they requested him to tarry with them; and he remained with them two days.
  41 And many believed on him, because of his discourse. 
  42 And they said to the woman: Henceforth we believe in him, not on account of thy word; for we have heard him ourselves, and we know that he truly is the Messiah, the Life-Giver of the world.
  43 And after two days Jesus departed from there and went into Galilee.
  44 For Jesus himself testified, that a prophet is not honored in his own city.
  45 And when he came to Galilee, the Galileans received him, having seen all the signs which he wrought in Jerusalem at the feast, for they too had gone to the feast.
  46 And Jesus came again to Cana of Galilee, where he made the water wine. And there was at Capernaum a king's servant, whose son was sick.
  47 He heard that Jesus had come from Judaea to Galilee; and he went to him, and besought him that he would come down and heal his son; for he was near dying.
  48 Jesus said to him: Unless ye see signs and wonders, ye will not believe.
  49 The king's servant said to him: My lord, come down, before the child dieth.
  50 Jesus said to him: Go, thy son liveth. And the man believed the word which Jesus spake to him, and went away. 
  51 And as he was going down, his servants met him, and informed him and said to him: Thy son liveth.
  52 And he asked them, at what time he recovered. And they said to him: Yesterday, at the seventh hour the fever left him.
  53 And his father knew, that it was at the hour in which Jesus said to him, Thy son liveth. And he believed, and all his house.
  54 This again was the second sign that Jesus wrought, when he came from Judaea to Galilee.

V.

  01 After these things there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
  02 And there was there in Jerusalem a certain place of baptizing, which was called in Hebrew Bethesda; and there were in it five porches.
  03 And in them were laid a great multitude of the sick, and the blind, and the lame, and the withered, waiting for the moving of the waters.
  04 For an angel, from time to time, descended into the baptistery, and moved the waters; and he who first went in, after the moving of the waters, was cured of whatever disease he had.
  05 And a certain man was there, who had been diseased thirty and eight years.
  06 Jesus saw him lying, and knew that [his disease] had been a long time upon him, and said to him: Desirest thou to be healed ?
  07 And the sick man answered and said: Yes, my lord; but I have no one who, when the water is moved, will put me into the baptistery; but while I am coming, another descendeth before me.
  08 Jesus said to him: Arise, take up thy bed, and walk. 
  09 And immediately the man was healed; and he arose, took up his bed, and walked; and it was the sabbath day. 
  10 And the Jews said to him that was healed: It is the sabbath; it is not lawful for thee to bear thy bed. 
  11 But he answered, and said to them: He that made me whole, he said to me, Take up thy bed and walk. 
  12 And they asked him: Who is the man that said to thee, Take up thy bed and walk ?
  13 But the man that was healed, knew not who it was; for Jesus had slid away, in the great multitude that was in the place.
  14 After a time, Jesus found him in the temple, and said to him: Lo, thou art healed; sin not again, lest something worse come upon thee than before.
  15 And the man went and told the Jews, that it was Jesus who had cured him.
  16 And for this cause the Jews persecuted Jesus, and sought to kill him; because he had done these things on the sabbath.
  17 But Jesus said to them: My Father worketh until now, and I work.
  18 And for this, the Jews sought the more to kill him, not only because he had broken the sabbath, but because he had said of God, that he was his Father, and had equalled himself with God.
  19 And Jesus answered, and said to them: Verily, verily, I say to you: The Son can do nothing, of his own pleasure, but what he seeth the Father do: for what things the Father doeth, these in like manner doeth the Son.
  20 For the Father loveth his Son, and showeth him every thing he doeth: and greater works than these, will he show him, that ye may wonder.
  21 For as the Father raiseth the dead, and vivifieth them; so also the Son vivifieth whom he pleaseth. 
  22 For neither doth the Father judge any one, but hath given all judgment to the Son:
  23 that every man may honor the Son, as he honoreth the Father. He that honoreth not the Son, honoreth not the Father that sent him.
  24 Verily, verily, I say to you, That he who heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath life eternal, and will not come into condemnation, but hath passed from death to life.
  25 Verily, verily, I say to you, That the hour cometh, and even now come, when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God; and they that hear, will live.
  26 For, as the Father hath life in himself, so hath he given to the Son also, to have life in himself: 
  27 and hath moreover given him authority to execute judgment.* But that he is the Son of man,
  28 wonder not at this; for the hour cometh when all that are in their graves will hear his voice;
  29 and will come forth; they that have done good, to the resurrection of life, and they that have done evil, to the resurrection of condemnation.
  30 I can do nothing of my own pleasure; but as I hear, so I judge. And my judgment is just; for I seek not my own pleasure, but the pleasure of him that sent me. 
  31 If I should bear testimony respecting myself, my testimony would not be valid.
  32 There is another that beareth testimony concerning me; and I know that the testimony which he beareth concerning me is true.
  33 Ye sent unto John; and he bore testimony to the truth. 
  34 And I have not received testimony from men: but these things I say, that ye may live.
  35 He was a burning and shining lamp; and ye were willing for a time, to glory in his light.
  36 But I have a testimony, which is greater than that of John; for the works which my Father hath given me to accomplish, these works which I do, testify of me that the Father hath sent me.
  37 And the Father who sent me, he testifieth of me. Ye have not at any time heard his voice, nor have ye seen his visage.
  38 And his word abideth not in you, because ye believe not in him whom he hath sent.
  39 Search the scriptures; for in them, ye think, there is life eternal for you; and they testify of me. 
  40 And ye are unwilling to come to me, that life eternal may be yours.
  41 I do not receive glory from men.
  42 But I know you, that the love of God is not in you. 
  43 I came in the name of my Father, and ye receive me not: if another shall come in his own name, him ye will receive.
  44 How can ye believe, who receive glory from one another, and seek not the glory which cometh from God only ? 
  45 Do ye suppose, that I shall accuse you before the Father? There is one that will accuse you, that Moses, on whom ye rely.
  46 For, if ye believed Moses, ye would also believe me; for Moses wrote concerning me.
  47 But if ye believe not his writings, how will ye believe my words?

* The Syriac punctuation here differs from the Greek, and greatly alters the sense. If the Greek punctuation were applied to the Syriac, this and the following verse might be rendered thus:
  27 " and hath moreover given him authority to execute judgment, as he is also the Son of man.
  28 Marvel not at this; for the hour cometh," &c. This is probably the true rendering of the passage; since the other scarcely makes any intelligible sense.

VI.

  01 After these things, Jesus went to the other side of the sea of Galilee [or] of Tiberias.
  02 And great multitudes went after him; because they had seen the signs which he wrought upon the sick. 
  03 And Jesus ascended a mountain, and there he seated himself with his disciples.
  04 And the feast of the Jewish passover was near.
  05 And Jesus raised his eyes, and saw a great multitude coming towards him; and he said to Philip: Whence shall we buy bread, that these may eat ?
  06 And this he said, to try him; for he knew what he was about to do.
  07 Philip said to him: Two hundred denarii in bread would not suffice them, that each might take but a little. 
  08 One of his disciples, Andrew, the brother of Simon Cephas, said to him:
  09 There is a lad here, who hath with him five cakes of barley, and two fishes; but what are these for all those [people] ?
  10 Jesus said to them: Make all the people recline. Now there was much grass in that place: and the people reclined, in number five thousand.
  11 And Jesus took the bread, and blessed, and distributed to them that reclined. And so also, with the fish; as much as they desired.
  12 And when they were satisfied, he said to his disciples: Gather up the fragments which remain, that nothing be lost.
  13 And they collected and filled twelve baskets, with fragments of what remained to them that had eaten of the five barley cakes.
  14 And those people, when they saw the sign which Jesus had wrought, said: Certainly, this is that prophet who was to come into the world.
  15 And Jesus knew, that they were about to come and take him by force, and make him king: and he retired into a mountain alone.
  16 And when it was evening, his disciples went down to the sea,
  17 and sat in a ship, and were going over to Capernaum. And darkness came on, and Jesus had not come to them. 
  18 And the sea was boisterous against them, for a violent wind was blowing.
  19 And they had gone about five and twenty or thirty furlongs, when they saw Jesus walking upon the sea: and as he drew near to the ship, they were afraid.
  20 But Jesus said to them: It is I; be not afraid. 
  21 And they were glad to receive him into the ship. And, directly, the ship was at the land to which they were going.
  22 And the next day, the multitude, who had remained on the other side of the sea, saw that there was no other ship there, except that in which the disciples embarked, and that Jesus did not embark in that ship with his disciples; 
  23 yet that other ships had come from Tiberias, near to the place where they ate the bread when Jesus blessed [it].
  24 And when the multitude saw, that Jesus was not there, nor his disciples; they embarked in ships, and came to Capernaum, and sought for Jesus.
  25 And when they found him on the other side of the sea, they said to him: Our Rabbi, when camest thou hither? 
  26 Jesus replied and said to them: Verily, verily, I say to you, Ye seek me, not because ye saw the signs, but because ye ate the bread and were satisfied. 
  27 Labor not for the food that perisheth, but for the food that abideth unto life eternal, which the Son of man will give to you; for him hath God the Father sealed. 
  28 They said to him: What shall we do, in order to work the works of God ?
  29 Jesus replied and said to them: This is the work of God, that ye believe on him whom he hath sent.
  30 They say to him: What sign doest thou, that we may see and believe in thee? What workest thou ?
  31 Our fathers ate the manna, in the wilderness; as it is written, He gave them bread from heaven to eat. 
  32 Jesus said to them: Verily, verily, I say to you, Moses gave you not the bread from heaven; but my Father giveth you the real bread from heaven.
  33 For the bread of God is, he that came down from heaven, and giveth life to the world.
  34 They say to him: Our Lord, give us at all times this bread.
  35 Jesus said to them: I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me, shall not hunger; and he that believeth on me, shall not thirst, for ever.
  36 But I said to you, That ye have seen me, and do not believe.
  37 All that my Father gave me, will come to me: and him, that cometh to me, I will not cast out.
  38 For I came down from heaven, not to do my own pleasure, but the pleasure of him that sent me.
  39 And this is the pleasure of him that sent me, that whatever he hath given me, I should lose nothing of it, but should raise it up at the last day.
  40 For this is the pleasure of my Father, that every one who seeth the Son, and believeth on him, should have life eternal; and I will raise him up at the last day.
  41 Then the Jews murmured at him, because he said: I am the bread, who have descended from heaven.
  42 And they said: Is not this Jesus the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? And how doth he say: I came down from heaven ?
  43 Jesus replied and said to them: Murmur not, one with another.
  44 No man can come to me, unless the Father who sent me, shall draw him; and I will raise him up at the last day.
  45 For it is written, in the prophet: And they shall all be taught of God. Whoever, therefore, heareth from the Father, and learneth from him, cometh to me.
  46 Not that any one hath seen the Father, except him who hath come from God; he it is, hath seen the Father.
  47 Verily, verily, I say to you: That, to him who believeth in me, there is life eternal.
  48 I am the bread of life.
  49 Your fathers ate the manna, in the wilderness, and they died.
  50 But this is the bread which cometh from heaven, that a man may eat of it, and not die.
  51 I am the bread of life, who have come down from heaven: and if a man shall eat of this bread, he will live for ever. And the bread which I shall give, is my body, which I give for the life of the world.
  52 Then the Jews contended one with another, and said: How can he give us his body to eat?
  53 And Jesus said to them: Verily, verily, I say to you, That, unless ye eat the body of the Son of man, and drink his blood, ye have no life within you.
  54 But he that eateth of my body, and drinketh of my blood, to him is life eternal; and I will raise him up at the last day
  55 For my body truly is food, and my blood truly is drink.
  56 He that eateth my body, and drinketh my blood, abideth in me, and I in him
  57 As the living Father hath sent me, and I live because of the Father; so he that shall eat me, he also will live because of me.
  58 This is the bread that came down from heaven: not as your fathers ate the manna, and died; whoever shall eat of this bead, will live for ever.
  59 These things he uttered in the synagogue, while teaching at  Capernaum.
  60 And many of his disciples who heard [him], said: This is a hard speech, who can hear it.
  61 And Jesus knew in himself, that his disciples murmured at this; and he said to them, Doth this stumble you ? 
  62 If then, ye were to see the Son of man ascend, to where he was from the beginning!
  63 It is the Spirit that vivifieth; the body profiteth nothing. The words which I have used with you, they are spirit, and they are life.
  64 But there are some of you, that believe not. For Jesus knew, from the beginning, who they were that believed not, and who it was that would betray him.
  65 And he said to them: For this reason, I said to you, That no one can come to me, unless it be given to him by my Father.
  66 On account of this speech, many of his disciples turned back, and walked not with him.
  67 And Jesus said to the twelve: Are ye also disposed to go away ?
  68 Simon Cephas replied, and said: My Lord, to whom shall we go ? The words of life eternal are with thee. 
  69 And we believe, and know, that thou art the Messiah, the Son of the living God.
  70 Jesus said to them: Have not I chosen you twelve ? Yet one of you is a devil.
  71 This he spoke of Judas Iscariot, the son of Simon; for he was afterwards to betray him, being one of the twelve.

VII.

  01 After these things Jesus walked in Galilee, for he would not walk in Judaea, because the Jews sought to slay him.
  02 And the Jewish feast of tabernacles drew near. 
  03 And the brothers of Jesus said to him: Leave here, and go into Judaea; that thy disciples may see the works thou doest.
  04 For there is no one who doeth any thing in secret, while he wisheth to become public. If thou doest these things, show thyself to the world.
  05 For even his brothers did not believe in Jesus. 
  06 Jesus said to them: My time hath not yet come: but your time is always ready.
  07 The world cannot hate you, but me it hateth; because I testify of it, that its deeds are evil.
  08 Go ye up to the feast; I do not go up to this feast now, because my time is not yet completed.
  09 These things he said, and remained still in Galilee. 
  10 But when his brothers had gone up to the feast, then he also went up, not openly, but as it were secretly.
  11 And the Jews sought for him at the feast; and they said, Where is he?
  12 And there was much altercation among the people respecting him; for some said, He is a good man; while others said, No, but he deceiveth the people.
  13 Yet no one spoke openly of him, from fear of the Jews.
  14 And in the midst of the days of the feast, Jesus went into the temple, and taught.
  15 And the Jews wondered, and said: How knoweth this man literature, having not been educated?
  16 Jesus answered and said: My doctrine is not from me, but from him that sent me.
  17 He that wisheth to do his pleasure, will understand my doctrine, whether it is from God, or whether I speak from my own pleasure.
  18 He that speaketh according to the pleasure of his own mind, seeketh glory for himself: but he who seeketh the glory of him that sent him, is veracious, and evil is not in his heart.
  19 Did not Moses give you the law? Yet no one of you observeth the law.
  20 Why do ye seek to kill me? The multitude answered and said: Thou hast a demon: who seeketh to kill thee? 
  21 Jesus replied, and said to them: I have wrought one work, and ye all wonder.
  22 Because Moses gave you circumcision, (not that it was from Moses, but it was from the fathers,) ye circumcise a child on the sabbath.
  23 And if a child is circumcised on the sabbath day, that the law of Moses may not be violated, do ye murmur at me, because I have made a man entirely sound on the sabbath day ?
  24 Judge not, with a respect for persons; but judge ye a righteous judgment.
  25 And some from Jerusalem said: Is not this he, whom they seek to kill?
  26 And lo, he discourseth publicly, and they say nothing to him. Do our Elders know, that he really is the Messiah ?
  27 Yet we know this man, whence he is; the Messiah, when he shall come, no one knoweth whence he is. 
  28 And Jesus, while teaching in the temple, raised his voice and said: Ye both know me, and ye know from whence I am. And I did not come of my own accord; but he that sent me is true. Him ye know not;
  29 but I know him; because I am from him, and he sent me.
  30 And they sought to apprehend him; but no one laid hands on him, because his hour was not yet come. 
  31 And many of the multitude believed on him, and said: When the Messiah cometh, will he work greater signs than these which this man doeth ?
  32 And the Pharisees heard the multitude say these things of him: and they and the chief priests sent constables to take him.
  33 And Jesus said: A little while longer I am with you, and then I go to him that sent me.
  34 And ye will seek me, and will not  find me; and where I am, ye cannot come.
  35 The Jews said among themselves: Whither is he about to go, that we cannot find him? Will he go to some region of the Gentiles, and teach the profane?
  36 What means this speech he uttered: Ye will seek me, and will not find me; and where I am, ye cannot come?
  37 And on the great day, which was the last of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, and said: If any man thirst, let him come to me and drink.
  38 Whoever believeth in me, as the scriptures have said, Out of his belly shall flow rivers of living waters.
  39 (This he said of the Spirit, which they who believe in him were to receive: for the Spirit had not yet been given, because Jesus was not yet glorified.)
  40 And many of the multitude who heard his discourses, said: Certainly, he is a prophet.
  41 Others said: He is the Messiah. Others said: Doth Messiah come from Galilee?
  42 Doth not the scriptures say, That Messiah cometh of the seed of David, and from Bethlehem the town of David ?
  43 And there was a division among the multitude respecting him.
  44 And there were some of them who wished to apprehend him. But no one laid hands on him.
  45 And the constables came to the chief priests and Pharisees; and the priests said to them: Why have ye not brought him?
  46 The constables say to them: Never did a man speak, as this man speaketh.
  47 The Pharisees said to them: Are ye also deceived? 
  48 Have any of the chiefs, or of the Pharisees, believed in him?
  49 But this people, who know not the law, are accursed. 
  50 One of them: Nicodemus, he who came to Jesus by night, said to them:
  51 Doth our law condemn a man, unless it first hear him, and know what he hath done ?
  52 They answered, and said to him: Art thou also from Galilee ? Search, and see, that no prophet ariseth from Galilee.
  53 So they went every one to his own house.*

* This 53d verse is wanting in many early editions of the Syriac N. Testament. So also the whole story of the adulteress, in the following chapter, v. 1-11.

VIII.

  01 And Jesus went to the mount of Olives.
  02 And in the morning he came again to the temple; and all the people came to him, and he sat down and taught them.
  03 And the Scribes and Pharisees brought forward a woman that was caught in adultery. And when they had placed her in the midst,
  04 they say to him: Teacher, this woman was caught openly in the act of adultery.
  05 And in the law of Moses, [God] hath commanded us to stone such persons. What therefore dost thou say ? 
  06 And this they said, tempting him, so that they might have [ground] to accuse him. But Jesus having stooped down, was writing on the ground.
  07 And as they continued asking him, he straightened himself up, and said to them: Whoever among you is without sin, let him first cast a stone at her.
  08 And, having again stooped down, he wrote on the ground. 
  09 And they, when they heard [it], went out one by one, beginning with the older; and the woman was left, alone where she had stood in the midst.
  10 And when Jesus had straightened himself up, he said to the woman: Where are they? Doth no one condemn thee ?
  11 And she said: No man, Lord. And Jesus said: Neither do I condemn thee. Go thou, and henceforth sin no more.
  12 And Jesus again conversed with them, and said: I am the light of the world: he that cometh to me, will not walk in darkness; but will find for himself the light of life.
  13 The Pharisees said to him: Thou bearest witness of thyself, thy testimony is not certain.
  14 Jesus answered and said to them: Although I bear witness of myself, my testimony is certain, because I know whence I came, and whither I go. But ye do not know, whence I came, and whither I go.
  15 Ye judge according to the flesh: I judge no one. 
  16 Yet if I Judge, my judgment is certain, because I am not alone, but I and my Father who sent me.
  17 And in your law it is written, that the testimony of two persons is certain.
  18 I am one: who bear witness of myself, and my Father who sent me, beareth witness of me.
  19 They say to him: Where is thy Father? Jesus replied, and said to them: Ye neither know me nor my Father. If ye had known me, ye would also have known my Father.
  20 These words spake Jesus in the treasury, as he taught in the temple: and no one laid hands on him, because his hour was not yet come.
  21 Again Jesus said to them: I go away, and ye will seek me, and will die in your sins. And whither I go, ye cannot come.
  22 The Jews said: Is he about to kill himself, that he should say, Whither I go ye cannot come?
  23 And he said to them: Ye are from below, I am from above; ye are of this world, I am not of this world 
  24 I said to you, That ye will die in your sins; for if ye believe not that I am he, ye will die in your sins. 
  25 The Jews said to him: Who art thou ? Jesus said to them: Although I have begun to converse with you, 
  26 I have yet many things to say and to Judge concerning you. But he that sent me is true: and the things which I have heard from him, them I speak in the world. 
  27 And they did not know, that he spake to them of the Father.
  28 Jesus said to them again: When ye shall have lifted up the Son of man, then will ye know that I am he, and that I do nothing from my own pleasure, but as my Father taught me, so I speak.
  29 And he that sent me, is with me; and my Father hath not left me alone, because I do, at all times, that which pleaseth him.
  30 And when he had spoken these things, many believed on him.
  31 And Jesus said to those Jews who believed on him: If ye continue in my word, ye will be truly my disciples. 
  32 And ye will know the truth; and the truth will make you free.
  33 They say to him: We are the seed of Abraham, and never were in servitude to any man; and how sayest thou, Ye will be freemen ?
  34 Jesus said to them: Verily, verily, I say to you, That whoever committeth sin, is the servant of sin. 
  35 And a servant abideth not for ever in the house; but the Son abideth for ever.
  36 If therefore the Son shall make you free, ye will really be free men.
  37 I know that ye are the children of Abraham; but ye seek to kill me, because ye do not acquiesce in my word. 
  38 I speak that which I have seen with my Father, and ye do that which ye have seen with your father.
  39 They answered, and said to him: Our father is Abraham. Jesus said to them: If ye were children of Abraham, ye would do the works of Abraham.
  40 But now ye seek to kill me, a man who hath told you the truth, which I have heard from God: this did not Abraham. 
  41 But ye do the works of your father. They say to him: We are not [the offspring] of whoredom; we have one Father, God.
  42 Jesus said to them: If God were your Father, ye would love me; for I proceeded and came from God: I did not come of my own accord, but he sent me.
  43 Why do ye not understand my speech ? It is because ye cannot hear my speech.
  44 Ye are of your father, the calumniator ; and the lust of your father ye are disposed to do. He was from the beginning a manslayer, and abode not in the truth; for the truth is not in him, and when he speaketh a lie he speaketh from himself, for he is a liar, and the father of it.
  45 But me, because I speak the truth, ye believe me not.
  46 Which of you convicteth me of sin ? And if I speak the truth, why do ye not believe me ?
  47 He that is of God, heareth the words of God. Therefore ye do not hear, because ye are not of God.
  48 The Jews answered, and said to him: Did we not well say, that thou art a Samaritan, and hast a demon ? 
  49 Jesus said to them: I have no demon: but I honor God; and ye contemn me.
  50 But I seek not my own glory: there is one that seeketh [it], and judgeth.
  51 Verily, verily, I say to you: He that keepeth my word, will never see death.
  52 The Jews say to him: Now we know, that thou hast a demon. Abraham is dead, and the prophets; yet thou sayest: He that keepeth my word, will never taste death. 
  53 Art thou greater than our father Abraham who is dead, or than the prophets who died ? What dost thou make thyself? 
  54 Jesus said to them: If I glorify myself, my glory is nothing. It is my Father that glorifieth me, of whom ye say, He is our God.
  55 And ye know him not. But I know him; and if I should say, I know him not, I should be a liar, like you: but I do know him, and I observe his word.
  56 Abraham your father desired to see my day: and he saw it, and rejoiced.
  57 The Jews say to him: Thou art not yet fifty years old, and hast thou seen Abraham ?
  58 Jesus said to them: Verily, verily I say to you, That before Abraham existed, I was.
  59 And they took up stones to stone him. But Jesus concealed himself, and went out of the temple, and passed along among them, and went away.

IX.

  01 And while passing, he saw a man blind from his mother's womb.
  02 And his disciples asked him, and said: Our Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind ?
  03 Jesus said to them: Neither did he sin, nor his parents; but that the works of God might be seen in him. 
  04 I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day; the night cometh, in which no one can work. 
  05 So long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.
  06 And having spoken thus, he spit on the ground, and made mud with the spittle, and spread it on the eyes of the blind man;
  07 and said to him: Go, wash in the baptistery of Siloam. And he went, and washed, and came away seeing.
  08 And his neighbors, and they by whom he had before been seen begging, said: Is not this he, who sat and begged ?
  09 Some said, It is he: and others said, No; but he is very like him. But he said: I am he.
  10 And they said to him: How were thy eyes opened? 
  11 He answered, and said to them: A man whose name is Jesus, made mud and spread it on my eyes, and said to me, Go, wash in the waters of Siloam. And I went, and washed, and my sight was restored.
  12 They said to him: Where is he ? He said to them: I know not.
  13 And they brought him that had been blind, before the Pharisees.
  14 Now it was on the sabbath that Jesus made the mud, and opened his eyes.
  15 And again the Pharisees asked him: How was thy sight restored? And he said to them: He put mud upon my eyes, and I washed, and my sight was restored.
  16 And some of the Pharisees said: This man is not of God, for he doth not observe the sabbath. But others said: How can a man that is a sinner, work these signs ? And there was a division among them.
  17 They say again to the blind man: What sayest thou of him, seeing he hath opened thy eyes ? He said to them: I say, that he is a prophet.
  18 And the Jews would not believe concerning him, that he had been blind, and recovered sight, until they called the parents of him who recovered sight.
  19 And they asked them: Is this your son, of whom ye say that he was born blind ? And how doth he now see? 
  20 And his parents answered and said: We know that this is our son, and that he was born blind;
  21 but how he now seeth, or who opened his eyes, we know not. He hath come to his years, ask him; he will speak for himself.
  22 These things said his parents, because they feared the Jews: for the Jews had decided, that if any one should confess him to be Messiah, they would expel him from the synagogue.
  23 For this reason his parents said, He hath come to his years, ask him.
  24 And they called a second time the man who had been blind, and said to him: Give glory to God; for we know that this man is a sinner.
  25 He replied, and said to them: Whether he is a sinner, I know not; but, one thing I know, that I was blind, and lo, now I see.
  26 They said to him again: What did he to thee ? How did he open thy eyes ?
  27 He said to them: I have told you, and ye did not hear. Why would ye hear again ? Do ye also wish to become his disciples?
  28 But they reproached him, and said to him: Thou art his disciple, but we are the disciples of Moses. 
  29 And we know that God conversed with Moses; but as for this man, we know not whence he is.
  30 The man replied and said to them: In this therefore is [something] to be admired, that ye know not whence he is, and yet he hath opened my eyes.
  31 Now we know, that God heareth not the voice of sinners; but him that feareth him, and doeth his pleasure, him he heareth.
  32 Never hath it been heard, that any one opened the eyes of one born blind.
  33 If this man were not of God, he could not do this thing.
  34 They replied, and said to him: Thou wast wholly born in sins; and dost thou teach us ? And they expelled him.
  35 And Jesus heard that they had expelled him; and he found him, and said to him: Believest thou on the Son of God ?
  36 And he that was healed, answered and said: My Lord, who is he, that I may believe on him?
  37 Jesus said to him: Thou hast seen him, and it is he that talketh with thee.
  38 And he said: My Lord, I believe: and he fell down, and worshipped him.
  39 And Jesus said: For the judgment of this world, have I come; that they who see not, might see; and that they who see, might become blind.
  40 And [some] of those Pharisees who were with him, heard these things; and they said to him: How? Are we also blind ?
  41 Jesus said to them: If ye were blind, ye would be without sin; but now ye say, We see; therefore your sin is established.

X.

  01 Verily, verily, I say to you, That he who doth not enter by the door into the fold of the flock, but climbeth up in some other place, he is a thief and a robber. 
  02 But he that entereth by the door, is the shepherd of the flock.
  03 And to him the door-keeper openeth the door; and the sheep hear his voice. And he calleth the sheep by their names, and leadeth them out.
  04 And when he hath led out his flock, he goeth before it; and his sheep follow him, because they know his voice. 
  05 But after a stranger the flock will not follow, but it fleeth from him; because it knoweth not the voice of a stranger.
  06 This allegory spake Jesus to them; but they knew not what he said to them.
  07 And Jesus said to them again: Verily, verily, I say to you, That I am the door of the flock.
  08 All those who have come, were thieves and robbers: but the flock did not hear them.
  09 I am the door: and if any enter by me, he will live, and will come in and go out, and will find pasture. 
  10 The thief cometh not, but that he may steal, and kill, and destroy. I have come, that they may have life, and may have that which is excellent.
  11 I am a good shepherd. A good shepherd exposeth his life for the sheep.
  12 But a hireling, who is not the shepherd, and to whom the sheep do not belong, when he seeth the wolf coming, leaveth the flock, and fleeth; and the wolf cometh, and teareth, and disperseth the flock.
  13 And a hireling fleeth, because he is a hireling, and hath no concern for the flock.
  14 I am a good shepherd; and I know my own [sheep], and am known by my own. 
  15 As my Father knoweth me, so know I my Father; and I expose my life for the flock.
  16 And I have other sheep, which are not of this fold: and them also I must bring; and they will hear my voice; and the whole will be one flock, and one shepherd. 
  17 For this cause my Father loveth me, that I lay down my life, to resume it again.
  18 There is no one that taketh it from me; but I lay it down of my own pleasure: for I have authority to lay it down, and authority to resume it again; because I have received this command from my Father.
  19 And again there was a division among the Jews, on account of these sayings.
  20 And many of them said: He hath a demon, and is wholly beside himself; why hear ye him?
  21 But others said: These are not the discourses of a demoniac: can a demon open the eyes of one blind ?
  22 And the feast of the dedication was [held] at Jerusalem, and it was winter.
  23 And Jesus walked in the temple, in the porch of Solomon.
  24 And the Jews gathered around him; and said to him: how long holdest thou our mind in suspense? If thou art the Messiah, tell us plainly.
  25 Jesus answered, and said to them: I have told you, and ye did not believe. The works which I do in the name of my Father, they testify of me
  26 But ye do not believe, because ye are not of my sheep, as I have said to you.
  27 My sheep hear my voice: and I know them: and they go after me.
  28 And I give to them life eternal: and they will never be lost: nor will any one pluck them from my hand. 
  29 For my Father, who gave [them] to me, is greater than all; nor can any pluck from my Father's hand. 
  30 I and my Father are one.
  31 And again the Jews took up stones, to stone him. 
  32 Jesus said to them: Many good works have I showed you from my Father; for which of those works do ye stone me?
  33 The Jews said to him: It is not on account of good works, that we stone thee: but because thou blasphemest; and, whilst thou art a man, thou makest thyself God. 
  34 Jesus said to them: Is it not written in your law, I have said, Ye are gods?
  35 If he called them gods, because the word of God was with them, and the scripture cannot be nullified; 
  36 do ye say to him, whom the Father, hath sanctified and sent into the world, Thou blasphemest; because I said to you, I am the Son of God?
  37 And if I do not the works of my Father, believe me not.
  38 But if I do [them], although ye believe not me, yet believe the works; that ye may know and believe, that my Father is in me, and I in my Father.
  39 And again they sought to lay hold of him; but he escaped out of their hands;
  40 and retired to the other side of the Jordan, to the place where John at first baptized, and tarried there. 
  41 And many persons came to him: and they said, John indeed wrought not even one sign; but every thing that John said of his man, was true.
  42 And many believed on him.

XI.

  01 And a certain man was sick, Lazarus of the town of Bethany, the brother of Mary and Martha.
  02 It was that Mary who anointed the feet of Jesus with perfume, and wiped [them] with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick.
  03 And his two sisters sent to Jesus, and said: Our Lord, he whom thou lovest is sick.
  04 And Jesus said: This sickness is not that of death, but for the glory of God, that the Son of God may be glorified by means of it.
  05 Now Jesus loved Martha and Mary, and Lazarus. 
  06 And when he heard that he was sick, he remained in the place where he was two days.
  07 And afterwards he said to his disciples: Come, let us go again into Judaea.
  08 His disciples say to him: Our Rabbi, the Jews have just sought to stone thee; and goest thou again thither. 
  09 Jesus said to them: Are there not twelve hours in the day ? And if a man walk in the daytime, he stumbleth not; because he seeth the light of the world.
  10 But if one walk in the night, he stumbleth; because there is no light in him.
  11 These things said Jesus, and afterwards he said to them: Lazarus our friend reposeth. But I go to awake him. 
  12 His disciples say to him: Our Lord, if he sleepeth, he is recovering.
  13 But Jesus spoke of his death; and they thought, he spoke of the sleep of repose.
  14 Then Jesus said to them explicitly; Lazarus is dead. 
  15 And I rejoice, for your sakes, that I was not there; that ye may believe. But let us go there.
  16 Thomas, who is called the Twin, said to his fellow-disciples: Let us also go [and] die with him.
  17 And Jesus came to Bethany, and found that he had been in the grave four days.
  18 Now Bethany was near to Jerusalem, distant from it about fifteen furlongs.
  19 And many of the Jews had come to Martha and Mary, to comfort them concerning their brother.
  20 And Martha, when she heard that Jesus was coming, went out to meet him; but Mary was sitting in the house. 
  21 And Martha said to Jesus: My Lord, if thou hadst been here, my brother had not died.
  22 But even now, I know, that whatever thou wilt ask of God, he will give it thee.
  23 Jesus said to her: Thy brother will rise.
  24 Martha said to him: I know, that he will rise in the consolation, at the last day.
  25 Jesus said to her: I am the consolation, and life. And he that believeth in me, though he should die, will live.
  26 And every one that liveth, and believeth in me, will not die for ever. Believest thou this?
  27 She said to him: Yes, my Lord; I believe, that thou art the Messiah, the Son of God, that cometh into the world.
  28 And when she had thus said, she went and called her sister Mary, secretly, and said to her: Our Rabbi hath come, and calleth for thee.
  29 And Mary, when she heard [it], rose up quickly, and went to meet him.
  30 And Jesus had not yet entered the village, but was in the place where Martha met him.
  31 Those Jews also, who were with her in the house and consoled her, when they saw that Mary rose up quickly and went out, followed after her; for they supposed, she was going to the grave to weep.
  32 And Mary, when she came where Jesus was and saw him, fell at his feet, and said to him: If thou hadst been here, my Lord, my brother had not died.
  33 And when Jesus saw her weeping, and the Jews weeping who came with her, he was moved in spirit, and was agitated. 
  34 And he said: Where have ye laid him ? They say to him: Our Lord, come, and see.
  35 And the tears of Jesus came.
  36 And the Jews said: See, how much he loved him. 
  37 And some of them said: Could not he who opened the eyes of the blind man, have caused that this also should not have died ?
  38 And Jesus, still agitated within, came to the grave. Now the grave was a cave, and a stone was laid upon its entrance.
  39 And Jesus said: Take away this stone. Martha, the sister of the deceased, said to him: My Lord, by this time he is putrid; for four days have elapsed.
  40 Jesus said to her: Did I not tell thee, that if thou wouldst believe, thou shouldst see the glory of God ? 
  41 And they took away the stone. And Jesus raised his eyes on high, and said: Father, I thank thee that thou hast heard me.
  42 And I know that thou hearest me always; but on account of this multitude that standeth here, I say these things; that they may believe, that thou hast sent me.
  43 And when he had thus spoken, he called with a loud voice: Lazarus, come forth!
  44 And the dead man came forth, with his hands and his feet swathed with bandages, and his face with a napkin. Jesus said to them: Loose him, and let him go.
  45 And many of the Jews who had come to Mary, when they saw what Jesus did, believed on him.
  46 But some of them went to the Pharisees, and told them all that Jesus had done.
  47 And the chief priests and Pharisees assembled together, and said: What shall we do? For this man worketh many signs.
  48 And if we thus let him alone, all the people will believe in him; and the Romans will come, and will take away our place and our nation.
  49 But, one of them, named Caiaphas, was the high priest of that year; and he said to them: Ye know not any thing. 
  50 Neither do ye consider, that it is expedient for us, that one man die for the people, and not that this whole people perish.
  51 This he said, however, not from the promptings of his own mind; but being the high priest of that year, he prophesied, that Jesus was about to die for the people: 
  52 and not only for the people, but also that he might collect together the sons of God that were dispersed. 
  53 And from that day, they plotted to kill him.
  54 And Jesus did not walk openly among the Jews; but retired from them to a place near the wilderness, to a town called Ephraim; and there he abode with his disciples.
  55 And the passover of the Jews drew near: and many went up from the villages to Jerusalem, before the feast, that they might purify themselves.
  56 And they sought for Jesus; and they said one to another, in the temple: What think ye ? that he will not come to the feast?
  57 And the chief priests and the Pharisees had commanded that if any one knew where he was, he should make it known to them, that they might take him.

XII.

  01 And six days before the passover, Jesus came to Bethany, where was that Lazarus whom Jesus raised from the dead. 
  02 And they made a supper for him there: and Martha served, and Lazarus was one of the guests with him.
  03 And Mary took an alabaster box of perfume of choice spikenard, of great price; and anointed the feet of Jesus; and she wiped his feet with her hair. And the house was filled with the odor of the perfume.
  04 Then said Judas Iscariot, one of the disciples, he that was about to betray him:
  05 Why was not this ointment sold for three hundred denarii, and given to the poor ?
  06 And this he said, not be cause he cared for the poor, but because he was thief, and held the purse, and carried what was put in it.
  07 But Jesus said: Let her alone; she hath kept it for the day of my burial.
  08 For the poor are always with you, but I am not with you always.
  09 And great multitudes of the Jews heard that he was there: and they came, not only on account of Jesus, but also that they might see Lazarus, whom he raised from the dead.
  10 And the chief priests deliberated about killing even Lazarus:
  11 because many of the Jews, on his account, went and believed in Jesus.
  12 And the next day, a great multitude who had come to the feast, when they heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem,
  13 took boughs of palm-trees, and went out to meet him. And they cried, and said: Hosanna, Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord, the king of Israel !
  14 And Jesus found an ass, and sat upon it; as it is written
  15 Fear not, daughter of Sion. Behold, thy king cometh to thee; and he rideth upon a colt, the foal of an ass. 
  16 These things understood not his disciples, at that time; but when Jesus was glorified, then his disciples remembered that these things were written of him, and that they did them to him.
  17 And the multitude that had been with him, testified that he had called Lazarus from the grave, and raised him from the dead.
  18 And for this reason, great multitudes went out to meet him, as they had heard that he wrought this sign. 
  19 But the Pharisees said, one to another: Do ye see, that ye are gaining nothing? For, lo, the whole world is going after him.
  20 And there were also among the people, some who had come up to worship at the feast.
  21 These came, and approached Philip, who was of Bethsaida in Galilee, and said to him: My lord, we are desirous to see Jesus.
  22 Philip came and told Andrew; and Andrew and Philip told Jesus.
  23 And Jesus answered, and said to them: The hour is come that the Son of man should be glorified.
  24 Verily, verily, I say to you, That a kernel of wheat, unless it fall and die in the ground, remaineth alone; but if it die, it produceth numerous fruits.
  25 He that loveth his life, will lose it; and he that hateth his life, in this world, will preserve it unto life everlasting.
  26 If any one is servant to me, he will come after me; and where I am, there also will my servant be. Him that serveth me, will the Father honor.
  27 Behold, now is my soul troubled; and what shall I say ? My Father, deliver me from this hour ? But for this very cause, came I to this hour.
  28 Father, glorify thy name! And a voice was heard from heaven: I have glorified [it]; and I will glorify [it] again.
  29 And the multitude standing by, heard [it]; and they said: There was thunder. But others said: An angel spoke with him.
  30 Jesus answered, and said to them: This voice was not for my sake, but for yours.
  31 Now is the judgment of this world: now the ruler of this world is cast out.
  32 And I, when I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all men to me.
  33 And this he said, to show by what manner of death, he was to die.
  34 The multitude said to him: We have heard from the law, that the Messiah abideth for ever: [and] how sayest thou, that the Son of man is to be lifted up? Who is this Son of man?
  35 Jesus said to them: A short time longer, the light is with you. Walk, while ye have the light, lest the darkness overtake you. He that walketh in the dark, knoweth not whither he goeth.
  36 While the light is with you, confide in the light; that ye may be children of the light. These things said Jesus, and departed, and concealed himself from them.
  37 And although he wrought all these signs before them, they believed him not;
  38 that the word of Isaiah the prophet might be fulfilled, who said: My Lord; who hath believed our report? And to whom is the arm of the Lord revealed ?
  39 For this reason they could not believe, because Isaiah said again:
  40 They have blinded their eyes, and darkened their hearts; that they might not see with their eyes, and understand with their heart, and be converted; and I should heal them.
  41 These things spake Isaiah, when he saw his glory, and spoke of him.
  42 And of the chiefs also, many believed on him; but on account of the Pharisees, they did not confess [him], lest they should be put out of the synagogue;
  43 for they loved the praise of men, more than the praise of God.
  44 And Jesus cried, and said: He that believeth in me, believeth not in me, but in him that sent me.
  45 And he that seeth me, seeth him that sent me. 
  46 I have come into the world, a light, that whoever believeth in me, might not abide in darkness.
  47 And whoever shall hear my words, and not observe them, I judge him not; for I did not come to judge the world, but to vivify the world.
  48 Whoever rejecteth me, and receiveth not my words, there is one to judge him; the word which I speak, will judge him, at the last day.
  49 For I have not spoken from myself; but the Father who sent me, he gave me commandment, what I should speak, and what I should say.
  50 And I know that his commandment is life eternal. Therefore, these things which I speak, as my Father hath said to me, so I speak.

XIII.

  01 And before the feast of the passover, Jesus knew that the hour had come when he should depart from this world unto the Father. And he loved his own [people], who were in the world; and he loved them unto the end.
  02 And when the supper was passed, it had been injected by Satan into the heart of Judas Iscariot, the son of Simon, to betray him.
  03 And Jesus, because he knew that the Father had given all things into his hands; and that he came out from the Father, and was going to God;
  04 arose from the supper, and laid aside his long garments, and took a linen cloth, and wrapped it about his loins; 
  05 and poured water into a wash-basin, and began to wash the feet of his disciples: and he wiped them with the linen cloth with which he had girded his loins. 
  06 And when he came to Simon Cephas, Simon said to him: Dost thou, my Lord, wash my feet for me ?
  07 Jesus answered, and said to him: What I do, thou understandest not now: but hereafter thou wilt understand.
  08 Simon Cephas said to him: Never shalt thou wash my feet. Jesus said to him: Unless I wash thee, thou hast no part with me.
  09 Simon Cephas said to him: Then, my Lord, not my feet only shalt thou wash, but also my hands and my head. 
  10 Jesus said to him: He that hath bathed, needeth not but to wash his feet; for he is all clean. And ye also are clean; but not all of you.
  11 For Jesus knew, who would betray him: therefore he said, Ye are not all clean.
  12 And when he had washed their feet, he resumed his long garments, and reclined. And he said to them: Understand ye what I have done to you ?
  13 Ye call me, Our Rabbi, and Our Lord; and ye speak well; for I am so.
  14 If then I, your Lord and your Rabbi, have washed your feet, how much more ought ye to wash the feet of one another ?
  15 For I have given you this example, that ye might do, as I have done to you.
  16 Verily, verily, I say to you, That no servant is greater than his lord; and no legate is greater than he who sent him.
  17 If ye know these things, happy will ye be if ye do them.
  18 Not of you all, do I speak: I know whom I have chosen. But that the scripture may be fulfilled, He that eateth bread with me, hath lifted his heel against me. 
  19 From this time, I tell you, before it occurs, that when it shall occur, ye may know that I am he.
  20 Verily, verily, I say to you: He that receiveth him whom I send, receiveth me; and he that receiveth me, receiveth him that sent me.
  21 These things said Jesus, and he was agitated in his spirit; and he testified, and said: Verily, verily, I say to you, That one of you will betray me.
  22 And the disciples stared at one another; because they knew not, of whom he spake.
  23 And there was one of his disciples, who was reclining on his bosom, he whom Jesus loved;
  24 to him Simon Cephas beckoned, that he should ask him, who it was of whom he spoke.
  25 And that disciple fell upon the breast of Jesus, and said to him: My Lord, which is he?
  26 Jesus answered and said: He it is, to whom I give the bread when I have dipped it. And Jesus dipped the bread, and gave it to Judas Iscariot, the son of Simon. 
  27 And after the bread, then Satan entered into him. And Jesus said to him: What thou doest, do quickly. 
  28 And no one of those reclining, knew, wherefore he said this to him.
  29 For some of them supposed, because the purse was in the hands of Judas, that Jesus expressly charged him to buy something needful for the feast, or that he should give something to the poor.
  30 And Judas took the bread at once, and went out of the house. And it was night when he went out.
  31 And Jesus said: Now is the Son of man glorified; and God is glorified in him.
  32 And if God is glorified in him, God will glorify him in himself; and will glorify him speedily.
  33 My children, a little longer I am with you; and ye will seek for me; and, as I said to the Jews, Whither I go ye cannot come, so I now say to you.
  34 A new commandment I give to you, that ye be affectionate to each other. As I have loved you, do ye also love one another.
  35 By this will every one know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love for each other.
  36 Simon Cephas said to him: Our Lord, whither goest thou? Jesus answered, and said to him: Whither I go, thou canst not now come after me; but thou wilt at last come. 
  37 Simon Cephas said to him: My Lord, why can I not come after thee? I would lay down my life for thee. 
  38 Jesus said to him: Wouldst thou lay down thy life for me? Verily, verily, I say to thee, The cock will not crow, until thou hast three times denied me.

XIV.

  01 Let not your heart be troubled: believe in God, and, believe in me.
  02 There are many mansions in the house of my Father: and if not, I would have told you; for I go to prepare a place for you.
  03 And if I go to prepare for you a place, I will come again and take you to myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.
  04 And whither I go, ye know; and the way ye know.
  05 Thomas said to him: Our Lord, we know not whither thou goest; and how can we know the way?
  06 Jesus said to him: I am the way, and truth, and life: no one cometh unto my Father, but by me.
  07 If ye had known me, ye would also have known my Father: and henceforth, ye know him, and have seen him.
  08 Philip said to him: Our Lord, show us the Father, and it will suffice for us.
  09 Jesus said to him: Have I been all this time with you, and hast thou not known me, Philip? He that seeth me, seeth the Father: and how sayest thou, Show us the Father?
  10 Believest thou not, that I am in my Father, and my Father in me? And the words which I speak, I speak not from myself: but my Father, who dwelleth in me, he doeth these works.
  11 Believe, that I am in my Father, and my Father in me. And if not, believe, at least, on account of the works. 
  12 Verily, verily, I say to you: He that believeth in me, the works which I do, will he also do. And greater than these will he do, because I go unto my Father. 
  13 And what ye shall ask in my name, I will do for you; that the Father may be glorified in his Son.
  14 And if ye shall ask of me, in my name, I will do [it].
  15 If ye love me, keep my commands.
  16 And I will ask of my Father, and he will give you another Comforter, that he may be with you for ever, 
  17 the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, and knoweth him not: but ye know him, because he abideth with you, and is in you. 
  18 I shall not leave you orphans: for I shall come to you in a little while.
  19 And the world will not see me; but ye will see me. Because I live, ye will live also.
  20 In that day ye will know, that I am in my Father; and that ye are in me, and I in you.
  21 He, with whom are my commands, and who keepeth them, he it is that loveth me. And he that loveth me, will be loved by my Father: and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.
  22 Judas, not Iscariot, said to him: My Lord, how is it that thou art to manifest thyself to us, and not to the world?
  23 Jesus answered, and said to him: He that loveth me, observeth my instruction; and my Father will love him, and we will come to him, and make our abode with him.
  24 But he that loveth me not, observeth not my instruction. And the instruction which ye hear, is not mine, but the Father's who sent me.
  25 These things have I said to you, while I was with you.
  26 But the Comforter, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you every thing, and will remind you of all that I say to you.
  27 Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. It is not as the world giveth, that I give to you. Let not your heart be troubled, nor be afraid.
  28 Ye have heard what I said to you that I go away, and come [again] to you. If ye had loved me, ye would have rejoiced, that I go to my Father; for my Father is greater than I
  29 And now, lo, I have told you, before it occurreth; so that when it shall have occurred, ye may believe. 
  30 Hereafter I shall not converse much with you; for the ruler of this world cometh, and hath nothing in me. 
  31 But that the world may know, that I love my Father, and as my Father commanded me, so I do. Arise; let us go hence.

XV.

  01 I am the true vine; and my Father is the cultivator. 
  02 Every branch in me, which yieldeth not fruits, he taketh it away: and that which yieldeth fruits, he cleanseth it, that it may yield more fruits.
  03 Ye henceforth are clean, on account of the discourse I have held with you .
  04 Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot yield fruits of itself, unless it abide in the vine; so also, neither can ye, unless ye abide in me.
  05 I am the vine, and ye are the branches. He that abideth in me, and I in him, he yieldeth much fruit; for without me, ye can do nothing.
  06 And if a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a withered branch; and they gather it up, and cast it into the fire to be burned.
  07 But if ye shall abide in me, and my instructions shall abide in you, whatever ye shall be pleased to ask, it will be given to you.
  08 In this is the Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; and ye will be my disciples.
  09 As my Father hath loved me, I also have loved you: abide ye in the love of me.
  10 If ye shall keep my commands, ye will abide in the love of me, as I have kept the commands of my Father, and abide in his love.
  11 These things have I spoken to you, that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be complete.
  12 This is my command, that ye love one another, as I have loved you.
  13 There is no greater love than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
  14 Ye are my friends, if ye do all that I command you. 
  15 I no longer call you servants; because a servant knoweth not what his lord doeth; but I have called you my friends; because, whatever I have heard from my Father, I have made known to you.
  16 It is not ye that chose me, but I that have chosen you; and I have appointed you, that ye also should go and yield fruits, and that your fruits should continue; so that whatever ye may ask of my Father in my name, he may give it you.
  17 These things I command you, that ye should love one another.
  18 And if the world hate you, know ye, that it hated me before you.
  19 And if ye were of the world, the world would love what is of it. But ye are not of the world, for I have chosen you out of the world; for this cause, the world hateth you.
  20 Remember the word that I spoke to you, That there is no servant, who is greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; and if they have observed my teaching, they will also observe yours.
  21 But all these things will they do to you, on account of my name, because they know not him that sent me. 
  22 If I had not come and discoursed with them, sin would not have been to them; but now there is no excuse for their sins.
  23 He that hateth me, hateth my Father also.
  24 If I had not wrought before them works which no other person ever did, sin would not have been to them: but now they have seen, and have hated, both me and my Father; 
  25 so that in them will be fulfilled the word which is written in their law: They hated me, without a cause.
  26 But when the Comforter shall come, whom I will send to you from my Father, that Spirit of truth who proceedeth from the Father, He will testify of me.
  27 And do ye also testify; for ye have been with me from the beginning.

XVI.

  01 These things have I said to you, that ye may not be stumbled.
  02 For they will eject you from their synagogues; and the hour will come, that whoever shall kill you, will suppose that he presenteth an offering to God.
  03 And these things will they do, because they have not known either my Father, or me.
  04 These things have I spoken to you, that when the time of them cometh, ye may recollect, that I told you of them. And I did not tell you these things from the beginning, because I was with you.
  05 But now, I am going to Him that sent me; and none of you asketh me, Whither goest thou?
  06 And because I have told you these things, sorrow hath come and hath filled your hearts.
  07 But I tell you the truth, that it is profitable for you that I go away; for, if I go not away, the Comforter will not come to you; but if I go, I will send him to you.
  08 And when he is come, he will convict the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment.
  09 Of sin because they believe not in me:
  10 and of righteousness, because I go to my Father, and ye see me no more:
  11 and of Judgment, because the ruler of this world is judged.
  12 Moreover, I have much to say to you: but ye cannot comprehend [it] now.
  13 But when the Spirit of truth shall come, he will lead you into all the truth. For he will not speak from his own mind; but whatever he heareth, that will he speak: and he will make known to you things to come.
  14 He will glorify me; because he will receive of what is mine, and will show [it] to you.
  15 Whatever the Father hath, is mine: therefore said I to you that he will receive of what is mine, and will show [it] to you.
  16 A little while, and ye will not see me; and again a little while, and ye will see me; because I go to the Father.
  17 And his disciples said one to another: What is this that he saith to us, A little while, and ye will not see me and again a little while, and ye will see me, because I go to my Father ?
  18 And they said: What is this little while, of which he speaketh? We know not what he saith.
  19 And Jesus knew, that they desired to ask him; and he said to them: Are ye debating with each other, of what I said to you, A little while, and ye will not see me, and again a little while, and ye will see me?
  20 Verily, verily, I say to you, That ye will weep and lament: And the world will rejoice, while to you will be sorrow. But your sorrow will be turned to joy. 
  21 A woman, in bringing forth, hath sorrow, for the day of her travail hath come: but when she hath brought forth a son, she remembereth not her anguish, because of the joy that a human being is born into the world. 
  22 Ye also now have sorrow; but I will see you again, and your heart will rejoice, and no one will deprive you of your joy.
  23 And in that day ye will ask me nothing. Verily, verily, I say to you, That whatsoever ye shall ask of my Father in my name, he will give to you.
  24 Hitherto ye have asked nothing in my name. Ask, and ye will receive; that your joy may be complete.
  25 These things have I spoken to you in allegories: but the hour will come, when I shall not speak to you in allegories, but I will speak to you plainly of the Father.
  26 In that day ye will ask in my name; and I do not say to you, that I will pray to the Father for you; 
  27 for the Father himself loveth you, because ye have loved me, and have believed that I proceeded from the presence of the Father.
  28 I proceeded forth from before the Father, and came into the world; and again I leave the world, and go to the Father.
  29 His disciples say to him: Lo, now thou speakest plainly, and thou utterest no allegory.
  30 Now know we, that thou knowest every thing ; and thou hast no need, that any one should ask thee: by this we believe, that thou didst proceed from God.
  31 Jesus said to them: Do ye believe ?
  32 Behold, the hour cometh, and hath now come, when ye will be dispersed, each to his place; and ye will leave me alone. But I am not alone, for the Father is with me. 
  33 These things have I said to you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye will have trouble: but, take courage, I have vanquished the world.

XVII.

  01 These things spake Jesus, and lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said: My Father, the hour is come: glorify thy Son, that thy Son may glorify thee.
  02 As thou hast given him authority over all flesh, that he might give life eternal to as many as thou hast given him.
  03 And this is life eternal, that they may know thee, that thou art the only true God, and whom thou hast sent, Jesus Messiah.
  04 I have glorified thee on the earth; the work which thou gavest me to do, I have finished.
  05 And now, my Father, glorify thou me, with that glory which I had with thee before the world was.
  06 I have made known thy name to the men, whom thou gavest me from the world: thine they were, and thou gavest them to me; and they have kept thy word.
  07 Now I have known, that whatever thou hast given me, was from thee.
  08 For, the words thou gavest to me, I have given to them; and they have received them, and have known certainly, that I came from thy presence; and they have believed that thou didst send me.
  09 And I pray for them; it is not for the world that I pray, but for them whom thou hast given me, for they are thine.
  10 And all that is mine is thine, and what is thine is mine; and I am glorified in them.
  11 Henceforth I am not in the world; but these are in the world, and I go to thee. Holy Father, keep them in that thy name, which thou hast given to me; that they may be one, as we are.
  12 While I have been with them in the world, I have kept them in thy name. Those thou gavest me, have I kept; and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition, that the scripture might be fulfilled.
  13 But now I come to thee; and these things I speak in the world, that my joy may be complete in them. 
  14 I have given them thy word: and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
  15 I pray not, that thou wouldst take them out of the world, but that thou wouldst keep them from evil: 
  16 for they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
  17 Father, sanctify them by thy truth, thy word is the truth.
  18 As thou didst send me into the world, so have I also sent them into the world.
  19 And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also may be sanctified by the truth.
  20 And it is not for them only that I pray, but also for those who shall believe in me through their discourse; 
  21 that they all may be one; as thou, my Father, [art] in me, and I in thee; that they also may be one in us; so that the world may believe, that thou didst send me. 
  22 And the glory which thou gavest me, I have given them; that they may be one, as we are one.
  23 I in them, and thou in me; that they may be perfected into one; and that the world may know that thou didst send me, and that thou hast loved them as also thou hast loved me.
  24 Father, I desire that those whom thou hast given me, may also be with me where I am; that they may see that glory of mine which thou hast given me, as thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world.
  25 My righteous Father, the world hath not known thee; but I have known thee, and these have known, that thou didst send me.
  26 And I have made known to them thy name; and I will make it known; so that the love, with which thou lovedst me, may be in them, and I in them.

XVIII.

  01 These things spake Jesus, and went forth with his disciples over the brook Cedron, where there was a garden, into which he and his disciples entered.
  02 And Judas also, the betrayer, knew the place; because Jesus often there met with his disciples.
  03 Then Judas received a regiment, and from the presence of the chief priests and Pharisees he had officials; and he came to the place with lanterns and lamps and weapons.
  04 And Jesus, as he knew every thing that was to befall him, went forth and said to them: Whom seek ye? 
  05 They say to him: Jesus the Nazarean. Jesus said to them: I am he. And Judas the betrayer was also standing with them.
  06 And when Jesus said to them, I am he, they drew back and fell upon the ground.
  07 And again Jesus asked them: Whom seek ye? And they said: Jesus the Nazarean.
  08 Jesus said to them: I have told you that I am he; and if ye seek me, let  these go away:
  09 that the speech might be fulfilled, which he uttered: Of them, whom thou hast given me, I have lost not even one.
  10 And Simon Cephas had upon him a sword; and he drew it, and smote a servant of the high priest, and cut off his right ear. And the servant's name was Malchus.
  11 And Jesus said to Cephas: Put the sword into its sheath. The cup which my Father hath given me, shall I not drink it?
  12 Then the regiment and the chiliarchs and the officials of the Jews laid hold of Jesus, and bound him;
  13 and they led him first to the presence of Annas; for he was father-in-law to Caiaphas, who was the high priest of that year.
  14 And it was Caiaphas who counselled the Jews, that it was expedient, one man should die for the people.
  15 And Simon Cephas and one other of the disciples went after Jesus. And that other disciple knew the high priest; and he entered with Jesus into the hall.
  16 But Simon stood without at the door; and that other disciple, who knew the high priest, went out and spoke to the doorkeeper and brought in Simon.
  17 And the maid who kept the door, said to Simon: Art not thou also one of this man's disciples? And he said: I am not.
  18 And the servants and officials were standing, and had placed a fire to warm themselves
  19 And the high priest interrogated Jesus respecting his disciples, and respecting his doctrine.
  20 And Jesus said to him: I have discoursed openly with the people, and have at all times taught in the synagogue and in the temple, where all the Jews assemble; and I have uttered nothing in private.
  21 Why dost thou interrogate me? Ask them who have heard, what I said to them: lo, they know what I have said. 
  22 And as he said these things, one of the officials standing by, smote the cheek of Jesus, and said to him: Givest thou such an answer to the high priest ? 
  23 Jesus replied, and said to him: If I have spoken evil bear witness of that evil; but if well, why smitest thou me ?
  24 Now Annas had sent Jesus bound to Caiaphas the high priest.
  25 And Simon Cephas was standing and warming himself; and they said to him: Art not thou also one of his disciples? And he denied, and said: I am not.
  26 And one of the servants of the high priest, a kinsman of him whose ear Simon cut off, said to him: Did I not see thee with him in the garden ?
  27 And again Simon denied: and at that moment the cock crew.
  28 And they led Jesus from the presence of Caiaphas unto the Praetorium; and it was morning. But they did not enter the Praetorium, lest they should defile themselves before they had eaten the passover.
  29 And Pilate went forth to them without, and said to them: What accusation have ye against this man ? 
  30 They replied, and said to him: If he were not a malefactor, we should not have delivered him up to thee.
  31 Pilate said to them: Take ye him, and judge him according to your law. The Jews said to him: It is not lawful for us to put a man to death:
  32 that the speech of Jesus might be fulfilled, when he made known by what death he was to die.
  33 And Pilate went into the Praetorium, and called Jesus, and said to him: Art thou the king of the Jews? 
  34 Jesus said to him: Sayest thou this of thyself, or have others said [it] to thee of me ?
  35 Pilate said to him: Am I a Jew ? Thy countrymen and the chief priests have delivered thee to me. What hast thou done ?
  36 Jesus said to him: My kingdom is not of this world. If my kingdom were of this world, my servants would have fought, that I might not be delivered up to the Jews: but now, my kingdom is not from hence.
  37 Pilate said to him . Then thou art a king? Jesus said to him: Thou hast said, that I am a king. For this was I born; and for this came I into the world, that I might bear testimony to the truth. Every one that is of the truth, heareth my voice.
  38 Pilate said to him: What is the truth ? And as he said this, he went out again to the Jews, and said to them: I find not any crime in him.
  39 And ye have a custom that I should release one to you at the passover; will ye, therefore, that I release to you this king of the Jews?
  40 And they all cried out, and said: Not this man, but Barabbas. Now this Barabbas was a robber.

XIX.

  01 Then Pilate scourged Jesus.
  02 And the soldiers braided a crown of thorns, and put it on his head; and they clothed him in purple garments: 
  03 and they said: Hail, king of the Jews! and smote him on his cheeks.
  04 And Pilate went out again, and said to them: Lo, I bring him out to you, that ye may know that I find against him no offence whatever.
  05 And Jesus went forth, having on him the crown of thorns, and the purple garments. And Pilate said to them: Behold, the man!
  06 And when the chief priests and officials saw him, they cried out, and said: Hang him; hang him. Pilate said to them: Take ye him, and crucify him; for I find no offence in him.
  07 The Jews say to him: We have a law, and, according to our law, he deserveth death, because he made himself the Son of God.
  08 And when Pilate heard that declaration, he feared the more.
  09 And he went again into the Praetorium; and he said to Jesus: Whence art thou? And Jesus gave him no answer. 
  10 Pilate said to him: Wilt thou not speak to me ? Knowest thou not, that I have authority to release thee, and have authority to crucify thee?
  11 Jesus said to him: Thou wouldst have no authority at all over me, if it were not given to thee from on high: therefore his sin who delivered me up to thee, is greater than thine.
  12 And for this reason, Pilate was disposed to release him. But the Jews cried out: If thou release this man, thou art not Caesar's friend: for whoever maketh himself a king, is the adversary of Caesar.
  13 And when Pilate heard this declaration, he brought Jesus forth, and sat upon the tribunal, in a place called the pavement of stones; but in Hebrew it is called Gabbatha. 
  14 And it was the preparation for the passover; and it was about the sixth hour. And he said to the Jews: Behold, your king.
  15 But they cried out: Away with him, away with him; hang him, hang him. Pilate said to them: Shall I crucify your king? The chief priests said to him: We have no king, but Caesar.
  16 Then he delivered him to them, that they might crucify him. And they took Jesus, and led him away,
  17 bearing his cross, to a place called a Skull, and in Hebrew called Golgotha;
  18 where they crucified him; and two others with him, the one on this side, and the other on that, and Jesus in the middle.
  19 And Pilate also wrote a tablet, and affixed it to his cross. And thus it was written: THIS IS JESUS THE NAZAREAN, KING OF THE JEWS.
  20 And many of the Jews read this label; because the place where Jesus was crucified, was near to Jerusalem; and it was written in Hebrew and Greek and Latin.
  21 And the chief priests said to Pilate: Write not that he is king of the Jews, but that he said I am king of the Jews.
  22 Pilate said: What I have written, I have written.
  23 And the soldiers, when they had crucified Jesus, took his garments and made four parcels of them, a parcel for each of the soldiers. And his tunic was without seam from the top, woven throughout.
  24 And they said one to another: We will not rend it, but will cast the lot upon it, whose it shall he. And the scripture was fulfilled, which said: They divided my garments among them; and upon my venture they cast the lot. These things did the soldiers.
  25 And there were standing near the cross of Jesus, his mother, and his mother's sister, and Mary [the wife] of Cleophas, and Mary Magdalena.
  26 And Jesus saw his mother, and that disciple whom he loved, standing by, and he said to his mother: Woman, behold, thy son.
  27 And he said to that disciple: Behold, thy mother. And from that hour, the disciple took her near himself. 
  28 After these things, Jesus knew that every thing was finished; and, that the scripture might be fulfilled, he said: I thirst.
  29 And a vessel was standing there, full of vinegar. And they filled a sponge with the vinegar, and put it on a hyssop [stalk], and bore it to his mouth.
  30 And when Jesus had received the vinegar, he said: Lo; Done. And he bowed his head, and yielded up his spirit.
  31 And because it was the preparation, the Jews said: These bodies must not remain all night upon the cross: because the sabbath was dawning; and the day of that sabbath was a great day. And they requested of Pilate, that they should break the legs of those crucified, and take them down.
  32 And the soldiers came, and broke the legs of the first, and of the other that was crucified with him. 
  33 But when they came to Jesus, they saw that he was already dead; and they broke not his legs.
  34 But one of the soldiers thrust a spear into his side; and immediately there issued out blood and water.
  35 And he who saw [it], hath testified: and his testimony is true: and he knoweth, that he speaketh the truth, that ye also may believe.
  36 For these things occurred, that the scripture might be fulfilled, which said: A bone of him shall not be broken. 
  37 And again another scripture, which saith: They will look on him, whom they pierced.
  38 After these things, Joseph of Ramath, (for he was a disciple of Jesus, and kept concealed through fear of the Jews,) requested of Pilate, that he might take away the body of Jesus. And Pilate permitted. And he came, and bore away the body of Jesus.
  39 And there came also Nicodemus, (he who previously came to Jesus by night,) and he brought with him a compound of myrrh and aloes, about a hundred pounds.
  40 and they bore away the body of Jesus, and wound it in linens and aromatics, as it is the custom of the Jews to bury.
  41 And there was a garden in the place where Jesus was crucified, and in the garden a new sepulchre in which no person had ever been laid.
  42 And there they laid Jesus, because the sabbath had commenced, and because the sepulchre was near.

XX.

  01 And the first day of the week, in the morning, while it was yet dark, Mary Magdalena came to the sepulchre: and she saw that the stone was removed from the grave. 
  02 And she ran, and came to Simon Cephas, and to that other disciple whom Jesus loved, and said to them: They have taken away our Lord from the sepulchre, and I know not where they have laid him.
  03 And Simon set out, and the other disciple, and they were going to the sepulchre.
  04 And they both ran together; but that disciple outran Simon, and came first to the sepulchre.
  05 And he looked in, and saw the linen cloths lying: but he did not go in.
  06 And after him came Simon; and he entered the sepulchre, and saw the linen cloths lying;
  07 and the napkin, that had been wrapped about his head, was not with the linen cloths, but was folded up, and laid in a place by itself.
  08 Then entered also the disciple who came first to the sepulchre; and he saw, and believed.
  09 For they had not yet learned from the scriptures, that he was to arise from the dead.
  10 And those disciples went away again to their place.
  11 But Mary remained standing at the sepulchre, and weeping; and as she wept, she looked into the sepulchre 
  12 and saw two angels in white, who were sitting, one at the pillows and one at the feet, where the body of Jesus was laid.
  13 And they said to her: Woman, why weepest thou? She said to them: Because they have taken away my Lord, and I know not where they have laid him
  14 Having said this, she turned round, and saw Jesus standing, but did not know that it was Jesus.
  15 Jesus said to her: Woman, why weepest thou ? and, whom dost thou seek? And she supposed that he was the gardener: and she said to him: My lord, if thou hast borne him away, tell me where thou hast laid him, [and] I will go and take him away.
  16 Jesus said to her: Mary! And she turned, and said to him in Hebrew: Rabbuni; which is interpreted Teacher. 
  17 Jesus said to her: Touch me not; for not yet have I ascended to my Father. But go to my brethren, and say to them: I ascend to my Father and your Father, and to my God and your God.
  18 Then came Mary Magdalena, and told the disciples that she had seen our Lord; and that he had said these things to her.
  19 And on the evening of that first day of the week, the doors being shut where the disciples were, for fear of the Jews, Jesus came, and stood in the midst of them, and said to them: Peace be with you.
  20 Having said this, he showed them his hands and his side. And the disciples rejoiced, when they saw our Lord. 
  21 And Jesus said to them; Peace be with you. As my Father hath sent me, I also send you.
  22 And as he said these things, he breathed on them, and said to them: Receive ye the Holy Spirit.
  23 If ye shall remit sins to any one, they will be remitted to him; and if ye shall retain [those] of any one, they will be retained.
  24 But Thomas, who was called the Twin, one of the twelve, was not there with them, when Jesus came.
  25 And the disciples said to him: We have seen our Lord. But he said to them: Unless I see in his hands the places of the nails, and put my fingers into them, and extend my hand to his side, I will not believe.
  26 And after eight days, the disciples were again within, and Thomas with them: and Jesus came, while the doors were closed, stood in the midst, and said to them: Peace be with you.
  27 And he said to Thomas: Reach hither thy finger, and look at my hands; and reach out thy hand and extend it to my side: and be not incredulous, but believing. 
  28 And Thomas answered, and said to him: My Lord, and my God!
  29 Jesus said to him: Now, when thou hast seen me, thou believest: blessed are they, who have not seen me, yet believe.
  30 And many other signs did Jesus before his disciples, which are not written in this book.
  31 But these are written, that ye may believe that Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of God; and that when ye believe, ye may have life eternal by his name.

XXI.

  01 After these things, Jesus showed himself again to his disciples, at the sea of Tiberias: and he showed himself thus:
  02 There were together, Simon Cephas, and Thomas called the Twin, and Nathaniel who was of Cana in Galilee, and the sons of Zebedee, and two other of the disciples. 
  03 Simon Cephas said to them: I will go [and] catch fishes. They said to him: We will go with thee. And they went, and embarked in a ship: and that night, they caught nothing. 
  04 And when it was morning, Jesus stood on the shore of the sea: and the disciples did not know that it was Jesus.
  05 And Jesus said to them: Lads, have ye any thing to eat? They say to him: No.
  06 He said to them: Cast your net on the right side of the ship, and ye will find them. And they cast; and they could not draw up the net, because of the multitude of fishes it contained.
  07 And that disciple whom Jesus loved, said to Cephas That is our Lord. And Simon, when he heard that it was our Lord, took his tunic, and girded his loins, (for he had been naked,) and threw himself into the sea, to go to Jesus.
  08 But the other disciples came in the ship, (for they were not very far from the land, only about two hundred cubits,) and they dragged the net with the fishes.
  09 And when they came upon the land, they saw coals placed, and fish laid on them, and bread.
  10 And Jesus said to them: Bring [some] of the fishes, which ye have just caught.
  11 And Simon ] Cephas embarked, and drew the net to land, full of huge fishes, one hundred and fifty and three. And with all this weight, the net was not rent.
  12 And Jesus said to them: Come and dine. And no one of the disciples presumed to ask him, who he was; for they knew that it was our Lord.
  13 And Jesus came, and took bread and fishes, and gave to his disciples.
  14 This is the third time that Jesus appeared to his disciples when he had arisen from the dead.
  15 And when they had dined, Jesus said to Simon Cephas: Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me, more than these do? He said to him: Yes, my Lord: thou knowest that I love thee. Jesus said to him: Feed my lambs for me.
  16 Again, he said to him the second time: Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me ? He said to him: Yes, my Lord; thou knowest that I love thee. Jesus said to him: Feed my sheep for me.
  17 Again, Jesus said to him the third time: Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me? And it grieved Cephas, that he said to him the third time, Lovest thou me; and he said to him: My Lord, thou understandest all things, thou knowest that I love thee. Jesus said to him: Feed my sheep for me.
  18 Verily, verily, I say to thee: When thou wast young, thou girdedst thy own loins, and walkedst whither it pleased thee: but when thou shalt be old, thou wilt extend thy hands, and another will gird thy loins for thee, and will conduct thee whither thou wouldst not.
  19 And this he said, to show by what death he was to glorify God. And having said these things, he said to him: Follow me.
  20 And Simon turned himself, and saw coming after him, that disciple whom Jesus loved, who fell on the breast of Jesus at the supper, and said, My Lord, who is it will betray thee?
  21 Him Cephas saw, and said to Jesus: My Lord, as for this man, what?
  22 Jesus said to him: If I will, that he abide here until I come, what [is that] to thee ? Follow thou me. 
  23 And this saying went forth among the brethren, that this disciple would not die. Yet Jesus did not say, that he would not die; but, If I will that he abide here until I come, what [is that] to thee.
  24 This is the disciple who hath testified of all these things, and hath written them: and we know, that his testimony is true.
  25 And there are also many other things, which Jesus did; which, if written out with particularity, the world itself, as I suppose, would not suffice for the books that would be written.

Completion of the Holy Gospel, the announcement of John the Evangelist; which he uttered, in Greek, at Ephesus.