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5:21. For as the Father raiseth up the dead and giveth life: so the Son
also giveth life to whom he will.
5:22. For neither does the Father judge any man: but hath given all
judgment to the Son.
5:23. That all men may honour the Son, as they honour the Father. He who
honoureth not the Son honoureth not the Father who hath sent him.
5:24. Amen, amen, I say unto you that he who heareth my word and
believeth him that sent me hath life everlasting: and cometh not into
judgment, but is passed from death to life.
5:25. Amen, amen, I say unto you, that the hour cometh, and now is, when
the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God: and they that hear
shall live.
5:26. For as the Father hath life in himself, so he hath given to the
Son also to have life in himself.
5:27. And he hath given him power to do judgment, because he is the Son
of man.
5:28. Wonder not at this: for the hour cometh wherein all that are in
the graves shall hear the voice of the Son of God.
5:29. And they that have done good things shall come forth unto the
resurrection of life: but they that have done evil, unto the
resurrection of judgment.
Unto the resurrection of judgment... That is, condemnation.
5:30. I cannot of myself do any thing. As I hear, so I judge. And my
judgment is just: because I seek not my own will but the will of him
that sent me.
5:31. If I bear witness of myself, my witness is not true.
5:32. There is another that beareth witness of me: and I know that the
witness which he witnesseth of me is true.
5:33. You sent to John: and he gave testimony to the truth.
5:34. But I receive not testimony from man: but I say these things, that
you may be saved.
5:35. He was a burning and a shining light: and you were willing for a
time to rejoice in his light.
5:36. But I have a greater testimony than that of John: for the works
which the Father hath given me to perfect, the works themselves which I
do, give testimony of me, that the Father hath sent me.
5:37. And the Father himself who hath sent me hath given testimony of
me: neither have you heard his voice at any time, nor seen his shape.
5:38. And you have not his word abiding in you: for whom he hath sent,
him you believe not.
5:39. Search the scriptures: for you think in them to have life
everlasting. And the same are they that give testimony of me.
Or... You search the scriptures. Scrutamini... It is not a command for
all to read the scriptures; but a reproach to the Pharisees, that
reading the scriptures as they did, and thinking to find everlasting
life in them, they would not receive him to whom all those scriptures
gave testimony, and through whom alone they could have that true life.
5:40. And you will not come to me that you may have life.
5:41. I receive not glory from men.
5:42. But I know you, that you have not the love of God in you.
5:43. I am come in the name of my Father, and you receive me not: if
another shall come in his own name, him you will receive.
5:44. How can you believe, who receive glory one from another: and the
glory which is from God alone, you do not seek?
5:45. Think not that I will accuse you to the Father. There is one that
accuseth you, Moses, in whom you trust.
5:46. For if you did believe Moses, you would perhaps believe me also:
for he wrote of me.
5:47. But if you do not believe his writings, how will you believe my
words?
John Chapter 6
Christ feeds five thousand with five loaves. He walks upon the sea and
discourses of the bread of life.
6:1. After these things Jesus went over the sea of Galilee, which is
that of Tiberias.
6:2. And a great multitude followed him, because they saw the miracles
which he did on them that were diseased.
6:3. Jesus therefore went up into a mountain: and there he sat with his
disciples.
6:4. Now the pasch, the festival day of the Jews, was near at hand.
6:5. When Jesus therefore had lifted up his eyes and seen that a very
great multitude cometh to him, he said to Philip: Whence shall we buy
bread, that these may eat?
6:6. And this he said to try him: for he himself knew what he would do.
6:7. Philip answered him: Two hundred pennyworth of bread is not
sufficient for them that every one may take a little.
6:8. One of his disciples, Andrew, the brother of Simon Peter, saith to
him:
6:9. There is a boy here that hath five barley loaves and two fishes.
But what are these among so many?
6:10. Then Jesus said: Make the men sit down. Now, there was much grass
in the place. The men therefore sat down, in number about five thousand.
6:11. And Jesus took the loaves: and when he had given thanks, he
distributed to them that were set down. In like manner also of the
fishes, as much as they would.
6:12. And when they were filled, he said to his disciples: gather up the
fragments that remain, lest they be lost.
6:13. They gathered up therefore and filled twelve baskets with the
fragments of the five barley loaves which remained over and above to
them that had eaten.
6:14. Now those men, when they had seen what a miracle Jesus had done,
said: This is of a truth the prophet that is to come into the world.
6:15. Jesus therefore, when he knew that they would come to take him by
force and make him king, fled again into the mountains, himself alone.
6:16. And when evening was come, his disciples went down to the sea.
6:17. And when they had gone up into a ship, they went over the sea to
Capharnaum. And it was now dark: and Jesus was not come unto them.
6:18. And the sea arose, by reason of a great wind that blew.
6:19. When they had rowed therefore about five and twenty or thirty
furlongs, they see Jesus walking upon the sea and drawing nigh to the
ship. And they were afraid.
6:20. But he saith to them: It is I. Be not afraid.
6:21. They were willing therefore to take him into the ship. And
presently the ship was at the land to which they were going.
6:22. The next day, the multitude that stood on the other side of the
sea saw that there was no other ship there but one: and that Jesus had
not entered into the ship with his disciples, but that his disciples
were gone away alone.
6:23. But other ships came in from Tiberias, nigh unto the place where
they had eaten the bread, the Lord giving thanks.
6:24. When therefore the multitude saw that Jesus was not there, nor his
disciples, they took shipping and came to Capharnaum, seeking for Jesus.
6:25. And when they had found him on that other side of the sea, they
said to him: Rabbi, when camest thou hither?
6:26. Jesus answered them and said: Amen, amen, I say to you, you seek
me, not because you have seen miracles, but because you did eat of the
loaves and were filled.
6:27. Labour not for the meat which perisheth, but for that which
endureth unto life everlasting, which the Son of man will give you. For
him hath God, the Father, sealed.
6:28. They said therefore unto him: What shall we do, that we may work
the works of God?
6:29. Jesus answered and said to them: This is the work of God, that you
believe in him whom he hath sent.
6:30. They said therefore to him: What sign therefore dost thou shew
that we may see and may believe thee? What dost thou work?
6:31. Our fathers did eat manna in the desert, as it is written: He gave
them bread from heaven to eat.
6:32. Then Jesus said to them: Amen, amen, I say to you; Moses gave you
not bread from heaven, but my Father giveth you the true bread from
heaven.
6:33. For the bread of God is that which cometh down from heaven and
giveth life to the world.
6:34. They said therefore unto him: Lord, give us always this bread.
6:35. And Jesus said to them: I am the bread of life. He that cometh to
me shall not hunger: and he that believeth in me shall never thirst.
6:36. But I said unto you that you also have seen me, and you believe
not.
6:37. All that the Father giveth to me shall come to me: and him that
cometh to me, I will not cast out.
6:38. Because I came down from heaven, not to do my own will but the
will of him that sent me.
6:39. Now this is the will of the Father who sent me: that of all that
he hath given me, I should lose nothing; but should raise it up again in
the last day.
6:40. And this is the will of my Father that sent me: that every one who
seeth the Son and believeth in him may have life everlasting. And I will
raise him up in the last day.
6:41. The Jews therefore murmured at him, because he had said: I am the
living bread which came down from heaven.
6:42. And they said: Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father
and mother we know? How then saith he: I came down from heaven?
6:43. Jesus therefore answered and said to them: Murmur not among
yourselves.
6:44. No man can come to me, except the Father, who hath sent me, draw
him. And I will raise him up in the last day.
Draw him... Not by compulsion, nor by laying the free will under any
necessity, but by the strong and sweet motions of his heavenly grace.
6:45. It is written in the prophets: And they shall all be taught of
God. Every one that hath heard of the Father and hath learned cometh
forth me.
6:46. Not that any man hath seen the Father: but he who is of God, he
hath seen the Father.
6:47. Amen, amen, I say unto you: He that believeth in me hath
everlasting life.
6:48. I am the bread of life.
6:49. Your fathers did eat manna in the desert: and are dead.
6:50. This is the bread which cometh down from heaven: that if any man
eat of it, he may not die.
6:51. I am the living bread which came down from heaven.
6:52. If any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever: and the
bread that I will give is my flesh, for the life of the world.
6:53. The Jews therefore strove among themselves, saying: How can this
man give us his flesh to eat?
6:54. Then Jesus said to them: Amen, amen, I say unto you: except you
eat the flesh of the Son of man and drink his blood, you shall not have
life in you.
Except you eat and drink, etc... To receive the body and blood of
Christ, is a divine precept, insinuated in this text; which the faithful
fulfil, though they receive but in one kind; because in one kind they
receive both body and blood, which cannot be separated from each other.
Hence, life eternal is here promised to the worthy receiving, though but
in one kind. Ver. 52. If any man eat of this bread, he shall live for
ever; and the bread that I will give, is my flesh for the life of the
world. Ver. 58. He that eateth me, the same also shall live by me. Ver.
59. He that eateth this bread, shall liver for ever.
6:55. He that eateth my flesh and drinketh my blood hath everlasting
life: and I will raise him up in the last day.
6:56. For my flesh is meat indeed: and my blood is drink indeed.
6:57. He that eateth my flesh and drinketh my blood abideth in me: and I
in him.
6:58. As the living Father hath sent me and I live by the Father: so he
that eateth me, the same also shall live by me.
6:59. This is the bread that came down from heaven. Not as your fathers
did eat manna and are dead. He that eateth this bread shall live for
ever.
6:60. These things he said, teaching in the synagogue, in Capharnaum.
6:61. Many therefore of his disciples, hearing it, said: This saying is
hard; and who can hear it?
6:62. But Jesus, knowing in himself that his disciples murmured at this,
said to them: Doth this scandalize you?
6:63. If then you shall see the Son of man ascend up where he was
before?
If then you shall see, etc... Christ by mentioning his ascension, by
this instance of his power and divinity, would confirm the truth of what
he had before asserted; and at the same time correct their gross
apprehension of eating his flesh, and drinking his blood, in a vulgar
and carnal manner, by letting them know he should take his whole body
living with him to heaven; and consequently not suffer it to be as they
supposed, divided, mangled, and consumed upon earth.
6:64. It is the spirit that quickeneth: the flesh profiteth nothing. The
words that I have spoken to you are spirit and life.
The flesh profiteth nothing... Dead flesh separated from the spirit, in
the gross manner they supposed they were to eat his flesh, would profit
nothing. Neither doth man's flesh, that is to say, man's natural and
carnal apprehension, (which refuses to be subject to the spirit, and
words of Christ,) profit any thing. But it would be the height of
blasphemy, to say the living flesh of Christ (which we receive in the
blessed sacarament, with his spirit, that is, with his soul and
divinity) profiteth nothing. For if Christ's flesh had profitedus
nothing, he would never have taken flesh for us, nor died in us nothing,
he would never have taken flesh for us, nor died in the flesh for us.
Are spirit and life... By proposing to you a heavenly sacrament, in
which you shall receive, in a wonderful manner, spirit, grace, and life,
in its very fountain.
6:65. But there are some of you that believe not. For Jesus knew from
the beginning who they were that did not believe and who he was that
would betray him.
6:66. And he said: Therefore did I say to you that no man can come to
me, unless it be given him by my Father.
6:67. After this, many of his disciples went back and walked no more
with him.
6:68. Then Jesus said to the twelve: Will you also go away?
6:69. And Simon Peter answered him: Lord, to whom shall we go? Thou
hast the words of eternal life.
6:70. And we have believed and have known that thou art the Christ, the
Son of God.
6:71. Jesus answered them: Have not I chosen you twelve? And one of you
is a devil.
6:72. Now he meant Judas Iscariot, the son of Simon: for this same was
about to betray him, whereas he was one of the twelve.
John Chapter 7
Christ goes up to the feast of the tabernacles. He teaches in the
temple.
7:1. After these things, Jesus walked in Galilee: for he would not walk
in Judea, because the Jews sought to kill him.
7:2. Now the Jews feast of tabernacles was at hand.
7:3. And his brethren said to, him: Pass from hence and go into Judea,
that thy disciples also may see thy works which thou dost.
7:4. For there is no man that doth any thing in secret, and he himself
seeketh to be known openly. If thou do these things, manifest thyself to
the world.
7:5. For neither did his brethren believe in him.
7:6. Then Jesus said to them: My time is not yet come; but your time is
always ready.
7:7. The world cannot hate you: but me it hateth, because I give
testimony of it, that the works thereof are evil,
7:8. Go you up to this festival day: but I go not up to this festival
day, because my time is not accomplished.
7:9. When he had said these things, he himself stayed in Galilee.
7:10. But after his brethren were gone up, then he also went up to the
feast, not openly, but, as it were, in secret.
7:11. The Jews therefore sought him on the festival day and said: Where
is he?
7:12. And there was much murmuring among the multitude concerning him.
For some said: He is a good man. And others said: No, but he seduceth
the people.
7:13. Yet no man spoke openly of him, for fear of the Jews.
7:14. Now, about the midst of the feast, Jesus went up into the temple
and taught.
7:15. And the Jews wondered, saying: How doth this man know letters,
having never learned?
7:16. Jesus answered them and said: My doctrine is not mine, but his
that sent me.
7:17. If any man will do the will of him, he shall know of the doctrine,
whether it be of God, or whether I speak of myself.
7:18. He that speaketh of himself seeketh his own glory: but he that
seeketh the glory of him that sent him, he is true and there is no
injustice in him.
7:19. Did not Moses give you the law, and yet none of you keepeth the
law?
7:20. Why seek you to kill me? The multitude answered and said: Thou
hast a devil. Who seeketh to kill thee?
7:21. Jesus answered and said to them: One work I have done: and you all
wonder.
7:22. Therefore, Moses gave you circumcision (not because it is of
Moses, but of the fathers): and on the sabbath day you circumcise a man.
7:23. If a man receive circumcision on the sabbath day, that the law of
Moses may not be broken: are you angry at me, because I have healed the
whole man on the sabbath day?
7:24. Judge not according to the appearance: but judge just judgment.
7:25. Some therefore of Jerusalem said: Is not this he whom they seek to
kill?
7:26. And behold, he speaketh openly: and they say nothing to him. Have
the rulers known for a truth that this is the Christ?
7:27. But we know this man, whence he is: but when the Christ cometh, no
man knoweth, whence he is.
7:28. Jesus therefore cried out in the temple, teaching and saying: You
both know me, and you know whence I am. And I am not come of myself: but
he that sent me is true, whom you know not.
7:29. I know him, because I am from him: and he hath sent me.
7:30. They sought therefore to apprehend him: and no man laid hands on
him, because his hour was not yet come.
7:31. But of the people many believed in him and said: When the Christ
cometh, shall he do more miracles than this man doth?
7:32. The Pharisees heard the people murmuring these things concerning
him: and the rulers and Pharisees sent ministers to apprehend him.
7:33. Jesus therefore said to them: Yet a little while I am with you:
and then I go to him that sent me.
7:34. You shall seek me and shall not find me: and where I am, thither
you cannot come.
7:35. The Jews therefore said among themselves: Whither will he go, that
we shall not find him? Will he go unto the dispersed among the Gentiles
and teach the Gentiles?
7:36. What is this saying that he hath said: You shall seek me and shall
not find me? And: Where I am, you cannot come?
7:37. And on the last, and great day of the festivity, Jesus stood and
cried, saying: If any man thirst, let him come to me and drink.
7:38. He that believeth in me, as the scripture saith: Out of his belly
shall flow rivers of living water.
7:39. Now this he said of the Spirit which they should receive who
believed in him: for as yet the Spirit was not given, because Jesus was
not yet glorified.
7:40. Of that multitude therefore, when they had heard these words of
his, some said: This is the prophet indeed.
7:41. Others said: This is the Christ. But some said: Doth the Christ
come out of Galilee?
7:42. Doth not the scripture say: That Christ cometh of the seed of
David and from Bethlehem the town where David was?
7:43. So there arose a dissension among the people because of him.
7:44. And some of them would have apprehended him: but no man laid hands
upon him.
7:45. The ministers therefore came to the chief priests and the
Pharisees. And they said to them: Why have you not brought him?
7:46. The ministers answered: Never did man speak like this man.
7:47. The Pharisees therefore answered them: Are you also seduced?
7:48. Hath any one of the rulers believed in him, or of the Pharisees?
7:49. But this multitude, that knoweth not the law, are accursed.
7:50. Nicodemus said to them (he that came to him by night, who was one
of them):
7:51. Doth our law judge any man, unless it first hear him and know what
he doth?
7:52. They answered and said to him: Art thou also a Galilean? Search
the scriptures, and see that out of Galilee a prophet riseth not.
7:53. And every man returned to his own house.
John Chapter 8
The woman taken in adultery. Christ justifies his doctrine.
8:1. And Jesus went unto mount Olivet.
8:2. And early in the morning he came again into the temple: and all the
people came to him. And sitting down he taught them.
8:3. And the scribes and Pharisees bring unto him a woman taken in
adultery: and they set her in the midst,
8:4. And said to him: Master, this woman was even now taken in adultery.
8:5. Now Moses in the law commanded us to stone such a one. But what
sayest thou?
8:6. And this they said tempting him, that they might accuse him. But
Jesus bowing himself down, wrote with his finger on the ground.
8:7. When therefore they continued asking him, he lifted up himself and
said to them: He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a
stone at her.
8:8. And again stooping down, he wrote on the ground.
8:9. But they hearing this, went out one by one, beginning at the
eldest. And Jesus alone remained, and the woman standing in the midst.
8:10. Then Jesus lifting up himself, said to her: Woman, where are they
that accused thee? Hath no man condemned thee?
8:11. Who said: No man, Lord. And Jesus said: Neither will I condemn
thee. Go, and now sin no more.
8:12. Again therefore, Jesus spoke to: them, saying: I am the light of
the world. He that followeth me walketh not in darkness, but shall have
the light of life.
8:13. The Pharisees therefore said to him: Thou givest testimony of
thyself. Thy testimony is not true.
8:14. Jesus answered and said to them: Although I give testimony of
myself, my testimony is true: for I know whence I came and whither I go.
8:15. You judge according to the flesh: I judge not any man.
8:16. And if I do judge, my judgment is true: because I am not alone,
but I and the Father that sent me.
8:17. And in your law it is written that the testimony of two men is
true.
8:18. I am one that give testimony of myself: and the Father that sent
me giveth testimony of me.
8:19. They said therefore to him: Where is thy Father? Jesus answered:
Neither me do you know, nor my Father. If you did know me, perhaps you
would know my Father also.
8:20. These words Jesus spoke in the treasury, teaching in the temple:
and no man laid hands on him, because his hour was not yet come.
8:21. Again therefore Jesus said to them: I go: and you shall seek me.
And you shall die in your sin. Whither I go, you cannot come.
8:22. The Jews therefore said: Will he kill himself, because he said:
Whither I go you cannot come?
8:23. And he said to them: You are from beneath: I am from above. You
are of this world: I am not of this world.
8:24. Therefore I said to you that you shall die in your sins. For if
you believe not that I am he, you shall die in your sin.
8:25. They said therefore to him: Who art thou? Jesus said to them: The
beginning, who also speak unto you.
8:26. Many things I have to speak and to judge of you. But he that sent
me, is true: and the things I have heard of him, these same I speak in
the world.
8:27. And they understood not that he called God his Father.
8:28. Jesus therefore said to them: When you shall have lifted up, the
Son of man, then shall you know that I am he and that I do nothing of
myself. But as the Father hath taught me, these things I speak.
8:29. And he that sent me is with me: and he hath not left me alone. For
I do always the things that please him.
8:30. When he spoke these things, many believed in him.
8:31. Then Jesus said to those Jews who believed him: If you continue in
my word, you shall be my disciples indeed.
8:32. And you shall know the truth: and the truth shall make you free.
8:33. They answered him: We are the seed of Abraham: and we have never
been slaves to any man. How sayest thou: You shall be free?
8:34. Jesus answered them: Amen, amen, I say unto you that whosoever
committeth sin is the servant of sin.
8:35. Now the servant abideth not in the house for ever: but the son
abideth for ever.
8:36. If therefore the son shall make you free, you shall be free
indeed.
8:37. I know that you are the children of Abraham: but you seek to kill
me, because my word hath no place in you.
8:38. I speak that which I have seen with my Father: and you do the
things that you have seen with your father.
8:39. They answered and said to him: Abraham is our father. Jesus saith
them: If you be the children of Abraham, do the works of Abraham.
8:40. But now you seek to kill me, a man who have spoken the truth to
you, which I have heard of God. This Abraham did not.
8:41. You do the works of your father. They said therefore to him: We
are not born of fornication: we have one Father, even God.
8:42. Jesus therefore said to them: If God were your Father, you would
indeed love me. For from God I proceeded and came. For I came not of
myself: but he sent me.
8:43. Why do you not know my speech? Because you cannot hear my word.
8:44. You are of your father the devil: and the desires of your father
you will do. He was a murderer from the beginning: and he stood not in
the truth, because truth is not in him. When he speaketh a lie, he
speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father thereof.
8:45. But if I say the truth, you believe me not.
8:46. Which of you shall convince me of sin? If I say the truth to you,
why do you not believe me:
8:47. He that is of God heareth the words of God. Therefore you hear
them not, because you are not of God.
8:48. The Jews therefore answered and said to him: Do not we say well
that thou art a Samaritan and hast a devil?
8:49. Jesus answered: I have not a devil: but I honour my Father. And
you have dishonoured me.
8:50. But I seek not my own glory: there is one that seeketh and
judgeth.
