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8:51. Amen, amen, I say to you: If any man keep my word, he shall not
see death for ever.
8:52. The Jews therefore said: Now we know that thou hast a devil.
Abraham is dead, and the prophets: and thou sayest: If any man keep my
word, he shall not taste death for ever.
8:53. Art thou greater than our father Abraham who is dead? And the
prophets are dead. Whom dost thou make thyself?
8:54. Jesus answered: If I glorify myself, my glory is nothing. It is
my Father that glorifieth me, of whom you say that he is your God.
8:55. And you have not known him: but I know him. And if I shall say
that I know him not, I shall be like to you, a liar. But I do know him
and do keep his word.
8:56. Abraham your father rejoiced that he might see my day: he saw it
and was glad.
8:57. The Jews therefore said to him: Thou art not yet fifty years old.
And hast thou seen Abraham?
8:58. Jesus said to them: Amen, amen, I say to you, before Abraham was
made, I AM.
8:59. They took up stones therefore to cast at him. But Jesus hid
himself and went out of the temple.
John Chapter 9
He gives sight to the man born blind.
9:1. And Jesus passing by, saw a man who was blind from his birth.
9:2. And his disciples asked him: Rabbi, who hath sinned, this man or
his parents, that he should be born blind?
9:3. Jesus answered: Neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents; but
that the works of God should be made manifest in him.
9:4. I must work the works of him that sent me, whilst it is day: the
night cometh, when no man can work.
9:5. As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.
9:6. When he had said these things, he spat on the ground and made clay
of the spittle and spread the clay upon his eyes,
9:7. And said to him: Go, wash in the pool of Siloe, which is
interpreted, Sent. He went therefore and washed: and he came seeing.
9:8. The neighbours, therefore, and they who had seen him before that he
was a beggar, said: Is not this he that sat and begged? Some said: This
is he.
9:9. But others said: No, but he is like him. But he said: I am he.
9:10. They said therefore to him: How were thy eyes opened?
9:11. He answered: That man that is called Jesus made clay and anointed
my eyes and said to me: Go to the pool of Siloe and wash. And I went: I
washed: and I see.
9:12. And they said to him: Where is he? He saith: I know not.
9:13. They bring him that had been blind to the Pharisees.
9:14. Now it was the sabbath, when Jesus made the clay and opened his
eyes.
9:15. Again therefore the Pharisees asked him how he had received his
sight. But he said to them: He put clay upon my eyes: and I washed: and
I see.
9:16. Some therefore of the Pharisees said: This man is not of God, who
keepeth not the sabbath. But others said: How can a man that is a sinner
do such miracles? And there was a division among them.
9:17. They say therefore to the blind man again: What sayest thou of him
that hath opened thy eyes? And he said: He is a prophet.
9:18. The Jews then did not believe concerning him, that he had been
blind and had received his sight, until they called the parents of him
that had received his sight,
9:19. And asked them, saying: Is this your son, who you say was born
blind? How then doth he now see?
9:20. His parents answered them and said: We know that this is our son
and that he was born blind:
9:21. But how he now seeth, we know not: or who hath opened his eyes, we
know not. Ask himself: he is of age: Let him speak for himself.
9:22. These things his parents said, because they feared the Jews: for
the Jews had already agreed among themselves that if any man should
confess him to be Christ, he should be put out of the synagogue.
9:23. Therefore did his parents say: He is of age. Ask himself.
9:24. They therefore called the man again that had been blind and said
to him: Give glory to God. We know that this man is a sinner.
9:25. He said therefore to them: If he be a sinner, I know not. One
thing I know, that whereas I was blind now I see.
9:26. They said then to him: What did he to thee? How did he open thy
eyes?
9:27. He answered them: I have told you already, and you have heard. Why
would you hear it again? Will you also become his disciples?
9:28. They reviled him therefore and said: Be thou his disciple; but we
are the disciples of Moses.
9:29. We know that God spoke to Moses: but as to this man, we know not
from whence he is.
9:30. The man answered and said to them: why, herein is a wonderful
thing, that you know not from whence he is, and he hath opened my eyes.
9:31. Now we know that God doth not hear sinners: but if a man be a
server of God and doth his, will, him he heareth.
9:32. From the beginning of the world it hath not been heard, that any
man hath opened the eyes of one born blind.
9:33. Unless this man were of God, he could not do anything.
9:34. They answered and said to him: Thou wast wholly born in sins; and
dost thou teach us? And they cast him out.
9:35. Jesus heard that they had cast him out. And when he had found him,
he said to him: Dost thou believe in the Son of God?
9:36. He answered, and said: Who is he, Lord, that I may believe in him?
9:37. And Jesus said to him: Thou hast both seen him; and it is he that
talketh with thee.
9:38. And he said: I believe, Lord. And falling down, he adored him.
9:39. And Jesus said: For judgment I am come into this world: that they
who see not may see; and they who see may become blind.
I am come, etc... Not that Christ came for that end, that any one should
be made blind: but that the Jews, by the abuse of his coming, and by
their not receiving him, brought upon themselves this judgment of
blindness.
9:40. And some of the Pharisees, who were with him, heard: and they said
unto him: Are we also blind?
9:41. Jesus said to them: If you were blind, you should not have sin:
but now you say: We see. Your sin remaineth.
If you were blind, etc... If you were invincibly ignorant, and had
neither read the scriptures, nor seen my miracles, you would not be
guilty of the sin of infidelity: but now, as you boast of your knowledge
of the scriptures, you are inexcusable.
John Chapter 10
Christ is the door and the good shepherd. He and his Father are one.
10:1. Amen, amen, I say to you: He that entereth not by the door into
the sheepfold but climbeth up another way, the same is a thief and a
robber.
10:2. But he that entereth in by the door is the shepherd of the sheep.
10:3. To him the porter openeth: and the sheep hear his voice. And he
calleth his own sheep by name and leadeth them out.
10:4. And when he hath let out his own sheep, he goeth before them: and
the sheep follow him, because they know his voice.
10:5. But a stranger they follow not, but fly from him, because they
know not the voice of strangers.
10:6. This proverb Jesus spoke to them. But they understood not what he
spoke.
10:7. Jesus therefore said to them again: Amen, amen, I say to you, I am
the door of the sheep.
10:8. All others, as many as have come, are thieves and robbers: and the
sheep heard them not.
10:9. I am the door. By me, if any man enter in, he shall be saved: and
he shall go in and go out, and shall find pastures.
10:10. The thief cometh not, but for to steal and to kill and to
destroy. I am come that they may have life and may have it more
abundantly.
10:11. I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd giveth his life for his
sheep.
10:12. But the hireling and he that is not the shepherd, whose own the
sheep are not, seeth the wolf coming and leaveth the sheep and flieth:
and the wolf casteth and scattereth the sheep,
10:13. And the hireling flieth, because he is a hireling: and he hath no
care for the sheep.
10:14. I am the good shepherd: and I know mine, and mine know me.
10:15. As the Father knoweth me, and I know the Father: and I lay down
my life for my sheep.
10:16. And other sheep I have that are not of this fold: them also I
must bring. And they shall hear my voice: And there shall be one fold
and one shepherd.
10:17. Therefore doth the Father love me: because I lay down my life,
that I may take it again.
10:18. No man taketh it away from me: but I lay it down of myself. And
I have power to lay it down: and I have power to take it up again. This
commandment have I received of my Father.
10:19. A dissension rose again among the Jews for these words.
10:20. And many of them said: He hath a devil and is mad. Why hear you
him?
10:21. Others said: These are not the words of one that hath a devil.
Can a devil open the eyes of the blind?
10:22. And it was the feast of the dedication at Jerusalem: and it was
winter.
10:23. And Jesus walked in the temple, in Solomon's porch.
10:24. The Jews therefore came round about him and said to him: How long
dost thou hold our souls in suspense? If thou be the Christ, tell us
plainly.
10:25. Jesus answered them: I speak to you, and you believe not: the
works that I do in the name of my Father, they give testimony of me.
10:26. But you do not believe, because you are not of my sheep.
10:27. My sheep hear my voice. And I know them: and they follow me.
10:28. And I give them life everlasting: and they shall not perish for
ever. And no man shall pluck them out of my hand.
10:29. That which my Father hath given me is greater than all: and no
one can snatch them out of the hand of my Father.
10:30. I and the Father are one.
I and the Father are one... That is, one divine nature, but two distinct
persons.
10:31. The Jews then took up stones to stone him.
10:32. Jesus answered them: Many good works I have shewed you from my
Father. For which of those works do you stone me?
10:33. The Jews answered him: For a good work we stone thee not, but for
blasphemy: and because that thou being a, man, makest thyself God.
10:34. Jesus answered them: Is it not written in your law: I said, you
are gods?
10:35. If he called them gods to whom the word of God was spoken; and
the scripture cannot be broken:
10:36. Do you say of him whom the Father hath sanctified and sent into
the world: Thou blasphemest; because I said: I am the Son of God?
10:37. If I do not the works of my Father, believe me not.
10:38. But if I do, though you will not believe me, believe the works:
that you may know and believe that the Father is in me and I in the
Father.
10:39. They sought therefore to take him: and he escaped out of their
hands.
10:40. And he went again beyond the Jordan, into that place where John
was baptizing first. And there he abode.
10:41. And many resorted to him: and they said: John indeed did no sign.
10:42. But all things whatsoever John said of this man were true. And
many believed n him.
John Chapter 11
Christ raises Lazarus to life. The rulers resolve to put him to death.
11:1. Now there was a certain man sick, named Lazarus, of Bethania, of
the town of Mary and of Martha her sister.
11:2. (And Mary was she that anointed the Lord with ointment and wiped
his feet with her hair: whose brother Lazarus was sick.)
11:3. His sisters therefore sent to him, saying: Lord, behold, he whom
thou lovest is sick.
11:4. And Jesus hearing it, said to them: This sickness is not unto
death, but for the glory of God: that the Son of God may be glorified by
it.
11:5. Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister Mary and Lazarus.
11:6. When he had heard therefore that he was sick, he still remained in
the same place two days.
11:7. Then after that, he said to his disciples: Let us go into Judea
again.
11:8. The disciples say to him: Rabbi, the Jews but now sought to stone
thee. And goest thou thither again?
11:9. Jesus answered: Are there not twelve hours of the day? If a man
walk in the day he stumbleth not, because he seeth the light of this
world:
11:10. But if he walk in the night, he stumbleth, because the light is
not in him.
11:11. These things he said; and after that he said to them: Lazarus our
friend sleepeth: but I go that I may awake him out of sleep.
11:12. His disciples therefore said: Lord, if he sleep, he shall do
well.
11:13. But Jesus spoke of his death: and they thought that he spoke of
the repose of sleep.
11:14. Then therefore Jesus said to them plainly: Lazarus is dead.
11:15. And I am glad, for your sakes; that I was not there, that you may
believe. But, let us go to him.
11:16. Thomas therefore, who is called Didymus, said to his fellow
disciples: Let us also go, that we may die with him.
11:17. Jesus therefore came: and found that he had been four days
already in the grave.
11:18. (Now Bethania was near Jerusalem, about fifteen furlongs off.)
11:19. And many of the Jews were come to Martha and Mary, to comfort
them concerning their brother.
11:20. Martha therefore, as soon as she heard that Jesus was come, went
to meet him: but Mary sat at home.
11:21. Martha therefore said to Jesus: Lord, if thou hadst been here, my
brother had not died.
11:22. But now also I know that whatsoever thou wilt ask of God, God
will give it thee.
11:23. Jesus saith to her: Thy brother shall rise again.
11:24. Martha saith to him: I know that he shall rise again, in the
resurrection at the last day.
11:25. Jesus said to her: I am the resurrection and the life: he that
believeth in me, although he be dead, shall live:
11:26. And every one that liveth and believeth in me shall not die for
ever. Believest thou this?
11:27. She saith to him: Yea, Lord, I have believed that thou art
Christ, the Son of the living God, who art come into this world.
11:28. And when she had said these things, she went and called her
sister Mary secretly, saying: The master is come and calleth for thee.
11:29. She, as soon as she heard this, riseth quickly and cometh to him.
11:30. For Jesus was not yet come into the town: but he was still in
that place where Martha had met him.
11:31. The Jews therefore, who were with her in the house and comforted
her, when they saw Mary, that she rose up speedily and went out,
followed her, saying: She goeth to the grave to weep there.
11:32. When Mary therefore was come where Jesus was, seeing him, she
fell down at his feet and saith to him. Lord, if thou hadst been here,
my brother had not died.
11:33. Jesus, therefore, when he saw her weeping, and the Jews that were
come with her weeping, groaned in the spirit and troubled himself,
11:34. And said: Where have you laid him? They say to him: Lord, come
and see.
11:35. And Jesus wept.
11:36. The Jews therefore said: Behold how he loved him.
11:37. But some of them said: Could not he that opened the eyes of the
man born blind have caused that this man should not die?
11:38. Jesus therefore again groaning in himself, cometh to the
sepulchre. Now it was a cave; and a stone was laid over it.
11:39. Jesus saith: Take away the stone. Martha, the sister of him that
was dead, saith to him: Lord, by this time he stinketh, for he is now of
four days.
11:40. Jesus saith to her: Did not I say to thee that if thou believe,
thou shalt see the glory of God?
11:41. They took therefore the stone away. And Jesus lifting up his
eyes, said: Father, I give thee thanks that thou hast heard me.
11:42. And I knew that thou hearest me always: but because of the people
who stand about have I said it, that they may believe that thou hast
sent me.
11:43. When he had said these things, he cried with a loud voice:
Lazarus, come forth.
11:44. And presently he that had been dead came forth, bound feet and
hands with winding bands. And his face was bound about with a napkin.
Jesus said to them: Loose him and let him go.
11:45. Many therefore of the Jews, who were come to Mary and Martha and
had seen the things that Jesus did, believed in him.
11:46. But some of them went to the Pharisees and told them the things
that Jesus had done.
11:47. The chief priests, therefore, and the Pharisees gathered a
council and said: What do we, for this man doth many miracles?
11:48. If we let him alone so, all will believe in him; and the Romans
will come, and take away our place and nation.
11:49. But one of them, named Caiphas, being the high priest that year,
said to them: You know nothing.
11:50. Neither do you consider that it is expedient for you that one man
should die for the people and that the whole nation perish not.
11:51. And this he spoke not of himself: but being the high priest of
that year, he prophesied that Jesus should die for the nation.
11:52. And not only for the nation, but to gather together in one the
children of God that were dispersed.
11:53. From that day therefore they devised to put him to death.
11:54. Wherefore Jesus walked no more openly among the Jews: but he went
into a country near the desert, unto a city that is called Ephrem. And
there he abode with his disciples.
11:55. And the pasch of the Jews was at hand: and many from the country
went up to Jerusalem, before the pasch, to purify themselves.
11:56. They sought therefore for Jesus; and they discoursed one with
another, standing in the temple: What think you that he is not come to
the festival day? And the chief priests and Pharisees had given a
commandment that, if any man knew where he was, he should tell, that
they might apprehend him.
John Chapter 12
The anointing of Christ's feet. His riding into Jerusalem upon an ass. A
voice from heaven.
12:1. Jesus therefore, six days before the pasch, came to Bethania,
where Lazarus had been dead, whom Jesus raised to life.
12:2. And they made him a supper there: and Martha served. But Lazarus
was one of them that were at table with him.
12:3. Mary therefore took a pound of ointment of right spikenard, of
great price, and anointed the feet of Jesus and wiped his feet with her
hair. And the house was filled with the odour of the ointment.
12:4. Then one of his disciples, Judas Iscariot, he that was about to
betray him, said:
12:5. Why was not this ointment sold for three hundred pence and given
to the poor?
12:6. Now he said this not because he cared for the poor; but because he
was a thief and, having the purse, carried the things that were put
therein.
12:7. Jesus therefore said: Let her alone, that she may keep it against
the day of my burial.
12:8. For the poor you have always with you: but me you have not always.
See the annotation of St. Matt. 26. 11.
12:9. A great multitude therefore of the Jews knew that he was there;
and they came, not for Jesus' sake only, but that they might see
Lazarus, whom he had raised from the dead.
12:10. But the chief priests thought to kill Lazarus also:
12:11. Because many of the Jews, by reason of him, went away and
believed in Jesus.
12:12. And on the next day, a great multitude that was come to the
festival day, when they had heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem,
12:13. Took branches of palm trees and went forth to meet him and cried
Hosanna. Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord, the king of
Israel.
12:14. And Jesus found a young ass and sat upon it, as it is written:
12:15. Fear not, daughter of Sion: behold thy king cometh, sitting on an
ass's colt.
12:16. These things his disciples did not know at the first: but when
Jesus was glorified, then they remembered that these things were written
of him and that they had done these things to him.
12:17. The multitude therefore gave testimony, which was with him, when
he called Lazarus out of the grave and raised him from the dead.
12:18. For which reason also the people came to meet him, because they
heard that he had done this miracle.
12:19. The Pharisees therefore said among themselves: Do you see that we
prevail nothing? Behold, the whole world is gone after him.
12:20. Now there were certain Gentiles among them, who came up to adore
on the festival day.
12:21. These therefore came to Philip, who was of Bethsaida of Galilee,
and desired him, saying: Sir, we would see Jesus.
12:22. Philip cometh and telleth Andrew. Again Andrew and Philip told
Jesus.
12:23. But Jesus answered them, saying: The hour is come that the Son of
man should be glorified.
12:24. Amen, amen, I say to you, unless the grain of wheat falling into
the ground die,
12:25. Itself remaineth alone. But if it die it bringeth forth much
fruit. He that loveth his life shall lose it and he that hateth his life
in this world keepeth it unto life eternal.
12:26. If any man minister to me, let him follow me: and where I am,
there also shall my minister be. If any man minister to me, him will my
Father honour.
12:27. Now is my soul troubled. And what shall I say? Father, save me
from this hour. But for this cause I came unto this hour.
12:28. Father, glorify thy name. A voice therefore came from heaven: I
have both glorified it and will glorify it again.
12:29. The multitude therefore that stood and heard said that it
thundered. Others said: An angel spoke to him.
12:30. Jesus answered and said: This voice came not because of me, but
for your sakes.
12:31. Now is the judgment of the world: now shall the prince of this
world be cast out.
12:32. And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all things to
myself.
12:33. (Now this he said, signifying what death he should die.)
12:34. The multitude answered him: We have heard out of the law that
Christ abideth for ever. And how sayest thou: The Son of man must be
lifted up? Who is this Son of man?
12:35. Jesus therefore said to them: Yet a little while, the light is
among you. Walk whilst you have the light, and the darkness overtake you
not. And he that walketh in darkness knoweth not whither be goeth.
12:36. Whilst you have the light, believe in the light, that you may be
the children of light. These things Jesus spoke: and he went away and
hid himself from them.
12:37. And whereas he had done so many miracles before them, they
believed not in him:
12:38. That the saying of Isaias the prophet might be fulfilled, which
he said: Lord, who hath believed our hearing? And to whom hath the arm
of the Lord been revealed?
12:39. Therefore they could not believe, because Isaias said again:
They could not believe... Because they would not, saith St. Augustine,
Tract. 33, in Joan. See the annotation, St. Mark 4. 12.
12:40. He hath blinded their eyes and hardened their heart, that they
should not see with their eyes, nor understand with their heart and be
converted: and I should heal them.
12:41. These things said Isaias, when he saw his glory, and spoke of
him.
12:42. However, many of the chief men also believed in him: but because
of the Pharisees they did not confess him, that they might not be cast
out of the synagogue.
12:43. For they loved the glory of men more than the glory of God.
12:44. But Jesus cried and said: He that believeth in me doth not
believe in me, but in him that sent me.
12:45. And he that seeth me, seeth him that sent me.
12:46. I am come, a light into the world, that whosoever believeth in me
may not remain in darkness.
12:47. And if any man hear my words and keep them not, I do not judge
him for I came not to judge the world, but to save the world.
12:48. He that despiseth me and receiveth not my words hath one that
judgeth him. The word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him in
the last day.
12:49. For I have not spoken of myself: but the Father who sent me, he
gave me commandment what I should say and what I should speak.
12:50. And I know that his commandment is life everlasting. The things
therefore that I speak, even as the Father said unto me, so do I speak.
John Chapter 13
Christ washes his disciples' feet. The treason of Judas. The new
commandment of love.
13:1. Before the festival day of the pasch, Jesus knowing that his hour
was come, that he should pass out of this world to the Father: having
loved his own who were in the world, he loved them unto the end.
Before the festival day of the pasch... This was the fourth and last
pasch of the ministry of Christ, and according to the common
computation, was in the thirty-third year of our Lord: and in the year
of the world 4036. Some chronologers are of opinion that our Saviour
suffered in the thirty-seventh year of his age: but these different
opinions on this subject are of no consequence.
13:2. And when supper was done (the devil having now put into the heart
of Judas Iscariot, the son of Simon, to betray him),
13:3. Knowing that the Father had given him all things into his hands
and that he came from God and goeth to God,
13:4. He riseth from supper and layeth aside his garments and, having
taken a towel, girded himself.
13:5. After that, he putteth water into a basin and began to wash the
feet of the disciples and to wipe them with the towel wherewith he was
girded.
13:6. He cometh therefore to Simon Peter. And Peter saith to him: Lord,
dost thou wash my feet?
13:7. Jesus answered and said to him: What I do, thou knowest not now;
but thou shalt know hereafter.
13:8. Peter saith to him: Thou shalt never wash my feet, Jesus answered
him: If I wash thee not, thou shalt have no part with me.
