68 Then JESUS said to the twelve: Will you also go away? 69 And Simon Peter answered him: Lord, to whom shall we go? thou hast the words of eternal life.

70 And we have believed and have known that thou art the Christ the Son of God.

71 JESUS answered them: Have not I chosen you twelve; and one of you is a devil?

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.

CHAP. VII.

Christ goes up to the feast of the taber nacles; he teaches in the temple.

AFTER these things JESUS walked in Galilee, for he would not walk in Judea, because the Jews sought to kill sought to kill him. 2 Now the Jews' feast of tabernacles was at hand.

3 And his brethren said to him: Pass from hence and go in to Judea that thy disciples also may see thy works which thou dost.

4 For there is no man that doth anything in secret, and he himself seeketh to be known openly. If thou do these things, manifest thyself to the world.

5 For neither did his brethren believe in him.

6 Then JESUS said to them: My time is not yet come; but your time is always ready.

7 The world cannot hate you;

a Matt. 16. 16. Mark 8. 29. Luke 9. 0.- Lev. 23. 34.

8 Go you up to this festival day, but I go not up to this festival day: because my time is not accomplished.

9 When he had said these things, he himself staid in Galilee.

10 But after his brethren were gone up, then he also went up to the feast, not openly, but as it were in secret.

11 The Jews therefore sought him on the festival day, and said: Where is he?

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.

13 Yet no man spoke openly

him, for fear of the Jews.

of 14 Now about the midst of the feast, JESUS went up into the temple, and taught.

15 And the Jews wondered, saying: How doth this man know letters, having never learned?

16 JESUS answered them and said: My doctrine is not mine, but his that sent me.

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 my-. self,

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.

19 Did not Moses give you the law, and yet none of you keepeth the law?

c Exod. 24. 8.

20 Why seek you to kill me? The multitude answered and said: Thou hast a devil; who seeketh to kill thee?

21 JESUS answered and said to them: One work I have done; and you all wonder:

22 Therefore Moses gave you circumcision (not because it is of Moses, but of the fathers;) and on the sabbathday you circumcise a man.

23 If a man receive circumeision on the sabbath-day, that the law of Moses may not be may not be broken; are you angry at me because I have healed the whole man on the sabbath-day?

24 Judge not according to the appearance, but judge just judgment.

25 Some therefore of Jerusalem said: Is not this he whom they seek to kill?

26 And behold he speaketh openly, and they say nothing to him. Have the rulers known for a truth that this is the CHRIST?

27 But we know this man whence he is: but when the CHRIST cometh, no man knoweth whence he is.

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.

29 I know him, because I am from him, and he hath sent me. 30 They sought therefore to apprehend him and no man laid hands on him, because his hour was not yet come.

31 But of the people many

a Supra, 5. 18.-b Lev. 12 3.-Gen. 17, 19, d Deut. 1. 16,

believed in him, and said: When the CHRIST cometh, shall he do more miracles than these which this man doth?

32 The Pharisees heard the people murmuring these things concerning him: and the rulers and Pharisees sent ministers to apprehend him.

33 JESUS therefore said to them: Yet a little while I am. with you: and then I go to him that sent me.

34 You shall seek me, and shall not find me: and where I am, thither you cannot come.

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?

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 !

87 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.

38He that believeth in me, as the scripture saith, Out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.

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.

40 Of that multitude therefore, when they had heard these words of his, some said: This is the prophet indeed.

41 Others said: This is the Christ. But some said: Dotl the CHRIST come out of Galilee

e Infra, 13. g Deut. 18. 15.

33.-f Lev. 23. 27,Joel 2. 28. Acts 2. 17.

43 So there arose a dissension among the people because of him.

44 And some of them would have apprehended him: but no man laid hands upon him. -45 The ministers therefore came to the chief priests and the Pharisees. And they said to them: Why have you not brought him?

46 The ministers answered: Never did man speak like this

man.

47 The Pharisees therefore answered them: Are you also seduced?

48 Hath any one of the rulers believed in him, or of the Pharisees?

49 But this multitude that knoweth not the law, are accursed.

50 Nicodemus said to them, *he that came to him by night, who was one of them:

51 Doth our law judge any man, unless it first hear him, and know what he doth ?

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.

3 And the scribes and Pharisees bring unto him a woman taken in adultery; and they set her in the midst,

4 And said to him: Master, this woman was even now taken in adultery.

5 d Now Moses in the law commanded us to stone such at one. But what sayest thou?

6 And this they said, tempting him, that they might accuse him. But JEsus bowing himself down, wrote with his finger on the ground..

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 And again stooping down, he wrote on the ground.

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.

10 Then JESUS lifting up himself, said to her: Woman, where are they that accused thee? Hath no man condemned thee?

11 Who said: No man, Lord. And JESUS said: Neither will I condemn thee. Go, and now

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

mony of thyself: thy testimony is not true.

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: but you know not whence I come, or whither I go.

15 You judge according to to the flesh: I judge not any man. 16 And if I do judge, my Judgment is true: because I am not alone, but I and the Father that sent me.

17 And in your law it is written, that the testimony of two men is true.

18 I am one that give testimony of myself: and the Father that sent me, giveth testimony of me.

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.

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.

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

that you shall die in your sins. For if you believe not that I am he, you shall die in your sin.

25 They said therefore to him: Who art thou! Jesus said to them: The beginning, who also speak unto you.

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.

27 And they understood not that he called God his father.

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:

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.

30 When he spoke things, many believed in him.

31 Then JESUS said to those Jews who believed him: If you continue in my word, you shall be my disciples indeed.

32 And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

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?

34 JESUS answered them: Amen, amen, I say unto you: that whosoever committeth sin, is the servant of sin.

35 Now the servant abideth not in the house for ever: but the son abideth for ever.

b Rom. 3. 4.-c Rom 6. 15. and IS, 2 Pat- 2. 19.

36 If therefore the son shall make you free, you shall be free indeed.

37 I know that you are the children of Abraham: but you seek to kill me, because my word hath no place in you.

38 I speak that which I have seen with my Father: and you do the things that you have seen with your father.

39 They answered, and said to him: Abraham is our father. JESUS saith to them: If you be the children of Abraham, do the works of Abraham.

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.

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.

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:

43 Why do you not know my speech? Because you cannot hear my word.

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. 45 But if I say the truth, you believe me not.

46 Which of you shall convince me of sin? If I say the

1 John 3. 8,

truth to you, why do you not believe me?

47 He that is of God, hear eth the words of God. Therefore you hear them not, because you are not of God.

48 The Jews therefore answered, and said to him: Do not we say well that thou art a Samaritan, and hast a devil?

49 JESUS answered: I have not a devil: but I honour my Father, and you have dishonoured me.

50 But I seek not my own glory there is one that seeketh and judgeth.

51 Amen, amen, I say to you: If any man keep my word, he shall not see death for ever.

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.

53 Art thou greater than our father Abraham, who is dead? and the prophets are dead. Whom dost thou make thyself?

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.

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.

56 Abraham your father rejoiced that he might see my day: he saw it, and was glad.

57 The Jews therefore said to him: Thou art not yet fifty years old, and hast thou seen Abraham?

b1 John 4. 6.