Nov 1 - John 9-12
John
1As he passed by, he saw a man blind from birth.2And his disciples asked him, "Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?"3Jesus answered, "It was not that this man sinned, or his parents, but that the works of God might be displayed in him.4We must work the works of him who sent me while it is day; night is coming, when no one can work.5As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world."6Having said these things, he spat on the ground and made mud with the saliva. Then he anointed the man's eyes with the mud7and said to him, "Go, wash in the pool of Siloam" (which means Sent). So he went and washed and came back seeing.8The neighbors and those who had seen him before as a beggar were saying, "Is this not the man who used to sit and beg?"9Some said, "It is he." Others said, "No, but he is like him." He kept saying, "I am the man."10So they said to him, "Then how were your eyes opened?"11He answered, "The man called Jesus made mud and anointed my eyes and said to me, 'Go to Siloam and wash.' So I went and washed and received my sight."12They said to him, "Where is he?" He said, "I do not know."13They brought to the Pharisees the man who had formerly been blind.14Now it was a Sabbath day when Jesus made the mud and opened his eyes.15So the Pharisees again asked him how he had received his sight. And he said to them, "He put mud on my eyes, and I washed, and I see."16Some of the Pharisees said, "This man is not from God, for he does not keep the Sabbath." But others said, "How can a man who is a sinner do such signs?" And there was a division among them.17So they said again to the blind man, "What do you say about him, since he has opened your eyes?" He said, "He is a prophet."18The Jews did not believe that he had been blind and had received his sight, until they called the parents of the man who had received his sight19and asked them, "Is this your son, who you say was born blind? How then does he now see?"20His parents answered, "We know that this is our son and that he was born blind.21But how he now sees we do not know, nor do we know who opened his eyes. Ask him; he is of age. He will speak for himself."22(His parents said these things because they feared the Jews, for the Jews had already agreed that if anyone should confess Jesus to be Christ, he was to be put out of the synagogue.)23Therefore his parents said, "He is of age; ask him."24So for the second time they called the man who had been blind and said to him, "Give glory to God. We know that this man is a sinner."25He answered, "Whether he is a sinner I do not know. One thing I do know, that though I was blind, now I see."26They said to him, "What did he do to you? How did he open your eyes?"27He answered them, "I have told you already, and you would not listen. Why do you want to hear it again? Do you also want to become his disciples?"28And they reviled him, saying, "You are his disciple, but we are disciples of Moses.29We know that God has spoken to Moses, but as for this man, we do not know where he comes from."30The man answered, "Why, this is an amazing thing! You do not know where he comes from, and yet he opened my eyes.31We know that God does not listen to sinners, but if anyone is a worshiper of God and does his will, God listens to him.32Never since the world began has it been heard that anyone opened the eyes of a man born blind.33If this man were not from God, he could do nothing."34They answered him, "You were born in utter sin, and would you teach us?" And they cast him out.35Jesus heard that they had cast him out, and having found him he said, "Do you believe in the Son of Man?"36He answered, "And who is he, sir, that I may believe in him?"37Jesus said to him, "You have seen him, and it is he who is speaking to you."38He said, "Lord, I believe," and he worshiped him.39Jesus said, "For judgment I came into this world, that those who do not see may see, and those who see may become blind."40Some of the Pharisees near him heard these things, and said to him, "Are we also blind?"41Jesus said to them, "If you were blind, you would have no guilt; but now that you say, 'We see,' your guilt remains.
1"Truly, truly, I say to you, he who does not enter the sheepfold by the door but climbs in by another way, that man is a thief and a robber.2But he who enters by the door is the shepherd of the sheep.3To him the gatekeeper opens. The sheep hear his voice, and he calls his own sheep by name and leads them out.4When he has brought out all his own, he goes before them, and the sheep follow him, for they know his voice.5A stranger they will not follow, but they will flee from him, for they do not know the voice of strangers."6This figure of speech Jesus used with them, but they did not understand what he was saying to them.7So Jesus again said to them, "Truly, truly, I say to you, I am the door of the sheep.8All who came before me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not listen to them.9I am the door. If anyone enters by me, he will be saved and will go in and out and find pasture.10The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly.11I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.12He who is a hired hand and not a shepherd, who does not own the sheep, sees the wolf coming and leaves the sheep and flees, and the wolf snatches them and scatters them.13He flees because he is a hired hand and cares nothing for the sheep.14I am the good shepherd. I know my own and my own know me,15just as the Father knows me and I know the Father; and I lay down my life for the sheep.16And I have other sheep that are not of this fold. I must bring them also, and they will listen to my voice. So there will be one flock, one shepherd.17For this reason the Father loves me, because I lay down my life that I may take it up again.18No one takes it from me, but I lay it down of my own accord. I have authority to lay it down, and I have authority to take it up again. This charge I have received from my Father."19There was again a division among the Jews because of these words.20Many of them said, "He has a demon, and is insane; why listen to him?"21Others said, "These are not the words of one who is oppressed by a demon. Can a demon open the eyes of the blind?"22At that time the Feast of Dedication took place at Jerusalem. It was winter,23and Jesus was walking in the temple, in the colonnade of Solomon.24So the Jews gathered around him and said to him, "How long will you keep us in suspense? If you are the Christ, tell us plainly."25Jesus answered them, "I told you, and you do not believe. The works that I do in my Father's name bear witness about me,26but you do not believe because you are not part of my flock.27My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.28I give them eternal life, and they will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand.29My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all, and no one is able to snatch them out of the Father's hand.30I and the Father are one."31The Jews picked up stones again to stone him.32Jesus answered them, "I have shown you many good works from the Father; for which of them are you going to stone me?"33The Jews answered him, "It is not for a good work that we are going to stone you but for blasphemy, because you, being a man, make yourself God."34Jesus answered them, "Is it not written in your Law, 'I said, you are gods'?35If he called them gods to whom the word of God came--and Scripture cannot be broken--36do you say of him whom the Father consecrated and sent into the world, 'You are blaspheming,' because I said, 'I am the Son of God'?37If I am not doing the works of my Father, then do not believe me;38but if I do them, even though you do not believe me, believe the works, that you may know and understand that the Father is in me and I am in the Father."39Again they sought to arrest him, but he escaped from their hands.40He went away again across the Jordan to the place where John had been baptizing at first, and there he remained.41And many came to him. And they said, "John did no sign, but everything that John said about this man was true."42And many believed in him there.
1Now a certain man was ill, Lazarus of Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha.2It was Mary who anointed the Lord with ointment and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was ill.3So the sisters sent to him, saying, "Lord, he whom you love is ill."4But when Jesus heard it he said, "This illness does not lead to death. It is for the glory of God, so that the Son of God may be glorified through it."5Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus.6So, when he heard that Lazarus was ill, he stayed two days longer in the place where he was.7Then after this he said to the disciples, "Let us go to Judea again."8The disciples said to him, "Rabbi, the Jews were just now seeking to stone you, and are you going there again?"9Jesus answered, "Are there not twelve hours in the day? If anyone walks in the day, he does not stumble, because he sees the light of this world.10But if anyone walks in the night, he stumbles, because the light is not in him."11After saying these things, he said to them, "Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep, but I go to awaken him."12The disciples said to him, "Lord, if he has fallen asleep, he will recover."13Now Jesus had spoken of his death, but they thought that he meant taking rest in sleep.14Then Jesus told them plainly, "Lazarus has died,15and for your sake I am glad that I was not there, so that you may believe. But let us go to him."16So Thomas, called the Twin, said to his fellow disciples, "Let us also go, that we may die with him."17Now when Jesus came, he found that Lazarus had already been in the tomb four days.18Bethany was near Jerusalem, about two miles off,19and many of the Jews had come to Martha and Mary to console them concerning their brother.20So when Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went and met him, but Mary remained seated in the house.21Martha said to Jesus, "Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.22But even now I know that whatever you ask from God, God will give you."23Jesus said to her, "Your brother will rise again."24Martha said to him, "I know that he will rise again in the resurrection on the last day."25Jesus said to her, "I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live,26and everyone who lives and believes in me shall never die. Do you believe this?"27She said to him, "Yes, Lord; I believe that you are the Christ, the Son of God, who is coming into the world."28When she had said this, she went and called her sister Mary, saying in private, "The Teacher is here and is calling for you."29And when she heard it, she rose quickly and went to him.30Now Jesus had not yet come into the village, but was still in the place where Martha had met him.31When the Jews who were with her in the house, consoling her, saw Mary rise quickly and go out, they followed her, supposing that she was going to the tomb to weep there.32Now when Mary came to where Jesus was and saw him, she fell at his feet, saying to him, "Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died."33When Jesus saw her weeping, and the Jews who had come with her also weeping, he was deeply moved in his spirit and greatly troubled.34And he said, "Where have you laid him?" They said to him, "Lord, come and see."35Jesus wept.36So the Jews said, "See how he loved him!"37But some of them said, "Could not he who opened the eyes of the blind man also have kept this man from dying?"38Then Jesus, deeply moved again, came to the tomb. It was a cave, and a stone lay against it.39Jesus said, "Take away the stone." Martha, the sister of the dead man, said to him, "Lord, by this time there will be an odor, for he has been dead four days."40Jesus said to her, "Did I not tell you that if you believed you would see the glory of God?"41So they took away the stone. And Jesus lifted up his eyes and said, "Father, I thank you that you have heard me.42I knew that you always hear me, but I said this on account of the people standing around, that they may believe that you sent me."43When he had said these things, he cried out with a loud voice, "Lazarus, come out."44The man who had died came out, his hands and feet bound with linen strips, and his face wrapped with a cloth. Jesus said to them, "Unbind him, and let him go."45Many of the Jews therefore, who had come with Mary and had seen what he did, believed in him,46but some of them went to the Pharisees and told them what Jesus had done.47So the chief priests and the Pharisees gathered the Council and said, "What are we to do? For this man performs many signs.48If we let him go on like this, everyone will believe in him, and the Romans will come and take away both our place and our nation."49But one of them, Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, said to them, "You know nothing at all.50Nor do you understand that it is better for you that one man should die for the people, not that the whole nation should perish."51He did not say this of his own accord, but being high priest that year he prophesied that Jesus would die for the nation,52and not for the nation only, but also to gather into one the children of God who are scattered abroad.53So from that day on they made plans to put him to death.54Jesus therefore no longer walked openly among the Jews, but went from there to the region near the wilderness, to a town called Ephraim, and there he stayed with the disciples.55Now the Passover of the Jews was at hand, and many went up from the country to Jerusalem before the Passover to purify themselves.56They were looking for Jesus and saying to one another as they stood in the temple, "What do you think? That he will not come to the feast at all?"57Now the chief priests and the Pharisees had given orders that if anyone knew where he was, he should let them know, so that they might arrest him.
1Six days before the Passover, Jesus therefore came to Bethany, where Lazarus was, whom Jesus had raised from the dead.2So they gave a dinner for him there. Martha served, and Lazarus was one of those reclining with him at the table.3Mary therefore took a pound of expensive ointment made from pure nard, and anointed the feet of Jesus and wiped his feet with her hair. The house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume.4But Judas Iscariot, one of his disciples (he who was about to betray him), said,5"Why was this ointment not sold for three hundred denarii and given to the poor?"6He said this, not because he cared about the poor, but because he was a thief, and having charge of the moneybag he used to help himself to what was put into it.7Jesus said, "Leave her alone, so that she may keep it for the day of my burial.8The poor you always have with you, but you do not always have me."9When the large crowd of the Jews learned that Jesus was there, they came, not only on account of him but also to see Lazarus, whom he had raised from the dead.10So the chief priests made plans to put Lazarus to death as well,11because on account of him many of the Jews were going away and believing in Jesus.12The next day the large crowd that had come to the feast heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem.13So they took branches of palm trees and went out to meet him, crying out, "Hosanna! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord, even the King of Israel!"14And Jesus found a young donkey and sat on it, just as it is written,15"Fear not, daughter of Zion; behold, your king is coming, sitting on a donkey's colt!"16His disciples did not understand these things at first, but when Jesus was glorified, then they remembered that these things had been written about him and had been done to him.17The crowd that had been with him when he called Lazarus out of the tomb and raised him from the dead continued to bear witness.18The reason why the crowd went to meet him was that they heard he had done this sign.19So the Pharisees said to one another, "You see that you are gaining nothing. Look, the world has gone after him."20Now among those who went up to worship at the feast were some Greeks.21So these came to Philip, who was from Bethsaida in Galilee, and asked him, "Sir, we wish to see Jesus."22Philip went and told Andrew; Andrew and Philip went and told Jesus.23And Jesus answered them, "The hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified.24Truly, truly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it bears much fruit.25Whoever loves his life loses it, and whoever hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life.26If anyone serves me, he must follow me; and where I am, there will my servant be also. If anyone serves me, the Father will honor him.27"Now is my soul troubled. And what shall I say? 'Father, save me from this hour'? But for this purpose I have come to this hour.28Father, glorify your name." Then a voice came from heaven: "I have glorified it, and I will glorify it again."29The crowd that stood there and heard it said that it had thundered. Others said, "An angel has spoken to him."30Jesus answered, "This voice has come for your sake, not mine.31Now is the judgment of this world; now will the ruler of this world be cast out.32And I, when I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all people to myself."33He said this to show by what kind of death he was going to die.34So the crowd answered him, "We have heard from the Law that the Christ remains forever. How can you say that the Son of Man must be lifted up? Who is this Son of Man?"35So Jesus said to them, "The light is among you for a little while longer. Walk while you have the light, lest darkness overtake you. The one who walks in the darkness does not know where he is going.36While you have the light, believe in the light, that you may become sons of light."When Jesus had said these things, he departed and hid himself from them.37Though he had done so many signs before them, they still did not believe in him,38so that the word spoken by the prophet Isaiah might be fulfilled: "Lord, who has believed what he heard from us, and to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?"39Therefore they could not believe. For again Isaiah said,40"He has blinded their eyes and hardened their heart, lest they see with their eyes, and understand with their heart, and turn, and I would heal them."41Isaiah said these things because he saw his glory and spoke of him.42Nevertheless, many even of the authorities believed in him, but for fear of the Pharisees they did not confess it, so that they would not be put out of the synagogue;43for they loved the glory that comes from man more than the glory that comes from God.44And Jesus cried out and said, "Whoever believes in me, believes not in me but in him who sent me.45And whoever sees me sees him who sent me.46I have come into the world as light, so that whoever believes in me may not remain in darkness.47If anyone hears my words and does not keep them, I do not judge him; for I did not come to judge the world but to save the world.48The one who rejects me and does not receive my words has a judge; the word that I have spoken will judge him on the last day.49For I have not spoken on my own authority, but the Father who sent me has himself given me a commandment--what to say and what to speak.50And I know that his commandment is eternal life. What I say, therefore, I say as the Father has told me."