Part 23 (2/2)

(38)And he said: Lord, I believe. And he wors.h.i.+ped him.

(39)And Jesus said: For judgment came I into this world; that they who see not may see, and that they who see may become blind. (40)And some of the Pharisees who were with him heard these words, and said to him: Are we also blind? (41)Jesus said to them: If ye were blind, ye would not have sin. But now ye say: We see. Your sin remains!

X.

VERILY, verily, I say to you: He that enters not through the door into the sheepfold, but climbs up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber. (2)But he that enters in through the door is a shepherd of the sheep. (3)To him the porter opens, and the sheep hear his voice; and he calls his own sheep by name, and leads them out. (4)And when he has put forth all his own, he goes before them; and the sheep follow him, for they know his voice. (5)And a stranger they will not follow, but will flee from him; because they know not the voice of strangers.

(6)This parable spoke Jesus to them; but they understood not what things they were which he spoke to them.

(7)Therefore said Jesus to them again: Verily, verily, I say to you, I am the door of the sheep. (8)All who came before me are thieves and robbers; but the sheep did not hear them. (9)I am the door. If any one enter in through me, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out and find pasture. (10)The thief comes not but to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I came that they may have life, and that they may have it abundantly.

(11)I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep. (12)But he that is a hireling, and not a shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, sees the wolf coming, and leaves the sheep, and flees; and the wolf catches them, and scatters the sheep. (13)The hireling flees, because he is a hireling, and cares not for the sheep.

(14)I am the good shepherd; and I know mine, and am known by mine, (15)as the Father knows me, and I know the Father; and I lay down my life for the sheep. (16)And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold. Them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice; and there shall be one flock, one shepherd. (17)For this the Father loves me, because I lay down my life, that I may take it again. (18)No one takes it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have authority to lay it down, and I have authority to take it again. This commandment I received from my Father.

(19)Again there arose a division among the Jews because of these words. (20)And many of them said: He has a demon, and is mad, why do ye hear him? (21)Others said: These are not the words of one that has a demon. Can a demon open the eyes of the blind?

(22)And there came the feast of the dedication, in Jerusalem; and it was winter. (23)And Jesus was walking in the temple, in the porch of Solomon. (24)The Jews therefore came around him, and said to him: How long dost thou hold us in doubt[10:24]? If thou art the Christ, tell us plainly.

(25)Jesus answered them: I told you, and ye do not believe. The works that I do in my Father's name, these bear witness of me. (26)But ye do not believe; for ye are not of my sheep, as I said to you. (27)My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me; (28)and I give to them eternal life; and they shall never perish, nor shall any one pluck them out of my hand. (29)My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all; and no one is able to pluck them out of my Father's hand. (30)I and the Father are one.

(31)The Jews therefore took up stones again to stone him. (32)Jesus answered them: Many good works have I showed you from my Father; for which of those works do ye stone me? (33)The Jews answered him: For a good work we stone thee not, but for blasphemy, and because thou, being man, makest thyself G.o.d. (34)Jesus answered them: Is it not written in your law, I said, Ye are G.o.ds? (35)If he called them G.o.ds to whom the word of G.o.d came, and the Scripture can not be broken, (36)say ye of him, whom the Father sanctified, and sent into the world, Thou blasphemest, because I said, I am the Son of G.o.d? (37)If I do not the works of my Father, believe me not. (38)But if I do, though ye believe not me, believe the works; that ye may learn and know, that the Father is in me, and I in the Father. (39)Therefore they sought again to seize him; and he went forth, out of their hand.

(40)And he went away again beyond the Jordan, to the place where John was at first immersing; and there he abode. (41)And many came to him, and said: John indeed wrought no sign; but all things that John spoke of this man were true. (42)And many believed on him there.

XI.

NOW a certain one was sick, Lazarus of Bethany, from the village of Mary and Martha her sister. (2)It was the Mary who anointed the Lord with ointment, and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick. (3)The sisters therefore sent to him, saying: Lord, behold, he whom thou lovest is sick. (4)And Jesus hearing it, said: This sickness is not for death, but for the sake of the glory of G.o.d, that the Son of G.o.d may be glorified thereby.

(5)Now Jesus loved Martha, and her sister, and Lazarus. (6)When therefore he heard that he was sick, he then abode two days in the place where he was. (7)Then after this he says to the disciples: Let us go into Judaea again. (8)The disciples say to him: Master, the Jews of late sought to stone thee; and goest thou thither again? (9)Jesus answered: Are there not twelve hours in the day? If any one walk in the day, he stumbles not, because he sees the light of this world.

(10)But if any one walk in the night, he stumbles, because the light is not in him.

(11)These things said he; and after this he says to them: Lazarus our friend has fallen asleep; but I go, that I may awake him out of sleep.

(12)Therefore his disciples said: Lord if he has fallen asleep, he will be restored. (13)But Jesus had spoken of his death; but they thought that he said it of taking rest in sleep. (14)Then therefore Jesus said to them plainly: Lazarus is dead. (15)And I am glad for your sakes that I was not there, that ye may believe. But let us go to him. (16)Therefore said Thomas, who is called Didymus, to his fellow disciples: Let us also go, that we may die with him.

(17)Having come therefore, Jesus found that he had already been four days in the tomb.

(18)Now Bethany was nigh to Jerusalem, about fifteen furlongs off.

(19)And many of the Jews had come to Martha and Mary, to comfort them concerning their brother.

(20)Therefore Martha, when she heard that Jesus is coming, went and met him; but Mary sat in the house. (21)Then said Martha to Jesus: Lord, if thou hadst been here, my brother had not died. (22)But even now, I know that whatever thou shalt ask of G.o.d, G.o.d will give it thee. (23)Jesus says to her: Thy brother will rise again. (24)Martha says to him: I know that he will rise again, in the resurrection at the last day. (25)Jesus said to her: I am the resurrection, and the life; he that believes on me, though he be dead, yet shall he live; (26)and whoever lives and believes on me, shall never die. Believest thou this? (27)She says to him: Yea, Lord; I believe that thou art the Christ, the Son of G.o.d, who comes into the world.

(28)And having said this, she went away, and called Mary her sister secretly, saying: The Teacher is come, and calls for thee. (29)And she, when she heard it, rises quickly and comes to him.

(30)Now Jesus had not yet come into the village, but was in the place where Martha met him. (31)The Jews therefore who were with her in the house and comforting her, when they saw that Mary rose up hastily and went out, followed her, saying: She goes to the tomb to weep there.

(32)Mary therefore, when she came where Jesus was, seeing him, fell down at his feet, saying to him: Lord, if thou hadst been here, my brother had not died.

(33)Jesus therefore, when he saw her weeping, and the Jews weeping who came with her, groaned in spirit, and was troubled. (34)And he said: Where have ye laid him? They say to him: Lord, come and see. (35)Jesus wept.

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