7 And Jesus was walking after these things in Galilee, for he did not wish to walk in Judea, because the Jews were seeking to kill him,

² and the feast of the Jews was nigh -- that of tabernacles --

³ his brethren, therefore, said unto him, `Remove hence, and go away to Judea, that thy disciples also may behold thy works that thou dost;

⁴ for no one in secret doth anything, and himself seeketh to be in public; if thou dost these things -- manifest thyself to the world;'

⁵ for not even were his brethren believing in him.

⁶ Jesus, therefore, saith to them, `My time is not yet present, but your time is always ready;

⁷ the world is not able to hate you, but me it doth hate, because I testify concerning it that its works are evil.

⁸ Ye -- go ye up to this feast; I do not yet go up to this feast, because my time hath not yet been fulfilled;'

⁹ and saying these things to them, he remained in Galilee.

¹⁰ And when his brethren went up, then also he himself went up to the feast, not manifestly, but as in secret;

¹¹ the Jews, therefore, were seeking him, in the feast, and said, `Where is that one?'

¹² and there was much murmuring about him among the multitudes, some indeed said -- `He is good;' and others said, `No, but he leadeth astray the multitude;'

¹³ no one, however, was speaking freely about him, through fear of the Jews.

¹⁴ And it being now the middle of the feast, Jesus went up to the temple, and he was teaching,

¹⁵ and the Jews were wondering, saying, `How hath this one known letters -- not having learned?'

¹⁶ Jesus answered them and said, `My teaching is not mine, but His who sent me;

¹⁷ if any one may will to do His will, he shall know concerning the teaching, whether it is of God, or -- I do speak from myself.

¹⁸ `He who is speaking from himself his own glory doth seek, but he who is seeking the glory of him who sent him, this one is true, and unrighteousness is not in him;

¹⁹ hath not Moses given you the law? and none of you doth the law; why me do ye seek to kill?'

²⁰ The multitude answered and said, `Thou hast a demon, who doth seek to kill thee?'

²¹ Jesus answered and said to them, `One work I did, and ye all wonder,

²² because of this, Moses hath given you the circumcision -- not that it is of Moses, but of the fathers -- and on a sabbath ye circumcise a man;

²³ if a man doth receive circumcision on a sabbath that the law of Moses may not be broken, are ye wroth with me that I made a man all whole on a sabbath?

²⁴ judge not according to appearance, but the righteous judgment judge.'

²⁵ Certain, therefore, of the Jerusalemites said, `Is not this he whom they are seeking to kill?

²⁶ and, lo, he doth speak freely, and they say nothing to him; did the rulers at all know truly that this is truly the Christ?

²⁷ but this one -- we have known whence he is; and the Christ, when he doth come, no one doth know whence he is.'

²⁸ Jesus cried, therefore, in the temple, teaching and saying, `Ye have both known me, and ye have known whence I am; and I have not come of myself, but He who sent me is true, whom ye have not known;

²⁹ and I have known Him, because I am from Him, and He did send me.'

³⁰ They were seeking, therefore, to seize him, and no one laid the hand on him, because his hour had not yet come,

³¹ and many out of the multitude did believe in him, and said -- `The Christ -- when he may come -- will he do more signs than these that this one did?'

³² The Pharisees heard the multitude murmuring these things concerning him, and the Pharisees and the chief priests sent officers that they may take him;

³³ Jesus, therefore, said to them, `Yet a little time I am with you, and I go away unto Him who sent me;

³⁴ ye will seek me, and ye shall not find; and where I am, ye are not able to come.'

³⁵ The Jews, therefore, said among themselves, `Whither is this one about to go that we shall not find him? -- to the dispersion of the Greeks is he about to go? and to teach the Greeks;

³⁶ what is this word that he said, Ye will seek me, and ye shall not find? and, Where I am, ye are not able to come?'

³⁷ And in the last, the great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, `If any one doth thirst, let him come unto me and drink;

³⁸ he who is believing in me, according as the Writing said, Rivers out of his belly shall flow of living water;'

³⁹ and this he said of the Spirit, which those believing in him were about to receive; for not yet was the Holy Spirit, because Jesus was not yet glorified.

⁴⁰ Many, therefore out of the multitude, having heard the word, said, `This is truly the Prophet;'

⁴¹ others said, `This is the Christ;' and others said, `Why, out of Galilee doth the Christ come?

⁴² Did not the Writing say, that out of the seed of David, and from Bethlehem -- the village where David was -- the Christ doth come?'

⁴³ A division, therefore, arose among the multitude because of him.

⁴⁴ And certain of them were willing to seize him, but no one laid hands on him;

⁴⁵ the officers came, therefore, unto the chief priests and Pharisees, and they said to them, `Wherefore did ye not bring him?'

⁴⁶ The officers answered, `Never so spake man -- as this man.'

⁴⁷ The Pharisees, therefore, answered them, `Have ye also been led astray?

⁴⁸ did any one out of the rulers believe in him? or out of the Pharisees?

⁴⁹ but this multitude, that is not knowing the law, is accursed.'

⁵⁰ Nicodemus saith unto them -- he who came by night unto him -- being one of them,

⁵¹ `Doth our law judge the man, if it may not hear from him first, and know what he doth?'

⁵² They answered and said to him, `Art thou also out of Galilee? search and see, that a prophet out of Galilee hath not risen;'

⁵³ and each one went on to his house, but Jesus went on to the mount of the Olives.

8 And at dawn he came again to the temple,

² and all the people were coming unto him, and having sat down, he was teaching them;

³ and the scribes and the Pharisees bring unto him a woman having been taken in adultery, and having set her in the midst,

⁴ they say to him, `Teacher, this woman was taken in the very crime -- committing adultery,

⁵ and in the law, Moses did command us that such be stoned; thou, therefore, what dost thou say?'

⁶ and this they said, trying him, that they might have to accuse him. And Jesus, having stooped down, with the finger he was writing on the ground,

⁷ and when they continued asking him, having bent himself back, he said unto them, `The sinless of you -- let him first cast the stone at her;'

⁸ and again having stooped down, he was writing on the ground,

⁹ and they having heard, and by the conscience being convicted, were going forth one by one, having begun from the elders -- unto the last; and Jesus was left alone, and the woman standing in the midst.

¹⁰ And Jesus having bent himself back, and having seen no one but the woman, said to her, `Woman, where are those -- thine accusers? did no one pass sentence upon thee?'

¹¹ and she said, `No one, Sir;' and Jesus said to her, `Neither do I pass sentence on thee; be going on, and no more sin.'

¹² Again, therefore, Jesus spake to them, saying, `I am the light of the world; he who is following me shall not walk in the darkness, but he shall have the light of the life.'

¹³ The Pharisees, therefore, said to him, `Thou of thyself dost testify, thy testimony is not true;'

¹⁴ Jesus answered and said to them, `And if I testify of myself -- my testimony is true, because I have known whence I came, and whither I go, and ye -- ye have not known whence I come, or whither I go.

¹⁵ `Ye according to the flesh do judge; I do not judge any one,

¹⁶ and even if I do judge my judgment is true, because I am not alone, but I and the Father who sent me;

¹⁷ and also in your law it hath been written, that the testimony of two men are true;

¹⁸ I am [one] who is testifying of myself, and the Father who sent me doth testify of me.'

¹⁹ They said, therefore, to him, `Where is thy father?' Jesus answered, `Ye have neither known me nor my Father: if me ye had known, my Father also ye had known.'

²⁰ These sayings spake Jesus in the treasury, teaching in the temple, and no one seized him, because his hour had not yet come;

²¹ therefore said Jesus again to them, `I go away, and ye will seek me, and in your sin ye shall die; whither I go away, ye are not able to come.'

²² The Jews, therefore, said, `Will he kill himself, because he saith, Whither I go away, ye are not able to come?'

²³ and he said to them, `Ye are from beneath, I am from above; ye are of this world, I am not of this world;

²⁴ I said, therefore, to you, that ye shall die in your sins, for if ye may not believe that I am [he], ye shall die in your sins.'

²⁵ They said, therefore, to him, `Thou -- who art thou?' and Jesus said to them, `Even what I did speak of to you at the beginning;

²⁶ many things I have to speak concerning you and to judge, but He who sent me is true, and I -- what things I heard from Him -- these I say to the world.'

²⁷ They knew not that of the Father he spake to them;

²⁸ Jesus, therefore, said to them, `When ye may lift up the Son of Man then ye will know that I am [he]; and of myself I do nothing, but according as my Father did teach me, these things I speak;

²⁹ and He who sent me is with me; the Father did not leave me alone, because I, the things pleasing to Him, do always.'

³⁰ As he is speaking these things, many believed in him;

³¹ Jesus, therefore, said unto the Jews who believed in him, `If ye may remain in my word, truly my disciples ye are, and ye shall know the truth,

³² and the truth shall make you free.'

³³ They answered him, `Seed of Abraham we are; and to no one have we been servants at any time; how dost thou say -- Ye shall become free?'

³⁴ Jesus answered them, `Verily, verily, I say to you -- Every one who is committing sin, is a servant of the sin,

³⁵ and the servant doth not remain in the house -- to the age, the son doth remain -- to the age;

³⁶ if then the son may make you free, in reality ye shall be free.

³⁷ `I have known that ye are seed of Abraham, but ye seek to kill me, because my word hath no place in you;

³⁸ I -- that which I have seen with my Father do speak, and ye, therefore, that which ye have seen with your father -- ye do.'

³⁹ They answered and said to him, `Our father is Abraham;' Jesus saith to them, `If children of Abraham ye were, the works of Abraham ye were doing;

⁴⁰ and now, ye seek to kill me -- a man who hath spoken to you the truth I heard from God; this Abraham did not;

⁴¹ ye do the works of your father.' They said, therefore, to him, `We of whoredom have not been born; one Father we have -- God;'

⁴² Jesus then said to them, `If God were your father, ye were loving me, for I came forth from God, and am come; for neither have I come of myself, but He sent me;

⁴³ wherefore do ye not know my speech? because ye are not able to hear my word.

⁴⁴ `Ye are of a father -- the devil, and the desires of your father ye will to do; he was a man-slayer from the beginning, and in the truth he hath not stood, because there is no truth in him; when one may speak the falsehood, of his own he speaketh, because he is a liar -- also his father.

⁴⁵ `And because I say the truth, ye do not believe me.

⁴⁶ Who of you doth convict me of sin? and if I speak truth, wherefore do ye not believe me?

⁴⁷ he who is of God, the sayings of God he doth hear; because of this ye do not hear, because of God ye are not.'

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

⁴⁹ Jesus answered, `I have not a demon, but I honour my Father, and ye dishonour me;

⁵⁰ and I do not seek my own glory; there is who is seeking and is judging;

⁵¹ verily, verily, I say to you, If any one may keep my word, death he may not see -- to the age.'

⁵² The Jews, therefore, said to him, `Now we have known that thou hast a demon; Abraham did die, and the prophets, and thou dost say, If any one may keep my word, he shall not taste of death -- to the age!

⁵³ Art thou greater than our father Abraham, who died? and the prophets died; whom dost thou make thyself?'

⁵⁴ Jesus answered, `If I glorify myself, my glory is nothing; it is my Father who is glorifying me, of whom ye say that He is your God;

⁵⁵ and ye have not known Him, and I have known Him, and if I say that I have not known Him, I shall be like you -- speaking falsely; but I have known Him, and His word I keep;

⁵⁶ Abraham, your father, was glad that he might see my day; and he saw, and did rejoice.'

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

⁵⁸ Jesus said to them, `Verily, verily, I say to you, Before Abraham's coming -- I am;'

⁵⁹ they took up, therefore, stones that they may cast at him, but Jesus hid himself, and went forth out of the temple, going through the midst of them, and so passed by.

9 And passing by, he saw a man blind from birth,

² and his disciples asked him, saying, `Rabbi, who did sin, this one or his parents, that he should be born blind?'

³ Jesus answered, `Neither did this one sin nor his parents, but that the works of God may be manifested in him;

⁴ it behoveth me to be working the works of Him who sent me while it is day; night doth come, when no one is able to work: --

⁵ when I am in the world, I am a light of the world.'

⁶ These things saying, he spat on the ground, and made clay of the spittle, and rubbed the clay on the eyes of the blind man, and said to him,

⁷ `Go away, wash at the pool of Siloam,' which is, interpreted, Sent. He went away, therefore, and did wash, and came seeing;

⁸ the neighbours, therefore, and those seeing him before, that he was blind, said, `Is not this he who is sitting and begging?'

⁹ others said -- `This is he;' and others -- `He is like to him;' he himself said, -- `I am [he].'

¹⁰ They said, therefore, to him, `How were thine eyes opened?'

¹¹ he answered and said, `A man called Jesus made clay, and rubbed my eyes, and said to me, Go away to the pool of Siloam, and wash; and having gone away and having washed, I received sight;'

¹² they said, therefore, to him, `Where is that one?' he saith, `I have not known.'

¹³ They bring him to the Pharisees who once [was] blind,

¹⁴ and it was a sabbath when Jesus made the clay, and opened his eyes.

¹⁵ Again, therefore, the Pharisees also were asking him how he received sight, and he said to them, `Clay he did put upon my eyes, and I did wash -- and I see.'

¹⁶ Of the Pharisees, therefore, certain said, `This man is not from God, because the sabbath he doth not keep;' others said, `How is a man -- a sinful one -- able to do such signs?' and there was a division among them.

¹⁷ They said to the blind man again, `Thou -- what dost thou say of him -- that he opened thine eyes?'

¹⁸ and he said -- `He is a prophet.' The Jews, therefore, did not believe concerning him that he was blind and did receive sight, till that they called the parents of him who received sight,

¹⁹ and they asked them, saying, `Is your son, of whom ye say that he was born blind? how then now doth he see?'

²⁰ His parents answered them and said, `We have known that this is our son, and that he was born blind;

²¹ and how he now seeth, we have not known; or who opened his eyes, we have not known; himself is of age, ask him; he himself shall speak concerning himself.'

²² These things said his parents, because they were afraid of the Jews, for already had the Jews agreed together, that if any one may confess him -- Christ, he may be put out of the synagogue;

²³ because of this his parents said -- `He is of age, ask him.'

²⁴ They called, therefore, a second time the man who was blind, and they said to him, `Give glory to God, we have known that this man is a sinner;'

²⁵ he answered, therefore, and said, `If he be a sinner -- I have not known, one thing I have known, that, being blind, now I see.'

²⁶ And they said to him again, `What did he to thee? how did he open thine eyes?'

²⁷ He answered them, `I told you already, and ye did not hear; why again do ye wish to hear? do ye also wish to become his disciples?'

²⁸ They reviled him, therefore, and said, `Thou art his disciple, and we are Moses' disciples;

²⁹ we have known that God hath spoken to Moses, but this one -- we have not known whence he is.'

³⁰ The man answered and said to them, `Why, in this is a wonderful thing, that ye have not known whence he is, and he opened my eyes!

³¹ and we have known that God doth not hear sinners, but, if any one may be a worshipper of God, and may do His will, him He doth hear;

³² from the age it was not heard, that any one did open eyes of one who hath been born blind;

³³ if this one were not from God, he were not able to do anything.'

³⁴ They answered and said to him, `In sins thou wast born altogether, and thou dost teach us!' and they cast him forth without.

³⁵ Jesus heard that they cast him forth without, and having found him, he said to him, `Dost thou believe in the Son of God?'

³⁶ he answered and said, `Who is he, sir, that I may believe in him?'

³⁷ And Jesus said to him, `Thou hast both seen him, and he who is speaking with thee is he;'

³⁸ and he said, `I believe, sir,' and bowed before him.

³⁹ And Jesus said, `For judgment I to this world did come, that those not seeing may see, and those seeing may become blind.'

⁴⁰ And those of the Pharisees who were with him heard these things, and they said to him, `Are we also blind?'

⁴¹ Jesus said to them, `If ye were blind, ye were not having had sin, but now ye say -- We see, therefore doth your sin remain.

10 `Verily, verily, I say to you, He who is not entering through the door to the fold of the sheep, but is going up from another side, that one is a thief and a robber;

² and he who is entering through the door is shepherd of the sheep;

³ to this one the doorkeeper doth open, and the sheep hear his voice, and his own sheep he doth call by name, and doth lead them forth;

⁴ and when his own sheep he may put forth, before them he goeth on, and the sheep follow him, because they have known his voice;

⁵ and a stranger they will not follow, but will flee from him, because they have not known the voice of strangers.'

⁶ This similitude spake Jesus to them, and they knew not what the things were that he was speaking to them;

⁷ Jesus said therefore again to them, `Verily, verily, I say to you -- I am the door of the sheep;

⁸ all, as many as came before me, are thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not hear them;

⁹ I am the door, through me if any one may come in, he shall be saved, and he shall come in, and go out, and find pasture.

¹⁰ `The thief doth not come, except that he may steal, and kill, and destroy; I came that they may have life, and may have [it] abundantly.

¹¹ `I am the good shepherd; the good shepherd his life layeth down for the sheep;

¹² and the hireling, and not being a shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, doth behold the wolf coming, and doth leave the sheep, and doth flee; and the wolf catcheth them, and scattereth the sheep;

¹³ and the hireling doth flee because he is an hireling, and is not caring for the sheep.

¹⁴ `I am the good shepherd, and I know my [sheep], and am known by mine,

¹⁵ according as the Father doth know me, and I know the Father, and my life I lay down for the sheep,

¹⁶ and other sheep I have that are not of this fold, these also it behoveth me to bring, and my voice they will hear, and there shall become one flock -- one shepherd.

¹⁷ `Because of this doth the Father love me, because I lay down my life, that again I may take it;

¹⁸ no one doth take it from me, but I lay it down of myself; authority I have to lay it down, and authority I have again to take it; this command I received from my Father.'

¹⁹ Therefore, again, there came a division among the Jews, because of these words,

²⁰ and many of them said, `He hath a demon, and is mad, why do ye hear him?'

²¹ others said, `These sayings are not those of a demoniac; is a demon able blind men's eyes to open?'

²² And the dedication in Jerusalem came, and it was winter,

²³ and Jesus was walking in the temple, in the porch of Solomon,

²⁴ the Jews, therefore, came round about him, and said to him, `Till when our soul dost thou hold in suspense? if thou art the Christ, tell us freely.'

²⁵ Jesus answered them, `I told you, and ye do not believe; the works that I do in the name of my Father, these testify concerning me;

²⁶ but ye do not believe, for ye are not of my sheep,

²⁷ according as I said to you: My sheep my voice do hear, and I know them, and they follow me,

²⁸ and life age-during I give to them, and they shall not perish -- to the age, and no one shall pluck them out of my hand;

²⁹ my Father, who hath given to me, is greater than all, and no one is able to pluck out of the hand of my Father;

³⁰ I and the Father are one.'

³¹ Therefore, again, did the Jews take up stones that they may stone him;

³² Jesus answered them, `Many good works did I shew you from my Father; because of which work of them do ye stone me?'

³³ The Jews answered him, saying, `For a good work we do not stone thee, but for evil speaking, and because thou, being a man, dost make thyself God.'

³⁴ Jesus answered them, `Is it not having been written in your law: I said, ye are gods?

³⁵ if them he did call gods unto whom the word of God came, (and the Writing is not able to be broken,)

³⁶ of him whom the Father did sanctify, and send to the world, do ye say -- Thou speakest evil, because I said, Son of God I am?

³⁷ if I do not the works of my Father, do not believe me;

³⁸ and if I do, even if me ye may not believe, the works believe, that ye may know and may believe that in me [is] the Father, and I in Him.'

³⁹ Therefore were they seeking again to seize him, and he went forth out of their hand,

⁴⁰ and went away again to the other side of the Jordan, to the place where John was at first baptizing, and remained there,

⁴¹ and many came unto him, and said -- `John, indeed, did no sign, and all things, as many as John said about this one were true;'

⁴² and many did believe in him there.

11 And there was a certain one ailing, Lazarus, from Bethany, of the village of Mary and Martha her sister --

² and it was Mary who did anoint the Lord with ointment, and did wipe his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was ailing --

³ therefore sent the sisters unto him, saying, `Sir, lo, he whom thou dost love is ailing;'

⁴ and Jesus having heard, said, `This ailment is not unto death, but for the glory of God, that the Son of God may be glorified through it.'

⁵ And Jesus was loving Martha, and her sister, and Lazarus,

⁶ when, therefore, he heard that he is ailing, then indeed he remained in the place in which he was two days,

⁷ then after this, he saith to the disciples, `We may go to Judea again;'

⁸ the disciples say to him, `Rabbi, now were the Jews seeking to stone thee, and again thou dost go thither!'

⁹ Jesus answered, `Are there not twelve hours in the day? if any one may walk in the day, he doth not stumble, because the light of this world he doth see;

¹⁰ and if any one may walk in the night, he stumbleth, because the light is not in him.'

¹¹ These things he said, and after this he saith to them, `Lazarus our friend hath fallen asleep, but I go on that I may awake him;'

¹² therefore said his disciples, `Sir, if he hath fallen asleep, he will be saved;'

¹³ but Jesus had spoken about his death, but they thought that about the repose of sleep he speaketh.

¹⁴ Then, therefore, Jesus said to them freely, `Lazarus hath died;

¹⁵ and I rejoice, for your sake, (that ye may believe,) that I was not there; but we may go to him;'

¹⁶ therefore said Thomas, who is called Didymus, to the fellow-disciples, `We may go -- we also, that we may die with him,'

¹⁷ Jesus, therefore, having come, found him having been four days already in the tomb.

¹⁸ And Bethany was nigh to Jerusalem, about fifteen furlongs off,

¹⁹ and many of the Jews had come unto Martha and Mary, that they might comfort them concerning their brother;

²⁰ Martha, therefore, when she heard that Jesus doth come, met him, and Mary kept sitting in the house.

²¹ Martha, therefore, said unto Jesus, `Sir, if thou hadst been here, my brother had not died;

²² but even now, I have known that whatever thou mayest ask of God, God will give to thee;'

²³ Jesus saith to her, `Thy brother shall rise again.'

²⁴ Martha saith to him, `I have known that he will rise again, in the rising again in the last day;'

²⁵ Jesus said to her, `I am the rising again, and the life; he who is believing in me, even if he may die, shall live;

²⁶ and every one who is living and believing in me shall not die -- to the age;

²⁷ believest thou this?' she saith to him, `Yes, sir, I have believed that thou art the Christ, the Son of God, who is coming to the world.'

²⁸ And these things having said, she went away, and called Mary her sister privately, saying, `The Teacher is present, and doth call thee;'

²⁹ she, when she heard, riseth up quickly, and doth come to him;

³⁰ and Jesus had not yet come to the village, but was in the place where Martha met him;

³¹ the Jews, therefore, who were with her in the house, and were comforting her, having seen Mary that she rose up quickly and went forth, followed her, saying -- `She doth go away to the tomb, that she may weep there.'

³² Mary, therefore, when she came where Jesus was, having seen him, fell at his feet, saying to him, `Sir, if thou hadst been here, my brother had not died;'

³³ Jesus, therefore, when he saw her weeping, and the Jews who came with her weeping, did groan in the spirit, and troubled himself, and he said,

³⁴ `Where have ye laid him?' they say to him, `Sir, come and see;'

³⁵ Jesus wept.

³⁶ The Jews, therefore, said, `Lo, how he was loving him!'

³⁷ and certain of them said, `Was not this one, who did open the eyes of the blind man, able to cause that also this one might not have died?'

³⁸ Jesus, therefore, again groaning in himself, cometh to the tomb, and it was a cave, and a stone was lying upon it,

³⁹ Jesus saith, `Take ye away the stone;' the sister of him who hath died -- Martha -- saith to him, `Sir, already he stinketh, for he is four days dead;'

⁴⁰ Jesus saith to her, `Said I not to thee, that if thou mayest believe, thou shalt see the glory of God?'

⁴¹ They took away, therefore, the stone where the dead was laid, and Jesus lifted his eyes upwards, and said, `Father, I thank Thee, that Thou didst hear me;

⁴² and I knew that Thou always dost hear me, but, because of the multitude that is standing by, I said [it], that they may believe that Thou didst send me.'

⁴³ And these things saying, with a loud voice he cried out, `Lazarus, come forth;'

⁴⁴ and he who died came forth, being bound feet and hands with grave-clothes, and his visage with a napkin was bound about; Jesus saith to them, `Loose him, and suffer to go.'

⁴⁵ Many, therefore, of the Jews who came unto Mary, and beheld what Jesus did, believed in him;

⁴⁶ but certain of them went away unto the Pharisees, and told them what Jesus did;

⁴⁷ the chief priests, therefore, and the Pharisees, gathered together a sanhedrim, and said, `What may we do? because this man doth many signs?

⁴⁸ if we may let him alone thus, all will believe in him; and the Romans will come, and will take away both our place and nation.'

⁴⁹ and a certain one of them, Caiaphas, being chief priest of that year, said to them, `Ye have not known anything,

⁵⁰ nor reason that it is good for us that one man may die for the people, and not the whole nation perish.'

⁵¹ And this he said not of himself, but being chief priest of that year, he did prophesy that Jesus was about to die for the nation,

⁵² and not for the nation only, but that also the children of God, who have been scattered abroad, he may gather together into one.

⁵³ From that day, therefore, they took counsel together that they may kill him;

⁵⁴ Jesus, therefore, was no more freely walking among the Jews, but went away thence to the region nigh the wilderness, to a city called Ephraim, and there he tarried with his disciples.

⁵⁵ And the passover of the Jews was nigh, and many went up to Jerusalem out of the country before the passover, that they might purify themselves;

⁵⁶ they were seeking, therefore, Jesus, and said one with another, standing in the temple, `What doth appear to you -- that he may not come to the feast?'

⁵⁷ and both the chief priests and the Pharisees had given a command, that if any one may know where he is, he may shew [it], so that they may seize him.