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[_LittleNipper]

John 2:1-25

On the 3rd day there was a wedding at Cana in the Galilee; and the mother of Jesus attended.

Jesus being invited to the wedding, along with His disciples.

The wine ran out, and Jesus's mother said to Him, “They have no more wine.”

Jesus replied, “Mother, why should that concern me? — or you? My time isn't now.”

His mother said to the servants, “Do whatever He tells you.”

Now 6 stone water-jars were standing there for the Jewish ceremonial washings, each with a capacity of 20 or 30 gallons.

Jesus told them, “Fill the jars with water,” and they filled them to the brim.

He said, “Now take some out, and bring it to the man heading the banquet”; and they took it.

The man in charge tasted the water; it had now become wine! He had no clue where it came from, but the servants who had taken the water knew. So he called the bridegroom

and said to him, “Everyone else serves the good wine first and the poorer wine after people have drunk freely. But you have kept the good wine until now!”

This, the first of Jesus’s miraculous signs, he accomplished at Cana in the Galilee. He demonstrated His glory, and His disciples came to trust in Him.

Afterwards, Jesus, his mother and brothers, and His disciples went down to Capernaum and remained there a few days.

It was almost time for Passover in Judah, so Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

In the Temple grounds He found those who were selling cattle, sheep and pigeons, and others who were sitting at tables exchanging money.

He made a whip from cords and drove them all out of the Temple grounds, the sheep and cattle as well. He pushed over the money-changers’ tables, scattering their coins;

and to the pigeon-sellers He said, “Get these things out of here! How dare you turn my Father’s house into a market?”

His disciples later recalled that the scriptures read, “Zeal for your house will devour me.”

So the Jews confronted Jesus asking him, “What miraculous sign can you show us to prove you have the right to do all this?”

Jesus answered them, “Destroy this temple, and in 3 days I will raise it up again.”

The Jews said, “It took 46 years to build this Temple, and you’re going to raise it in 3 days?”

But the “temple” Jesus spoken referred to was His body.

Therefore, when Jesus was raised from the dead, His disciples remembered that he had said this, and they trusted in the scriptures and in what Jesus had said.

Now while Jesus was in Jerusalem at the Passover festival, there were many people who “believed in His name” when they saw the miracles He accomplished.

But He did not commit Himself to them, for He fully understood what people are like —

meaning, He didn’t need anyone to inform Him about a person, because He knew exactly what was in any individual's heart.


Young's Literal Translation (YLT)

1 And the third day a marriage happened in Cana of Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there,

2 and also Jesus was called, and his disciples, to the marriage;

3 and wine having failed, the mother of Jesus saith unto him, `Wine they have not;'

4 Jesus saith to her, `What -- to me and to thee, woman? not yet is mine hour come.'

5 His mother saith to the ministrants, `Whatever he may say to you -- do.'

6 And there were there six water-jugs of stone, placed according to the purifying of the Jews, holding each two or three measures.

7 Jesus saith to them, `Fill the water-jugs with water;' and they filled them -- unto the brim;

8 and he saith to them, `Draw out, now, and bear to the director of the apartment;' and they bare.

9 And as the director of the apartment tasted the water become wine, and knew not whence it is, (but the ministrants knew, who have drawn the water,) the director of the feast doth call the
bridegroom,

10 and saith to him, `Every man, at first, the good wine doth set forth; and when they may have drunk freely, then the inferior; thou didst keep the good wine till now.'

11 This beginning of the signs did Jesus in Cana of Galilee, and manifested his glory, and his disciples believed in him;

12 after this he went down to Capernaum, he, and his mother, and his brethren, and his disciples; and there they remained not many days.

13 And the passover of the Jews was nigh, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem,

14 and he found in the temple those selling oxen, and sheep, and doves, and the money-changers sitting,

15 and having made a whip of small cords, he put all forth out of the temple, also the sheep, and the oxen; and of the money-changers he poured out the coins, and the tables he overthrew,

16 and to those selling the doves he said, `Take these things hence; make not the house of my Father a house of merchandise.'

17 And his disciples remembered that it is written, `The zeal of Thy house did eat me up;'

18 the Jews then answered and said to him, `What sign dost thou shew to us -- that thou dost these things?'

19 Jesus answered and said to them, `Destroy this sanctuary, and in three days I will raise it up.'

20 The Jews, therefore, said, `Forty and six years was this sanctuary building, and wilt thou in three days raise it up?'

21 but he spake concerning the sanctuary of his body;

22 when, then, he was raised out of the dead, his disciples remembered that he said this to them, and they believed the Writing, and the word that Jesus said.

23 And as he was in Jerusalem, in the passover, in the feast, many believed in his name, beholding his signs that he was doing;

24 and Jesus himself was not trusting himself to them, because of his knowing all [men],

25 and because he had no need that any should testify concerning man, for he himself was knowing what was in man.

[_Brackite]

John Chapter One should be quoted from the New King James Version on the Bible.


John 1 New King James Version (NKJV)

1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was in the beginning with God. 3 All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made. 4 In Him was life, and the life was the light of men. 5 And the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend[a] it.

6 There was a man sent from God, whose name was John. 7 This man came for a witness, to bear witness of the Light, that all through him might believe. 8 He was not that Light, but was sent to bear witness of that Light. 9 That was the true Light which gives light to every man coming into the world.[b]

10 He was in the world, and the world was made through Him, and the world did not know Him. 11 He came to His own,[c] and His own[d] did not receive Him. 12 But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His name: 13 who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.

14 And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth.

15 John bore witness of Him and cried out, saying, “This was He of whom I said, ‘He who comes after me is preferred before me, for He was before me.’”

16 And[e] of His fullness we have all received, and grace for grace. 17 For the law was given through Moses, but grace and truth came through Jesus Christ. 18 No one has seen God at any time. The only begotten Son,[f] who is in the bosom of the Father, He has declared Him.

19 Now this is the testimony of John, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, “Who are you?”

20 He confessed, and did not deny, but confessed, “I am not the Christ.”

21 And they asked him, “What then? Are you Elijah?”

He said, “I am not.”

“Are you the Prophet?”

And he answered, “No.”

22 Then they said to him, “Who are you, that we may give an answer to those who sent us? What do you say about yourself?”

23 He said: “I am

‘The voice of one crying in the wilderness:
“Make straight the way of the Lord,”’[g]

as the prophet Isaiah said.”

24 Now those who were sent were from the Pharisees. 25 And they asked him, saying, “Why then do you baptize if you are not the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the Prophet?”

26 John answered them, saying, “I baptize with water, but there stands One among you whom you do not know. 27 It is He who, coming after me, is preferred before me, whose sandal strap I am not worthy to loose.”

28 These things were done in Bethabara[h] beyond the Jordan, where John was baptizing.

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?s ... rsion=NKJV



1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. (NKJV)

[12] And as I spake concerning the convincing of the Jews, that Jesus is the very Christ, it must needs be that the Gentiles be convinced also that Jesus is the Christ, the Eternal God; (2 Nephi 26)


3 All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made. (NKJV)

[8] And he shall be called Jesus Christ, the Son of God, the Father of heaven and earth, the Creator of all things from the beginning; and his mother shall be called Mary. (Mosiah 3)


12 But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His name: (NKJV)

[7] And now, because of the covenant which ye have made ye shall be called the children of Christ, his sons, and his daughters; for behold, this day he hath spiritually begotten you; for ye say that your hearts are changed through faith on his name; therefore, ye are born of him and have become his sons and his daughters. (Mosiah 5)

[_LittleNipper]

John Chapter One should be quoted from the New King James Version on the Bible.


John 1 New King James Version (NKJV)

1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was in the beginning with God. 3 All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made. 4 In Him was life, and the life was the light of men. 5 And the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend[a] it.

6 There was a man sent from God, whose name was John. 7 This man came for a witness, to bear witness of the Light, that all through him might believe. 8 He was not that Light, but was sent to bear witness of that Light. 9 That was the true Light which gives light to every man coming into the world.

10 He was in the world, and the world was made through Him, and the world did not know Him. 11 He came to His own,[c] and His own[d] did not receive Him. 12 But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His name: 13 who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.

14 And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth.



15 John bore witness of Him and cried out, saying, “This was He of whom I said, ‘He who comes after me is preferred before me, for He was before me.’”

16 And[e] of His fullness we have all received, and grace for grace. 17 For the law was given through Moses, but grace and truth came through Jesus Christ. 18 No one has seen God at any time. The only begotten Son,[f] who is in the bosom of the Father, He has declared Him.

19 Now this is the testimony of John, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, “Who are you?”

20 He confessed, and did not deny, but confessed, “I am not the Christ.”

21 And they asked him, “What then? Are you Elijah?”

He said, “I am not.”

“Are you the Prophet?”

And he answered, “No.”

22 Then they said to him, “Who are you, that we may give an answer to those who sent us? What do you say about yourself?”

23 He said: “I am

‘The voice of one crying in the wilderness:
“Make straight the way of the Lord,”’[g]

as the prophet Isaiah said.”

24 Now those who were sent were from the Pharisees. 25 And they asked him, saying, “Why then do you baptize if you are not the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the Prophet?”

26 John answered them, saying, “I baptize with water, but there stands One among you whom you do not know. 27 It is He who, coming after me, is preferred before me, whose sandal strap I am not worthy to loose.”

28 These things were done in Bethabara[h] beyond the Jordan, where John was baptizing.

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?s ... rsion=NKJV



1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. (NKJV)

[12] And as I spake concerning the convincing of the Jews, that Jesus is the very Christ, it must needs be that the Gentiles be convinced also that Jesus is the Christ, the Eternal God; (2 Nephi 26)


3 All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made. (NKJV)

[8] And he shall be called Jesus Christ, the Son of God, the Father of heaven and earth, the Creator of all things from the beginning; and his mother shall be called Mary. (Mosiah 3)


12 But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His name: (NKJV)

[7] And now, because of the covenant which ye have made ye shall be called the children of Christ, his sons, and his daughters; for behold, this day he hath spiritually begotten you; for ye say that your hearts are changed through faith on his name; therefore, ye are born of him and have become his sons and his daughters. (Mosiah 5)

You have to realize that I'm presenting an understanding of what GOD is trying to say to me as I feel led by the Holy Spirit. I'm paraphrasing the Bible as I read it. The term "WORD" needed insight.

The Spirit brought to my mind the phrase my dad once used when I was a kid. He'd often say, "What's the word!" I knew exactly what he meant. He meant, "What's cooking? Are we going or not? Are we doing this or that? What's the PLAN!"

Jesus is the "plan" and that's what the "word" represents to me. A "plan" is active, a directive, a well thought out determination. Jesus is the plan and that's the word. The Bible is HIS story, and sets the stage for fulfilling HIS ultimate plan. And that plan is SALVATION of those who GOD knew from eternity past would accept Him for who He is and on His simple terms.

Young's Literal Translation agrees with the King James, Young's Literal Translation (YLT)

[b]1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

But what does the "WORD" mean? And "PLAN" seems very appropriate as an alternative.

[_LittleNipper]

John 3:1-36

There was a priest, named Nakdimon/Nicodemus, who was a ruler of the Jews.

This man came to Jesus at night and said to Him, “Rabbi, we realize it is from God that you have come as a teacher; for no one can do the miracles you perform unless from God.”

“Yes, indeed,” Jesus answered him, “I tell you that unless a person is born again from above, he cannot see the Kingdom of God.”

Nicodemus said to Him, “How can a grown man be ‘born’? Can he retreat into his mother’s womb and be born another time?”

Jesus answered, “Indeed, I tell you that unless a person is born from water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the Kingdom of God.

What is born from the flesh is flesh, and what is born from the Spirit is spirit.

Stop being dumbfounded at My telling you that you must be reborn from above!

The wind blows where it wants, and you hear its sound, but you don’t know where it comes from or where it’s going. That’s how it is with everyone who has been born from the Spirit.”

Nicodemus replied, “How does this happen?”

Jesus answered him, “You hold the office of teacher in Israel, and you have no clue?

Indeed! I tell you that what we speak about, we know; and what we give evidence of, we have seen; but you people don’t accept the evidence!

If you people don’t believe me when I tell you about the things of the world, how will you believe me when I tell you about the things of heaven?

No one has gone up into heaven; there is only the one who has come down from heaven, the Son of Man.

Just as Moses lifted up the serpent in the desert, so must the Son of Man be lifted up;

so that everyone who trusts Him may have eternal life.

“For God so loved the world that He delivered His only and unique Son, so that everyone who trusts in the Son may have eternal life, instead of being utterly destroyed.

For God did not send the Son into the world to judge the world, but rather so that through Him, the world might be rescued.

Those who trust in Him are not judged; those who do not trust are judged already, in that they have not accepted the One who is God’s only and unique Son.

“Now this is the judgment: the light has come into the world, but people loved the darkness rather than the light. Why? Because their actions were wicked.

For everyone who commits evil hates the light and avoids it, so that his actions won’t be exposed.

But everyone who does what is true is attracted to the light, so that all may see that his deeds are accomplished through God.”

After this, Jesus and his disciples went out into the countryside of Judah, where He stayed a while with them and immersed people.

John also was immersing at Aenon, near Salem, because there was plenty of water there; and people kept coming to be immersed.

(This was before John's imprisonment.)

A discussion arose between some of John's disciples and a Jew regarding ceremonial washing;

and they came to John and said to him, “Rabbi, you know the man who was with you on the other side of the Jordan, the one you spoke about? Well, here he is, immersing; and everyone is going to him!”

John answered, “No one can receive anything unless it has been handed to him from Heaven.

You yourselves can confirm that I did not say I was the Messiah, but that I have been sent ahead of Him.

The bridegroom is the one who has the bride; but the bridegroom’s friend, who stands and listens to him, is overjoyed at the sound of the bridegroom’s voice. So this joy of mine is now fulfilled.

He must become more important, while I become less important.

“He who comes from above is above all. He who is from the earth is from the earth and talks from an earthly point of view; He who comes from heaven is above all.

He testifies concerning what He has actually seen and heard, yet no one accepts what He says!

Whoever does accept what He says puts his seal on the fact that God is true,

because the one whom God sent speaks God’s words. For God does not give him the Spirit in limited degree —

the Father loves the Son and has put everything in His hands.

Whoever trusts in the Son has eternal life. But whoever disobeys the Son will not see that life but remains subjected to God’s wrath.”

Young's Literal Translation (YLT)

1 And there was a man of the Pharisees, Nicodemus his name, a ruler of the Jews,

2 this one came unto him by night, and said to him, `Rabbi, we have known that from God thou hast come -- a teacher, for no one these signs is able to do that thou dost, if God may not be with him.'

3 Jesus answered and said to him, `Verily, verily, I say to thee, If any one may not be born from above, he is not able to see the reign of God;'

4 Nicodemus saith unto him, `How is a man able to be born, being old? is he able into the womb of his mother a second time to enter, and to be born?'

5 Jesus answered, `Verily, verily, I say to thee, If any one may not be born of water, and the Spirit, he is not able to enter into the reign of God;

6 that which hath been born of the flesh is flesh, and that which hath been born of the Spirit is spirit.

7 `Thou mayest not wonder that I said to thee, It behoveth you to be born from above;

8 the Spirit where he willeth doth blow, and his voice thou dost hear, but thou hast not known whence he cometh, and whither he goeth; thus is every one who hath been born of the Spirit.'

9 Nicodemus answered and said to him, `How are these things able to happen?'

10 Jesus answered and said to him, `Thou art the teacher of Israel -- and these things thou dost not know!

11 `Verily, verily, I say to thee -- What we have known we speak, and what we have seen we testify, and our testimony ye do not receive;

12 if the earthly things I said to you, and ye do not believe, how, if I shall say to you the heavenly things, will ye believe?

13 and no one hath gone up to the heaven, except he who out of the heaven came down -- the Son of Man who is in the heaven.

14 `And as Moses did lift up the serpent in the wilderness, so it behoveth the Son of Man to be lifted up,

15 that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during,

16 for God did so love the world, that His Son -- the only begotten -- He gave, that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during.

17 For God did not send His Son to the world that he may judge the world, but that the world may be saved through him;

18 he who is believing in him is not judged, but he who is not believing hath been judged already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.

19 `And this is the judgment, that the light hath come to the world, and men did love the darkness rather than the light, for their works were evil;

20 for every one who is doing wicked things hateth the light, and doth not come unto the light, that his works may not be detected;

21 but he who is doing the truth doth come to the light, that his works may be manifested, that in God they are having been wrought.'

22 After these things came Jesus and his disciples to the land of Judea, and there he did tarry with them, and was baptizing;

23 and John was also baptizing in Aenon, nigh to Salem, because there were many waters there, and they were coming and were being baptized --

24 for John was not yet cast into the prison --

25 there arose then a question from the disciples of John with [some] Jews about purifying,

26 and they came unto John, and said to him, `Rabbi, he who was with thee beyond the Jordan, to whom thou didst testify, lo, this one is baptizing, and all are coming unto him.'

27 John answered and said, `A man is not able to receive anything, if it may not have been given him from the heaven;

28 ye yourselves do testify to me that I said, I am not the Christ, but, that I am having been sent before him;

29 he who is having the bride is bridegroom, and the friend of the bridegroom, who is standing and hearing him, with joy doth rejoice because of the voice of the bridegroom; this, then, my joy hath been fulfilled.

30 `Him it behoveth to increase, and me to become less;

31 he who from above is coming is above all; he who is from the earth, from the earth he is, and from the earth he speaketh; he who from the heaven is coming is above all.

32 `And what he hath seen and heard this he doth testify, and his testimony none receiveth;

33 he who is receiving his testimony did seal that God is true;

34 for he whom God sent, the sayings of God he speaketh; for not by measure doth God give the Spirit;

35 the Father doth love the Son, and all things hath given into his hand;

36 he who is believing in the Son, hath life age-during; and he who is not believing the Son, shall not see life, but the wrath of God doth remain upon him.'

[_LittleNipper]

John 4:1-54

Learning that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John

(though Jesus Himself did not baptize, but His disciples),

He departed Judea and traveled again to Galilee.

Now it was necessary that He journey through Samaria.

So He arrived at a Samarian city called Sychar, near the plot of land that Jacob gave to his son Joseph.

Jacob’s well was there. Jesus, therefore, being weary from His journey, sat down by the well. It was around noon.

A woman of Samaria came there to draw water. Jesus said to her, “Give Me a drink.”

For His disciples had gone away into the city to buy food.

Then the woman of Samaria said to Him, “How is it that You, being a Jew, ask a drink from me, a Samaritan?” For Jews want no part of us.

Jesus answered her, “If you realized the gift of God, and who it is who is saying to you, ‘Give Me a drink,’ you would have asked Him, and He would have given you living water.”

The woman said to Him, “Sir, You have nothing to draw with, and the well is deep. Where then do You get that living water?

Are You greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well and drank from it himself, along with his sons and his livestock?”

Jesus said to her, “Everyone who drinks of this water will get thirsty once more,

but whoever drinks of the water that I shall provide will never thirst. In fact, the water that I shall provide him will become in him a well of water springing up into eternal life.”

The woman said to Him, “Sir, give me this water, so that I will not thirst, nor come here to draw.”

Jesus said to her, “Go, get your husband, and return.”

The woman answered, “I have no husband.”

Jesus said to her, “You are right in saying, ‘I have no husband,’

for you have had 5 husbands, and he whom you now have is not your husband. So you have spoken honestly.”

The woman said to Him, “Sir, I perceive that You are a prophet.

Our ancestors worshipped on this mountain, but you all say that in Jerusalem is the place where men should worship.”

Jesus said to her, “Woman, believe Me, the time is approaching when neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem will you worship the Father.

You worship what you do not know; we know what we worship, for salvation is of the Jews.

Yet the time is coming, and is now here, when true worshippers will worship the Father in spirit and truth. For the Father seeks such to worship Him.

God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship Him in spirit and truth.”

The woman said to Him, “I know that Messiah/Christ is coming. When He arrives, He will tell us all things.”

Jesus said to her, “I who speaks to you am He.”

Then His disciples returned. They marveled that He talked with a woman. Yet no one said, “What do You seek?” or, “Why are You speaking with her?”

The woman then left her water pot, went her way into the city, and said to the men,

“Come, see a Man who told me everything that I ever did. Could this be the Messiah?”

They left the city and came to Him.

Meanwhile His disciples urged Him, saying, “Rabbi, eat.”

But He said to them, “I have food to eat of which you are unaware.”

Therefore the disciples said to one another, “Has anyone fetched Him anything to eat?”

Jesus said to them, “My nourishment is to do the will of Him who sent Me, and to finish His work.

Do you not say, ‘There are gut 4 months, until the harvest’? Listen! I say to you, lift up your eyes and look at the fields, for they are already white for harvest.

He who reaps receives wages, and gathers fruit that leads to eternal life, that both he who sows and he who reaps may celebrate together.

For in this is the saying true, ‘One sows, and another reaps.’

I sent you to reap a crop which you didn't plant. And you have benefited from another's labor.”

Many of the Samaritans of that city believed in Him because of the word of the woman who testified, “He told me all that I ever did.”

So when the Samaritans came to Him, they asked Him to remain with them. And He stayed there 2 days.

And many more believed because of His word.

They then said to the woman, “Now we believe, not because of what you said, for we have heard for ourselves and know that this Man is indeed the Messiah, the world's Savior.”

After the two days He left and traveled to Galilee.

For Jesus Himself testified that a prophet has no honor in his own country.

When He came to Galilee, the Galileans welcomed Him, having seen all the things He did at Jerusalem at the feast --- for they had been there also.

So Jesus came again to Cana of Galilee where He had changed the water into wine. And there was a particular nobleman whose son was sick in Capernaum.

When he heard that Jesus had come out of Judea into Galilee, he went to Him, pleading that He would come down and heal his son, who was near death.

Then Jesus said to him, “Unless you see signs and wonders, you will not believe.”

The nobleman said to Him, “Sir, come down before my child dies.”

Jesus said to him, “Go home. Your son lives.”

And the man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him, and he went home.

While he was going down, his servants met him and told him, “Your son lives!”

When he questioned them regarding the time when he began to heal, they answered, “Yesterday at about 1 o'clock the fever left him.”

Then the father knew that it was at the same hour in which Jesus told him, “Your son lives.” So he and his whole household believed.

This was the second sign that Jesus performed when He had come from Judea to Galilee.

Young's Literal Translation (YLT)

1 When therefore the Lord knew that the Pharisees heard that Jesus more disciples doth make and baptize than John,

2 (though indeed Jesus himself was not baptizing, but his disciples,)

3 he left Judea and went away again to Galilee,

4 and it was behoving him to go through Samaria.

5 He cometh, therefore, to a city of Samaria, called Sychar, near to the place that Jacob gave to Joseph his son;

6 and there was there a well of Jacob. Jesus therefore having been weary from the journeying, was sitting thus on the well; it was as it were the sixth hour;

7 there cometh a woman out of Samaria to draw water. Jesus saith to her, `Give me to drink;'

8 for his disciples were gone away to the city, that they may buy victuals;

9 the Samaritan woman therefore saith to him, `How dost thou, being a Jew, ask drink from me, being a Samaritan woman?' for Jews have no dealing with Samaritans.

10 Jesus answered and said to her, `If thou hadst known the gift of God, and who it is who is saying to thee, Give me to drink, thou wouldest have asked him, and he would have given thee living water.'

11 The woman saith to him, `Sir, thou hast not even a vessel to draw with, and the well is deep; whence, then, hast thou the living water?

12 Art thou greater than our father Jacob, who did give us the well, and himself out of it did drink, and his sons, and his cattle?'

13 Jesus answered and said to her, `Every one who is drinking of this water shall thirst again;

14 but whoever may drink of the water that I will give him, may not thirst -- to the age; and the water that I will give him shall become in him a well of water, springing up to life age-during.'

15 The woman saith unto him, `Sir, give me this water, that I may not thirst, nor come hither to draw.'

16 Jesus saith to her, `Go, call thy husband, and come hither;'

17 the woman answered and said, `I have not a husband.' Jesus saith to her, `Well didst thou say -- A husband I have not;

18 for five husbands thou hast had, and, now, he whom thou hast is not thy husband; this hast thou said truly.'

19 The woman saith to him, `Sir, I perceive that thou art a prophet;

20 our fathers in this mountain did worship, and ye -- ye say that in Jerusalem is the place where it behoveth to worship.'

21 Jesus saith to her, `Woman, believe me, that there doth come an hour, when neither in this mountain, nor in Jerusalem, shall ye worship the Father;

22 ye worship what ye have not known; we worship what we have known, because the salvation is of the Jews;

23 but, there cometh an hour, and it now is, when the true worshippers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father also doth seek such to worship him;

24 God [is] a Spirit, and those worshipping Him, in spirit and truth it doth behove to worship.'

25 The woman saith to him, `I have known that Messiah doth come, who is called Christ, when that one may come, he will tell us all things;'

26 Jesus saith to her, `I am [he], who am speaking to thee.'

27 And upon this came his disciples, and were wondering that with a woman he was speaking, no one, however, said, `What seekest thou?' or `Why speakest thou with her?'

28 The woman then left her water-jug, and went away to the city, and saith to the men,

29 `Come, see a man, who told me all things -- as many as I did; is this the Christ?'

30 They went forth therefore out of the city, and were coming unto him.

31 And in the meanwhile his disciples were asking him, saying, `Rabbi, eat;'

32 and he said to them, `I have food to eat that ye have not known.'

33 The disciples then said one to another, `Did any one bring him anything to eat?'

34 Jesus saith to them, `My food is, that I may do the will of Him who sent me, and may finish His work;

35 do not say that it is yet four months, and the harvest cometh; lo, I say to you, Lift up your eyes, and see the fields, that they are white unto harvest already.

36 `And he who is reaping doth receive a reward, and doth gather fruit to life age-during, that both he who is sowing and he who is reaping may rejoice together;

37 for in this the saying is the true one, that one is the sower and another the reaper.

38 I sent you to reap that on which ye have not laboured; others laboured, and ye into their labour have entered.

39 And from that city many believed in him, of the Samaritans, because of the word of the woman testifying, -- `He told me all things -- as many as I did.'

40 When, then, the Samaritans came unto him, they were asking him to remain with them, and he remained there two days;

41 and many more did believe because of his word,

42 and said to the woman -- `No more because of thy speaking do we believe; for we ourselves have heard and known that this is truly the Saviour of the world -- the Christ.'

43 And after the two days he went forth thence, and went away to Galilee,

44 for Jesus himself testified that a prophet in his own country shall not have honour;

45 when then, he came to Galilee, the Galileans received him, having seen all things that he did in Jerusalem in the feast -- for they also went to the feast.

46 Jesus came, therefore, again to Cana of Galilee, where he made the water wine, and there was a certain courtier, whose son was ailing in Capernaum,

47 he, having heard that Jesus is come out of Judea to Galilee, went away unto him, and was asking him that he may come down and may heal his son, for he was about to die.

48 Jesus then said unto him, `If signs and wonders ye may not see, ye will not believe.'

49 The courtier saith unto him, `Sir, come down before my child die;'

50 Jesus saith to him, `Be going on; thy son doth live.' And the man believed the word that Jesus said to him, and was going on,

51 and he now going down, his servants met him, and told, saying -- `Thy child doth live;'

52 he inquired then of them the hour in which he became better, and they said to him -- `Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him;'

53 then the father knew that [it was] in that hour in which Jesus said to him -- `Thy son doth live,' and he himself believed, and his whole house;

54 this again a second sign did Jesus, having come out of Judea to Galilee.

[_Brackite]

24 God [is] a Spirit, and those worshipping Him, in spirit and truth it doth behove to worship.'

John 4:24 God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth.” (NKJV)

John 4:24 God is [e]spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth.” (NASB)

John 4:24 God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in the Spirit and in truth.” (NIV)

Unlike the God of the Bible who is a God of Spirit (John 4:24), Joseph Smith taught, "The Father has a body of flesh and bones as tangible as man's" (D&C 130:22).

- http://web.archive.org/web/200912141154 ... -mormonism

God is a spirit without flesh and bones (John 4:24; Luke 24:39)

- http://web.archive.org/web/200802092115 ... ompare.htm

1. That God the Father has a body of flesh and bones.(7) In truth the Book of Mormon teaches that God is a spirit (Mosiah 15:1-5; Alma 18:26-29, 19:25-27, 22:8-11, 31:15-38) (8).

- http://web.archive.org/web/200805120059 ... msweb.html


[5] And thus the flesh becoming subject to the Spirit, or the Son to the Father, being one God, suffereth temptation, and yieldeth not to the temptation, but suffereth himself to be mocked, and scourged, and cast out, and disowned by his people. (Mosiah 15:5)






LDS Response To John 4:24:

Also, if God is a spirit and we have to worship him in spirit, do mortals have to leave our bodies to worship him?
Thus, the Latter-day Saints believe that man is also spirit (DC 93:33-34; Numbers 16:22; Romans 8:16) and is, like God, housed in a physical body. We were, after all, created in the "image" of God (Genesis 1:26-27).

- http://en.fairmormon.org/Mormonism_and_ ... s_a_Spirit

[_LittleNipper]

John 5:1-47

After this there was a Jewish festival, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

In Jerusalem near the Sheep Gate is a pool with the Aramaic name Bethsaida, having 5 covered porches,

and a crowd of people who were sick, blind, lame, and paralyzed sat there.

A particular man was there who had been sick for 38 years.

When Jesus saw him lying there, knowing that he had already been there for years, Jesus asked him, “Do you want to get well?”

The sick man answered him, “Sir, I don’t have anyone who can put me in the water when it is stirred up. When I’m trying to get to it, someone else has gotten in ahead of me.”

Jesus said to him, “Get up! Pick up your mat and walk.”

Immediately the man was well, and he picked up his mat and walked. And it was the Sabbath day.

The Jewish leaders said to the man who had been healed, “It’s the Sabbath; you aren’t allowed to carry your mat.”

He answered, “The man who healed me said to me, ‘Pick up your mat and walk.’”

They inquired, “Who is this man who said this to you?”

The man who had been cured didn’t know who it was, because Jesus had slipped away from the crowd gathered there.

Later Jesus found him in the temple and said, “See! You have been healed. Don’t sin anymore in case something worse happens to you.”

The man went and proclaimed to the Jewish leaders that Jesus was the man who had healed him.

As a result, the Jewish leaders were harassing Jesus, since He had done these things on the Sabbath.

Jesus replied, “My Father is still working, and I am working too.”

For this reason the Jewish leaders wanted even more to kill Him—not only because He was doing away with the Sabbath but also because He called God His own Father, thereby making Himself God's equivalent.

Jesus responded to the Jewish leaders, “I assure you that the Son can’t do anything except what He sees the Father doing. Whatever the Father does, the Son does likewise.

The Father loves the Son and shows Him everything that He does. He will show Him greater works than these so that you will marvel.

As the Father raises the dead and gives life, so too does the Son give life to whomever He wants.

The Father doesn’t judge anyone, but he has given all judgment to the Son

so that everyone will honor the Son just as they honor the Father. Whoever doesn’t honor the Son doesn’t respect the Father who sent him.

I assure you that whoever hears My Word and believes in the One who sent Me has eternal life and won’t come under judgment but has passed from death into life.

I assure you that the time is coming—and is now!—when the dead will hear the voice of God’s Son, and those who hear it will live.

Just as the Father has life of Himself, so He has granted the Son to have life of himself.

He presents the Son authority to judge, because He is the Human One.

Don’t be surprised by this, because the time is coming when all who have died will hear His voice.

Those who did good things will come out into the resurrection of life, and those who did wicked things into the resurrection of judgment.

I can’t do a thing alone. Whatever I hear, I judge, and my judgment is just. I don’t seek my own will but the will of the One who sent Me.

If I testify of Myself, My testimony isn’t true.

There is someone else who testifies concerning Me, and I know His testimony regarding Me is true.

You sent a delegation to John, and He testified truthfully.

Although I don’t accept human testimony, I say these things so that you can be saved.

John was a burning and shining lamp, and, at least for a while, you were willing to celebrate in his light.

I have a witness greater than John’s testimony. The Father has given Me works to perform that I might accomplish them. These works I do testify of me that the Father sent me.

And the Father who sent me testifies regarding me. You have never even heard His voice or observed His form,

and you don’t have His word dwelling with you because you don’t believe the One He sent.

Examine the scriptures, since you think that in them you have eternal life. They also testify about me,

yet you don’t want to come to Me so that you can have life.

I don’t accept praise from people,

but I know you, that you don’t have God’s love within you.

I have come in My Father’s name, and you don’t accept me. If others come in their own name, you accept them.

How can you believe when you receive praise from each other but don’t seek the praise that comes from the only God?

Don’t imagine that I will accuse you before the Father. Moses accuses you, the one in whom you place your hope.

If you believed Moses, you would believe Me, because Moses wrote concerning Me.

If you don’t believe what Moses wrote, how will you believe My words?”

Young's Literal Translation (YLT)

1 After these things there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem,

2 and there is in Jerusalem by the sheep-[gate] a pool that is called in Hebrew Bethesda, having five porches,

3 in these were lying a great multitude of the ailing, blind, lame, withered, waiting for the moving of the water,

4 for a messenger at a set time was going down in the pool, and was troubling the water, the first then having gone in after the troubling of the water, became whole of whatever sickness he was held.

5 and there was a certain man there being in ailment thirty and eight years,

6 him Jesus having seen lying, and having known that he is already a long time, he saith to him, `Dost thou wish to become whole?'

7 The ailing man answered him, `Sir, I have no man, that, when the water may be troubled, he may put me into the pool, and while I am coming, another doth go down before me.'

8 Jesus saith to him, `Rise, take up thy couch, and be walking;'

9 and immediately the man became whole, and he took up his couch, and was walking, and it was a sabbath on that day,

10 the Jews then said to him that hath been healed, `It is a sabbath; it is not lawful to thee to take up the couch.'

11 He answered them, `He who made me whole -- that one said to me, Take up thy couch, and be walking;'

12 they questioned him, then, `Who is the man who is saying to thee, Take up thy couch and be walking?'

13 But he that was healed had not known who he is, for Jesus did move away, a multitude being in the place.

14 After these things, Jesus findeth him in the temple, and said to him, `Lo, thou hast become whole; sin no more, lest something worse may happen to thee.'

15 The man went away, and told the Jews that it is Jesus who made him whole,

16 and because of this were the Jews persecuting Jesus, and seeking to kill him, because these things he was doing on a sabbath.

17 And Jesus answered them, `My Father till now doth work, and I work;'

18 because of this, then, were the Jews seeking the more to kill him, because not only was he breaking the sabbath, but he also called God his own Father, making himself equal to God.

19 Jesus therefore responded and said to them, `Verily, verily, I say to you, The Son is not able to do anything of himself, if he may not see the Father doing anything; for whatever things He may do, these also the Son in like manner doth;

20 for the Father doth love the Son, and doth shew to him all things that He himself doth; and greater works than these He will shew him, that ye may wonder.

21 `For, as the Father doth raise the dead, and doth make alive, so also the Son doth make alive whom he willeth;

22 for neither doth the Father judge any one, but all the judgment He hath given to the Son,

23 that all may honour the Son according as they honour the Father; he who is not honouring the Son, doth not honour the Father who sent him.

24 `Verily, verily, I say to you -- He who is hearing my word, and is believing Him who sent me, hath life age-during, and to judgment he doth not come, but hath passed out of the death to the life.

25 `Verily, verily, I say to you -- There cometh an hour, and it now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God, and those having heard shall live;

26 for, as the Father hath life in himself, so He gave also to the Son to have life in himself,

27 and authority He gave him also to do judgment, because he is Son of Man.

28 `Wonder not at this, because there doth come an hour in which all those in the tombs shall hear his voice,

29 and they shall come forth; those who did the good things to a rising again of life, and those who practised the evil things to a rising again of judgment.

30 `I am not able of myself to do anything; according as I hear I judge, and my judgment is righteous, because I seek not my own will, but the will of the Father who sent me.

31 `If I testify concerning myself, my testimony is not true;

32 another there is who is testifying concerning me, and I have known that the testimony that he doth testify concerning me is true;

33 ye have sent unto John, and he hath testified to the truth.

34 `But I do not receive testimony from man, but these things I say that ye may be saved;

35 he was the burning and shining lamp, and ye did will to be glad, for an hour, in his light.

36 `But I have the testimony greater than John's, for the works that the Father gave me, that I might finish them, the works themselves that I do, they testify concerning me, that the Father hath sent
me.

37 `And the Father who sent me Himself hath testified concerning me; ye have neither heard His voice at any time, nor His appearance have ye seen;

38 and His word ye have not remaining in you, because whom He sent, him ye do not believe.

39 `Ye search the Writings, because ye think in them to have life age-during, and these are they that are testifying concerning me;

40 and ye do not will to come unto me, that ye may have life;

41 glory from man I do not receive,

42 but I have known you, that the love of God ye have not in yourselves.

43 `I have come in the name of my Father, and ye do not receive me; if another may come in his own name, him ye will receive;

44 how are ye able -- ye -- to believe, glory from one another receiving, and the glory that [is] from God alone ye seek not?

45 `Do not think that I will accuse you unto the Father; there is who is accusing you, Moses -- in whom ye have hoped;

46 for if ye were believing Moses, ye would have been believing me, for he wrote concerning me;

47 but if his writings ye believe not, how shall ye believe my sayings?'

[_LittleNipper]

John 6:1-71

Afterwards, Jesus crossed over the Sea of Galilee, also labeled the Sea of Tiberias.

And a huge crowd, many of them pilgrims on their way to Jerusalem for the yearly Passover celebration, were following Jesus wherever He went, to see Him heal the sick.

So when Jesus went up into the hills and sat down with His disciples surround, he soon observed a large crowd of people climbing the hill, looking for him.

Turning to Philip Jesus asked, “Philip, where can we buy bread to feed all these people?”

He was testing Philip, for he already knew what he was going to do.

Philip replied, “It would take a fortune to begin to do it!”

Then Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother, spoke up. “There’s a youngster here with 5 barley loaves and a couple of fish! But what value is that with such a mob?”

“Tell everyone to sit down,” Jesus ordered. And all of them—the approximate count of just the men was 5000—sat on the grassy slopes.

Then Jesus took the loaves and gave thanks to God and passed them out among the people. Afterwards he did the same with the fish. And everyone ate their fill!

“Now gather the scraps,” Jesus told his disciples, “so that nothing is wasted.”

And 12 baskets of leftovers were gathered!

When the people realized what a great miracle had happened, they exclaimed, “Surely, he is the Prophet we've expected!”

Jesus saw that they were ready to forcibly make Him their king, so He went higher into the mountains alone.

That evening His disciples went down to the shore to wait for him.

But as darkness fell and Jesus still hadn’t returned, they climbed into the boat and headed out across the lake toward Capernaum.

But soon a gale swept down upon them as they rowed, and the sea grew quite rough.

They were 3 to 4 miles out when suddenly they saw Jesus walking toward the boat! They were terrified,

but he called out to them and told them not to fear.

Then they were willing to let him in, and immediately the boat reached its destination!

The next morning, back across the lake, crowds began gathering on the shore waiting to see Jesus. For they knew that Jesus and His disciples had come over together and that the disciples had gone off in their boat, leaving Him behind. Several small boats from Tiberias were nearby.

So, when the people saw that Jesus wasn’t there, nor his disciples, they got into the boats and went across to Capernaum to seek Him.

When they arrived and discovered Him, they said, “Sir, how did you get here?”

Jesus replied, “Truthfully you wanted to be with Me because I fed you, not because you believe in Me.

But you shouldn’t be so concerned about perishable things like food. No, spend your energy seeking the eternal life that I, the Messiah, can give you. For God the Father has sent Me for this very purpose.”

They replied, “What should we do to satisfy God?”

Jesus told them, “This is God's will, that you believe in the One He has sent.”

They replied, “You must show us more miracles if you want us to believe you are the Messiah.

Provide free manna daily, like our fathers had while they journeyed through the wilderness! As the Scriptures say, ‘Moses gave them bread from heaven.’”

Jesus stated, “Moses didn’t give it to them. My Father did. And now He offers you true heavenly bread.

The true Bread is a Person—the One sent by God from heaven, and He gives the world life.”

“Sir,” they said, “give us that bread every day we live!”

Jesus replied, “I am the Bread of Life. No one coming to me will ever be hungry again. Those believing in me will never thirst.

But the problem is, as I have explained this before, yet you haven’t believed even though you have seen me.

But some will come to me—those the Father has given me—and I will never ever reject them.

For I have come here from heaven to do the will of God who sent Me, not to have My own way.

And this is the will of God, that I should not lose one of all those he has given me, but that I should raise them to eternal life at the Last Day.

For it is my Father’s will that everyone who sees his Son and trusts in Him should have eternal life—that I should raise him at the Last Day.”

Then the Jews began to murmur against him because He claimed to be the Bread from heaven.

“What?” they exclaimed. “Why, He's merely Jesus Joseph's son, whose father and mother we know. What is this He is saying, that He's from heaven?”

But Jesus replied, “Don’t murmur among yourselves about what I said.

For no one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him to Me, and at the Last Day I will cause all such to rise again from the dead.

As it is written in the Scriptures, ‘They shall all be taught about God.’ Those the Father speaks to, who learn the truth from Him, will be drawn to Me.

Not that anyone actually sees the Father, for only I have seen Him.

How earnestly I tell you this—anyone who believes in me already has eternal life!

Yes, I am the Bread of Life! When your fathers in the wilderness ate bread from the skies, they all eventually died.

But the Bread from heaven gives eternal life to everyone who eats it.

I am that Living Bread that came down out of heaven. Anyone eating this Bread shall live forever; this Bread is my flesh given to redeem humanity.”

Then the Jews began arguing with each other about His meaning. “How can this man give us His flesh to eat?” they asked.

So Jesus reiterated, “With all the earnestness I possess I tell you this: Unless you eat the flesh of the Messiah* and drink his blood, you cannot have eternal life within you.

But anyone who does eat my flesh and drink my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him at the Last Day.

My flesh is the true food, and my blood is the true drink.

Everyone who eats My flesh and drinks My blood is in Me, and I in him.

I live by the power of the living Father who sent me, and likewise those who partake of me shall live because of me!

I am the true Bread from heaven; and anyone who eats this Bread shall live forever, and not die as your fathers did—though they ate heavenly bread.”

He preached this sermon in the synagogue in Capernaum.

Even his disciples said, “This is very difficult to understand. Who can figure out what he means?”

Jesus knew within Himself that His disciples were complaining and said to them, “Does this offend you?

Then what will you imagine if you see Me, the Messiah, return to heaven again?

Only the Holy Spirit provides eternal life. Those born only once, with physical birth,* will never receive this gift. But now I have told you how to get this true spiritual life.

But some of you don’t believe me.” (For Jesus knew from the beginning who didn’t believe and knew the one who would betray him.)

And Jesus remarked, “That is what I meant when I said that no one can come to me unless the Father pulls him towards Me.”

At this point many of His disciples turned away and deserted Him.

Then Jesus turned to the 12 and asked, “Are you also leaving?”

Simon Peter replied, “Master, to whom shall we go? You alone have the words that give eternal life,

and we believe them and know You are God's Holy Son.”

Then Jesus said, “I chose all 12 of you, and one is a devil.”

He was speaking of Simon Iscariot's son Judas --- thought one of the 12 was a traitor.

Young's Literal Translation (YLT)
1After these things Jesus went away beyond the sea of Galilee (of Tiberias),

2 and there was following him a great multitude, because they were seeing his signs that he was doing on the ailing;

3 and Jesus went up to the mount, and he was there sitting with his disciples,

4 and the passover was nigh, the feast of the Jews.

5 Jesus then having lifted up [his] eyes and having seen that a great multitude doth come to him, saith unto Philip, `Whence shall we buy loaves, that these may eat?' --

6 and this he said, trying him, for he himself had known what he was about to do.

7 Philip answered him, `Two hundred denaries' worth of loaves are not sufficient to them, that each of them may receive some little;'

8 one of his disciples -- Andrew, the brother of Simon Peter -- saith to him,

9 `There is one little lad here who hath five barley loaves, and two fishes, but these -- what are they to so many?'

10 And Jesus said, `Make the men to sit down;' and there was much grass in the place, the men then sat down, in number, as it were, five thousand,

11 and Jesus took the loaves, and having given thanks he distributed to the disciples, and the disciples to those reclining, in like manner, also of the little fishes as much as they wished.

12 And when they were filled, he saith to his disciples, `Gather together the broken pieces that are over, that nothing may be lost;'

13 they gathered together, therefore, and filled twelve hand-baskets with broken pieces, from the five barley loaves that were over to those having eaten.

14 The men, then, having seen the sign that Jesus did, said -- `This is truly the Prophet, who is coming to the world;'

15 Jesus, therefore, having known that they are about to come, and to take him by force that they may make him king, retired again to the mountain himself alone.

16 And when evening came, his disciples went down to the sea,

17 and having entered into the boat, they were going over the sea to Capernaum, and darkness had already come, and Jesus had not come unto them,

18 the sea also -- a great wind blowing -- was being raised,

19 having pushed onwards, therefore, about twenty-five or thirty furlongs, they behold Jesus walking on the sea, and coming nigh to the boat, and they were afraid;

20 and he saith to them, `I am [he], be not afraid;'

21 they were willing then to receive him into the boat, and immediately the boat came unto the land to which they were going.

22 On the morrow, the multitude that was standing on the other side of the sea, having seen that there was no other little boat there except one -- that into which his disciples entered -- and that Jesus
went not in with his disciples into the little boat, but his disciples went away alone,

23 (and other little boats came from Tiberias, nigh the place where they did eat the bread, the Lord having given thanks),

24 when therefore the multitude saw that Jesus is not there, nor his disciples, they also themselves did enter into the boats, and came to Capernaum seeking Jesus;

25 and having found him on the other side of the sea, they said to him, `Rabbi, when hast thou come hither?'

26 Jesus answered them and said, `Verily, verily, I say to you, Ye seek me, not because ye saw signs, but because ye did eat of the loaves, and were satisfied;

27 work not for the food that is perishing, but for the food that is remaining to life age-during, which the Son of Man will give to you, for him did the Father seal -- [even] God.'

28 They said therefore unto him, `What may we do that we may work the works of God?'

29 Jesus answered and said to them, `This is the work of God, that ye may believe in him whom He did send.'

30 They said therefore to him, `What sign, then, dost thou, that we may see and may believe thee? what dost thou work?

31 our fathers the manna did eat in the wilderness, according as it is having been written, Bread out of the heaven He gave them to eat.'

32 Jesus, therefore, said to them, `Verily, verily, I say to you, Moses did not give you the bread out of the heaven; but my Father doth give you the true bread out of the heaven;

33 for the bread of God is that which is coming down out of the heaven, and giving life to the world.'

34 They said, therefore, unto him, `Sir, always give us this bread.'

35 And Jesus said to them, `I am the bread of the life; he who is coming unto me may not hunger, and he who is believing in me may not thirst -- at any time;

36 but I said to you, that ye also have seen me, and ye believe not;

37 all that the Father doth give to me will come unto me; and him who is coming unto me, I may in no wise cast without,

38 because I have come down out of the heaven, not that I may do my will, but the will of Him who sent me.

39 `And this is the will of the Father who sent me, that all that He hath given to me I may not lose of it, but may raise it up in the last day;

40 and this is the will of Him who sent me, that every one who is beholding the Son, and is believing in him, may have life age-during, and I will raise him up in the last day.'

41 The Jews, therefore, were murmuring at him, because he said, `I am the bread that came down out of the heaven;'

42 and they said, `Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we have known? how then saith this one -- Out of the heaven I have come down?'

43 Jesus answered, therefore, and said to them, `Murmur not one with another;

44 no one is able to come unto me, if the Father who sent me may not draw him, and I will raise him up in the last day;

45 it is having been written in the prophets, And they shall be all taught of God; every one therefore who heard from the Father, and learned, cometh to me;

46 not that any one hath seen the Father, except he who is from God, he hath seen the Father.

47 `Verily, verily, I say to you, He who is believing in me, hath life age-during;

48 I am the bread of the life;

49 your fathers did eat the manna in the wilderness, and they died;

50 this is the bread that out of the heaven is coming down, that any one may eat of it, and not die.

51 `I am the living bread that came down out of the heaven; if any one may eat of this bread he shall live -- to the age; and the bread also that I will give is my flesh, that I will give for the life of the
world.'

52 The Jews, therefore, were striving with one another, saying, `How is this one able to give us [his] flesh to eat?'

53 Jesus, therefore, said to them, `Verily, verily, I say to you, If ye may not eat the flesh of the Son of Man, and may not drink his blood, ye have no life in yourselves;

54 he who is eating my flesh, and is drinking my blood, hath life age-during, and I will raise him up in the last day;

55 for my flesh truly is food, and my blood truly is drink;

56 he who is eating my flesh, and is drinking my blood, doth remain in me, and I in him.

57 `According as the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father, he also who is eating me, even that one shall live because of me;

58 this is the bread that came down out of the heaven; not as your fathers did eat the manna, and died; he who is eating this bread shall live -- to the age.'

59 These things he said in a synagogue, teaching in Capernaum;

60 many, therefore, of his disciples having heard, said, `This word is hard; who is able to hear it?'

61 And Jesus having known in himself that his disciples are murmuring about this, said to them, `Doth this stumble you?

62 if then ye may behold the Son of Man going up where he was before?

63 the spirit it is that is giving life; the flesh doth not profit anything; the sayings that I speak to you are spirit, and they are life;

64 but there are certain of you who do not believe;' for Jesus had known from the beginning who they are who are not believing, and who is he who will deliver him up,

65 and he said, `Because of this I have said to you -- No one is able to come unto me, if it may not have been given him from my Father.'

66 From this [time] many of his disciples went away backward, and were no more walking with him,

67 Jesus, therefore, said to the twelve, `Do ye also wish to go away?'

68 Simon Peter, therefore, answered him, `Sir, unto whom shall we go? thou hast sayings of life age-during;

69 and we have believed, and we have known, that thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God.'

70 Jesus answered them, `Did not I choose you -- the twelve? and of you -- one is a devil.

71 And he spake of Judas, Simon's [son], Iscariot, for he was about to deliver him up, being one of the twelve.

[_LittleNipper]

John 7:1-52

Jesus then journeyed throughout Galilee. He didn’t wish to travel in Judea, because the Jewish authorities wanted to kill him.

When it was about time for the Jewish Festival of Booths,

Jesus’ brothers told him, “Leave Galilee. Go to Judea so that your disciples can see the amazing works that you perform.

Those who want to be known publicly don’t do things privately. Since You can do such things, show Yourself to the world.”

His brothers said this because even they didn’t accept Him.

Jesus replied, “For you, anytime is fine. But My moment hasn’t yet arrived.

The world can’t hate you. It hates Me, because I testify that its works are evil.

You go up to the festival. I’m not going to this one because My time hasn’t yet arrived.”

Having said this, He remained in Galilee.

However, after his brothers left for the festival, He went too—secretly.

The Jewish leaders were seeking Jesus at the festival. They kept asking, “Where is He?”

The crowds were whispering regarding Him. “He’s a good man,” some said, but others were saying, “No, He tricks the people.”

No one spoke about Him publicly --- fearing the Jewish authorities.

Halfway through the festival, Jesus went up to the temple and started teaching.

Astounded, the Jewish leaders asked, “He’s never been instructed! How has He mastered the Law?”

Jesus responded, “My teaching isn’t Mine but comes from the One who sent Me.

Whoever wishes to do God’s will can tell whether My teaching comes from God or whether I speak on My Own.

Those who speak on their Own seek to glorify themselves. Those who seek the glory of Him who sent Me are people of truth; there’s no falsehood in them.

Didn’t Moses bring you the Law? Yet none of you keep the Law. Why do you want to kill Me?”

The crowd answered, “You must be possessed. Who wishes to kill you?”

Jesus replied, “I did one work, and you marveled.

Because Moses gave you the commandment about circumcision --- though it wasn’t Moses but the patriarchs --- you circumcise a man on the Sabbath.

If a man can be circumcised on the Sabbath without breaking Moses’ Law, why are you angry with me because I made an entire man well on the Sabbath?

Don’t judge according to appearances. Judge correctly.”

Some people from Jerusalem said, “Isn’t he the one they wish to kill?

Here He is, speaking in public, yet they aren’t saying anything to him. Could it be that our leaders actually think He's the Messiah?

We know where He come from, but when the Messiah arrives, no one will know where He's from.”

While Jesus taught in the temple, He exclaimed, “You know Me and where I'm from. I haven’t come on My own. The One who sent Me is true, and you don’t know Him.

I know Him because I emanate from Him and He sent me.”

So they wanted to seize Jesus, but they couldn’t because His moment hadn’t arrived.

Many from that crowd believed in Jesus. They said, “When the Messiah arrives, will He do more miraculous signs than this individual?”

The Pharisees heard the crowd whispering such things about Jesus, and the chief priests and Pharisees sent guards to arrest him.

Therefore, Jesus said, “I’m still with you for a little while before I return to the One who sent me.

You will seek Me, but you won’t find Me, and where I Am you can’t visit.”

The Jewish opposition asked each other, “Where does He intend to go that we can’t find him? Surely he doesn’t intend to go where our people have been scattered and are living among the Greeks! He isn’t going to teach the Greeks, is He?

What does He mean when He says, ‘You will seek Me, but you won’t find Me, and where I am you can’t visit’?”

On the last and most important day of the festival, Jesus stood up and shouted, “All who are thirsty should come to Me!
 
All who believe in Me should drink! As the scriptures said regarding Me. Rivers of living water will flow out from within Him.”

Jesus said this concerning the Spirit. Those who believed in Him would soon receive the Spirit, but they hadn’t experienced the Spirit yet since Jesus hadn’t yet been glorified.

When some in the crowd heard these pronouncements, they said, “This man is truly the prophet.”

Others said, “He’s the Messiah.” But others said, “The Messiah doesn't come from Galilee, can He?

Didn’t the scripture reveal that the Messiah comes from David’s family and from Bethlehem, David’s village?”

So the crowd was split concerning Jesus.

Some wanted to arrest Him, but no one grabbed Him.

The guards returned to the chief priests and Pharisees, who asked, “Why didn’t you fetch Him?”

The guards answered, “No one has ever spoken the way He does.”

The Pharisees replied, “Have you too been deceived?

Have any of the leaders believed in him? Has any Pharisee?

No, only this crowd, which doesn’t know the Law. And they are under God’s curse!”

Nicodemus, who was one of them and had come earlier to Jesus, said,

“Our Law doesn’t judge someone without first hearing Him and learning what He is about, does it?”

They answered Nicodemus, “You are not from Galilee too, are you? Research and you will see that the prophet doesn’t come from Galilee.”

They each returned to their own homes

Young's Literal Translation (YLT)
1 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.

[_Maksutov]

I get a kick out of how the Christians blamed the Jews for the death of Jesus so they could suck up to the Romans. The blood libel started early.