not needful that the Christ should suffer these things and enter into his glory? 27 And beginning from Moses and from all the prophets, he explained to them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself. 28 And they drew near to the village whither they were going, and he made a show of going further; 29 and they constrained him, saying: Abide with us; for it is toward evening, and the day has now declined. And he went in to abide with them. 30 And it came to pass as he reclined at table with them, he took bread, blessed and broke and gave to them; 31 but their eyes were opened, and they recognized him; and he vanished out of their sight. 32 And they said one to another: Was not our heart burning within us, as he spoke to us on the way, as he opened to us the scriptures? 33 And they rose up the same hour and returned to Jerusalem, and found the eleven and those with them collected together, 34 saying that the Lord has certainly risen and has appeared to Simon. 35 And they told what had taken place on the way, and how he | was made known to them in the breaking of bread. 36 But while they were talking of these things, he himself stood in the midst of them. 37 And being terrified and becoming fearful, they thought that they saw a spirit. 38 And he said to them: Why are you troubled, and why do thoughts arise in your hearts? 39 See my hands and my feet, that it is I myself: handle me and see; for a spirit has not flesh and bones as you see me have. 40 And when he had said this, he showed them his hands and his feet. 41 But while they believed not for joy, and wondered, he said to them: Have you anything here to eat? 42 And they gave him a piece of broiled fish; 43 and he took it and ate in their presence. 44 And he said to them: These are my words, which I spoke to you while I was yet with you, that all things that are written in the law of Moses and the prophets and the psalms concerning me must be fulfilled. 45 Then opened he their understanding, that they might understand the scriptures; 46 and he said to them: Thus it is written, that the Christ should suffer and rise from the dead on the third day, 47 and that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name among all nations, beginning at Jerusalem. 48 You are witnesses of these things. 49 And I send the promise of my Father upon you; but do you continue in the city, till you be clothed with power from on high. 50 And he led them out as far as Bethany, and having lifted up his hands, he blessed them. 51 And it came to pass, as he blessed them, he was separated from them. And they returned to Jerusalem with great joy, 53 and were continually in the temple praising God. 52 ACCORDING TO JOHN 1 In the beginning was the | given through Moses, the grace and 1 Word, and the Word was with the truth came through Jesus Christ. God, and the Word was God. 2 He 18 No one has seen God at any was in the beginning with God. 3 time; the only begotten Son, who All things came into being through is in the bosom of the Father, he him, and without him came into has made him known. being not one thing that is in being. 4 In him is life, and the life was the light of men. 5 And the light shines in darkness, and the darkness comprehended it not. 6 There came a man, sent from God; his name was John: 7 this man came for a testimony, that he might testify of the light, that all through him might believe. 8 He was not the light, but came that he might testify of the light. 9 That was the true light, which, coming into the world, gives light to every man. 10 He was in the world, and the world came into being through him, and the world knew him not. 11 He came to his own country, and his own people received him not. 12 But as many as received him, to them gave he the right to become children of God, to those that believe on his name, 13 who were born not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of a man, but of God. 14 And the Word became flesh, and tabernacled among us, and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the Only Begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth. 15 John testified of him and cried, saying: This was he of whom I said: He that comes after me has been advanced before me, because he was before me. 16 For of his fulness have we all received, and grace for grace; 17 for the law was 19 And the testimony of John is this, when the Jews of Jerusalem sent priests and Levites to ask him: Who art thou? 20 And he confessed and denied not, and confessed: I am not the Christ. 21 And they asked him: What then? Art thou Elijah? He said: I am not. Art thou the prophet? and he answered: No. 22 They then said to him: Who art thou? that we may give an answer to those that sent us: what sayest thou of thyself? 23 He replied: I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness: Make straight the way of the Lord, as said Isaiah the prophet. 24 And some had been sent from the Pharisees, 25 and they asked him, and said to him: Why then dost thou baptize, if thou art not the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the prophet? 26 John answered them, saying: I baptize in water: in the midst of you there stands whom you know not, 27 he that comes after me, the latchet of whose sandal I am not worthy to loose. 28 These things were done in Bethany beyond the Jordan, where John was baptizing. 29 On the next day he sees Jesus coming to him, and says: Behold, the Lamb of God, that takes away the sin of the world. 30 This is he of whom I said: After me comes a man who has been advanced be fore me, because he was before me. 31 And I knew him not, but that he might be manifested to Israel, therefore have I come baptizing in water. 32 And John testified, saying: I saw the Spirit descending, like a dove, from heaven, and it abode upon him. 33 And I knew him not, but he that sent me to baptize in water, he said to me: On whom thou shalt see the Spirit descending and abiding on him, this is he that baptizeth in the Holy Spirit. 34 And I have seen, and I have testified that this is the Son of God. 35 On the next day again John stood, and two of his disciples, 36 and looking upon Jesus as he was walking, he says: Behold, the Lamb of God! 37 The two disciples heard him speaking, and followed Jesus. 38 Jesus turned and saw them following, and said to them: 39 What seek you? They said to him: Rabbi (which is called, when translated, Teacher), where abidest thou? 40 He says to them: Come and see. They came therefore and saw where he abode, and continued with him that day; it was about the tenth hour. 41 It was Andrew, the brother of Simon Peter, one of the two that had heard from John and followed him: 42 he first finds his own brother Simon and says to him: We have found the Messiah, which is, translated, Christ. 43 He brought him to Jesus. Looking upon him, Jesus said: Thou art Simon the son of Joanna: thou shalt be called Cephas, which is, translated, Peter. Follow me. 45 But Philip was from Bethsaida, of the city of Andrew and Peter. 46 Philip finds Nathaniel, and says to him: We have found him of whom wrote Moses in the law, and the prophets, Jesus, who is of Nazareth, the son of Joseph. 47 Nathaniel said to him: Can any thing good come out of Nazareth? Philip says to him: Come and see. 48 Jesus saw Nathaniel coming to him, and said concerning him: Behold an Israelite indeed, in whom there is no guile. 49 Nathaniel said to him: Whence knowest thou me? Jesus answered and said to him: Before Philip called thee, whilst thou wast under the fig-tree, I saw thee. 50 Nathaniel answered him: Rabbi, thou art the Son of God, thou art King of Israel. 51 Jesus answered and said to him: Because I said to thee that I saw thee under the fig-tree, believest thou? Thou shalt see greater things than these. 52 And he said to him: Verily, verily, I say to you, you shall see heaven opened, and the angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of man. 21 And on the third day a marriage took place in Cana of Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there; 2 and Jesus also was called, and his disciples, to the marriage. 3 And they had no wine, because the wine of the marriage feast had failed. Then said the mother of Jesus to him: They have no wine. 4 Jesus said to her: Woman, what have I to do with thee? My hour has not yet come. 5 His mother said to the waiters: Whatever he says to you, do. 6 And according to the purification of the Jews, there were lying there 44 On the next day he wished to go forth into Galilee, and found Philip. And Jesus said to him: six water vessels of stone, contain- answered and said to them: Destroy ing two or three baths each. 7 Jesus this temple, and in three days I will says to them: Fill the water vessels raise it up. 20 The Jews therefore with water. And they filled them said: Forty and six years was this to the brim. 8 And he says to temple in building, and in three them: Draw out now, and carry to days wilt thou raise it up? 21 But the master of the feast. And they he spoke of the temple of his body. carried it. 9 But when the master 22 When therefore he had risen of the feast had tasted the water from the dead, his disciples rememthat had been made wine, and knew bered that he had said this, and not whence it was, but the waiters they believed the Scripture and the that drew the water knew, the mas-word that Jesus had spoken. ter of the feast called the bride- 23 But when he was in Jerusalem groom, 10 and said to him: Every man at the first sets out the good wine; and when they have become drunk, the inferior: thou hast kept the good wine till now. 11 This beginning of signs did Jesus in Cana of Galilee, and manifested his glory, and his disciples believed on him. 12 After this he went down to Capernaum, he and his mother and his brothers and his disciples, and they remained there not many days. on the passover on the feast, many believed on his name, seeing his signs which he did; 24 but Jesus did not trust himself to them, because he knew all men, 25 and because he had no need that any one should testify concerning man; for he himself knew what was in man. 1 But there was a man of the 3 Pharisees, his name was Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews; 2 he came to him by night and said to him: Rabbi, we know that from 13 And the passover of the Jews God thou hast come as a teacher; was near, and Jesus went up to for no one can do these signs that Jerusalem. 14 And he found in the thou doest, unless God be with him. temple those that sold oxen, and 3 Jesus answered and said to him: sheep, and doves, and the money- Verily, verily, I say to thee, unless changers sitting; 15 and having a man be born again, he cannot see made a scourge of cords, he drove the kingdom of God. 4 Nicodemus all out of the temple, the sheep also says to him: How can a man be and the oxen, and poured out the born when he is old? Can he enter money of the money-changers, and the second time into his mother's overturned the tables; 16 and to womb and be born? 5 Jesus anthose that sold doves he said: Take swered: Verily, verily, I say to thee, these things hence; make not my Unless a man be born of water and Father's house a house of merchan- the Spirit, he cannot enter into the dise. 17 The disciples remembered kingdom of the heavens. 6 That that it is written: Zeal for thy which is born of the flesh is flesh, house consumes me. 18 The Jews and that which is born of the Spirit then answered and said to him: is spirit. 7 Wonder not that I said What sign showest thou to us, that to thee: You must be born again. thou doest these things? 19 Jesus' 8 The wind blows where it pleases, fest that they are wrought in God. and the sound of it thou hearest. but thou knowest not whence it 22 After this came Jesus and comes and whither it goes: so is his disciples into the land of Judea, every one that is born of the Spirit. and there he abode with them and 9 Nicodemus answered and said to baptized. 23 But John also was him: How can these things take baptizing in Enon near Salem, beplace? 10 Jesus answered and said cause much water was there; and to him: Art thou the teacher of they came and were baptized; 24 for Israel and knowest not these things? not yet had John been cast into 11 Verily, verily, I say to thee, that prison. 25 There arose therefore a which we know we speak, and that discussion, on the part of some of which we have seen we testify, and the disciples of John, with a Jew, our testimony you receive not. 12 about purification. 26 And they If I have told you earthly things came to John and said to him: and you believe not, how will you Rabbi, he that was with thee bebelieve if I tell you of heavenly yond the Jordan, to whom thou things? 13 And no one has as- hast testified, behold, he baptizes cended into heaven but he that came and all come to him 27 John andown from heaven, the Son of man, swered and said: A man cannot who is in heaven. 14 And as Moses receive any thing unless it be given lifted up the serpent in the wilder- him from heaven. 28 You yourness, so must the Son of man be selves will testify for me that I lifted up: 15 that every one that said: I am not the Christ, but that believes in him may have life eter-I am sent before him. 29 He that nal. 16 For God SO loved the has the bride is the bridegroom; world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whoever believes on him might not perish, but have life eternal. 17 For God sent not the Son into the world to condemn the therefore has been fulfilled. 30 He world, but that the world might be must increase, but I must become saved through him. 18 He that be-less. 31 He that comes from above lieves on him is not condemned: is over all: he that is of the earth he that believes not is condemned is of the earth and speaks of the already, because he has not believed on the name of the only begotten Son of God. 19 But the condemnation is this, that light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light; for their works were evil. 20 For every one that does evil hates the light, and comes not to the light, lest his works may be reproved; 21 but he that does the truth comes to the light, that his works may be made mani but the friend of the bridegroom, who stands and hears him, greatly rejoices because of the voice of the bridegroom. This my joy earth. He that comes from heaven 32 testifies of what he has seen and heard, and his testimony no one receives. 33 He that has received his testimony has attested that God is true. 34 For he whom God sent speaks the words of God; for not by measure does he give the Spirit. 35 The Father loves the Son, and has given all things into his hand. 36 He that believes on the Son has life eternal: he that believes not |