John 6 More than Five Thousand Fed  1 After this, Jesus went across Lake Galilee (or, Lake Tiberias).2 Many people followed him because they saw the miracles he did to heal the sick.3 Jesus went up on a hill and sat down there with his followers.4 It was almost the time for the Jewish Passover Feast.  5 When Jesus looked up and saw a large crowd coming toward him, he said to Philip, "Where can we buy enough bread for all these people to eat?" 6 (Jesus asked Philip this question to test him, because Jesus already knew what he planned to do.)  7 Philip answered, "Someone would have to work almost a year to buy enough bread for each person to have only a little piece."  8 Another one of his followers, Andrew, Simon Peter's brother, said,9 "Here is a boy with five loaves of barley bread and two little fish, but that is not enough for so many people."  10 Jesus said, "Tell the people to sit down." There was plenty of grass there, and about five thousand men sat down there. 11 Then Jesus took the loaves of bread, thanked God for them, and gave them to the people who were sitting there. He did the same with the fish, giving as much as the people wanted.  12 When they had all had enough to eat, Jesus said to his followers, "Gather the leftover pieces of fish and bread so that nothing is wasted." 13 So they gathered up the pieces and filled twelve baskets with the pieces left from the five barley loaves.  14 When the people saw this miracle that Jesus did, they said, "He must truly be the Prophet[a] who is coming into the world."  15 Jesus knew that the people planned to come and take him by force and make him their king, so he left and went into the hills alone. Jesus Walks on the Water  16 That evening Jesus' followers went down to Lake Galilee.17 It was dark now, and Jesus had not yet come to them. The followers got into a boat and started across the lake to Capernaum.18 By now a strong wind was blowing, and the waves on the lake were getting bigger.19 When they had rowed the boat about three or four miles, they saw Jesus walking on the water, coming toward the boat. The followers were afraid, 20 but Jesus said to them, "It is I. Do not be afraid." 21 Then they were glad to take him into the boat. At once the boat came to land at the place where they wanted to go. The People Seek Jesus  22 The next day the people who had stayed on the other side of the lake knew that Jesus had not gone in the boat with his followers but that they had left without him. And they knew that only one boat had been there.23 But then some boats came from Tiberias and landed near the place where the people had eaten the bread after the Lord had given thanks.24 When the people saw that Jesus and his followers were not there now, they got into boats and went to Capernaum to find Jesus. Jesus, the Bread of Life  25 When the people found Jesus on the other side of the lake, they asked him, "Teacher, when did you come here?"  26 Jesus answered, "I tell you the truth, you aren't looking for me because you saw me do miracles. You are looking for me because you ate the bread and were satisfied. 27 Don't work for the food that spoils. Work for the food that stays good always and gives eternal life. The Son of Man will give you this food, because on him God the Father has put his power."  28 The people asked Jesus, "What are the things God wants us to do?"  29 Jesus answered, "The work God wants you to do is this: Believe the One he sent."  30 So the people asked, "What miracle will you do? If we see a miracle, we will believe you. What will you do? 31 Our ancestors ate the manna in the desert. This is written in the Scriptures: 'He gave them bread from heaven to eat.' "[b]  32 Jesus said, "I tell you the truth, it was not Moses who gave you bread from heaven; it is my Father who is giving you the true bread from heaven. 33 God's bread is the One who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world."  34 The people said, "Sir, give us this bread always."  35 Then Jesus said, "I am the bread that gives life. Whoever comes to me will never be hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty. 36 But as I told you before, you have seen me and still don't believe. 37 The Father gives me the people who are mine. Every one of them will come to me, and I will always accept them. 38 I came down from heaven to do what God wants me to do, not what I want to do.39 Here is what the One who sent me wants me to do: I must not lose even one whom God gave me, but I must raise them all on the last day. 40 Those who see the Son and believe in him have eternal life, and I will raise them on the last day. This is what my Father wants."  41 Some people began to complain about Jesus because he said, "I am the bread that comes down from heaven." 42 They said, "This is Jesus, the son of Joseph. We know his father and mother. How can he say, 'I came down from heaven' ?"  43 But Jesus answered, "Stop complaining to each other. 44 The Father is the One who sent me. No one can come to me unless the Father draws him to me, and I will raise that person up on the last day.45 It is written in the prophets, 'They will all be taught by God.'[c] Everyone who listens to the Father and learns from him comes to me.46 No one has seen the Father except the One who is from God; only he has seen the Father.47 I tell you the truth, whoever believes has eternal life.48 I am the bread that gives life.49 Your ancestors ate the manna in the desert, but still they died.50 Here is the bread that comes down from heaven. Anyone who eats this bread will never die. 51 I am the living bread that came down from heaven. Anyone who eats this bread will live forever. This bread is my flesh, which I will give up so that the world may have life."  52 Then the evil people began to argue among themselves, saying, "How can this man give us his flesh to eat?"  53 Jesus said, "I tell you the truth, you must eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood. Otherwise, you won't have real life in you. 54 Those who eat my flesh and drink my blood have eternal life, and I will raise them up on the last day.55 My flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink.56 Those who eat my flesh and drink my blood live in me, and I live in them.57 The living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father. So whoever eats me will live because of me. 58 I am not like the bread your ancestors ate. They ate that bread and still died. I am the bread that came down from heaven, and whoever eats this bread will live forever." 59 Jesus said all these things while he was teaching in the synagogue in Capernaum. The Words of Eternal Life  60 When the followers of Jesus heard this, many of them said, "This teaching is hard. Who can accept it?"  61 Knowing that his followers were complaining about this, Jesus said, "Does this teaching bother you? 62 Then will it also bother you to see the Son of Man going back to the place where he came from?63 It is the Spirit that gives life. The flesh doesn't give life. The words I told you are spirit, and they give life. 64 But some of you don't believe." (Jesus knew from the beginning who did not believe and who would turn against him.) 65 Jesus said, "That is the reason I said, 'If the Father does not bring a person to me, that one cannot come.' "  66 After Jesus said this, many of his followers left him and stopped following him.  67 Jesus asked the twelve followers, "Do you want to leave, too?"  68 Simon Peter answered him, "Lord, who would we go to? You have the words that give eternal life. 69 We believe and know that you are the Holy One from God."  70 Then Jesus answered, "I chose all twelve of you, but one of you is a devil."  71 Jesus was talking about Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot. Judas was one of the twelve, but later he was going to turn against Jesus. Footnotes: John 6:14 Prophet They probably meant the prophet that God told Moses he would send (Deuteronomy 18:15–19). John 6:31 'He gave . . . eat.' Quotation from Psalm 78:24. John 6:45 'They . . . God.' Quotation from Isaiah 54:13. Back to the Top John 7 Jesus' Brothers Don't Believe  1 After this, Jesus traveled around Galilee. He did not want to travel in Judea, because some evil people there wanted to kill him.2 It was time for the Feast of Shelters.3 So Jesus' brothers said to him, "You should leave here and go to Judea so your followers there can see the miracles you do.4 Anyone who wants to be well known does not hide what he does. If you are doing these things, show yourself to the world."5 (Even Jesus' brothers did not believe in him.)  6 Jesus said to his brothers, "The right time for me has not yet come, but any time is right for you. 7 The world cannot hate you, but it hates me, because I tell it the evil things it does. 8 So you go to the feast. I will not go yet[a] to this feast, because the right time for me has not yet come." 9 After saying this, Jesus stayed in Galilee.  10 But after Jesus' brothers had gone to the feast, Jesus went also. But he did not let people see him.11 At the feast some people were looking for him and saying, "Where is that man?"  12 Within the large crowd there, many people were whispering to each other about Jesus. Some said, "He is a good man."    Others said, "No, he fools the people." 13 But no one was brave enough to talk about Jesus openly, because they were afraid of the elders. Jesus Teaches at the Feast  14 When the feast was about half over, Jesus went to the Temple and began to teach.15 The people were amazed and said, "This man has never studied in school. How did he learn so much?"  16 Jesus answered, "The things I teach are not my own, but they come from him who sent me. 17 If people choose to do what God wants, they will know that my teaching comes from God and not from me. 18 Those who teach their own ideas are trying to get honor for themselves. But those who try to bring honor to the one who sent them speak the truth, and there is nothing false in them. 19 Moses gave you the law,[b] but none of you obeys that law. Why are you trying to kill me?"  20 The people answered, "A demon has come into you. We are not trying to kill you."  21 Jesus said to them, "I did one miracle, and you are all amazed. 22 Moses gave you the law about circumcision. (But really Moses did not give you circumcision; it came from our ancestors.) And yet you circumcise a baby boy on a Sabbath day. 23 If a baby boy can be circumcised on a Sabbath day to obey the law of Moses, why are you angry at me for healing a person's whole body on the Sabbath day? 24 Stop judging by the way things look, but judge by what is really right." Is Jesus the Christ?  25 Then some of the people who lived in Jerusalem said, "This is the man they are trying to kill.26 But he is teaching where everyone can see and hear him, and no one is trying to stop him. Maybe the leaders have decided he really is the Christ. 27 But we know where this man is from. Yet when the real Christ comes, no one will know where he comes from."  28 Jesus, teaching in the Temple, cried out, "Yes, you know me, and you know where I am from. But I have not come by my own authority. I was sent by the One who is true, whom you don't know. 29 But I know him, because I am from him, and he sent me."  30 When Jesus said this, they tried to seize him. But no one was able to touch him, because it was not yet the right time. 31 But many of the people believed in Jesus. They said, "When the Christ comes, will he do more miracles than this man has done?" The Leaders Try to Arrest Jesus  32 The Pharisees heard the crowd whispering these things about Jesus. So the leading priests and the Pharisees sent some Temple guards to arrest him. 33 Jesus said, "I will be with you a little while longer. Then I will go back to the One who sent me. 34 You will look for me, but you will not find me. And you cannot come where I am."  35 Some people said to each other, "Where will this man go so we cannot find him? Will he go to the Greek cities where our people live and teach the Greek people there? 36 What did he mean when he said, 'You will look for me, but you will not find me,' and 'You cannot come where I am' ?" Jesus Talks About the Spirit  37 On the last and most important day of the feast Jesus stood up and said in a loud voice, "Let anyone who is thirsty come to me and drink. 38 If anyone believes in me, rivers of living water will flow out from that person's heart, as the Scripture says." 39 Jesus was talking about the Holy Spirit. The Spirit had not yet been given, because Jesus had not yet been raised to glory. But later, those who believed in Jesus would receive the Spirit. The People Argue About Jesus  40 When the people heard Jesus' words, some of them said, "This man really is the Prophet."[c]  41 Others said, "He is the Christ."    Still others said, "The Christ will not come from Galilee.42 The Scripture says that the Christ will come from David's family and from Bethlehem, the town where David lived."43 So the people did not agree with each other about Jesus.44 Some of them wanted to arrest him, but no one was able to touch him. Some Leaders Won't Believe  45 The Temple guards went back to the leading priests and the Pharisees, who asked, "Why didn't you bring Jesus?"  46 The guards answered, "The words he says are greater than the words of any other person who has ever spoken!"  47 The Pharisees answered, "So Jesus has fooled you also!48 Have any of the leaders or the Pharisees believed in him? No!49 But these people, who know nothing about the law, are under God's curse."  50 Nicodemus, who had gone to see Jesus before, was in that group.[d] He said, 51 "Our law does not judge a person without hearing him and knowing what he has done."  52 They answered, "Are you from Galilee, too? Study the Scriptures, and you will learn that no prophet comes from Galilee."     Some of the earliest surviving Greek copies do not contain 7:53—8:11.     53 And everyone left and went home. Footnotes: John 7:8 yet Some Greek copies do not have this word. John 7:19 law Moses gave God's people the Law that God gave him on Mount Sinai (Exodus 34:29–32). John 7:40 Prophet They probably meant the prophet God told Moses he would send (Deuteronomy 18:15–19). John 7:50 Nicodemus . . . group. The story about Nicodemus going and talking to Jesus is in John 3:1–21. Back to the Top John 8 The Woman Caught in Adultery  1 Jesus went to the Mount of Olives.2 But early in the morning he went back to the Temple, and all the people came to him, and he sat and taught them.3 The teachers of the law and the Pharisees brought a woman who had been caught in adultery. They forced her to stand before the people.4 They said to Jesus, "Teacher, this woman was caught having sexual relations with a man who is not her husband.5 The law of Moses commands that we stone to death every woman who does this. What do you say we should do?"6 They were asking this to trick Jesus so that they could have some charge against him.    But Jesus bent over and started writing on the ground with his finger. 7 When they continued to ask Jesus their question, he raised up and said, "Anyone here who has never sinned can throw the first stone at her." 8 Then Jesus bent over again and wrote on the ground.  9 Those who heard Jesus began to leave one by one, first the older men and then the others. Jesus was left there alone with the woman standing before him. 10 Jesus raised up again and asked her, "Woman, where are they? Has no one judged you guilty?"  11 She answered, "No one, sir."    Then Jesus said, "I also don't judge you guilty. You may go now, but don't sin anymore." ] Jesus Is the Light of the World  12 Later, Jesus talked to the people again, saying, "I am the light of the world. The person who follows me will never live in darkness but will have the light that gives life."  13 The Pharisees said to Jesus, "When you talk about yourself, you are the only one to say these things are true. We cannot accept what you say."  14 Jesus answered, "Yes, I am saying these things about myself, but they are true. I know where I came from and where I am going. But you don't know where I came from or where I am going. 15 You judge by human standards. I am not judging anyone. 16 But when I do judge, I judge truthfully, because I am not alone. The Father who sent me is with me. 17 Your own law says that when two witnesses say the same thing, you must accept what they say. 18 I am one of the witnesses who speaks about myself, and the Father who sent me is the other witness."  19 They asked, "Where is your father?"    Jesus answered, "You don't know me or my Father. If you knew me, you would know my Father, too." 20 Jesus said these things while he was teaching in the Temple, near where the money is kept. But no one arrested him, because the right time for him had not yet come. The People Misunderstand Jesus  21 Again, Jesus said to the people, "I will leave you, and you will look for me, but you will die in your sins. You cannot come where I am going."  22 So the Jews asked, "Will he kill himself? Is that why he said, 'You cannot come where I am going' ?"  23 Jesus said, "You people are from here below, but I am from above. You belong to this world, but I don't belong to this world. 24 So I told you that you would die in your sins. Yes, you will die in your sins if you don't believe that I am he."  25 They asked, "Then who are you?"    Jesus answered, "I am what I have told you from the beginning. 26 I have many things to say and decide about you. But I tell people only the things I have heard from the One who sent me, and he speaks the truth."  27 The people did not understand that he was talking to them about the Father. 28 So Jesus said to them, "When you lift up the Son of Man, you will know that I am he. You will know that these things I do are not by my own authority but that I say only what the Father has taught me. 29 The One who sent me is with me. I always do what is pleasing to him, so he has not left me alone." 30 While Jesus was saying these things, many people believed in him. Freedom from Sin  31 So Jesus said to the Jews who believed in him, "If you continue to obey my teaching, you are truly my followers. 32 Then you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free."  33 They answered, "We are Abraham's children, and we have never been anyone's slaves. So why do you say we will be free?"  34 Jesus answered, "I tell you the truth, everyone who lives in sin is a slave to sin. 35 A slave does not stay with a family forever, but a son belongs to the family forever.36 So if the Son makes you free, you will be truly free.37 I know you are Abraham's children, but you want to kill me because you don't accept my teaching. 38 I am telling you what my Father has shown me, but you do what your father has told you."  39 They answered, "Our father is Abraham."    Jesus said, "If you were really Abraham's children, you would do[a] the things Abraham did. 40 I am a man who has told you the truth which I heard from God, but you are trying to kill me. Abraham did nothing like that. 41 So you are doing the things your own father did."    But they said, "We are not like children who never knew who their father was. God is our Father; he is the only Father we have."  42 Jesus said to them, "If God were really your Father, you would love me, because I came from God and now I am here. I did not come by my own authority; God sent me. 43 You don't understand what I say, because you cannot accept my teaching.44 You belong to your father the devil, and you want to do what he wants. He was a murderer from the beginning and was against the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he tells a lie, he shows what he is really like, because he is a liar and the father of lies.45 But because I speak the truth, you don't believe me.46 Can any of you prove that I am guilty of sin? If I am telling the truth, why don't you believe me? 47 The person who belongs to God accepts what God says. But you don't accept what God says, because you don't belong to God." Jesus Is Greater than Abraham  48 They answered, "We say you are a Samaritan and have a demon in you. Are we not right?"  49 Jesus answered, "I have no demon in me. I give honor to my Father, but you dishonor me. 50 I am not trying to get honor for myself. There is One who wants this honor for me, and he is the judge. 51 I tell you the truth, whoever obeys my teaching will never die."  52 They said to Jesus, "Now we know that you have a demon in you! Even Abraham and the prophets died. But you say, 'Whoever obeys my teaching will never die.' 53 Do you think you are greater than our father Abraham, who died? And the prophets died, too. Who do you think you are?"  54 Jesus answered, "If I give honor to myself, that honor is worth nothing. The One who gives me honor is my Father, and you say he is your God. 55 You don't really know him, but I know him. If I said I did not know him, I would be a liar like you. But I do know him, and I obey what he says. 56 Your father Abraham was very happy that he would see my day. He saw that day and was glad."  57 They said to him, "You have never seen Abraham! You are not even fifty years old."  58 Jesus answered, "I tell you the truth, before Abraham was even born, I am!" 59 When Jesus said this, the people picked up stones to throw at him. But Jesus hid himself, and then he left the Temple. Footnotes: John 8:39 If . . . do Some Greek copies read "If you are really Abraham's children, you will do." Back to the Top John 9 Jesus Heals a Man Born Blind  1 As Jesus was walking along, he saw a man who had been born blind.2 His followers asked him, "Teacher, whose sin caused this man to be born blind—his own sin or his parents' sin?"  3 Jesus answered, "It is not this man's sin or his parents' sin that made him blind. This man was born blind so that God's power could be shown in him. 4 While it is daytime, we must continue doing the work of the One who sent me. Night is coming, when no one can work. 5 While I am in the world, I am the light of the world."  6 After Jesus said this, he spit on the ground and made some mud with it and put the mud on the man's eyes. 7 Then he told the man, "Go and wash in the Pool of Siloam." (Siloam means Sent.) So the man went, washed, and came back seeing.  8 The neighbors and some people who had earlier seen this man begging said, "Isn't this the same man who used to sit and beg?"  9 Some said, "He is the one," but others said, "No, he only looks like him."    The man himself said, "I am the man."  10 They asked, "How did you get your sight?"  11 He answered, "The man named Jesus made some mud and put it on my eyes. Then he told me to go to Siloam and wash. So I went and washed, and then I could see."  12 They asked him, "Where is this man?"    "I don't know," he answered. Pharisees Question the Healing  13 Then the people took to the Pharisees the man who had been blind.14 The day Jesus had made mud and healed his eyes was a Sabbath day.15 So now the Pharisees asked the man, "How did you get your sight?"    He answered, "He put mud on my eyes, I washed, and now I see."  16 So some of the Pharisees were saying, "This man does not keep the Sabbath day, so he is not from God."    But others said, "A man who is a sinner can't do miracles like these." So they could not agree with each other.  17 They asked the man again, "What do you say about him, since it was your eyes he opened?"     The man answered, "He is a prophet."  18 These leaders did not believe that he had been blind and could now see again. So they sent for the man's parents19 and asked them, "Is this your son who you say was born blind? Then how does he now see?"  20 His parents answered, "We know that this is our son and that he was born blind.21 But we don't know how he can now see. We don't know who opened his eyes. Ask him. He is old enough to speak for himself." 22 His parents said this because they were afraid of the elders, who had already decided that anyone who said Jesus was the Christ would be avoided. 23 That is why his parents said, "He is old enough. Ask him."  24 So for the second time, they called the man who had been blind. They said, "You should give God the glory by telling the truth. We know that this man is a sinner."  25 He answered, "I don't know if he is a sinner. One thing I do know: I was blind, and now I see."  26 They asked, "What did he do to you? How did he make you see again?"  27 He answered, "I already told you, and you didn't listen. Why do you want to hear it again? Do you want to become his followers, too?"  28 Then they insulted him and said, "You are his follower, but we are followers of Moses.29 We know that God spoke to Moses, but we don't even know where this man comes from."  30 The man answered, "This is a very strange thing. You don't know where he comes from, and yet he opened my eyes.31 We all know that God does not listen to sinners, but he listens to anyone who worships and obeys him.32 Nobody has ever heard of anyone giving sight to a man born blind.33 If this man were not from God, he could do nothing."  34 They answered, "You were born full of sin! Are you trying to teach us?" And they threw him out. Spiritual Blindness  35 When Jesus heard that they had thrown him out, Jesus found him and said, "Do you believe in the Son of Man?"  36 He asked, "Who is the Son of Man, sir, so that I can believe in him?"  37 Jesus said to him, "You have seen him. The Son of Man is the one talking with you."  38 He said, "Lord, I believe!" Then the man worshiped Jesus.  39 Jesus said, "I came into this world so that the world could be judged. I came so that the blind[a] would see and so that those who see will become blind."  40 Some of the Pharisees who were nearby heard Jesus say this and asked, "Are you saying we are blind, too?"  41 Jesus said, "If you were blind, you would not be guilty of sin. But since you keep saying you see, your guilt remains." Footnotes: John 9:39 blind Jesus is talking about people who are spiritually blind, not physically blind. Back to the Top John 10 The Shepherd and His Sheep  1 Jesus said, "I tell you the truth, the person who does not enter the sheepfold by the door, but climbs in some other way, is a thief and a robber. 2 The one who enters by the door is the shepherd of the sheep.3 The one who guards the door opens it for him. And the sheep listen to the voice of the shepherd. He calls his own sheep by name and leads them out.4 When he brings all his sheep out, he goes ahead of them, and they follow him because they know his voice. 5 But they will never follow a stranger. They will run away from him because they don't know his voice." 6 Jesus told the people this story, but they did not understand what it meant. Jesus Is the Good Shepherd  7 So Jesus said again, "I tell you the truth, I am the door for the sheep. 8 All the people who came before me were thieves and robbers. The sheep did not listen to them.9 I am the door, and the person who enters through me will be saved and will be able to come in and go out and find pasture. 10 A thief comes to steal and kill and destroy, but I came to give life—life in all its fullness.     11 "I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd gives his life for the sheep. 12 The worker who is paid to keep the sheep is different from the shepherd who owns them. When the worker sees a wolf coming, he runs away and leaves the sheep alone. Then the wolf attacks the sheep and scatters them. 13 The man runs away because he is only a paid worker and does not really care about the sheep.     14 "I am the good shepherd. I know my sheep, and my sheep know me, 15 just as the Father knows me, and I know the Father. I give my life for the sheep. 16 I have other sheep that are not in this flock, and I must bring them also. They will listen to my voice, and there will be one flock and one shepherd.17 The Father loves me because I give my life so that I can take it back again. 18 No one takes it away from me; I give my own life freely. I have the right to give my life, and I have the right to take it back. This is what my Father commanded me to do."  19 Again the leaders did not agree with each other because of these words of Jesus.20 Many of them said, "A demon has come into him and made him crazy. Why listen to him?"  21 But others said, "A man who is crazy with a demon does not say things like this. Can a demon open the eyes of the blind?" Jesus Is Rejected  22 The time came for the Feast of Dedication at Jerusalem. It was winter,23 and Jesus was walking in the Temple in Solomon's Porch.24 Some people gathered around him and said, "How long will you make us wonder about you? If you are the Christ, tell us plainly."  25 Jesus answered, "I told you already, but you did not believe. The miracles I do in my Father's name show who I am. 26 But you don't believe, because you are not my sheep.27 My sheep listen to my voice; I know them, and they follow me.28 I give them eternal life, and they will never die, and no one can steal them out of my hand.29 My Father gave my sheep to me. He is greater than all, and no person can steal my sheep out of my Father's hand. 30 The Father and I are one."  31 Again some of the people picked up stones to kill Jesus. 32 But he said to them, "I have done many good works from the Father. Which of these good works are you killing me for?"  33 They answered, "We are not killing you because of any good work you did, but because you speak against God. You are only a human, but you say you are the same as God!"  34 Jesus answered, "It is written in your law that God said, 'I said, you are gods.'[a] 35 This Scripture called those people gods who received God's message, and Scripture is always true.36 So why do you say that I speak against God because I said, 'I am God's Son'? I am the one God chose and sent into the world.37 If I don't do what my Father does, then don't believe me. 38 But if I do what my Father does, even though you don't believe in me, believe what I do. Then you will know and understand that the Father is in me and I am in the Father."  39 They tried to take Jesus again, but he escaped from them.  40 Then he went back across the Jordan River to the place where John had first baptized. Jesus stayed there,41 and many people came to him and said, "John never did a miracle, but everything John said about this man is true."42 And in that place many believed in Jesus. Footnotes: John 10:34 'I . . . gods.' Quotation from Psalm 82:6. Previous Page Top Of This Page Next Page Home Page