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5: 21.

For just as the Father raises the dead and gives them life,

So the Son gives life to whom he desires.
For the Father judges no one,

But he gives all judgment to the Son.

So that everybody may honor the Son
Just as they honor the Father.

He who does not honor the Son,

Does not honor the Father who sent him.

Most truly I tell you,

He who hears what I say, and believes in him who sent me

Has eternal life, and does not come into judg

ment,

But has passed from death to life.

Most truly I tell you,

The time is coming, and now is,

When the dead shall hear the voice of the

Son of God,

And those who hear shall live.

5:26.

For as the Father has life in himself,

So has he given the Son to have life in himself,

And has given him authority to execute judgment also,

Because he is the Son of man.

Do not wonder at this.

For the time is coming,

When all who are in the graves will hear

his voice,

And will come out.

Those who have acted generously,
To the resurrection of life.-
Those who have acted wickedly,
To the resurrection of judgment.

I cannot do anything by myself.

As I hear I judge. And my judgment is good.

For I am not seeking my own will,

But the will of the Father who sent me.

If I am bearing witness about myself,

My witness is not true.

There is another witnessing about me,

And I know what he is witnessing about me

is true.

5:33.

For in them you And they are they

You sent to John and he witnessed to the truth. But the witness I am receiving is not from man. But I say this so that you might be saved. He was a burning and a shining light and you were willing for a time to rejoice in his light. But the witness I have is greater than John's. For the works the Father has given me to finish, the very works I am doing, are witnessing about me, that the Father has sent me. And the Father himself who has sent me has borne witness about me. You have neither heard his voice at any time nor seen his shape. And what he told you is not continuing in you. For you do not believe him whom he has sent. You search the scriptures. think you have eternal life. which are witnessing about me. will not come to me so that you I do not receive honor from men. you have not the love of God in you. I have come in my Father's name, and you do not receive me. If another shall come in his own name, you will receive him. How can you believe, who keep receiving honor from each other and do not seek the honor which comes from God only? Do not think I will accuse you to the Father. Your accuser is Moses on whom you have set your hope. For had you believed Moses, you would have believed me. For he wrote about me. But if you

And yet you

may have life.

But I know that

5:46.

do not believe his writings, how shall you believe my words?"

2.

After this Jesus went away to the other side of the sea of Galilee, that is, the sea of Tiberias, and a great crowd followed him because they were looking at the signs he was doing on those who were sick.

Jesus went up into a mountain and sat there with his disciples.

The Passover, a feast of the Jews, was near.

"Where shall we buy bread so that these may eat?" Jesus said to Philip, when he raised his eyes and saw a great crowd come to him.

He said this to put him to the test. For he himself knew what he would do.

“Two hundred dollars' worth of bread is not enough for them," Philip answered, "so that every one of them may take a little."

"There is a lad here," one of his disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter's brother said to him. "He has five barley loaves and two small fish. But what are they among so many?"

"Make the people sit down."

There was a great deal of grass in the place. So the men sat down in number about five thousand.

6: 11.

Then Jesus took the loaves, and when he had given thanks, he distributed to the disciples, and the disciples to those who were set down. And of the

fish, also, as much as they would.

"Gather up the broken pieces which remain over," Jesus said to the disciples, when they were filled, so that nothing may be lost."

So they gathered them together and filled twelve baskets with the fragments of the five barley loaves which remained over after everybody had eaten,

"This is certainly the Prophet who was to come into the world," the people kept saying when they had seen the sign Jesus did.

So when Jesus got to know that they were going to come and take him by force to make him a king, he went away again into a mountain alone.

When evening had come his disciples went down to the sea, got into a boat, and started to go over the sea towards Capernaum. It was dark. Jesus had not yet come to them. The sea was rising be

So

cause of a strong wind which was blowing. when they had rowed three or four miles they saw Jesus walking on the sea and coming near the boat. They were frightened.

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It is I," he said. "Do not be afraid."

So they wanted to take him into the boat, and at once it was at the land to which they were going.

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