The Life of Jesus

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;

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,

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.'

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

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

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

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

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

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

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,

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

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

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

for not even were his brethren believing in him.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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;'

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

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

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

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