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27 Labour not for the meat Father that sent me: that every which perisheth, but for that which one who seeth the Son, and believendureth unto life everlasting, eth in him, may have life everlastwhich the Son of man will give ing, and I will raise him up in the you. For him hath God, the Fa- last day. ther, sealed.

28 They said therefore unto him: What shall we do that we may work the works of God?

29 JESUS answered, and said to them: This is the work of God, that you believe in him whom he hath sent.

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

31 Our fathers did eat manna in the desert as it is written, He gave them bread from heaven to eat.

32 Then JESUS said to them Amen, amen I say to you, Moses gave you not bread from heaven, but my Father giveth you the true bread from heaven,

33 For the bread of God is that which cometh down from heaven, and giveth life to the world.

34 They said therefore unto him: Lord, give us always this bread.

35 And JESUS said to them: I am the bread of life, he that cometh to me, shall not hunger; and he that believeth in me, shall never thirst.

36 But I said unto you, that you also have seen me, and you believe not.

37 All that the Father giveth me, shall come to me; and him that cometh to me, I will not cast out.

38 Because I came down from heaven, not to do my own will, but the will of him that sent me.

39 Now this is the will of the Father who sent me; that of all that he hath given me, I should lose nothing, but should raise it up again in the last day.

40 And this is the will of my

41 The Jews therefore murmured at him, because he had said, I am the living bread which came down from heaven.

42 And they said: Is not this JESUS the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How then saith he, I came down from heaven?

43 JESUS therefore answered and said to them: Murmur not among yourselves.

44 No man can come to me, except the Father, who hath sent me, draw him, and I will raise him up in the last day.

45 It is written in the prophets : And they shall all be taught of God. Every one that hath heard of the Father, and hath learned, cometh to me.

46 Not that any man hath seen the Father, but he who is of God, he hath seen the Father.

47 Amen, amen I say unto you: He that believeth in me, hath everlasting life.

48 I am the bread of life.

49 Your fathers did eat manna in the desert, and are dead.

50 This is the bread which cometh down from heaven: that if any man eat of it, he may not die.

51 I am the living bread, which came down from heaven.

52 If any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever: and the bread that I will give, is my flesh for the life of the world.

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53 The Jews therefore strove among themselves, saying: How can this man give us his flesh to eat?

54 Then JESUS said to them:

Ver. 44. Draw him. Not by compulsion, nor by laying the free-will under any necessity, but by the strong and sweet motions of his heavenly grace.

Amen, amen I say unto you: Ex-of man ascend up where he was be cept you eat the flesh of the Son of fore?

man, and drink his blood, you shall 64 It is the Spirit that quickeneth: not have life in you. the flesh profiteth nothing. The words that I have spoken to you, are spirit and life.

55 He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath everlasting life and I will raise him up in the last day.

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56 For my flesh is meat indeed: and my blood is drink indeed.

57 He that eateth my flesh and drinketh my blood, abideth in me, and I in him.

58 As the living Father hath sent me, and I live by the Father, so he that eateth me, the same also shall live by me.

59 This is the bread that came down from heaven. Not as your fathers did eat manna, and are dead. He that eateth this bread, shall live for ever.

65 But there are some of you that believe not. For JESUS knew from the beginning who they were that did not believe, and who he was that would betray him.

66 And he said: Therefore did I say to you, that no man can come to me, unless it be given him by my Father.

67 After this many of his disciples went back; and walked no more with him.

68 Then JESUS said to the

twelve: Will you also go away?

69 And Simon Peter answered him: Lord, to whom shall we go? 60 These things he said teach-thou hast the words of eternal life. ing in the synagogue, in Caphar

naum.

61 Many therefore of his disciples hearing it, said: This saying is hard, and who can hear it?

62 But JESUS knowing in himself that his disciples murmured at this, said to them: Doth this scandalize you?

70 And we have believed and have known that thou art the Christ the Son of God.

71 JESUS answered them: Have not I chosen you twelve; and one of you is a devil?

72 Now he meant Judas Iscariot, the son of Simon: for this same was about to betray him, whereas 63 If then you shall see the Son he was one of the twelve.

Ver. 54. Except you eat-and drink, &c. To receive both the body and blood of Christ is a divine precept, insinuated in this text; which the faithful fulfil, though they receive but in one kind: because in one kind they receive both body and blood, which cannot be separated from each other. Hence life eternal is here promised to the worthy receiving, though but in one kind, ver. 52. If any man eat of this bread he shall live for ever: and the bread that I will give, is my flesh for the life of the world, ver. 58. He that eateth me shall live by me. ver. 59. He that eateth this bread shall live for ever.

Ver. 63. If then you shall see, &c. Christ by mentioning his ascension, by this instance of his power and divinity, would confirm the truth of what he had before asserted; and at the same time correct their gross apprehension of eating his flesh and drinking his blood in a vulgar and carnal manner, by letting them know he should take his whole body living with him to heaven; and consequently not suffer it to be, as they supposed, divided, mangled and consumed upon earth.

Ver. 64. The flesh profiteth nothing. Dead flesh separated from the spirit, in the gross manner they supposed they were to eat his flesh, would profit nothing. Neither doth man's flesh, that is to say, man's natural and carnal apprehension (which refuses to be subject to the spirit and words of Christ) profit any thing. But it would be the height of blasphemy, to say the living flesh of Christ (which we receive in the blessed sacrament, with his spirit, that is, with his soul and divinity,) profiteth nothing. For if Christ's flesh had profited us nothing, he would never have taken flesh for us, nor died in the flesh for us.

Ver. 64. Are spirit and life. By proposing to you a heavenly sacrament, in which you shall receive, in a wonderful manner, spirit, grace, and life in its very fountain.

CHAP. VII.

Christ teaches in the temple.

16 JESUS answered them and said: My doctrine is not mine, but

AFTER these things Jesus his that sent me.

walked in Galilee; for he would not walk in Judea, because the Jews sought to kill him.

2 Now the Jews feast of tabernacles was at hand.

3 And his brethren said to him: Pass from hence, and go into Judea: that thy disciples also may see thy works which thou dost.

17 If any man will do the will of him: he shall know of the doctrine whether it be of God, or whether I speak of myself.

18 He that speaketh of himself, seeketh his own glory: but he that seeketh the glory of him that sent him, he is true, and there is no injustice in him.

4 For there is no man that doth 19 Did not Moses give you the any thing in secret, and he himself law, and yet none of you keepeth seeketh to be known openly. If the law? thou do these things, manifest thyself to the world.

5 For neither did his brethren believe in him.

6 Then JESUS said to them: My time is not yet come; but your time is always ready.

20 Why seek you to kill me? The multitude answered, and said, Thou hast a devil; who seeketh to kill thee?

21 JESUS answered and said to them: One work I have done; and you all wonder.

22 Therefore Moses gave you

7 The world cannot hate you; but me it hateth: because I give circumcision, (not because it is of testimony of it, that the works Moses, but of the fathers,) and on the thereof are evil. sabbath-day you circumcise a man.

8 Go you up to this festival day, but I go not up to this festival day: because my time is not accomplished..

9 When he had said these things, he himself staid in Galilee.

10 But after his brethren were gone up, then he also went up to the feast, not openly, but as it were

in secret.

11 The Jews therefore sought him on the festival day, and said: Where is he?

12 And there was much murmuring among the multitude concerning him. For some said: He is a good man. And others said: No, But he seduceth the people.

13 Yet no man spoke openly of him for fear of the Jews.

14 Now about the midst of the feast, JESUS went up into the temple, and taught.

15 And the Jews wondered, saying: How doth this man know let*ers, having never learned?

23 If a man receive circumcision on the sabbath-day, that the law of Moses may not be broken; are you angry at me because I have healed the whole man on the sabbath-day. 24 Judge not according to the appearance, but judge just judgment. 25 Some therefore of Jerusalem said: Is not this he whom they seek to kill?

26 And behold he speaketh openly, and they say nothing to him. Have the rulers known for a truth that this is the CHRIST?

27 But we know this man whence he is: but when the CHRIST cometh, no man knoweth whence he is.

28 JESUS therefore cried out in the temple teaching and saying: You both know me, and you know whence I am: and I am not come of myself; but he that sent me is true, whom you know not.

29 I know him, because I am from him, and he hath sent me.

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prehend him and no man laid apprehended him: but no man laid hands on him, because his hour was hands upon him.

aot yet come.

31 But of the people many believed in him, and said: When the CHRIST cometh shall he do more miracles than these which this man doth ? 32 The Pharisees heard the people murmuring these things concerning him and the rulers and Pharisees sent ministers to apprehend him. 33 JESUS therefore said to them: Yet a little while I am with you : and then I go to him that sent me.

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34 You shall seek me, and shall not find me: and where I am, thither you cannot come.

35 The Jews therefore said among themselves: Whither will he go, that we shall not find him? will he go unto the dispersed among the gentiles, and teach the gentiles?

36 What is this saying that he hath said: You shall seek me, and shall not find me; and where I am, you cannot come ?

37 And on the last and great day of the festivity, JESUS stood and cried, saying: If any man thirst, let him come to me, and drink.

38 He that believeth in me, as the scripture saith, Out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.

39 Now this he said of the spirit which they should receive who believed in him for as yet the spirit was not given, because JESUS was not yet glorified.

45 The ministers therefore came to the chief priests and the Pharisees. And they said to them: Why have you not brought him?

46 The ministers answered: Never did man speak like this man.

47 The Pharisees therefore answered them: Are you also seduced?

48 Hath any one of the rulers believed in him, or of the Pharisees? 49 But this multitude that knoweth not the law are accursed.

450 Nicodemus said to them, he that came to him by night, who was one of them:

51 Doth our law judge any man, unless it first hear him, and know what he doth?

52 They answered and said to him: Art thou also a Galilean? Search the scriptures, and see that out of Galilee a prophet riseth not. 53 And every man returned to his own house.

CHAP. VIII.

The woman taken in adultery. ND JESUS went unto mount

A Olivet.

2 And early in the morning he came again into the temple, and all the people came to him, and sitting down he taught them.

3 And the scribes and Pharisees bring unto him a woman taken in adultery; and they set her in the midst,

40 Of that multitude therefore, when they had heard these words 4 And said to him: Master, this of his, some said: This is the pro-woman was even now taken in phet indeed.

41 Others said: This is the Christ. But some said: Doth the CHRIST Come out of Galilee?

42 Doth not the scripture say: That Christ cometh of the seed of David, and from Bethlehem the town where David was.

43 So there arose a dissension among the people because of him. 44 And some of them would have

adultery.

5 Now Moses in the law commanded us to stone such a one. But what sayest thou?

6 And this they said tempting him, that they might accuse him. But JESUS, bowing himself down, wrote with his finger on the ground.

7 When therefore they continued asking him, he lifted up himself and said to them: He that is without

sin among you, let him first cast al stone at her.

8 And again stooping down, he wrote on the ground.

9 But they hearing this went out one by one, beginning at the eldest. And JESUS alone remained, and the woman standing in the midst.

10 Then JESUS lifting up himself, said to her: Woman, where are they that accused thee? Hath no man condemned thee?

11 Who said: No man, Lord. And JESUS said: Neither will I condemn thee. Go, and now sin no

more.

12 Again therefore JESUS spoke to them, saying: I am the light of the world he that followeth me, walketh not in darkness, but shall have the light of life.

13 The Pharisees therefore said to him: Thou givest testimony of thyself: thy testimony is not true.

14 JESUS answered and said to them: Although I give testimony of myself my testimony is true: for I know whence I came, and whither I go but you know not whence I come, or whither I go.

15 You judge according to the flesh, I judge not any man.

18 And if I do judge, my judgment is true: because 1 am not alone, but I and the Father that

sent me.

17 And in your law it is written, that the testimony of two men is

true.

18 I am one that give testimony of myself: and the Father that sent me, giveth testimony of me.

19 They said therefore to him: Where is thy Father! JESUS answered: Neither me do you know, nor my Father: if you did know me, perhaps you would know my Father also.

21 Again therefore JESUS said to them: I go, and you shall seek me, and you shall die in your sin. Whither I go you cannot come.

22 The Jews therefore said: Will he kill himself, because he said: Whither I go, you cannot come ?

23 And he said to them: You are from beneath, I am from above. You are of this world, I am not of this world.

24 Therefore I said to you, that you shall die in your sins. For if you believe not that I am he, you shall die in your sin.

25 They said therefore to him: Who art thou? JESUS said to them The beginning, who also speak unto you.

26 Many things I have to speak and to judge of you. But he that sent me is true: and the things 1 have heard of him, these same I speak in the world.

27 And they understood not that he called God his Father.

28 JESUS therefore said to them: When you shall have lifted up the Son of man, then shall you know that I am he, and that I do nothing of myself, but as the Father hath taught me, these things I speak :

29 And he that sent me is with me, and he hath not left me alone: for I do always the things that please him.

30 When he spoke these things, many believed in him.

31 Then JESUS said to those Jews who believed him: If you continue in my word, you shall be my disciples indeed.

32 And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

33 They answered him: We are the seed of Abraham, and we have never been slaves to any man: how sayest thou: You shall be free? 20 These words JESUS spoke in 34 JESUS answered them: Amen, the treasury, teaching in the temple: amen I say unto you, that whosoand no man laid hands on him, be-ever committeth sin, is the servant cause his hour was not yet come. of sin.

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