Mattot-Massei Gospel

Yochanan 18-21
Yochanan 18:1 After Yahshua had said all this, he went out with his talmidim across the stream that flows in winter through the Vadi Kidron, to a spot where there was a grove of trees; and he and his talmidim went into it.
Yochanan 18:2 Now Y'hudah, who was betraying him, also knew the place; because Yahshua had often met there with his talmidim.
Yochanan 18:3 So Y'hudah went there, taking with him a detachment of Roman soldiers and some Temple guards provided by the head kohanim and the P'rushim; they carried weapons, lanterns and torches.
Yochanan 18:4 Yahshua, who knew everything that was going to happen to him, went out and asked them, "Whom do you want?"
Yochanan 18:5 "Yahshua from Natzeret," they answered. He said to them, "I AM." Also standing with them was Y'hudah, the one who was betraying him.
Yochanan 18:6 When he said, "I AM," they went backward from him and fell to the ground.
Yochanan 18:7 So he inquired of them once more, "Whom do you want?" and they said, "Yahshua from Natzeret."
Yochanan 18:8 "I told you, 'I AM,' " answered Yahshua, "so if I'm the one you want, let these others go."
Yochanan 18:9 This happened so that what he had said might be fulfilled, "I have not lost one of those you gave me."
Yochanan 18:10 Then Shim`on Kefa, who had a sword, drew it and struck the slave of the kohen hagadol, cutting off his right ear; the slave's name was Melekh.
Yochanan 18:11 Yahshua said to Kefa, "Put your sword back in its scabbard! This is the cup the Father has given me; am I not to drink it?"
Yochanan 18:12 So the detachment of Roman soldiers and their captain, together with the Temple Guard of the Judeans, arrested Yahshua, tied him up,
Yochanan 18:13 and took him first to `Anan, the father-in-law of Kayafa, who was kohen gadol that fateful year.
Yochanan 18:14 (It was Kayafa who had advised the Judeans that it would be good for one man to die on behalf of the people.)
Yochanan 18:15 Shim`on Kefa and another talmid followed Yahshua. The second talmid was known to the kohen hagadol, and he went with Yahshua into the courtyard of the kohen hagadol;
Yochanan 18:16 but Kefa stood outside by the gate. So the other talmid, the one known to the kohen hagadol, went back out and spoke to the woman on duty at the gate, then brought Kefa inside.
Yochanan 18:17 The woman at the gate said to Kefa, "Aren't you another of that man's talmidim?" He said, "No, I'm not."
Yochanan 18:18 Now the slaves and guards had lit a fire because it was cold, and they were standing around it warming themselves; Kefa joined them and stood warming himself too.
Yochanan 18:19 The kohen hagadol questioned Yahshua about his talmidim and about what he taught.
Yochanan 18:20 Yahshua answered, "I have spoken quite openly to everyone; I have always taught in a synagogue or in the Temple where all Y’hudim meet together, and I have said nothing in secret;
Yochanan 18:21 so why are you questioning me? Question the ones who heard what I said to them; look, they know what I said."
Yochanan 18:22 At these words, one of the guards standing by slapped Yahshua in the face and said, "This is how you talk to the kohen hagadol?"
Yochanan 18:23 Yahshua answered him, "If I said something wrong, state publicly what was wrong; but if I was right, why are you hitting me?"
Yochanan 18:24 So `Anan sent him, still tied up, to Kayafa the kohen hagadol.
Yochanan 18:25 Meanwhile, Shim`on Kefa was standing and warming himself. They said to him, "Aren't you also one of his talmidim?" He denied it, saying, "No, I am not."
Yochanan 18:26 One of the slaves of the kohen hagadol, a relative of the man whose ear Kefa had cut off, said, "Didn't I see you with him in the grove of trees?"
Yochanan 18:27 So again Kefa denied it, and instantly a rooster crowed.
Yochanan 18:28 They led Yahshua from Kayafa to the governor's headquarters. By now it was early morning. They did not enter the headquarters building because they didn't want to become ritually defiled and thus unable to eat the Pesach meal.
Yochanan 18:29 So Pilate went outside to them and said, "What charge are you bringing against this man?"
Yochanan 18:30 They answered, "If he hadn't done something wrong, we wouldn't have brought him to you."
Yochanan 18:31 Pilate said to them, "You take him and judge him according to your own law." The Judeans replied, "We don't have the legal power to put anyone to death."
Yochanan 18:32 This was so that what Yahshua had said, about how he was going to die, might be fulfilled.
Yochanan 18:33 So Pilate went back into the headquarters, called Yahshua and said to him, "Are you the king of the Y’hudim?"
Yochanan 18:34 Yahshua answered, "Are you asking this on your own, or have other people told you about me?"
Yochanan 18:35 Pilate replied, "Am I a Y’hudi? Your own nation and head kohanim have handed you over to me; what have you done?"
Yochanan 18:36 Yahshua answered, "My kingship does not derive its authority from this world's order of things. If it did, my men would have fought to keep me from being arrested by the Judeans. But my kingship does not come from here."
Yochanan 18:37 "So then," Pilate said to him, "You are a king, after all." Yahshua answered, "You say I am a king. The reason I have been born, the reason I have come into the world, is to bear witness to the truth. Every one who belongs to the truth listens to me."
Yochanan 18:38 Pilate asked him, "What is truth?" Having said this, Pilate went outside again to the Judeans and told them, "I don't find any case against him.
Yochanan 18:39 However, you have a custom that at Pesach I set one prisoner free. Do you want me to set free for you the 'king of the Yehudim'?"
Yochanan 18:40 But they yelled back, "No, not this man but Bar-Abba!" (Bar-Abba was a revolutionary.)
Yochanan 19:1 Pilate then took Yahshua and had him flogged.
Yochanan 19:2 The soldiers twisted thorn-branches into a crown and placed it on his head, put a purple robe on him,
Yochanan 19:3 and went up to him, saying over and over, "Hail, 'king of the Y’hudim'!" and hitting him in the face.
Yochanan 19:4 Pilate went outside once more and said to the crowd, "Look, I'm bringing him out to you to get you to understand that I find no case against him."
Yochanan 19:5 So Yahshua came out, wearing the thorn-branch crown and the purple robe. Pilate said to them, "Look at the man!"
Yochanan 19:6 When the head kohanim and the Temple guards saw him they shouted, "Put him to death on the stake! Put him to death on the stake!" Pilate said to them, "You take him out yourselves and put him to death on the stake, because I don't find any case against him."
Yochanan 19:7 The Judeans answered him, "We have a law; according to that law, he ought to be put to death, because he made himself out to be the Son of Elohim."
Yochanan 19:8 On hearing this, Pilate became even more frightened.
Yochanan 19:9 He went back into the headquarters and asked Yahshua, "Where are you from?" But Yahshua didn't answer.
Yochanan 19:10 So Pilate said to him, "You refuse to speak to me? Don't you understand that it is in my power either to set you free or to have you executed on the stake?"
Yochanan 19:11 Yahshua answered, "You would have no power over me if it hadn't been given to you from above; this is why the one who handed me over to you is guilty of a greater sin."
Yochanan 19:12 On hearing this, Pilate tried to find a way to set him free; but the Judeans shouted, "If you set this man free, it means you're not a 'Friend of the Emperor'! Everyone who claims to be a king is opposing the Emperor!"
Yochanan 19:13 When Pilate heard what they were saying, he brought Yahshua outside and sat down on the judge's seat in the place called The Pavement;
Yochanan 19:14 it was about noon on Preparation Day for Pesach. He said to the Judeans, "Here's your king!"
Yochanan 19:15 They shouted, "Take him away! Take him away! Put him to death on the stake!" Pilate said to them, "You want me to execute your king on a stake?" The head kohanim answered, "We have no king but the Emperor."
Yochanan 19:16 Then Pilate handed Yahshua over to them to have him put to death on the stake. So they took charge of Yahshua.
Yochanan 19:17 Carrying the stake himself he went out to the place called Skull (in Aramaic, Gulgolta).
Yochanan 19:18 There they nailed him to the stake along with two others, one on either side, with Yahshua in the middle.
Yochanan 19:19 Pilate also had a notice written and posted on the stake; it read, YAHSHUA FROM NATZERET THE KING OF THE Y’HUDIM
Yochanan 19:20 Many of the Judeans read this notice, because the place where Yahshua was put on the stake was close to the city; and it had been written in Hebrew, in Latin and in Greek.
Yochanan 19:21 The Judeans' head kohanim therefore said to Pilate, "Don't write, 'The King of the Y’hudim,' but 'He said, "I am King of the Y’hudim." ' "
Yochanan 19:22 Pilate answered, "What I have written, I have written."
Yochanan 19:23 When the soldiers had nailed Yahshua to the stake, they took his clothes and divided them into four shares, a share for each soldier, with the under-robe left over. Now the under-robe was seamless, woven in one piece from top to bottom;
Yochanan 19:24 so they said to one another, "We shouldn't tear it in pieces; let's draw for it." This happened in order to fulfill the words from the Tanakh, "They divided my clothes among themselves and gambled for my robe." This is why the soldiers did these things.
Yochanan 19:25 Nearby Yahshua's execution stake stood his mother, his mother's sister Miryam the wife of K'lofah, and Miryam from Magdala.
Yochanan 19:26 When Yahshua saw his mother and the talmid whom he loved standing there, he said to his mother, "Mother, this is your son."
Yochanan 19:27 Then he said to the talmid, "This is your mother." And from that time on, the talmid took her into his own home.
Yochanan 19:28 After this, knowing that all things had accomplished their purpose, Yahshua, in order to fulfill the words of the Tanakh, said, "I'm thirsty."
Yochanan 19:29 A jar full of cheap sour wine was there; so they soaked a sponge in the wine, coated it with oregano leaves and held it up to his mouth.
Yochanan 19:30 After Yahshua had taken the wine, he said, "It is accomplished!" And, letting his head droop, he delivered up his spirit.
Yochanan 19:31 It was Preparation Day, and the Judeans did not want the bodies to remain on the stake on Shabbat, since it was an especially important Shabbat. So they asked Pilate to have the legs broken and the bodies removed.
Yochanan 19:32 The soldiers came and broke the legs of the first man who had been put on a stake beside Yahshua, then the legs of the other one;
Yochanan 19:33 but when they got to Yahshua and saw that he was already dead, they didn't break his legs.
Yochanan 19:34 However, one of the soldiers stabbed his side with a spear, and at once blood and water flowed out.
Yochanan 19:35 The man who saw it has testified about it, and his testimony is true. And he knows that he tells the truth, so you too can trust.
Yochanan 19:36 For these things happened in order to fulfill this passage of the Tanakh: "Not one of his bones will be broken."
Yochanan 19:37 And again, another passage says, "They will look at him whom they have pierced."
Yochanan 19:38 After this, Yosef of Ramatayim, who was a talmid of Yahshua, but a secret one out of fear of the Judeans, asked Pilate if he could have Yahshua's body. Pilate gave his consent, so Yosef came and took the body away.
Yochanan 19:39 Also Nakdimon, who at first had gone to see Yahshua by night, came with some seventy pounds of spices — a mixture of myrrh and aloes.
Yochanan 19:40 They took Yahshua's body and wrapped it up in linen sheets with the spices, in keeping with Judean burial practice.
Yochanan 19:41 In the vicinity of where he had been executed was a garden, and in the garden was a new tomb in which no one had ever been buried.
Yochanan 19:42 So, because it was Preparation Day for the Judeans, and because the tomb was close by, that is where they buried Yahshua.
Yochanan 20:1 Early on the first day of the week, while it was still dark, Miryam from Magdala went to the tomb and saw that the stone had been removed from the tomb.
Yochanan 20:2 So she came running to Shim`on Kefa and the other talmid, the one Yahshua loved, and said to them, "They've taken the Master out of the tomb, and we don't know where they've put him!"
Yochanan 20:3 Then Kefa and the other talmid started for the tomb.
Yochanan 20:4 They both ran, but the other talmid outran Kefa and reached the tomb first.
Yochanan 20:5 Stooping down, he saw the linen burial-sheets lying there but did not go in.
Yochanan 20:6 Then, following him, Shim`on Kefa arrived, entered the tomb and saw the burial-sheets lying there,
Yochanan 20:7 also the cloth that had been around his head, lying not with the sheets but in a separate place and still folded up.
Yochanan 20:8 Then the other talmid, who had arrived at the tomb first, also went in; he saw, and he trusted.
Yochanan 20:9 (They had not yet come to understand that the Tanakh teaches that the Messiah has to rise from the dead.)
Yochanan 20:10 So the talmidim returned home,
Yochanan 20:11 but Miryam stood outside crying. As she cried, she bent down, peered into the tomb,
Yochanan 20:12 and saw two malachei in white sitting where the body of Yahshua had been, one at the head and one at the feet.
Yochanan 20:13 "Why are you crying?" they asked her. "They took my Master," she said to them, "and I don't know where they have put him."
Yochanan 20:14 As she said this, she turned around and saw Yahshua standing there, but she didn't know it was he.
Yochanan 20:15 Yahshua said to her, "Lady, why are you crying? Whom are you looking for?" Thinking he was the gardener, she said to him, "Sir, if you're the one who carried him away, just tell me where you put him; and I'll go and get him myself."
Yochanan 20:16 Yahshua said to her, "Miryam!" Turning, she cried out to him in Hebrew, "Rabbani!" (that is, "Teacher!")
Yochanan 20:17 "Stop holding onto me," Yahshua said to her, "because I haven't yet gone back to the Father. But go to my brothers, and tell them that I am going back to my Father and your Father, to my El and your El."
Yochanan 20:18 Miryam of Magdala went to the talmidim with the news that she had seen the master and that he had told her this.
Yochanan 20:19 In the evening that same day, the first day of the week, when the talmidim were gathered together behind locked doors out of fear of the Judeans, Yahshua came, stood in the middle and said, "Shalom aleikhem!"
Yochanan 20:20 Having greeted them, he showed them his hands and his side. The talmidim were overjoyed to see the master.
Yochanan 20:21 "Shalom aleikhem!" Yahshua repeated. "Just as the Father sent me, I myself am also sending you."
Yochanan 20:22 Having said this, he breathed on them and said to them, "Receive the Ruach HaKodesh!
Yochanan 20:23 If you forgive someone's sins, their sins are forgiven; if you hold them, they are held."
Yochanan 20:24 Now T'oma (the name means "twin"), one of the Twelve, was not with them when Yahshua came.
Yochanan 20:25 When the other talmidim told him, "We have seen the Master," he replied, "Unless I see the nail marks in his hands, put my finger into the place where the nails were and put my hand into his side, I refuse to believe it."
Yochanan 20:26 A week later his talmidim were once more in the room, and this time T'oma was with them. Although the doors were locked, Yahshua came, stood among them and said, "Shalom aleikhem!"
Yochanan 20:27 Then he said to T'oma, "Put your finger here, look at my hands, take your hand and put it into my side. Don't be lacking in trust, but have trust!"
Yochanan 20:28 T'oma answered him, "My Master and my Elohim!"
Yochanan 20:29 Yahshua said to him, "Have you trusted because you have seen me? How blessed are those who do not see, but trust anyway!"
Yochanan 20:30 In the presence of the talmidim Yahshua performed many other miracles which have not been recorded in this book.
Yochanan 20:31 But these which have been recorded are here so that you may trust that Yahshua is the Mashiach, the Son of Elohim, and that by this trust you may have life because of who he is.
Yochanan 21:1 After this, Yahshua appeared again to the talmidim at Lake Tiberias. Here is how it happened:
Yochanan 21:2 Shim`on Kefa and T'oma (his name means "twin") were together with Natan'el from Kanah in the Galil, the sons of Zavdai, and two other talmidim.
Yochanan 21:3 Shim`on Kefa said, "I'm going fishing." They said to him, "We're coming with you." They went and got into the boat, but that night they didn't catch anything.
Yochanan 21:4 However, just as day was breaking, Yahshua stood on shore, but the talmidim didn't know it was he.
Yochanan 21:5 He said to them, "You don't have any fish, do you?" "No," they answered him.
Yochanan 21:6 He said to them, "Throw in your net to starboard and you will catch some." So they threw in their net, and there were so many fish in it that they couldn't haul it aboard.
Yochanan 21:7 The talmid Yahshua loved said to Kefa, "It's the Master!" On hearing it was the Master, Shim`on Kefa threw on his coat, because he was stripped for work, and plunged into the lake;
Yochanan 21:8 but the other talmidim followed in the boat, dragging the net full of fish; for they weren't far from shore, only about a hundred yards.
Yochanan 21:9 When they stepped ashore, they saw a fire of burning coals with a fish on it, and some bread.
Yochanan 21:10 Yahshua said to them, "Bring some of the fish you have just caught."
Yochanan 21:11 Shim`on Kefa went up and dragged the net ashore. It was full of fish, 153 of them; but even with so many, the net wasn't torn.
Yochanan 21:12 Yahshua said to them, "Come and have breakfast." None of the talmidim dared to ask him, "Who are you?" They knew it was the Master.
Yochanan 21:13 Yahshua came, took the bread and gave it to them, and did the same with the fish.
Yochanan 21:14 This was now the third time Yahshua had appeared to the talmidim after being raised from the dead.
Yochanan 21:15 After breakfast, Yahshua said to Shim`on Kefa, "Shim`on Bar-Yochanan, do you love me more than these?" He replied, "Yes, Master, you know I'm your friend." He said to him, "Feed my lambs."
Yochanan 21:16 A second time he said to him, "Shim`on Bar-Yochanan, do you love me?" He replied, "Yes, Master, you know I'm your friend." He said to him, "Shepherd my sheep."
Yochanan 21:17 The third time he said to him, "Shim`on Bar-Yochanan, are you my friend?" Shim`on was hurt that he questioned him a third time: "Are you my friend?" So he replied, "Master, you know everything! You know I'm your friend!" Yahshua said to him, "Feed my sheep!
Yochanan 21:18 Yes, indeed! I tell you, when you were younger, you put on your clothes and went where you wanted. But when you grow old, you will stretch out your hands, and someone else will dress you and carry you where you do not want to go."
Yochanan 21:19 He said this to indicate the kind of death by which Kefa would bring esteem to Elohim. Then Yahshua said to him, "Follow me!"
Yochanan 21:20 Kefa turned and saw the talmid Yahshua especially loved following behind, the one who had leaned against him at the supper and had asked, "Who is the one who is betraying you?"
Yochanan 21:21 On seeing him, Kefa said to Yahshua, "Master, what about him?"
Yochanan 21:22 Yahshua said to him, "If I want him to stay on until I come, what is it to you? You, follow me!"
Yochanan 21:23 Therefore the word spread among the brothers that that talmid would not die. However, Yahshua didn't say he wouldn't die, but simply, "If I want him to stay on until I come, what is it to you?"
Yochanan 21:24 This one is the talmid who is testifying about these things and who has recorded them. And we know that his testimony is true.
Yochanan 21:25 But there are also many other things Yahshua did; and if they were all to be recorded, I don't think the whole world could contain the books that would have to be written!