Now it came about in the fourth year of Jehoiakim, the son of Josiah, king of Judah, that this word came to Jeremiah from the Lord, saying,

It may be that the people of Judah, hearing of all the evil which it is my purpose to do to them, will be turned, every man from his evil ways so that they may have my forgiveness for their evil-doing and their sin.

And Jeremiah gave orders to Baruch, saying, I am shut up, and am not able to go into the house of the Lord:

It may be that their prayer for grace will go up to the Lord, and that every man will be turned from his evil ways: for great is the wrath and the passion made clear by the Lord against this people.

Now it came about in the fifth year of Jehoiakim, the son of Josiah, king of Judah, in the ninth month, that it was given out publicly that all the people in Jerusalem, and all the people who came from the towns of Judah to Jerusalem, were to keep from food before the Lord.

And Micaiah, the son of Gemariah, the son of Shaphan, after hearing all the words of the Lord from the book,

Then Micaiah gave them an account of all the words which had come to his ears when Baruch was reading the book to the people.

Then they said to him, Be seated now, and give us a reading from it. So Baruch did so, reading it to them.

And questioning Baruch, they said, Say now, how did you put all these words down in writing from his mouth?

Then the rulers said to Baruch, Go and put yourself in a safe place, you and Jeremiah, and let no man have knowledge of where you are.

So the king sent Jehudi to get the book, and he took it from the room of Elishama the scribe. And Jehudi gave a reading of it in the hearing of the king and all the rulers who were by the king's side.

And it came about that whenever Jehudi, in his reading, had got through three or four divisions, the king, cutting them with his penknife, put them into the fire, till all the book was burned up in the fire which was burning in the fireplace.

And Elnathan and Delaiah and Gemariah had made a strong request to the king not to let the book be burned, but he would not give ear to them.

Then after the book, in which Baruch had put down the words of Jeremiah, had been burned by the king, the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah, saying,

And about Jehoiakim, king of Judah, you are to say, This is what the Lord has said: You have put this book into the fire, saying, Why have you put in it that the king of Babylon will certainly come, causing the destruction of this land and putting an end to every man and beast in it?

And I will send punishment on him and on his seed and on his servants for their evil-doing I will send on them and on the people of Jerusalem and the men of Judah, all the evil which I said against them, but they did not give ear.

And Zedekiah, the son of Josiah, became king in place of Coniah, the son of Jehoiakim, whom Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, made king in the land of Judah.

And Zedekiah the king sent Jehucal, the son of Shelemiah, and Zephaniah, the son of Maaseiah the priest, to the prophet Jeremiah, saying, Make prayer now to the Lord our God for us.

And Pharaoh's army had come out from Egypt: and the Chaldaeans, who were attacking Jerusalem, hearing news of them, went away from Jerusalem.)

The Lord, the God of Israel, has said: This is what you are to say to the king of Judah who sent you to get directions from me: See, Pharaoh's army, which has come out to your help, will go back to Egypt, to their land.

The Lord has said, Have no false hopes, saying to yourselves, The Chaldaeans will go away from us: for they will not go away.

And it came about that when the Chaldaean army outside Jerusalem had gone away for fear of Pharaoh's army,

But when he was at the Benjamin door, a captain of the watch named Irijah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of Hananiah, who was stationed there, put his hand on Jeremiah the prophet, saying, You are going to give yourself up to the Chaldaeans.

And the rulers were angry with Jeremiah, and gave him blows and put him in prison in the house of Jonathan the scribe: for they had made that the prison.

Then King Zedekiah sent and got him out: and the king, questioning him secretly in his house, said, Is there any word from the Lord? And Jeremiah said, There is. Then he said, You will be given up into the hands of the king of Babylon.

Where now are your prophets who said to you, The king of Babylon will not come against you and against this land?

Then by the order of Zedekiah the king, Jeremiah was put into the place of the armed watchmen, and they gave him every day a cake of bread from the street of the bread-makers, till all the bread in the town was used up. So Jeremiah was kept in the place of the armed watchmen.

Now there were some Greeks among the people who had come up to give worship at the feast:

Philip went and gave word of it to Andrew and Andrew went with Philip to Jesus.

Truly I say to you, If a seed of grain does not go into the earth and come to an end, it is still a seed and no more but through its death it gives much fruit.

If any man is my servant, let him come after me and where I am, there will my servant be. If any man becomes my servant, my Father will give him honour.

Father, give glory to your name. Then there came a voice out of heaven, saying, I have given it glory, and I will give it glory again.

Jesus said in answer, This voice came not for me but for you.

And I, if I am lifted up from the earth, will make all men come to me.

Then the people in answer said to him, The law says that the Christ will have life without end: how say you then that it is necessary for the Son of man to be lifted up? Who is this Son of man?

In so far as you have the light, put your faith in the light so that you may become sons of light. With these words Jesus went away and for a time was not seen again by them.

So that the words of the prophet Isaiah might come true, when he said, Lord, who has any belief in our preaching? and the arm of the Lord, to whom has it been unveiled?

He has made their eyes blind, and their hearts hard for fear that they might see with their eyes and get knowledge with their hearts, and be changed, and I might make them well.

However, a number even of the rulers had belief in him, but because of the Pharisees they did not say so openly for fear that they might be shut out from the Synagogue:

Then Jesus said with a loud voice, He who has faith in me, has faith not in me, but in him who sent me.

I have come as a light into the world, so that no one who has faith in me will go on living in the dark.

He who puts me on one side and does not take my words to heart, is not without a judge: the word which I have said will be his judge on the last day.

And I have knowledge that his order is eternal life: so that the things which I say, I say them even as the Father says them to me.