After this Jesus traveled throughout Galilee. He stayed out of Judea because the Jewish leaders wanted to kill him.

Gazing at Jesus as he walked by, he said, “Look, the Lamb of God!”

It was winter, and Jesus was walking in the temple area in Solomon’s Portico.

Jesus said to him, “Stand up! Pick up your mat and walk.”

They asked him, “Who is the man who said to you, ‘Pick up your mat and walk’?”

After this many of his disciples quit following him and did not accompany him any longer.

But if anyone walks around at night, he stumbles, because the light is not in him.”

Immediately the man was healed, and he picked up his mat and started walking. (Now that day was a Sabbath.)

But he answered them, “The man who made me well said to me, ‘Pick up your mat and walk.’”

Then, when they had rowed about three or four miles, they caught sight of Jesus walking on the lake, approaching the boat, and they were frightened.

Jesus replied, “The light is with you for a little while longer. Walk while you have the light, so that the darkness may not overtake you. The one who walks in the darkness does not know where he is going.

Then Jesus spoke out again, “I am the light of the world. The one who follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.”

Jesus replied, “Are there not twelve hours in a day? If anyone walks around in the daytime, he does not stumble, because he sees the light of this world.

Thus Jesus no longer went around publicly among the Judeans, but went away from there to the region near the wilderness, to a town called Ephraim, and stayed there with his disciples.

I tell you the solemn truth, when you were young, you tied your clothes around you and went wherever you wanted, but when you are old, you will stretch out your hands, and others will tie you up and bring you where you do not want to go.”