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1 Now a certain one was sick, Lazarus from Bethany, from the village of Mary and her sister Martha.
2 Now it was this Mary who anointed the Lord with perfume and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick.
3 Therefore the sisters sent to him, saying, Lord, behold, he whom you love is sick.
4 But when Jesus heard it, he said, This sickness is not to death, but on behalf of the glory of God, in order that the Son of God may be glorified through it. 5 Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus. 6 Therefore, as he heard that he was sick, then indeed, he remained in the place in which he was for two days. 7 Thereafter, after this time, he says to the disciples, We should go into Judea again.
8 The disciples say to him, Rabbi, the Jews just now were seeking to stone you, and you are going back there again?
9 Jesus answered, Are there not twelve hours in the day? If anyone walks in the day, he is not stumbling, because he sees the light of this world. 10 But if anyone walks in the night, he stumbles, because the light is not in him. 11 He spoke these things and he says to them after this, Our friend Lazarus has fallen-asleep, but I am traveling in order that I may wake him.
12 Therefore the disciples said to him, Lord, if he has fallen-asleep, he will be cured.
13 (Now Jesus had spoken concerning his death, but those men thought that he is speaking concerning the restfulness of sleep.) 14 Therefore, then Jesus spoke to them frankly, Lazarus is dead. 15 And I rejoice because of you that I myself was not there, in order that you may believe; but we should go to him.
16 Therefore Thomas, who is called Didymus, said to his fellow disciples, We should also go, in order that we may die with him.
17 Therefore, Jesus went and found that he had been in the tomb for four days already. 18 Now Bethany was near to Jerusalem, approximately fifteen furlongs off; 19 and many from the Jews had come to those around Martha and Mary, in order that they may console them concerning their brother. 20 Therefore Martha, as she heard that Jesus is coming, met with him, but Mary was still sitting in the house. 21 Therefore Martha said to Jesus, Lord, if you were here, my brother would have not died. 22 But even now I know that, as many things as you may ask of God, God will be giving to you.
23 Jesus says to her, Your brother will rise up again.
24 Martha says to him, I know that he will rise up in the resurrection on the last day.
25 Jesus said to her, I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me, even if he dies, he will be living; 26 and everyone who is living and believes in me may never die–forever. Do you believe this? 27 She says to him, Yes, Lord. I have believed that you are the Christ, the Son of God, he who comes into the world. 28 And having said these things, she went away and secretly summoned Mary her sister, and said, The Teacher is here and is summoning you. 29 As that woman heard it, she arose quickly and comes to him. 30 (Now Jesus had not yet come into the village, but was in the place where Martha met with him.)
31 Therefore the Jews who were with her in the house and were consoling her, when they saw Mary, that she stood up quickly and went out, they followed her, saying, She is going to the tomb in order that she may weep there.
32 Therefore Mary, as she came where Jesus was and saw him, fell down next to his feet, saying to him, Lord, if you had been here, my brother would have not died.
33 Therefore, as Jesus saw her weeping, and the Jews also weeping who came together with her, he sighed in the spirit and was disturbed, 34 and said, Where have you laid him?
They say to him, Lord, come and behold.
35 Jesus shed-tears.
36 Therefore the Jews were saying, Behold how he loved him!
37 But some out of them said, Was this one, who opened the eyes of the blind man, not able to do something in order that this one might not have even died?
38 Therefore Jesus again, sighing in himself, comes to the tomb. Now it was a cave and a stone was laying upon it. 39 Jesus says, Lift up the stone.
Martha, the sister to the one who has died, says to him, Lord, already the body stinks from decay; for it is four days old.
40 Jesus says to her, Did I not say to you, that, if you believed, you will be seeing the glory of God? 41 So they lifted the stone where the one who died was laying. Now Jesus lifted his eyes upward and said, Father, I am giving-thanks to you because you heard me. 42 And I knew that you always hear me, but because of the crowd who is standing around I said it, in order that they may believe that you sent me. 43 And having said these things, he cried-out with a loud voice, Lazarus, come-here! Come outside! 44 And he came out, the one who had died, having been bound hand and foot with burial wrappings, and his vision had been bound around with a handkerchief. Jesus says to them, Loose him and allow him to go away.
45 Therefore many out of the Jews, who came to Mary and saw what Jesus did, believed in him. 46 But some out of them went away to the Pharisees and told them the things which Jesus had done.
47 Therefore, the high-priests and the Pharisees gathered together a council and were saying, What are we doing because this man is doing many signs? 48 If we allow him to continue so; all will believe in him. And the Romans will be coming and taking away both our place and the nation.
49 But a certain one out of them, Caiaphas, being the high-priest of that year, said to them, You know nothing, 50 nor are you reasoning that it is advantageous for us that one man should die on behalf of the people and that the whole nation should not perish. 51 (Now he said this not from himself, but being high-priest of that year, he prophesied that Jesus was about to die on behalf of the nation; 52 and not only on behalf of the nation, but in order that he should also gather together into one the children of God who have been scattered.) 53 So from that day forth, they counseled together in order that they might kill him.
54 Therefore, Jesus was not walking publicly anymore among the Jews, but went away from there into the region near to the wilderness, into a city called Ephraim, and he was staying there with his disciples.
55 Now the Passover of the Jews was near and many went up to Jerusalem out of the region before the Passover, in order that they might purify themselves. 56 Therefore, they were seeking Jesus and were speaking with one another while standing in the temple, What are you thinking? He may never come to the feast, or may be? 57 Now both the high-priests and the Pharisees had given a commandment, in order that, if anyone knows where he was, he should divulge it, that they might arrest him.
12 1 Therefore, Jesus came to Bethany six days before the Passover, where Lazarus was, who had died, whom he raised from the dead.
2 So they made him a supper there and Martha was serving, but Lazarus was one of those who reclined at the meal together with him. 3 Therefore, Mary took a pound of perfume of precious undiluted nard, and anointed the feet of Jesus and wiped his feet with her hair and the house was filled from the aroma of the perfume. 4 Therefore Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son, one out of his disciples, who is about to give him up, says, 5 Why was this perfume not sold for three hundred denarii and given to the poor? 6 Now this he said, not because he was caring concerning the poor, but because he was a thief and had the box and was bearing what was put in it.
7 Therefore Jesus said, Allow her, she has kept it for the day of my burial. 8 For the poor you always have with you, but you do not always have me.
9 Therefore, a crowd out of the Jews knew that he was there and they came, not only because of Jesus, but in order that they might also see Lazarus, whom he had raised from the dead. 10 But the high-priests counseled in order that they might also kill Lazarus; 11 that because of him many of the Jews were going away and believing in Jesus.
12 A large crowd came to the feast on the next-day, having heard that Jesus is coming into Jerusalem, 13 and they took the limbs of the palm trees and went forth to a meeting with him and was crying out, Hosanna. He who is coming in the name of the Lord has been blessed, the King of Israel.
14 Now Jesus, having found a young-donkey, sat upon it; as it has been written, 15 ‘Do not fear, daughter of Zion. Behold, your King is coming, sitting upon a donkey’s colt.’ 16 (But his disciples did not know these things at first, but when Jesus was glorified, then they were reminded that these things had been written on the basis of him and that they had done these things to him.)
17 Therefore, the crowd who was with him was witnessing when he summoned Lazarus out of the tomb and raised him up from the dead. 18 The crowd also went and met him because of this thing, because it heard that he had done this sign. 19 Therefore the Pharisees said to themselves, You are viewing that you profit nothing. Behold, the world has gone after him.
20 Now there were some Greeks from them, coming up, in order that they might worship at the feast; 21 therefore these came to Philip, the one from Bethsaida of Galilee and asked him, saying, Lord, we wish to see Jesus. 22 Philip comes and speaks to Andrew, and Andrew and Philip speak again to Jesus.
23 But Jesus answered them, saying, The hour has come, that the Son of Man should be glorified. 24 Assuredly, assuredly, I am saying to you, If a kernel of grain has not fallen into the soil and died, it remains alone, but if it dies, it is bringing forth much fruit. 25 He who loves his life will be losing it, and he who hates his life in this world will be keeping it to everlasting life. 26 If anyone serves me, let him follow me, and where I am, my servant will also be there. And if anyone serves me, the Father will be honoring him. 27 Now my soul has been disturbed, and what should I say? Father, save me from this hour? But I came to this hour because of this. 28 Father, glorify your name.
Therefore, a voice came from heaven, saying, I have both glorified it and will be glorifying it again.
29 Therefore, the crowd standing there and heard it, was saying, Thunder has happened.
Others said, A messenger has spoken to him.
30 Jesus answered and said, This voice has not happened because of me, but because of you. 31 Now is the judgment of this world. Now the ruler of this world will be cast outside. 32 And if I am exalted out of the earth, I will be attracting all peoples to myself. 33 (But he said this, signifying by what sort of death he was about to die.)
34 The crowd answered him, We have heard out of the law that the Christ remains forever and how do you say, It is essential for the Son of Man to be exalted? Who is this Son of Man?
35 Therefore Jesus said to them, The light is still with you for a little time. Walk while you have the light, in order that darkness might not overtake you and he who is walking in the darkness does not know where he is going. 36 While you have the light, believe in the light, in order that you might become sons of light.
Jesus spoke these things and he went away and hid himself from them. 37 But though he had done so-many signs before them, yet they did not believe in him, 38 in order that the word of Isaiah the prophet might be fulfilled, which he spoke, ‘Lord, who has believed our report? And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?’ 39 Because of this, they were not able to believe, because Isaiah said again, 40 ‘He has blinded their eyes and he has hardened their heart; in order that they should not see with their eyes and should perceive with their heart and should turn and that I might heal them.’ 41 Isaiah said these things, when he saw his glory, and he spoke concerning him. 42 Nevertheless even many out of the rulers also believed in him, but they were not confessing it because of the Pharisees, in order that they might not become expelled from the synagogue; 43 for they loved the glory from men rather than the glory from God.
44 Now Jesus cried and said, He who believes in me, does not believe in me, but in the one who sent me. 45 And he who views me views the one who sent me. 46 I have come like a light into the world, in order that everyone who believes in me may not remain in the darkness. 47 And if anyone hears and does not believe my declarations, I do not judge him; for I did not come in order that I may judge the world, but in order that I may save the world. 48 He who is rejecting me and is not receiving my declarations, has that which judges him; the word that I spoke that will be judging him in the last day. 49 Because I did not speak from myself, but the Father who sent me, he gave me a commandment of what I should say and what I should speak. 50 And I know that his commandment is everlasting life, because the things which I speak, just-as the Father has said to me, so I speak to you.
13 1 Now before the feast of the Passover, Jesus knowing that his hour has come in order that he should proceed out of this world to his Father; having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end. 2 And it happened during supper, the devil had already put into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son, in order that he should give him up. 3 Jesus, knowing that the Father has given all the things into his hands and that he came forth from God and is going to God, 4 arose from supper and places aside his garments, and he took a towel and girded himself. 5 Thereafter he puts water into the washbasin and began to wash the disciples’feet and to wipe them with the towel in which he was girded.
6 Therefore, he comes to Simon Peter and that man says to him, Lord, why are you washing my feet?
7 Jesus answered and said to him, What I do you do not know now, but you will know after these things.
8 Peter says to him, Never wash my feet.
Jesus answered him, If I do not wash you, you have no part with me.
9 Simon Peter says to him, Lord, not only my feet, but also the hands and the head.
10 Jesus says to him, He who has been fully-washed does not need to wash himself, other than the feet, but is entirely clean and you are clean, but not all. 11 (For he knew the one who is giving him up.) Because of this, he said, You are not all clean.
12 Therefore, when he had washed their feet and had taken up his garments, having leaned-back again, he said to them, You know what I have done for you? 13 You address me as the Teacher and, Lord, and you say well; for so I am. 14 Therefore, if I, the Lord and the Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another’s feet. 15 For I gave you an example, in order that you should also do like I have done for you. 16 Assuredly, assuredly, I am saying to you, A bondservant is not greater than his lord; nor is an apostle greater than he who sent him. 17 If you know these things, you are fortunate if you practice them.
18 I do not speak concerning all of you. I know whom I have chosen, but in order that the Scripture might be fulfilled, ‘He who eats bread with me, lifted up his heel against me.’ 19 From now on I tell you before it is to happen, in order that, whenever it has happened, you may believe that I am he. \ulnone\nosupersub 20 Assuredly, assuredly, I am saying to you, He who receives anyone, whomever I send, receives me, and he who receives me receives the one who sent me.
21 Jesus having said these things, was disturbed in the spirit and testified and said, Assuredly, assuredly, I am saying to you, that one out of you will be giving me up.
22 Therefore the disciples were looking toward one another, being perplexed concerning whom he is speaking about. 23 But one of his disciples was reclining on Jesus’bosom, the one whom Jesus loved. 24 Therefore, Simon Peter signals to him to inquire, who it might be, concerning whom he is speaking about. 25 But that man who had leaned upon Jesus’chest says to him, Lord, who is it?
26 Jesus answers, It is that man to whom I have dipped the morsel, and I will be giving it to him. And having dipped the morsel, he takes it and gives it to Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son. 27 And after the morsel, then the Adversary entered into him. Therefore Jesus says to that man, What you are doing, do quickly. 28 (Now no one of those reclining at the table knew for what purpose he spoke this to him. 29 For some were thinking, since Judas had the box, that Jesus said to him, Buy what things we have need of for the feast; or, in order that he should give something to the poor.) 30 Therefore, having received the morsel, that man went out immediately and it was night.
31 Therefore, when he went out, Jesus says, Now the Son of Man was glorified and God was glorified in him; 32 If God was glorified in him, God will also be glorifying him in himself and immediately he will be glorifying him. 33 Little-children, I am still with you for a little while. You will be seeking me and just-as I said to the Jews, Where I am going, you are not able to come. Also now I am saying to you, 34 I am giving to you a new commandment, in order that you should love one another; just-as I have loved you, in order that you also should love one another. 35 All men will know that you are my disciples in this, if you have love among one another.
36 Simon Peter says to him, Lord, where are you going?
Jesus answered him, I am going where you are not able to follow now, but you will be following me later.
37 Peter says to him, Lord, why am I not able to follow you even now? I will lay down my life on your behalf.
38 Jesus answered him, Will you lay down your life on my behalf? Assuredly, assuredly, I am saying to you, The rooster may never crow, until you will be denying me three-times.
14 1 Do not let your heart be disturbed; you believe in God, believe also in me. 2 In my Father’s house are many abodes; otherwise, I would have told you. I am traveling on to prepare a place for you. 3 And if I travel on, I will be preparing a place for you. I am coming again and will be receiving you to myself; in order that where I am, you may also be there. 4 And I am going where you know and you know the way.
5 Thomas says to him, Lord, we do not know where you are going; how are we able to know the way?
6 Jesus says to him, I am the way and the truth and the life; no one is coming to the Father, except through me. 7 If you had known me, you would have also known my Father; from now on you know him and have seen him.
8 Philip says to him, Lord, show us the Father and it is enough for us.
9 Jesus says to him, So-much time I have been with you and you have not known me Philip? He who has seen me has seen the Father. And how can you say this? Show us the Father. 10 Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father in me? The words that I say to you, I do not speak from myself, but the Father who is abiding in me; he is doing the works. 11 Either believe me, that I am in the Father and the Father in me, otherwise believe me because of the works themselves. 12 Assuredly, assuredly, I am saying to you, He who believes in me, the works which I am doing, he will also be doing, and he will be doing greater works than these, because I am traveling on to my Father. 13 And if you ask anything in my name, I will do this, in order that the Father might be glorified in the Son. 14 If you ask anything in my name, I will do that. 15 If you love me, keep my commandments.
16 And I will be requesting of the Father and he will be giving you another Helper, in order that he may abide with you forever, 17 the Spirit of the truth, whom the world is not able to receive, because it does not view him, nor knows him, but you know him, because he is abiding with you and will be in you. 18 I will not be leaving you orphans. I am coming to you. 19 Still a little while and the world views me no more, but you view me, because I am living, you will also be living. 20 You will know in that day that I am in my Father and you in me and I in you. 21 He who holds my commandments and is keeping them, that one is he who loves me and he who loves me will be loved by my Father and I will love him and will be manifesting myself to him.
22 Judas (not Iscariot) says to him, Lord, what has happened that you are about to manifest yourself to us and not to the world?
23 Jesus answered and said to him, If anyone loves me, he will be keeping my word and my Father will love him, and we will be coming to him and we will be making our abode with him. 24 He who does not love me, is not keeping my words.
And the word which you hear is not mine, but the Father’s, he who sent me.
25 I have spoken these things to you, while remaining with you. 26 But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will be sending in my name, that one will be teaching you all things and will be reminding you of all things which I said to you. 27 I am leaving peace with you. I am giving my peace to you; not like the world gives, I am giving to you. Let your heart not be disturbed, nor let it be cowardly. 28 You heard that I said to you, I am traveling on and I am coming to you. If you loved me, you would have rejoiced, because I said, I am traveling on to the Father, because the Father is greater than I. 29 And now I have spoken this to you before it is to happen, in order that, whenever it should happen, you may believe. 30 I will not be speaking much anymore with you, for the ruler of the world is coming and he has nothing in me; 31 but in order that the world may know that I love the Father and just-as the Father commanded me, thus I am doing.
Arise, we should go from here.
15 1 I am the true vine and my Father is the farmer. 2 Every branch which is not bringing forth fruit in me, he takes it away and every branch which is bringing forth fruit, he prunes it, in order that it may bring forth more fruit. 3 Already you are clean because of the word which I have spoken to you. 4 Abide in me and I in you. Just-as the branch is not able to bring forth fruit from itself, if it does not abide in the vine; so neither can you if you do not abide in me. 5 I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in me and I in him, this one is bringing forth much fruit, because you are not able to do anything separate from me. 6 If anyone is not abiding in me, he was cast outside like a branch and was dried up, and they gather them and cast them into the fire and it is burned. 7 If you abide in me, and then my words should abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will happen for you. 8 My Father is glorified in this, in order that you may bring forth much fruit and will become my disciples.
9 Just-as the Father has loved me, I have also loved you. Abide in my love. 10 If you keep my commandments, you will be abiding in my love; just-as I have kept my Father’s commandments and am abiding in his love. 11 I have spoken to you these things, in order that my joy may abide in you and in order that your joy should be fulfilled. 12 This is my commandment, in order that you should love one another, just-as I have loved you. 13 No one has greater love than this: in order that someone should lay down his life on behalf of his friends. 14 You are my friends, if you practice as many things as I command you. 15 I call you bondservants no more, because the bondservant does not know what his lord is doing, but I have called you friends, because all the things which I heard from my Father, I have made known to you. 16 You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you, in order that you should go and should bring forth fruit and in order that your fruit should abide, that if you ask anything of the Father in my name, he should give it to you. 17 I command you to do these things, in order that you may love one another.
18 If the world hates you, you know that it has hated me first, then you. 19 If you were from the world, the world would love its own, but because you are not from the world, but I chose you out of the world, the world is hating you because of this. 20 Remember the word which I said to you, A bondservant is not greater than his lord. If they persecuted me, they will also be persecuting you; if they kept my word, they will also be keeping yours. 21 But they will be doing all these things to you because of my name, because they do not know the one who sent me. 22 If I had not come and spoken to them, they were having no sin, but now they have no excuse concerning their sin. 23 He who hates me also hates my Father. 24 If I had not done the works which no other has done among them, then they were having no sin, but now they have both seen and hated both me and my Father. 25 But this happened, in order that the word might be fulfilled that has been written in their law, ‘They hated me undeservedly.’
26 But whenever the Helper has come, whom I will be sending to you from the Father, who is the Spirit of the truth, who travels from the Father, that one will be testifying concerning me; 27 and you also will be testifying, because you have been with me from the beginning.
16 1 I have spoken to you these things, in order that you should not be offended. 2 They will be expelling you from the synagogues. But the hour is coming, that everyone who kills you may think that he is offering divine service to God. 3 And they will be doing these things to you, because they have not known the Father, nor me. 4 But I have spoken these things to you, that whenever the hour has come, you may remember them, that I spoke them to you. Now I did not say these things to you from the beginning, because I was with you. 5 But now I am going to the one who sent me, and none out of you asks me, Where are you going? 6 But because I have spoken these things to you, sorrow has filled your heart. 7 But I tell you the truth. It is advantageous for you that I should go away; for if I do not go away, the Helper will not be coming to you, but if I travel on, I will be sending him to you. 8 And when he has come, that one will be convicting the world concerning sin and concerning righteousness and concerning judgment. 9 Concerning sin, indeed, because they did not believe in me; 10 concerning righteousness, because I am going to my Father and you view me no more; 11 and concerning judgment, because the ruler of this world has been judged. 12 I still have many things to say to you, but you are not able to bear them now. 13 But whenever that one, the Spirit of the truth, comes, he will be guiding you into all the truth; for he will not be speaking from himself, but as many things as he may hear, these he will be speaking and he will be reporting to you the things which are to come. 14 He will be glorifying me, because he will receive from me and will be proclaiming it to you. 15 All things, as many things as the Father has are mine, because of this, I said, He is receiving from me and will be proclaiming it to you. 16 A little while and you do not view me, and again a little while and you will see me, because I am going to the Father.
17 Therefore, some out of his disciples said to one another, What is this thing which he says to us, A little while and you do not view me, and again a little while and you will see me. Also, Because I am going to the Father?
18 Therefore they were saying, What is this thing which he says, A little while? We do not know the meaning of what he says.
19 Therefore, Jesus knew that they were wishing to ask him, and he said to them, Are you debating with one another concerning this thing which I said, A little while and you do not view me, and again, A little while and you will see me?
20 Assuredly, assuredly, I am saying to you, that you will be weeping and will be mourning, but the world will rejoice. But you will be sorrowful, but your sorrow will happen leading you to joy. 21 A woman has sorrow whenever she gives-birth, because her hour has come, but whenever the child is born, she remembers the affliction no more, because of the joy that a child has been born into the world. 22 And therefore, you now indeed have sorrow, but I will see you again and your heart will be rejoicing and no one takes your joy away from you. 23 And in that day you will not be asking me anything. Assuredly, assuredly, I am saying to you, that as many things as you may ask the Father in my name, he will be giving them to you. 24 Until now you have asked nothing in my name. Ask and you will receive, in order that your joy may be fulfilled.
25 I have spoken these things to you in metaphors, but the hour is coming, when I will no more be speaking to you in metaphors, but will be proclaiming to you frankly concerning the Father. 26 In that day you will be asking in my name and I do not say to you that I will request of the Father concerning you; 27 for the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me and have believed that I came forth from God. 28 I came out from the Father and have come into the world; again, I am leaving the world and I am traveling on to the Father.
29 Then his disciples say to him, Behold, now you speak frankly and are not speaking in a metaphor. 30 Now we know that you know all things and do not have need that anyone should ask you. We believe that you came forth from God with this speech.
31 Jesus answered them, Do you believe now? 32 Behold, the hour is coming and has now come, in order that you might be scattered, each one to his own and you may leave me alone and yet I am not alone, because the Father is with me. 33 I have spoken to you these things, in order that you may have peace in me. You have affliction in the world, but have courage; I have overcome the world.
4 But when Jesus heard it, he said, This sickness is not to death, but on behalf of the glory of God, in order that the Son of God may be glorified through it. 5 Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus. 6 Therefore, as he heard that he was sick, then indeed, he remained in the place in which he was for two days. 7 Thereafter, after this time, he says to the disciples, We should go into Judea again.
8 The disciples say to him, Rabbi, the Jews just now were seeking to stone you, and you are going back there again?
9 Jesus answered, Are there not twelve hours in the day? If anyone walks in the day, he is not stumbling, because he sees the light of this world. 10 But if anyone walks in the night, he stumbles, because the light is not in him. 11 He spoke these things and he says to them after this, Our friend Lazarus has fallen-asleep, but I am traveling in order that I may wake him.
12 Therefore the disciples said to him, Lord, if he has fallen-asleep, he will be cured.
13 (Now Jesus had spoken concerning his death, but those men thought that he is speaking concerning the restfulness of sleep.) 14 Therefore, then Jesus spoke to them frankly, Lazarus is dead. 15 And I rejoice because of you that I myself was not there, in order that you may believe; but we should go to him.
16 Therefore Thomas, who is called Didymus, said to his fellow disciples, We should also go, in order that we may die with him.
17 Therefore, Jesus went and found that he had been in the tomb for four days already. 18 Now Bethany was near to Jerusalem, approximately fifteen furlongs off; 19 and many from the Jews had come to those around Martha and Mary, in order that they may console them concerning their brother. 20 Therefore Martha, as she heard that Jesus is coming, met with him, but Mary was still sitting in the house. 21 Therefore Martha said to Jesus, Lord, if you were here, my brother would have not died. 22 But even now I know that, as many things as you may ask of God, God will be giving to you.
23 Jesus says to her, Your brother will rise up again.
24 Martha says to him, I know that he will rise up in the resurrection on the last day.
25 Jesus said to her, I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me, even if he dies, he will be living; 26 and everyone who is living and believes in me may never die–forever. Do you believe this? 27 She says to him, Yes, Lord. I have believed that you are the Christ, the Son of God, he who comes into the world. 28 And having said these things, she went away and secretly summoned Mary her sister, and said, The Teacher is here and is summoning you. 29 As that woman heard it, she arose quickly and comes to him. 30 (Now Jesus had not yet come into the village, but was in the place where Martha met with him.)
31 Therefore the Jews who were with her in the house and were consoling her, when they saw Mary, that she stood up quickly and went out, they followed her, saying, She is going to the tomb in order that she may weep there.
32 Therefore Mary, as she came where Jesus was and saw him, fell down next to his feet, saying to him, Lord, if you had been here, my brother would have not died.
33 Therefore, as Jesus saw her weeping, and the Jews also weeping who came together with her, he sighed in the spirit and was disturbed, 34 and said, Where have you laid him?
They say to him, Lord, come and behold.
35 Jesus shed-tears.
36 Therefore the Jews were saying, Behold how he loved him!
37 But some out of them said, Was this one, who opened the eyes of the blind man, not able to do something in order that this one might not have even died?
38 Therefore Jesus again, sighing in himself, comes to the tomb. Now it was a cave and a stone was laying upon it. 39 Jesus says, Lift up the stone.
Martha, the sister to the one who has died, says to him, Lord, already the body stinks from decay; for it is four days old.
40 Jesus says to her, Did I not say to you, that, if you believed, you will be seeing the glory of God? 41 So they lifted the stone where the one who died was laying. Now Jesus lifted his eyes upward and said, Father, I am giving-thanks to you because you heard me. 42 And I knew that you always hear me, but because of the crowd who is standing around I said it, in order that they may believe that you sent me. 43 And having said these things, he cried-out with a loud voice, Lazarus, come-here! Come outside! 44 And he came out, the one who had died, having been bound hand and foot with burial wrappings, and his vision had been bound around with a handkerchief. Jesus says to them, Loose him and allow him to go away.
45 Therefore many out of the Jews, who came to Mary and saw what Jesus did, believed in him. 46 But some out of them went away to the Pharisees and told them the things which Jesus had done.
47 Therefore, the high-priests and the Pharisees gathered together a council and were saying, What are we doing because this man is doing many signs? 48 If we allow him to continue so; all will believe in him. And the Romans will be coming and taking away both our place and the nation.
49 But a certain one out of them, Caiaphas, being the high-priest of that year, said to them, You know nothing, 50 nor are you reasoning that it is advantageous for us that one man should die on behalf of the people and that the whole nation should not perish. 51 (Now he said this not from himself, but being high-priest of that year, he prophesied that Jesus was about to die on behalf of the nation; 52 and not only on behalf of the nation, but in order that he should also gather together into one the children of God who have been scattered.) 53 So from that day forth, they counseled together in order that they might kill him.
54 Therefore, Jesus was not walking publicly anymore among the Jews, but went away from there into the region near to the wilderness, into a city called Ephraim, and he was staying there with his disciples.
55 Now the Passover of the Jews was near and many went up to Jerusalem out of the region before the Passover, in order that they might purify themselves. 56 Therefore, they were seeking Jesus and were speaking with one another while standing in the temple, What are you thinking? He may never come to the feast, or may be? 57 Now both the high-priests and the Pharisees had given a commandment, in order that, if anyone knows where he was, he should divulge it, that they might arrest him.
12 1 Therefore, Jesus came to Bethany six days before the Passover, where Lazarus was, who had died, whom he raised from the dead.
2 So they made him a supper there and Martha was serving, but Lazarus was one of those who reclined at the meal together with him. 3 Therefore, Mary took a pound of perfume of precious undiluted nard, and anointed the feet of Jesus and wiped his feet with her hair and the house was filled from the aroma of the perfume. 4 Therefore Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son, one out of his disciples, who is about to give him up, says, 5 Why was this perfume not sold for three hundred denarii and given to the poor? 6 Now this he said, not because he was caring concerning the poor, but because he was a thief and had the box and was bearing what was put in it.
7 Therefore Jesus said, Allow her, she has kept it for the day of my burial. 8 For the poor you always have with you, but you do not always have me.
9 Therefore, a crowd out of the Jews knew that he was there and they came, not only because of Jesus, but in order that they might also see Lazarus, whom he had raised from the dead. 10 But the high-priests counseled in order that they might also kill Lazarus; 11 that because of him many of the Jews were going away and believing in Jesus.
12 A large crowd came to the feast on the next-day, having heard that Jesus is coming into Jerusalem, 13 and they took the limbs of the palm trees and went forth to a meeting with him and was crying out, Hosanna. He who is coming in the name of the Lord has been blessed, the King of Israel.
14 Now Jesus, having found a young-donkey, sat upon it; as it has been written, 15 ‘Do not fear, daughter of Zion. Behold, your King is coming, sitting upon a donkey’s colt.’ 16 (But his disciples did not know these things at first, but when Jesus was glorified, then they were reminded that these things had been written on the basis of him and that they had done these things to him.)
17 Therefore, the crowd who was with him was witnessing when he summoned Lazarus out of the tomb and raised him up from the dead. 18 The crowd also went and met him because of this thing, because it heard that he had done this sign. 19 Therefore the Pharisees said to themselves, You are viewing that you profit nothing. Behold, the world has gone after him.
20 Now there were some Greeks from them, coming up, in order that they might worship at the feast; 21 therefore these came to Philip, the one from Bethsaida of Galilee and asked him, saying, Lord, we wish to see Jesus. 22 Philip comes and speaks to Andrew, and Andrew and Philip speak again to Jesus.
23 But Jesus answered them, saying, The hour has come, that the Son of Man should be glorified. 24 Assuredly, assuredly, I am saying to you, If a kernel of grain has not fallen into the soil and died, it remains alone, but if it dies, it is bringing forth much fruit. 25 He who loves his life will be losing it, and he who hates his life in this world will be keeping it to everlasting life. 26 If anyone serves me, let him follow me, and where I am, my servant will also be there. And if anyone serves me, the Father will be honoring him. 27 Now my soul has been disturbed, and what should I say? Father, save me from this hour? But I came to this hour because of this. 28 Father, glorify your name.
Therefore, a voice came from heaven, saying, I have both glorified it and will be glorifying it again.
29 Therefore, the crowd standing there and heard it, was saying, Thunder has happened.
Others said, A messenger has spoken to him.
30 Jesus answered and said, This voice has not happened because of me, but because of you. 31 Now is the judgment of this world. Now the ruler of this world will be cast outside. 32 And if I am exalted out of the earth, I will be attracting all peoples to myself. 33 (But he said this, signifying by what sort of death he was about to die.)
34 The crowd answered him, We have heard out of the law that the Christ remains forever and how do you say, It is essential for the Son of Man to be exalted? Who is this Son of Man?
35 Therefore Jesus said to them, The light is still with you for a little time. Walk while you have the light, in order that darkness might not overtake you and he who is walking in the darkness does not know where he is going. 36 While you have the light, believe in the light, in order that you might become sons of light.
Jesus spoke these things and he went away and hid himself from them. 37 But though he had done so-many signs before them, yet they did not believe in him, 38 in order that the word of Isaiah the prophet might be fulfilled, which he spoke, ‘Lord, who has believed our report? And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?’ 39 Because of this, they were not able to believe, because Isaiah said again, 40 ‘He has blinded their eyes and he has hardened their heart; in order that they should not see with their eyes and should perceive with their heart and should turn and that I might heal them.’ 41 Isaiah said these things, when he saw his glory, and he spoke concerning him. 42 Nevertheless even many out of the rulers also believed in him, but they were not confessing it because of the Pharisees, in order that they might not become expelled from the synagogue; 43 for they loved the glory from men rather than the glory from God.
44 Now Jesus cried and said, He who believes in me, does not believe in me, but in the one who sent me. 45 And he who views me views the one who sent me. 46 I have come like a light into the world, in order that everyone who believes in me may not remain in the darkness. 47 And if anyone hears and does not believe my declarations, I do not judge him; for I did not come in order that I may judge the world, but in order that I may save the world. 48 He who is rejecting me and is not receiving my declarations, has that which judges him; the word that I spoke that will be judging him in the last day. 49 Because I did not speak from myself, but the Father who sent me, he gave me a commandment of what I should say and what I should speak. 50 And I know that his commandment is everlasting life, because the things which I speak, just-as the Father has said to me, so I speak to you.
13 1 Now before the feast of the Passover, Jesus knowing that his hour has come in order that he should proceed out of this world to his Father; having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end. 2 And it happened during supper, the devil had already put into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son, in order that he should give him up. 3 Jesus, knowing that the Father has given all the things into his hands and that he came forth from God and is going to God, 4 arose from supper and places aside his garments, and he took a towel and girded himself. 5 Thereafter he puts water into the washbasin and began to wash the disciples’feet and to wipe them with the towel in which he was girded.
6 Therefore, he comes to Simon Peter and that man says to him, Lord, why are you washing my feet?
7 Jesus answered and said to him, What I do you do not know now, but you will know after these things.
8 Peter says to him, Never wash my feet.
Jesus answered him, If I do not wash you, you have no part with me.
9 Simon Peter says to him, Lord, not only my feet, but also the hands and the head.
10 Jesus says to him, He who has been fully-washed does not need to wash himself, other than the feet, but is entirely clean and you are clean, but not all. 11 (For he knew the one who is giving him up.) Because of this, he said, You are not all clean.
12 Therefore, when he had washed their feet and had taken up his garments, having leaned-back again, he said to them, You know what I have done for you? 13 You address me as the Teacher and, Lord, and you say well; for so I am. 14 Therefore, if I, the Lord and the Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another’s feet. 15 For I gave you an example, in order that you should also do like I have done for you. 16 Assuredly, assuredly, I am saying to you, A bondservant is not greater than his lord; nor is an apostle greater than he who sent him. 17 If you know these things, you are fortunate if you practice them.
18 I do not speak concerning all of you. I know whom I have chosen, but in order that the Scripture might be fulfilled, ‘He who eats bread with me, lifted up his heel against me.’ 19 From now on I tell you before it is to happen, in order that, whenever it has happened, you may believe that I am he. \ulnone\nosupersub 20 Assuredly, assuredly, I am saying to you, He who receives anyone, whomever I send, receives me, and he who receives me receives the one who sent me.
21 Jesus having said these things, was disturbed in the spirit and testified and said, Assuredly, assuredly, I am saying to you, that one out of you will be giving me up.
22 Therefore the disciples were looking toward one another, being perplexed concerning whom he is speaking about. 23 But one of his disciples was reclining on Jesus’bosom, the one whom Jesus loved. 24 Therefore, Simon Peter signals to him to inquire, who it might be, concerning whom he is speaking about. 25 But that man who had leaned upon Jesus’chest says to him, Lord, who is it?
26 Jesus answers, It is that man to whom I have dipped the morsel, and I will be giving it to him. And having dipped the morsel, he takes it and gives it to Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son. 27 And after the morsel, then the Adversary entered into him. Therefore Jesus says to that man, What you are doing, do quickly. 28 (Now no one of those reclining at the table knew for what purpose he spoke this to him. 29 For some were thinking, since Judas had the box, that Jesus said to him, Buy what things we have need of for the feast; or, in order that he should give something to the poor.) 30 Therefore, having received the morsel, that man went out immediately and it was night.
31 Therefore, when he went out, Jesus says, Now the Son of Man was glorified and God was glorified in him; 32 If God was glorified in him, God will also be glorifying him in himself and immediately he will be glorifying him. 33 Little-children, I am still with you for a little while. You will be seeking me and just-as I said to the Jews, Where I am going, you are not able to come. Also now I am saying to you, 34 I am giving to you a new commandment, in order that you should love one another; just-as I have loved you, in order that you also should love one another. 35 All men will know that you are my disciples in this, if you have love among one another.
36 Simon Peter says to him, Lord, where are you going?
Jesus answered him, I am going where you are not able to follow now, but you will be following me later.
37 Peter says to him, Lord, why am I not able to follow you even now? I will lay down my life on your behalf.
38 Jesus answered him, Will you lay down your life on my behalf? Assuredly, assuredly, I am saying to you, The rooster may never crow, until you will be denying me three-times.
14 1 Do not let your heart be disturbed; you believe in God, believe also in me. 2 In my Father’s house are many abodes; otherwise, I would have told you. I am traveling on to prepare a place for you. 3 And if I travel on, I will be preparing a place for you. I am coming again and will be receiving you to myself; in order that where I am, you may also be there. 4 And I am going where you know and you know the way.
5 Thomas says to him, Lord, we do not know where you are going; how are we able to know the way?
6 Jesus says to him, I am the way and the truth and the life; no one is coming to the Father, except through me. 7 If you had known me, you would have also known my Father; from now on you know him and have seen him.
8 Philip says to him, Lord, show us the Father and it is enough for us.
9 Jesus says to him, So-much time I have been with you and you have not known me Philip? He who has seen me has seen the Father. And how can you say this? Show us the Father. 10 Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father in me? The words that I say to you, I do not speak from myself, but the Father who is abiding in me; he is doing the works. 11 Either believe me, that I am in the Father and the Father in me, otherwise believe me because of the works themselves. 12 Assuredly, assuredly, I am saying to you, He who believes in me, the works which I am doing, he will also be doing, and he will be doing greater works than these, because I am traveling on to my Father. 13 And if you ask anything in my name, I will do this, in order that the Father might be glorified in the Son. 14 If you ask anything in my name, I will do that. 15 If you love me, keep my commandments.
16 And I will be requesting of the Father and he will be giving you another Helper, in order that he may abide with you forever, 17 the Spirit of the truth, whom the world is not able to receive, because it does not view him, nor knows him, but you know him, because he is abiding with you and will be in you. 18 I will not be leaving you orphans. I am coming to you. 19 Still a little while and the world views me no more, but you view me, because I am living, you will also be living. 20 You will know in that day that I am in my Father and you in me and I in you. 21 He who holds my commandments and is keeping them, that one is he who loves me and he who loves me will be loved by my Father and I will love him and will be manifesting myself to him.
22 Judas (not Iscariot) says to him, Lord, what has happened that you are about to manifest yourself to us and not to the world?
23 Jesus answered and said to him, If anyone loves me, he will be keeping my word and my Father will love him, and we will be coming to him and we will be making our abode with him. 24 He who does not love me, is not keeping my words.
And the word which you hear is not mine, but the Father’s, he who sent me.
25 I have spoken these things to you, while remaining with you. 26 But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will be sending in my name, that one will be teaching you all things and will be reminding you of all things which I said to you. 27 I am leaving peace with you. I am giving my peace to you; not like the world gives, I am giving to you. Let your heart not be disturbed, nor let it be cowardly. 28 You heard that I said to you, I am traveling on and I am coming to you. If you loved me, you would have rejoiced, because I said, I am traveling on to the Father, because the Father is greater than I. 29 And now I have spoken this to you before it is to happen, in order that, whenever it should happen, you may believe. 30 I will not be speaking much anymore with you, for the ruler of the world is coming and he has nothing in me; 31 but in order that the world may know that I love the Father and just-as the Father commanded me, thus I am doing.
Arise, we should go from here.
15 1 I am the true vine and my Father is the farmer. 2 Every branch which is not bringing forth fruit in me, he takes it away and every branch which is bringing forth fruit, he prunes it, in order that it may bring forth more fruit. 3 Already you are clean because of the word which I have spoken to you. 4 Abide in me and I in you. Just-as the branch is not able to bring forth fruit from itself, if it does not abide in the vine; so neither can you if you do not abide in me. 5 I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in me and I in him, this one is bringing forth much fruit, because you are not able to do anything separate from me. 6 If anyone is not abiding in me, he was cast outside like a branch and was dried up, and they gather them and cast them into the fire and it is burned. 7 If you abide in me, and then my words should abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will happen for you. 8 My Father is glorified in this, in order that you may bring forth much fruit and will become my disciples.
9 Just-as the Father has loved me, I have also loved you. Abide in my love. 10 If you keep my commandments, you will be abiding in my love; just-as I have kept my Father’s commandments and am abiding in his love. 11 I have spoken to you these things, in order that my joy may abide in you and in order that your joy should be fulfilled. 12 This is my commandment, in order that you should love one another, just-as I have loved you. 13 No one has greater love than this: in order that someone should lay down his life on behalf of his friends. 14 You are my friends, if you practice as many things as I command you. 15 I call you bondservants no more, because the bondservant does not know what his lord is doing, but I have called you friends, because all the things which I heard from my Father, I have made known to you. 16 You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you, in order that you should go and should bring forth fruit and in order that your fruit should abide, that if you ask anything of the Father in my name, he should give it to you. 17 I command you to do these things, in order that you may love one another.
18 If the world hates you, you know that it has hated me first, then you. 19 If you were from the world, the world would love its own, but because you are not from the world, but I chose you out of the world, the world is hating you because of this. 20 Remember the word which I said to you, A bondservant is not greater than his lord. If they persecuted me, they will also be persecuting you; if they kept my word, they will also be keeping yours. 21 But they will be doing all these things to you because of my name, because they do not know the one who sent me. 22 If I had not come and spoken to them, they were having no sin, but now they have no excuse concerning their sin. 23 He who hates me also hates my Father. 24 If I had not done the works which no other has done among them, then they were having no sin, but now they have both seen and hated both me and my Father. 25 But this happened, in order that the word might be fulfilled that has been written in their law, ‘They hated me undeservedly.’
26 But whenever the Helper has come, whom I will be sending to you from the Father, who is the Spirit of the truth, who travels from the Father, that one will be testifying concerning me; 27 and you also will be testifying, because you have been with me from the beginning.
16 1 I have spoken to you these things, in order that you should not be offended. 2 They will be expelling you from the synagogues. But the hour is coming, that everyone who kills you may think that he is offering divine service to God. 3 And they will be doing these things to you, because they have not known the Father, nor me. 4 But I have spoken these things to you, that whenever the hour has come, you may remember them, that I spoke them to you. Now I did not say these things to you from the beginning, because I was with you. 5 But now I am going to the one who sent me, and none out of you asks me, Where are you going? 6 But because I have spoken these things to you, sorrow has filled your heart. 7 But I tell you the truth. It is advantageous for you that I should go away; for if I do not go away, the Helper will not be coming to you, but if I travel on, I will be sending him to you. 8 And when he has come, that one will be convicting the world concerning sin and concerning righteousness and concerning judgment. 9 Concerning sin, indeed, because they did not believe in me; 10 concerning righteousness, because I am going to my Father and you view me no more; 11 and concerning judgment, because the ruler of this world has been judged. 12 I still have many things to say to you, but you are not able to bear them now. 13 But whenever that one, the Spirit of the truth, comes, he will be guiding you into all the truth; for he will not be speaking from himself, but as many things as he may hear, these he will be speaking and he will be reporting to you the things which are to come. 14 He will be glorifying me, because he will receive from me and will be proclaiming it to you. 15 All things, as many things as the Father has are mine, because of this, I said, He is receiving from me and will be proclaiming it to you. 16 A little while and you do not view me, and again a little while and you will see me, because I am going to the Father.
17 Therefore, some out of his disciples said to one another, What is this thing which he says to us, A little while and you do not view me, and again a little while and you will see me. Also, Because I am going to the Father?
18 Therefore they were saying, What is this thing which he says, A little while? We do not know the meaning of what he says.
19 Therefore, Jesus knew that they were wishing to ask him, and he said to them, Are you debating with one another concerning this thing which I said, A little while and you do not view me, and again, A little while and you will see me?
20 Assuredly, assuredly, I am saying to you, that you will be weeping and will be mourning, but the world will rejoice. But you will be sorrowful, but your sorrow will happen leading you to joy. 21 A woman has sorrow whenever she gives-birth, because her hour has come, but whenever the child is born, she remembers the affliction no more, because of the joy that a child has been born into the world. 22 And therefore, you now indeed have sorrow, but I will see you again and your heart will be rejoicing and no one takes your joy away from you. 23 And in that day you will not be asking me anything. Assuredly, assuredly, I am saying to you, that as many things as you may ask the Father in my name, he will be giving them to you. 24 Until now you have asked nothing in my name. Ask and you will receive, in order that your joy may be fulfilled.
25 I have spoken these things to you in metaphors, but the hour is coming, when I will no more be speaking to you in metaphors, but will be proclaiming to you frankly concerning the Father. 26 In that day you will be asking in my name and I do not say to you that I will request of the Father concerning you; 27 for the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me and have believed that I came forth from God. 28 I came out from the Father and have come into the world; again, I am leaving the world and I am traveling on to the Father.
29 Then his disciples say to him, Behold, now you speak frankly and are not speaking in a metaphor. 30 Now we know that you know all things and do not have need that anyone should ask you. We believe that you came forth from God with this speech.
31 Jesus answered them, Do you believe now? 32 Behold, the hour is coming and has now come, in order that you might be scattered, each one to his own and you may leave me alone and yet I am not alone, because the Father is with me. 33 I have spoken to you these things, in order that you may have peace in me. You have affliction in the world, but have courage; I have overcome the world.