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1 But Jesus went to the Mount of Olives.
2 At daybreak he appeared again in the temple, and all the people came to him. So he sat down and began to teach them.
3 The scribes and Pharisees, however, brought to Him a woman caught in adultery. They made her stand before them
4 and said, “Teacher, this woman was caught in the act of adultery.
5 In our law, Moses commanded us to stone such women. Now, what do you say?"
6 They said this to test Him, in order to have a basis for accusing Him. But Jesus bent down and began to write on the ground with His finger.
7 When they persisted in questioning him, he straightened up and said to them, "Let the person among you who is without sin be the first to throw a stone at her."
8 And again he stooped down and wrote on the ground.
9 When they heard this, they began to go away one by one, beginning with the older ones, until only Jesus was left, with the woman standing there.
10 Jesus straightened up and said to her, "Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?"
11 “No one, Lord,” she answered. “Then neither do I condemn you,” Jesus declared. “Now go and sin no more.”
12 Once again, Jesus spoke to the people and said, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows Me will never walk in the darkness, but will have the light of life.”
13 The Pharisees said to him, "You are testifying about yourself. Your testimony is not valid."
14 Jesus answered them, "Even if I testify about myself, my testimony is true, for I know where I came from, and where I am going; but you do not know where I came from, or where I am going.
15 You judge by the outside. I judge no one;
16 Even if I am judging, my decision is right, because I am not by myself--with me is the Father who sent me.
17 Even in your own Law it is written that the testimony of two men is valid.
18 I am one who testifies about myself, and the Father who sent me testifies about me."
19 Then they asked him, Where is your Father? Jesus answered, You know neither me nor my Father: if you knew me, you would know my Father also.
20 He spoke these words while teaching in the temple courts, near the treasury. Yet no one seized Him, because His hour had not yet come.
21 Again He said to them, “I am going away, and you will look for Me, but you will die in your sin. Where I am going, you cannot come.”
22 So the Jews said, "Will he kill himself? Is that why he says, 'Where I go, you cannot come'?"
23 Then He told them, “You are from below; I am from above. You are of this world; I am not of this world.
24 I told you that you will die in your sins; for unless you believe that I am he, you will die in your sins.
25 “Who are You?” they asked. “Just what I have been telling you from the beginning,” Jesus replied.
26 “I have much to say about you and much to judge. But the One who sent Me is truthful, and what I have heard from Him, I tell the world.”
27 They did not understand that He was telling them about the Father.
28 So Jesus said, “When you have lifted up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am He, and that I do nothing on My own, but speak exactly what the Father has taught Me.
29 Moreover, he who sent me is with me; he has not left me alone; for I always do what pleases him."
30 While he spoke thus, many believed on him.
31 So Jesus said to those Jews who had believed in him, "If you continue in my word, you are really my disciples.
32 Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”
33 They answered him, "We are Abraham's descendants, and have never been in bondage to anyone. How can you say, 'You will be made free?'"
34 Jesus replied, “Truly, truly, I tell you, everyone who sins is a slave to sin.
35 A slave is not a permanent member of the family, but a son belongs to it forever.
36 So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed.
37 I know you are Abraham’s descendants, but you are trying to kill Me because My word has no place within you.
38 I am telling you what I have seen in my Father's presence, and you are practicing what you have learned from your father."
39 "Abraham is our father," they answered. "If you are indeed Abraham's children," said Jesus "do the deeds of Abraham.
40 But now you are trying to kill Me, a man who has told you the truth that I heard from God. Abraham never did such a thing.
41 You are doing the works of your father.” “We are not illegitimate children,” they declared. “Our only Father is God Himself.”
42 Jesus said to them, "If God were your father you would love me; for I came forth from God and am now here. For I have not come of myself, but he sent me.
43 Why do you not understand what I say? Because you are unable to hear My word.
44 You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out his desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, refusing to uphold the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his native language, because he is a liar and the father of lies.
45 But because I tell the truth, you do not believe me.
46 Can any of you prove me guilty of sin? If I am telling the truth, why don't you believe me?
47 Whoever belongs to God hears the words of God. The reason you do not hear is that you do not belong to God.”
48 The Jews answered, "Are we not right in saying that you are a Samaritan and are possessed?"
49 "I am not possessed by a demon," replied Jesus. "On the contrary I honour my Father, and you dishonour me.
50 I do not seek my own glory: but there is one who seeks it, and he is the judge.
51 Truly, truly, I say to you, if anyone keeps my word he will never see death."
52 Then the Jews said to him, "Now we really know that you have a demon. Abraham died, and so did the prophets, but you say, 'If anyone keeps my word, he will never taste death.'
53 Are you greater than our father Abraham? He died, and so did the prophets. Who do you claim to be?"
54 Jesus answered: "If I glorify myself, my glory is nothing. My Father glorifies me. He is the one whom you say is your God.
55 But you have not known him; I know him. If I said, I do not know him, I would be a liar like you; but I do know him and keep his word.
56 Your father Abraham rejoiced that he could see my day, and he saw it, and was glad.
57 "You are not yet fifty years old," said the Jews to him, "and you have seen Abraham?"
58 “Truly, truly, I tell you,” Jesus declared, “before Abraham was born, I am!”
59 At this, they picked up stones to throw at Him. But Jesus hid Himself and slipped away from the temple area.
9 1 And, passing along, he saw a man, blind from birth.
2 His disciples asked him, "Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?"
3 Jesus answered, “Neither this man nor his parents sinned, but this happened so that the works of God would be displayed in him.
4 While it is daytime, we must do the works of Him who sent Me. Night is coming, when no one can work.
5 While I am in the world, I am the light of the world."
6 On saying this He spit on the ground and made clay with the saliva, and put it on the man's eyes,
7 Then He told him, “Go, wash in the pool of Siloam” (which means Sent). So the man went and washed, and came back seeing.
8 Then his neighbors and people who had formerly seen him begging, said, "Is not this the man who used to sit and beg?"
9 Some claimed that he was, but others said, “No, he just looks like him.” But the man kept saying, “I am the one.”
10 "How then were your eyes opened?" they asked.
11 He answered, “The man they call Jesus made some mud and anointed my eyes, and He told me to go to Siloam and wash. So I went and washed and received my sight.”
12 "Where is he?" they asked. I do not know," he answered.
13 They brought to the Pharisees the man who had been blind.
14 Now the day on which Jesus had made the mud and opened his eyes was a Sabbath.
15 Then again the Pharisees also asked him how he had received his sight. He said to them, He put clay on my eyes, and I washed, and do see.
16 Some of the Pharisees said, "This man is not from God, for he does not keep the Sabbath." But others said, "How can a man who is a sinner do such signs?" And there was a division among them.
17 Again they said to the blind man, What have you to say about him for opening your eyes? And he said, He is a prophet.
18 The Jews still did not believe that the man had been blind and had received his sight until they summoned his parents
19 "Is this your son," they asked, "who you say was born blind? If so, how is it that he can see now?"
20 "We know that this is our son," answered the parents, "and that he was born blind;
21 But how he can now see or who opened his eyes, we do not know. Ask him. He is old enough to speak for himself.”
22 His parents said this because they were afraid of the Jews, since the Jews had already agreed that anyone who acknowledged that Jesus was the Messiah would be thrown out of the synagogue.
23 This is why his parents said, "He is of age, ask him."
24 So a second time they called the man who had been blind, and said to him, "Give God the praise; we know this man is a sinner."
25 He answered, "Whether he is a sinner or not, I do not know. One thing I know, that though I was blind, now I see."
26 Then they asked him, "What did he do to you? How did he heal your eyes?"
27 He answered them, "I have told you already and you did not listen. Why do you want to hear it again? Do you want to become his disciples, too?"
28 Then they heaped insults on him and said, “You are His disciple; we are disciples of Moses.
29 We know that God spoke to Moses; but as for this fellow we do not know where he comes from."
30 The man answered, "Why, this is a marvel! You do not know where he comes from, and yet he opened my eyes.
31 We know that God does not listen to sinners, but He does listen to the one who worships Him and does His will.
32 Never before has anyone heard of opening the eyes of a man born blind.
33 If this man were not from God, he could do nothing."
34 They replied, “You were born in utter sin, and you are instructing us?” And they threw him out.
35 Jesus heard that they had thrown him out. So when he found him, he said, "Do you believe in the Son of Man?"
36 “Who is He, Sir?” he replied. “Tell me so that I may believe in Him.”
37 Jesus said to him, “You have both seen Him, and He is the One speaking with you.”
38 Then he said, "Lord, I believe!" And he worshiped him.
39 Then Jesus declared, “For judgment I have come into this world, so that the blind may see and those who see may become blind.”
40 Some of the Pharisees who were with Him heard this, and they asked Him, “Are we blind too?”
41 “If you were blind,” Jesus replied, “you would not be guilty of sin. But since you claim you can see, your guilt remains.”
10 1 "Truly, truly, I say to you, the man who does not enter the sheepfold by the door, but climbs in by some other way, he is a thief and a robber.
2 he who enters by the gate is the shepherd of the sheep.
3 The gatekeeper opens the gate for him, and the sheep listen to his voice. He calls his own sheep by name, and leads them out.
4 When he has brought out all his own, he goes on ahead of them, and his sheep follow him because they know his voice.
5 But they will never follow a stranger; in fact, they will flee from him because they do not recognize his voice.”
6 Jesus spoke this parable to them, but they did not understand what he was telling them.
7 So Jesus said again, "I tell you, I am the door of the sheepfold.
8 All who ever came before me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not listen to them.
9 I am the gate. If anyone enters through Me, he will be saved. He will come in and go out and find pasture.
10 The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it abundantly.
11 I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.
12 The hired hand is not the shepherd, and the sheep are not his own. When he sees the wolf coming, he abandons the sheep and runs away. Then the wolf pounces on them and scatters the flock.
13 The man runs away because he is a hired servant and is unconcerned for the sheep.
14 I am the good shepherd, I know my sheep and my sheep know me
15 (just as the Father knows me and I know the Father,) and I lay down my life for the sheep.
16 I also have other sheep, that are not of this fold; I must bring them also, and they will listen to my voice; and there will be one flock, one shepherd.
17 The reason the Father loves Me is that I lay down My life in order to take it up again.
18 No one takes it from Me, but I lay it down of My own accord. I have authority to lay it down and authority to take it up again. This charge I have received from My Father.”
19 The Jews were again divided over these words.
20 Many of them said, "He is possessed and mad! Why do you listen to him?"
21 Others said, These are not the sayings of a man possessed with a demon. Can a demon open the eyes of the blind?
22 Then came the Feast of Dedication at Jerusalem. It was winter,
23 and Jesus was in the temple, walking in Solomon's Porch.
24 So the Jews gathered round him and said to him, "How long will you keep us in suspense? If you are the Christ, tell us plainly."
25 Jesus answered them: I told you and you do not believe. The works that I do in my Father's name, these testify of me.
26 But you do not believe, because you are not my sheep.
27 My sheep listen to my voice; I know them, and they follow me;
28 I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; no one shall snatch them out of my hand.
29 My Father who has given them to Me is greater than all. No one can snatch them out of My Father’s hand.
30 I and the Father are one."
31 Again the Jews took up stones to stone him.
32 Jesus answered them, "I have shown you many good works from the Father. For which of these do you stone me?"
33 “We are not stoning You for any good work,” said the Jews, “but for blasphemy, because You, who are a man, declare Yourself to be God.”
34 Jesus answered them, "Is it not written in your law, 'I have say ye are gods?'
35 If he called them gods, to whom the word of God came (and the Scripture cannot be broken),
36 then what about the One whom the Father sanctified and sent into the world? How then can you accuse Me of blasphemy for stating that I am the Son of God?
37 If I do not the works of my Father, trust me not:
38 But if I do them, though you do not believe me, believe the works; that you may know and understand that the Father is in me, and I in the Father."
39 Again they tried to seize him, but he escaped from their hands
40 Then Jesus went back across the Jordan to the place where John had first been baptizing, and He stayed there.
41 Many people came to him and kept saying, "John never performed a sign, but everything that John said about this man is true!"
42 And many in that place believed in Jesus.
11 1 Now a man named Lazarus was ill. He was from Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha—
2 The Mary whose brother Lazarus was ill, was the Mary who put perfumed oil on the Lord and made his feet dry with her hair.
3 So the sisters sent word to Jesus, “Lord, the one You love is sick.”
4 When Jesus heard this, He said, “This sickness will not end in death. No, it is for the glory of God, so that the Son of God may be glorified through it.”
5 Jesus loved Martha and her sister, and Lazarus.
6 Yet, when he heard that Lazarus was ill, he stayed where he was for two more days.
7 and then He said to the disciples, “Let us go back to Judea.”
8 “Rabbi,” they replied, “the Jews just tried to stone You, and You are going back there?”
9 Jesus answered, “Are there not twelve hours of daylight? If anyone walks in the daytime, he will not stumble, because he sees by the light of this world.
10 But if anyone walks at night, he will stumble, because he has no light.”
11 After He had said this, He told them, “Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep, but I am going there to wake him up.”
12 His disciples replied, “Lord, if he is sleeping, he will get better.”
13 Jesus, however, had been speaking of his death; but as they imagined he meant natural sleep,
14 So then Jesus told them plainly, "Lazarus is dead;
15 and for your sake I am glad I was not there, so that you may believe. But let us go to him.”
16 Then Thomas called Didymus said to his fellow disciples, “Let us also go, so that we may die with Him.”
17 When Jesus arrived, he found that Lazarus had already been in the tomb for four days.
18 Bethany being only about two miles from Jerusalem,
19 and many of the Jews had come to Martha and Mary to console them in the loss of their brother.
20 When Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went out to meet Him, but Mary stayed at home.
21 "Master," Martha said to Jesus, "if you had been here, my brother would not have died.
22 And I know that even now God will give you whatever you ask Him for.”
23 Jesus said to her, "Your brother will rise again."
24 Martha exclaimed: "I know he will rise again in the resurrection at the last day."
25 Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in Me will live, even though he dies.
26 And whoever lives and believes in me will never die. Do you believe this?"
27 “Yes, Lord,” she answered, “I believe that You are the Christ, the Son of God, who was to come into the world.”
28 After Martha had said this, she went back and called her sister Mary aside to tell her, “The Teacher is here and is asking for you.”
29 And when Mary heard this, she got up quickly and went to Him.
30 Now Jesus had not yet entered the village, but was still at the place where Martha had met Him.
31 When the Jews who were in the house consoling Mary saw how quickly she got up and went out, they followed her, supposing she was going to the tomb to mourn there.
32 When Mary came where Jesus was and saw him, she fell at his feet, and said, "Master, if you had been here, my brother would not have died!"
33 When Jesus saw her weeping, and the Jews who had come with her also weeping, He was deeply moved in spirit and troubled.
34 “Where have you laid him?” He asked. “Come and see, Lord,” they answered.
35 Jesus wept.
36 Then the Jews said, "See how he loved him!"
37 But some of them said, "Could not he who opened the eyes of the blind man have kept this man from dying?"
38 Jesus, once again deeply moved, came to the tomb. It was a cave with a stone laid across the entrance.
39 Jesus said, "Take away the stone." Martha, the sister of the dead man, said to him, "Lord, by this time there is a bad odor, for he has been dead four days."
40 Jesus replied, “Did I not tell you that if you believed, you would see the glory of God?”
41 So they took away the stone. And Jesus lifted up his eyes and said, "Father, I thank you that you have heard me.
42 I knew that you always hear me, but I said this for the benefit of the people standing by, that they may believe that you sent me."
43 When he had said this, he cried with a loud voice, "Lazarus, come out!"
44 The dead man came out, his hands and feet bound with grave clothes, and his face wrapped with a cloth. Jesus said to them, "Unbind him, and let him go."
45 Therefore many of the Jews who had come to Mary, and had seen what Jesus did, believed in Him.
46 But some of them went to the Pharisees and told them what Jesus had done.
47 whereupon the high priests and the Pharisees called a meeting of the Sanhedrin. "Whatever is to be done?" they said. "The fellow is performing a number of Signs.
48 If we let Him go on like this, everyone will believe in Him, and then the Romans will come and take away both our place and our nation.”
49 But one of them, named Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, said to them, “You know nothing at all!
50 You do not realize that it is better for you that one man die for the people than that the whole nation perish.”
51 He did not say this on his own, but being high priest that year he prophesied that Jesus would die for the nation,
52 and not only for the nation, but also for the scattered children of God, to gather them together into one.
53 So from that day on they plotted to kill Him.
54 Therefore Jesus no longer walked openly among the Jews; but went away from there to a region near the wilderness, into a city called Ephraim, and there he stayed with his disciples.
55 It was the Jewish Passover. Many went out of the country to Jerusalem to purify themselves before the Passover.
56 So they were looking for Jesus, and as they stood in the temple they were saying to each other, “What do you think—that he won’t come to the feast at all?”
57 Now the chief priests and the Pharisees had given orders that if anyone knew where he was, he should report it, so that they might arrest him.
12 1 Six days before the Passover, Jesus arrived in Bethany, where Lazarus lived, the man whom Jesus had raised from the dead.
2 So they hosted a dinner for Jesus there. Martha served, and Lazarus was among those reclining at the table with Him.
3 Then Mary took a pound of pure spikenard, very costly, and poured it over his feet, and wiped his feet with her hair, and the house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume.
4 But one of his disciples, Judas Iscariot, who was later to betray him, said,
5 "Why wasn't this perfume sold for 300 denarii and the money given to the destitute?"
6 Judas did not say this because he cared about the poor, but because he was a thief. As keeper of the money bag, he used to take from what was put into it.
7 “Leave her alone,” Jesus replied. “She was intended to keep this perfume to prepare for the day of My burial.
8 for you always have the poor among you, but you will not always have me."
9 Meanwhile a large crowd of Jews learned that Jesus was there. And they came not only because of Him, but also to see Lazarus, whom He had raised from the dead.
10 So the chief priests made plans to kill Lazarus as well,
11 for on account of him many of the Jews were leaving them and believing in Jesus.
12 The next day the great crowd that had come to the feast heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem.
13 They took palm branches and went out to meet Him, shouting: “Hosanna!” “Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord!” “Blessed is the King of Israel!”
14 Jesus found a young donkey and sat upon it, as it is written,
15 "Do not be afraid, Daughter of Zion! See, your king is coming mounted on an ass's colt!"
16 His disciples did not understand this at first; but when Jesus was glorified, then they remembered that these things had been written about him and that they had done these things to him.
17 So the crowd that had been with Him when He called Lazarus out of the tomb and raised him from the dead continued to testify.
18 It was the rumor that he had wrought this miracle, which made the people crowd to meet him.
19 Then the Pharisees said to one another, “You can see that this is doing you no good. Look how the whole world has gone after Him!”
20 Now there were some Greeks among those who went up to worship at the Feast.
21 these came to Philip of Bethsaida in Galilee, with a request. "Sir," they said, "we want to see Jesus."
22 Philip went and told Andrew; Andrew and Philip went and told Jesus.
23 But Jesus replied, “The hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified.
24 Truly, truly, I tell you, unless a kernel of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains only a seed; but if it dies, it bears much fruit.
25 He who loves his life will lose it, and he who hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life.
26 If anyone serves Me, he must follow Me; and where I am, My servant will be as well. If anyone serves Me, the Father will honor him.
27 "Now is my soul troubled, and what shall I say? 'Father, save me from this hour'? No, for this purpose I came to this hour.
28 Father, glorify your name." Then a voice came from heaven, "I have glorified it, and I will glorify it again."
29 The crowd that stood by and heard it said that it had thundered. Others said an angel had spoken to him.
30 Jesus replied, "This voice is for your benefit, not for mine.
31 Now is the judgment of this world; now the prince of this world will be cast out.
32 But I, when I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all men to myself."
33 He said this to show the kind of death he was going to die.
34 The crowd replied, “We have heard from the Law that the Christ will remain forever. So how can you say that the Son of Man must be lifted up? Who is this Son of Man?”
35 Then Jesus said to them, "A little while longer the light is with you. Walk while you have the light, lest the darkness overtake you; he who walks in the darkness does not know where he is going.
36 While you have the light, believe in the light, that you may become sons of light." When Jesus had said this, he departed and hid himself from them.
37 Although Jesus had performed so many signs in their presence, they still did not believe in Him.
38 This was to fulfill the word of Isaiah the prophet: “Lord, who has believed our message? And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?”
39 For this reason they could not believe, because Isaiah said again:
40 “He has blinded their eyes and hardened their hearts, so that they cannot see with their eyes, and understand with their hearts, and turn, and I would heal them.”
41 (Isaiah said this because he saw his glory and spoke of him.)
42 Nevertheless, many of the leaders believed in Him; but because of the Pharisees they did not confess Him, for fear that they would be put out of the synagogue.
43 For they loved praise from men more than praise from God.
44 Then Jesus cried out, “Whoever believes in Me does not believe in Me alone, but in the One who sent Me.
45 The one who sees me sees the one who sent me.
46 I have come into the world as a light, so that no one who believes in Me should remain in darkness.
47 As for anyone who hears My words and does not keep them, I do not judge him. For I have not come to judge the world, but to save the world.
48 There is a judge for the one who rejects Me and does not receive My words: The word that I have spoken will judge him on the last day.
49 For I did not speak of myself; but the Father who sent me, he commanded me what to say and what to speak.
50 And I know that His command leads to eternal life. So I speak exactly what the Father has told Me to say.”
13 1 It was now just before the Passover Feast, and Jesus knew that His hour had come to leave this world and return to the Father. Having loved His own who were in the world, He loved them to the very end.
2 The evening meal was underway, and the devil had already put into the heart of Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot, to betray Jesus.
3 Jesus knew that the Father had delivered all things into His hands, and that He had come from God and was returning to God.
4 rose from the table, took off his outer clothing, and fastened a towel about his waist.
5 After that, He poured water into a basin and began to wash the disciples’ feet and dry them with the towel that was around Him.
6 Then he came to Simon Peter, who said to him, "Lord, are you going to wash my feet?"
7 Jesus replied, “You do not realize now what I am doing, but later you will understand.”
8 Peter said to Him, You shall never wash my feet. Jesus answered him, Unless I wash you, you have no part with Me.
9 “Then, Lord,” Simon Peter replied, “not only my feet, but my hands and my head as well!”
10 Jesus said to him, "He who has bathed needs only to wash his feet, but is completely clean; and you are clean, but not every one of you."
11 For he knew who was going to betray him, and that was why he said 'You are not all clean.'
12 When he had washed their feet, he put on his robes and sat down; and he said to them, Do you know what I have done to you?
13 You call me Teacher and Lord, and you are right: that is what I am.
14 So if I, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also should wash one another’s feet.
15 I have set you an example so that you should do as I have done for you.
16 Truly, truly, I tell you, no servant is greater than his master, nor is a messenger greater than the one who sent him.
17 If you know these things, you will be blessed if you do them.
18 I am not speaking about all of you; I know whom I have chosen. But this is to fulfill the Scripture: ‘The one who eats bread with Me has lifted up his heel against Me.’
19 I am telling you now before it happens, so that when it does happen you will believe that I am.
20 Truly, truly, I tell you, whoever receives the one I send receives Me, and whoever receives Me receives the One who sent Me.”
21 When Jesus had said this, he was troubled in spirit, and testified, "Truly, truly, I tell you that one of you will betray me."
22 The disciples looked at each other, at a loss to know which of them he meant.
23 One of his disciples, whom Jesus loved, was reclining against Jesus' chest.
24 Simon Peter motioned to him and said, "Ask who it is of whom he speaks."
25 Leaning back against Jesus, he asked, “Lord, who is it?”
26 Jesus answered, "It is he to whom I shall give this piece of bread when I have dipped it." And having dipped the bread, he gave it to Judas Iscariot, the son of Simon.
27 And when Judas took the bread Satan went into him. Then Jesus said to him, Do quickly what you have to do.
28 Now no one at the table understood why he said this to him,
29 Since Judas kept the money bag, some thought that Jesus was telling him to buy what was needed for the feast, or to give something to the poor.
30 When Judas had taken the morsel, he immediately went out: and it was night.
31 When he was gone, Jesus said: Now is the Son of Man glorified, and God is glorified in him.
32 If God is glorified in Him, God will also glorify the Son in Himself—and will glorify Him at once.
33 Little children, I am with you only a little longer. You will look for me, but what I told the Jews I now tell you, 'Where I am going, you cannot come.'
34 A new commandment I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so also you must love one another.
35 By this all men will know that you are My disciples, if you love one another.”
36 Simon Peter said to him, "Lord, where are you going?" Jesus replied, "Where I am going you cannot follow me now, but you will follow later."
37 Peter said: "Lord, why can I not follow you now? I will lay down my life for you."
38 Jesus answered, "You will lay down your life for me? I tell you, before a cock crows, you will disown me thrice over!
14 1 Let not your hearts be troubled. Trust in God: trust also in me.
2 In My Father’s house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I am going there to prepare a place for you?
3 And when I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me, so that you may be where I am.
4 You know the way to the place where I am going.”
5 Thomas said to him, Lord, we do not know where you are going; so how can we know the way?
6 Jesus answered, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.
7 If you had known Me, you would know My Father as well. From now on you do know Him and have seen Him.”
8 Philip said to him, "Lord, show us the Father, and that will be enough for us."
9 Jesus said to him, "Am I with you so long a time and you have not known me, Philip? The one who has seen me has seen the Father! How can you say, 'Show us the Father?'
10 Don’t you believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me? The words that I speak to you I do not speak on my own; rather it is the Father who dwells in me who does the works.
11 Believe Me that I am in the Father and the Father is in Me—or at least believe on account of the works themselves.
12 "Truly, I tell all of you with certainty, the one who believes in me will also do what I am doing. He will do even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father.
13 And I will do whatever you ask in My name, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son.
14 If you ask me for anything in my name, I will do it."
15 If you love me you will keep my commands,
16 And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Counselor, to be with you forever
17 the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive; because it neither sees him nor knows him; but you know him, for he lives with you, and will be in you.
18 I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you.
19 And the world will not see me, but you will see me; because I live, you also shall live.
20 On that day you will know that I am in my Father, and you are in me, and I am in you.
21 He who has my commands and keeps them — he is the one that loves me. He who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and will show myself to him."
22 Judas (not Iscariot) said to him, why Lord, will you show your self to us, and not to the world?
23 Jesus replied. "If any loves me he will obey my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him.
24 "He who does not love me does not obey my words. The word you hear is not mine, but comes from the Father who sent me.
25 "All this I have spoken to you while still with you.
26 But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things, and will remind you of all that I said to you.
27 Peace I leave with you; My peace I give to you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled; do not be afraid.
28 You have heard me say that I am going away and am coming back to you; if you loved me you would be glad that I am going to the Father, for the Father is greater than I.
29 I have told you now, before it happens, so that when it does happen you may believe.
30 I will not speak with you much longer, for the ruler of this world is coming, and he has no hold on me.
31 but that the world may know that I love the Father, and that I do as the Father hath commanded me. Arise, let us go hence.
15 1 "I am the true vine, and my Father is the gardener.
2 He cuts off every branch in Me that bears no fruit, and every branch that does bear fruit, He prunes to make it even more fruitful.
3 You are already clean because of the word I have spoken to you.
4 Remain in Me, and I will remain in you. Just as no branch can bear fruit by itself unless it remains in the vine, neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in Me.
5 I am the vine, you are the branches. He that abides in me and I in him, he will bear much fruit; for apart from me you can do nothing.
6 If anyone does not remain in Me, he is like a branch that is thrown away and withers. Such branches are gathered up, thrown into the fire, and burned.
7 If you remain in Me and My words remain in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you.
8 This is to My Father’s glory, that you bear much fruit, proving yourselves to be My disciples.
9 As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you; remain in my love.
10 "If you obey my commands you will abide in my love, just as I have obeyed my Father's commands and abide in his love.
11 I have told you this so that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be complete.
12 This is my command, that ye love one another, as I have loved you.
13 Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends.
14 You are my friends, if you do what I command you.
15 I no longer call you servants, because the servant knows not what his master does. But I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard from my Father, I have made known to you.
16 It was not you who chose me, but I who chose you, and I appointed you to go and bear fruit--fruit that should remain, so that the Father might grant you whatever you ask in my Name.
17 This is My command to you: Love one another.
18 If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me first,
19 If you belonged to the world, the world would love its own. Because you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world--that is why the world hates you.
20 "Remember the word I said to you. A servant is not greater than his master. If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they obeyed my word, they will obey yours also.
21 But they will treat you like this on account of My name, because they do not know the One who sent Me.
22 If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not be guilty of sin. Now, however, they have no excuse for their sin.
23 He who hates me, hates my Father also.
24 If I had not done among them the works that no one else did, they would not be guilty of sin; but now they have seen and hated both Me and My Father.
25 But this is to fulfill what is written in their Law: ‘They hated Me without reason.’
26 When the Advocate comes, whom I will send to you from the Father—the Spirit of truth who goes out from the Father—He will testify about Me.
27 And you also must testify, because you have been with Me from the beginning.
16 1 "I have said all this to you so that you will not go astray.
2 They will put you out of the synagogues. In fact, a time is coming when anyone who kills you will think he is offering a service to God.
3 They will do these things because they have not known the Father or me.
4 But I have told you this so that when the time comes you will remember that I told you about them. I did not tell you this in the beginning, because I was still with you."
5 But now I am going to him who sent me, yet none of you asks me, 'Where are you going?'
6 But because I have said these things to you, grief has filled your heart.
7 But I tell you the truth, it is for your benefit that I am going away. Unless I go away, the Advocate will not come to you; but if I go, I will send Him to you.
8 And when He comes, He will convict the world in regard to sin and righteousness and judgment:
9 in regard to sin, because they do not believe in Me;
10 in regard to righteousness, because I am going to the Father and you will no longer see Me;
11 and in regard to judgment, because the prince of this world has been condemned.
12 I have still much to say to you, but you cannot bear it now.
13 However, when the Spirit of truth comes, He will guide you into all truth. For He will not speak on His own, but He will speak what He hears, and He will declare to you what is to come.
14 He will glorify Me by taking from what is Mine and disclosing it to you.
15 Everything that belongs to the Father is Mine. That is why I said that the Spirit will take from what is Mine and disclose it to you.
16 In a little while you will see Me no more, and then after a little while you will see Me.”
17 So some of his disciples said to one another, "What does he mean by telling us, 'In a little while, you will behold me no longer; then, after a little, you shall see me'? and, 'I go to the Father'?"
18 They kept asking, “Why is He saying, ‘a little while’? We do not understand what He is saying.”
19 Jesus knew that they wanted to ask him a question, so he said to them, "Are you discussing among yourselves what I meant when I said, 'In a little while you will no longer see me, then in a little while you will see me again'?
20 Truly, truly, I tell you, you will weep and wail while the world rejoices. You will grieve, but your grief will turn to joy.
21 A woman has pain in childbirth because her time has come; but when she brings forth her child, she forgets her anguish because of her joy that a child has been born into the world.
22 So also you have sorrow now, but I will see you again and your hearts will rejoice, and no one will take away your joy.
23 In that day you will no longer ask Me anything. Truly, truly, I tell you, whatever you ask the Father in My name, He will give you.
24 Until now you have not asked for anything in My name. Ask and you will receive, so that your joy may be complete.
25 "I have said these things to you in figurative language. The time is coming when I will no longer speak to you in figurative language, but will tell you plainly about the Father.
26 In that day you will ask in My name. I am not saying that I will ask the Father on your behalf.
27 for the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me, and have believed that I came from God.
28 I did come from the Father and enter the world. Now I am leaving the world again and going back to the Father."
29 His disciples said, “See, now You are speaking plainly and without figures of speech.
30 Now we know that you know everything and do not need to have anyone ask you questions. This makes us believe that you have really come from God."
31 "Do you believe that already?" Jesus answered.
32 Behold, an hour is coming and has come, when you will be scattered, each to the own, and I, you shall leave alone; yet I am not alone, for the Father is with Me.
33 I have told you these things so that in Me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take courage; I have overcome the world!”