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1 Now a man was sick; it was Lazarus who lived in Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha.
2 It was the Mary who poured the perfume upon the Lord and wiped His feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick.
3 So the sisters sent this message to Jesus, "Lord, listen! the one you love so well is sick."
4 When Jesus received the message, He said, "This sickness is not to end in death but is to honor God, that the Son of God through it may be honored."
5 Now Jesus held in loving esteem Martha and her sister and Lazarus.
6 But when He heard that Lazarus was sick, He stayed over for two days in the place where He was.
7 After that He said to His disciples, "Let us go back to Judea."
8 The disciples said to Him, "Teacher, the Jews just now were trying to stone you, and are you going back there again?"
9 Jesus answered, "Does not the day have twelve hours? If a man travels in the daytime, he does not stumble, for he can see the light of this world;
10 but if he travels in the nighttime, he does stumble, because he has no light."
11 He said this, and after that He added, "Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep, but I am going there to wake him."
12 The disciples said to Him, "Lord, if he has merely fallen asleep, he will recover."
13 But Jesus had spoken about his death. However, they supposed that He was referring to falling into a natural sleep.
14 So Jesus then told them plainly: "Lazarus is dead,
15 and I am glad for your sake that I was not there so that you may come to have real faith in me. But let us go to him."
16 Then Thomas the Twin said to his fellow-disciples, "Let us go too, and die with Him."
17 When Jesus reached there, He found that Lazarus had been buried for four days.
18 Now Bethany is only about two miles from Jerusalem,
19 and a goodly number of Jews had come out to see Martha and Mary, to sympathize with them over their brother.
20 When Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went out to meet Him, but Mary stayed at home.
21 Then Martha said to Jesus, "Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.
22 But even now I know that whatever you ask God for He will give you."
23 Jesus said to her, "Your brother will rise again."
24 Martha said to Him, "I know that he will rise at the resurrection, on the last day."
25 Jesus said to her, "I am the resurrection and the life myself. Whoever continues to believe in me will live right on even though he dies,
26 and no person who continues to live and believe in me will ever die at all. Do you believe this?"
27 She said to Him, "Yes, Lord, I believe that you are the Christ, the Son of God, who was to come into the world."
28 On saying this she went back and called her sister Mary, whispering to her, "The Teacher is here and is asking for you."
29 As soon as she heard it, she jumped up and started to Jesus,
30 for He had not yet come into the village, but He was still at the place where Martha had met Him.
31 So the Jews who were with her in the house sympathizing with her, when they saw Mary jump up and go out, followed her, because they supposed that she was going to the grave to pour out her grief there.
32 When Mary came where Jesus was and saw Him, she threw herself at His feet, and said, "Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died."
33 So when Jesus saw her weeping and the Jews who had come with her weeping too, He sighed in sympathy and shook with emotion,
34 and asked, "Where have you laid him?" They answered, "Lord, come and see."
35 Jesus burst into tears.
36 So the Jews said, "See how tenderly He loved him!"
37 But some of them said, "Could not this man, who made that blind man see, have kept Lazarus from dying?"
38 Now Jesus sighed again and continued to sigh as He went to the grave. It was a cave with a stone lying over the mouth of it.
39 Jesus said, "Slip the stone aside." The dead man's sister, Martha, said to Him, "Lord, by this time he is offensive, for he has been dead four days."
40 Jesus said to her, "Did I not promise you that if you would believe in me, you should see the glory of God?"
41 So they slipped the stone aside. And Jesus looked up and said, "Father, I thank you for listening to me;
42 yes, I knew that you always listen to me. But I have said this for the sake of the crowd that is standing by, that they may come to believe that you have sent me."
43 On saying this, He shouted aloud, "Lazarus, come out!"
44 Then out came the dead man, his feet and hands tied with wrappings, and his face tied up with a handkerchief. Jesus said to them, "Untie him and let him go."
45 Thus many of the Jews, who came to see Mary and who saw what Jesus had done, believed in Him;
46 but some of them went back to the Pharisees and told them what He had done.
47 So the high priests and the Pharisees called a meeting of the council, and began to say, "What are we to do? For this man is certainly performing many wonder-works.
48 If we let Him go on this way, everybody will believe in Him, and the Romans will come and blot out both our city and nation."
49 But one of them, Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, said to them, "You know nothing about this;
50 you do not take into account that it is for your own welfare that one man should die for the people, and not that the whole nation should be destroyed."
51 Now he did not say this on his own authority, but because he was high priest that year he uttered this prophecy from God, that Jesus was to die for the nation,
52 and not only for the nation, but also to unite the scattered children of God.
53 So from that day they plotted to kill Jesus.
54 It was for this reason that Jesus no more appeared in public among the Jews, but He left that part of the country and went to the district near the desert, to a town called Ephraim, and stayed there with His disciples.
55 Now the Jewish Passover was approaching, and many people from the country went up to Jerusalem, to purify themselves before the Passover.
56 So they kept looking for Jesus and saying to one another, as they stood in the temple, "What do you think? Do you think He will not come to the feast at all?"
57 Now the high priests and the Pharisees had given orders that if anyone should learn where He was, he should let it be known so that they might arrest Him.
12 1 Now six days before the Passover, Jesus came to Bethany where Lazarus lived, whom He had raised from the dead.
2 So they gave a dinner there in honor of Jesus, and Martha was waiting on them, but Lazarus was one of the guests with Jesus.
3 Then Mary took a pound of expensive perfume, made of the purest oil, and poured it on Jesus' feet, and wiped them with her hair; and the whole house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume.
4 But Judas Iscariot, one of His disciples, who was going to betray Him, said,
5 "Why was this perfume not sold for sixty dollars and the money given to the poor?"
6 He said this, not because he cared for the poor, but because he was a thief and as the carrier of the purse for the Twelve he was in the habit of taking what was put into it.
7 Then Jesus said, "Let her alone; let her keep it for the day of my funeral,
8 for you always have the poor among you, but you will not always have me."
9 A goodly number of the Jews learned that He was at Bethany, and so they came there, not only to see Jesus but also to see Lazarus, whom He had raised from the dead.
10 But the high priests planned to kill Lazarus,
11 for on account of him many of the Jews were leaving them and believing in Jesus.
12 The next day the vast crowd that had come to the feast, on hearing that Jesus was coming into Jerusalem,
13 took palm branches and went out to meet Him, and kept on shouting: "Blessings on Him! Blessed be He who comes in the name of the Lord; Blessings on the King of Israel!"
14 Then Jesus found a young donkey and mounted it, doing as the Scripture says:
15 "Cease from fearing, Daughter of Zion; See, your King is coming mounted on an ass's colt!"
16 His disciples at the time did not understand this, but after Jesus was glorified, they remembered that this had been written about Him and that they had fulfilled it in His case.
17 The crowd that had been with Him when He called Lazarus out of the grave and raised him from the dead, kept on talking about it.
18 This is why the crowd went out to meet Him, because they had heard that He had performed this wonder-work.
19 So the Pharisees said to one another, "You see, you cannot help it at all; the whole world has gone off after Him!"
20 There were some Greeks among those who were coming up to worship at the feast,
21 and they went to Philip who was from Bethsaida in Galilee, and kept making this request of him, "Sir, we want to see Jesus."
22 Philip went and told Andrew; Andrew and Philip both went and told Jesus.
23 Jesus answered them, "The time has come for the Son of Man to be glorified,
24 I most solemnly say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it remains a single grain. But if it does die, it yields a great harvest.
25 Whoever loves his lower life will lose the higher, but whoever hates his lower life in this world preserves the higher for eternal life.
26 If anyone serves me, he must continue to follow me, and my servant also must go wherever I go. If anyone serves me, my Father will show him honor.
27 Now my soul is troubled; what shall I say? Father, save me from this hour of agony! And yet it was for this very purpose that I came to this hour of agony.
28 Father, glorify your name." Then a voice came out of heaven, "I have already glorified it and I will again glorify it."
29 The crowd of bystanders on hearing it said that it was thunder; others, however, said, "An angel has spoken to Him!"
30 Jesus answered, "This voice did not come for my sake, but for yours.
31 This world is now in process of judgment; the prince of this world is now to be expelled.
32 And if I am lifted up from the earth, I will draw all men to me."
33 He said this to show the kind of death He was going to die.
34 The crowd answered Him, "We have learned from the law that the Christ is to remain here forever, and so how can you say that the Son of Man must be lifted up? Who is this Son of Man?"
35 Jesus said to them, "Only a little while longer you will have the light. Keep on living by it while you have the light, so that darkness may not overtake you, for whoever walks about in the dark does not know where he is going.
36 While you have the light believe in the light, that you may become sons of light." On saying this Jesus went away and hid Himself.
37 Although He had performed so many wonder-works right before their eyes, they did not believe in Him,
38 so that the utterance of the prophet Isaiah was fulfilled: "Lord, who has believed what they heard from us? And to whom has the mighty arm of the Lord been shown?"
39 So they could not believe, for Isaiah again has said:
40 "He has blinded their eyes and benumbed their hearts, so that they cannot see with their eyes and understand with their hearts, and turn to me to cure them."
41 Isaiah said this, because he saw His glory; yes, he spoke about Him.
42 And yet in spite of all this, even among the leading men many came to believe in Him, but because of the Pharisees they did not own it, for fear of being turned out of the synagogue,
43 for they loved the praise of men instead of the praise of God.
44 But Jesus cried aloud, "Whoever believes in me believes not merely in me but in Him who has sent me;
45 and whoever sees me sees Him who has sent me.
46 I have come as light into the world, so that no one who continues to believe in me can remain in darkness.
47 If anyone hears my words and fails to keep them, it is not I that judge him, for I have not come to judge but to save the world.
48 Whoever persistently rejects me and refuses to accept my teachings has something to judge him -- the very message I have spoken will judge him on the last day.
49 This is because I have not spoken on my own authority, but the Father who has sent me has given me orders Himself what to say and what to tell.
50 And I know that His orders mean eternal life. So whatever I speak I am speaking as the Father has told me."
13 1 Before the Passover feast started, Jesus knew that His time had come for Him to leave the world and go to the Father, and as He had loved His own in the world He loved them to the last.
2 So Jesus, while supper was on -- although He knew that the devil had suggested to Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, to betray Him --
3 because He was sure that the Father had put everything into His hands, and that He had come from God and was going back to God,
4 got up from the table, took off His outer clothes, and took a towel and tied it around His waist.
5 Then He poured water into a basin and began to wash the disciples' feet and to wipe them with the towel which was around His waist.
6 Thus He came to Simon Peter. Peter said to Him, "Lord, are you going to wash my feet?"
7 Jesus answered him, "You do not now understand what I am doing, but by-and-by you will learn."
8 Peter said to Him, "You must never wash my feet!" Jesus answered, "Unless I do wash you, you can have no share with me."
9 Simon Peter said to Him, "Lord, do not stop with my feet, then, but wash my hands and face too!"
10 Jesus said to him, "Anyone who has taken a bath has no need of washing anything but his feet, but he is clean all over. And you are now clean, though not all of you are."
11 For He knew who was going to betray Him; this is why He said, "You are not all clean."
12 So when He had washed their feet and had put on His clothes and taken His place at the table, He said to them again: "Do you understand what I have done to you?
13 You call me Teacher and Lord, and you are right in calling me so, for that is what I am.
14 If I then, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you too ought to wash one another's feet.
15 For I have set you an example, in order that you too may practice what I have done to you.
16 I most solemnly say to you, no slave is superior to his master, and no messenger is greater than the man who sends him.
17 If you know all this, happy are you if you practice it.
18 I do not mean all of you. I know whom I have chosen, but I know that the Scriptures must be fulfilled: 'The man who is eating my bread has lifted his heel against me.'
19 From now on I will tell you things before they take place, so that when they do take place, you may believe that I am the Christ.
20 I most solemnly say to you, whoever welcomes any messenger I send welcomes me, and whoever welcomes me welcomes Him who has sent me."
21 After saying this Jesus was deeply moved in spirit and solemnly said, "I most solemnly say to you, one of you is going to betray me."
22 The disciples kept looking at one another, but were at a loss to know which one He meant.
23 One of the disciples, whom Jesus specially loved, was sitting very close to Jesus at His right.
24 So Simon Peter nodded to him to ask Him which one it was that He meant.
25 He leaned back on Jesus' breast and said to Him, "Lord, who is it?"
26 Jesus answered, "It is that one to whom I give the piece of bread when I dip it in the dish." So He dipped it into the dish and took it and gave it to Judas, Simon Iscariot's son.
27 As soon as he took the bread, Satan took possession of Judas. Then Jesus said to him, "Make quick work of what you are to do."
28 But no one else at the table knew what He meant by this,
29 for some of them were thinking, as Judas had the purse, that Jesus meant to say to him, "Buy what we need for the feast," or to give something to the poor.
30 So as soon as he took the piece of bread, he left the room. It was then night.
31 When he had left, Jesus said, "Now the Son of Man has been glorified, and God has been glorified in Him,
32 and God will through Himself glorify Him, and He will glorify Him at once.
33 Dear children, I am to be with you only a little while longer. You will look for me, but, as I told the Jews, so I now tell you, you cannot just now go where I am going.
34 I give you a new command, to love one another. Just as I have loved you, you too must love one another.
35 By this everybody will know that you are my disciples, if you keep on showing love for one another."
36 Simon Peter said to Him, "Lord, where are you going?" Jesus answered, "I am going where you cannot follow me just now, but you will later follow me."
37 Peter said to Him, "Lord, why can I not follow you right now? I will lay down my life for you."
38 Jesus answered, "You will lay down your life for me! I most solemnly say to you, before a cock crows, you will three times disown me!"
14 1 "Stop letting your hearts be troubled; keep on believing in God, and also in me.
2 In my Father's house there are many dwelling places; if there were not, I would have told you, for I am going away to make ready a place for you.
3 And if I go and make it ready for you, I will come back and take you to be face to face with me, so that you may always be right where I am.
4 And 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, and so how can we know the way?"
6 Jesus answered him, "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one can come to the Father except through me.
7 If you knew me, you would know my Father too. From now on you do know Him and you have seen Him."
8 Philip said to Him, "Lord, let us see the Father, and that will satisfy us."
9 Jesus said to him, "Have I been with you disciples so long, and yet you, Philip, have not recognized me? Whoever has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, 'Let us see the Father'?
10 Do you not believe that I am in union with the Father and that the Father is in union with me? I am not saying these things on my own authority, but the Father who always remains in union with me is doing these things Himself.
11 You must believe me, that I am in union with the Father and that the Father is in union with me, or else you must do so because of the very things that I am doing.
12 I most solemnly say to you, whoever perseveres in believing in me can himself do the things that I am doing; yes, he can do even greater things than I am doing, because I am going to the Father.
13 And anything you ask for as bearers of my name I will do for you, so that the Father may be glorified through the Son.
14 Yes, I repeat it, anything you ask for as bearers of my name I will do it for you.
15 "If you really love me, you will keep my commands.
16 And I will ask I will ask the Father and He will give you another Helper, to remain with you to the end of the age;
17 even the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot accept, because it does not see Him or recognize Him, because He is going to remain with you, and will be within you.
18 I will not leave you helpless orphans. I am coming back to you.
19 In just a little while the world will not see me any more, but you will be seeing me. Because I am to live on, you too will live on.
20 At that time you will know that I am in union with my Father and you are in union with me and I am in union with you.
21 Whoever continues to hold and keep my commands is the one who really loves me, and whoever really loves me will be loved by my Father; yes, I will love him myself and will make myself real to him."
22 Judas (not Judas Iscariot) said to Him, "Why is it, Lord, that you are going to make yourself real to us and not to the world?"
23 Jesus answered him, "If anyone really loves me, he will observe my teaching, and my Father will love him, and both of us will come in face-to-face fellowship with him; yes, we will make our special dwelling place with him.
24 Whoever does not really love me does not observe my teaching; and yet the teaching which you are listening to is not mine but comes from the Father who has sent me.
25 "I have told you this while I am still staying with you.
26 But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send to represent me, will teach you everything Himself, and cause you to remember everything that I have told you.
27 I now leave you the blessing of peace, I give you the blessing of my own peace. I myself do not give it in the way the world gives it. Stop letting your hearts be troubled or timid.
28 You have heard me say that I am going away and coming back to you; if you really loved me, you would rejoice over my telling you that I am going to the Father, because my Father is greater than I.
29 And now I have told you this before it takes place, that when it does take place you may believe in me.
30 "I shall not talk much more with you, for the evil ruler of this world is coming and he has nothing in common with me,
31 but he is coming that the world may know that I love the Father and am doing what the Father has ordered me to do. Get up and let us go away."
15 1 "I am the real vine, and my Father is the cultivator.
2 He cuts away any branch on me that stops bearing fruit, and He repeatedly prunes every branch that continues to bear fruit, to make it bear more.
3 You are already pruned because of the teaching that I have given you.
4 You must remain in union with me and I will remain in union with you. Just as no branch by itself can bear fruit unless it remains united to the vine, so you cannot unless you remain in union with me.
5 I am the vine, you are the branches. Whoever remains in union with me and I in union with him will bear abundant fruit, because you cannot do anything cut off from union with me.
6 If anyone does not remain in union with me, he is thrown away as a mere branch and is dried up; then it is picked up and thrown into the fire and burned up.
7 If you remain in union with me and my words remain in you, you may ask whatever you please and you shall have it.
8 By your continuously bearing abundant fruit and in this way proving yourselves to be real disciples of mine, my Father is glorified.
9 I have loved you just as the Father has loved me. You must remain in my love.
10 If you continue to keep my commands, you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father's commands and remain in His love.
11 "I have told you these things, that the joy which I have had may remain in you and that your joy may be complete.
12 This is my command to you, to keep on loving one another as I have loved you.
13 No one can show greater love than this, the giving of his life for his friends.
14 You are my friends, if you keep on doing what I command you to do.
15 I no longer call you slaves, because the slave does not know what his master is doing; I now call you friends, because I have told you everything that I have learned from my Father.
16 You have not chosen me; I have chosen you, and appointed you to go and bear fruit, that your fruit may remain too, so that the Father may grant you, as bearers of my name, whatever you ask Him for.
17 "What I command you to do is, to keep on loving one another.
18 If the world continues to hate you, remember that it has first hated me.
19 If you belonged to the world, the world would love what is its own. But it is because you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, that the world hates you.
20 Remember what I once told you: No slave is greater than his master. If they have persecuted me, they will persecute you too. If they have observed my teaching, they will observe yours too.
21 They will do all this to you on account of me, because they do not know Him who has sent me.
22 "If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not be guilty of sin. But now the fact is, they have no excuse for their sin.
23 Whoever continues to hate me continues to hate my Father too.
24 If I had not done things among them that no one else has ever done, they would not be guilty of sin. But now the fact is, they have seen and even hated both my Father and me.
25 But this is so that the saying written in their law may be fulfilled, 'They hated me without a cause.'
26 "When the Helper comes whom I will send from the Father to you, the Spirit of truth that comes from the Father, He will testify to me.
27 And you too are to bear testimony to me, because you have been with me from the start."
16 1 "I have told you these things to keep you from falling over stumbling blocks.
2 Men will turn you out of their synagogues. Yes, indeed, the time is coming when anyone who kills you will think that he is rendering a religious service to God.
3 They will do this, because they have never come to know God nor me.
4 But I have told you these things that when the time does come, you may remember that I told you. I did not tell you these things at the start, because I was with you.
5 But now I am going away to Him who has sent me, and not one of you is asking me where I am going,
6 but sorrow has taken complete possession of your hearts, because I have told you these things.
7 Yet it is nothing but the truth I now tell you, that it is better for you that I should go away. For if I do not go away, the Helper will not come into close fellowship with you, but if I do go away, I will send Him to be in close fellowship with you.
8 "And when He comes, He will bring conviction to worldly people about sin and uprightness and judgment;
9 about sin, because they do not believe in me;
10 about uprightness, because I go away to the Father so that you can no longer see me;
11 about judgment, because the evil ruler of this world has been condemned.
12 "I have much more to tell you, but you cannot grasp it now.
13 But when the Spirit of truth comes, He will guide you into the whole truth, for He will not speak on His own authority but will tell what is told Him, and will announce to you the things that are to come.
14 He will glorify me, because He will take the things that belong to me and tell them to you.
15 Everything that the Father has is mine; this is why I have told you, 'He will take the things that are mine and tell them to you.'
16 "In just a little while you will not see me any longer; and yet, in just a little while after you will see me again."
17 So some of His disciples said to one another, "What does He mean by telling us, 'In just a little while you will not see me, and yet in just a little while after you will see me again,' and 'Because I am going away to the Father'?"
18 So they kept saying, "What does He mean by saying, 'a little while'? We do not know what He is talking about."
19 Jesus knew that they wanted to ask Him a question, and so He said to them, "Are you inquiring of one another about this saying of mine, 'In just a little while you will not see me, and yet in just a little while after you will see me again'?
20 I most solemnly say to you, you will weep and wail, but the world will be glad; you will grieve but your grief will be turned into gladness.
21 When a woman is in labor, she is in pain, for her time has come, but when the baby is born, she forgets her pain because of her joy that a human being has been born into the world.
22 So you too are now in sorrow, but I am going to see you again, and then your hearts will be happy, and no one can rob you of your happiness.
23 At that time you will ask me no more questions. I most solemnly say to you, the Father will give you, as bearers of my name, whatever you ask Him for.
24 Up to this time you have not asked for anything as bearers of my name, but now you must keep on asking, and you will receive, that your cup of joy may be full to the brim.
25 "I have told you these things in allegories, but a time is coming when I shall not do so any longer, but will plainly tell you about the Father.
26 At that time you will ask, as bearers of my name, and I do not say that I will ask the Father for you,
27 for the Father tenderly loves you Himself, because you now tenderly love me and now believe that I have come from the Father.
28 I did come from the Father and I have come into the world. Now I am leaving the world and going back to the Father."
29 His disciples said to Him, "Now you are talking plainly and not in allegory at all.
30 Now we know that you know everything and do not need that anyone should ask you questions. For this reason we believe that you have come from God."
31 Jesus answered them, "Do you now really believe?
32 Listen! A time is coming, yea, it is right here, when you will all be scattered to your homes and will leave me alone. And yet, I am not alone, because the Father is with me.
33 I have told you these things, that you through union with me may have peace. In the world you have trouble, but be courageous! I have conquered the world."