He came to give testimony, to testify to the light, so that everyone might come to believe in it through him.

For God did not send his Son into the world to pass judgment upon the world, but that through him the world might be saved.

For the high priests and the Pharisees had given orders that anyone who found out where he was should let them know, so that they might arrest him.

in fulfilment of the saying of the prophet Isaiah, "Lord, who has believed our account? And to whom has the Lord's mighty arm been unveiled?"

As long as I was with them I kept them by your power which you gave me, and I protected them, and not one of them was lost (except the one who was destined to be lost), so that what the Scripture says might come true.

As it was the day of Preparation for the Passover, in order that the bodies might not be left on the crosses over the Sabbath, for that Sabbath was an especially important one, the Jews asked Pilate to have the men's legs broken and the bodies removed.