For God loved the world so much that he gave his only Son, so that no one who believes in him should be lost, but that they should all have eternal life.

And the purpose of him who has sent me is this, that I should lose nothing of all that he has given me, but should raise them to life on the Last Day.

His parents said this because they were afraid of the Jews, for the Jews had already made an agreement that if anyone acknowledged Jesus as the Christ, he should be excluded from the synagogues.

"You know nothing about it. You do not realize that it is to your interest that one man should die for the people, instead of the whole nation being destroyed."

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.

Yet it is only the truth when I tell you that it is better for you that I should go away. For if I do not go, the Helper will not come to you, but if I go I will send him to you.

Now it was Caiaphas who had advised the Jews that it was for their interest that one man should die for the people.