Jesus answered, "Is it not declared in your Law, 'I said, "You are gods" '?

But if I am doing them, then even if you will not believe me, believe the things I do, in order that you may realize and learn that the Father is in union with me, and I am in union with the Father."

It was the Mary who poured perfume upon the Master and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick.

So the sisters sent this message to Jesus: "Master, your friend is sick."

When Jesus received it he said, "This sickness is not to end in death, but is for the honor of God, that through it the Son of God may be honored."

and then afterward said to his disciples, "Let us go back to Judea."

Jesus answered, "Is not the day twelve hours long? If a man travels by day he will not stumble, for he can see the light of this world;

"Lazarus is dead, and for your sake I am glad that I was not there, so that you may learn to believe in me. But let us go to him."

So Thomas the Twin said to his fellow-disciples, "Let us go also, and die with him."

Now Bethany is only about two miles from Jerusalem,

and no one who is alive and believes in me will ever die. Do you believe that?"

With these words she went and called her sister Mary, whispering to her, "Here is the Master, asking for you."

Jesus said, "Move the stone away." The dead man's sister, Martha, said to him, "Master, by this time he is decaying, for he has been dead four days."

Then the high priests and the Pharisees called a meeting of the council, and they said, "What are we to do about the fact that this man is showing so many signs?

"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."

Now he was not self-moved in saying this, but as high priest for that year he was inspired to say that Jesus was to die for the nation??52 and not only for the nation but also for the purpose of uniting the scattered children of God.

So they were looking for Jesus there, and asking one another as they stood in the Temple, "What do you think? Do you think he will not come to the festival at all?"

And Jesus found a young ass and mounted it, in accordance with the Scripture,

"Do not be afraid, Daughter of Zion! See, your king is coming mounted on an ass's colt!"

Now my heart is troubled; what am I to say? Father, save me from this trial! And yet it was for this very purpose that I have come to this trial.

The judgment of this world is now in progress. Its evil genius is now to be expelled,

The crowd answered, "We have learned from the Law that the Christ is to remain here forever. So how can you say that the Son of Man must be lifted up? Who is this Son of Man?"

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?"

So they could not believe; for Isaiah says again,

Isaiah said this because he saw his glory; it was of him that he spoke.

I have come into the world as a light, so that no one who believes in me may have to remain in darkness.

If anyone hears my words and disregards them, it is not I that judge him, for I have not come to judge the world but to save the world.

Whoever rejects me and refuses to accept my teachings is not without his judge; the very message I have given will be his judge on the Last Day,

And I know his orders mean eternal life. So whatever I say, I say only as the Father has told me."

You call me Teacher and Master, and you are right, for that is what I am.

I tell you, no slave is superior to his master, and no messenger is greater than the man who sends him.

I do not mean all of you; I know whom I have chosen; but let the Scripture be fulfilled: " 'He who is eating my bread Has raised his heel against me.'

After Jesus had said this he was greatly moved and said solemnly, "I tell you, it is one of you that will betray me!"

The disciples looked at one another in doubt as to which of them he meant.

So Simon Peter nodded to him and said to him, "Tell us whom he means."

He leaned back from where he lay, on Jesus' breast, and said to him, "Master, who is it?"

Jesus answered, "It is the one to whom I am going to give this piece of bread when I have dipped it in the dish." So he dipped the piece of bread and took it and gave it to Judas, Simon Iscariot's son.

for some of them thought that as Judas had the purse Jesus meant to say to him, "Buy what we need for the festival," or to have him give something to the poor.

My children, I am to be with you only a little longer. You will look for me, but, as I said to the Jews, where I am going you cannot follow,

I give you a new command: Love one another. Just as I have loved you, you must love one another.

Philip said to him, "Master, let us see the Father, and it will satisfy us."

Jesus said to him, "Have I been with you 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'?

Do you not believe that I am in union with the Father and the Father is in union with me? I am not the source of the words that I say to you, but the Father who is united with me is doing these things himself.

You must believe that I am in union with the Father and that the Father is in union with me, or else you must believe because of the things themselves.

I tell you, whoever believes in me will do such things as I do, and things greater yet, because I am going to the Father.

Anything you ask for as followers of mine I will grant, so that the Father may be honored through the Son.

I will grant anything you ask me for as my followers.

It is the Spirit of Truth. The world cannot obtain that Spirit, because it does not see it or recognize it; you recognize it because it stays with you and is within you.

It is he who has my commands and observes them that really loves me, and whoever loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him, and show myself to him."

Judas (not Judas Iscariot) said to him, "Master, how does it happen that you are going to show yourself to us and not to the world?"

No one who does not love me will observe my teaching, and yet the teaching you are listening to is not mine but is that of him who has sent me.

I leave you a blessing; I give you my own blessing. I do not give it to you as the world gives. Your minds must not be troubled or afraid.

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.

I shall not talk much more with you, for the evil genius of the world is coming. He has nothing in common with me,

but he is coming that the world may know that I love the Father and am doing what he has commanded me to do. Come, let us go away.

"I am the true vine, and my Father is the cultivator.

You must remain united to me and I will remain united to you. Just as no branch can bear fruit by itself unless it remains united to the vine, you cannot unless you remain united to me.

Anyone who does not remain united to me is thrown away like a branch and withers up, and they gather them and throw them into the fire and burn them.

When you are very fruitful and show yourselves to be disciples of mine, my Father is honored.

I have loved you just as the Father has loved me. You must retain my love.

If you keep my commands you will retain my love, just as I have observed the Father's commands and retain his love.

The command that I give you is to love one another just as I have loved you.

I do not call you slaves any longer, for a slave does not know what his master is doing, but now I call you friends, for I have made known to you everything that I have learned from my Father.

It was not you who chose me, it is I that have chosen you, and appointed you to go and bear fruit??ruit that shall be lasting, so that the Father may grant you whatever you ask him for as my followers.

"What I command you to do is to love one another.

If you belonged to the world, the world would love what was its own. But it is because you do not belong to the world, but I have selected you from the world, that the world hates you.

Remember what I said to 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.

If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have been guilty of sin, but as it is, they have no excuse for their sin.

If I had not done things before them that no one else ever did they would not be guilty of sin. But as it is, they have seen both me and my Father, and they have hated us both.

They will exclude you from their synagogues; why, the time is coming when anyone who kills you will think he is doing religious service to God.

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.

about sin, as shown in their not believing in me;

about uprightness, as shown by my going away to the Father, where you can no longer see me;

and about judgment, as shown by the condemnation of the evil genius of this world.

He will do honor to me, for he will take what is mine and communicate it to you.

All that the Father has belongs to me. That is why I said that he will take what is mine and communicate it to you.

Then some of his disciples said to one another, "What does he mean when he tells us, 'In a little while you will not see me any longer, and a little while after, you will see me again,' and 'Because I am going away to the Father'?"

So they kept saying "What does he mean by 'In a little while'? We do not know what he is talking about."

When a woman is in labor she is sorrowful, for her time has come; but when the child is born, she forgets her pain in her joy that a human being has been brought into the world.

When that time comes, you will not ask me any questions; I tell you, whatever you ask the Father for, he will give you as my followers.

Hitherto you have not asked for anything as my followers, but now ask, and you will receive, so that your happiness may be complete.

"I have said all this to you in figurative language, but a time is coming when I shall not do so any longer, but will tell you plainly about the Father.

When that time comes you will ask as my followers, and I do not promise to intercede with the Father for you,

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."

Why, a time is coming??t has already come!??hen you will all be scattered to your homes and will leave me alone. And yet I am not alone, for the Father is with me.

just as you have done in giving him power over all mankind, so that he may give eternal life to all whom you have given him.

And eternal life means knowing you as the only true God, and knowing Jesus your messenger as Christ.

Now, Father, do such honor to me in your presence as I had done me there before the world existed.

I have a request to make for them. I make no request for the world, but only for those whom you have given me, for they are yours??10 all that is mine is yours and what is yours is mine??nd they have done me honor.

Now I am to be no longer in this world, but they are to remain in the world, while I return to you. Holy Father, keep them by your power which you gave me, so that they may be one just as we are.

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.

Consecrate them by truth. Your message is truth.

Just as you sent me to the world, I have sent them to the world.

And it is for their sake that I consecrate myself, that they also may be consecrated by truth.

"It is not for them only that I make this request. It is also for those who through their message come to believe in me.

Let them all be one. Just as you, Father, are in union with me and I am with you, let them be in union with us, so that the world may believe that you sent me.

I have given them the glory that you gave me, so that they may be one just as we are,

I in union with them and you with me, so that they may be perfectly unified, and the world may recognize that you sent me and that you love them just as you loved me.

Then Jesus, as he knew everything that was going to happen to him, came forward and said to them, "Who is it you are looking for?"

Then he asked them again, "Who is it you are looking for?" They said, "Jesus of Nazareth."