When Jesus saw him lying there and knew that he had been in this condition for a long time, he said to him, "Do you want to be made well?"

Then Jesus said to the twelve, "Do you also want to go away?"

You are of your father the devil, and you want to do your father's desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks according to his own nature, for he is a liar and the father of lies.

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?"

But you have a custom that I should release one man for you at the Passover. So do you want me to release to you the King of the Jews?"

Jesus said to him, "If I want him to remain until I come, what is that to you? You follow me."

Then the saying spread among the brethren that this disciple would not die. Yet Jesus did not say to him that he would not die, but, "If I want him to remain until I come, what is that to you?"