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.

Jesus said to him, "I am Way and Truth and Life. No one can come to the Father except through me.

But to all who did receive him and believe in him he gave the right to become children of God,

In the beginning the Word existed. The Word was with God, and the Word was divine.

So the Word became flesh and blood and lived for a while among us, abounding in blessing and truth, and we saw the honor God had given him, such honor as an only son receives from his father.

Jesus answered him, "I tell you, no one can see the Kingdom of God unless he is born over again from above!"

A thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come to let them have life, and to let them have it in abundance.

"Your minds must not be troubled; you must believe in God, and believe in me.

The real light, which sheds light upon everyone, was just coming into the world.

Two days later there was a wedding at Cana in Galilee, and Jesus' mother was present.

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

Among the Pharisees there was a man named Nicodemus, a leader among the Jews.

And I will ask the Father and he will give you another Helper to be with you always.

God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship him in spirit and in sincerity."

"If you really love me, you will observe my commands.

Jesus answered, "I tell you, if a man does not owe his birth to water and spirit, he cannot get into the Kingdom of God.

So when the Lord learned that the Pharisees had been told that he was gaining and baptizing more disciples than John??2 though it was not Jesus himself who baptized them, but his disciples??3 he left Judea and went back again to Galilee.

and you will know the truth and the truth will set you free."

but when the Spirit of Truth comes, he will guide you into the full truth, for he will not speak for himself but will tell what he hears, and will announce to you the things that are to come.

Everything came into existence through him, and apart from him nothing came to be.

but the Helper, the holy Spirit which the Father will send in my place, will teach you everything and remind you of everything that I have told you.

The devil is the father you are sprung from, and you want to carry out your father's wishes. He was a murderer from the first, and he has nothing to do with the truth, for there is no truth in him. When he tells a lie, he speaks in his true character, for he is a liar and the father of them.

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

I am the vine, you are the branches. Anyone who remains united to me, with me united to him, will be very fruitful, for you cannot do anything apart from me.

I tell you, whoever listens to my message and believes him who has sent me, possesses eternal life, and will not come to judgment, but has already passed out of death into life.

And he made a lash out of rope, and drove them all, sheep and cattle, out of the Temple, and scattered the money-changers' coins on the ground, and overturned their tables.

Consecrate them by truth. Your message is truth.

Jesus said to her, "I myself am Resurrection and Life. He who believes in me will live on, even if he dies,

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

A woman of Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, "Give me a drink."

Jesus said to them, "I tell you, I existed before Abraham was born!"

The wind blows wherever it chooses, and you hear the sound of it, but you do not know where it comes from or where it goes. That is the way with everyone who owes his birth to the Spirit."

The sick man answered, "I have nobody, sir, to put me into the pool when the water stirs, but while I am getting down someone else steps in ahead of me."

So Jesus said to the Jews who had believed in him, "If you abide by what I teach, you are really disciples of mine,

No one who believes in him has to come up for judgment. Anyone who does not believe stands condemned already, for not believing in God's only Son.

Then Jesus spoke to them again and said, "I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will not have to walk in darkness but will have the light of life."

The Father and I are one."

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

This man went to Jesus one night, and said to him, "Master, we know that you are a teacher who has come from God, for no one can show the signs that you do, unless God is with him."

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I have told you all this, so that through me you may find peace. In the world you have trouble; but take courage! I have conquered the world."

The light is still shining in the darkness, for the darkness has never put it out.

He was not the light; he came to testify to the light.

Whoever believes in the Son possesses eternal life, but whoever disobeys the Son will not experience life, but will remain under the anger of God.

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.

But a time is coming??t is already here!??hen the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and sincerity, for the Father wants such worshipers.

You pore over the Scriptures, for you think that you will find eternal life in them, and these very Scriptures testify to me,

Do not be surprised at this, for the time is coming when all who are in their graves will listen to his voice,

No one can show greater love than by giving up his life for his friends.

When it was evening on that first day after the Sabbath, and the doors of the house where the disciples met were locked for fear of the Jews, Jesus came in and stood among them and said to them, "Peace be with you!"

No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him to me; then I myself will raise him to life on the Last Day.

After this there was a festival of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

And just as Moses in the desert lifted the serpent up in the air, the Son of Man must be lifted up,

Nicodemus said to him, "How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter his mother's womb over again and be born?"

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.

My sheep listen to my voice, and I know them and they follow me,

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.

I am the good shepherd. A good shepherd will give his life for his sheep.

Jesus and his disciples were also invited to the wedding.

All that my Father gives to me will come to me, and I will never refuse anyone who comes to me,

For his disciples had gone into the town to buy some food.

When the Helper comes whom I will send to you from the Father??hat Spirit of Truth that comes from the Father??e will bear testimony to me,

On the day after the Sabbath, very early in the morning while it was still dark, Mary of Magdala went to the tomb, and she saw that the stone had been removed from it.

Philip answered, "Forty dollars' worth of bread would not be enough for each of them to have even a little."

So Jesus answered them, "I tell you, the Son cannot do anything of his own accord, unless he sees the Father doing it. For whatever the Father does, the Son also does.

"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.

Now on the last day, the great day of the festival, Jesus stood up and cried out, "If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink.

Jesus answered, "If you knew what God has to give, and who it is that said to you, 'Give me a drink,' you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water."

Afterward Jesus found him in the Temple, and said to him, "See! You are well again. Give up sin, or something worse may happen to you."

Before the Passover Festival began, Jesus knew that the time had come for him to leave this world and go to the Father, but he had loved those who were his own in the world, and he loved them to the last.

It was by him that life came into existence, and that life was the light of mankind.

When he comes, he will bring conviction to the world about sin and uprightness and judgment;

Jesus answered, "Anyone who loves me will observe my teaching, and my Father will love him and we will come to him and live with him.

There are many rooms in my Father's house; if there were not, I would have told you, for I am going away to make ready a place for you.

Jesus answered, "Destroy this sanctuary, and I will raise it in three days!"

When they had finished breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, "Simon, son of John, are you more devoted to me than these others are?" Peter said to him, "Yes, Master, you know that I love you." Jesus said to him, "Then feed my lambs!"

Jesus said to them, "I am the bread that gives life. No one who comes to me will ever be hungry, and no one who believes in me will ever be thirsty.

Then the Jews addressed him and said, "What sign have you to show us, for acting in this way?"

But the man who had been cured did not know who it was, for as there was a crowd there, Jesus had left the place.

Jesus said to them again, "Peace be with you! Just as my Father sent me forth so I now send 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'?"

But he answered, "The man who cured me said to me, 'Pick up your mat and walk.' "

Now he had to pass through Samaria.

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.

He said to her, "Go and call your husband and come back here."

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.

There appeared a man by the name of John, with a message from God.

And the basis of the judgment is this, that the light has come into the world, and yet, because their actions were wicked, men have loved the darkness more than the light.

He came to his home, and his own family did not welcome him.

By this they will all know that you are my disciples??y your love for one another."

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

and I give them eternal life, and they shall never be lost, and no one shall tear them out of my hands.

The wine gave out, and Jesus' mother said to him, "They have no more wine!"

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.

The woman said to him, "I see that you are a prophet, sir.

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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'?

If you remain united to me and my words remain in your hearts, ask for whatever you please and you shall have it.

Whatever owes its birth to the physical is physical, and whatever owes its birth to the Spirit is spiritual.

Jesus answered, "My kingdom is not a kingdom of this world. If my kingdom were a kingdom of this world, my men would have fought to keep me from being handed over to the Jews. But as it is, my kingdom has no such origin."

"You are right when you say you have no husband, for you have had five husbands and the man you are now living with is not your husband. What you say is true."

When Jesus had taken the wine, he said, "It is finished!" Then bowing his head he gave up his spirit.

Andrew, Simon Peter's brother, another of his disciples, said to him,

It was he that was with God in the beginning.

The Spirit is what gives life; flesh is of no use at all. The things that I have said to you are spirit and they are life.

As he passed along, he saw a man who had been blind from his birth.

but anyone who drinks the water that I will give him will never be thirsty, but the water that I will give him will become a spring of water within him, bubbling up for eternal life."

"I tell you, any man who does not enter the sheepfold by the door, but climbs over at some other place, is a thief and robber.

But these have been recorded so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and through believing you may have life as his followers.

Yet no one has gone up into heaven except the Son of Man who came down from heaven.

So the Samaritan woman said to him, "How is it that a Jew like you asks a Samaritan woman like me for a drink?" For Jews have nothing to do with Samaritans.

so that everyone who believes in him may have eternal life."

Now a man named Lazarus was sick; he lived in Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha.

Do not wonder at my telling you that you must be born over again from above.

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."

He came into the world, and though the world came into existence through him, the world did not recognize him.

I have much more to tell you, but you cannot take it in now,

Thomas answered him, "My Master and my God!"

Jesus said to her, "You must not cling to me, for I have not yet gone up to my Father, but go to my brothers and say to them that I am going up to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God."

When Jesus had said all this he raised his eyes to heaven and said, "Father, the time has come. Do honor to your son, that your son may do honor to you,

After this Jesus again showed himself to the disciples at the Sea of Tiberias, and he did so in this way.

In these there used to lie a great number of people who were sick, blind, lame, or paralyzed.

On account of this the Jews were all the more eager to kill him, because he not only broke the Sabbath but actually called God his Father, thus putting himself on an equality with God.

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.

Now the Jewish Passover was approaching, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

So if the Son sets you free you will be really free.

And if I go and make it ready, I will come back and take you with me, so that you may be where I am.

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John too was baptizing at Aenon, near Salim, for there was plenty of water there, and people came there and were baptized.

If the world hates you, remember that it hated me first.

and if I am lifted up from the ground, I will draw all men to myself."

For the Father loves the Son and lets him see everything that he himself is doing, and he will let him see greater deeds than these, to make you wonder.

Six days before the Passover Jesus came to Bethany, where Lazarus, whom he had raised from the dead, was living.

And he said to the pigeon-dealers, "Take these things away! Do not turn my Father's house into a market!"

If those to whom God's message was addressed were called gods??nd the Scripture cannot be set aside??36 do you mean to say to me whom the Father has consecrated and made his messenger to the world, 'You are blasphemous,' because I said, 'I am God's Son'?

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

After this Jesus went to the other side of the Sea of Galilee, or Tiberias, and a great crowd followed him,

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 am the door. Whoever enters through me will be saved, and will pass in and out and find pasture.

Nicodemus said to him, "How can that be?"

After this Jesus went into the country of Judea with his disciples, and stayed there with them and baptized.

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

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.

They asked him, "Who was it that said to you, 'Pick it up and walk'?"

I have other sheep too that do not belong to this fold. I must lead them too, and they will obey my voice, and they will all become one flock, with one shepherd.

Now there were six stone water jars there, for the ceremonial purification practiced by the Jews, each large enough to hold twenty or thirty gallons.

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

If anyone believes in me, streams of living water, as the Scripture says, shall flow forth from his heart."

So afterward when he had risen from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this, and they believed the passage of Scripture and what Jesus had said.

That is why I said to you that you would die in the midst of your sins, for unless you believe that I am what I say, you will die in the midst of your sins."

For the Father passes judgment on no one, but he has committed the judgment entirely to the Son,

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.

Our forefathers worshiped God on this mountain, and yet you Jews say that the place where people must worship God is at Jerusalem."

The Jews said, "It has taken forty-six years to build this sanctuary, and are you going to raise it in three days?"

Jesus said to her, "Do not try to direct me. It is not yet time for me to act."

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

Then Jesus said to them, "I tell you, if you do not eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no self-existent life.

As he said this he breathed upon them, and said,

Jesus answered, "Anyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again,

But he answered them, "My Father is still at work, and I work too."

I tell you, unless a grain of wheat falls on the ground and dies, it remains just one grain. But if it dies, it yields a great harvest.

There were many other signs that Jesus showed before his disciples which are not recorded in this book.

This was why the Jews used to persecute Jesus, because he did things like this on the Sabbath.

I cannot do anything of my own accord. I pass judgment just as I am told to do, and my judgment is just, for I am not seeking to do what I please, but what pleases him who has sent me.

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.

I am this living bread that has come down out of heaven. Whoever eats this bread will live forever, and the bread that I will give for the world's life is my own flesh!"

I tell you, whoever believes already possesses eternal life.

owing their birth not to nature nor to any human or physical impulse, but to God.

Many of the Jews read this placard, for the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city, and it was written in Hebrew, Latin, and Greek.

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

"There is a boy here who has five barley loaves and a couple of fish, but what is that among so many people?"

For he is only a hired man, and does not care about the sheep.

Jesus said to her, "Believe me, the time is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor at Jerusalem.

After this Jesus went down to Capernaum with his mother, his brothers, and his disciples, and they stayed there for a few days.

That was the time of the Rededication Festival at Jerusalem. It was winter time

Near Jesus' cross stood his mother and her sister Mary, the daughter of Clopas, and Mary of Magdala.

For just as the Father awakens the dead and makes them come to life, the Son makes anyone whom he chooses come to life.

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,

But Thomas, one of the Twelve, who was called the Twin, was not with them when Jesus came in.

After that, Jesus, knowing that everything was now finished, to fulfil the saying of Scripture, said, "I am thirsty."

He must grow greater and greater, but I less and less."

For everyone who does wrong hates the light and will not come to it, for fear his actions will be exposed.

Jesus answered, "I tell you, everyone who commits sin is a slave to sin.

I am the good shepherd. I know my sheep and my sheep know me,

When Jesus had said this, he went out with his disciples to the other side of the Ravine of the Cedars where there was a garden, and he went into it with his disciples.

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

Anyone who resolves to do his will will know whether my teaching comes from God, or originates with me.

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

Jesus said, "Make the people sit down." There was plenty of grass there, so the men threw themselves down, about five thousand of them.

Now there is in Jerusalem near the Sheepgate a pool called in Hebrew Bethzatha, which has five colonnades.

Now when he was at Jerusalem, at the Passover Festival, many, when they saw the signs that he showed, came to believe in him.

Jesus said to them, "My food is doing the will of him who has sent me, and finishing his work.

You must not judge so externally; you must judge justly!"

Jesus shed tears.

"I have revealed your real self to the men you gave me from the world. They were yours and you gave them to me, and they have obeyed your message.

There were some Greeks among those who had come up to worship at the festival,

I do not ask you to take them away from the world, but to keep them from evil.

Pilate said to him, "Then you are a king?" Jesus answered, "As you say, I am a king. It was for this that I was born and for this that I came to the world, to give testimony for truth. Everyone who is on the side of truth listens to my voice."

and Jacob's spring was there. So Jesus, tired with his journey, sat down just as he was by the spring. It was about noon.

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

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So he came to a town in Samaria called Sychar, near the field that Jacob gave to his son Joseph,

Jesus answered them, "The work God has for you is to believe in the messenger that he has sent to you."

His disciples remembered that the Scriptures said, "My zeal for your house will consume me!"

I tell you, we know what we are talking about and we have seen the things we testify to, yet you all reject our testimony.

On the following day the crowds that had come up to the festival, hearing that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem,

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.

I tell you, the time is coming??t is here already!??hen those who are dead will listen to the voice of the Son of God, and those who listen to it will live.

So Jesus, seeing his mother and the disciple whom he loved standing near, said to his mother, "There is your son!"

When he was gone, Jesus said, "Now the Son of Man has been honored, and God has been honored through him,

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.

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

Are you not saying, 'Four months more and the harvest will come'? Look, I tell you! Raise your eyes and see the fields, for they are white for harvesting.

For it is the purpose of my Father that everyone who sees the Son and believes in him shall have eternal life, and that I shall raise him to life on the Last Day."

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.

So Jesus said again, "I tell you, I am the door of the sheepfold.

His mother said to the servants, "Do whatever he tells you."

You must not work for the food that perishes, but for that which lasts for eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you, for God the Father has authorized him to do so."

but one of the soldiers thrust a lance into his side, and blood and water immediately flowed out.

This, the first of the signs of his mission, Jesus showed at Cana in Galilee. By it he showed his greatness, and his disciples believed in him.

Jesus said to him, "Is it because you have seen me that you believe? Blessed be those who believe without having seen me!"

Jesus answered, "Are you the teacher of Israel and yet ignorant of this?

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For he whom God has sent speaks God's words, for God gives him his Spirit without measure.

Are you a greater man than our forefather Jacob, who gave us this well, and drank from it himself, with his sons and his flocks?"

for I have come down from heaven not to do what I please but what pleases him who has sent me.

This is why the Father loves me, because I am giving my life, but giving it to take it back again.

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

But Mary stood just outside the tomb, weeping. And as she wept she looked down into the tomb,

He answered, "The man they call Jesus made some clay and rubbed it on my eyes, and said to me, 'Go to Siloam and wash them.' So I went and when I had washed them I could see."

You worship something you know nothing about; we know what we worship, for salvation comes from the Jews.

Then he said to Thomas, "Put your finger here and look at my hands, and take your hand and put it in my side, and be no longer unbelieving, but believe!"

Father, I wish to have those whom you have given me with me where I am, to see my glory that you have given me, for you loved me before the creation of the world.

After this Jesus went from place to place in Galilee, for he would not do so in Judea, because the Jews were making efforts to kill him.

There are many other things that Jesus did, so many in fact that if they were all written out, I do not suppose that the world itself would hold the books that would have to be written.

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I have told you all this so that you may have the happiness that I have had, and your happiness may be complete.

But after his brothers had gone up to the festival, then Jesus went up also, not publicly, but as though he did not wish to be observed.

Now it was the Sabbath. So the Jews said to the man who had been cured, "It is the Sabbath, and it is against the Law for you to carry your mat."

I am not going to leave you friendless. I am coming back to you.

We must carry on the work of him who has sent me while the daylight lasts. Night is coming, when no one can do any work.

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.

He told them this, and then he added, "Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep, but I am going there to wake him."

You are my friends if you do what I command you to do.

When they were satisfied, he said to his disciples, "Pick up the pieces that are left, so that nothing may be wasted."

What my Father has intrusted to me is of more importance than everything else, and no one can tear anything out of the Father's hands.

Your forefather Abraham exulted at the thought of seeing my coming. He has seen it, and it has made him glad."

If you will not believe the earthly things that I have told you, how can you believe the heavenly things I have to tell?

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.

But everyone who is living the truth will come to the light, to show that his actions have been performed in dependence upon God.

and he went out carrying the cross by himself to a spot called the Place of the Skull, or in Hebrew, Golgotha.

I have done honor to you here on earth, by completing the work which you gave me to do.

and those who have done right will come out to resurrection and life, and those who have done wrong, to resurrection and judgment.

Then Pilate took Jesus and had him flogged.

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

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.

She said to him, "You have nothing to draw water with, sir, and the well is deep. Where can you get your living water?

The woman answered, "I have no husband." Jesus said to her,

Then they said to him, "What must we do to carry out God's work?"

"Receive the holy Spirit! If you forgive any men's sins, they are forgiven them, and if you fix any men's sins upon them, they will remain fixed."

If you knew me, you would know my Father also. From now on you do know him and you have seen him."

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.

Jesus said to them, "If God were your father, you would love me, for I have come from God. I have not come of my own accord, but he has sent me.

I am the bread that gives life.

And they did so. When the master of the feast tasted the water which had now turned into wine, without knowing where it had come from??hough the servants who had drawn the water knew??10 he called the bridegroom and said to him, "Everyone else serves his good wine first, and his poorer wine after people have drunk deeply, but you have kept back your good wine till now!"

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

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.

For just as the Father is self-existent, he has given self-existence to the Son,

So Jesus said, "When you lift the Son of Man up in the air, then you will know that I am what I say, and that I do nothing of my own accord, but speak as the Father has instructed me.

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.'

So the Jewish high priests said to Pilate, "Do not write 'The king of the Jews,' but write 'He said, I am the king of the Jews.' "

I have given them your message, and the world has come to hate them, for they do not belong to the world any more than I belong to the world.

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

Then they took Jesus from Caiaphas to the governor's house. It was early in the morning, and they would not go into the governor's house themselves, to avoid being ceremonially defiled and to be able to eat the Passover supper.

and had no need of anybody's evidence about men, for he knew well what was in their hearts.

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.

When the soldiers had crucified Jesus, they took his clothes and divided them into four parts, one for each soldier, besides his shirt. Now his shirt had no seam; it was woven in one piece from top to bottom.

Simon Peter answered, "To whom can we go, sir? You have a message of eternal life,

Any branch of mine that does not bear fruit he trims away, and he prunes every branch that bears fruit, to make it bear more.

If I then, your Master and Teacher, have washed your feet, you ought to wash one another's feet too.

So the rest of the disciples said to him, "We have seen the Master!" But he said to them, "Unless I see the marks of the nails in his hands, and put my finger into them, and put my hand into his side, I will never believe it!"

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 Jews answered, "We are not stoning you for doing anything good, but for your impious talk, and because you, a mere man, make yourself out to be God."

Many of his disciples on hearing it said, "This is a harsh teaching! Who can listen to it?"

so that all men may honor the Son just as much as they honor the Father. Whoever refuses to honor the Son refuses to honor the Father who sent him.

After this, Joseph, of Arimathea, who was a disciple of Jesus, but a secret one, because of his fear of the Jews, asked Pilate to let him remove Jesus' body, and Pilate gave him permission. So Joseph went and took the body down.

So Pilate went back into the governor's house and called Jesus and said to him, "Are you the king of the Jews?"

For John had not yet been put in prison.

In consequence of this many of his disciples drew back and would not go about with him any longer.

Jesus said to them, "Fill these jars with water."