I have many things to say and to judge about you, but the Father who sent me is truthful, and the things I have heard from him I speak to the world."

And the one who sent me is with me. He has not left me alone, because I always do those things that please him."

Then Jesus said to those Judeans who had believed him, "If you continue to follow my teaching, you are really my disciples

Jesus answered them, "I tell you the solemn truth, everyone who practices sin is a slave of sin.

But now you are trying to kill me, a man who has told you the truth I heard from God. Abraham did not do this!

Who among you can prove me guilty of any sin? If I am telling you the truth, why don't you believe me?

The one who belongs to God listens and responds to God's words. You don't listen and respond, because you don't belong to God."

I am not trying to get praise for myself. There is one who demands it, and he also judges.

You aren't greater than our father Abraham who died, are you? And the prophets died too! Who do you claim to be?"

Jesus replied, "If I glorify myself, my glory is worthless. The one who glorifies me is my Father, about whom you people say, 'He is our God.'

Now as Jesus was passing by, he saw a man who had been blind from birth.

His disciples asked him, "Rabbi, who committed the sin that caused him to be born blind, this man or his parents?"

We must perform the deeds of the one who sent me as long as it is daytime. Night is coming when no one can work.

Then the neighbors and the people who had seen him previously as a beggar began saying, "Is this not the man who used to sit and beg?"

They brought the man who used to be blind to the Pharisees.

Then some of the Pharisees began to say, "This man is not from God, because he does not observe the Sabbath." But others said, "How can a man who is a sinner perform such miraculous signs?" Thus there was a division among them.

So again they asked the man who used to be blind, "What do you say about him, since he caused you to see?" "He is a prophet," the man replied.

Now the Jewish religious leaders refused to believe that he had really been blind and had gained his sight until at last they summoned the parents of the man who had become able to see.

They asked the parents, "Is this your son, whom you say was born blind? Then how does he now see?"

But we do not know how he is now able to see, nor do we know who caused him to see. Ask him, he is a mature adult. He will speak for himself."

(His parents said these things because they were afraid of the Jewish religious leaders. For the Jewish leaders had already agreed that anyone who confessed Jesus to be the Christ would be put out of the synagogue.

Then they summoned the man who used to be blind a second time and said to him, "Promise before God to tell the truth. We know that this man is a sinner."

The man replied, "And who is he, sir, that I may believe in him?"

Jesus said,] "For judgment I have come into this world, so that those who do not see may gain their sight, and the ones who see may become blind."

Some of the Pharisees who were with him heard this and asked him, "We are not blind too, are we?"

"I tell you the solemn truth, the one who does not enter the sheepfold by the door, but climbs in some other way, is a thief and a robber.

The one who enters by the door is the shepherd of the sheep.

All who came before me were thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not listen to them.

The hired hand, who is not a shepherd and does not own sheep, sees the wolf coming and abandons the sheep and runs away. So the wolf attacks the sheep and scatters them.

My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all, and no one can snatch them from my Father's hand.

If those people to whom the word of God came were called 'gods' (and the scripture cannot be broken),

do you say about the one whom the Father set apart and sent into the world, 'You are blaspheming,' because I said, 'I am the Son of God'?

(Now it was Mary who anointed the Lord with perfumed oil and wiped his feet dry with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick.)

Jesus said to her, "I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in me will live even if he dies,

and the one who lives and believes in me will never die. Do you believe this?"

She replied, "Yes, Lord, I believe that you are the Christ, the Son of God who comes into the world."

Then the people who were with Mary in the house consoling her saw her get up quickly and go out. They followed her, because they thought she was going to the tomb to weep there.

When Jesus saw her weeping, and the people who had come with her weeping, he was intensely moved in spirit and greatly distressed.

Thus the people who had come to mourn said, "Look how much he loved him!"

But some of them said, "This is the man who caused the blind man to see! Couldn't he have done something to keep Lazarus from dying?"

The one who had died came out, his feet and hands tied up with strips of cloth, and a cloth wrapped around his face. Jesus said to them, "Unwrap him and let him go."

Then many of the people, who had come with Mary and had seen the things Jesus did, believed in him.

Then one of them, Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, said, "You know nothing at all!

and not for the Jewish nation only, but to gather together into one the children of God who are scattered.)

(Now the chief priests and the Pharisees had given orders that anyone who knew where Jesus was should report it, so that they could arrest him.)

Then, six days before the Passover, Jesus came to Bethany, where Lazarus lived, whom he had raised from the dead.

But Judas Iscariot, one of his disciples (the one who was going to betray him) said,

Now a large crowd of Judeans learned that Jesus was there, and so they came not only because of him but also to see Lazarus whom he had raised from the dead.

So they took branches of palm trees and went out to meet him. They began to shout, "Hosanna! Blessed is the one who comes in the name of the Lord! Blessed is the king of Israel!"

So the crowd who had been with him when he called Lazarus out of the tomb and raised him from the dead were continuing to testify about it.

Now some Greeks were among those who had gone up to worship at the feast.

So these approached Philip, who was from Bethsaida in Galilee, and requested, "Sir, we would like to see Jesus."

The one who loves his life destroys it, and the one who hates his life in this world guards it for eternal life.

Then the crowd responded, "We have heard from the law that the Christ will remain forever. How can you say, 'The Son of Man must be lifted up'? Who is this Son of Man?"

Jesus replied, "The light is with you for a little while longer. Walk while you have the light, so that the darkness may not overtake you. The one who walks in the darkness does not know where he is going.

so that the word of Isaiah the prophet would be fulfilled. He said, "Lord, who has believed our message, and to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?"

But Jesus shouted out, "The one who believes in me does not believe in me, but in the one who sent me,

and the one who sees me sees the one who sent me.

I have come as a light into the world, so that everyone who believes in me should not remain in darkness.

The one who rejects me and does not accept my words has a judge; the word I have spoken will judge him at the last day.

For I have not spoken from my own authority, but the Father himself who sent me has commanded me what I should say and what I should speak.

Just before the Passover feast, Jesus knew that his time had come to depart from this world to the Father. Having loved his own who were in the world, he now loved them to the very end.

Jesus replied, "The one who has bathed needs only to wash his feet, but is completely clean. And you disciples are clean, but not every one of you."

(For Jesus knew the one who was going to betray him. For this reason he said, "Not every one of you is clean.")

I tell you the solemn truth, the slave is not greater than his master, nor is the one who is sent as a messenger greater than the one who sent him.

"What I am saying does not refer to all of you. I know the ones I have chosen. But this is to fulfill the scripture, 'The one who eats my bread has turned against me.'

I tell you the solemn truth, whoever accepts the one I send accepts me, and whoever accepts me accepts the one who sent me."

So Simon Peter gestured to this disciple to ask Jesus who it was he was referring to.

Then the disciple whom Jesus loved leaned back against Jesus' chest and asked him, "Lord, who is it?"

Jesus replied, "It is the one to whom I will give this piece of bread after I have dipped it in the dish." Then he dipped the piece of bread in the dish and gave it to Judas Iscariot, Simon's son.

Jesus replied, "Have I been with you for so long, and you have not known me, Philip? The person who has seen me has seen the Father! How can you say, 'Show us the Father'?

I tell you the solemn truth, the person who believes in me will perform the miraculous deeds that I am doing, and will perform greater deeds than these, because I am going to the Father.

the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot accept, because it does not see him or know him. But you know him, because he resides with you and will be in you.

The person who has my commandments and obeys them is the one who loves me. The one who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and will reveal myself to him."

The person who does not love me does not obey my words. And the word you hear is not mine, but the Father's who sent me.

But the Advocate, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you everything, and will cause you to remember everything I said to you.

"I am the vine; you are the branches. The one who remains in me -- and I in him -- bears much fruit, because apart from me you can accomplish nothing.

But they will do all these things to you on account of my name, because they do not know the one who sent me.

The one who hates me hates my Father too.

When the Advocate comes, whom I will send you from the Father -- the Spirit of truth who goes out from the Father -- he will testify about me,

They will put you out of the synagogue, yet a time is coming when the one who kills you will think he is offering service to God.

But now I am going to the one who sent me, and not one of you is asking me, 'Where are you going?'

Now this is eternal life -- that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you sent.

"I am not praying only on their behalf, but also on behalf of those who believe in me through their testimony,

(Now Judas, the one who betrayed him, knew the place too, because Jesus had met there many times with his disciples.)

Then Jesus, because he knew everything that was going to happen to him, came and asked them, "Who are you looking for?"

They replied, "Jesus the Nazarene." He told them, "I am he." (Now Judas, the one who betrayed him, was standing there with them.)

Then Jesus asked them again, "Who are you looking for?" And they said, "Jesus the Nazarene."

He said this to fulfill the word he had spoken, "I have not lost a single one of those whom you gave me."

Then Simon Peter, who had a sword, pulled it out and struck the high priest's slave, cutting off his right ear. (Now the slave's name was Malchus.)

They brought him first to Annas, for he was the father-in-law of Caiaphas, who was high priest that year.

(Now it was Caiaphas who had advised the Jewish leaders that it was to their advantage that one man die for the people.)

But Simon Peter was left standing outside by the door. So the other disciple who was acquainted with the high priest came out and spoke to the slave girl who watched the door, and brought Peter inside.

The girl who was the doorkeeper said to Peter, "You're not one of this man's disciples too, are you?" He replied, "I am not."

Why do you ask me? Ask those who heard what I said. They know what I said."

When Jesus had said this, one of the high priest's officers who stood nearby struck him on the face and said, "Is that the way you answer the high priest?"

Then Pilate said, "So you are a king!" Jesus replied, "You say that I am a king. For this reason I was born, and for this reason I came into the world -- to testify to the truth. Everyone who belongs to the truth listens to my voice."

Jesus replied, "You would have no authority over me at all, unless it was given to you from above. Therefore the one who handed me over to you is guilty of greater sin."

From this point on, Pilate tried to release him. But the Jewish leaders shouted out, "If you release this man, you are no friend of Caesar! Everyone who claims to be a king opposes Caesar!"

So the soldiers said to one another, "Let's not tear it, but throw dice to see who will get it." This took place to fulfill the scripture that says, "They divided my garments among them, and for my clothing they threw dice." So the soldiers did these things.