Now he who serves for wages flees because he serves for wages, and is not himself concerned about the sheep.

I am the Good Shepherd, and I know those that are Mine, and I am known by those who are Mine.

And I have other sheep who are not of this fold. I must also lead those, and they shall hear My voice, and there shall be one flock, one Shepherd.

The Jews who heard these words became divided again [i.e., over their meaning].

Others said, These are not the words of one who has an evil spirit. Is it possible for an evil spirit to make blind people see?

my Father, who hath given to me, is greater than all, and no one is able to pluck out of the hand of my Father;

The Jews answered him, Not for a good work do we stone thee, but for blasphemy, and because thou, who art a man, makest thyself God.

if them he did call gods unto whom the word of God came, (and the Writing is not able to be broken,)

of him whom the Father did sanctify, and send to the world, do ye say -- Thou speakest evil, because I said, Son of God I am?

Many who came to him said, "John did not perform any signs, but everything he said about this man was true."

And many who were there believed on him.

Now a man named Lazarus was ill. He was from Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha??2 it was Mary who anointed the Lord with perfume and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was ill.

and it was Mary who did anoint the Lord with ointment, and did wipe his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was ailing --

therefore sent the sisters unto him, saying, 'Sir, lo, he whom thou dost love is ailing;'

Jesus answered, “Are there not twelve hours [of light] in the day? Anyone who walks in the daytime does not stumble, because he sees [by] the light of this world.

therefore said Thomas, who is called Didymus, to the fellow-disciples, 'We may go -- we also, that we may die with him,'

and many of the Jews had come with the women who were about Martha and Mary, to comfort them concerning their brother.

Jesus said to her, 'I am the rising again, and the life; he who is believing in me, even if he may die, shall live;

and every one who is living and believing in me shall not die -- to the age;

believest thou this?' she saith to him, 'Yes, sir, I have believed that thou art the Christ, the Son of God, who is coming to the world.'

the Jews, therefore, who were with her in the house, and were comforting her, having seen Mary that she rose up quickly and went forth, followed her, saying -- 'She doth go away to the tomb, that she may weep there.'

When Jesus saw her crying, and the Jews who had come with her crying, he was greatly troubled in spirit and deeply moved.

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

But some of them said, "Surely the one who opened the eyes of the blind man could have kept this man from dying, couldn't he?"

Jesus saith, 'Take ye away the stone;' the sister of him who hath died -- Martha -- saith to him, 'Sir, already he stinketh, for he is four days dead;'

So they took away the stone where the man who died was laying. And Jesus lifted up his eyes, and said, Father, I thank thee that thou heard me.

and I knew that thou hearest me always; but for the sake of the multitude who stand by I said it, that they may believe that thou hast sent me.

The man who had died came out, his hands and feet tied with strips of cloth, and his face wrapped in a handkerchief. Jesus told them, "Untie him, and let him go."

Many of the Jews who had come with Mary and who had observed what Jesus did believed in him.

But one of them, Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, told them, "You don't know anything!

and not only for the nation, but that he would also gather into one the children of God who were scattered abroad.

(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.)

Six days before the Passover, Jesus arrived in Bethany, where Lazarus lived, the man whom Jesus had raised from the dead.

Therefore they made him a supper there; and Martha waited: but Lazarus was one of those who sat at table with him.

But Judas Iscariot, one of his disciples, who was going to betray him, asked,

When the large crowd of Jews realized that he was there, they came not only because of Jesus but also to see Lazarus, whom he had raised from the dead.

On the morrow a great multitude who came to the feast, when they heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem,

So they took branches of palm trees and went out to meet him, shouting, "Hosanna! How blessed is the one who comes in the name of the Lord, the King of Israel!"

The multitude, therefore, who are with him, were testifying that he called Lazarus out of the tomb, and did raise him out of the dead;

Now some Greeks were among those who had come up to worship at the festival.

They went to Philip (who was from Bethsaida in Galilee) and told him, "Sir, we would like to see Jesus."

The one who loves his life will destroy it, and the one who hates his life in this world will preserve it for eternal life.

Hearing the sound, a number of people who were there said that it was thunder: others said, An angel was talking to him.

Then the crowd answered him, "We have learned from the Law that the Messiah remains forever. So how can you say that the Son of Man must be lifted up? Who is this Son of Man?"

Jesus replied to the crowd, "The light is among you only for a short time. Walk while you have the light, so that the darkness may not overtake you. The person who walks in the darkness is in the darkness and does not know where he is going.

Now for all the Signs he had performed before them, they did not believe in him ??38 that the word spoken by the prophet Isaiah might be fulfilled: Lord, who has believed what they heard from us, And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?

so that what the prophet Isaiah spoke might be fulfilled when he said: "Lord, who has believed our message, and to whom has the Lord's power been revealed?"

nevertheless there were many even among the chief rulers, who believed on him; but they did not own it publickly for fear the Pharisees should excommunicate them.

Then Jesus said loudly, "The one who believes in me does not believe in me only, but also in the one who sent me.

The one who sees me sees the one who sent me.

I've come into the world as light, so that everyone who believes in me won't remain in the darkness.

And if any one hears my words and does not keep them, it is not I who judge him; for I am not come to judge the world, but to save the world.

The one who rejects me and doesn't receive my words has something to judge him: The word that I've spoken will judge him on the last day,

because I haven't spoken on my own authority. Instead, the Father who sent me has himself commanded me what to say and how to speak.

Now before the Passover Festival, Jesus realized that his hour had come to leave this world and return to the Father. Having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end.

who knew that the Father had given all things into his hands, and that He came from God, and was going to God,

Then he came to Simon Peter, who asked him, "Lord, are you going to wash my feet?"

Jesus saith to him, 'He who hath been bathed hath no need save to wash his feet, but he is clean altogether; and ye are clean, but not all;'

For he knew who was going to betray him. That's why he said, "Not all of you are clean."

You call me 'Teacher,' and 'Lord,' and you are right in doing so because that is who I am.

Well, if I have washed your feet, I who am your Lord and Teacher, you are bound to wash one another's feet;

Truly, I tell all of you emphatically, a servant isn't greater than his master, and a messenger isn't greater than the one who sent him.

I'm not talking about all of you. I know the ones I have chosen. But the Scripture must be fulfilled: "The one who ate bread with me has turned against me.'

"From this time forward, I tell you before it comes to pass, that when it is come to pass you may believe who I am.

Truly, I tell all of you emphatically, the one who receives whomever I send receives me, and the one who receives me receives the one who sent me."

After saying this, Jesus was much troubled, and said solemnly: "In truth I tell you that it is one of you who will betray me."

The disciples began looking at one another, completely mystified about whom he was speaking.

One of his disciples, the one whom Jesus kept loving, had been sitting very close to him.

So Simon Peter motioned to this man to ask Jesus about whom he was speaking.

Leaning forward on Jesus' chest, he asked him, "Lord, who is it?"

Jesus answered, "He is the one to whom I will give this piece of bread after I have dipped it in the dish."

Now none of those who sat at table knew wherefore he had spoken to him.

"Have I been with you all this time, Philip, and you still do not know me?" Jesus asked him. "The person who has seen me has seen the Father. So how can you say, "Show us the Father'?

You believe, don't you, that I am in the Father and the Father is in me? The words that I say to you I don't speak on my own. It is the Father who dwells in me and who carries out his work.

Truly, I tell all of you emphatically, the one who believes in me will also do what I'm doing. He will do even greater things than these, because I'm going to the Father.

"And I will ask the Father and He will give you another Helper [i.e., besides me], who will be with you forever.

He is the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor recognizes him. But you recognize him, because he lives with you and will be in you.

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

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.

The one who doesn't love me doesn't keep my words. The words that you're hearing me say are not mine, but come from the Father who sent me.

But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things and remind you of everything that I have told you.

He will cut off [See verse 6] every branch [i.e., follower of Christ] who is in [fellowship with] me that does not bear fruit. And He will prune every branch that does bear fruit, so it will bear more fruit.

I am the vine, you are the branches. The one who abides in me while I abide in him produces much fruit, because apart from me you can do nothing.

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.

there cannot be greater love than that of a man, who lays down his life for his friends.

You have not chosen me, it is I who have chosen you, appointing you to go and bear fruit ??fruit that lasts, so that the Father may grant you whatever you ask in my name.

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

They would not be guilty, if I had not come and spoken to them; but, as it is, they have no excuse for their sin ??23 he who hates me hates my Father also.

The person who hates me also hates my Father.

"When the Helper comes, whom I will send to you from the Father the Spirit of Truth, who comes from the Father he will testify on my behalf.

You'll be thrown out of the synagogues. Yes, a time is coming when the one who kills you will think he's serving God.

And they will do these things because they have failed to recognize the Father and to discover who I am.

"But now I am going to the one who sent me. Yet none of you asks me, "Where are you going?'

even as thou hast given him authority over all flesh, that with regard to all those whom thou hast given him, he should give to them eternal life:

And this is eternal life: to know you, the only true God, and the one whom you sent Jesus the Messiah.

I have made your name known to these men whom you gave me from the world. They were yours, and you gave them to me, and they have kept your word.

'I ask in regard to them; not in regard to the world do I ask, but in regard to those whom Thou hast given to me, because Thine they are,

and no more am I in the world, and these are in the world, and I come unto Thee. Holy Father, keep them in Thy name, whom Thou hast given to me, that they may be one as we;

While I was with them, I protected them by the authority that you gave me. I guarded them, and not one of them became lost except the one who was destined for destruction, so that the Scripture might be fulfilled.

I ask not only on behalf of these men, but also on behalf of those who will believe in me through their message,