He said, “I am a voice of one crying out in the wilderness: Make straight the way of the Lord—just as Isaiah the prophet said.”

Just as Moses lifted up the snake in the wilderness, so the Son of Man must be lifted up,

Just then His disciples arrived, and they were amazed that He was talking with a woman. Yet no one said, “What do You want?” or “Why are You talking with her?”

And just as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, so the Son also gives life to anyone He wants to.

so that all people will honor the Son just as they honor the Father. Anyone who does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent Him.

For just as the Father has life in Himself, so also He has granted to the Son to have life in Himself.

Our fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, just as it is written: He gave them bread from heaven to eat.”

Just as the living Father sent Me and I live because of the Father, so the one who feeds on Me will live because of Me.

So Jesus said to them, “When you lift up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am He, and that I do nothing on My own. But just as the Father taught Me, I say these things.

“Rabbi,” the disciples told Him, “just now the Jews tried to stone You, and You’re going there again?”

Jesus found a young donkey and sat on it, just as it is written:

I know that His command is eternal life. So the things that I speak, I speak just as the Father has told Me.”

For I have given you an example that you also should do just as I have done for you.

“Children, I am with you a little while longer. You will look for Me, and just as I told the Jews, ‘Where I am going you cannot come,’ so now I tell you.

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

On the contrary, I am going away so that the world may know that I love the Father. Just as the Father commanded Me, so I do.

“Get up; let’s leave this place.

Remain in Me, and I in you. Just as a branch is unable to produce fruit by itself unless it remains on the vine, so neither can you unless you remain in Me.

If you keep My commands you will remain in My love, just as I have kept My Father’s commands and remain in His love.

“Bring some of the fish you’ve just caught,” Jesus told them.