And just as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of man be lifted up,

Just then his disciples came up, and were astonished that he was talking with a woman; yet not one of them asked him, "What do you want?" or "Why are you talking with her?"

"For just as the Father raises the dead and makes them alive, even so the Son makes whom he will alive.

"I can of my own self do nothing. As I listen, I judge, and my own judgment is just, because I am not seeking my own will, but the will of Him who sent me.

"Just as the living Father has sent me, and I live by the Father, so also that man who feeds on me shall live by me.

so Jesus added. "When you lifted up the Son of man, then you will know that I am He; and that I do nothing on my own authority, but that I speak just as the Father has taught me,

just as the Father knows me, I know the Father, and I lay down my life for the sheep.

"Rabbi," answered his disciples, "it was but just now that the Jews were trying to stone you, and are you going there again?"

Now just before the feast of the Passover, Jesus, knowing that his hour was come when he should leave this world to go to the Father, having loved his own who were in the world, showed forth his love to the end.

So that disciples just leaned back against Jesus' breast and said to him, "Lord, who is it?"

"My little children, I am only to be with you a little longer. You will seek me; just as I said to the Jews, 'Where I go you cannot come,' so now I say to you.

"He has nothing in me, but in his coming the world may know that I love the Father, and that I do just as the Father commanded. Rise, let us be going!"

"Abide in me, and I in you. Just as the branch cannot bear fruit of itself except it abide in the vine, no more can you, unless you abide in me.

"If you obey my commands you will abide in my love, just as I have obeyed my Father's commands and abide in his love.

"I have yet many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them just now.

"Bring some of the fish you have just caught," Jesus told them.