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

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

He was a burning and shining lamp, and you were willing to rejoice for a time in his light.

From this time many of his disciples went back and no longer walked with him.

Jesus said to them, "My time has not yet come, but your time is always ready.

You go up to the feast. I am not yet going up to this feast, for my time has not yet fully come."

So for the second time they called the man who had been blind, and said to him, "Give God the glory; we know that this man is a sinner."

Jesus said, "Take away the stone." Martha, the sister of the dead man, said to him, "Lord, by this time there is a bad odor, for he has been dead four days."

They will put you out of the synagogues; yes, the time is coming when whoever kills you will think he is offering service to God.

But I have told you these things, that when the time comes, you may remember that I told you of them. "I did not say these things to you at the beginning, because I was with you.

"I have said this to you in figurative language; but the time is coming when I will no longer speak to you in figures, but I will tell you plainly about the Father.

This was now the third time Jesus appeared to his disciples after he was raised from the dead.

He said to him again a second time, "Simon, son of John, do you love me?" He said to him, "Yes, Lord; you know that I love you." He said to him, "Tend my sheep."

He said to him the third time, "Simon, son of John, do you love me?" Peter was grieved because he said to him the third time, "Do you love me?" And he said to him, "Lord, you know all things; you know that I love you." Jesus said to him, "Feed my sheep.