And it was then, after he had received it, that Satan took possession of him. So Jesus said to him: "Do at once what you are going to do."

Some thought that, as Judas kept the purse, Jesus meant that he was to buy some things needed for the Festival, or to give something to the poor.

It is by this that every one will recognize you as my disciples--by your loving one another."

And, since I go and prepare a place for you, I shall return and take you to be with me, so that you may be where I am;

Do not you believe that I am in union with the Father, and the Father with me? In giving you my teaching I am not speaking on my own authority; but the Father himself, always in union with me, does his own work.

Believe me," he said to them all, "when I say that I am in union with the Father and the Father with me, or else believe me on account of the work itself.

In truth I tell you, he who believes in me will himself do the work that I am doing; and he will do greater work still, because I am going to the Father.

Whatever you ask, in my Name, I will do, that the Father may be honored in the Son.

At that time you will recognize that I am in union with the Father, and you with me, and I with you.

It is he who has my commands and lays them to heart that loves me; and he who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him, and will reveal myself to him."

"What has happened, Master," said Judas (not Judas Iscariot), "that you are going to reveal yourself to us, and not to the world?"

He who does not love me will not lay my Message to heart; and the Message to which you are listening is not my own, but that of the Father who sent me.

But the Helper--the Holy Spirit whom the Father will send in my Name--he will teach you all things, and will recall to your minds all that I have said to you.

You heard me say that I was going away and would return to you. Had you loved me, you would have been glad that I was going to the Father, because the Father is greater than I.

And this I have told you now before it happens, that, when it does happen, you may still believe in me.

I shall not talk with you much more, for the Spirit that is ruling the world is coming. He has nothing in common with me;

But he is coming that the world may see that I love the Father, and that I do as the Father commanded me. Come, let us be going.

Any unfruitful branch in me he takes away, and he cleanses every fruitful branch, that it may bear more fruit.

You are already clean because of the Message that I have given you.

I am the Vine, you are the branches. He that remains united to me, while I remain united to him--he bears fruit plentifully; for you can do nothing apart from me.

It is by your bearing fruit plentifully, and so showing yourselves my disciples, that my Father is honored.

I have told you all this so that my own joy may be yours, and that your joy may be complete.

No one can give greater proof of love than by laying down his life for his friends.

I no longer call you 'servants,' because a servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have given you the name of 'friends,' because I made known to you everything that I learned from my Father.

It was not you who chose me, but I who chose you, and I appointed you to go and bear fruit--fruit that should remain, so that the Father might grant you whatever you ask in my Name.

I am giving you these commands that you may love one another.

If the world hates you, you know that it has first hated me.

If you belonged to the world, the world would love its own. Because you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world--that is why the world hates you.

Remember what I said to you--'A servant is not greater than his master.' If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have laid my Message to heart, they will lay yours to heart also.

I have spoken to you in this way so that you may not falter.

They will expel you from their Synagogues; indeed the time is coming when any one who kills you will think that he is making an offering to God.

But I have spoken to you of these things that, when the time for them comes, you may remember that I told you about them myself.

Although your hearts are full of sorrow at all that I have been saying to you.

Yet I am only telling you the truth; it is for your good that I should go away. For otherwise the Helper will never come to you, but, if I leave you, I will send him to you.

As to Judgment, for the Spirit that is ruling this world has been condemned.

Yet when he--The Spirit of Truth--comes, he will guide you into all Truth; for he will not speak on his own authority, but he will speak of all that he hears; and he will tell you of the things that are to come.

Everything that the Father has is mine; that is why I said that he takes of what is mine, and will tell it to you.

Jesus saw that they were wanting to ask him a question, and said: "Are you trying to find out from one another what I meant by saying 'In a little while you will not see me; and then in a little while you will see me indeed'?

In truth I tell you that you will weep and mourn, but the world will rejoice; you will suffer pain, but your pain shall turn to joy.

A woman in labor is in pain because her time has come; but no sooner is the child born, than she forgets her trouble in her joy that a man has been born into the world.

And at that time you will not ask me anything; in truth I tell you, if you ask the Father for anything, he will grant it to you in my Name.

So far you have not asked for anything, in my Name; ask, and you will receive, so that your joy may be complete.

You will ask, at that time, in my Name; and I do not say that I will intercede with the Father for you;

For the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me, and have believed that I came from the Father.

Now we are sure that you know everything, and need not wait for any one to question you. This makes us believe that you did come from God."

"Do you believe that already?" Jesus answered.

I have spoken to you in this way, so that in me you may find peace. In the world you will find trouble; yet, take courage! I have conquered the world."

After saying this, Jesus raised his eyes heaven-wards, and said: "Father, the hour has come; honor thy Son, that thy Son may honor thee;

Even as thou gavest him power over all mankind, that he should give Immortal Life to all those whom thou has given him.

They recognize now that everything that thou gavest me was from thee;

For I have given them the teaching which thou gavest me, and they received it, and clearly understood that I came from thee, and they believed that thou has sent me as thy Messenger.

All that is mine is thine, and all that is thine is mine-- and I am honored in them.

Now I am to be in this world no longer, but they are still to be in the world, and I am to come to thee. Holy Father, keep them by that revelation of thy Name which thou has given me, that they may be one, as we are.

Whilst I was with them, I kept them by that revelation, and I have guarded them; and not one of them has been lost, except that lost soul--in fulfillment of Scripture.

But now I am to come to thee; and I am speaking thus, while still in the world, that they may have my own joy, in all its fullness, in their hearts.

And it is for their sakes that I am consecrating myself, so that they also may be truly consecrated.

But it is not only for them that I am interceding, but also for those who believe in me through their Message,

That they all may be one--that as thou, Father, art in union with us--and so the world may believe that thou hast sent me as thy Messenger.

I have given them the honor which thou has given me, that they may be one as we are one--

I in union with them and thou with me--that so they may be perfected in their union, and thus the world may know that thou hast sent me as thy Messenger, and that thou has loved them as thou hast loved me.

Father, my desire for all those whom thou has given me is that they may be with me where I am, so that they may see the honor which thou has given me; for thou didst love me before the beginning of the world.

O righteous Father, though the world did not know thee, I knew thee; and these men knew that thou has sent me as thy Messenger.

I have made thee known to them, and will do so still; that the love that thou has had for me may be in their hearts, and that I may be in them also."

Jesus, aware of all that was coming upon him, went to meet them, and said to them: "For whom are you looking?"

"I have already told you that I am he," replied Jesus, "so, if it is for me that you are looking, let these men go."

And took him first of all to Annas. Annas was the father-in- law of Caiaphas, who was High Priest that year.

It was Caiaphas who had counseled the Jews, that it was best that one man should die for the people.

Meanwhile Simon Peter followed Jesus, and so did another disciple. That disciple, being well-known to the High Priest, went with Jesus into the High Priest's court-yard,

When Jesus said this, one of the police-officers, who was standing near, gave him a blow with his hand. "Do you answer the High Priest like that?" he exclaimed.

Peter again denied it; and at that moment a cock crowed.

In fulfillment of what Jesus had said when indicating the death that he was destined to die.

After that, Pilate went into the Government House again, and calling Jesus up, asked him: "Are you the King of the Jews?"

"Do you ask me that yourself?" replied Jesus, "or did others say it to you about me?"

After that, Pilate had Jesus scourged.

Pilate again came outside, and said to the people: "Look! I am bringing him out to you, so that you may know that I find nothing with which he can be charged."

But Jesus made no reply. So Pilate said to him: "Do you refuse to speak to me? Do not you know that I have power to release you, and have power to crucify you?"

This made Pilate anxious to release him; but the Jews shouted: "If you release that man, you are no friend of the Emperor! Any one who makes himself out to be a King is setting himself against the Emperor!"

At that the people shouted: "Kill him! Kill him! Crucify him!" "What! shall I crucify your King?" exclaimed Pilate. "We have no King but the Emperor," replied the Chief Priests;

So they said to one another: "Do not let us tear it, but let us cast lots for it, to see who shall have it." This was in fulfillment of the words of Scripture--'They shared my clothes among them, And over my clothing they cast lots.' That was what the soldiers did.

Then he said to that disciple: "There is your mother." And from that very hour the disciple took her to live in his house.

Afterwards, knowing that everything was now finished, Jesus said, in fulfillment of the words of Scripture: "I am thirsty."

It was the Preparation Day, and so, to prevent the bodies from remaining on the crosses during the Sabbath (for that Sabbath was a great day), the Jews asked Pilate to have the legs broken and the bodies removed.

But, on coming to him, when they saw that he was already dead, they did not break his legs.

This is the statement of one who actually saw it--and his statement may be relied upon, and he knows that he is speaking the truth--and it is given in order that you also may be convinced.

On the first day of the week, early in the morning, while it was still dark, Mary of Magdala went to the tomb, and saw that the stone had been removed.

So she came running to Simon Peter, and to that other disciple who was Jesus' friend, and said to them: "They have taken away the Master out of the tomb, and we do not know where they have laid him!"

Upon this, Peter started off with that other disciple, and they went to the tomb.

The two began running together; but the other disciple ran faster than Peter, and reached the tomb first.

For they did not then understand the passage of Scripture which says that Jesus must rise again from the dead.

After saying this, she turned round, and looked at Jesus standing there, but she did not know that it was Jesus.

"Do not hold me," Jesus said; "for I have not yet ascended to the Father. But go to my Brothers, and tell them that I am ascending to him who is my Father and their Father, my God and their God."

Mary of Magdala went and told the disciples that she had seen the Master, and that he had said this to her.

"Is it because you have seen me that you have believed?" said Jesus. "Blessed are they who have not seen, and yet have believed!"

There were many other signs of his mission that Jesus gave in presence of the disciples, which are not recorded in this book;

But these have been recorded that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God--and that, through your belief in his Name, you may have Life.

"I am going fishing." "We will come with you," said the others. They went out and got into the boat, but caught nothing that night.

Just as day was breaking, Jesus came and stood on the beach; but the disciples did not know that it was he.

Upon this the disciple whom Jesus loved said to Peter: "It is the Master!" When Simon Peter heard that it was the Master, he fastened his coat round him (for he had taken it off), and threw himself into the Sea.

And Jesus said to them: "Come and breakfast." Not one of the disciples ventured to ask him who he was, knowing that it was the Master.

This was the third time that Jesus showed himself to the disciples after he had risen from the dead.