When he gets his own flock all out, he goes in front of them, and the sheep follow him, because they know his voice.

But they will never follow a stranger but will run away from him, because they do not know the voices of strangers."

Many of them said, "He is possessed and mad! Why do you listen to him?"

So the Jews gathered around him and said to him, "How much longer are you going to keep us in suspense? If you are really the Christ, tell us so frankly!"

The Jews again picked up stones to stone him with.

In consequence of this they again tried to arrest him, and he withdrew out of their reach.

And people came to him in great numbers, and they said of him, "John did not show any sign in proof of his mission, but all that he said about this man was true."

And many became believers in him in that place.

The disciples said to him, "Master, the Jews have just been trying to stone you, and are you going back there again?"

He told them this, and then he added, "Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep, but I am going there to wake him."

The disciples said to him, "Master, if he has fallen asleep he will recover."

"Lazarus is dead, and for your sake I am glad that I was not there, so that you may learn to believe in me. But let us go to him."

So Thomas the Twin said to his fellow-disciples, "Let us go also, and die with him."

When Martha heard that Jesus was coming she went out to meet him, but Mary remained at home.

Martha said to him, "I know that he will rise at the resurrection, on the Last Day."

She said to him, "Yes, Master, I do indeed believe that you are the Christ, the Son of God, who was to come into the world."

When she heard it she sprang up and went to him,

for Jesus had not yet come into the village, but was still at the place where Martha had met him.

When Mary came where Jesus was and saw him, she fell at his feet, and said, "Master, if you had been here, my brother would not have died!"

he said, "Where have you laid him?" They answered, "Come and see, Master."

So the Jews said, "See how much he loved him!"

Jesus said, "Move the stone away." The dead man's sister, Martha, said to him, "Master, by this time he is decaying, for he has been dead four days."

The dead man came out, bound hand and foot with wrappings, and with his face muffled with a handkerchief. Jesus said to them, "Unbind him and let him move."

So it came about that many of the Jews who had come to visit Mary and saw what Jesus did, came to believe in him,

If we let him go on, everybody will believe in him, and then the Romans will come and put an end to our holy place and our people."

For the high priests and the Pharisees had given orders that anyone who found out where he was should let them know, so that they might arrest him.

They gave a dinner for him there, and Martha waited on them, while Lazarus was at the table with him.

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

for because of him many of the Jews were leaving them and becoming believers in Jesus.

got palm branches and went out to meet him, shouting, "God bless him! God bless him who comes in the Lord's name! Blessings on the king of Israel!"

His disciples did not understand this at the time but after Jesus was glorified they remembered that this was said of him in Scripture and that it had happened to him.

The crowd that had been with him when he called Lazarus out of the tomb and raised him from the dead was telling about it.

That was why the crowd went out to meet him, because they heard that he had showed that sign.

So the Pharisees said to one another, "You see, you cannot do anything! The whole world has run after him!"

and they went to Philip, who was from Bethsaida in Galilee, and made this request of him: "Sir, we want to see Jesus."

Philip went and told Andrew, and Andrew and Philip went to Jesus and told him.

If anyone serves me, he must follow me, and wherever I am found, my servant must be also. If anyone serves me, my Father will show him honor.

The crowd of bystanders heard it and said it was thunder. Others said, "It was an angel speaking to him!"

But for all the signs he had shown among them, they refused to believe in him,

Isaiah said this because he saw his glory; it was of him that he spoke.

Yet for all that, even among the leading men, many came to believe in him, but on account of the Pharisees they would not acknowledge it, for fear of being excluded from the synagogues,

But Jesus cried loudly, "Whoever believes in me, believes not in me but in him who has sent me;

and whoever sees me, sees him who has sent me.

If anyone hears my words and disregards them, it is not I that judge him, for I have not come to judge the world but to save the world.

Before the Passover Festival began, Jesus knew that the time had come for him to leave this world and go to the Father, but he had loved those who were his own in the world, and he loved them to the last.

So he came to Simon Peter. He said to him, "Master, are you going to wash my feet?"

Peter said to him, "I will never let you wash my feet!" Jesus answered, "You will have no share with me unless I wash you."

Simon Peter said to him, "Master, wash not only my feet but my hands and my face too!"

Jesus said to him, "Anyone who has bathed only needs to have his feet washed to be altogether clean. And you are already clean??hough not all of you."

For he knew who was going to betray him; that was why he said, "You are not all of you clean."

I tell you, no slave is superior to his master, and no messenger is greater than the man who sends him.

I assure you, whoever welcomes any messenger of mine welcomes me and whoever welcomes me welcomes him who has sent me."

So Simon Peter nodded to him and said to him, "Tell us whom he means."

He leaned back from where he lay, on Jesus' breast, and said to him, "Master, who is it?"

After he took the bread, Satan took possession of him. Then Jesus said to him, "Be quick about your business."

But no one else at the table knew what he meant by telling him this,

for some of them thought that as Judas had the purse Jesus meant to say to him, "Buy what we need for the festival," or to have him give something to the poor.

When he was gone, Jesus said, "Now the Son of Man has been honored, and God has been honored through him,

and God will through himself honor him; he will honor him immediately.

Simon Peter said to him, "Master, where are you going?" Jesus answered, "I am going where you cannot follow me now, but you will follow me later."

Peter said to him, "Master, why cannot I follow you now? I will lay down my life for you."

Thomas said to him, "Master, we do not know where you are going; how can we know the way?"

Jesus said to him, "I am Way and Truth and Life. No one can come to the Father except through me.

If you knew me, you would know my Father also. From now on you do know him and you have seen him."

Philip said to him, "Master, let us see the Father, and it will satisfy us."

Jesus said to him, "Have I been with you so long, and yet you, Philip, have not recognized me? Whoever has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, 'Let us see the Father'?

It is he who has my commands and observes them that really loves me, and whoever loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him, and show myself to him."

Judas (not Judas Iscariot) said to him, "Master, how does it happen that you are going to show yourself to us and not to the world?"

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.

No one who does not love me will observe my teaching, and yet the teaching you are listening to is not mine but is that of him who has sent me.

I am the vine, you are the branches. Anyone who remains united to me, with me united to him, will be very fruitful, for you cannot do anything apart from me.

It was not you who chose me, it is I that have chosen you, and appointed you to go and bear fruit??ruit that shall be lasting, so that the Father may grant you whatever you ask him for as my followers.

But they will do all this to you on my account, because they do not understand him who sent me.

But now I am going away to him who sent me, and not one of you asks me where I am going,

Yet it is only the truth when I tell you that it is better for you that I should go away. For if I do not go, the Helper will not come to you, but if I go I will send him to you.

Jesus saw that they wanted to ask him a question, and he said to them, "Are you asking one another about my saying 'In a little while you will not see me any longer, and a little while after, you will see me again'?

just as you have done in giving him power over all mankind, so that he may give eternal life to all whom you have given him.

Judas who betrayed him also knew the place, for Jesus often met his disciples there.

Then Jesus, as he knew everything that was going to happen to him, came forward and said to them, "Who is it you are looking for?"

They answered, "Jesus of Nazareth." He said to them, "I am he." Judas who betrayed him was standing among them.

Then Simon Peter, who had a sword with him, drew it and struck at the high priest's slave and cut off his right ear. The slave's name was Malchus.

So the garrison and the colonel and the attendants of the Jews seized Jesus and bound him,

and they took him first to Annas. For he was the father-in-law of Caiaphas, who was high priest that year.

When he said this, one of the attendants who stood near struck him and said, "Is that the way you answer the high priest?"

So Annas sent him over still bound to Caiaphas the high priest.

But Simon Peter still stood warming himself. So they said to him, "Are you also one of his disciples?" He denied it and said, "No, I am not."

One of the high priest's slaves, a relative of the man whose ear Peter had cut off, said, "Did I not see you with him in the garden?"

They answered, "If he were not a criminal, we would not have turned him over to you."

Pilate said to them, "Take him yourselves, and try him by your law." The Jews said to him, "We have no authority to put anyone to death."

So Pilate went back into the governor's house and called Jesus and said to him, "Are you the king of the Jews?"

Pilate said to him, "Then you are a king?" Jesus answered, "As you say, I am a king. It was for this that I was born and for this that I came to the world, to give testimony for truth. Everyone who is on the side of truth listens to my voice."

Pilate said to him, "What is truth!" With these words he went outside again to the Jews, and said to them, "I can find nothing to charge him with.

Then they shouted back, "No! Not him, but Barabbas!" Now Barabbas was a robber.

Then Pilate took Jesus and had him flogged.

And the soldiers made a wreath out of thorns and put it on his head, and put a purple coat on him, and they marched up to him,

saying, "Long live the king of the Jews!" each one giving him a blow.

And Pilate went outside again and said to the Jews, "See! I will bring him out to you, to show you that I can find nothing to charge him with."

When the high priests and their attendants saw him, they shouted, "Have him crucified! Have him crucified!" Pilate said to them, "Take him yourselves and have him crucified, for I can find nothing to charge him with."

Then Pilate said to him, "Do you refuse to speak to me? Do you not know that it is in my power to release you or to have you crucified?"

Jesus answered him, "You would have no power at all over me, if it were not given to you from above. So you are less guilty than the man who betrayed me to you."