While you have the light, believe in the light so that you may become sons of light.” Jesus said this, then went away and hid from them.

I have come as a light into the world, so that everyone who believes in Me would not remain in darkness.

The one who rejects Me and doesn’t accept My sayings has this as his judge: The word I have spoken will judge him on the last day.

For I have not spoken on My own, but the Father Himself who sent Me has given Me a command as to what I should say and what I should speak.

“You will never wash my feet—ever!” Peter said.

Jesus replied, “If I don’t wash you, you have no part with Me.”

When Jesus had washed their feet and put on His robe, He reclined again and said to them, “Do you know what I have done for you?

So if I, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another’s feet.

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

I’m not speaking about all of you; I know those I have chosen. But the Scripture must be fulfilled: The one who eats My bread has raised his heel against Me.

Jesus replied, “He’s the one I give the piece of bread to after I have dipped it.” When He had dipped the bread, He gave it to Judas, Simon Iscariot’s son.

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

By this all people will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another.”

Jesus replied, “Will you lay down your life for Me? I assure you: A rooster will not crow until you have denied Me three times.

In My Father’s house are many dwelling places; if not, I would have told you. I am going away to prepare a place for you.

“If you know Me, you will also know My Father. From now on you do know Him and have seen Him.”

Jesus said to him, “Have I been among you all this time without your knowing Me, Philip? The one who has seen Me has seen the Father. How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’?

“I have spoken these things to you while I remain with you.

But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit—the Father will send Him in My name—will teach you all things and remind you of everything I have told you.

You have heard Me tell you, ‘I am going away and I am coming to you.’ If you loved Me, you would have rejoiced that I am going to the Father, because the Father is greater than I.

I have told you now before it happens so that when it does happen you may believe.

You are already clean because of the word I have spoken to you.

“As the Father has loved Me, I have also loved you. Remain in My love.

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.

“I have spoken these things to you so that My joy may be in you and your joy may be complete.

This is My command: Love one another as I have loved you.

I do not call you slaves anymore, because a slave doesn’t know what his master is doing. I have called you friends, because I have made known to you everything I have heard from My Father.

If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own. However, because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of it, the world hates you.

If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have sin. Now they have no excuse for their sin.

If I had not done the works among them that no one else has done, they would not have sin. Now they have seen and hated both Me and My Father.

You also will testify, because you have been with Me from the beginning.

“I have told you these things to keep you from stumbling.

They will do these things because they haven’t known the Father or Me.

But I have told you these things so that when their time comes you may remember I told them to you. I didn’t tell you these things from the beginning, because I was with you.

Yet, because I have spoken these things to you, sorrow has filled your heart.

“I still have many things to tell you, but you can’t bear them now.

So you also have sorrow now. But I will see you again. Your hearts will rejoice, and no one will rob you of your joy.

Until now you have asked for nothing in My name. Ask and you will receive, so that your joy may be complete.

“I have spoken these things to you in figures of speech. A time is coming when I will no longer speak to you in figures, but I will tell you plainly about the Father.

For the Father Himself loves you, because you have loved Me and have believed that I came from God.

I came from the Father and have come into the world. Again, I am leaving the world and going to the Father.”

I have told you these things so that in Me you may have peace. You will have suffering in this world. Be courageous! I have conquered the world.”

for You gave Him authority
over all flesh;
so He may give eternal life
to all You have given Him.

This is eternal life:
that they may know You, the only true God,
and the One You have sent—Jesus Christ.

I have glorified You on the earth
by completing the work You gave Me to do.

I have revealed Your name
to the men You gave Me from the world.
They were Yours, You gave them to Me,
and they have kept Your word.

Now they know that all things
You have given to Me are from You,

because the words that You gave Me,
I have given them.
They have received them
and have known for certain
that I came from You.
They have believed that You sent Me.

I pray for them.
I am not praying for the world
but for those You have given Me,
because they are Yours.

Everything I have is Yours,
and everything You have is Mine,
and I have been glorified in them.

I am no longer in the world,
but they are in the world,
and I am coming to You.
Holy Father,
protect them by Your name
that You have given Me,
so that they may be one as We are one.

While I was with them,
I was protecting them by Your name
that You have given Me.
I guarded them and not one of them is lost,
except the son of destruction,
so that the Scripture may be fulfilled.

Now I am coming to You,
and I speak these things in the world
so that they may have My joy completed in them.

I have given them Your word.
The world hated them
because they are not of the world,
as I am not of the world.

As You sent Me into the world,
I also have sent them into the world.

I have given them the glory You have given Me.
May they be one as We are one.

I am in them and You are in Me.
May they be made completely one,
so the world may know You have sent Me
and have loved them as You have loved Me.

Father,
I desire those You have given Me
to be with Me where I am.
Then they will see My glory,
which You have given Me
because You loved Me before the world’s foundation.

Righteous Father!
The world has not known You.
However, I have known You,
and these have known that You sent Me.

I made Your name known to them
and will make it known,
so the love You have loved Me with
may be in them and I may be in them.

This was to fulfill the words He had said: “I have not lost one of those You have given Me.”

“I have spoken openly to the world,” Jesus answered him. “I have always taught in the synagogue and in the temple complex, where all the Jews congregate, and I haven’t spoken anything in secret.

“If I have spoken wrongly,” Jesus answered him, “give evidence about the wrong; but if rightly, why do you hit Me?”

They answered him, “If this man weren’t a criminal, we wouldn’t have handed Him over to you.”

Jesus answered, “Are you asking this on your own, or have others told you about Me?”

“I’m not a Jew, am I?” Pilate replied. “Your own nation and the chief priests handed You over to me. What have You done?”

“My kingdom is not of this world,” said Jesus. “If My kingdom were of this world, My servants would fight, so that I wouldn’t be handed over to the Jews. As it is, My kingdom does not have its origin here.”

“You are a king then?” Pilate asked.

“You say that I’m a king,” Jesus replied. “I was born for this, and I have come into the world for this: to testify to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth listens to My voice.”

You have a custom that I release one prisoner to you at the Passover. So, do you want me to release to you the King of the Jews?”

“We have a law,” the Jews replied to him, “and according to that law He must die, because He made Himself the Son of God.”

So Pilate said to Him, “You’re not talking to me? Don’t You know that I have the authority to release You and the authority to crucify You?”

“You would have no authority over Me at all,” Jesus answered him, “if it hadn’t been given you from above. This is why the one who handed Me over to you has the greater sin.”

But they shouted, “Take Him away! Take Him away! Crucify Him!”

Pilate said to them, “Should I crucify your king?”

“We have no king but Caesar!” the chief priests answered.

Pilate replied, “What I have written, I have written.”

Since it was the preparation day, the Jews did not want the bodies to remain on the cross on the Sabbath (for that Sabbath was a special day). They requested that Pilate have the men’s legs broken and that their bodies be taken away.

So she ran to Simon Peter and to the other disciple, the one Jesus loved, and said to them, “They have taken the Lord out of the tomb, and we don’t know where they have put Him!”

“Don’t cling to Me,” Jesus told her, “for I have not yet ascended to the Father. But go to My brothers and tell them that I am ascending to My Father and your Father—to My God and your God.”

Mary Magdalene went and announced to the disciples, “I have seen the Lord!” And she told them what He had said to her.

So the other disciples kept telling him, “We have seen the Lord!”

But he said to them, “If I don’t see the mark of the nails in His hands, put my finger into the mark of the nails, and put my hand into His side, I will never believe!”

Jesus said, “Because you have seen Me, you have believed. Those who believe without seeing are blessed.”

But these are written so that you may believe Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of God, and by believing you may have life in His name.

“Men,” Jesus called to them, “you don’t have any fish, do you?”

“No,” they answered.

“Come and have breakfast,” Jesus told them. None of the disciples dared ask Him, “Who are You?” because they knew it was the Lord.

They said, “Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking up into heaven? This Jesus, who has been taken from you into heaven, will come in the same way that you have seen Him going into heaven.”

“Therefore, from among the men who have accompanied us during the whole time the Lord Jesus went in and out among us—

Then they prayed, “You, Lord, know the hearts of all; show which of these two You have chosen

You have revealed the paths of life to me;
You will fill me with gladness
in Your presence.

But Peter said, “I don’t have silver or gold, but what I have, I give you: In the name of Jesus Christ the Nazarene, get up and walk!”

But you denied the Holy and Righteous One and asked to have a murderer given to you.

“In addition, all the prophets who have spoken, from Samuel and those after him, have also announced these days.

After they had Peter and John stand before them, they asked the question: “By what power or in what name have you done this?”

for we are unable to stop speaking about what we have seen and heard.”

Wasn’t it yours while you possessed it? And after it was sold, wasn’t it at your disposal? Why is it that you planned this thing in your heart? You have not lied to men but to God!”

Then Peter said to her, “Why did you agree to test the Spirit of the Lord? Look! The feet of those who have buried your husband are at the door, and they will carry you out!”

In obedience to this, they entered the temple complex at daybreak and began to teach.

When the high priest and those who were with him arrived, they convened the Sanhedrin—the full Senate of the sons of Israel—and sent orders to the jail to have them brought.

“Didn’t we strictly order you not to teach in this name? And look, you have filled Jerusalem with your teaching and are determined to bring this man’s blood on us!”

I have observed the oppression of My people in Egypt; I have heard their groaning and have come down to rescue them. And now, come, I will send you to Egypt.

Which of the prophets did your fathers not persecute? They even killed those who announced beforehand the coming of the Righteous One, whose betrayers and murderers you have now become.

You received the law under the direction of angels and yet have not kept it.”

You have no part or share in this matter, because your heart is not right before God.

“Please pray to the Lord for me,” Simon replied, “so that nothing you have said may happen to me.”