But we know where this man comes from. Whenever the Christ comes, no one will know where he comes from."

Then Jesus, while teaching in the temple courts, cried out, "You both know me and know where I come from! And I have not come on my own initiative, but the one who sent me is true. You do not know him,

but I know him, because I have come from him and he sent me."

So then they tried to seize Jesus, but no one laid a hand on him, because his time had not yet come.

You will look for me but will not find me, and where I am you cannot come."

What did he mean by saying, 'You will look for me but will not find me, and where I am you cannot come'?"

Others said, "This is the Christ!" But still others said, "No, for the Christ doesn't come from Galilee, does he?

Some of them were wanting to seize him, but no one laid a hand on him.

But this rabble who do not know the law are accursed!"

But Jesus went to the Mount of Olives.

Then Jesus spoke out again, "I am the light of the world. The one who follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life."

Jesus answered, "Even if I testify about myself, my testimony is true, because I know where I came from and where I am going. But you people do not know where I came from or where I am going.

But if I judge, my evaluation is accurate, because I am not alone when I judge, but I and the Father who sent me do so together.

Then Jesus said to them again, "I am going away, and you will look for me but will die in your sin. Where I am going you cannot come."

I have many things to say and to judge about you, but the Father who sent me is truthful, and the things I have heard from him I speak to the world."

Then Jesus said, "When you lift up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am he, and I do nothing on my own initiative, but I speak just what the Father taught me.

The slave does not remain in the family forever, but the son remains forever.

I know that you are Abraham's descendants. But you want to kill me, because my teaching makes no progress among you.

But now you are trying to kill me, a man who has told you the truth I heard from God. Abraham did not do this!

Jesus replied, "If God were your Father, you would love me, for I have come from God and am now here. I have not come on my own initiative, but he sent me.

But because I am telling you the truth, you do not believe me.

Jesus answered, "I am not possessed by a demon, but I honor my Father -- and yet you dishonor me.

Yet you do not know him, but I know him. If I were to say that I do not know him, I would be a liar like you. But I do know him, and I obey his teaching.

Then they picked up stones to throw at him, but Jesus hid himself and went out from the temple area.

Jesus answered, "Neither this man nor his parents sinned, but he was born blind so that the acts of God may be revealed through what happens to him.

Some people said, "This is the man!" while others said, "No, but he looks like him." The man himself kept insisting, "I am the one!"

Then some of the Pharisees began to say, "This man is not from God, because he does not observe the Sabbath." But others said, "How can a man who is a sinner perform such miraculous signs?" Thus there was a division among them.

But we do not know how he is now able to see, nor do we know who caused him to see. Ask him, he is a mature adult. He will speak for himself."

We know that God doesn't listen to sinners, but if anyone is devout and does his will, God listens to him.

Jesus replied, "If you were blind, you would not be guilty of sin, but now because you claim that you can see, your guilt remains."

"I tell you the solemn truth, the one who does not enter the sheepfold by the door, but climbs in some other way, is a thief and a robber.

They will never follow a stranger, but will run away from him, because they do not recognize the stranger's voice."

Jesus told them this parable, but they did not understand what he was saying to them.

All who came before me were thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not listen to them.

No one takes it away from me, but I lay it down of my own free will. I have the authority to lay it down, and I have the authority to take it back again. This commandment I received from my Father."

But you refuse to believe because you are not my sheep.

The Jewish leaders replied, "We are not going to stone you for a good deed but for blasphemy, because you, a man, are claiming to be God."

But if I do them, even if you do not believe me, believe the deeds, so that you may come to know and understand that I am in the Father and the Father is in me."

Then they attempted again to seize him, but he escaped their clutches.

Many came to him and began to say, "John performed no miraculous sign, but everything John said about this man was true!"

When Jesus heard this, he said, "This sickness will not lead to death, but to God's glory, so that the Son of God may be glorified through it."

But if anyone walks around at night, he stumbles, because the light is not in him."

After he said this, he added, "Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep. But I am going there to awaken him."

(Now Jesus had been talking about his death, but they thought he had been talking about real sleep.)

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

So when Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went out to meet him, but Mary was sitting in the house.

But even now I know that whatever you ask from God, God will grant you."

(Now Jesus had not yet entered the village, but was still in the place where Martha had come out to meet him.)

But some of them said, "This is the man who caused the blind man to see! Couldn't he have done something to keep Lazarus from dying?"

I knew that you always listen to me, but I said this for the sake of the crowd standing around here, that they may believe that you sent me."

But some of them went to the Pharisees and reported to them what Jesus had done.

(Now he did not say this on his own, but because he was high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus was going to die for the Jewish nation,

and not for the Jewish nation only, but to gather together into one the children of God who are scattered.)

Thus Jesus no longer went around publicly among the Judeans, but went away from there to the region near the wilderness, to a town called Ephraim, and stayed there with his disciples.

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

(Now Judas said this not because he was concerned about the poor, but because he was a thief. As keeper of the money box, he used to steal what was put into it.)

For you will always have the poor with you, but you will not always have me!"

Now a large crowd of Judeans learned that Jesus was there, and so they came not only because of him but also to see Lazarus whom he had raised from the dead.

(His disciples did not understand these things when they first happened, but when Jesus was glorified, then they remembered that these things were written about him and that these things had happened to him.)

I tell you the solemn truth, unless a kernel of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it remains by itself alone. But if it dies, it produces much grain.

"Now my soul is greatly distressed. And what should I say? 'Father, deliver me from this hour'? No, but for this very reason I have come to this hour.

Jesus said, "This voice has not come for my benefit but for yours.

Nevertheless, even among the rulers many believed in him, but because of the Pharisees they would not confess Jesus to be the Christ, so that they would not be put out of the synagogue.

But Jesus shouted out, "The one who believes in me does not believe in me, but in the one who sent me,

If anyone hears my words and does not obey them, I do not judge him. For I have not come to judge the world, but to save the world.

For I have not spoken from my own authority, but the Father himself who sent me has commanded me what I should say and what I should speak.

Jesus replied, "You do not understand what I am doing now, but you will understand after these things."

Simon Peter said to him, "Lord, wash not only my feet, but also my hands and my head!"

Jesus replied, "The one who has bathed needs only to wash his feet, but is completely clean. And you disciples are clean, but not every one of you."

"What I am saying does not refer to all of you. I know the ones I have chosen. But this is to fulfill the scripture, 'The one who eats my bread has turned against me.'

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

Do you not believe that I am in the Father, and the Father is in me? The words that I say to you, I do not speak on my own initiative, but the Father residing in me performs his miraculous deeds.

Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father is in me, but if you do not believe me, believe because of the miraculous deeds themselves.

the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot accept, because it does not see him or know him. But you know him, because he resides with you and will be in you.

In a little while the world will not see me any longer, but you will see me; because I live, you will live too.

The person who does not love me does not obey my words. And the word you hear is not mine, but the Father's who sent me.

But the Advocate, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you everything, and will cause you to remember everything I said to you.

but I am doing just what the Father commanded me, so that the world may know that I love the Father. Get up, let us go from here."

I no longer call you slaves, because the slave does not understand what his master is doing. But I have called you friends, because I have revealed to you everything I heard from my Father.

You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you to go and bear fruit, fruit that remains, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name he will give you.

If you belonged to the world, the world would love you as its own. However, because you do not belong to the world, but I chose you out of the world, for this reason the world hates you.

But they will do all these things to you on account of my name, because they do not know the one who sent me.

If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not be guilty of sin. But they no longer have any excuse for their sin.

If I had not performed among them the miraculous deeds that no one else did, they would not be guilty of sin. But now they have seen the deeds and have hated both me and my Father.

But I have told you these things so that when their time comes, you will remember that I told you about them. "I did not tell you these things from the beginning because I was with you.

But now I am going to the one who sent me, and not one of you is asking me, 'Where are you going?'

But I tell you the truth, it is to your advantage that I am going away. For if I do not go away, the Advocate will not come to you, but if I go, I will send him to you.

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

But when he, the Spirit of truth, comes, he will guide you into all truth. For he will not speak on his own authority, but will speak whatever he hears, and will tell you what is to come.

I tell you the solemn truth, you will weep and wail, but the world will rejoice; you will be sad, but your sadness will turn into joy.

When a woman gives birth, she has distress because her time has come, but when her child is born, she no longer remembers the suffering because of her joy that a human being has been born into the world.

So also you have sorrow now, but I will see you again, and your hearts will rejoice, and no one will take your joy away from you.

"I have told you these things in obscure figures of speech; a time is coming when I will no longer speak to you in obscure figures, but will tell you plainly about the Father.

I came from the Father and entered into the world, but in turn, I am leaving the world and going back to the Father."

I have told you these things so that in me you may have peace. In the world you have trouble and suffering, but take courage -- I have conquered the world."

I am praying on behalf of them. I am not praying on behalf of the world, but on behalf of those you have given me, because they belong to you.

I am no longer in the world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, keep them safe in your name that you have given me, so that they may be one just as we are one.

But now I am coming to you, and I am saying these things in the world, so they may experience my joy completed in themselves.

I am not asking you to take them out of the world, but that you keep them safe from the evil one.

"I am not praying only on their behalf, but also on behalf of those who believe in me through their testimony,