Many people came to him and kept saying, "John never performed a sign, but everything that John said about this man is true!"

So the sisters sent word to Jesus and told him, "Lord, the one whom you love is ill."

The disciples told him, "Rabbi, the Jewish leaders were just now trying to stone you to death, and you are going back there again?"

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

These were the things he said. Then after this, he told them, "Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep, but I'm leaving to wake him up."

So the disciples told him, "Lord, if he has fallen asleep, he will get well."

For your sake I'm glad that I wasn't there, so that you may believe. But let's go to him."

Then Thomas, who was called the Twin, told his fellow disciples, "Let's go, too, so that we may die with him!"

As soon as Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went and met him, while Mary stayed at home.

Martha told him, "I know that he will rise again in the resurrection on the last day."

"Yes, Lord," she told him. "I believe that you are the Messiah, the Son of God, the one who was to come into the world."

As soon as Mary heard this, she got up quickly and went to him.

Now Jesus had not yet arrived at the village but was still at the place where Martha had met him.

As soon as Mary came to where Jesus was and saw him, she fell down at his feet and told him, "Lord, if you had been here, my brother wouldn't have died."

He asked, "Where have you put him?" They told him, "Lord, come and see."

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

Jesus said, "Remove the stone." Martha, the dead man's sister, told him, "Lord, there must be a stench by now, because he's been dead for four days."

The man who had died came out, his hands and feet tied with strips of cloth, and his face wrapped in a handkerchief. Jesus told them, "Untie him, and let him go."

Many of the Jews who had come with Mary and who had observed what Jesus did believed in him.

If we let him go on like this, everyone will believe in him, and the Romans will come and destroy both our Temple and our nation."

So from that day on they resolved to put him to death.

Now the high priests and the Pharisees had given orders that whoever knew where he was should tell them so that they could arrest him.

There they gave a dinner for him. Martha served, and Lazarus was one of those at the table with him.

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

So they took branches of palm trees and went out to meet him, shouting, "Hosanna! How blessed is the one who comes in the name of the Lord, the King of Israel!"

At first, his disciples didn't understand these things. However, when Jesus had been glorified, they remembered that these things had been written about him and that people had done these things to him.

So the crowd that had been with him when he called Lazarus out of the tomb and raised him from the dead continued to testify to what they had seen.

Then the Pharisees told one another, "You see, there is nothing you can do. Look, the world has gone after him!"

They went to Philip (who was from Bethsaida in Galilee) and told him, "Sir, we would like to see Jesus."

If anyone serves me, he must follow me. And where I am, there my servant will also be. If anyone serves me, the Father will honor him."

Then a voice came from heaven, "I have glorified it, and I will glorify it again!" The crowd standing there heard this and said that it was thunder. Others were saying, "An angel has spoken to him."

Then the crowd answered him, "We have learned from the Law that the Messiah remains forever. So how can you say that the Son of Man must be lifted up? Who is this Son of Man?"

Although he had performed numerous signs in their presence, they did not believe in him,

Isaiah said this when he saw his glory and spoke about him.

Yet many people, even some of the authorities, believed in him, but because of the Pharisees they did not admit it so they would not be thrown out of the synagogue.

If anyone hears my words and doesn't keep them, I don't condemn him, because I didn't come to condemn the world, but to save it.

The one who rejects me and doesn't receive my words has something to judge him: The word that I've spoken will judge him on the last day,

By supper time, the Devil had already put it into the heart of Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot, to betray him.

Then he came to Simon Peter, who asked him, "Lord, are you going to wash my feet?"

Jesus answered him, "You don't realize now what I'm doing, but later on you'll understand."

Peter told him, "You must never wash my feet!" Jesus answered him, "Unless I wash you, you cannot be involved with me."

Simon Peter told him, "Lord, not just my feet, but my hands and my head as well!"

Jesus told him, "Whoever has bathed is entirely clean. He doesn't need to wash himself further, except for his feet. And you men are clean, though not all of you."

For he knew who was going to betray him. That's why he said, "Not all of you are clean."

Truly, I tell all of you emphatically, a servant isn't greater than his master, and a messenger isn't greater than the one who sent him.

One of his disciples, the one whom Jesus kept loving, had been sitting very close to him.

Leaning forward on Jesus' chest, he asked him, "Lord, who is it?"

Then he took a piece of bread, dipped it, and gave it to Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot. After he had taken the piece of bread, Satan entered him. Then Jesus told him, "Do quickly what you are going to do!"

Now no one at the table knew why Jesus said this to him.

Some thought that, since Judas had the moneybag, Jesus was telling him to buy what they needed for the festival or to give something to the destitute.

After Judas had gone out, Jesus said, "The Son of Man is now glorified, and God has been glorified by him.

If God has been glorified by him, God himself also will glorify the Son of Man, and he will do so quickly.

Simon Peter asked him, "Lord, where are you going?" Jesus answered him, "I'm going where you cannot follow me now, though you will follow me later on."

"Lord, why can't I follow you now?" Peter asked him. "I would lay down my life for you!"

Jesus answered him, "Would you lay down your life for me? I tell you emphatically, a rooster will not crow until you have denied me three times."

Thomas asked him, "Lord, we don't know where you are going, so how can we know the way?"

Jesus told him, "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

If you have known me, you will also know my Father. From now on you know him and have seen him."

Philip told him, "Lord, show us the Father, and that will satisfy us."

"Have I been with you all this time, Philip, and you still do not know me?" Jesus asked him. "The person who has seen me has seen the Father. So how can you say, "Show us the Father'?

He is the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor recognizes him. But you recognize him, because he lives with you and will be in you.

The person who has my commandments and keeps them is the one who loves me. The one who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I, too, will love him and reveal myself to him."

Judas (not Iscariot) asked him, "Lord, how is it that you are going to reveal yourself to us and not to the world?"

Jesus answered him, "If anyone loves me, he will keep my word. Then my Father will love him, and we will go to him and make our home within him.

I am the vine, you are the branches. The one who abides in me while I abide in him produces much fruit, because apart from me you can do nothing.

However, I'm telling you the truth. It's for your advantage that I'm going away, because if I don't go away, the Helper won't come to you. But if I go, I will send him to you.

Jesus knew that they wanted to ask him a question, so he asked them, "Are you discussing among yourselves what I meant when I said, "In a little while you will no longer see me, then in a little while you will see me again'?

For you have given him authority over all humanity so that he might give eternal life to all those you gave him.

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

They answered him, "Jesus from Nazareth." Jesus told them, "I AM." Judas, the man who betrayed him, was standing with them.

Then the soldiers, along with their commander and the Jewish officers, arrested Jesus and tied him up.

First they brought him to Annas, because he was the father-in-law of Caiaphas, the high priest that year.

Jesus answered him, "I have spoken publicly to the world. I have always taught in the synagogue or in the Temple, where all Jews meet together, and I have said nothing in secret.

Jesus answered him, "If I have said anything wrong, tell me what it was. But if I have told the truth, why do you hit me?"

Then Annas sent him, with his hands tied, to Caiaphas the high priest.

Meanwhile, Simon Peter was standing and warming himself. Some people asked him, "You aren't one of his disciples, too, are you?" He denied it by saying, "I am not!"

They answered him, "If he weren't a criminal, we wouldn't have handed him over to you."

Pilate told them, "You take him and try him according to your Law."

The Jewish leaders told him, "It is not legal for us to put anyone to death." This was to fulfill what Jesus had said when he indicated the kind of death he was to die.

So Pilate went back into the governor's headquarters, summoned Jesus, and asked him, "Are you the king of the Jews?"

Pilate asked him, "So you are a king?" Jesus answered, "You say that I am a king. I was born for this, and I came into the world for this: to testify to the truth. Everyone who is committed to the truth listens to my voice."

Pilate asked him, "What is "truth'?" and then he went out to the Jewish leaders again and told them, "I find no basis for a charge against him.

The soldiers twisted some thorns into a victor's crown, put it on his head, and threw a purple robe on him.

They kept coming up to him and saying, "Long live the king of the Jews!" Then they began to slap him on the face.

Pilate went outside again and told the Jews, "Look, I am bringing him out to you to let you know that I find no basis for a charge against him."

When the high priests and the officials saw him, they shouted, "Crucify him! Crucify him!" Pilate told them, "You take him and crucify him. I find no basis for a charge against him."

Returning to his headquarters, he asked Jesus, "Where are you from?" But Jesus did not answer him.

So Pilate asked him, "Aren't you going to speak to me? You realize, don't you, that I have the authority to release you and the authority to crucify you?"

Jesus answered him, "You have no authority over me at all, except what was given to you from above. That's why the one who handed me over to you is guilty of a greater sin."

From then on, Pilate tried to release him, but the Jewish leaders kept shouting, "If you release this fellow, you're not a friend of Caesar! Anyone who claims to be a king is defying Caesar!"

Then they shouted, "Take him away! Take him away! Crucify him!" Pilate asked them, "Should I crucify your king?"

The high priests responded, "We have no king but Caesar!" Then Pilate handed him over to be crucified, and they took Jesus away.

There they crucified him, along with two others, one on each side of him with Jesus in the middle.

So the soldiers went and broke the legs of the first man and then of the other man who had been crucified with him.

Later on, Joseph of Arimathea, who was a disciple of Jesus (though a secret one because he was afraid of the Jewish leaders), asked Pilate to let him remove the body of Jesus. Pilate gave him permission, and he came and removed his body.

So she ran off and went to Simon Peter and the other disciple, whom Jesus kept loving. She told them, "They have taken the Lord out of the tomb, and we don't know where they have put him!"

At this point Simon Peter arrived, following him, and went straight into the tomb. He observed that the linen cloths were lying there,

They asked her, "Lady, why are you crying?" She told them, "Because they have taken away my Lord, and I don't know where they have put him."

Jesus asked her, "Dear lady, why are you crying? Who are you looking for?" Thinking he was the gardener, she told him, "Sir, if you have carried him away, tell me where you have put him, and I will take him away."

Jesus told her, "Mary!" She turned around and told him in Hebrew, "Rabbouni!" (which means "Teacher").