I’m glad for you that I wasn’t there so that you may believe. But let’s go to him.”

Then Thomas (called “Twin”) said to his fellow disciples, “Let’s go so that we may die with Him.”

When Jesus arrived, He found that Lazarus had already been in the tomb four days.

As soon as Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went to meet Him. But Mary remained seated in the house.

Yet even now I know that whatever You ask from God, God will give You.”

Martha said, “I know that he will rise again in the resurrection at the last day.”

The Jews who were with her in the house consoling her saw that Mary got up quickly and went out. So they followed her, supposing that she was going to the tomb to cry there.

Jesus said to her, “Didn’t I tell you that if you believed you would see the glory of God?”

So they removed the stone. Then Jesus raised His eyes and said, “Father, I thank You that You heard Me.

I know that You always hear Me, but because of the crowd standing here I said this, so they may believe You sent Me.”

One of them, Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, said to them, “You know nothing at all!

You’re not considering that it is to your advantage that one man should die for the people rather than the whole nation perish.”

He did not say this on his own, but being high priest that year he prophesied that Jesus was going to die for the nation,

So from that day on they plotted to kill Him.

The chief priests and the Pharisees had given orders that if anyone knew where He was, he should report it so they could arrest Him.

The next day, when the large crowd that had come to the festival heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem,

His disciples did not understand these things at first. However, when Jesus was glorified, then they remembered that these things had been written about Him and that they had done these things to Him.

“Now My soul is troubled. What should I say—Father, save Me from this hour? But that is why I came to this hour.

Then the crowd replied to Him, “We have heard from the scripture that the Messiah will remain forever. So how can You say, ‘The Son of Man must be lifted up’? Who is this Son of Man?”

Jesus answered, “The light will be with you only a little longer. Walk while you have the light so that darkness doesn’t overtake you. The one who walks in darkness doesn’t know where he’s going.

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.

He has blinded their eyes
and hardened their hearts,
so that they would not see with their eyes
or understand with their hearts,
and be converted,
and I would heal them.

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

I know that His command is eternal life. So the things that I speak, I speak just as the Father has told Me.”

Before the Passover Festival, Jesus knew that His hour had come to depart from this world to the Father. Having loved His own who were in the world, He loved them to the end.

Jesus knew that the Father had given everything into His hands, that He had come from God, and that He was going back to God.

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

“I am telling you now before it happens, so that when it does happen you will believe that I am He.

Since Judas kept the money-bag, some thought that Jesus was telling him, “Buy what we need for the festival,” or that he should give something to the poor.

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

If I go away and prepare a place for you, I will come back and receive you to Myself, so that where I am you may be also.

“Lord,” said Philip, “show us the Father, and that’s enough for us.”

Don’t you believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in Me? The words I speak to you I do not speak on My own. The Father who lives in Me does His works.

Believe Me that I am in the Father and the Father is in Me. Otherwise, believe because of the works themselves.

“I assure you: The one who believes in Me will also do the works that I do. And he will do even greater works than these, because I am going to the Father.

Whatever you ask in My name, I will do it so that the Father may be glorified in the Son.

In that day you will know that I am in My Father, you are in Me, and I am in you.

The one who doesn’t love Me will not keep My words. The word that you hear is not Mine but is from the Father who sent Me.

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.

On the contrary, I am going away so that the world may know that I love the Father. Just as the Father commanded Me, so I do.

“Get up; let’s leave this place.

Every branch in Me that does not produce fruit He removes, and He prunes every branch that produces fruit so that it will produce more fruit.

My Father is glorified by this: that you produce much fruit and prove to be My disciples.

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

No one has greater love than this, that someone would lay down his life for his friends.

You did not choose Me, but I chose you. I appointed you that you should go out and produce fruit and that your fruit should remain, so that whatever you ask the Father in My name, He will give you.

“If the world hates you, understand that it hated Me before it hated you.

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.

But this happened so that the statement written in their scripture might be fulfilled: They hated Me for no reason.

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.

Nevertheless, I am telling you the truth. It is for your benefit that I go away, because if I don’t go away the Counselor will not come to you. If I go, I will send Him to you.

Everything the Father has is Mine. This is why I told you that He takes from what is Mine and will declare it to you.

When a woman is in labor she has pain because her time has come. But when she has given birth to a child, she no longer remembers the suffering because of the joy that a person has been born into the world.

In that day you will not ask Me anything.

“I assure you: Anything you ask the Father in My name, He will give you.

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

In that day you will ask in My name. I am not telling you that I will make requests to the Father on your behalf.

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

Now we know that You know everything and don’t need anyone to question You. By this we believe that You came from God.”

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.”

Jesus spoke these things, looked up to heaven, and said:

Father,
the hour has come.
Glorify Your Son
so that the Son may glorify You,

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

Now, Father, glorify Me in Your presence
with that glory I had with You
before the world existed.

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 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 am not praying
that You take them out of the world
but that You protect them from the evil one.

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

Then Jesus, knowing everything that was about to happen to Him, went out and said to them, “Who is it you’re looking for?”

At that, Jesus said to Peter, “Sheathe your sword! Am I not to drink the cup the Father has given Me?”

First they led Him to Annas, for he was the father-in-law of Caiaphas, who was high priest that year.

Caiaphas was the one who had advised the Jews that it was advantageous that one man should die for the people.

Meanwhile, Simon Peter was following Jesus, as was another disciple. That disciple was an acquaintance of the high priest; so he went with Jesus into the high priest’s courtyard.

They said this so that Jesus’ words might be fulfilled signifying what kind of death He was going to die.

“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?”

From that moment Pilate made every effort to release Him. But the Jews shouted, “If you release this man, you are not Caesar’s friend. Anyone who makes himself a king opposes Caesar!”

So the chief priests of the Jews said to Pilate, “Don’t write, ‘The King of the Jews,’ but that He said, ‘I am the King of the Jews.’”

So they said to one another, “Let’s not tear it, but cast lots for it, to see who gets it.” They did this to fulfill the Scripture that says: They divided My clothes among themselves, and they cast lots for My clothing. And this is what the soldiers did.

Then He said to the disciple, “Here is your mother.” And from that hour the disciple took her into his home.

After this, when Jesus knew that everything was now accomplished that the Scripture might be fulfilled, He said, “I’m thirsty!”

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.

When they came to Jesus, they did not break His legs since they saw that He was already dead.

He who saw this has testified so that you also may believe. His testimony is true, and he knows he is telling the truth.

For these things happened so that the Scripture would be fulfilled: Not one of His bones will be broken.

After this, Joseph of Arimathea, who was a disciple of Jesus—but secretly because of his fear of the Jews—asked Pilate that he might remove Jesus’ body. Pilate gave him permission, so he came and took His body away.

On the first day of the week Mary Magdalene came to the tomb early, while it was still dark. She saw that the stone had been removed from the tomb.

At that, Peter and the other disciple went out, heading for the tomb.

The wrapping that had been on His head was not lying with the linen cloths but was folded up in a separate place by itself.

For they still did not understand the Scripture that He must rise from the dead.

“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.”

In the evening of that first day of the week, the disciples were gathered together with the doors locked because of their fear of the Jews. Then Jesus came, stood among them, and said to them, “Peace to you!”

Jesus performed many other signs in the presence of His disciples that are not written in this book.

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.

“I’m going fishing,” Simon Peter said to them.

“We’re coming with you,” they told him. They went out and got into the boat, but that night they caught nothing.

Therefore the disciple, the one Jesus loved, said to Peter, “It is the Lord!”

When Simon Peter heard that it was the Lord, he tied his outer garment around him (for he was stripped) and plunged into the sea.