Jesus responded, "Didn't I tell you that if you believe, you would see the glory of God?"

So they took away the stone. Jesus looked upward and said, "Father, I thank you that you have listened to me.

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."

Then one of them, Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, said, "You know nothing at all!

You do not realize that it is more to your advantage to have one man die for the people than for the whole nation to perish."

(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,

So from that day they planned together to kill him.

Thus they were looking for Jesus, and saying to one another as they stood in the temple courts, "What do you think? That he won't come to the feast?"

(Now the chief priests and the Pharisees had given orders that anyone who knew where Jesus was should report it, so that they could arrest him.)

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.

The next day the large crowd that had come to the feast heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem.

(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.)

Because they had heard that Jesus had performed this miraculous sign, the crowd went out to meet him.

Thus the Pharisees said to one another, "You see that you can do nothing. Look, the world has run off after him!"

The crowd that stood there and heard the voice said that it had thundered. Others said that an angel had spoken to him.

Then the crowd responded, "We have heard from the law that the Christ will remain forever. How can you say, 'The Son of Man must be lifted up'? Who is this Son of Man?"

Jesus replied, "The light is with you for a little while longer. Walk while you have the light, so that the darkness may not overtake you. The one who walks in the darkness does not know where he is going.

While you have the light, believe in the light, so that you may become sons of light." When Jesus had said these things, he went away and hid himself from them.

so that the word of Isaiah the prophet would be fulfilled. He said, "Lord, who has believed our message, and to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?"

"He has blinded their eyes and hardened their heart, so that they would not see with their eyes and understand with their heart, and turn to me, and I would heal them."

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.

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

And I know that his commandment is eternal life. Thus the things I say, I say just as the Father has told me."

Just before the Passover feast, Jesus knew that his time had come to depart from this world to the Father. Having loved his own who were in the world, he now loved them to the very end.

The evening meal was in progress, and the devil had already put into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, that he should betray Jesus.

Because Jesus knew that the Father had handed all things over to him, and that he had come from God and was going back to God,

You call me 'Teacher' and 'Lord,' and do so correctly, for that is what I am.

I am telling you this now, before it happens, so that when it happens you may believe that I am he.

Some thought that, because Judas had the money box, Jesus was telling him to buy whatever they needed for the feast, or to give something to the poor.)

Everyone will know by this that you are my disciples -- if you have love for one another."

And if I go and make ready a place for you, I will come again and take you to be with me, so that where I am you may be too.

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.

I tell you the solemn truth, the person who believes in me will perform the miraculous deeds that I am doing, and will perform greater deeds than these, because I am going to the Father.

And I will do whatever you ask in my name, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son.

You will know at that time that I am in my Father and you are in me and I am in you.

"Lord," Judas (not Judas Iscariot) said, "what has happened that you are going to reveal yourself to us and not to the world?"

You heard me say to you, 'I am going away and I am coming back to you.' If you loved me, you would be glad that I am going to the Father, because the Father is greater than I am.

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

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."

He takes away every branch that does not bear fruit in me. He prunes every branch that bears fruit so that it will bear more fruit.

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

My Father is honored by this, that you bear much fruit and show that you are my disciples.

I have told you these things so that my joy may be in you, and your joy may be complete.

No one has greater love than this -- that one lays down his life for his friends.

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 the world hates you, be aware that it hated me first.

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.

Now this happened to fulfill the word that is written in their law, 'They hated me without reason.'

"I have told you all these things so that you will not fall away.

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 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.

Everything that the Father has is mine; that is why I said the Spirit will receive from me what is mine and will tell it to you.

Jesus could see that they wanted to ask him about these things, so he said to them, "Are you asking each other about this -- that I said, 'In a little while you will not see me; again after a little while, you will see me'?

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.

At that time you will ask me nothing. I tell you the solemn truth, whatever you ask the Father in my name he will give you.

Until now you have not asked for anything in my name. Ask and you will receive it, so that your joy may be complete.

At that time you will ask in my name, and I do not say that I will ask 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 do not need anyone to ask you anything. Because of this we believe that you have come from God."

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."

When Jesus had finished saying these things, he looked upward to heaven and said, "Father, the time has come. Glorify your Son, so that your Son may glorify you --

just as you have given him authority over all humanity, so that he may give eternal life to everyone you have given him.

Now this is eternal life -- that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you sent.

Now they understand that everything you have given me comes from you,

because I have given them the words you have given me. They accepted them and really understand that I came from you, and they 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, keep them safe in your name that you have given me, so that they may be one just as we are one.

When I was with them I kept them safe and watched over them in your name that you have given me. Not one of them was lost except the one destined for destruction, so that the scripture could be fulfilled.

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

And I set myself apart on their behalf, so that they too may be truly set apart.

that they will all be one, just as you, Father, are in me and I am in you. I pray that they will be in us, so that the world will believe that you sent me.

The glory you gave to me I have given to them, that they may be one just as we are one --

I in them and you in me -- that they may be completely one, so that the world will know that you sent me, and you have loved them just as you have loved me.

"Father, I want those you have given me to be with me where I am, so that they can see my glory that you gave me because you loved me before the creation of the world.

Righteous Father, even if the world does not know you, I know you, and these men know that you sent me.

I made known your name to them, and I will continue to make it known, so that the love you have loved me with may be in them, and I may be in them."

Then Jesus, because he knew everything that was going to happen to him, came and asked them, "Who are you looking for?"

Jesus replied, "I told you that I am he. If you are looking for me, let these men go."

But Jesus said to Peter, "Put your sword back into its sheath! Am I not to drink the cup that the Father has given me?"

They brought him first to Annas, for he was the father-in-law of Caiaphas, who was high priest that year.

(Now it was Caiaphas who had advised the Jewish leaders that it was to their advantage that one man die for the people.)

When Jesus had said this, one of the high priest's officers who stood nearby struck him on the face and said, "Is that the way you answer the high priest?"

Then Pilate said, "So you are a king!" Jesus replied, "You say that I am a king. For this reason I was born, and for this reason I came into the world -- to testify to the truth. Everyone who belongs to the truth listens to my voice."

But it is your custom that I release one prisoner for you at the Passover. So do you want me to release for you the king of the Jews?"

Again Pilate went out and said to the Jewish leaders, "Look, I am bringing him out to you, so that you may know that I find no reason for an accusation against him."

So the soldiers said to one another, "Let's not tear it, but throw dice to see who will get it." This took place to fulfill the scripture that says, "They divided my garments among them, and for my clothing they threw dice." So the soldiers did these things.

He then said to his disciple, "Look, here is your mother!" From that very time the disciple took her into his own home.

After this Jesus, realizing that by this time everything was completed, said (in order to fulfill the scripture), "I am thirsty!"

Then, because it was the day of preparation, so that the bodies should not stay on the crosses on the Sabbath (for that Sabbath was an especially important one), the Jewish leaders asked Pilate to have the victims' legs broken and the bodies taken down.

But when they came to Jesus and saw that he was already dead, they did not break his legs.

And the person who saw it has testified (and his testimony is true, and he knows that he is telling the truth), so that you also may believe.

For these things happened so that the scripture would be fulfilled, "Not a bone of his will be broken."

Now very early on the first day of the week, while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene came to the tomb and saw that the stone had been moved away from the entrance.

(For they did not yet understand the scripture that Jesus must rise from the dead.)

When she had said this, she turned around and saw Jesus standing there, but she did not know that it was Jesus.

On the evening of that day, the first day of the week, the disciples had gathered together and locked the doors of the place because they were afraid of the Jewish leaders. Jesus came and stood among them and said to them, "Peace be with you."

But these are recorded so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name.

Simon Peter told them, "I am going fishing." "We will go with you," they replied. They went out and got into the boat, but that night they caught nothing.

When it was already very early morning, Jesus stood on the beach, but the disciples did not know that it was Jesus.

Then the disciple whom Jesus loved said to Peter, "It is the Lord!" So Simon Peter, when he heard that it was the Lord, tucked in his outer garment (for he had nothing on underneath it), and plunged into the sea.