As long as you have the light, believe in the light, so that you may become children of light." After Jesus had said this, he went away and hid from them.

so that what the prophet Isaiah spoke might be fulfilled when he said: "Lord, who has believed our message, and to whom has the Lord's power been revealed?"

"He has blinded their eyes and hardened their heart, so that they might not perceive with their eyes, and understand with their mind and turn, and I would heal them."

I've come into the world as light, so that everyone who believes in me won't remain in the darkness.

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,

And I know that what he commands brings eternal life. What I speak, therefore, I speak just as the Father has told me."

Now before the Passover Festival, Jesus realized that his hour had come to leave this world and return to the Father. Having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end.

Because Jesus knew that the Father had given everything into his control, that he had come from God, and that he was returning to God,

Then he poured some water into a basin and began to wash the disciples' feet and to dry them with the towel that was tied around his waist.

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

You call me Teacher and Lord, and you are right because that is what I am.

I've set an example for you, so that you may do as I have done to you.

I'm telling you this now, before it happens, so that when it does happen, you may believe that I AM.

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.

This is how everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another."

There are many rooms in my Father's house. If there weren't, I wouldn't have told you that I am going away to prepare a place for you, would I?

And since I'm going away to prepare a place for you, I'll come back again and welcome you into my presence, so that you may be where I am.

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

You believe, don't you, that I am in the Father and the Father is in me? The words that I say to you I don't speak on my own. It is the Father who dwells in me and who carries out his work.

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

At that time, you'll know that I am in my Father, that you are in me, and that I am in you.

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

The one who doesn't love me doesn't keep my words. The words that you're hearing me say are not mine, but come from the Father who sent me.

But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things and remind you of everything that I have told you.

You have heard me tell you, "I'm going away, but I'm coming back to you.' If you loved me, you would rejoice that I'm going to the Father, because the Father is greater than I am.

I've told you this now, before I leave, so that when I do leave, you will believe.

But I'm doing what the Father has commanded me, to let the world know that I love the Father. Get up! Let us leave this place."

He cuts off every branch that does not produce fruit in me, and he cuts back every branch that does produce fruit, so that it might produce more fruit.

I've told you this, so that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be complete.

"This is my commandment: that you love one another as I have loved you.

I don't call you servants anymore, because a servant doesn't know what his master is doing. But I've called you friends, because I've made known to you everything that I've heard from my Father.

"You have not chosen me, but I have chosen you. I have appointed you to go and produce fruit that will last, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name, he will give it to you.

I am giving you these commandments so that you may love one another."

"If the world hates you, you should realize that it hated me before you.

If I hadn't done among them the actions that no one else did, they wouldn't have any sin. But now they have seen and hated both me and my Father.

But this happened so that what has been written in their Law might be fulfilled: "They hated me for no reason.'

But I've told you this, so that when the time comes you'll remember that I told you about them. I didn't tell you this in the beginning, because I was still with you."

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.

Yet when the Spirit of Truth comes, he'll guide you into all truth. He won't speak on his own accord, but he'll speak whatever he hears and will declare to you the things that are to come.

All that the Father has is mine. That is why I said, "He will take what is mine and declare it to you.'

They kept saying, "What is this "in a little while' that he keeps talking about? We don't know what he means."

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'?

On that day, you won't ask me for anything. Truly, I tell all of you emphatically, whatever you ask the Father for in my name, he will give it to you.

So far you haven't asked for anything in my name. Keep asking and you will receive, so that your joy may be complete."

At that time, you will make your requests in my name, so that I will have no need to ask the Father on your behalf,

because the Father himself loves you, and because you have loved me and believed that I came from God.

Now we know that you know everything and don't need to have anyone ask you any questions. Because of this, we believe that you have come from God."

I have told you this so that through me you may have peace. In the world you'll have trouble, but be courageous I've overcome the world!"

After Jesus had said this, he looked up to heaven and said, "Father, the hour has come. Glorify your Son, so that the Son may glorify you.

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

Now they realize that everything you gave me comes from you,

because the words that you gave me I passed on to them. They have received them and know for sure that I came from you. They have believed that you sent me.

All that is mine is yours, and what is yours is mine, and I have been glorified through 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, the Name that you gave me, so that they may be one, as we are one.

While I was with them, I protected them by the authority that you gave me. I guarded them, and not one of them became lost except the one who was destined for destruction, so that the Scripture might be fulfilled.

"And now I am coming to you, and I say these things in the world so that they may have my joy made complete in themselves.

It is for their sakes that I sanctify myself, so that they, too, may be sanctified by the truth.

so that they may all be one. Just as you, Father, are in me and I am in you, may they also be one in us, so that the world may believe that you sent me.

"I have given them the glory that you gave me, so that they may be one, just as we are one.

I am in them, and you are in me. May they be completely one, so that the world may know that you sent me and that you have loved them as you loved me.

"Righteous Father, the world has never known you. Yet I have known you, and these men have known that you sent me.

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

Then Jesus, knowing everything that was going to happen, went forward and asked them, "Who are you looking for?"

Jesus replied, "I told you that I am the one, so if you are looking for me, let these men go."

Jesus told Peter, "Put your sword back into its sheath. Shouldn't I drink the cup that the Father has given me?"

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

Caiaphas was the person who had advised the Jews that it was better to have one man die for the people.

When he said this, one of the officers standing nearby slapped Jesus on the face and demanded, "Is that any way to answer the high priest?"

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."

But you have a custom that I release one person for you at Passover. Do you want me to release for you the king of the Jews?"

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."

The Jewish leaders answered Pilate, "We have a law, and according to that Law he must die because he made himself out to be the Son of God."

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."

Then the Jewish high priests told Pilate, "Don't write, "The King of the Jews,' but that this fellow said, "I am the King of the Jews.'"

So they told each other, "Let's not tear it. Instead, let's throw dice to see who gets it." This was to fulfill the Scripture that says, "They divided my clothes among themselves, and for my clothing they threw dice." So that is what the soldiers did.

Then he told the disciple, "Here is your mother." And from that hour the disciple took her into his own home.

After this, when Jesus realized that everything was now completed, he said (in order to fulfill the Scripture), "I'm thirsty."

Since it was the Preparation Day, the Jewish leaders did not want to leave the bodies on the crosses during the Sabbath, because that was a particularly important Sabbath. So they asked Pilate to have the men's legs broken and the bodies removed.

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

The one who saw this has testified, and his testimony is true. He knows he is telling the truth so that you, too, may believe,

because these things happened so that the Scripture might be fulfilled: "None of his bones will be broken."

A garden was located in the place where he was crucified, and in that garden was a new tomb in which no one had yet been placed.

On the first day of the week, early in the morning and while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene went to the tomb and noticed that the stone had been removed from the tomb.

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

and that the handkerchief that had been on Jesus' head was not lying with the linen cloths but was rolled up in a separate place.

For they did not yet understand the Scripture that said that Jesus had to rise from the dead.

After she had said this, she turned around and noticed Jesus standing there, without realizing that it was Jesus.

Jesus told him, "Is it because you've seen me that you have believed? How blessed are those who have never seen me and yet have believed!"

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

But these have been recorded so that you may believe that Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of God, and so that through believing you may have life in his name.

Simon Peter told them, "I'm going fishing." They all told him, "We'll go with you, too." So they went out and got into the boat but didn't catch a thing that night.

That disciple whom Jesus kept loving told Peter, "It's the Lord!" When Simon Peter heard that it was the Lord, he put his clothes back on, because he was practically naked, and jumped into the sea.

This was now the third time that Jesus revealed himself to the disciples after he had been raised from the dead.

When they had finished breakfast, Jesus asked Simon Peter, "Simon, son of John, do you love me more than these?" Peter told him, "Yes, Lord, you know that I love you." Jesus told him, "Feed my lambs."

Then he asked him a second time, "Simon, son of John, do you love me?" Peter told him, "Yes, Lord, you know that I love you."

Jesus told him, "Take care of my sheep." He asked him a third time, "Simon, son of John, do you love me?" Peter was deeply hurt that he had asked him a third time, "Do you love me?" So he told him, "Lord, you know everything. You know that I love you!"

Jesus told him, "If it's my will for him to remain until I come back, how does that concern you? You must keep following me!"

So the rumor spread among the brothers that this disciple wasn't going to die. Yet Jesus didn't say to Peter that he wasn't going to die, but, "If it's my will for him to remain until I come back, how does that concern you?"

This is the disciple who is testifying to these things and has written them down. We know that his testimony is true.