Now Jesus loved Martha, and her sister, and Lazarus.

"Are there not twelve hours in the day?" replied Jesus. "If any one walks in the daytime, he does not stumble--because he sees the light of this world.

Now Jesus had spoken of his death, but they thought He referred to the rest taken in ordinary sleep.

On His arrival Jesus found that Lazarus had already been three days in the tomb.

Martha, however, as soon as she heard the tidings, "Jesus is coming," went to meet Him; but Mary remained sitting in the house.

So Martha came and spoke to Jesus. "Master, if you had been here," she said, "my brother would not have died.

"Your brother shall rise again," replied Jesus.

"I am the Resurrection and the Life," said Jesus; "he who believes in me, even if he has died, he shall live;

Now Jesus was not yet come into the village, but was still at the place where Martha had met Him.

Mary then, when she came to Jesus and saw Him, fell at His feet and exclaimed, "Master, if you had been here, my brother would not have died."

Seeing her weeping aloud, and the Jews in like manner weeping who had come with her, Jesus, curbing the strong emotion of His spirit,

Jesus wept.

Jesus, however, again restraining His strong feeling, came to the tomb. It was a cave, and a stone had been laid against the mouth of it.

"Take away the stone," said Jesus. Martha, the sister of the dead man, exclaimed, "Master, by this time there is a foul smell; for it is three days since he died."

"Did I not promise you," replied Jesus, "that if you believe, you shall see the glory of God?"

So they removed the stone. Then Jesus lifted up His eyes and said, "Father, I thank Thee that Thou hast heard me.

The dead man came out, his hands and feet wrapped in cloths, and his face wrapped round with a towel. "Untie him," said Jesus, "and let him go free."

It was not as a mere man that he thus spoke. But being High Priest that year he was inspired to declare that Jesus was to die for the nation,

Therefore Jesus no longer went about openly among the Jews, but He left that neighbourhood and went into the district near the Desert, to a town called Ephraim, and remained there with the disciples.

They therefore looked out for Jesus, and asked one another as they stood in the Temple, "What do you think? --will he come to the Festival at all?"

Jesus, however, six days before the Passover, came to Bethany, where Lazarus was whom He had raised from the dead.

So they gave a dinner there in honour of Jesus, at which Martha waited at table, but Lazarus was one of the guests who were with Him.

Then said Judas (the Iscariot, one of the Twelve--the one who afterwards betrayed Jesus)

But Jesus interposed. "Do not blame her," He said, "allow her to have kept it for the time of my preparation for burial.

Now it became widely known among the Jews that Jesus was there; but they came not only on His account, but also in order to see Lazarus whom He had brought back to life.

for because of him many of the Jews left them and became believers in Jesus.

The next day a great crowd of those who had come to the Festival, hearing that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem,

And Jesus, having procured a young ass, sat upon it, just as the Scripture says,

The meaning of this His disciples did not understand at the time; but after Jesus was glorified they recollected that this was written about Him, and that they had done this to Him.

They came to Philip, of Bethsaida in Galilee, with the request, "Sir, we wish to see Jesus."

Philip came and told Andrew: Andrew and Philip told Jesus.

"It is not for my sake," said Jesus, "that that voice came, but for your sakes.

In the degree that you have light, believe in the Light, so that you may become sons of Light." Jesus said this, and went away and hid Himself from them.

But Jesus cried aloud, "He who believes in me, believes not so much in me, as in Him who sent me;

Now just before the Feast of the Passover this incident took place. Jesus knew that the time had come for Him to leave this world and go to the Father; and having loved His own who were in the world, He loved them to the end.

While supper was proceeding, the Devil having by this time suggested to Judas Iscariot, the son of Simon, the thought of betraying Him, Jesus,

"What I am doing," answered Jesus, "for the present you do not know, but afterwards you shall know."

"Never, while the world lasts," said Peter, "shall you wash my feet." "If I do not wash you," replied Jesus, "you have no share with me."

"Any one who has lately bathed," said Jesus, "does not need to wash more than his feet, but is clean all over. And you my disciples are clean, and yet this is not true of all of you."

After speaking thus Jesus was troubled in spirit and said with deep earnestness, "In most solemn truth I tell you that one of you will betray me."

There was at table one of His disciples--the one Jesus loved-- reclining with his head on Jesus's bosom.

So he, having his head on Jesus's bosom, leaned back and asked, "Master, who is it?"

"It is the one," answered Jesus, "for whom I shall dip this piece of bread and to whom I shall give it." Accordingly He dipped the piece of bread, and took it and gave it to Judas, the son of the Iscariot Simon.

Then, after Judas had received the piece of bread, Satan entered into him. "Lose no time about it," said Jesus to him.

Some, however, supposed that because Judas had the money-box Jesus meant, "Buy what we require for the Festival," or that he should give something to the poor.

So when he was gone out, Jesus said, "Now is the Son of Man glorified, and God is glorified in Him.

"Master," inquired Simon Peter, "where are you going?" "Where I am going," replied Jesus, "you cannot be my follower now, but you shall be later."

"You say you will lay down your life on my behalf!" said Jesus; "in most solemn truth I tell you that the cock will not crow before you have three times disowned me."

"I am the Way," replied Jesus, "and the Truth and the Life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

"Have I been so long among you," Jesus answered, "and yet you, Philip, do not know me? He who has seen me has seen the Father. How can *you* ask me, 'Cause us to see the Father'?

"If any one loves me," replied Jesus, "he will obey my teaching; and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him.

Jesus perceived that they wanted to ask Him, and He said, "Is this what you are questioning one another about--my saying, 'A little while and you do not see me, and again a little while and you shall see me'?

"Do you at last believe?" replied Jesus.

When Jesus had thus spoken, He raised his eyes towards Heaven and said, "Father, the hour has come. Glorify Thy Son that the Son may glorify Thee;

And in this consists the Life of the Ages--in knowing Thee the only true God and Jesus Christ whom Thou hast sent.

After offering this prayer Jesus went out with His disciples to a place on the further side of the Ravine of the Cedars, where there was a garden which He entered--Himself and His disciples.

Now Judas also, who at that very time was betraying Him, knew the place, for Jesus had often resorted there with His disciples.

Jesus therefore, knowing all that was about to befall Him, went out to meet them. "Who are you looking for?" He asked them.

"For Jesus the Nazarene," was the answer. "I am he," He replied. (Now Judas who was betraying Him was also standing with them.)

Again therefore He asked them, "Who are you looking for?" "For Jesus the Nazarene," they said.

"I have told you," replied Jesus, "that I am he. If therefore you are looking for me, let these my disciples go their way."

Jesus therefore said to Peter, "Put back your sword. Shall I refuse to drink the cup of sorrow which the Father has given me to drink?"

So the battalion and their tribune and the Jewish police closed in, and took Jesus and bound Him.

Meanwhile Simon Peter was following Jesus, and so also was another disciple. The latter was known to the High Priest, and went in with Jesus into the court of the High Priest's palace.

So the High Priest questioned Jesus about His disciples and His teaching.

"As for me," replied Jesus, "I have spoken openly to the world. I have continually taught in some synagogue or in the Temple where all the Jews are wont to assemble, and I have said nothing in secret.

"If I have spoken wrongly," replied Jesus, "bear witness to it as wrong; but if rightly, why that blow?"

So they brought Jesus from Caiaphas's house to the Praetorium. It was the early morning, and they would not enter the Praetorium themselves for fear of defilement, and in order that they might be able to eat the Passover.

They said this that the words might be fulfilled in which Jesus predicted the kind of death He was to die.

Re-entering the Praetorium, therefore, Pilate called Jesus and asked Him, "Are *you* the King of the Jews?"

"Do you say this of yourself, or have others told it you about me?" replied Jesus.

"My kingdom," replied Jesus, "does not belong to this world. If my kingdom did belong to this world, my subjects would have resolutely fought to save me from being delivered up to the Jews. But, as a matter of fact, my kingdom has not this origin."

"So then *you* are a king!" rejoined Pilate. "Yes," said Jesus, "you say truly that I am a king. For this purpose I was born, and for this purpose I have come into the world--to give testimony for the truth. Every one who is a friend of the truth listens to my voice."

Then Pilate took Jesus and scourged Him.

So Jesus came out, wearing the wreath of thorns and the crimson cloak. And Pilate said to them, "See, there is the man."

More alarmed than ever, Pilate no sooner heard these words than he re-entered the Praetorium and began to question Jesus.

"What is your origin?" he asked. But Jesus gave him no answer.

"You would have had no power whatever over me," replied Jesus, "had it not been granted you from above. On that account he who has delivered me up to you is more guilty than you are."

On hearing this, Pilate brought Jesus out, and sat down on the judge's seat in a place called the Pavement--or in Hebrew, Gabbatha.

Then Pilate gave Him up to them to be crucified. Accordingly they took Jesus;

where they nailed Him to a cross, and two others at the same time, one on each side and Jesus in the middle.

And Pilate wrote a notice and had it fastened to the top of the cross. It ran thus: JESUS THE NAZARENE, THE KING OF THE JEWS.

Many of the Jews read this notice, for the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city, and the notice was in three languages--Hebrew, Latin, and Greek.

So the soldiers, as soon as they had crucified Jesus, took His garments, including His tunic, and divided them into four parts--one part for each soldier. The tunic was without seam, woven from the top in one piece.

Now standing close to the cross of Jesus were His mother and His mother's sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary of Magdala.

So Jesus, seeing His mother, and seeing the disciple whom He loved standing near, said to His mother, "Behold, your son!"

After this, Jesus, knowing that everything was now brought to an end, said--that the Scripture might be fulfilled, "I am thirsty."

As soon as Jesus had taken the wine, He said, "It is finished." And then, bowing His head, He yielded up His spirit.

Accordingly the soldiers came and broke the legs of the first man and also of the other who had been crucified with Jesus.

Then they came to Jesus Himself: but when they saw that He was already dead, they refrained from breaking His legs.

After this, Joseph of Arimathaea, who was a disciple of Jesus, but for fear of the Jews a secret disciple, asked Pilate's permission to carry away the body of Jesus; and Pilate gave him leave. So he came and removed the body.

Nicodemus too--he who at first had visited Jesus by night--came bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, in weight about seventy or eighty pounds.

There was a garden at the place where Jesus had been crucified, and in the garden a new tomb, in which no one had yet been buried.

Therefore, because it was the day of Preparation for the Jewish Passover, and the tomb was close at hand, they put Jesus there.

So she ran, as fast as she could, to find Simon Peter and the other disciple--the one who was dear to Jesus--and to tell them, "They have taken the Master out of the tomb, and we do not know where they have put Him."

and the towel, which had been placed over the face of Jesus, not lying with the cloths, but folded up and put by itself.

and saw two angels clothed in white raiment, sitting one at the head and one at the feet where the body of Jesus had been.

While she was speaking, she turned round and saw Jesus standing there, but did not recognize Him.

"Mary!" said Jesus. She turned to Him. "Rabboni!" she cried in Hebrew: the word means 'Teacher!'

"Do not cling to me," said Jesus, "for I have not yet ascended to the Father. But take this message to my brethren: 'I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.'"