and asked them, "Is this your son, the one you say was born blind? How does he now see?"

His parents replied, "We know that this is our son and that he was born blind.

But we don't know how it is that he now sees, and we don't know who opened his eyes. Ask him. He is of age and can speak for himself."

That's why his parents said, "He is of age. Ask him."

But he responded, "I don't know whether he is a sinner or not. The one thing I do know is that I used to be blind and now I can see!"

Then they asked him, "What did he do to you? How did he heal your eyes?"

He answered them, "I've already told you, but you didn't listen. Why do you want to hear it again? You don't want to become his disciples, too, do you?"

The man answered them, "This is an amazing thing! You don't know where he comes from, yet he healed my eyes.

We know that God doesn't listen to sinners, but he does listen to anyone who worships him and does his will.

If this man were not from God, he couldn't do anything like that."

Jesus heard that they had thrown him out. So when he found him, he asked him, "Do you believe in the Son of Man?"

He answered, "And who is he, sir? Tell me, so that I may believe in him."

Jesus told him, "You have seen him. He is the person who is talking with you."

He said, "Lord, I do believe," and worshipped him.

It's to him the gatekeeper opens the gate, and it's his voice the sheep hear. He calls his own sheep by name and leads them out.

When he has driven out all his own, he goes ahead of them, and the sheep follow him because they recognize his voice.

Jesus used this illustration with them, but they didn't understand what he was saying to them.

I'm the gate. If anyone enters through me, he will be saved. He'll come in and go out and find pasture.

because he's a hired worker, and the sheep don't matter to him.

Many of them were saying, "He has a demon and is insane. Why bother listening to him?"

So the Jewish leaders surrounded him and quizzed him, "How long are you going to keep us in suspense? If you're the Messiah, tell us so plainly."

If he called those to whom a message from God came "gods' (and the Scripture cannot be disregarded),

how can you say to the one whom the Father has consecrated and sent into the world, "You're blaspheming,' because I said, "I'm the Son of God'?

Again they tried to seize him, but he slipped away from them.

Then he went away again across the Jordan to the place where John had been baptizing at first, and he remained there.

But when Jesus heard it, he said, "This illness isn't meant to end in death. It's for God's glory, so that the Son of God may be glorified through it."

Yet, when he heard that Lazarus was ill, he stayed where he was for two more days.

After this, he told the disciples, "Let's go back to Judea."

Jesus replied, "There are twelve hours in the day, aren't there? If anyone walks during the day he does not stumble, because he sees the light of this world.

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."

Jesus, however, had been speaking about his death, but they thought that he was speaking about resting or sleeping.

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

But even now I know that whatever you ask of God, he will give it to you."

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

Jesus told her, "I am the resurrection and the life. The person who believes in me, even though he dies, will live.

When Jesus saw her crying, and the Jews who had come with her crying, he was greatly troubled in spirit and deeply moved.

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

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

But some of them said, "Surely the one who opened the eyes of the blind man could have kept this man from dying, couldn't he?"

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."

After saying this, he shouted with a loud voice, "Lazarus, come out!"

So the high priests and the Pharisees assembled the Council and said, "What are we going to do? This man is performing many signs.

But one of them, Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, told them, "You don't know anything!

Now he did not say this on his own initiative. As high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus would die for the nation,

and not only for the nation, but that he would also gather into one the children of God who were scattered abroad.

As a result, Jesus no longer walked openly among the Jews. Instead, he went from there to a town called Ephraim in the region near the wilderness. There he remained with his disciples.

They kept looking for Jesus and saying to one another as they stood in the Temple, "What do you think? Surely he won't come to the festival, will he?"

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.

He said this, not because he cared about the destitute, but because he was a thief. He was in charge of the moneybag and would steal what was put into it.

When the large crowd of Jews realized that he was there, they came not only because of Jesus but also to see Lazarus, whom he had raised from the dead.

So the high priests planned to kill Lazarus, too,

since he was the reason why so many of the Jews were leaving to believe in Jesus.

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!"

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.

The crowd was going out to meet Jesus because they had heard that he had performed this sign.

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."

He said this to indicate the kind of death he was about to die.

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?"

Jesus replied to the crowd, "The light is among you only for a short time. Walk while you have the light, so that the darkness may not overtake you. The person who walks in the darkness is in the darkness and does not know where he is going.

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.

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

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."

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

because I haven't spoken on my own authority. Instead, the Father who sent me has himself commanded me what to say and how to speak.

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,

therefore he got up from the table, removed his outer robe, and took a towel and fastened it around his waist.

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.

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

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."

When Jesus had washed their feet and put on his outer robe, he sat down again and told them, "Do you realize what I've done to you?

If you understand these things, how blessed you are if you put them into practice!

The disciples began looking at one another, completely mystified about whom he was speaking.

So Simon Peter motioned to this man to ask Jesus about whom he was speaking.

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

Jesus answered, "He is the one to whom I will give this piece of bread after I have dipped it in the dish."

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!"

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

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

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

"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'?

Truly, I tell all of you emphatically, the one who believes in me will also do what I'm doing. He will do even greater things than these, because I'm going to 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.

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 won't talk with you much longer, because the ruler of this world is coming. He has no power over me.

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.

Unless a person abides in me, he is thrown away like a pruned branch and dries up. People gather such branches, throw them into a fire, and they are burned up.

This is how my Father is glorified, when you produce a lot of fruit and so prove to be my disciples.

No one shows greater love than when he lays down his life for his friends.

"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.

"When the Helper comes, whom I will send to you from the Father the Spirit of Truth, who comes from the Father he will testify on my behalf.

You'll be thrown out of the synagogues. Yes, a time is coming when the one who kills you will think he's serving God.

When he comes, he will convict the world of sin, righteousness, and judgment

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.