Now my heart is troubled; what am I to say? Father, save me from this trial! And yet it was for this very purpose that I have come to this trial.

Jesus answered, "It was not for my sake that the voice came, but for yours.

The crowd answered, "We have learned from the Law that the Christ is to remain here forever. So how can you say that the Son of Man must be lifted up? Who is this Son of Man?"

Jesus said to them, "You will have the light only a little while longer. Go on while you still have the light, so that darkness may not overtake you, for those who go about in the dark do not know where they are going.

While you have the light believe in the light, that you may become sons of light." With these words Jesus went away, and disappeared from them.

Isaiah said this because he saw his glory; it was of him that he spoke.

Yet for all that, even among the leading men, many came to believe in him, but on account of the Pharisees they would not acknowledge it, for fear of being excluded from the synagogues,

I have come into the world as a light, so that no one who believes in me may have to remain in darkness.

If anyone hears my words and disregards them, it is not I that judge him, for I have not come to judge the world but to save the world.

Before the Passover Festival began, Jesus knew that the time had come for him to leave this world and go to the Father, but he had loved those who were his own in the world, and he loved them to the last.

So at supper??he devil having by this time put the thought of betraying Jesus into the mind of Judas Iscariot, Simon's son??3 Jesus, fully aware that the Father had put everything into his hands, and that he had come from God and was going back to God,

Then he poured water into the basin and began to wash the disciples' feet, wiping them with the towel that was about his waist.

For he knew who was going to betray him; that was why he said, "You are not all of you clean."

You call me Teacher and Master, and you are right, for that is what I am.

For I have set you an example, in order that you may do what I have done to you.

Now that you have this knowledge, you will be blessed if you act upon it.

From now on I will tell you things before they happen, so that when they do happen you may believe that I am what I say.

After Jesus had said this he was greatly moved and said solemnly, "I tell you, it is one of you that will betray me!"

for some of them thought that as Judas had the purse Jesus meant to say to him, "Buy what we need for the festival," or to have him give something to the poor.

By this they will all know that you are my disciples??y your love for one another."

And if I go and make it ready, I will come back and take you with me, so that you may be where I am.

Do you not believe that I am in union with the Father and the Father is in union with me? I am not the source of the words that I say to you, but the Father who is united with me is doing these things himself.

You must believe that I am in union with the Father and that the Father is in union with me, or else you must believe because of the things themselves.

Anything you ask for as followers of mine I will grant, so that the Father may be honored through the Son.

It is the Spirit of Truth. The world cannot obtain that Spirit, because it does not see it or recognize it; you recognize it because it stays with you and is within you.

When that day comes you will know that I am in union with my Father and you are with me and I am with you.

It is he who has my commands and observes them that really loves me, and whoever loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him, and show myself to him."

Judas (not Judas Iscariot) said to him, "Master, how does it happen that you are going to show yourself to us and not to the world?"

No one who does not love me will observe my teaching, and yet the teaching you are listening to is not mine but is that of him who has sent me.

but the Helper, the holy Spirit which the Father will send in my place, will teach you everything and remind you of everything that I have told you.

You have heard me say that I am going away and am coming back to you; if you loved me you would be glad that I am going to the Father, for the Father is greater than I.

And I have told you of it now before it happens, in order that when it happens you may believe in me.

but he is coming that the world may know that I love the Father and am doing what he has commanded me to do. Come, let us go away.

Any branch of mine that does not bear fruit he trims away, and he prunes every branch that bears fruit, to make it bear more.

You are pruned already because of the teaching that I have given you.

I have told you all this so that you may have the happiness that I have had, and your happiness may be complete.

The command that I give you is to love one another just as I have loved you.

I do not call you slaves any longer, for a slave does not know what his master is doing, but now I call you friends, for I have made known to you everything that I have learned from my Father.

It was not you who chose me, it is I that have chosen you, and appointed you to go and bear fruit??ruit that shall be lasting, so that the Father may grant you whatever you ask him for as my followers.

If the world hates you, remember that it hated me first.

If you belonged to the world, the world would love what was its own. But it is because you do not belong to the world, but I have selected you from the world, that the world hates you.

If I had not done things before them that no one else ever did they would not be guilty of sin. But as it is, they have seen both me and my Father, and they have hated us both.

When the Helper comes whom I will send to you from the Father??hat Spirit of Truth that comes from the Father??e will bear testimony to me,

But I have told you about these things in order that when the time comes for them to happen, you may remember that I told you of them. I did not tell you this at first because I was still staying with you.

Yet it is only the truth when I tell you that it is better for you that I should go away. For if I do not go, the Helper will not come to you, but if I go I will send him to you.

but when the Spirit of Truth comes, he will guide you into the full truth, for he will not speak for himself but will tell what he hears, and will announce to you the things that are to come.

All that the Father has belongs to me. That is why I said that he will take what is mine and communicate it to you.

Jesus saw that they wanted to ask him a question, and he said to them, "Are you asking one another about my saying 'In a little while you will not see me any longer, and a little while after, you will see me again'?

When a woman is in labor she is sorrowful, for her time has come; but when the child is born, she forgets her pain in her joy that a human being has been brought into the world.

When that time comes, you will not ask me any questions; I tell you, whatever you ask the Father for, he will give you as my followers.

Hitherto you have not asked for anything as my followers, but now ask, and you will receive, so that your happiness may be complete.

When that time comes you will ask as my followers, and I do not promise to intercede with the Father for you,

for the Father loves you himself because you love me and believe that I have come from the Father.

Now we know that you know everything and do not need to have anyone ask you questions. This makes us believe that you have really come from God."

Jesus answered, "Do you believe that now?

I have told you all this, so that through me you may find peace. In the world you have trouble; but take courage! I have conquered the world."

When Jesus had said all this he raised his eyes to heaven and said, "Father, the time has come. Do honor to your son, that your son may do honor to you,

just as you have done in giving him power over all mankind, so that he may give eternal life to all whom you have given him.

Now at last they know that all that you have given me comes from you,

for I have given them the truths that you gave me, and they have accepted them and been convinced that I came from you, and they believe that you sent me.

I have a request to make for them. I make no request for the world, but only for those whom you have given me, for they are yours??10 all that is mine is yours and what is yours is mine??nd they have done me honor.

Now I am to be no longer in this world, but they are to remain in the world, while I return to you. Holy Father, keep them by your power which you gave me, so that they may be one just as we are.

As long as I was with them I kept them by your power which you gave me, and I protected them, and not one of them was lost (except the one who was destined to be lost), so that what the Scripture says might come true.

But now I am coming to you, and I say this here in this world in order that they may have the happiness that I feel fully realized in their own hearts.

And it is for their sake that I consecrate myself, that they also may be consecrated by truth.

"It is not for them only that I make this request. It is also for those who through their message come to believe in me.

Let them all be one. Just as you, Father, are in union with me and I am with you, let them be in union with 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,

I in union with them and you with me, so that they may be perfectly unified, and the world may recognize that you sent me and that you love them just as you loved me.

Father, I wish to have those whom you have given me with me where I am, to see my glory that you have given me, for you loved me before the creation of the world.

Righteous Father, though the world did not know you, I knew you, and these men knew that you had sent me.

I have made your self known to them and I will do so still, so that the love which you have had for me may be in their hearts, and I may be there also."

Then Jesus, as he knew everything that was going to happen to him, came forward and said to them, "Who is it you are looking for?"

Jesus answered, "I have told you that I am he, so if you are looking for me, let these men go."

and they took 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 Jews that it was for their interest that one man should die for the people.

Why do you question me? Ask those who have heard me what it was that I said to them. They will know what I have said."

When he said this, one of the attendants who stood near struck him and said, "Is that the way you answer the high priest?"

Peter again denied it, and at that moment a cock crowed.

Jesus answered, "Did you think of that yourself, or has someone else said it to you about me?"

Pilate said to him, "Then you are a king?" Jesus answered, "As you say, I am a king. It was for this that I was born and for this that I came to the world, to give testimony for truth. Everyone who is on the side of truth listens to my voice."

And Pilate went outside again and said to the Jews, "See! I will bring him out to you, to show you that I can find nothing to charge him with."

When Pilate heard that, he was more frightened than before

Then Pilate said to him, "Do you refuse to speak to me? Do you not know that it is in my power to release you or to have you crucified?"

When Pilate heard that, he had Jesus brought out and had him sit in the judge's seat in the place they call the Stone Platform, or in Hebrew, Gabbatha.

At that they shouted, "Kill him! Kill him! Have him crucified!" Pilate said to them, "Am I to crucify your king?" The high priests answered, "We have no king but the emperor!"

Then he said to his disciple, "There is your mother!" And from that time his disciple took her into his home.

After that, Jesus, knowing that everything was now finished, to fulfil the saying of Scripture, said, "I am thirsty."

As it was the day of Preparation for the Passover, in order that the bodies might not be left on the crosses over the Sabbath, for that Sabbath was an especially important one, the Jews asked Pilate to have the men's legs broken and the bodies removed.

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

The man who saw it testifies to it??is testimony is true; he knows that he is telling the truth??o lead you also to believe.

On the day after the Sabbath, very early in the morning while it was still dark, Mary of Magdala went to the tomb, and she saw that the stone had been removed from it.

and the handkerchief that had been over Jesus' face not on the ground with the bandages, but folded up by itself.

For they did not yet understand the statement of Scripture that he must rise from the dead.

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

Jesus said to her, "Why are you weeping? Who are you looking for?" She, supposing that he was the gardener, said to him, "If it was you, sir, that carried him away, tell me where you have put him, and I will take him away."

Jesus said to her, "You must not cling to me, for I have not yet gone up to my Father, but go to my brothers and say to them that I am going up to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God."

Mary of Magdala went and declared to the disciples, "I have seen the Master!" and she told them that he had said this to her.

When it was evening on that first day after the Sabbath, and the doors of the house where the disciples met were locked for fear of the Jews, Jesus came in and stood among them and said to them, "Peace be with you!"

Jesus said to him, "Is it because you have seen me that you believe? Blessed be those who believe without having seen me!"