because He was sure that the Father had put everything into His hands, and that He had come from God and was going back to God,

You call me Teacher and Lord, and you are right in calling me so, for that is what I am.

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

I do not mean all of you. I know whom I have chosen, but I know that the Scriptures must be fulfilled: 'The man who is eating my bread has lifted his heel against me.'

From now on I will tell you things before they take place, so that when they do take place, you may believe that I am the Christ.

So Simon Peter nodded to him to ask Him which one it was that He meant.

Jesus answered, "It is that one to whom I give the piece of bread when I dip it in the dish." So He dipped it into the dish and took it and gave it to Judas, Simon Iscariot's son.

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

By this everybody will know that you are my disciples, if you keep on showing love for one another."

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

Philip said to Him, "Lord, let us see the Father, and that will satisfy us."

Do you not believe that I am in union with the Father and that the Father is in union with me? I am not saying these things on my own authority, but the Father who always remains in union with me is doing these things Himself.

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

I most solemnly say to you, whoever perseveres in believing in me can himself do the things that I am doing; yes, he can do even greater things than I am doing, because I am going to the Father.

And anything you ask for as bearers of my name I will do for you, so that the Father may be glorified through the Son.

At that time you will know that I am in union with my Father and you are in union with me and I am in union with you.

Judas (not Judas Iscariot) said to Him, "Why is it, Lord, that you are going to make yourself real to us and not to the world?"

But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send to represent me, will teach you everything Himself, and cause you to remember everything that I have told you.

You have heard me say that I am going away and coming back to you; if you really loved me, you would rejoice over my telling you that I am going to the Father, because my Father is greater than I.

And now I have told you this before it takes place, that when it does take place you may believe in me.

but he is coming that the world may know that I love the Father and am doing what the Father has ordered me to do. Get up and let us go away."

He cuts away any branch on me that stops bearing fruit, and He repeatedly prunes every branch that continues to bear fruit, to make it bear more.

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

"I have told you these things, that the joy which I have had may remain in you and that your joy may be complete.

I no longer call you slaves, because the slave does not know what his master is doing; I now call you friends, because I have told you everything that I have learned from my Father.

You have not chosen me; I have chosen you, and appointed you to go and bear fruit, that your fruit may remain too, so that the Father may grant you, as bearers of my name, whatever you ask Him for.

If the world continues to hate you, remember that it has first hated me.

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

If I had not done things among them that no one else has ever done, they would not be guilty of sin. But now the fact is, they have seen and even hated both my Father and me.

But this is so that the saying written in their law may be fulfilled, 'They hated me without a cause.'

"When the Helper comes whom I will send from the Father to you, the Spirit of truth that comes from the Father, He will testify to me.

Men will turn you out of their synagogues. Yes, indeed, the time is coming when anyone who kills you will think that he is rendering a religious service to God.

But I have told you these things that when the time does come, you may remember that I told you. I did not tell you these things at the start, because I was with you.

Yet it is nothing but the truth I now tell you, that it is better for you that I should go away. For if I do not go away, the Helper will not come into close fellowship with you, but if I do go away, I will send Him to be in close fellowship with you.

about uprightness, because I go away to the Father so that you can no longer see me;

But when the Spirit of truth comes, He will guide you into the whole truth, for He will not speak on His own authority but will tell what is told Him, and will announce to you the things that are to come.

He will glorify me, because He will take the things that belong to me and tell them to you.

Everything that the Father has is mine; this is why I have told you, 'He will take the things that are mine and tell them to you.'

Jesus knew that they wanted to ask Him a question, and so He said to them, "Are you inquiring of one another about this saying of mine, 'In just a little while you will not see me, and yet in just a little while after you will see me again'?

When a woman is in labor, she is in pain, for her time has come, but when the baby is born, she forgets her pain because of her joy that a human being has been born into the world.

At that time you will ask me no more questions. I most solemnly say to you, the Father will give you, as bearers of my name, whatever you ask Him for.

Up to this time you have not asked for anything as bearers of my name, but now you must keep on asking, and you will receive, that your cup of joy may be full to the brim.

At that time you will ask, as bearers of my name, and I do not say that I will ask the Father for you,

for the Father tenderly loves you Himself, because you now tenderly love me and now believe that I have come from the Father.

Now we know that you know everything and do not need that anyone should ask you questions. For this reason we believe that you have come from God."

I have told you these things, that you through union with me may have peace. In the world you have trouble, but be courageous! I have conquered the world."

When Jesus had said all these things, He lifted His eyes to heaven and said: "Father, the time has come. Glorify your Son, that He may glorify you,

Now they have come to know that everything you have given me really comes from you;

for I have given them the teachings that you gave me, and they have accepted them, and they have come to know in reality that I did come from you, and so they are convinced that you did send me.

really, all that is mine is yours, and all that is yours is mine -- and I have been glorified through them.

And now I am no longer to be in the world, but they are to stay on in the world, while I am going to be with you. Holy Father, keep them by the power which you have given 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 is now doomed to be lost, so that the Scripture might be fulfilled.

And now I am going to be with you, and I am saying these things while still in the world, that the joy which I experience may be fully experienced in their own souls.

And so for their sake I am consecrating myself, that they too may be consecrated by truth.

for them all to be one, just as you, Father, are in union with me and I in union with you, for them to be in union with us, so that the world may be convinced that you have sent me.

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

I in union with them and you in union with me, so that they may be perfectly united, and the world may be sure that you sent me and that you have loved them just as you have loved me.

Father, I want to have those whom you have given me right where I am, in order that they may see the glory which you have given me, because you loved me before the creation of the world.

Righteous Father, although the world did not know you, I did know you, and these men have come to know that you sent me,

and I made known to them your very self, and I will make you known still further, so that the love which you have shown to me may be felt in them, and I in union with them."

Then Jesus, as He knew everything that was going to befall Him, came forward and asked them, "Who is it that you are looking for?"

So once more He asked them, "Who is it that you are looking for?" They said, "Jesus of Nazareth."

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

He said this that the statement He had just made might be fulfilled, "I have not lost one of those whom you have given me."

and took Him first to Annas. For he was 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 welfare that one should die for the people.

Simon Peter and another disciple followed on after Jesus. And that other disciple was acquainted with the high priest, and so went on with Jesus into the high priest's courtyard,

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

And Pilate went outside again and said to the Jews, "Listen! I am going to bring Him out to you, for you to see that I can find no ground for a charge against Him."

The Jews answered him, "We have a law, and in accordance with that law He deserves to die, for claiming to be God's Son."

As soon as Pilate heard that, he was more awe-stricken than before

Then Pilate said to Him, "Do you refuse to speak to me? Do you not know that I have it in my power to set you free or to crucify you?"

Then He said to His disciple, "There is your mother." And from that very hour His disciple took her to his own home.

After this, as Jesus knew that everything was now finished, that the Scripture might be fulfilled, He said, "I am thirsty."

As it was the day of Preparation for the Passover, that the bodies might not remain on the crosses during the Sabbath, for that Sabbath was a very important one, the Jews requested Pilate to have their legs broken and their bodies taken down.

But when they came to Jesus, as they saw that He was already dead, they did not break His legs,

The man who saw it has testified to it -- and his testimony is true, and he knows that he is telling the truth -- in order that you too may come to believe it.

For this took place that this Scripture might be fulfilled, "Not a bone of His will be broken."

Now Nicodemus also, who had formerly come to Jesus at night, went and took a mixture of myrrh and aloes that weighed about one hundred pounds.

On the first day of the week, 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 the tomb.

For they had not previously understood the Scripture which said that He must rise from the dead.

On saying this she turned around and saw Jesus standing there, but she did not know that it was Jesus.

Jesus said to her, "Stop clinging to me so, for I have not yet gone up to my Father; but go to my brothers and tell them that I am going up to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God."

Mary of Magdala went and announced to the disciples that she had seen the Lord and that He had told her this.

In the evening of that same first day of the week, even with the doors of the room bolted where the disciples had met for fear of the Jews, Jesus went in and stood among them and said to them, "Peace be with you!"

Jesus said to him, "Is it because you have seen me, Thomas, that you believe? Blessed be those who believe, even though they have not seen me!"

But these have been recorded, in order that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that through believing you may have life, as bearers of His name.

Simon Peter said to them, "I am going fishing." They said to him, "We are going with you too." They went out and got into the boat, but that night they caught nothing.

Now just as day was breaking, Jesus took His stand on the shore, though the disciples did not know that it was Jesus.

So that disciple whom Jesus used to love tenderly said to Peter, "It is the Lord!" When Simon Peter heard that it was the Lord, he belted on his fisherman's coat, for he had taken it off, and plunged into the sea.

This was now the third time that Jesus showed Himself to His disciples, after He had risen from the dead.

After they had finished breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, "Simon, son of John, are you more devoted to me than you are to these things?" Peter answered Him, "Yes, Lord, you know that I tenderly love you." Jesus said to him, "Then feed my lambs."

Jesus again said to him a second time, "Simon, son of John, are you really devoted to me?" He said to Him, "Yes, Lord, you know that I tenderly love you." Jesus said to him, "Then be a shepherd to my sheep."

For the third time Jesus asked him, "Simon, son of John, do you really tenderly love me?" Peter was hurt because Jesus the third time asked him, "Do you really tenderly love me?" So he answered Him, "Lord, you know everything; you know that I do tenderly love you." Jesus said to him, "Then feed my sheep.

Peter turned and saw following them the disciple whom Jesus specially loved, who at the supper leaned back upon Jesus' breast and asked, "Lord, who is it that is going to betray you?"

Jesus answered him, "If I wish him to wait until I come, what is that to you? You must keep on following me."

So the report got out among the brothers that this disciple was not going to die. But Jesus did not tell him that he was not going to die; He said only, "If I wish him to wait until I come, what is that to you?"

This is the disciple who testifies to these things and who wrote them down, and we know that his testimony is true.

There are many other things that Jesus did, which, if they were all written down in detail, I do not suppose that the world itself could hold the books that would have to be written.

I wrote my first volume, Theophilus, about all that Jesus did and taught from the beginning