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

Ever since creation it has never been heard that anyone healed the eyes of a man who was born blind.

They asked him, "You were born a sinner and you are trying to instruct us?" And they threw him out.

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

Then Jesus said, "I have come into this world to judge it, so that those who are blind may see and so that those who see may become blind."

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.

The thief comes only to steal, slaughter, and destroy. I've come that they may have life, and have it abundantly.

This is why the Father loves me, because I lay down my life in order to take it back again.

No one is taking it from me; I lay it down of my own free will. I have the authority to lay it down, and I have the authority to take it back again. This is what my Father has commanded me."

Once again there was a division among the Jews because of what Jesus had been saying.

Others were saying, "These are not the words of a man who is demon-possessed. A demon cannot open the eyes of the blind, can it?"

Now Hanukkah was taking place in Jerusalem. It was winter,

Jesus answered them, "I have told you, but you don't believe it. The actions that I do in my Father's name testify on my behalf,

I give them eternal life, they'll never be lost, and no one will snatch them out of my hand.

What my Father has given me is more important than anything, and no one can snatch it from the Father's hand.

Jesus replied to them, "Is it not written in your Law, "I said, "You are gods"'?

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.

But if anyone walks at night he stumbles, because the light is not in him."

As soon as Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went and met him, while Mary stayed at home.

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

Now Jesus had not yet arrived at the village but was still at the place where Martha had met him.

When the Jews who had been with her, consoling her in the house, saw Mary get up quickly and go out, they followed her, thinking that she had gone to the tomb to cry there.

As soon as Mary came to where Jesus was and saw him, she fell down at his feet and told him, "Lord, if you had been here, my brother wouldn't have died."

Groaning deeply again, Jesus came to the tomb. It was a cave, and a stone was lying in front of it.

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

The man who had died came out, his hands and feet tied with strips of cloth, and his face wrapped in a handkerchief. Jesus told them, "Untie him, and let him go."

Many of the Jews who had come with Mary and who had observed what Jesus did believed in him.

Some of them, however, went to the Pharisees and told them what Jesus had done.

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

You don't realize that it is better for you to have one man die for the people than to have the whole nation destroyed."

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?"

There they gave a dinner for him. Martha served, and Lazarus was one of those at the table with 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.

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!"

Then Jesus found a young donkey and sat upon it, as it is written:

At first, his disciples didn't understand these things. However, when Jesus had been glorified, they remembered that these things had been written about him and that people had done these things to him.

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.

Now some Greeks were among those who had come up to worship at the festival.

Truly, I tell all of you emphatically, unless a grain of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it remains alone. But if it dies, it produces a lot of grain.

The one who loves his life will destroy it, and the one who hates his life in this world will preserve it for eternal life.

"Now my soul is in turmoil, and what should I say "Father, save me from this hour'? No! It was for this very reason that I came to this hour.

Then a voice came from heaven, "I have glorified it, and I will glorify it again!" The crowd standing there heard this and said that it was thunder. Others were saying, "An angel has spoken to him."

Now is the time for the judgment of this world to begin. Now the ruler of this world will be thrown out.

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?"

Yet many people, even some of the authorities, believed in him, but because of the Pharisees they did not admit it so they would not be thrown out of the synagogue.

If anyone hears my words and doesn't keep them, I don't condemn him, because I didn't come to condemn the world, but to save it.

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."

By supper time, the Devil had already put it into the heart of Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot, to betray him.

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

Jesus answered him, "You don't realize now what I'm doing, but later on you'll understand."

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?

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

I'm not talking about all of you. I know the ones I have chosen. But the Scripture must be fulfilled: "The one who ate bread with me has turned against me.'

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

The disciples began looking at one another, completely mystified 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!"

Now no one at the table knew why Jesus said this to him.

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.

So Judas took the piece of bread, immediately went outside"and it was night.

After Judas had gone out, Jesus said, "The Son of Man is now glorified, and God has been glorified by him.

Little children, I'm with you only a little longer. You will look for me, but what I told the Jewish leaders I now tell you, "Where I'm going, you cannot come.'

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.

Believe me, I am in the Father and the Father is in me. Otherwise, believe me because of what I've been doing.

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.

If you ask me for anything in my name, I will do it."

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.

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?"

I'm leaving you at peace. I'm giving you my own peace. I'm not giving it to you as the world gives. So don't let your hearts be troubled, and don't be afraid.

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.

You are already clean because of what I've spoken to you.

"Abide in me, and I will abide in you. Just as the branch cannot produce fruit by itself unless it abides in the vine, neither can you unless you abide in me.

"If you abide in me and my words abide in you, you can ask for anything you want, and you'll receive it.

You are my friends, if you do what I command 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.

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

If you belonged to the world, the world would love you as one of its own. But because you do not belong to the world and I have chosen you out of it, the world hates you.

Remember what I told you: "A servant is not greater than his master.' If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they kept my word, they will also keep yours.

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

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.

"But now I am going to the one who sent me. Yet none of you asks me, "Where are you going?'

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.

"I still have a lot to say to you, but you cannot bear it now.

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.

He will glorify me, because he will take what is mine and declare it to you.

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

At this point, some of his disciples asked each other, "What does he mean by telling us, "In a little while you will no longer see me, then in a little while you will see me again,' and, "because I am going to the Father'?"

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'?