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Jesus and His Brothers

The Woman Caught in Adultery

Jesus Heals a Man Born Blind

The Parable of the Shepherd

The Death of Lazarus

Jesus Is Anointed at Bethany

Jesus Washes His Disciples' Feet

Jesus the Way to the Father

¹ After this, Jesus went across Lake Galilee (or, Lake Tiberias, as it is also called). ^* ² A large crowd followed him, because they had seen his miracles of healing the sick. ^* ³ Jesus went up a hill and sat down with his disciples. ⁴ The time for the Passover Festival was near. ⁵ Jesus looked around and saw that a large crowd was coming to him, so he asked Philip, “Where can we buy enough food to feed all these people?” ( ⁶ He said this to test Philip; actually he already knew what he would do.)

Jesus the Good Shepherd

⁷ Philip answered, “For everyone to have even a little, it would take more than two hundred silver coins to buy enough bread.” ^* ⁸ Another one of his disciples, Andrew, who was Simon Peter's brother, said,

The Plot against Lazarus

⁹ “There is a boy here who has five loaves of barley bread and two fish. But they will certainly not be enough for all these people.”

Jesus at the Festival of Shelters

¹⁰ “Make the people sit down,” Jesus told them. (There was a lot of grass there.) So all the people sat down; there were about five thousand men. ¹¹ Jesus took the bread, gave thanks to God, and distributed it to the people who were sitting there. He did the same with the fish, and they all had as much as they wanted.

Jesus the Light of the World

The Triumphant Entry into Jerusalem

¹² When they were all full, he said to his disciples, “Gather the pieces left over; let us not waste a bit.”

The Pharisees Investigate the Healing

¹³ So they gathered them all and filled twelve baskets with the pieces left over from the five barley loaves which the people had eaten. ¹⁴ Seeing this miracle that Jesus had performed, the people there said, “Surely this is the Prophet who was to come into the world!” ^*

The Promise of the Holy Spirit

¹⁵ Jesus knew that they were about to come and seize him in order to make him king by force; so he went off again to the hills by himself.

Jesus Walks on the Water

¹⁶ When evening came, Jesus' disciples went down to the lake,

Jesus the Resurrection and the Life

¹⁷ got into a boat, and went back across the lake toward Capernaum. Night came on, and Jesus still had not come to them. ^* ¹⁸ By then a strong wind was blowing and stirring up the water. ¹⁹ The disciples had rowed about three or four miles when they saw Jesus walking on the water, coming near the boat, and they were terrified.

Some Greeks Seek Jesus

²⁰ “Don't be afraid,” Jesus told them, “it is I!”

You Cannot Go Where I Am Going

Jesus Predicts His Betrayal

²¹ Then they willingly took him into the boat, and immediately the boat reached land at the place they were heading for.

The People Seek Jesus

Jesus Is Rejected

²² Next day the crowd which had stayed on the other side of the lake realized that there had been only one boat there. They knew that Jesus had not gone in it with his disciples, but that they had left without him. ²³ Other boats, which were from Tiberias, came to shore near the place where the crowd had eaten the bread after the Lord had given thanks. ²⁴ When the crowd saw that Jesus was not there, nor his disciples, they got into those boats and went to Capernaum, looking for him.

Jesus the Bread of Life

Is He the Messiah?

²⁵ When the people found Jesus on the other side of the lake, they said to him, “Teacher, when did you get here?” ²⁶ Jesus answered, “I am telling you the truth: you are looking for me because you ate the bread and had all you wanted, not because you understood my miracles.

Jesus Speaks about His Death

²⁷ Do not work for food that spoils; instead, work for the food that lasts for eternal life. This is the food which the Son of Man will give you, because God, the Father, has put his mark of approval on him.”

Jesus Weeps

²⁸ So they asked him, “What can we do in order to do what God wants us to do?” ²⁹ Jesus answered, “What God wants you to do is to believe in the one he sent.” ³⁰ They replied, “What miracle will you perform so that we may see it and believe you? What will you do?

The Truth Will Set You Free

The New Commandment

³¹ Our ancestors ate manna in the desert, just as the scripture says, ‘He gave them bread from heaven to eat.’”

Guards Are Sent to Arrest Jesus

³² “I am telling you the truth,” Jesus said. “What Moses gave you was not the bread from heaven; it is my Father who gives you the real bread from heaven. ³³ For the bread that God gives is he who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.” ³⁴ “Sir,” they asked him, “give us this bread always.”

Spiritual Blindness

³⁵ “I am the bread of life,” Jesus told them. “Those who come to me will never be hungry; those who believe in me will never be thirsty.

Jesus Predicts Peter's Denial

³⁶ Now, I told you that you have seen me but will not believe.

Streams of Life-Giving Water

The Unbelief of the People

³⁷ Everyone whom my Father gives me will come to me. I will never turn away anyone who comes to me,

Lazarus Is Brought to Life

³⁸ because I have come down from heaven to do not my own will but the will of him who sent me. ³⁹ And it is the will of him who sent me that I should not lose any of all those he has given me, but that I should raise them all to life on the last day.

Division among the People

⁴⁰ For what my Father wants is that all who see the Son and believe in him should have eternal life. And I will raise them to life on the last day.” ⁴¹ The people started grumbling about him, because he said, “I am the bread that came down from heaven.” ⁴² So they said, “This man is Jesus son of Joseph, isn't he? We know his father and mother. How, then, does he now say he came down from heaven?” ⁴³ Jesus answered, “Stop grumbling among yourselves.

Judgment by Jesus' Words

⁴⁴ People cannot come to me unless the Father who sent me draws them to me; and I will raise them to life on the last day.

The Unbelief of the Jewish Authorities

The Plot against Jesus

⁴⁵ The prophets wrote, ‘Everyone will be taught by God.’ Anyone who hears the Father and learns from him comes to me. ⁴⁶ This does not mean that anyone has seen the Father; he who is from God is the only one who has seen the Father. ⁴⁷ I am telling you the truth: he who believes has eternal life.

Jesus and Abraham

⁴⁸ I am the bread of life. ⁴⁹ Your ancestors ate manna in the desert, but they died. ⁵⁰ But the bread that comes down from heaven is of such a kind that whoever eats it will not die. ⁵¹ I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If you eat this bread, you will live forever. The bread that I will give you is my flesh, which I give so that the world may live.” ⁵² This started an angry argument among them. “How can this man give us his flesh to eat?” they asked. ⁵³ Jesus said to them, “I am telling you the truth: if you do not eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you will not have life in yourselves. ⁵⁴ Those who eat my flesh and drink my blood have eternal life, and I will raise them to life on the last day. ⁵⁵ For my flesh is the real food; my blood is the real drink. ⁵⁶ Those who eat my flesh and drink my blood live in me, and I live in them. ⁵⁷ The living Father sent me, and because of him I live also. In the same way whoever eats me will live because of me. ⁵⁸ This, then, is the bread that came down from heaven; it is not like the bread that your ancestors ate, but then later died. Those who eat this bread will live forever.” ⁵⁹ Jesus said this as he taught in the synagogue in Capernaum.

The Words of Eternal Life

⁶⁰ Many of his followers heard this and said, “This teaching is too hard. Who can listen to it?” ⁶¹ Without being told, Jesus knew that they were grumbling about this, so he said to them, “Does this make you want to give up? ⁶² Suppose, then, that you should see the Son of Man go back up to the place where he was before? ⁶³ What gives life is God's Spirit; human power is of no use at all. The words I have spoken to you bring God's life-giving Spirit. ⁶⁴ Yet some of you do not believe.” (Jesus knew from the very beginning who were the ones that would not believe and which one would betray him.) ⁶⁵ And he added, “This is the very reason I told you that no people can come to me unless the Father makes it possible for them to do so.” ⁶⁶ Because of this, many of Jesus' followers turned back and would not go with him any more. ⁶⁷ So he asked the twelve disciples, “And you—would you also like to leave?” ⁶⁸ Simon Peter answered him, “Lord, to whom would we go? You have the words that give eternal life. ⁶⁹ And now we believe and know that you are the Holy One who has come from God.” ⁷⁰ Jesus replied, “I chose the twelve of you, didn't I? Yet one of you is a devil!” ⁷¹ He was talking about Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot. For Judas, even though he was one of the twelve disciples, was going to betray him.

Jesus Feeds Five Thousand

Jesus and His Brothers

The Woman Caught in Adultery

Jesus Heals a Man Born Blind

The Parable of the Shepherd

The Death of Lazarus

Jesus Is Anointed at Bethany

Jesus Washes His Disciples' Feet

Jesus the Way to the Father

¹ After this, Jesus traveled in Galilee; he did not want to travel in Judea, because the Jewish authorities there were wanting to kill him. ^* ² The time for the Festival of Shelters was near, ^* ³ so Jesus' brothers said to him, “Leave this place and go to Judea, so that your followers will see the things that you are doing. ⁴ People don't hide what they are doing if they want to be well known. Since you are doing these things, let the whole world know about you!” ( ⁵ Not even his brothers believed in him.) ⁶ Jesus said to them, “The right time for me has not yet come. Any time is right for you.

Jesus the Good Shepherd

⁷ The world cannot hate you, but it hates me, because I keep telling it that its ways are bad. ^* ⁸ You go on to the festival. I am not going to this festival, because the right time has not come for me.”

The Plot against Lazarus

⁹ He said this and then stayed on in Galilee.

Jesus at the Festival of Shelters

¹⁰ After his brothers had gone to the festival, Jesus also went; however, he did not go openly, but secretly. ¹¹ The Jewish authorities were looking for him at the festival. “Where is he?” they asked.

Jesus the Light of the World

The Triumphant Entry into Jerusalem

¹² There was much whispering about him in the crowd. “He is a good man,” some people said. “No,” others said, “he fools the people.”

The Pharisees Investigate the Healing

¹³ But no one talked about him openly, because they were afraid of the Jewish authorities. ¹⁴ The festival was nearly half over when Jesus went to the Temple and began teaching. ^*

The Promise of the Holy Spirit

¹⁵ The Jewish authorities were greatly surprised and said, “How does this man know so much when he has never been to school?”

Jesus Walks on the Water

¹⁶ Jesus answered, “What I teach is not my own teaching, but it comes from God, who sent me.

Jesus the Resurrection and the Life

¹⁷ Whoever is willing to do what God wants will know whether what I teach comes from God or whether I speak on my own authority. ^* ¹⁸ Those who speak on their own authority are trying to gain glory for themselves. But he who wants glory for the one who sent him is honest, and there is nothing false in him. ¹⁹ Moses gave you the Law, didn't he? But not one of you obeys the Law. Why are you trying to kill me?”

Some Greeks Seek Jesus

²⁰ “You have a demon in you!” the crowd answered. “Who is trying to kill you?”

You Cannot Go Where I Am Going

Jesus Predicts His Betrayal

²¹ Jesus answered, “I performed one miracle, and you were all surprised.

The People Seek Jesus

Jesus Is Rejected

²² Moses ordered you to circumcise your sons (although it was not Moses but your ancestors who started it), and so you circumcise a boy on the Sabbath. ²³ If a boy is circumcised on the Sabbath so that Moses' Law is not broken, why are you angry with me because I made a man completely well on the Sabbath? ²⁴ Stop judging by external standards, and judge by true standards.”

Jesus the Bread of Life

Is He the Messiah?

²⁵ Some of the people of Jerusalem said, “Isn't this the man the authorities are trying to kill? ²⁶ Look! He is talking in public, and they say nothing against him! Can it be that they really know that he is the Messiah?

Jesus Speaks about His Death

²⁷ But when the Messiah comes, no one will know where he is from. And we all know where this man comes from.”

Jesus Weeps

²⁸ As Jesus taught in the Temple, he said in a loud voice, “Do you really know me and know where I am from? I have not come on my own authority. He who sent me, however, is truthful. You do not know him, ²⁹ but I know him, because I come from him and he sent me.” ³⁰ Then they tried to seize him, but no one laid a hand on him, because his hour had not yet come.

The Truth Will Set You Free

The New Commandment

³¹ But many in the crowd believed in him and said, “When the Messiah comes, will he perform more miracles than this man has?”

Guards Are Sent to Arrest Jesus

³² The Pharisees heard the crowd whispering these things about Jesus, so they and the chief priests sent some guards to arrest him. ³³ Jesus said, “I shall be with you a little while longer, and then I shall go away to him who sent me. ³⁴ You will look for me, but you will not find me, because you cannot go where I will be.”

Spiritual Blindness

³⁵ The Jewish authorities said among themselves, “Where is he about to go so that we shall not find him? Will he go to the Greek cities where our people live, and teach the Greeks?

Jesus Predicts Peter's Denial

³⁶ He says that we will look for him but will not find him, and that we cannot go where he will be. What does he mean?”

Streams of Life-Giving Water

The Unbelief of the People

³⁷ On the last and most important day of the festival Jesus stood up and said in a loud voice, “Whoever is thirsty should come to me, and

Lazarus Is Brought to Life

³⁸ whoever believes in me should drink. As the scripture says, ‘Streams of life-giving water will pour out from his side.’” ³⁹ Jesus said this about the Spirit, which those who believed in him were going to receive. At that time the Spirit had not yet been given, because Jesus had not been raised to glory.

Division among the People

⁴⁰ Some of the people in the crowd heard him say this and said, “This man is really the Prophet!” ⁴¹ Others said, “He is the Messiah!” But others said, “The Messiah will not come from Galilee! ⁴² The scripture says that the Messiah will be a descendant of King David and will be born in Bethlehem, the town where David lived.” ⁴³ So there was a division in the crowd because of Jesus.

Judgment by Jesus' Words

⁴⁴ Some wanted to seize him, but no one laid a hand on him.

The Unbelief of the Jewish Authorities

The Plot against Jesus

⁴⁵ When the guards went back, the chief priests and Pharisees asked them, “Why did you not bring him?” ⁴⁶ The guards answered, “Nobody has ever talked the way this man does!” ⁴⁷ “Did he fool you, too?” the Pharisees asked them.

Jesus and Abraham

⁴⁸ “Have you ever known one of the authorities or one Pharisee to believe in him? ⁴⁹ This crowd does not know the Law of Moses, so they are under God's curse!” ⁵⁰ One of the Pharisees there was Nicodemus, the man who had gone to see Jesus before. He said to the others, ⁵¹ “According to our Law we cannot condemn people before hearing them and finding out what they have done.” ⁵² “Well,” they answered, “are you also from Galilee? Study the Scriptures and you will learn that no prophet ever comes from Galilee.” ⁵³

Jesus Feeds Five Thousand

Jesus and His Brothers

The Woman Caught in Adultery

Jesus Heals a Man Born Blind

The Parable of the Shepherd

The Death of Lazarus

Jesus Is Anointed at Bethany

Jesus Washes His Disciples' Feet

Jesus the Way to the Father

¹ Then everyone went home, but Jesus went to the Mount of Olives. ^* ² Early the next morning he went back to the Temple. All the people gathered around him, and he sat down and began to teach them. ^* ³ The teachers of the Law and the Pharisees brought in a woman who had been caught committing adultery, and they made her stand before them all. ⁴ “Teacher,” they said to Jesus, “this woman was caught in the very act of committing adultery. ⁵ In our Law Moses commanded that such a woman must be stoned to death. Now, what do you say?” ⁶ They said this to trap Jesus, so that they could accuse him. But he bent over and wrote on the ground with his finger.

Jesus the Good Shepherd

⁷ As they stood there asking him questions, he straightened up and said to them, “Whichever one of you has committed no sin may throw the first stone at her.” ^* ⁸ Then he bent over again and wrote on the ground.

The Plot against Lazarus

⁹ When they heard this, they all left, one by one, the older ones first. Jesus was left alone, with the woman still standing there.

Jesus at the Festival of Shelters

¹⁰ He straightened up and said to her, “Where are they? Is there no one left to condemn you?” ¹¹ “No one, sir,” she answered. “Well, then,” Jesus said, “I do not condemn you either. Go, but do not sin again.”]

Jesus the Light of the World

The Triumphant Entry into Jerusalem

¹² Jesus spoke to the Pharisees again. “I am the light of the world,” he said. “Whoever follows me will have the light of life and will never walk in darkness.”

The Pharisees Investigate the Healing

¹³ The Pharisees said to him, “Now you are testifying on your own behalf; what you say proves nothing.” ¹⁴ “No,” Jesus answered, “even though I do testify on my own behalf, what I say is true, because I know where I came from and where I am going. You do not know where I came from or where I am going. ^*

The Promise of the Holy Spirit

¹⁵ You make judgments in a purely human way; I pass judgment on no one.

Jesus Walks on the Water

¹⁶ But if I were to do so, my judgment would be true, because I am not alone in this; the Father who sent me is with me.

Jesus the Resurrection and the Life

¹⁷ It is written in your Law that when two witnesses agree, what they say is true. ^* ¹⁸ I testify on my own behalf, and the Father who sent me also testifies on my behalf.” ¹⁹ “Where is your father?” they asked him. “You know neither me nor my Father,” Jesus answered. “If you knew me, you would know my Father also.”

Some Greeks Seek Jesus

²⁰ Jesus said all this as he taught in the Temple, in the room where the offering boxes were placed. And no one arrested him, because his hour had not come.

You Cannot Go Where I Am Going

Jesus Predicts His Betrayal

²¹ Again Jesus said to them, “I will go away; you will look for me, but you will die in your sins. You cannot go where I am going.”

The People Seek Jesus

Jesus Is Rejected

²² So the Jewish authorities said, “He says that we cannot go where he is going. Does this mean that he will kill himself” ²³ Jesus answered, “You belong to this world here below, but I come from above. You are from this world, but I am not from this world. ²⁴ That is why I told you that you will die in your sins. And you will die in your sins if you do not believe that ‘I Am Who I Am’.”

Jesus the Bread of Life

Is He the Messiah?

²⁵ “Who are you?” they asked him. Jesus answered, “What I have told you from the very beginning. ²⁶ I have much to say about you, much to condemn you for. The one who sent me, however, is truthful, and I tell the world only what I have heard from him.”

Jesus Speaks about His Death

²⁷ They did not understand that Jesus was talking to them about the Father.

Jesus Weeps

²⁸ So he said to them, “When you lift up the Son of Man, you will know that ‘I Am Who I Am’; then you will know that I do nothing on my own authority, but I say only what the Father has instructed me to say. ²⁹ And he who sent me is with me; he has not left me alone, because I always do what pleases him.” ³⁰ Many who heard Jesus say these things believed in him.

The Truth Will Set You Free

The New Commandment

³¹ So Jesus said to those who believed in him, “If you obey my teaching, you are really my disciples;

Guards Are Sent to Arrest Jesus

³² you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.” ³³ “We are the descendants of Abraham,” they answered, “and we have never been anybody's slaves. What do you mean, then, by saying, ‘You will be free’?” ³⁴ Jesus said to them, “I am telling you the truth: everyone who sins is a slave of sin.

Spiritual Blindness

³⁵ A slave does not belong to a family permanently, but a son belongs there forever.

Jesus Predicts Peter's Denial

³⁶ If the Son sets you free, then you will be really free.

Streams of Life-Giving Water

The Unbelief of the People

³⁷ I know you are Abraham's descendants. Yet you are trying to kill me, because you will not accept my teaching.

Lazarus Is Brought to Life

³⁸ I talk about what my Father has shown me, but you do what your father has told you.” ³⁹ They answered him, “Our father is Abraham.” “If you really were Abraham's children,” Jesus replied, “you would do the same things that he did.

Division among the People

⁴⁰ All I have ever done is to tell you the truth I heard from God, yet you are trying to kill me. Abraham did nothing like this! ⁴¹ You are doing what your father did.” “God himself is the only Father we have,” they answered, “and we are his true children.” ⁴² Jesus said to them, “If God really were your Father, you would love me, because I came from God and now I am here. I did not come on my own authority, but he sent me. ⁴³ Why do you not understand what I say? It is because you cannot bear to listen to my message.

Judgment by Jesus' Words

⁴⁴ You are the children of your father, the Devil, and you want to follow your father's desires. From the very beginning he was a murderer and has never been on the side of truth, because there is no truth in him. When he tells a lie, he is only doing what is natural to him, because he is a liar and the father of all lies.

The Unbelief of the Jewish Authorities

The Plot against Jesus

⁴⁵ But I tell the truth, and that is why you do not believe me. ⁴⁶ Which one of you can prove that I am guilty of sin? If I tell the truth, then why do you not believe me? ⁴⁷ He who comes from God listens to God's words. You, however, are not from God, and that is why you will not listen.”

Jesus and Abraham

⁴⁸ They asked Jesus, “Were we not right in saying that you are a Samaritan and have a demon in you?” ⁴⁹ “I have no demon,” Jesus answered. “I honor my Father, but you dishonor me. ⁵⁰ I am not seeking honor for myself. But there is one who is seeking it and who judges in my favor. ⁵¹ I am telling you the truth: whoever obeys my teaching will never die.” ⁵² They said to him, “Now we know for sure that you have a demon! Abraham died, and the prophets died, yet you say that whoever obeys your teaching will never die. ⁵³ Our father Abraham died; you do not claim to be greater than Abraham, do you? And the prophets also died. Who do you think you are?” ⁵⁴ Jesus answered, “If I were to honor myself, that honor would be worth nothing. The one who honors me is my Father—the very one you say is your God. ⁵⁵ You have never known him, but I know him. If I were to say that I do not know him, I would be a liar like you. But I do know him, and I obey his word. ⁵⁶ Your father Abraham rejoiced that he was to see the time of my coming; he saw it and was glad.” ⁵⁷ They said to him, “You are not even fifty years old—and you have seen Abraham?” ⁵⁸ “I am telling you the truth,” Jesus replied. “Before Abraham was born, ‘I Am’.” ⁵⁹ Then they picked up stones to throw at him, but Jesus hid himself and left the Temple.

Jesus Feeds Five Thousand

Jesus and His Brothers

The Woman Caught in Adultery

Jesus Heals a Man Born Blind

The Parable of the Shepherd

The Death of Lazarus

Jesus Is Anointed at Bethany

Jesus Washes His Disciples' Feet

Jesus the Way to the Father

¹ As Jesus was walking along, he saw a man who had been born blind. ^* ² His disciples asked him, “Teacher, whose sin caused him to be born blind? Was it his own or his parents' sin?” ^* ³ Jesus answered, “His blindness has nothing to do with his sins or his parents' sins. He is blind so that God's power might be seen at work in him. ⁴ As long as it is day, we must do the work of him who sent me; night is coming when no one can work. ⁵ While I am in the world, I am the light for the world.” ⁶ After he said this, Jesus spat on the ground and made some mud with the spittle; he rubbed the mud on the man's eyes

Jesus the Good Shepherd

⁷ and told him, “Go and wash your face in the Pool of Siloam.” (This name means “Sent.”) So the man went, washed his face, and came back seeing. ^* ⁸ His neighbors, then, and the people who had seen him begging before this, asked, “Isn't this the man who used to sit and beg?”

The Plot against Lazarus

⁹ Some said, “He is the one,” but others said, “No he isn't; he just looks like him.” So the man himself said, “I am the man.”

Jesus at the Festival of Shelters

¹⁰ “How is it that you can now see?” they asked him. ¹¹ He answered, “The man called Jesus made some mud, rubbed it on my eyes, and told me to go to Siloam and wash my face. So I went, and as soon as I washed, I could see.”

Jesus the Light of the World

The Triumphant Entry into Jerusalem

¹² “Where is he?” they asked. “I don't know,” he answered.

The Pharisees Investigate the Healing

¹³ Then they took to the Pharisees the man who had been blind. ¹⁴ The day that Jesus made the mud and cured him of his blindness was a Sabbath. ^*

The Promise of the Holy Spirit

¹⁵ The Pharisees, then, asked the man again how he had received his sight. He told them, “He put some mud on my eyes; I washed my face, and now I can see.”

Jesus Walks on the Water

¹⁶ Some of the Pharisees said, “The man who did this cannot be from God, for he does not obey the Sabbath law.” Others, however, said, “How could a man who is a sinner perform such miracles as these?” And there was a division among them.

Jesus the Resurrection and the Life

¹⁷ So the Pharisees asked the man once more, “You say he cured you of your blindness—well, what do you say about him?” “He is a prophet,” the man answered. ^* ¹⁸ The Jewish authorities, however, were not willing to believe that he had been blind and could now see, until they called his parents ¹⁹ and asked them, “Is this your son? You say that he was born blind; how is it, then, that he can now see?”

Some Greeks Seek Jesus

²⁰ His parents answered, “We know that he is our son, and we know that he was born blind.

You Cannot Go Where I Am Going

Jesus Predicts His Betrayal

²¹ But we do not know how it is that he is now able to see, nor do we know who cured him of his blindness. Ask him; he is old enough, and he can answer for himself”

The People Seek Jesus

Jesus Is Rejected

²² His parents said this because they were afraid of the Jewish authorities, who had already agreed that anyone who said he believed that Jesus was the Messiah would be expelled from the synagogue. ²³ That is why his parents said, “He is old enough; ask him!” ²⁴ A second time they called back the man who had been born blind, and said to him, “Promise before God that you will tell the truth! We know that this man who cured you is a sinner.”

Jesus the Bread of Life

Is He the Messiah?

²⁵ “I do not know if he is a sinner or not,” the man replied. “One thing I do know: I was blind, and now I see.” ²⁶ “What did he do to you?” they asked. “How did he cure you of your blindness?”

Jesus Speaks about His Death

²⁷ “I have already told you,” he answered, “and you would not listen. Why do you want to hear it again? Maybe you, too, would like to be his disciples?”

Jesus Weeps

²⁸ They insulted him and said, “You are that fellow's disciple; but we are Moses' disciples. ²⁹ We know that God spoke to Moses; as for that fellow, however, we do not even know where he comes from!” ³⁰ The man answered, “What a strange thing that is! You do not know where he comes from, but he cured me of my blindness!

The Truth Will Set You Free

The New Commandment

³¹ We know that God does not listen to sinners; he does listen to people who respect him and do what he wants them to do.

Guards Are Sent to Arrest Jesus

³² Since the beginning of the world nobody has ever heard of anyone giving sight to a person born blind. ³³ Unless this man came from God, he would not be able to do a thing.” ³⁴ They answered, “You were born and brought up in sin—and you are trying to teach us?” And they expelled him from the synagogue.

Spiritual Blindness

³⁵ When Jesus heard what had happened, he found the man and asked him, “Do you believe in the Son of Man?”

Jesus Predicts Peter's Denial

³⁶ The man answered, “Tell me who he is, sir, so that I can believe in him!”

Streams of Life-Giving Water

The Unbelief of the People

³⁷ Jesus said to him, “You have already seen him, and he is the one who is talking with you now.”

Lazarus Is Brought to Life

³⁸ “I believe, Lord!” the man said, and knelt down before Jesus. ³⁹ Jesus said, “I came to this world to judge, so that the blind should see and those who see should become blind.”

Division among the People

⁴⁰ Some Pharisees who were there with him heard him say this and asked him, “Surely you don't mean that we are blind, too?” ⁴¹ Jesus answered, “If you were blind, then you would not be guilty; but since you claim that you can see, this means that you are still guilty.”

Jesus Feeds Five Thousand

Jesus and His Brothers

The Woman Caught in Adultery

Jesus Heals a Man Born Blind

The Parable of the Shepherd

The Death of Lazarus

Jesus Is Anointed at Bethany

Jesus Washes His Disciples' Feet

Jesus the Way to the Father

¹ Jesus said, “I am telling you the truth: the man who does not enter the sheep pen by the gate, but climbs in some other way, is a thief and a robber. ^* ² The man who goes in through the gate is the shepherd of the sheep. ^* ³ The gatekeeper opens the gate for him; the sheep hear his voice as he calls his own sheep by name, and he leads them out. ⁴ When he has brought them out, he goes ahead of them, and the sheep follow him, because they know his voice. ⁵ They will not follow someone else; instead, they will run away from such a person, because they do not know his voice.” ⁶ Jesus told them this parable, but they did not understand what he meant.

Jesus the Good Shepherd

⁷ So Jesus said again, “I am telling you the truth: I am the gate for the sheep. ^* ⁸ All others who came before me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not listen to them.

The Plot against Lazarus

⁹ I am the gate. Those who come in by me will be saved; they will come in and go out and find pasture.

Jesus at the Festival of Shelters

¹⁰ The thief comes only in order to steal, kill, and destroy. I have come in order that you might have life—life in all its fullness. ¹¹ “I am the good shepherd, who is willing to die for the sheep.

Jesus the Light of the World

The Triumphant Entry into Jerusalem

¹² When the hired man, who is not a shepherd and does not own the sheep, sees a wolf coming, he leaves the sheep and runs away; so the wolf snatches the sheep and scatters them.

The Pharisees Investigate the Healing

¹³ The hired man runs away because he is only a hired man and does not care about the sheep. ¹⁴ -15 I am the good shepherd. As the Father knows me and I know the Father, in the same way I know my sheep and they know me. And I am willing to die for them. ^*

Jesus Walks on the Water

¹⁶ There are other sheep which belong to me that are not in this sheep pen. I must bring them, too; they will listen to my voice, and they will become one flock with one shepherd.

Jesus the Resurrection and the Life

¹⁷ “The Father loves me because I am willing to give up my life, in order that I may receive it back again. ^* ¹⁸ No one takes my life away from me. I give it up of my own free will. I have the right to give it up, and I have the right to take it back. This is what my Father has commanded me to do.” ¹⁹ Again there was a division among the people because of these words.

Some Greeks Seek Jesus

²⁰ Many of them were saying, “He has a demon! He is crazy! Why do you listen to him?”

You Cannot Go Where I Am Going

Jesus Predicts His Betrayal

²¹ But others were saying, “A man with a demon could not talk like this! How could a demon give sight to blind people?”

The People Seek Jesus

Jesus Is Rejected

²² It was winter, and the Festival of the Dedication of the Temple was being celebrated in Jerusalem. ²³ Jesus was walking in Solomon's Porch in the Temple, ²⁴ when the people gathered around him and asked, “How long are you going to keep us in suspense? Tell us the plain truth: are you the Messiah?”

Jesus the Bread of Life

Is He the Messiah?

²⁵ Jesus answered, “I have already told you, but you would not believe me. The deeds I do by my Father's authority speak on my behalf; ²⁶ but you will not believe, for you are not my sheep.

Jesus Speaks about His Death

²⁷ My sheep listen to my voice; I know them, and they follow me.

Jesus Weeps

²⁸ I give them eternal life, and they shall never die. No one can snatch them away from me. ²⁹ What my Father has given me is greater than everything, and no one can snatch them away from the Father's care. ³⁰ The Father and I are one.”

The Truth Will Set You Free

The New Commandment

³¹ Then the people again picked up stones to throw at him.

Guards Are Sent to Arrest Jesus

³² Jesus said to them, “I have done many good deeds in your presence which the Father gave me to do; for which one of these do you want to stone me?” ³³ They answered, “We do not want to stone you because of any good deeds, but because of your blasphemy! You are only a man, but you are trying to make yourself God!” ³⁴ Jesus answered, “It is written in your own Law that God said, ‘You are gods.’

Spiritual Blindness

³⁵ We know that what the scripture says is true forever; and God called those people gods, the people to whom his message was given.

Jesus Predicts Peter's Denial

³⁶ As for me, the Father chose me and sent me into the world. How, then, can you say that I blaspheme because I said that I am the Son of God?

Streams of Life-Giving Water

The Unbelief of the People

³⁷ Do not believe me, then, if I am not doing the things my Father wants me to do.

Lazarus Is Brought to Life

³⁸ But if I do them, even though you do not believe me, you should at least believe my deeds, in order that you may know once and for all that the Father is in me and that I am in the Father.” ³⁹ Once more they tried to seize Jesus, but he slipped out of their hands.

Division among the People

⁴⁰ Jesus then went back again across the Jordan River to the place where John had been baptizing, and he stayed there. ⁴¹ Many people came to him. “John performed no miracles,” they said, “but everything he said about this man was true.” ⁴² And many people there believed in him.

Jesus Feeds Five Thousand

Jesus and His Brothers

The Woman Caught in Adultery

Jesus Heals a Man Born Blind

The Parable of the Shepherd

The Death of Lazarus

Jesus Is Anointed at Bethany

Jesus Washes His Disciples' Feet

Jesus the Way to the Father

¹ A man named Lazarus, who lived in Bethany, became sick. Bethany was the town where Mary and her sister Martha lived. ( ^* ² This Mary was the one who poured the perfume on the Lord's feet and wiped them with her hair; it was her brother Lazarus who was sick.) ^* ³ The sisters sent Jesus a message: “Lord, your dear friend is sick.” ⁴ When Jesus heard it, he said, “The final result of this sickness will not be the death of Lazarus; this has happened in order to bring glory to God, and it will be the means by which the Son of God will receive glory.” ⁵ Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus. ⁶ Yet when he received the news that Lazarus was sick, he stayed where he was for two more days.

Jesus the Good Shepherd

⁷ Then he said to the disciples, “Let us go back to Judea.” ^* ⁸ “Teacher,” the disciples answered, “just a short time ago the people there wanted to stone you; and are you planning to go back?”

The Plot against Lazarus

⁹ Jesus said, “A day has twelve hours, doesn't it? So those who walk in broad daylight do not stumble, for they see the light of this world.

Jesus at the Festival of Shelters

¹⁰ But if they walk during the night they stumble, because they have no light.” ¹¹ Jesus said this and then added, “Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep, but I will go and wake him up.”

Jesus the Light of the World

The Triumphant Entry into Jerusalem

¹² The disciples answered, “If he is asleep, Lord, he will get well.”

The Pharisees Investigate the Healing

¹³ Jesus meant that Lazarus had died, but they thought he meant natural sleep. ¹⁴ So Jesus told them plainly, “Lazarus is dead, ^*

The Promise of the Holy Spirit

¹⁵ but for your sake I am glad that I was not with him, so that you will believe. Let us go to him.”

Jesus Walks on the Water

¹⁶ Thomas (called the Twin) said to his fellow disciples, “Let us all go along with the Teacher, so that we may die with him!”

Jesus the Resurrection and the Life

¹⁷ When Jesus arrived, he found that Lazarus had been buried four days before. ^* ¹⁸ Bethany was less than two miles from Jerusalem, ¹⁹ and many Judeans had come to see Martha and Mary to comfort them about their brother's death.

Some Greeks Seek Jesus

²⁰ When Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went out to meet him, but Mary stayed in the house.

You Cannot Go Where I Am Going

Jesus Predicts His Betrayal

²¹ Martha said to Jesus, “If you had been here, Lord, my brother would not have died!

The People Seek Jesus

Jesus Is Rejected

²² But I know that even now God will give you whatever you ask him for.” ²³ “Your brother will rise to life,” Jesus told her. ²⁴ “I know,” she replied, “that he will rise to life on the last day.”

Jesus the Bread of Life

Is He the Messiah?

²⁵ Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. Those who believe in me will live, even though they die; ²⁶ and those who live and believe in me will never die. Do you believe this?”

Jesus Speaks about His Death

²⁷ “Yes, Lord!” she answered. “I do believe that you are the Messiah, the Son of God, who was to come into the world.”

Jesus Weeps

²⁸ After Martha said this, she went back and called her sister Mary privately. “The Teacher is here,” she told her, “and is asking for you.” ²⁹ When Mary heard this, she got up and hurried out to meet him. ( ³⁰ Jesus had not yet arrived in the village, but was still in the place where Martha had met him.)

The Truth Will Set You Free

The New Commandment

³¹ The people who were in the house with Mary comforting her followed her when they saw her get up and hurry out. They thought that she was going to the grave to weep there.

Guards Are Sent to Arrest Jesus

³² Mary arrived where Jesus was, and as soon as she saw him, she fell at his feet. “Lord,” she said, “if you had been here, my brother would not have died!” ³³ Jesus saw her weeping, and he saw how the people with her were weeping also; his heart was touched, and he was deeply moved. ³⁴ “Where have you buried him?” he asked them. “Come and see, Lord,” they answered.

Spiritual Blindness

³⁵ Jesus wept.

Jesus Predicts Peter's Denial

³⁶ “See how much he loved him!” the people said.

Streams of Life-Giving Water

The Unbelief of the People

³⁷ But some of them said, “He gave sight to the blind man, didn't he? Could he not have kept Lazarus from dying?”

Lazarus Is Brought to Life

³⁸ Deeply moved once more, Jesus went to the tomb, which was a cave with a stone placed at the entrance. ³⁹ “Take the stone away!” Jesus ordered. Martha, the dead man's sister, answered, “There will be a bad smell, Lord. He has been buried four days!”

Division among the People

⁴⁰ Jesus said to her, “Didn't I tell you that you would see God's glory if you believed?” ⁴¹ They took the stone away. Jesus looked up and said, “I thank you, Father, that you listen to me. ⁴² I know that you always listen to me, but I say this for the sake of the people here, so that they will believe that you sent me.” ⁴³ After he had said this, he called out in a loud voice, “Lazarus, come out!”

Judgment by Jesus' Words

⁴⁴ He came out, his hands and feet wrapped in grave cloths, and with a cloth around his face. “Untie him,” Jesus told them, “and let him go.”

The Unbelief of the Jewish Authorities

The Plot against Jesus

⁴⁵ Many of the people who had come to visit Mary saw what Jesus did, and they believed in him. ⁴⁶ But some of them returned to the Pharisees and told them what Jesus had done. ⁴⁷ So the Pharisees and the chief priests met with the Council and said, “What shall we do? Look at all the miracles this man is performing!

Jesus and Abraham

⁴⁸ If we let him go on in this way, everyone will believe in him, and the Roman authorities will take action and destroy our Temple and our nation!” ⁴⁹ One of them, named Caiaphas, who was High Priest that year, said, “What fools you are! ⁵⁰ Don't you realize that it is better for you to have one man die for the people, instead of having the whole nation destroyed?” ⁵¹ Actually, he did not say this of his own accord; rather, as he was High Priest that year, he was prophesying that Jesus was going to die for the Jewish people, ⁵² and not only for them, but also to bring together into one body all the scattered people of God. ⁵³ From that day on the Jewish authorities made plans to kill Jesus. ⁵⁴ So Jesus did not travel openly in Judea, but left and went to a place near the desert, to a town named Ephraim, where he stayed with the disciples. ⁵⁵ The time for the Passover Festival was near, and many people went up from the country to Jerusalem to perform the ritual of purification before the festival. ⁵⁶ They were looking for Jesus, and as they gathered in the Temple, they asked one another, “What do you think? Surely he will not come to the festival, will he?” ⁵⁷ The chief priests and the Pharisees had given orders that if anyone knew where Jesus was, he must report it, so that they could arrest him.

Jesus Feeds Five Thousand

Jesus and His Brothers

The Woman Caught in Adultery

Jesus Heals a Man Born Blind

The Parable of the Shepherd

The Death of Lazarus

Jesus Is Anointed at Bethany

Jesus Washes His Disciples' Feet

Jesus the Way to the Father

¹ Six days before the Passover, Jesus went to Bethany, the home of Lazarus, the man he had raised from death. ^* ² They prepared a dinner for him there, which Martha helped serve; Lazarus was one of those who were sitting at the table with Jesus. ^* ³ Then Mary took a whole pint of a very expensive perfume made of pure nard, poured it on Jesus' feet, and wiped them with her hair. The sweet smell of the perfume filled the whole house. ⁴ One of Jesus' disciples, Judas Iscariot—the one who was going to betray him—said, ⁵ “Why wasn't this perfume sold for three hundred silver coins and the money given to the poor?” ⁶ He said this, not because he cared about the poor, but because he was a thief. He carried the money bag and would help himself from it.

Jesus the Good Shepherd

⁷ But Jesus said, “Leave her alone! Let her keep what she has for the day of my burial. ^* ⁸ You will always have poor people with you, but you will not always have me.”

The Plot against Lazarus

⁹ A large number of people heard that Jesus was in Bethany, so they went there, not only because of Jesus but also to see Lazarus, whom Jesus had raised from death.

Jesus at the Festival of Shelters

¹⁰ So the chief priests made plans to kill Lazarus too, ¹¹ because on his account many Jews were rejecting them and believing in Jesus.

Jesus the Light of the World

The Triumphant Entry into Jerusalem

¹² The next day the large crowd that had come to the Passover Festival heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem.

The Pharisees Investigate the Healing

¹³ So they took branches of palm trees and went out to meet him, shouting, “Praise God! God bless him who comes in the name of the Lord! God bless the King of Israel!” ¹⁴ Jesus found a donkey and rode on it, just as the scripture says,
^*

The Promise of the Holy Spirit

¹⁵ “Do not be afraid, city of Zion!
Here comes your king,
riding on a young donkey.”

Jesus Walks on the Water

¹⁶ His disciples did not understand this at the time; but when Jesus had been raised to glory, they remembered that the scripture said this about him and that they had done this for him.

Jesus the Resurrection and the Life

¹⁷ The people who had been with Jesus when he called Lazarus out of the grave and raised him from death had reported what had happened. ^* ¹⁸ That was why the crowd met him—because they heard that he had performed this miracle. ¹⁹ The Pharisees then said to one another, “You see, we are not succeeding at all! Look, the whole world is following him!”

Some Greeks Seek Jesus

²⁰ Some Greeks were among those who had gone to Jerusalem to worship during the festival.

You Cannot Go Where I Am Going

Jesus Predicts His Betrayal

²¹ They went to Philip (he was from Bethsaida in Galilee) and said, “Sir, we want to see Jesus.”

The People Seek Jesus

Jesus Is Rejected

²² Philip went and told Andrew, and the two of them went and told Jesus. ²³ Jesus answered them, “The hour has now come for the Son of Man to receive great glory. ²⁴ I am telling you the truth: a grain of wheat remains no more than a single grain unless it is dropped into the ground and dies. If it does die, then it produces many grains.

Jesus the Bread of Life

Is He the Messiah?

²⁵ Those who love their own life will lose it; those who hate their own life in this world will keep it for life eternal. ²⁶ Whoever wants to serve me must follow me, so that my servant will be with me where I am. And my Father will honor anyone who serves me.

Jesus Speaks about His Death

²⁷ “Now my heart is troubled—and what shall I say? Shall I say, ‘Father, do not let this hour come upon me’? But that is why I came—so that I might go through this hour of suffering.

Jesus Weeps

²⁸ Father, bring glory to your name!” Then a voice spoke from heaven, “I have brought glory to it, and I will do so again.” ²⁹ The crowd standing there heard the voice, and some of them said it was thunder, while others said, “An angel spoke to him!” ³⁰ But Jesus said to them, “It was not for my sake that this voice spoke, but for yours.

The Truth Will Set You Free

The New Commandment

³¹ Now is the time for this world to be judged; now the ruler of this world will be overthrown.

Guards Are Sent to Arrest Jesus

³² When I am lifted up from the earth, I will draw everyone to me.” ( ³³ In saying this he indicated the kind of death he was going to suffer.) ³⁴ The crowd answered, “Our Law tells us that the Messiah will live forever. How, then, can you say that the Son of Man must be lifted up? Who is this Son of Man?”

Spiritual Blindness

³⁵ Jesus answered, “The light will be among you a little longer. Continue on your way while you have the light, so that the darkness will not come upon you; for the one who walks in the dark does not know where he is going.

Jesus Predicts Peter's Denial

³⁶ Believe in the light, then, while you have it, so that you will be the people of the light.” After Jesus said this, he went off and hid himself from them.

Streams of Life-Giving Water

The Unbelief of the People

³⁷ Even though he had performed all these miracles in their presence, they did not believe in him,

Lazarus Is Brought to Life

³⁸ so that what the prophet Isaiah had said might come true:
“Lord, who believed the message we told?
To whom did the Lord reveal his power?” ³⁹ And so they were not able to believe, because Isaiah also said,

Division among the People

⁴⁰ “God has blinded their eyes
and closed their minds,
so that their eyes would not see,
and their minds would not understand,
and they would not turn to me, says God,
for me to heal them.” ⁴¹ Isaiah said this because he saw Jesus' glory and spoke about him. ⁴² Even then, many Jewish authorities believed in Jesus; but because of the Pharisees they did not talk about it openly, so as not to be expelled from the synagogue. ⁴³ They loved human approval rather than the approval of God.

Judgment by Jesus' Words

⁴⁴ Jesus said in a loud voice, “Whoever believes in me believes not only in me but also in him who sent me.

The Unbelief of the Jewish Authorities

The Plot against Jesus

⁴⁵ Whoever sees me sees also him who sent me. ⁴⁶ I have come into the world as light, so that everyone who believes in me should not remain in the darkness. ⁴⁷ If people hear my message and do not obey it, I will not judge them. I came, not to judge the world, but to save it.

Jesus and Abraham

⁴⁸ Those who reject me and do not accept my message have one who will judge them. The words I have spoken will be their judge on the last day! ⁴⁹ This is true, because I have not spoken on my own authority, but the Father who sent me has commanded me what I must say and speak. ⁵⁰ And I know that his command brings eternal life. What I say, then, is what the Father has told me to say.”

Jesus Feeds Five Thousand

Jesus and His Brothers

The Woman Caught in Adultery

Jesus Heals a Man Born Blind

The Parable of the Shepherd

The Death of Lazarus

Jesus Is Anointed at Bethany

Jesus Washes His Disciples' Feet

Jesus the Way to the Father

¹ It was now the day before the Passover Festival. Jesus knew that the hour had come for him to leave this world and go to the Father. He had always loved those in the world who were his own, and he loved them to the very end. ^* ² Jesus and his disciples were at supper. The Devil had already put into the heart of Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot, the thought of betraying Jesus. ^* ³ Jesus knew that the Father had given him complete power; he knew that he had come from God and was going to God. ⁴ So he rose from the table, took off his outer garment, and tied a towel around his waist. ⁵ Then he poured some water into a washbasin and began to wash the disciples' feet and dry them with the towel around his waist. ⁶ He came to Simon Peter, who said to him, “Are you going to wash my feet, Lord?”

Jesus the Good Shepherd

⁷ Jesus answered him, “You do not understand now what I am doing, but you will understand later.” ^* ⁸ Peter declared, “Never at any time will you wash my feet!” “If I do not wash your feet,” Jesus answered, “you will no longer be my disciple.”

The Plot against Lazarus

⁹ Simon Peter answered, “Lord, do not wash only my feet, then! Wash my hands and head, too!”

Jesus at the Festival of Shelters

¹⁰ Jesus said, “Those who have taken a bath are completely clean and do not have to wash themselves, except for their feet. All of you are clean—all except one.” ( ¹¹ Jesus already knew who was going to betray him; that is why he said, “All of you, except one, are clean.”)

Jesus the Light of the World

The Triumphant Entry into Jerusalem

¹² After Jesus had washed their feet, he put his outer garment back on and returned to his place at the table. “Do you understand what I have just done to you?” he asked.

The Pharisees Investigate the Healing

¹³ “You call me Teacher and Lord, and it is right that you do so, because that is what I am. ¹⁴ I, your Lord and Teacher, have just washed your feet. You, then, should wash one another's feet. ^*

The Promise of the Holy Spirit

¹⁵ I have set an example for you, so that you will do just what I have done for you.

Jesus Walks on the Water

¹⁶ I am telling you the truth: no slaves are greater than their master, and no messengers are greater than the one who sent them.

Jesus the Resurrection and the Life

¹⁷ Now that you know this truth, how happy you will be if you put it into practice! ^* ¹⁸ “I am not talking about all of you; I know those I have chosen. But the scripture must come true that says, ‘The man who shared my food turned against me.’ ¹⁹ I tell you this now before it happens, so that when it does happen, you will believe that ‘I Am Who I Am.’

Some Greeks Seek Jesus

²⁰ I am telling you the truth: whoever receives anyone I send receives me also; and whoever receives me receives him who sent me.”

You Cannot Go Where I Am Going

Jesus Predicts His Betrayal

²¹ After Jesus had said this, he was deeply troubled and declared openly, “I am telling you the truth: one of you is going to betray me.”

The People Seek Jesus

Jesus Is Rejected

²² The disciples looked at one another, completely puzzled about whom he meant. ²³ One of the disciples, the one whom Jesus loved, was sitting next to Jesus. ²⁴ Simon Peter motioned to him and said, “Ask him whom he is talking about.”

Jesus the Bread of Life

Is He the Messiah?

²⁵ So that disciple moved closer to Jesus' side and asked, “Who is it, Lord?” ²⁶ Jesus answered, “I will dip some bread in the sauce and give it to him; he is the man.” So he took a piece of bread, dipped it, and gave it to Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot.

Jesus Speaks about His Death

²⁷ As soon as Judas took the bread, Satan entered into him. Jesus said to him, “Hurry and do what you must!”

Jesus Weeps

²⁸ None of the others at the table understood why Jesus said this to him. ²⁹ Since Judas was in charge of the money bag, some of the disciples thought that Jesus had told him to go and buy what they needed for the festival, or to give something to the poor. ³⁰ Judas accepted the bread and went out at once. It was night.

The Truth Will Set You Free

The New Commandment

³¹ After Judas had left, Jesus said, “Now the Son of Man's glory is revealed; now God's glory is revealed through him.

Guards Are Sent to Arrest Jesus

³² And if God's glory is revealed through him, then God will reveal the glory of the Son of Man in himself, and he will do so at once. ³³ My children, I shall not be with you very much longer. You will look for me; but I tell you now what I told the Jewish authorities, ‘You cannot go where I am going.’ ³⁴ And now I give you a new commandment: love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.

Spiritual Blindness

³⁵ If you have love for one another, then everyone will know that you are my disciples.”

Jesus Predicts Peter's Denial

³⁶ “Where are you going, Lord?” Simon Peter asked him. “You cannot follow me now where I am going,” answered Jesus; “but later you will follow me.”

Streams of Life-Giving Water

The Unbelief of the People

³⁷ “Lord, why can't I follow you now?” asked Peter. “I am ready to die for you!”

Lazarus Is Brought to Life

³⁸ Jesus answered, “Are you really ready to die for me? I am telling you the truth: before the rooster crows you will say three times that you do not know me.

Jesus Feeds Five Thousand

Jesus and His Brothers

The Woman Caught in Adultery

Jesus Heals a Man Born Blind

The Parable of the Shepherd

The Death of Lazarus

Jesus Is Anointed at Bethany

Jesus Washes His Disciples' Feet

Jesus the Way to the Father

¹ “Do not be worried and upset,” Jesus told them. “Believe in God and believe also in me. ^* ² There are many rooms in my Father's house, and I am going to prepare a place for you. I would not tell you this if it were not so. ^* ³ And after I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to myself, so that you will be where I am. ⁴ You know the way that leads to the place where I am going.” ⁵ Thomas said to him, “Lord, we do not know where you are going; so how can we know the way to get there?” ⁶ Jesus answered him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life; no one goes to the Father except by me.

Jesus the Good Shepherd

⁷ Now that you have known me,” he said to them, “you will know my Father also, and from now on you do know him and you have seen him.” ^* ⁸ Philip said to him, “Lord, show us the Father; that is all we need.”

The Plot against Lazarus

⁹ Jesus answered, “For a long time I have been with you all; yet you do not know me, Philip? Whoever has seen me has seen the Father. Why, then, do you say, ‘Show us the Father’?

Jesus at the Festival of Shelters

¹⁰ Do you not believe, Philip, that I am in the Father and the Father is in me? The words that I have spoken to you,” Jesus said to his disciples, “do not come from me. The Father, who remains in me, does his own work. ¹¹ Believe me when I say that I am in the Father and the Father is in me. If not, believe because of the things I do.

Jesus the Light of the World

The Triumphant Entry into Jerusalem

¹² I am telling you the truth: those who believe in me will do what I do—yes, they will do even greater things, because I am going to the Father.

The Pharisees Investigate the Healing

¹³ And I will do whatever you ask for in my name, so that the Father's glory will be shown through the Son. ¹⁴ If you ask me for anything in my name, I will do it. ^*

The Promise of the Holy Spirit

¹⁵ “If you love me, you will obey my commandments.

Jesus Walks on the Water

¹⁶ I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Helper, who will stay with you forever.

Jesus the Resurrection and the Life

¹⁷ He is the Spirit, who reveals the truth about God. The world cannot receive him, because it cannot see him or know him. But you know him, because he remains with you and is in you. ^* ¹⁸ “When I go, you will not be left all alone; I will come back to you. ¹⁹ In a little while the world will see me no more, but you will see me; and because I live, you also will live.

Some Greeks Seek Jesus

²⁰ When that day comes, you will know that I am in my Father and that you are in me, just as I am in you.

You Cannot Go Where I Am Going

Jesus Predicts His Betrayal