“I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.

and said to him, “Everyone serves the good wine first, and then the cheaper wine when the guests are drunk. You have kept the good wine until now!”

Nathanael replied, “Can anything good come out of Nazareth?” Philip replied, “Come and see.”

“I am the good shepherd. I know my own and my own know me –

There was a lot of grumbling about him among the crowds. Some were saying, “He is a good man,” but others, “He deceives the common people.”

Jesus said to them, “I have shown you many good deeds from the Father. For which one of them are you going to stone me?”

The Jewish leaders replied, “We are not going to stone you for a good deed but for blasphemy, because you, a man, are claiming to be God.”

and will come out – the ones who have done what is good to the resurrection resulting in life, and the ones who have done what is evil to the resurrection resulting in condemnation.

“Here is a boy who has five barley loaves and two fish, but what good are these for so many people?”

But I tell you the truth, it is to your advantage that I am going away. For if I do not go away, the Advocate will not come to you, but if I go, I will send him to you.

I have told you these things so that in me you may have peace. In the world you have trouble and suffering, but take courage – I have conquered the world.”

who is coming after me. I am not worthy to untie the strap of his sandal!”

So Jesus replied, “My time has not yet arrived, but you are ready at any opportunity!

(Now Jesus had been talking about his death, but they thought he had been talking about real sleep.)

Thus the Pharisees said to one another, “You see that you can do nothing. Look, the world has run off after him!”

(Now it was Caiaphas who had advised the Jewish leaders that it was to their advantage that one man die for the people.)

They came up to him again and again and said, “Hail, king of the Jews!” And they struck him repeatedly in the face.

The one who reaps receives pay and gathers fruit for eternal life, so that the one who sows and the one who reaps can rejoice together.

They answered him, “Abraham is our father!” Jesus replied, “If you are Abraham’s children, you would be doing the deeds of Abraham.

The person who speaks on his own authority desires to receive honor for himself; the one who desires the honor of the one who sent him is a man of integrity, and there is no unrighteousness in him.