Righteous Father, even if the world does not know you, I know you, and these men know that you sent me.

(They did not understand that he was telling them about his Father.)

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

If you have known me, you will know my Father too. And from now on you do know him and have seen him.”

“If the world hates you, be aware that it hated me first.

just as the Father knows me and I know the Father – and I lay down my life for the sheep.

But Jesus would not entrust himself to them, because he knew all people.

but I know you, that you do not have the love of God within you.

We have come to believe and to know that you are the Holy One of God!”

But this rabble who do not know the law are accursed!”

and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”

(Now none of those present at the table understood why Jesus said this to Judas.

They will do these things because they have not known the Father or me.

Now they understand that everything you have given me comes from you,

But if I do them, even if you do not believe me, believe the deeds, so that you may come to know and understand that I am in the Father and the Father is in me.”

So when Jesus had washed their feet and put his outer clothing back on, he took his place at the table again and said to them, “Do you understand what I have done for you?

the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot accept, because it does not see him or know him. But you know him, because he resides with you and will be in you.

He was in the world, and the world was created by him, but the world did not recognize him.

Jesus answered, “Are you the teacher of Israel and yet you don’t understand these things?

But we know where this man comes from. Whenever the Christ comes, no one will know where he comes from.”