For just as the Father has life in himself, thus he has granted the Son to have life in himself,

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

For you will always have the poor with you, but you will not always have me!”

he got up from the meal, removed his outer clothes, took a towel and tied it around himself.

and carrying his own cross he went out to the place called “The Place of the Skull” (called in Aramaic Golgotha).

After this Jesus revealed himself again to the disciples by the Sea of Tiberias. Now this is how he did so.

When Jesus was aware that his disciples were complaining about this, he said to them, “Does this cause you to be offended?

So the Jewish leaders began to say, “Perhaps he is going to kill himself, because he says, ‘Where I am going you cannot come.’”

When Jesus saw her weeping, and the people who had come with her weeping, he was intensely moved in spirit and greatly distressed.

Jesus, intensely moved again, came to the tomb. (Now it was a cave, and a stone was placed across it.)

(Now he did not say this on his own, but because he was high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus was going to die for the Jewish nation,

Now the Jewish feast of Passover was near, and many people went up to Jerusalem from the rural areas before the Passover to cleanse themselves ritually.

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

But now I am coming to you, and I am saying these things in the world, so they may experience my joy completed in themselves.

The Jewish leaders replied, “We have a law, and according to our law he ought to die, because he claimed to be the Son of God!”

For this reason the Jewish leaders were trying even harder to kill him, because not only was he breaking the Sabbath, but he was also calling God his own Father, thus making himself equal with God.

Jesus said to them, “I tell you the solemn truth, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in yourselves.

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.

Then the Jewish leaders said to one another, “Where is he going to go that we cannot find him? He is not going to go to the Jewish people dispersed among the Greeks and teach the Greeks, is he?

But we do not know how he is now able to see, nor do we know who caused him to see. Ask him, he is a mature adult. He will speak for himself.”