Instead your hearts are filled with sadness because I have said these things to you.

For these things happened so that the scripture would be fulfilled, “Not a bone of his will be broken.”

I have told you these things so that my joy may be in you, and your joy may be complete.

Now this happened to fulfill the word that is written in their law, ‘They hated me without reason.’

He said this to fulfill the word he had spoken, “I have not lost a single one of those whom you gave me.”

(This happened to fulfill the word Jesus had spoken when he indicated what kind of death he was going to die.)

You go up to the feast yourselves. I am not going up to this feast because my time has not yet fully arrived.”

so that the word of Isaiah the prophet would be fulfilled. He said, “Lord, who has believed our message, and to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?”

Until now you have not asked for anything in my name. Ask and you will receive it, so that your joy may be complete.

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 one who has the bride is the bridegroom. The friend of the bridegroom, who stands by and listens for him, rejoices greatly when he hears the bridegroom’s voice. This then is my joy, and it is complete.

Then Mary took three quarters of a pound of expensive aromatic oil from pure nard and anointed the feet of Jesus. She then wiped his feet dry with her hair. (Now the house was filled with the fragrance of the perfumed oil.)

“What I am saying does not refer to all of you. I know the ones I have chosen. But this is to fulfill the scripture, ‘The one who eats my bread has turned against me.’

When I was with them I kept them safe and watched over them in your name that you have given me. Not one of them was lost except the one destined for destruction, so that the scripture could be fulfilled.

So the soldiers said to one another, “Let’s not tear it, but throw dice to see who will get it.” This took place to fulfill the scripture that says, “They divided my garments among them, and for my clothing they threw dice.” So the soldiers did these things.