Then they attempted again to seize him, but he escaped their clutches.

Although Jesus had performed so many miraculous signs before them, they still refused to believe in him,

And I set myself apart on their behalf, so that they too may be truly set apart.

“He has blinded their eyes and hardened their heart, so that they would not see with their eyes and understand with their heart, and turn to me, and I would heal them.”

But I have told you these things so that when their time comes, you will remember that I told you about them. “I did not tell you these things from the beginning because I was with you.

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.

Some of them were wanting to seize him, but no one laid a hand on him.

Nicodemus, who had gone to Jesus before and who was one of the rulers, said,

All who came before me were thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not listen to them.

Many of them were saying, “He is possessed by a demon and has lost his mind! Why do you listen to him?”

But some of them went to the Pharisees and reported to them what Jesus had done.

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

“I am not praying only on their behalf, but also on behalf of those who believe in me through their testimony,

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

Now Thomas (called Didymus), one of the twelve, was not with them when Jesus came.

After this, Jesus and his disciples came into Judean territory, and there he spent time with them and was baptizing.

I sent you to reap what you did not work for; others have labored and you have entered into their labor.”

So he asked them the time when his condition began to improve, and they told him, “Yesterday at one o’clock in the afternoon the fever left him.”

When he has brought all his own sheep out, he goes ahead of them, and the sheep follow him because they recognize his voice.

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?”