and because of his word many more believed.

You are clean already because of the word that I have spoken to you.

When Pilate heard what they said, he was more afraid than ever,

Why don’t you understand what I am saying? It is because you cannot accept my teaching.

nor do you have his word residing in you, because you do not believe the one whom he sent.

I tell you the solemn truth, if anyone obeys my teaching, he will never see death.”

Now many Samaritans from that town believed in him because of the report of the woman who testified, “He told me everything I ever did.”

“I tell you the solemn truth, the one who hears my message and believes the one who sent me has eternal life and will not be condemned, but has crossed over from death to life.

Then the Judeans responded, “Now we know you’re possessed by a demon! Both Abraham and the prophets died, and yet you say, ‘If anyone obeys my teaching, he will never experience death.’

Yet you do not know him, but I know him. If I were to say that I do not know him, I would be a liar like you. But I do know him, and I obey his teaching.

Jesus replied, “If anyone loves me, he will obey my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and take up residence with him.

Remember what I told you, ‘A slave is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they obeyed my word, they will obey yours too.

“I have revealed your name to the men you gave me out of the world. They belonged to you, and you gave them to me, and they have obeyed your word.

I have given them your word, and the world has hated them, because they do not belong to the world, just as I do not belong to the world.