The one who eats my flesh and drinks my blood resides in me, and I in him.

After this many of his disciples quit following him and did not accompany him any longer.

But when his brothers had gone up to the feast, then Jesus himself also went up, not openly but in secret.

So the Jewish leaders were looking for him at the feast, asking, “Where is he?”

Then Jesus said, “I will be with you for only a little while longer, and then I am going to the one who sent me.

It is written in your law that the testimony of two men is true.

I testify about myself and the Father who sent me testifies about me.”

Jesus answered, “I am not possessed by a demon, but I honor my Father – and yet you dishonor me.

I am not trying to get praise for myself. There is one who demands it, and he also judges.

Then the Judeans replied, “You are not yet fifty years old! Have you seen Abraham?”

Then they picked up stones to throw at him, but Jesus hid himself and went out from the temple area.

(Now the day on which Jesus made the mud and caused him to see was a Sabbath.)

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?”

My sheep listen to my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.

Now a certain man named Lazarus was sick. He was from Bethany, the village where Mary and her sister Martha lived.

The disciples replied, “Rabbi, the Jewish leaders were just now trying to stone you to death! Are you going there again?”

and I am glad for your sake that I was not there, so that you may believe. But let us go to him.”

So Thomas (called Didymus) said to his fellow disciples, “Let us go too, so that we may die with him.”

so many of the Jewish people of the region had come to Martha and Mary to console them over the loss of their brother.)