You have sent to John, and he has testified to the truth.

Do not judge according to external appearance, but judge with proper judgment.”

Then he bent over again and wrote on the ground.

But because I am telling you the truth, you do not believe me.

Another sharp division took place among the Jewish people because of these words.

Jesus found a young donkey and sat on it, just as it is written,

Jesus said, “This voice has not come for my benefit but for yours.

(Now he said this to indicate clearly what kind of death he was going to die.)

My commandment is this – to love one another just as I have loved you.

and concerning judgment, because the ruler of this world has been condemned.

So after he was raised from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this, and they believed the scripture and the saying that Jesus had spoken.

So they said to him, “Then what miraculous sign will you perform, so that we may see it and believe you? What will you do?

Just as the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father, so the one who consumes me will live because of me.

Now the Jewish religious leaders refused to believe that he had really been blind and had gained his sight until at last they summoned the parents of the man who had become able to see.

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?”

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.

So the crowd who had been with him when he called Lazarus out of the tomb and raised him from the dead were continuing to testify about it.

If anyone wants to serve me, he must follow me, and where I am, my servant will be too. If anyone serves me, the Father will honor him.

The one who rejects me and does not accept my words has a judge; the word I have spoken will judge him at the last day.

I tell you the solemn truth, whoever accepts the one I send accepts me, and whoever accepts me accepts the one who sent me.”