Then the chief priests of the Jews said to Pilate, “Do not write, ‘The king of the Jews,’ but rather, ‘This man said, I am king of the Jews.’”

Now at the place where Jesus was crucified there was a garden, and in the garden was a new tomb where no one had yet been buried.

“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.

(His parents said these things because they were afraid of the Jewish religious leaders. For the Jewish leaders had already agreed that anyone who confessed Jesus to be the Christ would be put out of the synagogue.

Then Jesus told them plainly, “Lazarus has died,

Thus Jesus no longer went around publicly among the Judeans, but went away from there to the region near the wilderness, to a town called Ephraim, and stayed there with his disciples.

The one who has accepted his testimony has confirmed clearly that God is truthful.

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

Jesus stood up straight and said to her, “Woman, where are they? Did no one condemn you?”

Jesus replied, “If I want him to live until I come back, what concern is that of yours? You follow me!”

Then Jesus spoke out again, “I am the light of the world. The one who follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.”

Some thought that, because Judas had the money box, Jesus was telling him to buy whatever they needed for the feast, or to give something to the poor.)

But the Advocate, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you everything, and will cause you to remember everything I said to you.

“I am the vine; you are the branches. The one who remains in me – and I in him – bears much fruit, because apart from me you can accomplish nothing.

so that all people will honor the Son just as they honor the Father. The one who does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent him.

Now when the people saw the miraculous sign that Jesus performed, they began to say to one another, “This is certainly the Prophet who is to come into the world.”

Then Jesus said to them again, “I am going away, and you will look for me but will die in your sin. Where I am going you cannot come.”

The one who belongs to God listens and responds to God’s words. You don’t listen and respond, because you don’t belong to God.”

I tell you the solemn truth, the slave is not greater than his master, nor is the one who is sent as a messenger greater than the one who sent him.