But Jesus said, “Leave her alone. Why are you bothering her? She has done a good service for me.

Jesus replied, “Woman, why are you saying this to me? My time has not yet come.”

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

Everyone will know by this that you are my disciples – if you have love for one another.”

My Father is honored by this, that you bear much fruit and show that you are my disciples.

When they had heard my case, they wanted to release me, because there was no basis for a death sentence against me.

So for me, it is a minor matter that I am judged by you or by any human court. In fact, I do not even judge myself.

(for he who empowered Peter for his apostleship to the circumcised also empowered me for my apostleship to the Gentiles)

so that what you can be proud of may increase because of me in Christ Jesus, when I come back to you.

But you know his qualifications, that like a son working with his father, he served with me in advancing the gospel.

Toward this goal I also labor, struggling according to his power that powerfully works in me.

no longer as a slave, but more than a slave, as a dear brother. He is especially so to me, and even more so to you now, both humanly speaking and in the Lord.

So we can say with confidence, “The Lord is my helper, and I will not be afraid. What can man do to me?”

“Whoever, then, acknowledges me before people, I will acknowledge before my Father in heaven.

And the king will answer them, ‘I tell you the truth, just as you did it for one of the least of these brothers or sisters of mine, you did it for me.’

Then he will answer them, ‘I tell you the truth, just as you did not do it for one of the least of these, you did not do it for me.’

But if a male child is circumcised on the Sabbath so that the law of Moses is not broken, why are you angry with me because I made a man completely well on the Sabbath?

Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father is in me, but if you do not believe me, believe because of the miraculous deeds themselves.

You will know at that time that I am in my Father and you are in me and I am in you.

I will not speak with you much longer, for the ruler of this world is coming. He has no power over me,