(For his disciples had gone off into the town to buy supplies.)

The officers replied, “No one ever spoke like this man!”

Then the Pharisees answered, “You haven’t been deceived too, have you?

None of the rulers or the Pharisees have believed in him, have they?

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

It was winter, and Jesus was walking in the temple area in Solomon’s Portico.

(Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus.)

While this was happening, the high priest questioned Jesus about his disciples and about his teaching.

But the man who had been healed did not know who it was, for Jesus had slipped out, since there was a crowd in that place.

And the Father who sent me has himself testified about me. You people have never heard his voice nor seen his form at any time,

On the last day of the feast, the greatest day, Jesus stood up and shouted out, “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me, and

(Now they were asking this in an attempt to trap him, so that they could bring charges against him.) Jesus bent down and wrote on the ground with his finger.

She replied, “Yes, Lord, I believe that you are the Christ, the Son of God who comes into the world.”

Nicodemus, the man who had previously come to Jesus at night, accompanied Joseph, carrying a mixture of myrrh and aloes weighing about seventy-five pounds.

Eight days later the disciples were again together in the house, and Thomas was with them. Although the doors were locked, Jesus came and stood among them and said, “Peace be with you!”

Peter turned around and saw the disciple whom Jesus loved following them. (This was the disciple who had leaned back against Jesus’ chest at the meal and asked, “Lord, who is the one who is going to betray you?”)

For we have all received from his fullness one gracious gift after another.

for you have had five husbands, and the man you are living with now is not your husband. This you said truthfully!”

So the disciples began to say to one another, “No one brought him anything to eat, did they?”

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