“I tell you the solemn truth, the one who does not enter the sheepfold by the door, but climbs in some other way, is a thief and a robber.

When he has brought all his own sheep out, he goes ahead of them, and the sheep follow him because they recognize his voice.

I am the door. If anyone enters through me, he will be saved, and will come in and go out, and find pasture.

The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come so that they may have life, and may have it abundantly.

I give them eternal life, and they will never perish; no one will snatch them from my hand.

Jesus went back across the Jordan River again to the place where John had been baptizing at an earlier time, and he stayed there.

After he said this, he added, “Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep. But I am going there to awaken him.”

Jesus said, “Take away the stone.” Martha, the sister of the deceased, replied, “Lord, by this time the body will have a bad smell, because he has been buried four days.”

Then many of the people, who had come with Mary and had seen the things Jesus did, believed in him.

So the chief priests and the Pharisees called the council together and said, “What are we doing? For this man is performing many miraculous signs.

If we allow him to go on in this way, everyone will believe in him, and the Romans will come and take away our sanctuary and our nation.”

(Now he did not say this on his own, but because he was high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus was going to die for the Jewish nation,

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.

(Now the chief priests and the Pharisees had given orders that anyone who knew where Jesus was should report it, so that they could arrest him.)

Then, six days before the Passover, Jesus came to Bethany, where Lazarus lived, whom he had raised from the dead.

(Now Judas said this not because he was concerned about the poor, but because he was a thief. As keeper of the money box, he used to steal what was put into it.)

So these approached Philip, who was from Bethsaida in Galilee, and requested, “Sir, we would like to see Jesus.”

The crowd that stood there and heard the voice said that it had thundered. Others said that an angel had spoken to him.

so that the word of Isaiah the prophet would be fulfilled. He said, “Lord, who has believed our message, and to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?”

Nevertheless, even among the rulers many believed in him, but because of the Pharisees they would not confess Jesus to be the Christ, so that they would not be put out of the synagogue.