Then Jesus went out and made his way, as he customarily did, to the Mount of Olives, and the disciples followed him.

While he was still speaking, suddenly a crowd appeared, and the man named Judas, one of the twelve, was leading them. He walked up to Jesus to kiss him.

So Pilate asked Jesus, “Are you the king of the Jews?” He replied, “You say so.”

(He had not consented to their plan and action.) He was from the Judean town of Arimathea, and was looking forward to the kingdom of God.

The women were terribly frightened and bowed their faces to the ground, but the men said to them, “Why do you look for the living among the dead?

Then some of those who were with us went to the tomb, and found it just as the women had said, but they did not see him.”

Now there were six stone water jars there for Jewish ceremonial washing, each holding twenty or thirty gallons.

You people worship what you do not know. We worship what we know, because salvation is from the Jews.

Then Jesus took the loaves, and when he had given thanks, he distributed the bread to those who were seated. He then did the same with the fish, as much as they wanted.

Then many of his disciples, when they heard these things, said, “This is a difficult saying! Who can understand it?”

However, because Moses gave you the practice of circumcision (not that it came from Moses, but from the forefathers), you circumcise a male child on the Sabbath.

Now when they heard this, they began to drift away one at a time, starting with the older ones, until Jesus was left alone with the woman standing before him.

Some of the Pharisees who were with him heard this and asked him, “We are not blind too, are we?”

“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.

“I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.

just as the Father knows me and I know the Father – and I lay down my life for the sheep.

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

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 they prepared a dinner for Jesus there. Martha was serving, and Lazarus was among those present at the table with him.

(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.)