(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.

I tell you the solemn truth, if anyone obeys my teaching, he will never see death.”

Jesus heard that they had thrown him out, so he found the man and said to him, “Do you believe in the Son of Man?”

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

do you say about the one whom the Father set apart and sent into the world, ‘You are blaspheming,’ because I said, ‘I am the Son of God’?

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

Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in me will live even if he dies,

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

(Now Jesus had not yet entered the village, but was still in the place where Martha had come out to meet him.)

Jesus, intensely moved again, came to the tomb. (Now it was a cave, and a stone was placed across it.)

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

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 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.

Thus they were looking for Jesus, and saying to one another as they stood in the temple courts, “What do you think? That he won’t come to the feast?”

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

While you have the light, believe in the light, so that you may become sons of light.” When Jesus had said these things, he went away and hid himself from them.

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.

Because Jesus knew that the Father had handed all things over to him, and that he had come from God and was going back to God,

He poured water into the washbasin and began to wash the disciples’ feet and to dry them with the towel he had wrapped around himself.