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.

I have come as a light into the world, so that everyone who believes in me should not remain in darkness.

And if I go and make ready a place for you, I will come again and take you to be with me, so that where I am you may be too.

And I will do whatever you ask in my name, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son.

but I am doing just what the Father commanded me, so that the world may know that I love the Father. Get up, let us go from here.”

He takes away every branch that does not bear fruit in me. He prunes every branch that bears fruit so that it will bear more fruit.

They will put you out of the synagogue, yet a time is coming when the one who kills you will think he is offering service to God.

Until now you have not asked for anything in my name. Ask and you will receive it, so that your joy may be complete.

Now we know that you know everything and do not need anyone to ask you anything. Because of this we believe that you have come from God.”

I have told you these things so that in me you may have peace. In the world you have trouble and suffering, but take courage – I have conquered the world.”

Now this is eternal life – that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you sent.

But now I am coming to you, and I am saying these things in the world, so they may experience my joy completed in themselves.

I made known your name to them, and I will continue to make it known, so that the love you have loved me with may be in them, and I may be in them.”

But it is your custom that I release one prisoner for you at the Passover. So do you want me to release for you the king of the Jews?”

Again Pilate went out and said to the Jewish leaders, “Look, I am bringing him out to you, so that you may know that I find no reason for an accusation against him.”

And the person who saw it has testified (and his testimony is true, and he knows that he is telling the truth), so that you also may believe.

You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you to go and bear fruit, fruit that remains, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name he will give you.

Then, because it was the day of preparation, so that the bodies should not stay on the crosses on the Sabbath (for that Sabbath was an especially important one), the Jewish leaders asked Pilate to have the victims’ legs broken and the bodies taken down.

Now this was John’s testimony when the Jewish leaders sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, “Who are you?”

For this is the way God loved the world: He gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life.