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 one of them, Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, said, “You know nothing at all!

You do not realize that it is more to your advantage to have one man die for the people than for the whole nation to perish.”

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.

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

So the crowd who had been with him when he called Lazarus out of the tomb and raised him from the dead were continuing to testify about it.

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?”

One of his disciples, the one Jesus loved, was at the table to the right of Jesus in a place of honor.

When Judas had gone out, Jesus said, “Now the Son of Man is glorified, and God is glorified in him.

There are many dwelling places in my Father’s house. Otherwise, I would have told you, because I am going away to make ready a place for you.

I will not speak with you much longer, for the ruler of this world is coming. He has no power over me,

Everything that the Father has is mine; that is why I said the Spirit will receive from me what is mine and will tell it to you.

“I have told you these things in obscure figures of speech; a time is coming when I will no longer speak to you in obscure figures, but will tell you plainly about the Father.

For the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me and have believed that I came from God.

I came from the Father and entered into the world, but in turn, I am leaving the world and going back to the Father.”

And now, Father, glorify me at your side with the glory I had with you before the world was created.

I am praying on behalf of them. I am not praying on behalf of the world, but on behalf of those you have given me, because they belong to you.

(Now it was the day of preparation for the Passover, about noon.) Pilate said to the Jewish leaders, “Look, here is your king!”

Pilate also had a notice written and fastened to the cross, which read: “Jesus the Nazarene, the king of the Jews.”

Then they took Jesus’ body and wrapped it, with the aromatic spices, in strips of linen cloth according to Jewish burial customs.