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

When Jesus saw her weeping, and the people who had come with her weeping, he was intensely moved in spirit and greatly distressed.

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.”

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

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

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.

I tell you the solemn truth, the slave is not greater than his master, nor is the one who is sent as a messenger greater than the one who sent him.

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.

If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not be guilty of sin. But they no longer have any excuse for their sin.

(Now Judas, the one who betrayed him, knew the place too, because Jesus had met there many times with his disciples.)

Jesus replied, “If I want him to live until I come back, what concern is that of yours? You follow me!”

In him was life, and the life was the light of mankind.

A man came, sent from God, whose name was John.

He came to what was his own, but his own people did not receive him.

For we have all received from his fullness one gracious gift after another.

Again the next day John was standing there with two of his disciples.

When John’s two disciples heard him say this, they followed Jesus.

and Jesus and his disciples were also invited to the wedding.

Then he told them, “Now draw some out and take it to the head steward,” and they did.

But Jesus was speaking about the temple of his body.