The doorkeeper opens the door for him, and the sheep hear his voice. He calls his own sheep by name and leads them out.

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

My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all, and no one can snatch them from my Father’s hand.

(Now Jesus had been talking about his death, but they thought he had been talking about real sleep.)

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

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

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 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 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?”

Just before the Passover feast, Jesus knew that his time had come to depart from this world to the Father. Having loved his own who were in the world, he now loved them to the very end.

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.

If I then, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you too ought to wash one another’s feet.

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

Jesus replied, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

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

So Judas obtained a squad of soldiers and some officers of the chief priests and Pharisees. They came to the orchard with lanterns and torches and weapons.

Pilate answered, “I am not a Jew, am I? Your own people and your chief priests handed you over to me. What have you done?”

So Jesus came outside, wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe. Pilate said to them, “Look, here is the man!”