(Jesus spoke these words near the offering box while he was teaching in the temple courts. No one seized him because his time had not yet come.)

Then Jesus said to those Judeans who had believed him, “If you continue to follow my teaching, you are really my disciples

Jesus answered them, “I tell you the solemn truth, everyone who practices sin is a slave of sin.

Then the neighbors and the people who had seen him previously as a beggar began saying, “Is this not the man who used to sit and beg?”

“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.

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.