Jesus said a second time, “Simon, son of John, do you love me?” He replied, “Yes, Lord, you know I love you.” Jesus told him, “Shepherd my sheep.”

Andrew brought Simon to Jesus. Jesus looked at him and said, “You are Simon, the son of John. You will be called Cephas” (which is translated Peter).

Jesus replied, “I tell you the solemn truth, unless a person is born from above, he cannot see the kingdom of God.”

We must perform the deeds of the one who sent me as long as it is daytime. Night is coming when no one can work.

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.

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

The Jewish leaders replied, “We have a law, and according to our law he ought to die, because he claimed to be the Son of God!”

Nicodemus, the man who had previously come to Jesus at night, accompanied Joseph, carrying a mixture of myrrh and aloes weighing about seventy-five pounds.

“Come, have breakfast,” Jesus said. But none of the disciples dared to ask him, “Who are you?” because they knew it was the Lord.

The experts in the law and the Pharisees brought a woman who had been caught committing adultery. They made her stand in front of them

Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father is in me, but if you do not believe me, believe because of the miraculous deeds themselves.

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.

But they will do all these things to you on account of my name, because they do not know the one who sent me.

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.

and carrying his own cross he went out to the place called “The Place of the Skull” (called in Aramaic Golgotha).

(Now Jesus said this to indicate clearly by what kind of death Peter was going to glorify God.) After he said this, Jesus told Peter, “Follow me.”

He bent down and saw the strips of linen cloth lying there, but he did not go in.

If you belonged to the world, the world would love you as its own. However, because you do not belong to the world, but I chose you out of the world, for this reason the world hates you.

When he has brought all his own sheep out, he goes ahead of them, and the sheep follow him because they recognize his voice.

(For Jesus knew the one who was going to betray him. For this reason he said, “Not every one of you is clean.”)