(Now Jesus had been talking about<n id="1" /> his death, but they<n id="2" /> thought he had been talking about real sleep.)<n id="3" />p>

Now the Jewish feast of Passover<n id="1" /> was near, and many people went up to Jerusalem<n id="2" /> from the rural areas before the Passover to cleanse themselves ritually.<n id="3" />

So these approached Philip,<n id="1" /> who was from Bethsaida in Galilee, and requested,<n id="2" /> &#8220;Sir, we would like to see Jesus.&#8221;

If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not be guilty of sin.<n id="1" /> But they no longer have any excuse for their sin.

He then said to his disciple, &#8220;Look, here is your mother!&#8221; From that very time<n id="1" /> the disciple took her into his own home.p>

and the face cloth,<n id="1" /> which had been around Jesus&#8217; head, not lying with the strips of linen cloth but rolled up in a place by itself.<n id="2" />

Then Pilate said,<n id="1" /> &#8220;So you are a king!&#8221; Jesus replied, &#8220;You say that I am a king. For this reason I was born, and for this reason I came into the world &#8211; to testify to the truth. Everyone who belongs to the truth listens to<n id="2" /> my voice.&#8221;

Jesus did this as the first of his miraculous signs,<n id="1" /> in Cana<n id="2" /> of Galilee. In this way he revealed<n id="3" /> his glory, and his disciples believed in him.<n id="4" />p>

Nicodemus said to him, &#8220;How can a man be born when he is old? He cannot enter his mother&#8217;s womb and be born a second time, can he?&#8221;<n id="1" />p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">Now he came again to Cana<n id="1" /> in Galilee where he had made the water wine.<n id="2" /> In<n id="3" /> Capernaum<n id="4" /> there was a certain royal official<n id="5" /> whose son was sick.

When he heard that Jesus had come back from Judea to Galilee, he went to him and begged him<n id="1" /> to come down and heal his son, who was about to die.

I tell you the solemn truth,<n id="1" /> a time<n id="2" /> is coming &#8211; and is now here &#8211; when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will live.

<p class="bodytext">Jesus said to them, &#8220;I am the bread of life. The one who comes to me will never go hungry, and the one who believes in me will never be thirsty.<n id="1" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">On the last day of the feast, the greatest day,<n id="1" /> Jesus stood up and shouted out,<n id="2" /> &#8220;If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me, and

<t /><p class="bodytext">Then Jesus spoke out again,<n id="1" /> &#8220;I am the light of the world.<n id="2" /> The one who follows me will never<n id="3" /> walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.&#8221;

When Jesus heard this, he said, &#8220;This sickness will not lead to death,<n id="1" /> but to God&#8217;s glory,<n id="2" /> so that the Son of God may be glorified through it.&#8221;<n id="3" />

Jesus replied,<n id="1" /> &#8220;Are there not twelve hours in a day? If anyone walks around in the daytime, he does not stumble,<n id="2" /> because he sees the light of this world.<n id="3" />

<p class="bodytext">Thus Jesus no longer went<n id="1" /> around publicly<n id="2" /> among the Judeans,<n id="3" /> but went away from there to the region near the wilderness, to a town called Ephraim,<n id="4" /> and stayed there with his disciples.

Then Mary took three quarters of a pound<n id="1" /> of expensive aromatic oil from pure nard<n id="2" /> and anointed the feet of Jesus. She<n id="3" /> then wiped his feet dry with her hair. (Now the house was filled with the fragrance of the perfumed oil.)<n id="4" />

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;Now my soul is greatly distressed. And what should I say? &#8216;Father, deliver me<n id="1" /> from this hour&#8217;?<n id="2" /> No, but for this very reason I have come to this hour.<n id="3" />