(Now they were asking this in an attempt to trap him, so that they could bring charges against<n id="1" /> him.)<n id="2" /> Jesus bent down and wrote on the ground with his finger.<n id="3" />

I tell you the solemn truth,<n id="1" /> if anyone obeys<n id="2" /> my teaching,<n id="3" /> he will never see death.&#8221;<n id="4" />p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">Jesus heard that they had thrown him out, so he found the man<n id="1" /> and said to him, &#8220;Do you believe in the Son of Man?&#8221;<n id="2" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">&#8220;I tell you the solemn truth,<n id="1" /> the one who does not enter the sheepfold<n id="2" /> by the door,<n id="3" /> but climbs in some other way, is a thief and a robber.

I give<n id="1" /> them eternal life, and they will never perish;<n id="2" /> no one will snatch<n id="3" /> them from my hand.

do you say about the one whom the Father set apart<n id="1" /> and sent into the world, &#8216;You are blaspheming,&#8217; because I said, &#8216;I am the Son of God&#8217;?

<p class="bodytext">Jesus<n id="1" /> went back across the Jordan River<n id="2" /> again to the place where John<n id="3" /> had been baptizing at an earlier time,<n id="4" /> and he stayed there.

Jesus said to her, &#8220;I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in me will live<n id="1" /> even if he dies,

She replied,<n id="1" /> &#8220;Yes, Lord, I believe<n id="2" /> that you are the Christ,<n id="3" /> the Son of God who comes into the world.&#8221;<n id="4" />p>

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

<t /><p class="bodytext">Jesus, intensely moved<n id="1" /> again, came to the tomb. (Now it was a cave, and a stone was placed across it.)<n id="2" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">Then many of the people,<n id="1" /> who had come with Mary and had seen the things Jesus<n id="2" /> did, believed in him.

If we allow him to go on in this way,<n id="1" /> everyone will believe in him, and the Romans will come and take away our sanctuary<n id="2" /> and our nation.&#8221;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" />

Thus they were looking for Jesus,<n id="1" /> and saying to one another as they stood in the temple courts,<n id="2" /> &#8220;What do you think? That he won&#8217;t come to the feast?&#8221;

<t /><p class="bodytext">Then, six days before the Passover, Jesus came to Bethany, where Lazarus lived, whom he<n id="1" /> had raised from the dead.

While you have the light, believe in the light, so that you may become sons of light.&#8221;<n id="1" /> When Jesus had said these things, he went away and hid himself from them.p>

<p class="bodytext">Nevertheless, even among the rulers<n id="1" /> many believed in him, but because of the Pharisees<n id="2" /> they would not confess Jesus to be the Christ,<n id="3" /> so that they would not be put out of<n id="4" /> the synagogue.<n id="5" />

Because Jesus<n id="1" /> knew that the Father had handed all things over to him,<n id="2" /> and that he had come from God and was going back to God,

He poured water into the washbasin and began to wash the disciples&#8217; feet and to dry them with the towel he had wrapped around himself.<n id="1" />p>