Category: John

[12:44] Jesus said in a loud voice, “Whoever believes in me believes not only in me but also in him who sent me.

[12:45] Whoever sees me sees also him who sent me.

[12:46] I have come into the world as light, so that everyone who believes in me should not remain in the darkness.

[12:47] If people hear my message and do not obey it, I will not judge them. I came, not to judge the world, but to save it.

[12:48] Those who reject me and do not accept my message have one who will judge them. The words I have spoken will be their judge on the last day!

[12:49] This is true, because I have not spoken on my own authority, but the Father who sent me has commanded me what I must say and speak.

[12:50] And I know that his command brings eternal life. What I say, then, is what the Father has told me to say.”

[13:1] It was now the day before the Passover Festival. Jesus knew that the hour had come for him to leave this world and go to the Father. He had always loved those in the world who were his own, and he loved them to the very end.

[13:2] Jesus and his disciples were at supper. The Devil had already put into the heart of Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot, the thought of betraying Jesus.

[13:3] Jesus knew that the Father had given him complete power; he knew that he had come from God and was going to God.

[13:4] So he rose from the table, took off his outer garment, and tied a towel around his waist.

[13:5] Then he poured some water into a washbasin and began to wash the disciples' feet and dry them with the towel around his waist.

[13:6] He came to Simon Peter, who said to him, “Are you going to wash my feet, Lord?”

[13:7] Jesus answered him, “You do not understand now what I am doing, but you will understand later.”

[13:8] Peter declared, “Never at any time will you wash my feet!” “If I do not wash your feet,” Jesus answered, “you will no longer be my disciple.”

[13:9] Simon Peter answered, “Lord, do not wash only my feet, then! Wash my hands and head, too!”

[13:10] Jesus said, “Those who have taken a bath are completely clean and do not have to wash themselves, except for their feet. All of you are clean—all except one.” (

[13:11] Jesus already knew who was going to betray him; that is why he said, “All of you, except one, are clean.”)

[13:12] After Jesus had washed their feet, he put his outer garment back on and returned to his place at the table. “Do you understand what I have just done to you?” he asked.

[13:13] “You call me Teacher and Lord, and it is right that you do so, because that is what I am.

[13:14] I, your Lord and Teacher, have just washed your feet. You, then, should wash one another's feet.

[13:15] I have set an example for you, so that you will do just what I have done for you.

[13:16] I am telling you the truth: no slaves are greater than their master, and no messengers are greater than the one who sent them.

[13:17] Now that you know this truth, how happy you will be if you put it into practice!

[13:18] “I am not talking about all of you; I know those I have chosen. But the scripture must come true that says, ‘The man who shared my food turned against me.’

[13:19] I tell you this now before it happens, so that when it does happen, you will believe that ‘I Am Who I Am.’

[13:20] I am telling you the truth: whoever receives anyone I send receives me also; and whoever receives me receives him who sent me.”

[13:21] After Jesus had said this, he was deeply troubled and declared openly, “I am telling you the truth: one of you is going to betray me.”

[13:22] The disciples looked at one another, completely puzzled about whom he meant.

[13:23] One of the disciples, the one whom Jesus loved, was sitting next to Jesus.

[13:24] Simon Peter motioned to him and said, “Ask him whom he is talking about.”

[13:25] So that disciple moved closer to Jesus' side and asked, “Who is it, Lord?”

[13:26] Jesus answered, “I will dip some bread in the sauce and give it to him; he is the man.” So he took a piece of bread, dipped it, and gave it to Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot.

[13:27] As soon as Judas took the bread, Satan entered into him. Jesus said to him, “Hurry and do what you must!”

[13:28] None of the others at the table understood why Jesus said this to him.

[13:29] Since Judas was in charge of the money bag, some of the disciples thought that Jesus had told him to go and buy what they needed for the festival, or to give something to the poor.

[13:30] Judas accepted the bread and went out at once. It was night.

[13:31] After Judas had left, Jesus said, “Now the Son of Man's glory is revealed; now God's glory is revealed through him.

[13:32] And if God's glory is revealed through him, then God will reveal the glory of the Son of Man in himself, and he will do so at once.

[13:33] My children, I shall not be with you very much longer. You will look for me; but I tell you now what I told the Jewish authorities, ‘You cannot go where I am going.’

[13:34] And now I give you a new commandment: love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.

[13:35] If you have love for one another, then everyone will know that you are my disciples.”

[13:36] “Where are you going, Lord?” Simon Peter asked him. “You cannot follow me now where I am going,” answered Jesus; “but later you will follow me.”

[13:37] “Lord, why can't I follow you now?” asked Peter. “I am ready to die for you!”

[13:38] Jesus answered, “Are you really ready to die for me? I am telling you the truth: before the rooster crows you will say three times that you do not know me.

[14:1] “Do not be worried and upset,” Jesus told them. “Believe in God and believe also in me.

[14:2] There are many rooms in my Father's house, and I am going to prepare a place for you. I would not tell you this if it were not so.

[14:3] And after I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to myself, so that you will be where I am.

[14:4] You know the way that leads to the place where I am going.”

[14:5] Thomas said to him, “Lord, we do not know where you are going; so how can we know the way to get there?”

[14:6] Jesus answered him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life; no one goes to the Father except by me.

[14:7] Now that you have known me,” he said to them, “you will know my Father also, and from now on you do know him and you have seen him.”

[14:8] Philip said to him, “Lord, show us the Father; that is all we need.”

[14:9] Jesus answered, “For a long time I have been with you all; yet you do not know me, Philip? Whoever has seen me has seen the Father. Why, then, do you say, ‘Show us the Father’?

[14:10] Do you not believe, Philip, that I am in the Father and the Father is in me? The words that I have spoken to you,” Jesus said to his disciples, “do not come from me. The Father, who remains in me, does his own work.

[14:11] Believe me when I say that I am in the Father and the Father is in me. If not, believe because of the things I do.

[14:12] I am telling you the truth: those who believe in me will do what I do—yes, they will do even greater things, because I am going to the Father.

[14:13] And I will do whatever you ask for in my name, so that the Father's glory will be shown through the Son.

[14:14] If you ask me for anything in my name, I will do it.

[14:15] “If you love me, you will obey my commandments.

[14:16] I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Helper, who will stay with you forever.

[14:17] He is the Spirit, who reveals the truth about God. The world cannot receive him, because it cannot see him or know him. But you know him, because he remains with you and is in you.

[14:18] “When I go, you will not be left all alone; I will come back to you.

[14:19] In a little while the world will see me no more, but you will see me; and because I live, you also will live.

[14:20] When that day comes, you will know that I am in my Father and that you are in me, just as I am in you.

[14:21] “Those who accept my commandments and obey them are the ones who love me. My Father will love those who love me; I too will love them and reveal myself to them.”

[14:22] Judas (not Judas Iscariot) said, “Lord, how can it be that you will reveal yourself to us and not to the world?”

[14:23] Jesus answered him, “Those who love me will obey my teaching. My Father will love them, and my Father and I will come to them and live with them.

[14:24] Those who do not love me do not obey my teaching. And the teaching you have heard is not mine, but comes from the Father, who sent me.

[14:25] “I have told you this while I am still with you.

[14:26] The Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you everything and make you remember all that I have told you.

[14:27] “Peace is what I leave with you; it is my own peace that I give you. I do not give it as the world does. Do not be worried and upset; do not be afraid.

[14:28] You heard me say to you, ‘I am leaving, but I will come back to you.’ If you loved me, you would be glad that I am going to the Father; for he is greater than I.

[14:29] I have told you this now before it all happens, so that when it does happen, you will believe.

[14:30] I cannot talk with you much longer, because the ruler of this world is coming. He has no power over me,

[14:31] but the world must know that I love the Father; that is why I do everything as he commands me. “Come, let us go from this place.

[15:1] “I am the real vine, and my Father is the gardener.

[15:2] He breaks off every branch in me that does not bear fruit, and he prunes every branch that does bear fruit, so that it will be clean and bear more fruit.

[15:3] You have been made clean already by the teaching I have given you.

[15:4] Remain united to me, and I will remain united to you. A branch cannot bear fruit by itself; it can do so only if it remains in the vine. In the same way you cannot bear fruit unless you remain in me.

[15:5] “I am the vine, and you are the branches. Those who remain in me, and I in them, will bear much fruit; for you can do nothing without me.

[15:6] Those who do not remain in me are thrown out like a branch and dry up; such branches are gathered up and thrown into the fire, where they are burned.

[15:7] If you remain in me and my words remain in you, then you will ask for anything you wish, and you shall have it.

[15:8] My Father's glory is shown by your bearing much fruit; and in this way you become my disciples.

[15:9] I love you just as the Father loves me; remain in my love.

[15:10] If you obey my commands, you will remain in my love, just as I have obeyed my Father's commands and remain in his love.

[15:11] “I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and that your joy may be complete.

[15:12] My commandment is this: love one another, just as I love you.

[15:13] The greatest love you can have for your friends is to give your life for them.

[15:14] And you are my friends if you do what I command you.

[15:15] I do not call you servants any longer, because servants do not know what their master is doing. Instead, I call you friends, because I have told you everything I heard from my Father.

[15:16] You did not choose me; I chose you and appointed you to go and bear much fruit, the kind of fruit that endures. And so the Father will give you whatever you ask of him in my name.

[15:17] This, then, is what I command you: love one another.

[16:4] “I did not tell you these things at the beginning, for I was with you.

[16:5] But now I am going to him who sent me, yet none of you asks me where I am going.

[16:6] And now that I have told you, your hearts are full of sadness.

[16:7] But I am telling you the truth: it is better for you that I go away, because if I do not go, the Helper will not come to you. But if I do go away, then I will send him to you.

[16:8] And when he comes, he will prove to the people of the world that they are wrong about sin and about what is right and about God's judgment.

[16:9] They are wrong about sin, because they do not believe in me;

[16:10] they are wrong about what is right, because I am going to the Father and you will not see me any more;

[16:11] and they are wrong about judgment, because the ruler of this world has already been judged.

[16:12] “I have much more to tell you, but now it would be too much for you to bear.

[16:13] When, however, the Spirit comes, who reveals the truth about God, he will lead you into all the truth. He will not speak on his own authority, but he will speak of what he hears and will tell you of things to come.

[16:14] He will give me glory, because he will take what I say and tell it to you.

[16:15] All that my Father has is mine; that is why I said that the Spirit will take what I give him and tell it to you.