Chapter 12

Mary Anoints Jesus

1 aJesus, therefore, six days before bthe Passover, came to cBethany where Lazarus was, whom Jesus had raised from the dead.

2 So they made Him a supper there, and aMartha was serving; but Lazarus was one of those reclining at the table with Him.

3 aMary then took a 1pound of very costly bperfume of pure nard, and anointed the feet of Jesus and wiped His feet with her hair; and the house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume.

4 But aJudas Iscariot, one of His disciples, who was intending to 1betray Him, * said,

5 “Why was this perfume not sold for 1three hundred denarii and given to poor people?”

6 Now he said this, not because he was concerned about the poor, but because he was a thief, and as he ahad the money box, he used to pilfer bwhat was put into it.

7 Therefore Jesus said, “Let her alone, so that she may keep 1it for athe day of My burial.

8 “aFor you always have the poor with you, but you do not always have Me.”

9 The alarge crowd of the Jews then learned that He was there; and they came, not for Jesus’ sake only, but that they might also see Lazarus, bwhom He raised from the dead.

10 But the chief priests planned to put Lazarus to death also;

11 because aon account of him bmany of the Jews were going away and were believing in Jesus.

Jesus Enters Jerusalem

12 On the next day athe large crowd who had come to bthe feast, when they heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem,

13 took the branches of the palm trees and went out to meet Him, and began to shout, “aHosanna! Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord, even the bKing of Israel.”

14 Jesus, finding a young donkey, sat on it; as it is written,

15 “aFear not, daughter of Zion; behold, your King is coming, seated on a donkey’s colt.”

16 aThese things His disciples did not understand at the first; but when Jesus bwas glorified, then they remembered that these things were written of Him, and that they had done these things to Him.

17 So athe 1people, who were with Him when He called Lazarus out of the tomb and raised him from the dead, continued to testify about Him.

18 aFor this reason also the 1people went and met Him, bbecause they heard that He had performed this 2sign.

19 So the Pharisees said to one another, “You see that you are not doing any good; look, the world has gone after Him.”

Greeks Seek Jesus

20 Now there were some aGreeks among those who were going up to worship at bthe feast;

21 these then came to aPhilip, who was from bBethsaida of Galilee, and began to ask him, saying, “Sir, we wish to see Jesus.”

22 Philip * came and * told aAndrew; Andrew and Philip * came and * told Jesus.

23 And Jesus * answered them, saying, “aThe hour has come for the Son of Man to bbe glorified.

24 “Truly, truly, I say to you, aunless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it bears much fruit.

25 “aHe who loves his 1life loses it, and he who bhates his 1life in this world will keep it to life eternal.

26 “If anyone 1serves Me, he must follow Me; and awhere I am, there My servant will be also; if anyone 1serves Me, the Father will bhonor him.

Jesus Foretells His Death

27 “aNow My soul has become troubled; and what shall I say, ‘bFather, save Me from cthis hour’? But for this purpose I came to this hour.

28 “aFather, glorify Your name.” Then a bvoice came out of heaven: “I have both glorified it, and will glorify it again.”

29 So the crowd of people who stood by and heard it were saying that it had thundered; others were saying, “aAn angel has spoken to Him.”

30 Jesus answered and said, “aThis voice has not come for My sake, but for your sakes.

31 “aNow judgment is upon this world; now bthe ruler of this world will be cast out.

32 “And I, if I aam lifted up from the earth, will bdraw all men to Myself.”

33 But He was saying this ato indicate the kind of death by which He was to die.

34 The crowd then answered Him, “We have heard out of athe Law that 1bthe Christ is to remain forever; and how can You say, ‘The cSon of Man must be dlifted up’? Who is this cSon of Man?”

35 So Jesus said to them, “aFor a little while longer bthe Light is among you. cWalk while you have the Light, so that darkness will not overtake you; he who dwalks in the darkness does not know where he goes.

36 “While you have the Light, abelieve in the Light, so that you may become bsons of Light.”

These things Jesus spoke, and He went away and 1chid Himself from them.

37 But though He had performed so many 1signs before them, yet they were not believing in Him.

38 This was to fulfill the word of Isaiah the prophet which he spoke: “aLord, who has believed our report? And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?”

39 For this reason they could not believe, for Isaiah said again,

40 “aHe has blinded their eyes and He bhardened their heart, so that they would not see with their eyes and perceive with their heart, and 1be converted and I heal them.”

41 These things Isaiah said because ahe saw His glory, and bhe spoke of Him.

42 Nevertheless amany even of bthe rulers believed in Him, but cbecause of the Pharisees they were not confessing Him, for fear that they would be 1dput out of the synagogue;

43 afor they loved the 1approval of men rather than the 1approval of God.

44 And Jesus cried out and said, “aHe who believes in Me, does not believe in Me but in Him who sent Me.

45 “aHe who sees Me sees the One who sent Me.

46 “aI have come as Light into the world, so that everyone who believes in Me will not remain in darkness.

47 “If anyone hears My sayings and does not keep them, I do not judge him; for aI did not come to judge the world, but to save the world.

48 “aHe who rejects Me and does not receive My sayings, has one who judges him; bthe word I spoke is what will judge him at cthe last day.

49 “aFor I did not speak 1on My own initiative, but the Father Himself who sent Me bhas given Me a commandment as to what to say and what to speak.

50 “I know that aHis commandment is eternal life; therefore the things I speak, I speak bjust as the Father has told Me.”

Chapter 13

The Lord’s Supper

1 Now before the Feast of athe Passover, Jesus knowing that bHis hour had come that He would depart out of this world cto the Father, having loved His own who were in the world, He loved them 1to the end.

2 During supper, athe devil having already put into the heart of bJudas Iscariot, the son of Simon, to betray Him,

3 Jesus, aknowing that the Father had given all things into His hands, and that bHe had come forth from God and was going back to God,

4 * got up from supper, and * laid aside His garments; and taking a towel, He agirded Himself.

Jesus Washes the Disciples’ Feet

5 Then He * poured water into the basin, and began to awash the disciples’ feet and to wipe them with the towel with which He was girded.

6 So He * came to Simon Peter. He * said to Him, “Lord, do You wash my feet?”

7 Jesus answered and said to him, “What I do you do not realize now, but you will understand ahereafter.”

8 Peter * said to Him, “Never shall You wash my feet!” Jesus answered him, “aIf I do not wash you, byou have no part with Me.”

9 Simon Peter * said to Him, “Lord, then wash not only my feet, but also my hands and my head.”

10 Jesus * said to him, “He who has bathed needs only to wash his feet, but is completely clean; and ayou are clean, but not all of you.”

11 For aHe knew the one who was betraying Him; for this reason He said, “Not all of you are clean.”

12 So when He had washed their feet, and ataken His garments and reclined at the table again, He said to them, “Do you know what I have done to you?

13 “You call Me aTeacher and bLord; and 1you are right, for so I am.

14 “If I then, athe Lord and the Teacher, washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another’s feet.

15 “For I gave you aan example that you also should do as I did to you.

16 “Truly, truly, I say to you, aa slave is not greater than his master, nor is bone who is sent greater than the one who sent him.

17 “If you know these things, you are ablessed if you do them.

18 “aI do not speak of all of you. I know the ones I have bchosen; but it is cthat the Scripture may be fulfilled, ‘dHe who eats My bread has lifted up his heel against Me.’

19 “From now on aI am telling you before it comes to pass, so that when it does occur, you may believe that bI am He.

20 “Truly, truly, I say to you, ahe who receives whomever I send receives Me; and he who receives Me receives Him who sent Me.”

Jesus Predicts His Betrayal

21 When Jesus had said this, He abecame troubled in spirit, and testified and said, “Truly, truly, I say to you, that bone of you will 1betray Me.”

22 The disciples began looking at one another, aat a loss to know of which one He was speaking.

23 There was reclining on aJesus’ bosom one of His disciples, bwhom Jesus loved.

24 So Simon Peter * gestured to him, and * said to him, “Tell us who it is of whom He is speaking.”

25 He, aleaning back thus on Jesus’ bosom, * said to Him, “Lord, who is it?”

26 Jesus then * answered, “That is the one for whom I shall dip the morsel and give it to him.” So when He had dipped the morsel, He * took and * gave it to Judas, athe son of Simon Iscariot.

27 After the morsel, aSatan then bentered into him. Therefore Jesus * said to him, “What you do, do quickly.”

28 Now no one of those reclining at the table knew for what purpose He had said this to him.

29 For some were supposing, because Judas ahad the money box, that Jesus was saying to him, “Buy the things we have need of bfor the feast”; or else, that he should cgive something to the poor.

30 So after receiving the morsel he went out immediately; and ait was night.

31 Therefore when he had gone out, Jesus * said, “Now 1is athe Son of Man bglorified, and cGod 1is glorified in Him;

32 1if God is glorified in Him, aGod will also glorify Him in Himself, and will glorify Him immediately.

33 “aLittle children, I am with you ba little while longer. cYou will seek Me; and as I said to the Jews, now I also say to you, ‘Where I am going, you cannot come.’

34 “A anew commandment I give to you, bthat you love one another, ceven as I have loved you, that you also love one another.

35 “aBy this all men will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another.”

36 Simon Peter * said to Him, “Lord, where are You going?” Jesus answered, “aWhere I go, you cannot follow Me now; but byou will follow later.”

37 Peter * said to Him, “Lord, why can I not follow You right now? aI will lay down my life for You.”

38 Jesus * answered, “Will you lay down your life for Me? Truly, truly, I say to you, aa rooster will not crow until you deny Me three times.

Chapter 14

Jesus Comforts His Disciples

1 “aDo not let your heart be troubled; 1believe in God, believe also in Me.

2 “In My Father’s house are many dwelling places; if it were not so, I would have told you; for aI go to prepare a place for you.

3 “If I go and prepare a place for you, aI will come again and receive you to Myself, that bwhere I am, there you may be also.

4 “And you know the way where I am going.”

5 aThomas * said to Him, “Lord, we do not know where You are going, how do we know the way?”

6 Jesus * said to him, “I am athe way, and bthe truth, and cthe life; no one comes to the Father but through Me.

Oneness with the Father

7 “aIf you had known Me, you would have known My Father also; from now on you bknow Him, and have cseen Him.”

8 aPhilip * said to Him, “Lord, show us the Father, and it is enough for us.”

9 Jesus * said to him, “Have I been so long with you, and yet you have not come to know Me, Philip? aHe who has seen Me has seen the Father; how can you say, ‘Show us the Father’?

10 “Do you not believe that aI am in the Father, and the Father is in Me? bThe words that I say to you I do not speak on My own initiative, but the Father abiding in Me does His works.

11 “Believe Me that aI am in the Father and the Father is in Me; otherwise bbelieve because of the works themselves.

12 “Truly, truly, I say to you, he who believes in Me, the works that I do, he will do also; and agreater works than these he will do; because bI go to the Father.

13 “aWhatever you ask in My name, that will I do, so that bthe Father may be glorified in the Son.

14 “If you ask Me anything ain My name, I will do it.

15 “aIf you love Me, you will keep My commandments.

Role of the Spirit

16 “I will ask the Father, and He will give you another 1aHelper, that He may be with you forever;

17 that is athe Spirit of truth, bwhom the world cannot receive, because it does not see Him or know Him, but you know Him because He abides with you and will be in you.

18 “I will not leave you as orphans; aI will come to you.

19 “1aAfter a little while bthe world will no longer see Me, but you will see Me; cbecause I live, you will live also.

20 “aIn that day you will know that bI am in My Father, and you in Me, and I in you.

21 “aHe who has My commandments and keeps them is the one who loves Me; and bhe who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and will cdisclose Myself to him.”

22 aJudas (not Iscariot) * said to Him, “Lord, what then has happened bthat You are going to disclose Yourself to us and not to the world?”

23 Jesus answered and said to him, “aIf anyone loves Me, he will bkeep My word; and cMy Father will love him, and We dwill come to him and make Our abode with him.

24 “He who does not love Me adoes not keep My words; and bthe word which you hear is not Mine, but the Father’s who sent Me.

25 “These things I have spoken to you while abiding with you.

26 “But the aHelper, the Holy Spirit, bwhom the Father will send in My name, cHe will teach you all things, and dbring to your remembrance all that I said to you.

27 “aPeace I leave with you; My peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you. bDo not let your heart be troubled, nor let it be fearful.

28 “aYou heard that I said to you, ‘I go away, and bI will come to you.’ If you loved Me, you would have rejoiced because cI go to the Father, for dthe Father is greater than I.

29 “Now aI have told you before it happens, so that when it happens, you may believe.

30 “I will not speak much more with you, for athe ruler of the world is coming, and he has nothing in Me;

31 but so that the world may know that I love the Father, 1I do exactly as athe Father commanded Me. Get up, blet us go from here.