John 12–21

Chapter 12

¹Jesus therefore, six days before the passover, came to Bethany, where was the dead man Lazarus, whom Jesus raised from among the dead. ²There therefore they made him a supper, and Martha served, but Lazarus was one of those at table with him. ³Mary therefore, having taken a pound of ointment of pure nard of great price, anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his feet with her hair, and the house was filled with the odour of the ointment. ⁴One of his disciples therefore, Judas son of Simon, Iscariote, who was about to deliver him up, says, ⁵Why was this ointment not sold for three hundred denarii and given to the poor? ⁶But he said this, not that he cared for the poor, but because he was a thief and had the bag, and carried what was put into it. ⁷Jesus therefore said, Suffer her to have kept this for the day of my preparation for burial; ⁸for ye have the poor always with you, but me ye have not always. ⁹A great crowd therefore of the Jews knew that he was there; and they came, not because of Jesus only, but also that they might see Lazarus whom he raised from among the dead. ¹⁰But the chief priests took counsel that they might kill Lazarus also, ¹¹because many of the Jews went away on his account and believed on Jesus.

¹²On the morrow a great crowd who came to the feast, having heard that Jesus is coming into Jerusalem, ¹³took branches of palms and went out to meet him, and cried, Hosanna, blessed is he that comes in the name of the Lord, the King of Israel. ¹⁴And Jesus, having found a young ass, sat upon it; as it is written, ¹⁵Fear not, daughter of Zion: behold, thy King cometh, sitting on an ass’s colt. ¹⁶Now his disciples knew not these things at the first; but when Jesus was glorified, then they remembered that these things were written of him, and that they had done these things to him. ¹⁷The crowd therefore that was with him bore witness because he had called Lazarus out of the tomb, and raised him from among the dead. ¹⁸Therefore also the crowd met him because they had heard that he had done this sign. ¹⁹The Pharisees therefore said to one another, Ye see that ye profit nothing: behold, the world is gone after him.

²⁰And there were certain Greeks among those who came up that they might worship in the feast; ²¹these therefore came to Philip, who was of Bethsaida of Galilee, and they asked him saying, Sir, we desire to see Jesus. ²²Philip comes and tells Andrew, and again Andrew comes and Philip, and they tell Jesus. ²³But Jesus answered them saying, The hour is come that the Son of man should be glorified. ²⁴Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except the grain of wheat falling into the ground die, it abides alone; but if it die, it bears much fruit. ²⁵He that loves his life shall lose it, and he that hates his life in this world shall keep it to life eternal. ²⁶If any one serve me, let him follow me; and where I am, there also shall be my servant. And if any one serve me, him shall the Father honour.

²⁷Now is my soul troubled, and what shall I say? Father, save me from this hour. But on account of this have I come to this hour. ²⁸Father, glorify thy name. There came therefore a voice out of heaven, I both have glorified and will glorify it again. ²⁹The crowd therefore, which stood there and heard it, said that it had thundered. Others said, An angel has spoken to him. ³⁰Jesus answered and said, Not on my account has this voice come, but on yours. ³¹Now is the judgment of this world; now shall the prince of this world be cast out: ³²and I, if I be lifted up out of the earth, will draw all to me. ³³But this he said signifying by what death he was about to die. ³⁴The crowd answered him, We have heard out of the law that the Christ abides for ever; and how sayest thou that the Son of man must be lifted up? Who is this, the Son of man? ³⁵Jesus therefore said to them, Yet a little while is the light amongst you. Walk while ye have the light, that darkness may not overtake you. And he who walks in the darkness does not know where he goes. ³⁶While ye have the light, believe in the light, that ye may become sons of light. Jesus said these things, and going away hid himself from them.

³⁷But though he had done so many signs before them, they believed not on him, ³⁸that the word of the prophet Esaias which he said might be fulfilled, Lord, who has believed our report? and to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed? ³⁹On this account they could not believe, because Esaias said again, ⁴⁰He has blinded their eyes and hardened their heart, that they may not see with their eyes, and understand with their heart and be converted, and I should heal them. ⁴¹These things said Esaias because he saw his glory and spoke of him.

⁴²Although indeed from among the rulers also many believed on him, but on account of the Pharisees did not confess him, that they might not be put out of the synagogue: ⁴³for they loved glory from men rather than glory from God.

⁴⁴But Jesus cried and said, He that believes on me, believes not on me, but on him that sent me; ⁴⁵and he that beholds me, beholds him that sent me. ⁴⁶I am come into the world as light, that every one that believes on me may not abide in darkness; ⁴⁷and if any one hear my words and do not keep them, I judge him not, for I am not come that I might judge the world, but that I might save the world. ⁴⁸He that rejects me and does not receive my words, has him who judges him: the word which I have spoken, that shall judge him in the last day. ⁴⁹For I have not spoken from myself, but the Father who sent me has himself given me commandment what I should say and what I should speak; ⁵⁰and I know that his commandment is life eternal. What therefore I speak, as the Father has said to me, so I speak.

Chapter 13

¹Now before the feast of the passover, Jesus, knowing that his hour had come that he should depart out of this world to the Father, having loved his own who were in the world, loved them to the end. ²And during supper, the devil having already put it into the heart of Judas son of Simon, Iscariote, that he should deliver him up, ³Jesus, knowing that the Father had given him all things into his hands, and that he came out from God and was going to God, ⁴rises from supper and lays aside his garments, and having taken a linen towel he girded himself: ⁵then he pours water into the washhand basin, and began to wash the feet of the disciples, and to wipe them with the linen towel with which he was girded. ⁶He comes therefore to Simon Peter; and he says to him, Lord, dost thou wash my feet? ⁷Jesus answered and said to him, What I do thou dost not know now, but thou shalt know hereafter. ⁸Peter says to him, Thou shalt never wash my feet. Jesus answered him, Unless I wash thee, thou hast not part with me. ⁹Simon Peter says to him, Lord, not my feet only, but also my hands and my head. ¹⁰Jesus says to him, He that is washed all over needs not to wash save his feet, but is wholly clean; and ye are clean, but not all. ¹¹For he knew him that delivered him up: on account of this he said, Ye are not all clean. ¹²When therefore he had washed their feet, and taken his garments, having sat down again, he said to them, Do ye know what I have done to you? ¹³Ye call me the Teacher and the Lord, and ye say well, for I am so. ¹⁴If I therefore, the Lord and the Teacher, have washed your feet, ye also ought to wash one another’s feet; ¹⁵for I have given you an example that, as I have done to you, ye should do also. ¹⁶Verily, verily, I say to you, The bondman is not greater than his lord, nor the sent greater than he who has sent him. ¹⁷If ye know these things, blessed are ye if ye do them.

¹⁸I speak not of you all. I know those whom I have chosen; but that the scripture might be fulfilled, He that eats bread with me has lifted up his heel against me. ¹⁹I tell you it now before it happens, that when it happens, ye may believe that I am he. ²⁰Verily, verily, I say to you, He who receives whomsoever I shall send receives me; and he that receives me receives him who has sent me. ²¹Having said these things, Jesus was troubled in spirit, and testified and said, Verily, verily, I say to you, that one of you shall deliver me up. ²²The disciples therefore looked one on another, doubting of whom he spoke. ²³Now there was at table one of his disciples in the bosom of Jesus, whom Jesus loved. ²⁴Simon Peter makes a sign therefore to him to ask who it might be of whom he spoke. ²⁵But he, leaning on the breast of Jesus, says to him, Lord, who is it? ²⁶Jesus answers, He it is to whom I, after I have dipped the morsel, give it. And having dipped the morsel, he gives it to Judas son of Simon, Iscariote. ²⁷And, after the morsel, then entered Satan into him. Jesus therefore says to him, What thou doest, do quickly. ²⁸But none of those at table knew why he said this to him; ²⁹for some supposed, because Judas had the bag, that Jesus was saying to him, Buy the things of which we have need for the feast; or that he should give something to the poor. ³⁰Having therefore received the morsel, he went out immediately; and it was night.

³¹When therefore he was gone out Jesus says, Now is the Son of man glorified, and God is glorified in him. ³²If God be glorified in him, God also shall glorify him in himself, and shall glorify him immediately. ³³Children, yet a little while I am with you. Ye shall seek me; and, as I said to the Jews, Where I go ye cannot come, I say to you also now. ³⁴A new commandment I give to you, that ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another. ³⁵By this shall all know that ye are disciples of mine, if ye have love amongst yourselves.

³⁶Simon Peter says to him, Lord, where goest thou? Jesus answered him, Where I go thou canst not follow me now, but thou shalt follow me after. ³⁷Peter says to him, Lord, why cannot I follow thee now? I will lay down my life for thee. ³⁸Jesus answers, Thou wilt lay…