7 Elisha replied, “Hear the word of the Lord. This is what the Lord says: About this time tomorrow, a seah^[a] of the finest flour will sell for a shekel^[b] and two seahs^[c] of barley for a shekel^(A) at the gate of Samaria.”

² The officer on whose arm the king was leaning^(B) said to the man of God, “Look, even if the Lord should open the floodgates^(C) of the heavens, could this happen?”

“You will see it with your own eyes,” answered Elisha, “but you will not eat^(D) any of it!”

The Siege Lifted

³ Now there were four men with leprosy^[d](E) at the entrance of the city gate. They said to each other, “Why stay here until we die? ⁴ If we say, ‘We’ll go into the city’—the famine is there, and we will die. And if we stay here, we will die. So let’s go over to the camp of the Arameans and surrender. If they spare us, we live; if they kill us, then we die.”

⁵ At dusk they got up and went to the camp of the Arameans. When they reached the edge of the camp, no one was there, ⁶ for the Lord had caused the Arameans to hear the sound^(F) of chariots and horses and a great army, so that they said to one another, “Look, the king of Israel has hired^(G) the Hittite^(H) and Egyptian kings to attack us!” ⁷ So they got up and fled^(I) in the dusk and abandoned their tents and their horses and donkeys. They left the camp as it was and ran for their lives.

⁸ The men who had leprosy^(J) reached the edge of the camp, entered one of the tents and ate and drank. Then they took silver, gold and clothes, and went off and hid them. They returned and entered another tent and took some things from it and hid them also.

⁹ Then they said to each other, “What we’re doing is not right. This is a day of good news and we are keeping it to ourselves. If we wait until daylight, punishment will overtake us. Let’s go at once and report this to the royal palace.”

¹⁰ So they went and called out to the city gatekeepers and told them, “We went into the Aramean camp and no one was there—not a sound of anyone—only tethered horses and donkeys, and the tents left just as they were.” ¹¹ The gatekeepers shouted the news, and it was reported within the palace.

¹² The king got up in the night and said to his officers, “I will tell you what the Arameans have done to us. They know we are starving; so they have left the camp to hide^(K) in the countryside, thinking, ‘They will surely come out, and then we will take them alive and get into the city.’”

¹³ One of his officers answered, “Have some men take five of the horses that are left in the city. Their plight will be like that of all the Israelites left here—yes, they will only be like all these Israelites who are doomed. So let us send them to find out what happened.”

¹⁴ So they selected two chariots with their horses, and the king sent them after the Aramean army. He commanded the drivers, “Go and find out what has happened.” ¹⁵ They followed them as far as the Jordan, and they found the whole road strewn with the clothing and equipment the Arameans had thrown away in their headlong flight.^(L) So the messengers returned and reported to the king. ¹⁶ Then the people went out and plundered^(M) the camp of the Arameans. So a seah of the finest flour sold for a shekel, and two seahs of barley sold for a shekel,^(N) as the Lord had said.

¹⁷ Now the king had put the officer on whose arm he leaned in charge of the gate, and the people trampled him in the gateway, and he died,^(O) just as the man of God had foretold when the king came down to his house. ¹⁸ It happened as the man of God had said to the king: “About this time tomorrow, a seah of the finest flour will sell for a shekel and two seahs of barley for a shekel at the gate of Samaria.”

¹⁹ The officer had said to the man of God, “Look, even if the Lord should open the floodgates^(P) of the heavens, could this happen?” The man of God had replied, “You will see it with your own eyes, but you will not eat any of it!” ²⁰ And that is exactly what happened to him, for the people trampled him in the gateway, and he died.

The Shunammite’s Land Restored

8 Now Elisha had said to the woman^(Q) whose son he had restored to life, “Go away with your family and stay for a while wherever you can, because the Lord has decreed a famine^(R) in the land that will last seven years.”^{(S) 2} The woman proceeded to do as the man of God said. She and her family went away and stayed in the land of the Philistines seven years.

³ At the end of the seven years she came back from the land of the Philistines and went to appeal to the king for her house and land. ⁴ The king was talking to Gehazi, the servant of the man of God, and had said, “Tell me about all the great things Elisha has done.” ⁵ Just as Gehazi was telling the king how Elisha had restored^(T) the dead to life, the woman whose son Elisha had brought back to life came to appeal to the king for her house and land.

Gehazi said, “This is the woman, my lord the king, and this is her son whom Elisha restored to life.” ⁶ The king asked the woman about it, and she told him.

Then he assigned an official to her case and said to him, “Give back everything that belonged to her, including all the income from her land from the day she left the country until now.”

Hazael Murders Ben-Hadad

⁷ Elisha went to Damascus,^(U) and Ben-Hadad^(V) king of Aram was ill. When the king was told, “The man of God has come all the way up here,” ⁸ he said to Hazael,^(W) “Take a gift^(X) with you and go to meet the man of God. Consult^(Y) the Lord through him; ask him, ‘Will I recover from this illness?’”

⁹ Hazael went to meet Elisha, taking with him as a gift forty camel-loads of all the finest wares of Damascus. He went in and stood before him, and said, “Your son Ben-Hadad king of Aram has sent me to ask, ‘Will I recover from this illness?’”

¹⁰ Elisha answered, “Go and say to him, ‘You will certainly recover.’^(Z) Nevertheless,^[e] the Lord has revealed to me that he will in fact die.” ¹¹ He stared at him with a fixed gaze until Hazael was embarrassed.^(AA) Then the man of God began to weep.^(AB)

¹² “Why is my lord weeping?” asked Hazael.

“Because I know the harm^(AC) you will do to the Israelites,” he answered. “You will set fire to their fortified places, kill their young men with the sword, dash^(AD) their little children^(AE) to the ground, and rip open^(AF) their pregnant women.”

¹³ Hazael said, “How could your servant, a mere dog,^(AG) accomplish such a feat?”

“The Lord has shown me that you will become king^(AH) of Aram,” answered Elisha.

¹⁴ Then Hazael left Elisha and returned to his master. When Ben-Hadad asked, “What did Elisha say to you?” Hazael replied, “He told me that you would certainly recover.” ¹⁵ But the next day he took a thick cloth, soaked it in water and spread it over the king’s face, so that he died.^(AI) Then Hazael succeeded him as king.

Jehoram King of Judah^(AJ)

¹⁶ In the fifth year of Joram^(AK) son of Ahab king of Israel, when Jehoshaphat was king of Judah, Jehoram^(AL) son of Jehoshaphat began his reign as king of Judah. ¹⁷ He was thirty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem eight years. ¹⁸ He followed the ways of the kings of Israel, as the house of Ahab had done, for he married a daughter^(AM) of Ahab. He did evil in the eyes of the Lord. ¹⁹ Nevertheless, for the sake of his servant David, the Lord was not willing to destroy^(AN) Judah. He had promised to maintain a lamp^(AO) for David and his descendants forever.

²⁰ In the time of Jehoram, Edom rebelled against Judah and set up its own king.^{(AP) 21} So Jehoram^[f] went to Zair with all his chariots. The Edomites surrounded him and his chariot commanders, but he rose up and broke through by night; his army, however, fled back home. ²² To this day Edom has been in rebellion^(AQ) against Judah. Libnah^(AR) revolted at the same time.

²³ As for the other events of Jehoram’s reign, and all he did, are they not written in the book of the annals of the kings of Judah? ²⁴ Jehoram rested with his ancestors and was buried with them in the City of David. And Ahaziah his son succeeded him as king.

Ahaziah King of Judah^(AS)

²⁵ In the twelfth^(AT) year of Joram son of Ahab king of Israel, Ahaziah son of Jehoram king of Judah began to reign. ²⁶ Ahaziah was twenty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem one year. His mother’s name was Athaliah,^(AU) a granddaughter of Omri^(AV) king of Israel. ²⁷ He followed the ways of the house of Ahab^(AW) and did evil^(AX) in the eyes of the Lord, as the house of Ahab had done, for he was related by marriage to Ahab’s family.

²⁸ Ahaziah went with Joram son of Ahab to war against Hazael king of Aram at Ramoth Gilead.^(AY) The Arameans wounded Joram; ²⁹ so King Joram returned to Jezreel^(AZ) to recover from the wounds the Arameans had inflicted on him at Ramoth^[g] in his battle with Hazael^(BA) king of Aram.

Then Ahaziah^(BB) son of Jehoram king of Judah went down to Jezreel to see Joram son of Ahab, because he had been wounded.

Jehu Anointed King of Israel

9 The prophet Elisha summoned a man from the company^(BC) of the prophets and said to him, “Tuck your cloak into your belt,^(BD) take this flask of olive oil^(BE) with you and go to Ramoth Gilead.^{(BF) 2} When you get there, look for Jehu son of Jehoshaphat, the son of Nimshi. Go to him, get him away from his companions and take him into an inner room. ³ Then take the flask and pour the oil^(BG) on his head and declare, ‘This is what the Lord says: I anoint you king over Israel.’ Then open the door and run; don’t delay!”

⁴ So the young prophet went to Ramoth Gilead. ⁵ When he arrived, he found the army officers sitting together. “I have a message for you, commander,” he said.

“For which of us?” asked Jehu.

“For you, commander,” he replied.

⁶ Jehu got up and went into the house. Then the prophet poured the oil^(BH) on Jehu’s head and declared, “This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: ‘I anoint you king over the Lord’s people Israel. ⁷ You are to destroy the house of Ahab your master, and I will avenge^(BI) the blood of my servants^(BJ) the prophets and the blood of all the Lord’s servants shed by Jezebel.^{(BK) 8} The whole house^(BL) of Ahab will perish. I will cut off from Ahab every last male^(BM) in Israel—slave or free.^{[h] 9} I will make the house of Ahab like the house of Jeroboam^(BN) son of Nebat and like the house of Baasha^(BO) son of Ahijah. ¹⁰ As for Jezebel, dogs^(BP) will devour her on the plot of ground at Jezreel, and no one will bury her.’” Then he opened the door and ran.

¹¹ When Jehu went out to his fellow officers, one of them asked him, “Is everything all right? Why did this maniac^(BQ) come to you?”

“You know the man and the sort of things he says,” Jehu replied.

¹² “That’s not true!” they said. “Tell us.”

Jehu said, “Here is what he told me: ‘This is what the Lord says: I anoint you king over Israel.’”

¹³ They quickly took their cloaks and spread^(BR) them under him on the bare steps. Then they blew the trumpet^(BS) and shouted, “Jehu is king!”

Jehu Kills Joram and Ahaziah^(BT)

¹⁴ So Jehu son of Jehoshaphat, the son of Nimshi, conspired against Joram. (Now Joram and all Israel had been defending Ramoth Gilead^(BU) against Hazael king of Aram, ¹⁵ but King Joram^[i] had returned to Jezreel to recover^(BV) from the wounds the Arameans had inflicted on him in the battle with Hazael king of Aram.) Jehu said, “If you desire to make me king, don’t let anyone slip out of the city to go and tell the news in Jezreel.” ¹⁶ Then he got into his chariot and rode to Jezreel, because Joram was resting there and Ahaziah^(BW) king of Judah had gone down to see him.

¹⁷ When the lookout^(BX) standing on the tower in Jezreel saw Jehu’s troops approaching, he called out, “I see some troops coming.”

“Get a horseman,” Joram ordered. “Send him to meet them and ask, ‘Do you come in peace?^(BY)’”

¹⁸ The horseman rode off to meet Jehu and said, “This is what the king says: ‘Do you come in peace?’”

“What do you have to do with peace?” Jehu replied. “Fall in behind me.”

The lookout reported, “The messenger has reached them, but he isn’t coming back.”

¹⁹ So the king sent out a second horseman. When he came to them he said, “This is what the king says: ‘Do you come in peace?’”

Jehu replied, “What do you have to do with peace? Fall in behind me.”

²⁰ The lookout reported, “He has reached them, but he isn’t coming back either. The driving is like^(BZ) that of Jehu son of Nimshi—he drives like a maniac.”

²¹ “Hitch up my chariot,” Joram ordered. And when it was hitched up, Joram king of Israel and Ahaziah king of Judah rode out, each in his own chariot, to meet Jehu. They met him at the plot of ground that had belonged to Naboth^(CA) the Jezreelite. ²² When Joram saw Jehu he asked, “Have you come in peace, Jehu?”

“How can there be peace,” Jehu replied, “as long as all the idolatry and witchcraft of your mother Jezebel^(CB) abound?”

²³ Joram turned about and fled, calling out to Ahaziah, “Treachery,^(CC) Ahaziah!”

²⁴ Then Jehu drew his bow^(CD) and shot Joram between the shoulders. The arrow pierced his heart and he slumped down in his chariot. ²⁵ Jehu said to Bidkar, his chariot officer, “Pick him up and throw him on the field that belonged to Naboth the Jezreelite. Remember how you and I were riding together in chariots behind Ahab his father when the Lord spoke this prophecy^(CE) against him: ²⁶ ‘Yesterday I saw the blood of Naboth^(CF) and the blood of his sons, declares the Lord, and I will surely make you pay for it on this plot of ground, declares the Lord.’^[j] Now then, pick him up and throw him on that plot, in accordance with the word of the Lord.”^(CG)

²⁷ When Ahaziah king of Judah saw what had happened, he fled up the road to Beth Haggan.^[k] Jehu chased him, shouting, “Kill him too!” They wounded him in his chariot on the way up to Gur near Ibleam,^(CH) but he escaped to Megiddo^(CI) and died there. ²⁸ His servants took him by chariot^(CJ) to Jerusalem and buried him with his ancestors in his tomb in the City of David. ²⁹ (In the eleventh^(CK) year of Joram son of Ahab, Ahaziah had become king of Judah.)

Jezebel Killed

³⁰ Then Jehu went to Jezreel. When Jezebel heard about it, she put on eye makeup,^(CL) arranged her hair and looked out of a window. ³¹ As Jehu entered the gate, she asked, “Have you come in peace, you Zimri,^(CM) you murderer of your master?”^[l]

³² He looked up at the window and called out, “Who is on my side? Who?” Two or three eunuchs looked down at him. ³³ “Throw her down!” Jehu said. So they threw her down, and some of her blood spattered the wall and the horses as they trampled her underfoot.^(CN)

³⁴ Jehu went in and ate and drank. “Take care of that cursed woman,” he said, “and bury her, for she was a king’s daughter.”^{(CO) 35} But when they went out to bury her, they found nothing except her skull, her feet and her hands. ³⁶ They went back and told Jehu, who said, “This is the word of the Lord that he spoke through his servant Elijah the Tishbite: On the plot of ground at Jezreel dogs^(CP) will devour Jezebel’s flesh.^{[m](CQ) 37} Jezebel’s body will be like dung^(CR) on the ground in the plot at Jezreel, so that no one will be able to say, ‘This is Jezebel.’”

The Death of Lazarus

11 Now a man named Lazarus was sick. He was from Bethany,^(A) the village of Mary and her sister Martha.^{(B) 2} (This Mary, whose brother Lazarus now lay sick, was the same one who poured perfume on the Lord and wiped his feet with her hair.)^{(C) 3} So the sisters sent word to Jesus, “Lord, the one you love^(D) is sick.”

⁴ When he heard this, Jesus said, “This sickness will not end in death. No, it is for God’s glory^(E) so that God’s Son may be glorified through it.” ⁵ Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus. ⁶ So when he heard that Lazarus was sick, he stayed where he was two more days, ⁷ and then he said to his disciples, “Let us go back to Judea.”^(F)

⁸ “But Rabbi,”^(G) they said, “a short while ago the Jews there tried to stone you,^(H) and yet you are going back?”

⁹ Jesus answered, “Are there not twelve hours of daylight? Anyone who walks in the daytime will not stumble, for they see by this world’s light.^{(I) 10} It is when a person walks at night that they stumble, for they have no light.”

¹¹ After he had said this, he went on to tell them, “Our friend^(J) Lazarus has fallen asleep;^(K) but I am going there to wake him up.”

¹² His disciples replied, “Lord, if he sleeps, he will get better.” ¹³ Jesus had been speaking of his death, but his disciples thought he meant natural sleep.^(L)

¹⁴ So then he told them plainly, “Lazarus is dead, ¹⁵ and for your sake I am glad I was not there, so that you may believe. But let us go to him.”

¹⁶ Then Thomas^(M) (also known as Didymus^[a]) said to the rest of the disciples, “Let us also go, that we may die with him.”

Jesus Comforts the Sisters of Lazarus

¹⁷ On his arrival, Jesus found that Lazarus had already been in the tomb for four days.^{(N) 18} Now Bethany^(O) was less than two miles^[b] from Jerusalem, ¹⁹ and many Jews had come to Martha and Mary to comfort them in the loss of their brother.^{(P) 20} When Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went out to meet him, but Mary stayed at home.^(Q)

²¹ “Lord,” Martha said to Jesus, “if you had been here, my brother would not have died.^{(R) 22} But I know that even now God will give you whatever you ask.”^(S)

²³ Jesus said to her, “Your brother will rise again.”

²⁴ Martha answered, “I know he will rise again in the resurrection^(T) at the last day.”^(U)

²⁵ Jesus said to her, “I am^(V) the resurrection and the life.^(W) The one who believes^(X) in me will live, even though they die; ²⁶ and whoever lives by believing^(Y) in me will never die.^(Z) Do you believe this?”

²⁷ “Yes, Lord,” she replied, “I believe that you are the Messiah,^(AA) the Son of God,^(AB) who is to come into the world.”^(AC)

²⁸ After she had said this, she went back and called her sister Mary aside. “The Teacher^(AD) is here,” she said, “and is asking for you.” ²⁹ When Mary heard this, she got up quickly and went to him. ³⁰ Now Jesus had not yet entered the village, but was still at the place where Martha had met him.^{(AE) 31} When the Jews who had been with Mary in the house, comforting her,^(AF) noticed how quickly she got up and went out, they followed her, supposing she was going to the tomb to mourn there.

³² When Mary reached the place where Jesus was and saw him, she fell at his feet and said, “Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.”^(AG)

³³ When Jesus saw her weeping, and the Jews who had come along with her also weeping, he was deeply moved^(AH) in spirit and troubled.^{(AI) 34} “Where have you laid him?” he asked.

“Come and see, Lord,” they replied.

³⁵ Jesus wept.^(AJ)

³⁶ Then the Jews said, “See how he loved him!”^(AK)

³⁷ But some of them said, “Could not he who opened the eyes of the blind man^(AL) have kept this man from dying?”^(AM)

Jesus Raises Lazarus From the Dead

³⁸ Jesus, once more deeply moved,^(AN) came to the tomb. It was a cave with a stone laid across the entrance.^{(AO) 39} “Take away the stone,” he said.

“But, Lord,” said Martha, the sister of the dead man, “by this time there is a bad odor, for he has been there four days.”^(AP)

⁴⁰ Then Jesus said, “Did I not tell you that if you believe,^(AQ) you will see the glory of God?”^(AR)

⁴¹ So they took away the stone. Then Jesus looked up^(AS) and said, “Father,^(AT) I thank you that you have heard me. ⁴² I knew that you always hear me, but I said this for the benefit of the people standing here,^(AU) that they may believe that you sent me.”^(AV)

⁴³ When he had said this, Jesus called in a loud voice, “Lazarus, come out!”^{(AW) 44} The dead man came out, his hands and feet wrapped with strips of linen,^(AX) and a cloth around his face.^(AY)

Jesus said to them, “Take off the grave clothes and let him go.”

The Plot to Kill Jesus

⁴⁵ Therefore many of the Jews who had come to visit Mary,^(AZ) and had seen what Jesus did,^(BA) believed in him.^{(BB) 46} But some of them went to the Pharisees and told them what Jesus had done. ⁴⁷ Then the chief priests and the Pharisees^(BC) called a meeting^(BD) of the Sanhedrin.^(BE)

“What are we accomplishing?” they asked. “Here is this man performing many signs.^{(BF) 48} If we let him go on like this, everyone will believe in him, and then the Romans will come and take away both our temple and our nation.”

⁴⁹ Then one of them, named Caiaphas,^(BG) who was high priest that year,^(BH) spoke up, “You know nothing at all! ⁵⁰ You do not realize that it is better for you that one man die for the people than that the whole nation perish.”^(BI)

⁵¹ He did not say this on his own, but as high priest that year he prophesied that Jesus would die for the Jewish nation, ⁵² and not only for that nation but also for the scattered children of God, to bring them together and make them one.^{(BJ) 53} So from that day on they plotted to take his life.^(BK)

⁵⁴ Therefore Jesus no longer moved about publicly among the people of Judea.^(BL) Instead he withdrew to a region near the wilderness, to a village called Ephraim, where he stayed with his disciples.

⁵⁵ When it was almost time for the Jewish Passover,^(BM) many went up from the country to Jerusalem for their ceremonial cleansing^(BN) before the Passover. ⁵⁶ They kept looking for Jesus,^(BO) and as they stood in the temple courts they asked one another, “What do you think? Isn’t he coming to the festival at all?” ⁵⁷ But the chief priests and the Pharisees had given orders that anyone who found out where Jesus was should report it so that they might arrest him.

Jesus Anointed at Bethany^(BP)

12 Six days before the Passover,^(BQ) Jesus came to Bethany,^(BR) where Lazarus lived, whom Jesus had raised from the dead. ² Here a dinner was given in Jesus’ honor. Martha served,^(BS) while Lazarus was among those reclining at the table with him. ³ Then Mary took about a pint^[c] of pure nard, an expensive perfume;^(BT) she poured it on Jesus’ feet and wiped his feet with her hair.^(BU) And the house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume.

⁴ But one of his disciples, Judas Iscariot, who was later to betray him,^(BV) objected, ⁵ “Why wasn’t this perfume sold and the money given to the poor? It was worth a year’s wages.^[d]” ⁶ He did not say this because he cared about the poor but because he was a thief; as keeper of the money bag,^(BW) he used to help himself to what was put into it.

⁷ “Leave her alone,” Jesus replied. “It was intended that she should save this perfume for the day of my burial.^{(BX) 8} You will always have the poor among you,^[e](BY) but you will not always have me.”

⁹ Meanwhile a large crowd of Jews found out that Jesus was there and came, not only because of him but also to see Lazarus, whom he had raised from the dead.^{(BZ) 10} So the chief priests made plans to kill Lazarus as well, ¹¹ for on account of him^(CA) many of the Jews were going over to Jesus and believing in him.^(CB)

Jesus Comes to Jerusalem as King^(CC)

¹² The next day the great crowd that had come for the festival heard that Jesus was on his way to Jerusalem. ¹³ They took palm branches^(CD) and went out to meet him, shouting,

¹⁴ Jesus found a young donkey and sat on it, as it is written:

¹⁶ At first his disciples did not understand all this.^(CH) Only after Jesus was glorified^(CI) did they realize that these things had been written about him and that these things had been done to him.

¹⁷ Now the crowd that was with him^(CJ) when he called Lazarus from the tomb and raised him from the dead continued to spread the word. ¹⁸ Many people, because they had heard that he had performed this sign,^(CK) went out to meet him. ¹⁹ So the Pharisees said to one another, “See, this is getting us nowhere. Look how the whole world has gone after him!”^(CL)

Jesus Predicts His Death

²⁰ Now there were some Greeks^(CM) among those who went up to worship at the festival. ²¹ They came to Philip, who was from Bethsaida^(CN) in Galilee, with a request. “Sir,” they said, “we would like to see Jesus.” ²² Philip went to tell Andrew; Andrew and Philip in turn told Jesus.

²³ Jesus replied, “The hour^(CO) has come for the Son of Man to be glorified.^{(CP) 24} Very truly I tell you, unless a kernel of wheat falls to the ground and dies,^(CQ) it remains only a single seed. But if it dies, it produces many seeds. ²⁵ Anyone who loves their life will lose it, while anyone who hates their life in this world will keep it^(CR) for eternal life.^{(CS) 26} Whoever serves me must follow me; and where I am, my servant also will be.^(CT) My Father will honor the one who serves me.

²⁷ “Now my soul is troubled,^(CU) and what shall I say? ‘Father,^(CV) save me from this hour’?^(CW) No, it was for this very reason I came to this hour. ²⁸ Father, glorify your name!”

Then a voice came from heaven,^(CX) “I have glorified it, and will glorify it again.” ²⁹ The crowd that was there and heard it said it had thundered; others said an angel had spoken to him.

³⁰ Jesus said, “This voice was for your benefit,^(CY) not mine. ³¹ Now is the time for judgment on this world;^(CZ) now the prince of this world^(DA) will be driven out. ³² And I, when I am lifted up^[i] from the earth,^(DB) will draw all people to myself.”^{(DC) 33} He said this to show the kind of death he was going to die.^(DD)

³⁴ The crowd spoke up, “We have heard from the Law^(DE) that the Messiah will remain forever,^(DF) so how can you say, ‘The Son of Man^(DG) must be lifted up’?^(DH) Who is this ‘Son of Man’?”

³⁵ Then Jesus told them, “You are going to have the light^(DI) just a little while longer. Walk while you have the light,^(DJ) before darkness overtakes you.^(DK) Whoever walks in the dark does not know where they are going. ³⁶ Believe in the light while you have the light, so that you may become children of light.”^(DL) When he had finished speaking, Jesus left and hid himself from them.^(DM)

Belief and Unbelief Among the Jews

³⁷ Even after Jesus had performed so many signs^(DN) in their presence, they still would not believe in him. ³⁸ This was to fulfill the word of Isaiah the prophet:

³⁹ For this reason they could not believe, because, as Isaiah says elsewhere:

⁴¹ Isaiah said this because he saw Jesus’ glory^(DQ) and spoke about him.^(DR)

⁴² Yet at the same time many even among the leaders believed in him.^(DS) But because of the Pharisees^(DT) they would not openly acknowledge their faith for fear they would be put out of the synagogue;^{(DU) 43} for they loved human praise^(DV) more than praise from God.^(DW)

⁴⁴ Then Jesus cried out, “Whoever believes in me does not believe in me only, but in the one who sent me.^{(DX) 45} The one who looks at me is seeing the one who sent me.^{(DY) 46} I have come into the world as a light,^(DZ) so that no one who believes in me should stay in darkness.

⁴⁷ “If anyone hears my words but does not keep them, I do not judge that person. For I did not come to judge the world, but to save the world.^{(EA) 48} There is a judge for the one who rejects me and does not accept my words; the very words I have spoken will condemn them^(EB) at the last day. ⁴⁹ For I did not speak on my own, but the Father who sent me commanded me^(EC) to say all that I have spoken. ⁵⁰ I know that his command leads to eternal life.^(ED) So whatever I say is just what the Father has told me to say.”^(EE)

Jesus Washes His Disciples’ Feet

13 It was just before the Passover Festival.^(EF) Jesus knew that the hour had come^(EG) for him to leave this world and go to the Father.^(EH) Having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end.

² The evening meal was in progress, and the devil had already prompted Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot, to betray Jesus.^{(EI) 3} Jesus knew that the Father had put all things under his power,^(EJ) and that he had come from God^(EK) and was returning to God; ⁴ so he got up from the meal, took off his outer clothing, and wrapped a towel around his waist.^{(EL) 5} After that, he poured water into a basin and began to wash his disciples’ feet,^(EM) drying them with the towel that was wrapped around him.

⁶ He came to Simon Peter, who said to him, “Lord, are you going to wash my feet?”

⁷ Jesus replied, “You do not realize now what I am doing, but later you will understand.”^(EN)

⁸ “No,” said Peter, “you shall never wash my feet.”

Jesus answered, “Unless I wash you, you have no part with me.”

⁹ “Then, Lord,” Simon Peter replied, “not just my feet but my hands and my head as well!”

¹⁰ Jesus answered, “Those who have had a bath need only to wash their feet; their whole body is clean. And you are clean,^(EO) though not every one of you.”^{(EP) 11} For he knew who was going to betray him,^(EQ) and that was why he said not every one was clean.

¹² When he had finished washing their feet, he put on his clothes and returned to his place. “Do you understand what I have done for you?” he asked them. ¹³ “You call me ‘Teacher’^(ER) and ‘Lord,’^(ES) and rightly so, for that is what I am. ¹⁴ Now that I, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also should wash one another’s feet.^{(ET) 15} I have set you an example that you should do as I have done for you.^{(EU) 16} Very truly I tell you, no servant is greater than his master,^(EV) nor is a messenger greater than the one who sent him. ¹⁷ Now that you know these things, you will be blessed if you do them.^(EW)

Jesus Predicts His Betrayal

¹⁸ “I am not referring to all of you;^(EX) I know those I have chosen.^(EY) But this is to fulfill this passage of Scripture:^(EZ) ‘He who shared my bread^(FA) has turned^[l](FB) against me.’^[m](FC)

¹⁹ “I am telling you now before it happens, so that when it does happen you will believe^(FD) that I am who I am.^{(FE) 20} Very truly I tell you, whoever accepts anyone I send accepts me; and whoever accepts me accepts the one who sent me.”^(FF)

²¹ After he had said this, Jesus was troubled in spirit^(FG) and testified, “Very truly I tell you, one of you is going to betray me.”^(FH)

²² His disciples stared at one another, at a loss to know which of them he meant. ²³ One of them, the disciple whom Jesus loved,^(FI) was reclining next to him. ²⁴ Simon Peter motioned to this disciple and said, “Ask him which one he means.”

²⁵ Leaning back against Jesus, he asked him, “Lord, who is it?”^(FJ)

²⁶ Jesus answered, “It is the one to whom I will give this piece of bread when I have dipped it in the dish.” Then, dipping the piece of bread, he gave it to Judas,^(FK) the son of Simon Iscariot. ²⁷ As soon as Judas took the bread, Satan entered into him.^(FL)

So Jesus told him, “What you are about to do, do quickly.” ²⁸ But no one at the meal understood why Jesus said this to him. ²⁹ Since Judas had charge of the money,^(FM) some thought Jesus was telling him to buy what was needed for the festival,^(FN) or to give something to the poor.^{(FO) 30} As soon as Judas had taken the bread, he went out. And it was night.^(FP)

Jesus Predicts Peter’s Denial^(FQ)

³¹ When he was gone, Jesus said, “Now the Son of Man^(FR) is glorified^(FS) and God is glorified in him.^{(FT) 32} If God is glorified in him,^[n] God will glorify the Son in himself,^(FU) and will glorify him at once.

³³ “My children, I will be with you only a little longer. You will look for me, and just as I told the Jews, so I tell you now: Where I am going, you cannot come.^(FV)

³⁴ “A new command^(FW) I give you: Love one another.^(FX) As I have loved you, so you must love one another.^{(FY) 35} By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.”^(FZ)

³⁶ Simon Peter asked him, “Lord, where are you going?”^(GA)

Jesus replied, “Where I am going, you cannot follow now,^(GB) but you will follow later.”^(GC)

³⁷ Peter asked, “Lord, why can’t I follow you now? I will lay down my life for you.”

³⁸ Then Jesus answered, “Will you really lay down your life for me? Very truly I tell you, before the rooster crows, you will disown me three times!^(GD)

Jesus Comforts His Disciples

14 “Do not let your hearts be troubled.^(GE) You believe^(GF) in God^[o];^(GG) believe also in me. ² My Father’s house has many rooms; if that were not so, would I have told you that I am going there^(GH) to prepare a place for you? ³ And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back^(GI) and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am.^{(GJ) 4} You know the way to the place where I am going.”

Jesus the Way to the Father

⁵ Thomas^(GK) said to him, “Lord, we don’t know where you are going, so how can we know the way?”

⁶ Jesus answered, “I am^(GL) the way^(GM) and the truth^(GN) and the life.^(GO) No one comes to the Father except through me.^{(GP) 7} If you really know me, you will know^[p] my Father as well.^(GQ) From now on, you do know him and have seen him.”

⁸ Philip^(GR) said, “Lord, show us the Father and that will be enough for us.”

⁹ Jesus answered: “Don’t you know me, Philip, even after I have been among you such a long time? Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father.^(GS) How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’? ¹⁰ Don’t you believe that I am in the Father, and that the Father is in me?^(GT) The words I say to you I do not speak on my own authority.^(GU) Rather, it is the Father, living in me, who is doing his work. ¹¹ Believe me when I say that I am in the Father and the Father is in me; or at least believe on the evidence of the works themselves.^{(GV) 12} Very truly I tell you, whoever believes^(GW) in me will do the works I have been doing,^(GX) and they will do even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father. ¹³ And I will do whatever you ask^(GY) in my name, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son. ¹⁴ You may ask me for anything in my name, and I will do it.

Jesus Promises the Holy Spirit

¹⁵ “If you love me, keep my commands.^{(GZ) 16} And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another advocate^(HA) to help you and be with you forever— ¹⁷ the Spirit of truth.^(HB) The world cannot accept him,^(HC) because it neither sees him nor knows him. But you know him, for he lives with you and will be^[q] in you. ¹⁸ I will not leave you as orphans;^(HD) I will come to you.^{(HE) 19} Before long, the world will not see me anymore, but you will see me.^(HF) Because I live, you also will live.^(HG)