⁵ Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus.

Love and Joy Perfected

⁹ “As the Father ^(A)loved Me, I also have loved you; abide in My love. ^10 (B)If you keep My commandments, you will abide in My love, just as I have kept My Father’s commandments and abide in His love.

¹¹ “These things I have spoken to you, that My joy may remain in you, and ^(C)that your joy may be full. ^12 (D)This is My ^(E)commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. ^13 (F)Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one’s life for his friends.

^26 (A)And I have declared to them Your name, and will declare it, that the love ^(B)with which You loved Me may be in them, and I in them.”

^27 (A)for the Father Himself loves you, because you have loved Me, and ^(B)have believed that I came forth from God.

³⁶ Then the Jews said, “See how He loved him!”

⁸ The disciples said to Him, “Rabbi, lately the Jews sought to ^(A)stone You, and are You going there again?”