⁵ Accordingly, though Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus,

⁹ As the Father has loved me, so I have loved you; abide in my love. ¹⁰ 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.^{(A) 11} I have said these things to you so that my joy may be in you and that your joy may be complete.^(B)

¹² “This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.^{(C) 13} No one has greater love than this, to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.^(D)

²⁶ I made your name known to them, and I will make it known, so that the love with which you have loved me may be in them and I in them.”^(A)

²⁷ for the Father himself loves you because you have loved me and have believed that I came from God.^[a](A)

³⁶ So the Jews said, “See how he loved him!”

⁸ The disciples said to him, “Rabbi, the Jews were just now trying to stone you, and are you going there again?”^(A)