John 12-16

New American Standard Bible 1995

Mary Anoints Jesus

12 ^(A)Jesus, therefore, six days before ^(B)the Passover, came to ^(C)Bethany where Lazarus was, whom Jesus had raised from the dead. ² So they made Him a supper there, and ^(D)Martha was serving; but Lazarus was one of those reclining at the table with Him. ^3 (E)Mary then took a ^[a]pound of very costly ^(F)perfume 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 ^(G)Judas Iscariot, one of His disciples, who was intending to ^[b]betray Him, *said, ⁵ “Why was this perfume not sold for ^[c]three 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 ^(H)had the money box, he used to pilfer ^(I)what was put into it. ⁷ Therefore Jesus said, “Let her alone, so that she may keep ^[d]it for ^(J)the day of My burial. ^8 (K)For you always have the poor with you, but you do not always have Me.”

⁹ The ^(L)large 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, ^(M)whom He raised from the dead. ¹⁰ But the chief priests planned to put Lazarus to death also; ¹¹ because ^(N)on account of him ^(O)many of the Jews were going away and were believing in Jesus.

Jesus Enters Jerusalem

¹² On the next day ^(P)the large crowd who had come to ^(Q)the 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, “^(R)Hosanna! Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord, even the ^(S)King of Israel.” ¹⁴ Jesus, finding a young donkey, sat on it; as it is written, ¹⁵ “^(T)Fear not, daughter of Zion; behold, your King is coming, seated on a donkey’s colt.” ^16 (U)These things His disciples did not understand at the first; but when Jesus ^(V)was glorified, then they remembered that these things were written of Him, and that they had done these things to Him. ¹⁷ So ^(W)the ^[e]people, who were with Him when He called Lazarus out of the tomb and raised him from the dead, continued to testify about Him. ^18 (X)For this reason also the ^[f]people went and met Him, ^(Y)because they heard that He had performed this ^[g]sign. 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 ^(Z)Greeks among those who were going up to worship at ^(AA)the feast; ²¹ these then came to ^(AB)Philip, who was from ^(AC)Bethsaida of Galilee, and began to ask him, saying, “Sir, we wish to see Jesus.” ²² Philip *came and *told ^(AD)Andrew; Andrew and Philip *came and *told Jesus. ²³ And Jesus *answered them, saying, “^(AE)The hour has come for the Son of Man to ^(AF)be glorified. ²⁴ Truly, truly, I say to you, ^(AG)unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it bears much fruit. ^25 (AH)He who loves his ^[h]life loses it, and he who ^(AI)hates his ^[i]life in this world will keep it to life eternal. ²⁶ If anyone ^[j]serves Me, he must follow Me; and ^(AJ)where I am, there My servant will be also; if anyone ^[k]serves Me, the Father will ^(AK)honor him.

Jesus Foretells His Death

²⁷ “^(AL)Now My soul has become troubled; and what shall I say, ‘^(AM)Father, save Me from ^(AN)this hour’? But for this purpose I came to this hour. ^28 (AO)Father, glorify Your name.” Then a ^(AP)voice 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, “^(AQ)An angel has spoken to Him.” ³⁰ Jesus answered and said, “^(AR)This voice has not come for My sake, but for your sakes. ^31 (AS)Now judgment is upon this world; now ^(AT)the ruler of this world will be cast out. ³² And I, if I ^(AU)am lifted up from the earth, will ^(AV)draw all men to Myself.” ³³ But He was saying this ^(AW)to indicate the kind of death by which He was to die. ³⁴ The crowd then answered Him, “We have heard out of ^(AX)the Law that ^[l](AY)the Christ is to remain forever; and how can You say, ‘The ^(AZ)Son of Man must be ^(BA)lifted up’? Who is this ^(BB)Son of Man?” ³⁵ So Jesus said to them, “^(BC)For a little while longer ^(BD)the Light is among you. ^(BE)Walk while you have the Light, so that darkness will not overtake you; he who ^(BF)walks in the darkness does not know where he goes. ³⁶ While you have the Light, ^(BG)believe in the Light, so that you may become ^(BH)sons of Light.”

These things Jesus spoke, and He went away and ^[m](BI)hid Himself from them. ³⁷ But though He had performed so many ^[n]signs before them, yet they were not believing in Him. ³⁸ This was to fulfill the word of Isaiah the prophet which he spoke: “^(BJ)Lord, 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 “^(BK)He has blinded their eyes and He ^(BL)hardened their heart, so that they would not see with their eyes and perceive with their heart, and ^[o]be converted and I heal them.” ⁴¹ These things Isaiah said because ^(BM)he saw His glory, and ^(BN)he spoke of Him. ⁴² Nevertheless ^(BO)many even of ^(BP)the rulers believed in Him, but ^(BQ)because of the Pharisees they were not confessing Him, for fear that they would be ^[p](BR)put out of the synagogue; ^43 (BS)for they loved the ^[q]approval of men rather than the ^[r]approval of God.

⁴⁴ And Jesus cried out and said, “^(BT)He who believes in Me, does not believe in Me but in Him who sent Me. ^45 (BU)He who sees Me sees the One who sent Me. ^46 (BV)I 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 ^(BW)I did not come to judge the world, but to save the world. ^48 (BX)He who rejects Me and does not receive My sayings, has one who judges him; ^(BY)the word I spoke is what will judge him at ^(BZ)the last day. ^49 (CA)For I did not speak ^[s]on My own initiative, but the Father Himself who sent Me ^(CB)has given Me a commandment as to what to say and what to speak. ⁵⁰ I know that ^(CC)His commandment is eternal life; therefore the things I speak, I speak ^(CD)just as the Father has told Me.”

The Lord’s Supper

13 Now before the Feast of ^(CE)the Passover, Jesus knowing that ^(CF)His hour had come that He would depart out of this world ^(CG)to the Father, having loved His own who were in the world, He loved them ^[t]to the end. ² During supper, ^(CH)the devil having already put into the heart of ^(CI)Judas Iscariot, the son of Simon, to betray Him, ³ Jesus, ^(CJ)knowing that the Father had given all things into His hands, and that ^(CK)He 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 ^(CL)girded Himself.

Jesus Washes the Disciples’ Feet

⁵ Then He *poured water into the basin, and began to ^(CM)wash 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 ^(CN)hereafter.” ⁸ Peter *said to Him, “Never shall You wash my feet!” Jesus answered him, “^(CO)If I do not wash you, ^(CP)you 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 ^(CQ)you are clean, but not all of you.” ¹¹ For ^(CR)He 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 ^(CS)taken 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 ^(CT)Teacher and ^(CU)Lord; and ^[u]you are right, for so I am. ¹⁴ If I then, ^(CV)the Lord and the Teacher, washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another’s feet. ¹⁵ For I gave you ^(CW)an example that you also should do as I did to you. ¹⁶ Truly, truly, I say to you, ^(CX)a slave is not greater than his master, nor is ^(CY)one who is sent greater than the one who sent him. ¹⁷ If you know these things, you are ^(CZ)blessed if you do them. ^18 (DA)I do not speak of all of you. I know the ones I have ^(DB)chosen; but it is ^(DC)that the Scripture may be fulfilled, ‘^(DD)He who eats My bread has lifted up his heel against Me.’ ¹⁹ From now on ^(DE)I am telling you before it comes to pass, so that when it does occur, you may believe that ^(DF)I am He. ²⁰ Truly, truly, I say to you, ^(DG)he 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 ^(DH)became troubled in spirit, and testified and said, “Truly, truly, I say to you, that ^(DI)one of you will ^[v]betray Me.” ²² The disciples began looking at one another, ^(DJ)at a loss to know of which one He was speaking. ²³ There was reclining on ^(DK)Jesus’ bosom one of His disciples, ^(DL)whom 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, ^(DM)leaning 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, ^(DN)the son of Simon Iscariot. ²⁷ After the morsel, ^(DO)Satan then ^(DP)entered 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 ^(DQ)had the money box, that Jesus was saying to him, “Buy the things we have need of ^(DR)for the feast”; or else, that he should ^(DS)give something to the poor. ³⁰ So after receiving the morsel he went out immediately; and ^(DT)it was night.

³¹ Therefore when he had gone out, Jesus *said, “Now ^[w]is ^(DU)the Son of Man ^(DV)glorified, and ^(DW)God ^[x]is glorified in Him; ^32 [y]if God is glorified in Him, ^(DX)God will also glorify Him in Himself, and will glorify Him immediately. ^33 (DY)Little children, I am with you ^(DZ)a little while longer. ^(EA)You 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 ^(EB)new commandment I give to you, ^(EC)that you love one another, ^(ED)even as I have loved you, that you also love one another. ^35 (EE)By 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, “^(EF)Where I go, you cannot follow Me now; but ^(EG)you will follow later.” ³⁷ Peter *said to Him, “Lord, why can I not follow You right now? ^(EH)I will lay down my life for You.” ³⁸ Jesus *answered, “Will you lay down your life for Me? Truly, truly, I say to you, ^(EI)a rooster will not crow until you deny Me three times.

Jesus Comforts His Disciples

14 “^(EJ)Do not let your heart be troubled; ^[z]believe 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 ^(EK)I go to prepare a place for you. ³ If I go and prepare a place for you, ^(EL)I will come again and receive you to Myself, that ^(EM)where I am, there you may be also. ⁴ And you know the way where I am going.” ^5 (EN)Thomas *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 ^(EO)the way, and ^(EP)the truth, and ^(EQ)the life; no one comes to the Father but through Me.

Oneness with the Father

^7 (ER)If you had known Me, you would have known My Father also; from now on you ^(ES)know Him, and have ^(ET)seen Him.”

^8 (EU)Philip *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? ^(EV)He who has seen Me has seen the Father; how can you say, ‘Show us the Father’? ¹⁰ Do you not believe that ^(EW)I am in the Father, and the Father is in Me? ^(EX)The 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 ^(EY)I am in the Father and the Father is in Me; otherwise ^(EZ)believe 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 ^(FA)greater works than these he will do; because ^(FB)I go to the Father. ^13 (FC)Whatever you ask in My name, that will I do, so that ^(FD)the Father may be glorified in the Son. ¹⁴ If you ask Me anything ^(FE)in My name, I will do it.

¹⁵ “^(FF)If you love Me, you will keep My commandments.

Role of the Spirit

¹⁶ I will ask the Father, and He will give you another ^[aa](FG)Helper, that He may be with you forever; ¹⁷ that is ^(FH)the Spirit of truth, ^(FI)whom 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; ^(FJ)I will come to you. ^19 [ab](FK)After a little while ^(FL)the world will no longer see Me, but you will see Me; ^(FM)because I live, you will live also. ^20 (FN)In that day you will know that ^(FO)I am in My Father, and you in Me, and I in you. ^21 (FP)He who has My commandments and keeps them is the one who loves Me; and ^(FQ)he who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and will ^(FR)disclose Myself to him.” ^22 (FS)Judas (not Iscariot) *said to Him, “Lord, what then has happened ^(FT)that You are going to disclose Yourself to us and not to the world?” ²³ Jesus answered and said to him, “^(FU)If anyone loves Me, he will ^(FV)keep My word; and ^(FW)My Father will love him, and We ^(FX)will come to him and make Our abode with him. ²⁴ He who does not love Me ^(FY)does not keep My words; and ^(FZ)the 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 ^(GA)Helper, the Holy Spirit, ^(GB)whom the Father will send in My name, ^(GC)He will teach you all things, and ^(GD)bring to your remembrance all that I said to you. ^27 (GE)Peace I leave with you; My peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you. ^(GF)Do not let your heart be troubled, nor let it be fearful. ^28 (GG)You heard that I said to you, ‘I go away, and ^(GH)I will come to you.’ If you loved Me, you would have rejoiced because ^(GI)I go to the Father, for ^(GJ)the Father is greater than I. ²⁹ Now ^(GK)I have told you before it happens, so that when it happens, you may believe. ³⁰ I will not speak much more with you, for ^(GL)the 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, ^[ac]I do exactly as ^(GM)the Father commanded Me. Get up, ^(GN)let us go from here.

Jesus Is the Vine—Followers Are Branches

15 “^(GO)I am the true vine, and My Father is the ^(GP)vinedresser. ² Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit, He takes away; and every branch that bears fruit, He ^[ad]prunes it so that it may bear more fruit. ^3 (GQ)You are already ^[ae]clean because of the word which I have spoken to you. ^4 (GR)Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit ^[af]of itself unless it abides in the vine, so neither can you unless you abide in Me. ⁵ I am the vine, you are the branches; he who abides in Me and I in him, he ^(GS)bears much fruit, for apart from Me you can do nothing. ⁶ If anyone does not abide in Me, he is ^(GT)thrown away as a branch and dries up; and they gather them, and cast them into the fire and they are burned. ⁷ If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, ^(GU)ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you. ⁸ My ^(GV)Father is glorified by this, that you bear much fruit, and so ^[ag](GW)prove to be My disciples. ⁹ Just as ^(GX)the Father has loved Me, I have also loved you; abide in My love. ^10 (GY)If you keep My commandments, you will abide in My love; just as ^(GZ)I have kept My Father’s commandments and abide in His love. ^11 (HA)These things I have spoken to you so that My joy may be in you, and that your ^(HB)joy may be made full.

Disciples’ Relation to Each Other

¹² “This is ^(HC)My commandment, that you love one another, just as I have loved you. ^13 (HD)Greater love has no one than this, that one ^(HE)lay down his life for his friends. ¹⁴ You are My ^(HF)friends if ^(HG)you do what I command you. ¹⁵ No longer do I call you slaves, for the slave does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for ^(HH)all things that I have heard from My Father I have made known to you. ^16 (HI)You did not choose Me but I chose you, and appointed you that you would go and ^(HJ)bear fruit, and that your fruit would remain, so that ^(HK)whatever you ask of the Father in My name He may give to you. ¹⁷ This ^(HL)I command you, that you love one another.

Disciples’ Relation to the World

¹⁸ “^(HM)If the world hates you, ^[ah]you know that it has hated Me before it hated you. ¹⁹ If you were of the world, the world would love its own; but because you are not of the world, but ^(HN)I chose you out of the world, ^(HO)because of this the world hates you. ²⁰ Remember the word that I said to you, ‘^(HP)A slave is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted Me, ^(HQ)they will also persecute you; if they ^(HR)kept My word, they will keep yours also. ²¹ But all these things they will do to you ^(HS)for My name’s sake, ^(HT)because they do not know the One who sent Me. ^22 (HU)If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have ^[ai]sin, but now they have no excuse for their sin. ²³ He who hates Me hates My Father also. ^24 (HV)If I had not done among them ^(HW)the works which no one else did, they would not have ^[aj]sin; but now they have both seen and hated Me and My Father as well. ²⁵ But they have done this to fulfill the word that is written in their ^(HX)Law, ‘^(HY)They hated Me without a cause.’

²⁶ “When the ^[ak](HZ)Helper comes, ^(IA)whom I will send to you from the Father, that is ^(IB)the Spirit of truth who proceeds from the Father, ^(IC)He will testify about Me, ^27 [al]and ^(ID)you will testify also, because you have been with Me ^(IE)from the beginning.

Jesus’ Warning

16 “^(IF)These things I have spoken to you so that you may be kept from ^(IG)stumbling. ^2 [am]They will ^(IH)make you outcasts from the synagogue, but ^(II)an hour is coming for everyone ^(IJ)who kills you to think that he is offering service to God. ³ These things they will do ^(IK)because they have not known the Father or Me. ⁴ But these things I have spoken to you, ^(IL)so that when their hour comes, you ^[an]may remember that I told you of them. These things I did not say to you ^(IM)at the beginning, because I was with you.

The Holy Spirit Promised

⁵ “But now ^(IN)I am going to Him who sent Me; and none of you asks Me, ‘^(IO)Where are You going?’ ⁶ But because I have said these things to you, ^(IP)sorrow has filled your heart. ⁷ But I tell you the truth, it is to your advantage that I go away; for if I do not go away, the ^[ao](IQ)Helper will not come to you; but if I go, ^(IR)I will send Him to you. ⁸ And He, when He comes, will convict the world concerning sin and righteousness and judgment; ⁹ concerning sin, ^(IS)because they do not believe in Me; ¹⁰ and concerning ^(IT)righteousness, because ^(IU)I go to the Father and you no longer see Me; ^11 (IV)and concerning judgment, because the ruler of this world has been judged.

¹² “I have many more things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now. ¹³ But when He, ^(IW)the Spirit of truth, comes, He will ^(IX)guide you into all the truth; for He will not speak on His own initiative, but whatever He hears, He will speak; and He will disclose to you what is to come. ¹⁴ He will ^(IY)glorify Me, for He will take of Mine and will disclose it to you. ^15 (IZ)All things that the Father has are Mine; therefore I said that He takes of Mine and will disclose it to you.

Jesus’ Death and Resurrection Foretold

¹⁶ “^(JA)A little while, and ^(JB)you will no longer see Me; and again a little while, and ^(JC)you will see Me.” ¹⁷ Some of His disciples then said to one another, “What is this thing He is telling us, ‘^(JD)A little while, and you will not see Me; and again a little while, and you will see Me’; and, ‘because ^(JE)I go to the Father’?” ¹⁸ So they were saying, “What is this that He says, ‘A little while’? We do not know what He is talking about.” ^19 (JF)Jesus knew that they wished to question Him, and He said to them, “Are you deliberating together about this, that I said, ‘A little while, and you will not see Me, and again a little while, and you will see Me’? ²⁰ Truly, truly, I say to you, that ^(JG)you will weep and lament, but the world will rejoice; you will grieve, but ^(JH)your grief will be turned into joy. ^21 (JI)Whenever a woman is in labor she has ^[ap]pain, because her hour has come; but when she gives birth to the child, she no longer remembers the anguish because of the joy that a ^[aq]child has been born into the world. ²² Therefore ^(JJ)you too have grief now; but ^(JK)I will see you again, and your heart will rejoice, and no one will take your joy away from you.

Prayer Promises

^23 (JL)In that day ^(JM)you will not question Me about anything. Truly, truly, I say to you, ^(JN)if you ask the Father for anything in My name, He will give it to you. ^24 (JO)Until now you have asked for nothing in My name; ask and you will receive, so that your ^(JP)joy may be made full.

²⁵ “These things I have spoken to you in ^[ar](JQ)figurative language; ^(JR)an hour is coming when I will no longer speak to you in ^[as]figurative language, but will tell you plainly of the Father. ^26 (JS)In that day ^(JT)you will ask in My name, and I do not say to you that I will request of the Father on your behalf; ²⁷ for ^(JU)the Father Himself loves you, because you have loved Me and ^(JV)have believed that ^(JW)I came forth from the Father. ^28 (JX)I came forth from the Father and have come into the world; I am leaving the world again and ^(JY)going to the Father.”

²⁹ His disciples *said, “Lo, now You are speaking plainly and are not ^[at]using ^(JZ)a figure of speech. ³⁰ Now we know that You know all things, and have no need for anyone to question You; by this we ^(KA)believe that You ^(KB)came from God.” ³¹ Jesus answered them, “Do you now believe? ³² Behold, ^(KC)an hour is coming, and has already come, for ^(KD)you to be scattered, each to ^(KE)his own home, and to leave Me alone; and yet ^(KF)I am not alone, because the Father is with Me. ³³ These things I have spoken to you, so that ^(KG)in Me you may have peace. ^(KH)In the world you have tribulation, but ^(KI)take courage; ^(KJ)I have overcome the world.”