²⁷ My sheep listen to my voice; I know them,^(A) and they follow me.^{(B) 28} I give them eternal life,^(C) and they shall never perish;^(D) no one will snatch them out of my hand.^(E)

⁹ This happened so that the words he had spoken would be fulfilled: “I have not lost one of those you gave me.”^[a](A)

Jesus Predicts His Betrayal

¹⁸ “I am not referring to all of you;^(A) I know those I have chosen.^(B) But this is to fulfill this passage of Scripture:^(C) ‘He who shared my bread^(D) has turned^[a](E) against me.’^[b](F)

³⁷ All those the Father gives me^(A) will come to me, and whoever comes to me I will never drive away.

³⁹ And this is the will of him who sent me, that I shall lose none of all those he has given me,^(A) but raise them up at the last day.^{(B) 40} For my Father’s will is that everyone who looks to the Son^(C) and believes in him shall have eternal life,^(D) and I will raise them up at the last day.”

¹⁶ and said, “Brothers and sisters,^[a](A) the Scripture had to be fulfilled^(B) in which the Holy Spirit spoke long ago through David concerning Judas,^(C) who served as guide for those who arrested Jesus. ¹⁷ He was one of our number^(D) and shared in our ministry.”^(E)

¹⁸ (With the payment^(F) he received for his wickedness, Judas bought a field;^(G) there he fell headlong, his body burst open and all his intestines spilled out. ¹⁹ Everyone in Jerusalem heard about this, so they called that field in their language^(H) Akeldama, that is, Field of Blood.)

²⁰ “For,” said Peter, “it is written in the Book of Psalms:

and,

⁷⁰ Then Jesus replied, “Have I not chosen you,^(A) the Twelve? Yet one of you is a devil!”^{(B) 71} (He meant Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot,^(C) who, though one of the Twelve, was later to betray him.)^(D)