²¹ She will give birth to a son, and you are to give him the name Jesus,^[a](A) because he will save his people from their sins.”^(B)

¹¹ “I am^(A) the good shepherd.^(B) The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.^(C)

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,

¹³ Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.^(A)

Jesus Prays to Be Glorified

17 After Jesus said this, he looked toward heaven^(A) and prayed:

³² He who did not spare his own Son,^(A) but gave him up for us all—how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things? ³³ Who will bring any charge^(B) against those whom God has chosen? It is God who justifies.

²⁵ Husbands, love your wives,^(A) just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her^(B)

¹⁴ who gave himself for us^(A) to redeem us from all wickedness^(B) and to purify^(C) for himself a people that are his very own,^(D) eager to do what is good.^(E)

¹⁵ For this reason Christ is the mediator^(A) of a new covenant,^(B) that those who are called^(C) may receive the promised^(D) eternal inheritance^(E)—now that he has died as a ransom to set them free from the sins committed under the first covenant.^(F)