“Rabbi,” his disciples asked him, “why was this man born blind? Was it because of his own sins or his parents’ sins?”

“Look!” the man exclaimed. “I told you once. Didn’t you listen? Why do you want to hear it again? Do you want to become his disciples, too?”

Then they cursed him and said, “You are his disciple, but we are disciples of Moses!

Finally, he said to his disciples, “Let’s go back to Judea.”

But his disciples objected. “Rabbi,” they said, “only a few days ago the people in Judea were trying to stone you. Are you going there again?”

The disciples said, “Lord, if he is sleeping, he will soon get better!”

Thomas, nicknamed the Twin, said to his fellow disciples, “Let’s go, too—and die with Jesus.”

As a result, Jesus stopped his public ministry among the people and left Jerusalem. He went to a place near the wilderness, to the village of Ephraim, and stayed there with his disciples.

But Judas Iscariot, the disciple who would soon betray him, said,

Not that he cared for the poor—he was a thief, and since he was in charge of the disciples’ money, he often stole some for himself.

His disciples didn’t understand at the time that this was a fulfillment of prophecy. But after Jesus entered into his glory, they remembered what had happened and realized that these things had been written about him.

Jesus Washes His Disciples’ Feet

Before the Passover celebration, Jesus knew that his hour had come to leave this world and return to his Father. He had loved his disciples during his ministry on earth, and now he loved them to the very end.

and poured water into a basin. Then he began to wash the disciples’ feet, drying them with the towel he had around him.

Jesus replied, “A person who has bathed all over does not need to wash, except for the feet, to be entirely clean. And you disciples are clean, but not all of you.”

The disciples looked at each other, wondering whom he could mean.

The disciple Jesus loved was sitting next to Jesus at the table.

So that disciple leaned over to Jesus and asked, “Lord, who is it?”

Your love for one another will prove to the world that you are my disciples.”

Judas (not Judas Iscariot, but the other disciple with that name) said to him, “Lord, why are you going to reveal yourself only to us and not to the world at large?”

When you produce much fruit, you are my true disciples. This brings great glory to my Father.

Some of the disciples asked each other, “What does he mean when he says, ‘In a little while you won’t see me, but then you will see me,’ and ‘I am going to the Father’?

Then his disciples said, “At last you are speaking plainly and not figuratively.

“I am praying not only for these disciples but also for all who will ever believe in me through their message.

“O righteous Father, the world doesn’t know you, but I do; and these disciples know you sent me.

Jesus Is Betrayed and Arrested

After saying these things, Jesus crossed the Kidron Valley with his disciples and entered a grove of olive trees.