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Truth! The verse in question is calling attention to both the Righteous among the descendants of Abraham and those who will turn to the Messiah among the Gentiles. Prior to this a gentile was to be adopted into one of the tribes of Israel. After the death, burial, and resurrection of the Messiah, this was no longer necessary, as the Messiah made all believers adopted brothers and sisters vicariously.

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John 11:1-57

Two sisters, Mary and Martha who lived in Bethany, had a brother who became quite sick.

This was the same Mary who later poured perfume on the Lord’s head and wiped His feet with her hair.

The sisters sent a message to the Lord and told him that His good friend Lazarus was sick.

When Jesus heard this, He said, “His sickness won’t end in death. It will glorify God and His Son.”

Jesus loved Martha, her sister and brother.

But he remained put for another 2 more days.

Then He said to his disciples, “Now we will return to Judea.”

“Teacher,” they said, “the people there wish to stone you to death! Why do you want to return?”

Jesus answered, “Aren’t there twelve hours in a day? If you walk during the day, you will have light from the sun, and you won’t stumble.

But if you walk in the dark, you will stumble, because you don’t have any light.”

Then he told them, “Our friend Lazarus is sleeping, and I am going there to awaken him.”

They replied, “Lord, if he is asleep, he will heal.”

Jesus really meant that Lazarus died, but they thought He was talking only about rest.

Then Jesus told them outright, “Lazarus is dead!

I am glad that I wasn’t there, because now you will have a chance to place your faith in me. Let’s go to him.”

Thomas, whose nickname was “Twin,” said to the other disciples, “Come on. Let’s go, so we can die with him.”

When Jesus reached Bethany, He found that Lazarus had already been entombed four days.

Bethany was only about 2 miles from Jerusalem,

and many people had come from the city to comfort Martha and Mary regarding the death.

When Martha heard that Jesus had arrived, she went out to meet Him; however, Mary remained in the house.

Martha said to Jesus, “Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.

Yet even now I realize that God will do anything You request.”

Jesus told her, “Your brother will live again!”

Martha answered, “I know that he will be raised to life at the end of the age --- when all the dead are raised.”

Jesus then said, “I'm the One who raises the dead to life! Everyone who has faith in Me will live, even if they die.

And everyone who lives because of faith in Me will never actually die. Do you believe this?”

“Yes, Lord!” she replied. “I believe that you are the Messiah, the Son of God. You are the one we hoped would come.”

After Martha said this, she went and privately said to her sister Mary, “The Teacher is here, and He wishes to see you.”

As soon as Mary heard this, she got up and went out to Jesus.

He was still outside the village where Martha had gone to meet him.

Many people had come to comfort Mary, and when they saw her quickly leave the house, they thought she was going out to the tomb to cry. So they followed her.

Mary went to where Jesus was. Then as soon as she saw Him, she knelt at His feet and said, “Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.”

When Jesus saw that Mary and the people with her were crying, he was terribly upset

and asked, “Where have you placed his body?”

They replied, “Lord, come and you will see.”

Jesus started weeping,

and the people said, “See how much He loved Lazarus.”

Some of them said, “He gives sight to the blind. Why couldn’t he have kept Lazarus from dying?”

Jesus was still terribly upset. So he went to the tomb, which was a cave with a stone rolled over the entrance.

Then he told the people to roll the stone away. But Martha said, “Lord, you know that Lazarus has been dead four days, and there will be a bad smell.”

Jesus replied, “Didn’t I tell you that if you had faith, you would see the glory of God?”

After the stone had been rolled aside, Jesus looked up toward heaven and prayed, “Father, I thank You for answering My prayer.

I know that you always answer my prayers. But I said this, so that the people present would believe that You sent Me.”

When Jesus had finished praying, he shouted, “Lazarus, come out!”

The man who had been dead came out. His hands and feet were wrapped with strips of burial cloth, and a cloth hid his face.

Jesus then told the people, “Unbind him and let him go.”

Many of the people who had come to visit Mary saw the things that Jesus did, and they put their faith in Him.

Others went to the Pharisees and told what Jesus had done.

Then the chief priests and the Pharisees called the council together and said, “What should we do? This man is working lots of miracles.

If we don’t stop Him now, everyone will come to trust Him. Then the Romans will come and destroy our temple and our nation.”

One of the council members was Caiaphas, who was also high priest that year. He spoke up and said, “You people don’t have any common sense!

Don’t you understand it is better for one person to die for the people than for the whole nation to be destroyed?”

Caiaphas did not say this of his own mind. As high priest that year, he was prophesying that Jesus would die for the nation.

Yet Jesus would not die just for the Jewish nation. He would die to bring together all of God’s scattered people.

From that day on, the council began planning to put Jesus to death.

Because of this plot against Him, Jesus stopped going around in public. He went to the town of Ephraim, which was near the desert, and He remained there with his disciples.

It was almost time for Passover. Many of the Jewish people who lived out in the country had come to Jerusalem to prepare for the festival.

They sought for Jesus. Then when they were in the temple, they asked each other, “You don’t think he will come here for Passover, do you?”

The chief priests and the Pharisees told the people to let them know if any of them saw Jesus --- hoping to arrest Him.

Young's Literal Translation (YLT)

1 And there was a certain one ailing, Lazarus, from Bethany, of the village of Mary and Martha her sister --

2 and it was Mary who did anoint the Lord with ointment, and did wipe his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was ailing --

3 therefore sent the sisters unto him, saying, `Sir, lo, he whom thou dost love is ailing;'

4 and Jesus having heard, said, `This ailment is not unto death, but for the glory of God, that the Son of God may be glorified through it.'

5 And Jesus was loving Martha, and her sister, and Lazarus,

6 when, therefore, he heard that he is ailing, then indeed he remained in the place in which he was two days,

7 then after this, he saith to the disciples, `We may go to Judea again;'

8 the disciples say to him, `Rabbi, now were the Jews seeking to stone thee, and again thou dost go thither!'

9 Jesus answered, `Are there not twelve hours in the day? if any one may walk in the day, he doth not stumble, because the light of this world he doth see;

10 and if any one may walk in the night, he stumbleth, because the light is not in him.'

11 These things he said, and after this he saith to them, `Lazarus our friend hath fallen asleep, but I go on that I may awake him;'

12 therefore said his disciples, `Sir, if he hath fallen asleep, he will be saved;'

13 but Jesus had spoken about his death, but they thought that about the repose of sleep he speaketh.

14 Then, therefore, Jesus said to them freely, `Lazarus hath died;

15 and I rejoice, for your sake, (that ye may believe,) that I was not there; but we may go to him;'

16 therefore said Thomas, who is called Didymus, to the fellow-disciples, `We may go -- we also, that we may die with him,'

17 Jesus, therefore, having come, found him having been four days already in the tomb.

18 And Bethany was nigh to Jerusalem, about fifteen furlongs off,

19 and many of the Jews had come unto Martha and Mary, that they might comfort them concerning their brother;

20 Martha, therefore, when she heard that Jesus doth come, met him, and Mary kept sitting in the house.

21 Martha, therefore, said unto Jesus, `Sir, if thou hadst been here, my brother had not died;

22 but even now, I have known that whatever thou mayest ask of God, God will give to thee;'

23 Jesus saith to her, `Thy brother shall rise again.'

24 Martha saith to him, `I have known that he will rise again, in the rising again in the last day;'

25 Jesus said to her, `I am the rising again, and the life; he who is believing in me, even if he may die, shall live;

26 and every one who is living and believing in me shall not die -- to the age;

27 believest thou this?' she saith to him, `Yes, sir, I have believed that thou art the Christ, the Son of God, who is coming to the world.'

28 And these things having said, she went away, and called Mary her sister privately, saying, `The Teacher is present, and doth call thee;'

29 she, when she heard, riseth up quickly, and doth come to him;

30 and Jesus had not yet come to the village, but was in the place where Martha met him;

31 the Jews, therefore, who were with her in the house, and were comforting her, having seen Mary that she rose up quickly and went forth, followed her, saying -- `She doth go away to the tomb, that
she may weep there.'

32 Mary, therefore, when she came where Jesus was, having seen him, fell at his feet, saying to him, `Sir, if thou hadst been here, my brother had not died;'

33 Jesus, therefore, when he saw her weeping, and the Jews who came with her weeping, did groan in the spirit, and troubled himself, and he said,

34 `Where have ye laid him?' they say to him, `Sir, come and see;'

35 Jesus wept.

36 The Jews, therefore, said, `Lo, how he was loving him!'

37 and certain of them said, `Was not this one, who did open the eyes of the blind man, able to cause that also this one might not have died?'

38 Jesus, therefore, again groaning in himself, cometh to the tomb, and it was a cave, and a stone was lying upon it,

39 Jesus saith, `Take ye away the stone;' the sister of him who hath died -- Martha -- saith to him, `Sir, already he stinketh, for he is four days dead;'

40 Jesus saith to her, `Said I not to thee, that if thou mayest believe, thou shalt see the glory of God?'

41 They took away, therefore, the stone where the dead was laid, and Jesus lifted his eyes upwards, and said, `Father, I thank Thee, that Thou didst hear me;

42 and I knew that Thou always dost hear me, but, because of the multitude that is standing by, I said [it], that they may believe that Thou didst send me.'

43 And these things saying, with a loud voice he cried out, `Lazarus, come forth;'

44 and he who died came forth, being bound feet and hands with grave-clothes, and his visage with a napkin was bound about; Jesus saith to them, `Loose him, and suffer to go.'

45 Many, therefore, of the Jews who came unto Mary, and beheld what Jesus did, believed in him;

46 but certain of them went away unto the Pharisees, and told them what Jesus did;

47 the chief priests, therefore, and the Pharisees, gathered together a sanhedrim, and said, `What may we do? because this man doth many signs?

48 if we may let him alone thus, all will believe in him; and the Romans will come, and will take away both our place and nation.'

49 and a certain one of them, Caiaphas, being chief priest of that year, said to them, `Ye have not known anything,

50 nor reason that it is good for us that one man may die for the people, and not the whole nation perish.'

51 And this he said not of himself, but being chief priest of that year, he did prophesy that Jesus was about to die for the nation,

52 and not for the nation only, but that also the children of God, who have been scattered abroad, he may gather together into one.

53 From that day, therefore, they took counsel together that they may kill him;

54 Jesus, therefore, was no more freely walking among the Jews, but went away thence to the region nigh the wilderness, to a city called Ephraim, and there he tarried with his disciples.

55 And the passover of the Jews was nigh, and many went up to Jerusalem out of the country before the passover, that they might purify themselves;

56 they were seeking, therefore, Jesus, and said one with another, standing in the temple, `What doth appear to you -- that he may not come to the feast?'

57 and both the chief priests and the Pharisees had given a command, that if any one may know where he is, he may shew [it], so that they may seize him.

[_LittleNipper]

John 12:1-50

It was 6 days before Passover when Jesus came to Bethany, where Lazarus was (whom He raised from the dead).

They prepared a supper for Him there. Martha served, but Lazarus was among those seated at the table with Jesus.

Then Mary took a pint of very costly ointment made from pure spikenard, and pored it on the feet of Jesus, and wiped His feet with her hair. The house was filled with the fragrance of the ointment.

However, one of His disciples, Simon’s son Judas Iscariot, who would betray Him, remarked,

“Why was this ointment not sold for 300 denarii and distributed among the poor?”

He said this, not because he cared for the poor, but because he was a thief. And in charge the money box, he used to embezzle what was put in it.

But Jesus said, “Leave her alone. She has kept this for the day of My burial.

For you always have the poor among you, but you do not always have Me here.”

When many of the Jews learned that Jesus was there, they came, not purely for Jesus’ sake, but that they might also see Lazarus, whom He had raised from the dead.

So the chief priests planned to kill Lazarus also,

because on account of him many of the Jews left and accepted Jesus.

On the next day a great crowd that had come to the feast heard that Jesus was arriving in Jerusalem.

They took branches of palm trees, and went out to meet Him, and cried out: “Hosanna! ‘Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord!’ The King of Israel!”

Jesus, having found a young donkey, sat on it. As it is prophesied:

“Fear not, daughter of Zion Note, your King is arriving, seated on a donkey’s colt.”

His disciples did not realize these things initially. But when Jesus became glorified, they remembered that these things were prophesied of Him and that they had done these things to Him.

Now the crowd that was with Him when He called Lazarus out of the tomb and raised him from the dead bore witness.

The crowd went and met Him for this reason: They heard that He had performed this sign.

So the Pharisees said among themselves, “See, you are getting nowhere! See, the world has followed Him!”

Now there were some Greeks among those who went to worship at the feast.

They came to Philip, who was from Bethsaida of Galilee, and asked him, “Sir, we wish to see Jesus.”

Philip came and told Andrew, and in turn Andrew and Philip told Jesus.

Jesus answered them, “The hour has arrived for the Son of Man to be glorified.

In all fact I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it remains alone. But if it dies, it germinates much fruit.

He who loves his life will die. And he who hates his life in this world will keep it as eternal life.

If anyone serves Me, he must follow Me. Where I am, there will My servant exist also. If anyone serves Me, the Father will honor him.

“Now My soul is distrubed. What shall I say? ‘Father, save Me from this moment’? Instead, for this reason I arrived at this moment.

Father, glorify Your name. ”Then a voice eminated from heaven, saying, “I have glorified it, and will glorify it again.”

The crowd that stood around heard it said that they heard thunder. Others said, “An angel has spoken to Him.”

Jesus answered, “This voice came not for My sake, but for your sakes.

Now judgment is upon this world and the ruler of this world will be thrown out.

And if I be lifted up from the earth, I will all men to Me.”

He said this to signify by what kind of death He would die.

The crowd answered Him, “We have heard from the law that the Messiah remains forever. Why do You say, ‘The Human One must be lifted up’? Who is this Human One?”

Then Jesus said to them, “Yet a little while the light is among you. Walk while you have the light, lest darkness catch up. He who walks in darkness does not know where he will end up.

While you have light, believe in the light that you may become children of light.” Jesus said these things, and departed and hid Himself from them.

Though He had performed so many signs before them, yet they did not believe in Him.

This fulfilled the prophecy spoken by Isaiah: “Lord, who has accepted our report, and to whom has the arm of the Lord been displayed?”

Therefore they could not believe. For Isaiah also prophesied:

“He has closed their eyes and hardened their hearts, lest they should see with their eyes and perceive with their hearts and repent, and I would heal them.”

Isaiah revealed this when he observed His glory and spoke of Him.

Yet many of the rulers also believed in Him. But because of the Pharisees they remained silent, lest they be put out of the synagogue.

For they loved the praise of men more than God's praise.

Jesus cried out, “He who believes in Me believes not only in Me, but in Him who sent Me.

He who observes Me sees Him who sent Me.

I have come as a light into the world, that whoever believes in Me should not remain in darkness.

If anyone hears what I say and does not believe, I do not judge him. For I did not come to judge the world, but to save it.

He who rejects Me, and does not accept what I say, has that which judges him. The word I have spoken will judge him come Judgement Day.

For I have not spoken on My own authority, but the Father who sent Me gave Me a mission, what I should say and what I should talk about.

I know that His mission is everlasting life. Therefore what I say, I say as the Father informs me.”

Young's Literal Translation (YLT)

1 Jesus, therefore, six days before the passover, came to Bethany, where was Lazarus, who had died, whom he raised out of the dead;

2 they made, therefore, to him a supper there, and Martha was ministering, and Lazarus was one of those reclining together (at meat) with him;

3 Mary, therefore, having taken a pound of ointment of spikenard, of great price, anointed the feet of Jesus and did wipe with her hair his feet, and the house was filled from the fragrance of the ointment.

4 Therefore saith one of his disciples -- Judas Iscariot, of Simon, who is about to deliver him up --

5 `Wherefore was not this ointment sold for three hundred denaries, and given to the poor?'

6 and he said this, not because he was caring for the poor, but because he was a thief, and had the bag, and what things were put in he was carrying.

7 Jesus, therefore, said, `Suffer her; for the day of my embalming she hath kept it,

8 for the poor ye have always with yourselves, and me ye have not always.'

9 A great multitude, therefore, of the Jews knew that he is there, and they came, not because of Jesus only, but that Lazarus also they may see, whom he raised out of the dead;

10 and the chief priests took counsel, that also Lazarus they may kill,

11 because on account of him many of the Jews were going away, and were believing in Jesus.

12 On the morrow, a great multitude that came to the feast, having heard that Jesus doth come to Jerusalem,

13 took the branches of the palms, and went forth to meet him, and were crying, `Hosanna, blessed [is] he who is coming in the name of the Lord -- the king of Israel;'

14 and Jesus having found a young ass did sit upon it, according as it is written,

15 `Fear not, daughter of Sion, lo, thy king doth come, sitting on an ass' colt.'

16 And these things his disciples did not know at the first, but when Jesus was glorified, then they remembered that these things were having been written about him, and these things they did to him.

17 The multitude, therefore, who are with him, were testifying that he called Lazarus out of the tomb, and did raise him out of the dead;

18 because of this also did the multitude meet him, because they heard of his having done this sign,

19 the Pharisees, therefore, said among themselves, `Ye see that ye do not gain anything, lo, the world did go after him.'

20 And there were certain Greeks out of those coming up that they may worship in the feast,

21 these then came near to Philip, who [is] from Bethsaida of Galilee, and were asking him, saying, `Sir, we wish to see Jesus;'

22 Philip cometh and telleth Andrew, and again Andrew and Philip tell Jesus.

23 And Jesus responded to them, saying, `The hour hath come that the Son of Man may be glorified;

24 verily, verily, I say to you, if the grain of the wheat, having fallen to the earth, may not die, itself remaineth alone; and if it may die, it doth bear much fruit;

25 he who is loving his life shall lose it, and he who is hating his life in this world -- to life age-during shall keep it;

26 if any one may minister to me, let him follow me, and where I am, there also my ministrant shall be; and if any one may minister to me -- honour him will the Father.

27 `Now hath my soul been troubled, and what? shall I say -- Father, save me from this hour? -- but because of this I came to this hour;

28 Father, glorify Thy name.' There came, therefore, a voice out of the heaven, `I both glorified, and again I will glorify [it];'

29 the multitude, therefore, having stood and heard, were saying that there hath been thunder; others said, `A messenger hath spoken to him.'

30 Jesus answered and said, `Not because of me hath this voice come, but because of you;

31 now is a judgment of this world, now shall the ruler of this world be cast forth;

32 and I, if I may be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto myself.'

33 And this he said signifying by what death he was about to die;

34 the multitude answered him, `We heard out of the law that the Christ doth remain -- to the age; and how dost thou say, That it behoveth the Son of Man to be lifted up? who is this -- the Son of Man?'

35 Jesus, therefore, said to them, `Yet a little time is the light with you; walk while ye have the light, that darkness may not overtake you; and he who is walking in the darkness hath not known where
he goeth;

36 while ye have the light, believe in the light, that sons of light ye may become.' These things spake Jesus, and having gone away, he was hid from them,

37 yet he having done so many signs before them, they were not believing in him,

38 that the word of Isaiah the prophet might be fulfilled, which he said, `Lord, who gave credence to our report? and the arm of the Lord -- to whom was it revealed?'

39 Because of this they were not able to believe, that again Isaiah said,

40 `He hath blinded their eyes, and hardened their heart, that they might not see with the eyes, and understand with the heart, and turn back, and I might heal them;'

41 these things said Isaiah, when he saw his glory, and spake of him.

42 Still, however, also out of the rulers did many believe in him, but because of the Pharisees they were not confessing, that they might not be put out of the synagogue,

43 for they loved the glory of men more than the glory of God.

44 And Jesus cried and said, `He who is believing in me, doth not believe in me, but in Him who sent me;

45 and he who is beholding me, doth behold Him who sent me;

46 I a light to the world have come, that every one who is believing in me -- in the darkness may not remain;

47 and if any one may hear my sayings, and not believe, I -- I do not judge him, for I came not that I might judge the world, but that I might save the world.

48 `He who is rejecting me, and not receiving my sayings, hath one who is judging him, the word that I spake, that will judge him in the last day,

49 because I spake not from myself, but the Father who sent me, He did give me a command, what I may say, and what I may speak,

50 and I have known that His command is life age-during; what, therefore, I speak, according as the Father hath said to me, so I speak.'

[_LittleNipper]

John 13:1-38

Presently, prior to the start of the Passover Feast, Jesus totally realized that the time had arrived for Him to depart this world and unite with the Father. And as He had loved those who were His own in the world, He loved everyone and to the ultimate extreme.

So during meal, though Satan having already put the thought of betraying Jesus in the heart of Simon’s son,Judas Iscariot ---

Jesus, fully aware that the Father had placed everything at His disposal, and that He had emanated from God and was about to return to God,

Stood up from supper, removed His robes, and taking a slaves towel, He fastened it around His waist.

Then He poured water into a washbasin and began washing the disciples' feet towel with which He was girded.

When He reached Simon Peter, Peter said to Him, Lord, is it your duty to wash my feet?

Jesus responded, You do not understand now what I am doing, but you will realize later on.

Peter said to Jesus, You shall never wash my feet! Jesus answered him, Unless I wash you, you have no connection with Me whatsoever.

Simon Peter said to Him, Lord, wash not only my feet, but my hands and my head also!

Jesus said to him, Anyone who has bathed needs only to wash his feet, but is clean all over. And you are clean, but not all of you.

For Jesus knew who was going to betray Him; that was the reason He said, Not all of you are clean.

So when He had finished washing their feet and had put on His robes and had sat down again, He said to them, Do you understand what I have done to you?

You call Me Master and the Lord, and you are right in doing so, for that is what I am.

If I then, your Lord and Master, have washed your feet, you ought to wash one another’s feet.

For I have provided you this as an example, so that you should do what I have done to you.

I assure you, solemnly inform you, that a servant is not greater than his master, and no one who is sent is superior to the one who sent him.

If you know these things, blessed and happy and to be envied are you if you act accordingly and actually do them.

I am not speaking of and I do not mean all of you. I know whom I have selected; but it is that the Scripture may be fulfilled, He who eats My bread with Me has raised up his heel against Me.

I tell you this now before it occurs, so that when it does happen you may be persuaded and believe that I am the Anointed One, the Messiah.

I assure you, solemnly inform you, he who receives and welcomes and takes into his heart any messenger of Mine accepts Me; and he who receives and welcomes and takes Me into his heart receives Him Who sent Me.

After Jesus had said these things, He was disturbed in spirit and said, I assure you, deeply I tell you, one of you will be false to Me and betray Me!

The disciples kept looking at one another, puzzled as to whom He could mean.

One of His disciples, whom Jesus esteemed, was reclining next to Him against Jesus’ side.

So Simon Peter motioned to him to ask of whom He was speaking.

Then leaning back against Jesus’ side, he asked Him, Lord, who is it?

Jesus answered, It is the one to whom I am going to give this morsel of food after I have dunked it. So when He had dipped the morsel of bread into the dish, He handed it to Simon Iscariot’s son judas.

Then after consuming a bit of food, Satan entered into and took possession of Judas. Jesus said to him, What you are going to do, do more swiftly than you seem to intend and make quick work of it.

But nobody reclining at the table knew why He talked to Judas or what He referred to by telling him this.

Some thought that, since Judas held the finances, Jesus was telling him, Buy what we need for the Festival, or that he should give something to the poor.

So after receiving the bit of bread, he left immediately. And it was night.

When he had left, Jesus said, Now is the Son of Man glorified! [Now He has achieved His glory, His honor, His exaltation!] And God has been glorified through and in Him.

And if God is glorified through and in Him, God will also glorify Him in Himself, and He will glorify Him immediately without delay.

Dear little children, I am to be with you only a little longer. You will look for Me and, as I told the Jews, so I tell you now: you are not able to follow where I am headed.

I give you a new commandment: that you should love one another. Just as I have loved you, so you too should love one another.

By this shall all know that you are My disciples, if you keep on displaying love among yourselves.

Simon Peter said to Him, Lord, where are You headed? Jesus answered, You are not able to follow Me now where I am going, but you shall follow Me later on.

Peter said to Him, Lord, why cannot I follow You now? I will lay down my life for You.

Jesus answered, Will you earnestly give up your life for Me? I assure you, most solemnly assure you, before a rooster crows, you will completely disavowal Me 3 times.

Young's Literal Translation (YLT)

1 And before the feast of the passover, Jesus knowing that his hour hath come, that he may remove out of this world unto the Father, having loved his own who [are] in the world -- to the end he loved them.

2 And supper being come, the devil already having put [it] into the heart of Judas of Simon, Iscariot, that he may deliver him up,

3 Jesus knowing that all things the Father hath given to him -- into [his] hands, and that from God he came forth, and unto God he goeth,

4 doth rise from the supper, and doth lay down his garments, and having taken a towel, he girded himself;

5 afterward he putteth water into the basin, and began to wash the feet of his disciples, and to wipe with the towel with which he was being girded.

6 He cometh, therefore, unto Simon Peter, and that one saith to him, `Sir, thou -- dost thou wash my feet?'

7 Jesus answered and said to him, `That which I do thou hast not known now, but thou shalt know after these things;'

8 Peter saith to him, `Thou mayest not wash my feet -- to the age.' Jesus answered him, `If I may not wash thee, thou hast no part with me;'

9 Simon Peter saith to him, `Sir, not my feet only, but also the hands and the head.'

10 Jesus saith to him, `He who hath been bathed hath no need save to wash his feet, but he is clean altogether; and ye are clean, but not all;'

11 for he knew him who is delivering him up; because of this he said, `Ye are not all clean.'

12 When, therefore, he washed their feet, and took his garments, having reclined (at meat) again, he said to them, `Do ye know what I have done to you?

13 ye call me, The Teacher and The Lord, and ye say well, for I am;

14 if then I did wash your feet -- the Lord and the Teacher -- ye also ought to wash one another's feet.

15 `For an example I gave to you, that, according as I did to you, ye also may do;

16 verily, verily, I say to you, a servant is not greater than his lord, nor an apostle greater than he who sent him;

17 if these things ye have known, happy are ye, if ye may do them;

18 not concerning you all do I speak; I have known whom I chose for myself; but that the Writing may be fulfilled: He who is eating the bread with me, did lift up against me his heel.

19 `From this time I tell you, before its coming to pass, that, when it may come to pass, ye may believe that I am [he];

20 verily, verily, I say to you, he who is receiving whomsoever I may send, doth receive me; and he who is receiving me, doth receive Him who sent me.'

21 These things having said, Jesus was troubled in the spirit, and did testify, and said, `Verily, verily, I say to you, that one of you will deliver me up;'

22 the disciples were looking, therefore, one at another, doubting concerning whom he speaketh.

23 And there was one of his disciples reclining (at meat) in the bosom of Jesus, whom Jesus was loving;

24 Simon Peter, then, doth beckon to this one, to inquire who he may be concerning whom he speaketh,

25 and that one having leant back on the breast of Jesus, respondeth to him, `Sir, who is it?'

26 Jesus answereth, `That one it is to whom I, having dipped the morsel, shall give it;' and having dipped the morsel, he giveth [it] to Judas of Simon, Iscariot.

27 And after the morsel, then the Adversary entered into that one, Jesus, therefore, saith to him, `What thou dost -- do quickly;'

28 and none of those reclining at meat knew for what intent he said this to him,

29 for certain were thinking, since Judas had the bag, that Jesus saith to him, `Buy what we have need of for the feast;' or that he may give something to the poor;

30 having received, therefore, the morsel, that one immediately went forth, and it was night.

31 When, therefore, he went forth, Jesus saith, `Now was the Son of Man glorified, and God was glorified in him;

32 if God was glorified in him, God also will glorify him in Himself; yea, immediately He will glorify him.

33 `Little children, yet a little am I with you; ye will seek me, and, according as I said to the Jews -- Whither I go away, ye are not able to come, to you also I do say [it] now.

34 `A new commandment I give to you, that ye love one another; according as I did love you, that ye also love one another;

35 in this shall all know that ye are my disciples, if ye may have love one to another.'

36 Simon Peter saith to him, `Sir, whither dost thou go away?' Jesus answered him, `Whither I go away, thou art not able now to follow me, but afterward thou shalt follow me.'

37 Peter saith to him, `Sir, wherefore am I not able to follow thee now? my life for thee I will lay down;'

38 Jesus answered him, `Thy life for me thou wilt lay down! verily, verily, I say to thee, a cock will not crow till thou mayest deny me thrice.'

[_LittleNipper]

John 14:1-31

“Don’t be upset. Trust in God and trust in Me.

In My Father’s house are many places to live. If there weren’t, I would have told you; because I am going there to prepare a place for you.

Since I'm going and preparing a place for you, I will come back to take you with Me; so that where I Am, you may exist also.

Furthermore, you know where I’m going; and you know how to get there.”

Thomas said to Him, “Lord, we don’t know where you’re going; so how can we know the way?”

Jesus said, “I AM the Way — and the Truth and the Life; no one comes to the Father except through Me.

Because you have known Me, you will also know My Father. From now on, you do know Him — in fact, you have seen Him.”

Philip said to Him, “Lord, show us the Father, and it will be enough for us.”

Jesus replied to him, “Have I been with you so long without your knowing Me, Philip? Whoever has seen me has seen the Father; so how can you say, ‘Show us the Father’?

Don’t you believe that I and the Father are united? What I'm telling you, I'm not saying on my own initiative; the Father living in me is doing His own works.

Trust me, that the Father and I are united. But if you can’t, then trust because of the works themselves.

Yes, indeed! I tell you that whoever trusts in Me will also do the works I do! Indeed, he will do greater ones, because I am going to the Father.

Actually, whatever you ask for in my name, I will accomplish; so that the Father may be glorified in the Son.

If you ask me for something in my name, I will do it.

“If you love me, you will keep my commands;

and I will ask the Father, and he will give you another comforting Counselor like me, the Spirit of Truth, to be with you forever.

The world cannot receive Him, because it neither observes nor knows Him. You know Kim, because he is staying with you and will be united with you.

I will not leave you orphans. I'm coming to you.

In just a little while, the world will no longer see Me; but you will see Me. Because I live, you too will live.

When that day arrives, you will know that I'm united with My Father, and you with Me, and I with you.

Whoever has my commands and keeps them is the one who loves Me, and the one who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and reveal Myself to him.”

Judas (not the one from Iscariot) said to Him, “What has happened, Lord, that you are about to reveal yourself to us and not to the world?”

Jesus responded, “If someone loves Me, he will keep My word; and My Father will love him, and We will come to him and reside with him.

Someone who doesn’t love Me doesn’t keep My words — and the word you are hearing is not My Own but that of the Father who sent Me.

I have told you these things while I am still with you.

But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will explain to you everything; that is, He will remind you of everything I have told you.

What I'm leaving with you is peace — I am giving you My peace. I don’t give the way the world gives. Don’t let yourselves be shook up or frightened.

You heard Me tell you, ‘I'm leaving, and I will return to you.’ If you loved Me, you would have been glad that I'm returning to the Father; because the Father is greater than I.

Also, I have said it to you now, before it occurs; so that when it does happen, you will trust.

I won’t be speaking with you much longer, because the ruler of this world is coming. He has no claim on me;

rather, this is happening so that the world may know that I love the Father, and that I do as the Father commanded me.

“Get up! Let’s get going!"

Young's Literal Translation (YLT)

1 `Let not your heart be troubled, believe in God, also in me believe;

2 in the house of my Father are many mansions; and if not, I would have told you; I go on to prepare a place for you;

3 and if I go on and prepare for you a place, again do I come, and will receive you unto myself, that where I am ye also may be;

4 and whither I go away ye have known, and the way ye have known.'

5 Thomas saith to him, `Sir, we have not known whither thou goest away, and how are we able to know the way?'

6 Jesus saith to him, `I am the way, and the truth, and the life, no one doth come unto the Father, if not through me;

7 if ye had known me, my Father also ye would have known, and from this time ye have known Him, and have seen Him.'

8 Philip saith to him, `Sir, shew to us the Father, and it is enough for us;'

9 Jesus saith to him, `So long time am I with you, and thou hast not known me, Philip? he who hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how dost thou say, Shew to us the Father?

10 Believest thou not that I [am] in the Father, and the Father is in me? the sayings that I speak to you, from myself I speak not, and the Father who is abiding in me, Himself doth the works;

11 believe me, that I [am] in the Father, and the Father in me; and if not, because of the works themselves, believe me.

12 `Verily, verily, I say to you, he who is believing in me, the works that I do -- that one also shall do, and greater than these he shall do, because I go on to my Father;

13 and whatever ye may ask in my name, I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son;

14 if ye ask anything in my name I will do [it].

15 `If ye love me, my commands keep,

16 and I will ask the Father, and another Comforter He will give to you, that he may remain with you -- to the age;

17 the Spirit of truth, whom the world is not able to receive, because it doth not behold him, nor know him, and ye know him, because he doth remain with you, and shall be in you.

18 `I will not leave you bereaved, I come unto you;

19 yet a little, and the world doth no more behold me, and ye behold me, because I live, and ye shall live;

20 in that day ye shall know that I [am] in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you;

21 he who is having my commands, and is keeping them, that one it is who is loving me, and he who is loving me shall be loved by my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.'

22 Judas saith to him, (not the Iscariot), `Sir, what hath come to pass, that to us thou are about to manifest thyself, and not to the world?'

23 Jesus answered and said to him, `If any one may love me, my word he will keep, and my Father will love him, and unto him we will come, and abode with him we will make;

24 he who is not loving me, my words doth not keep; and the word that ye hear is not mine, but the Father's who sent me.

25 `These things I have spoken to you, remaining with you,

26 and the Comforter, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things, and remind you of all things that I said to you.

27 `Peace I leave to you; my peace I give to you, not according as the world doth give do I give to you; let not your heart be troubled, nor let it be afraid;

28 ye heard that I said to you -- I go away, and I come unto you; if ye did love me, ye would have rejoiced that I said -- I go on to the Father, because my Father is greater than I.

29 `And now I have said [it] to you before it come to pass, that when it may come to pass, ye may believe;

30 I will no more talk much with you, for the ruler of this world doth come, and in me he hath nothing;

31 but that the world may know that I love the Father, and according as the Father gave me command so I do; arise, we may go hence.

[_LittleNipper]

John 15:1-27

“I'm the actual vine, and my Father is the gardener.

Every branch connected to Me but fails to produce fruit, He trims off; and every branch bearing fruit, He prunes, so that it may produce more fruit.

Right now, because of the word which I spoke to you, you are pruned.

Stay connected with Me, as I will with you — for just as the branch can’t grow fruit by itself separated from the vine, so you can’t bear fruit separated from Me.

I'm the vine and you are the branches. Those who stay connected with me, and I with them, are the ones who produce fruit; because apart from Me you can do nothing.

Unless a person remains connected with me, he is thrown away like a branch and dries up. Such branches are gathered and thrown into the fire, where they are burned up.

If you remain connected with Me, and My words with you, then ask whatever you want, and it will happen for you.

This is how my Father is glorified — in your bearing much fruit; this is how you will prove to be My disciples.

Just as My Father loves Me, I too love you; so remain in My love.

If you keep my commands, you will remain in my love — just as I have kept my Father’s commands and remain in His love.

I have said this to you so that My joy may be in you, and your joy be complete.

This is my command: that you keep on loving each other just as I have loved you.

No one has greater love than a person who lays down his life for his friends.

You are My friends, if you do what I command you.

I no longer call you slaves, because a slave doesn’t know what his master is about; but I have called you friends, because everything I have heard from My Father I have revealed to you.

You did not select Me, I selected you; and I commissioned you to go and bear fruit, fruit that will last; so that whatever you ask from the Father in my name He may give you.

This is what I command you: keep loving each other!

If the world hates you, understand that it hated Me first.

If you belonged to the world, the world would have loved you. But because you do not belong to the world — on the contrary, I have picked you out of the world — therefore the world hates you.

Remember what I told you, ‘A slave is not greater than his master.’ If they persecute Me, they will persecute you too; if they kept my word, they will keep yours too.

But they will do all this to you on account of Me, because they don’t know the One who sent Me.

If I had not come and spoken to them, they wouldn’t be guilty of sin; but now, they have no excuse for what they do.

Whoever hates Me hates My Father also.

If I had not revealed in their presence works which no one else ever did, they would not be guilty of sin; but now, they have seen them and have hated both Me and My Father.

But this has occurred in order to fulfill the words in the scriptures which read, ‘They hated Me without reason.’

When the Counselor comes, whom I will send you from the Father — the Spirit of Truth, who keeps emanating from the Father — He will testify on My behalf.

And you testify too, because you have been by Me from the start.

Young's Literal Translation (YLT)

1 `I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman;

2 every branch in me not bearing fruit, He doth take it away, and every one bearing fruit, He doth cleanse by pruning it, that it may bear more fruit;

3 already ye are clean, because of the word that I have spoken to you;

4 remain in me, and I in you, as the branch is not able to bear fruit of itself, if it may not remain in the vine, so neither ye, if ye may not remain in me.

5 `I am the vine, ye the branches; he who is remaining in me, and I in him, this one doth bear much fruit, because apart from me ye are not able to do anything;

6 if any one may not remain in me, he was cast forth without as the branch, and was withered, and they gather them, and cast to fire, and they are burned;

7 if ye may remain in me, and my sayings in you may remain, whatever ye may wish ye shall ask, and it shall be done to you.

8 `In this was my Father glorified, that ye may bear much fruit, and ye shall become my disciples.

9 According as the Father did love me, I also loved you, remain in my love;

10 if my commandments ye may keep, ye shall remain in my love, according as I the commands of my Father have kept, and do remain in His love;

11 these things I have spoken to you, that my joy in you may remain, and your joy may be full.

12 `This is my command, that ye love one another, according as I did love you;

13 greater love than this hath no one, that any one his life may lay down for his friends;

14 ye are my friends, if ye may do whatever I command you;

15 no more do I call you servants, because the servant hath not known what his lord doth, and you I have called friends, because all things that I heard from my Father, I did make known to you.

16 `Ye did not choose out me, but I chose out you, and did appoint you, that ye might go away, and might bear fruit, and your fruit might remain, that whatever ye may ask of the Father in my name, He may give you.

17 `These things I command you, that ye love one another;

18 if the world doth hate you, ye know that it hath hated me before you;

19 if of the world ye were, the world its own would have been loving, and because of the world ye are not -- but I chose out of the world -- because of this the world hateth you.

20 `Remember the word that I said to you, A servant is not greater than his lord; if me they did persecute, you also they will persecute; if my word they did keep, yours also they will keep;

21 but all these things will they do to you, because of my name, because they have not known Him who sent me;

22 if I had not come and spoken to them, they were not having sin; but now pretext they have not for their sin.

23 `He who is hating me, doth hate also my Father;

24 if I did not do among them the works that no other hath done, they were not having sin, and now they have both seen and hated both me and my Father;

25 but -- that the word may be fulfilled that was written in their law -- They hated me without a cause.

26 `And when the Comforter may come, whom I will send to you from the Father -- the Spirit of truth, who from the Father doth come forth, he will testify of me;

27 and ye also do testify, because from the beginning ye are with me.

[_LittleNipper]

John 16:1-33

I've told you these things so that you won’t be surprised.

They will ban you from the synagogue; in fact, the time will come when anyone who kills you will think he is doing God's will!

They will do these things because they have not understood the Father or Me.

But I have told you this, so that when the time comes--- it's going to happen, you will remember that I warned you. I didn’t tell you this initially, because I was among you.

But now I'm returning to the One who sent Me.

Not one of you is asking Me, ‘Where are you going?’

Instead, because I have you these things, you are grief stricken.

But I tell you truthfully, it is to your advantage that I leave; for if I don’t go away, the comforting Counselor (Holy Spirit) will not come to you. However, if I do go, I will then send Him to you.

When He comes, He will show that the world is wrong regarding sin, righteousness and judgment...

With regard to sin, in that people don’t place their trust in me;

regarding righteousness, in that I'm going to the Father and you will no longer observe Me;

regarding judgment, in that the ruler of this world has been judged.

I still have many things to tell you, but you can’t take it all in presently.

However, when this Spirit of Truth arrives, He will guide you into all the truth; for He will not speak on His own initiative but will say only what He is told. He will also announce to you the events of the future.

He will glorify Me, because He will receive from what is Mine and announce it to you.

Everything the Father has belong to Me; this is why I said that He receives from what is mine and will announce it to you.

In a little while, you will see me; then, a little while later, you will see Me.”

At this, some of the Disciples said to one another, “What is this that He’s telling us, ‘In a little while, you won’t see me; then, a little while later, you will see me’? and, ‘I'm returning to the Father’?”

They went on saying, “What is meant by a ‘little while’? We don’t get what He’s talking about.”

Jesus knew that they wanted to question Him, so He said to them, “Are you asking each other what I meant by saying, ‘In a little while, you won’t see Me; and then, a little while later, you will see Me’?

Yes, it’s true. I tell you that you will weep and mourn, and the world will be glad; you will grieve, but your grief will become joy.

When a woman is giving birth, she is in pain; because her time has come. But when the baby is born, she forgets her suffering out of joy that a child has arrived into the world.

So you indeed feel grief now, but I am going to see you again. Then your hearts will be joyous, and no one will take your joy away from you.

When that day arrives, you won’t ask anything of Me! Yes, indeed! I tell you that whatever you ask of the Father, He will give you in my name.

Till now you haven’t asked for anything in my name. Keep asking, and you will receive, so that your joy may be complete.

I have said these things to you with the help of illustrations; however, a time is coming when I will no longer speak indirectly but will talk about the Father in plain language.

When that day comes, you will ask in my name. I am not telling you that I will pray to the Father on your behalf,

for the Father Himself loves you, because you have loved Me and have accepted that I arrived from God.

I came from the Father and have come into the world. Furthermore, I am leaving the world and returning to the Father.”

The disciples said to Him, “Look, you’re talking plainly right now, you’re not speaking indirectly at all.

Now we know that you know everything, and that you don’t need to have people speak out loud. This makes us believe that you came from God.”

Jesusa answered, “Now you do believe.

But a time is coming — indeed it has arrived — when you will be scattered, each one looking out for himself; and you will abandon Me. Yet I"m not alone; because the Father is with me.

I have said these things to you so that, connected with me, you may have peace. In the world, you have tumult. But be brave! I have conquered the world!”

Young's Literal Translation (YLT)

1 `These things I have spoken to you, that ye may not be stumbled,

2 out of the synagogues they will put you; but an hour doth come, that every one who hath killed you, may think to offer service unto God;

3 and these things they will do to you, because they did not know the Father, nor me.

4 `But these things I have spoken to you, that when the hour may come, ye may remember them, that I said [them] to you, and these things to you from the beginning I did not say, because I was with you;

5 and now I go away to Him who sent me, and none of you doth ask me, Whither dost thou go?

6 but because these things I have said to you, the sorrow hath filled your heart.

7 `But I tell you the truth; it is better for you that I go away, for if I may not go away, the Comforter will not come unto you, and if I go on, I will send Him unto you;

8 and having come, He will convict the world concerning sin, and concerning righteousness, and concerning judgment;

9 concerning sin indeed, because they do not believe in me;

10 and concerning righteousness, because unto my Father I go away, and no more do ye behold me;

11 and concerning judgment, because the ruler of this world hath been judged.

12 `I have yet many things to say to you, but ye are not able to bear [them] now;

13 and when He may come -- the Spirit of truth -- He will guide you to all the truth, for He will not speak from Himself, but as many things as He will hear He will speak, and the coming things He will tell you;

14 He will glorify me, because of mine He will take, and will tell to you.

15 `All things, as many as the Father hath, are mine; because of this I said, That of mine He will take, and will tell to you;

16 a little while, and ye do not behold me, and again a little while, and ye shall see me, because I go away unto the Father.'

17 Therefore said [some] of his disciples one to another, `What is this that he saith to us, A little while, and ye do not behold me, and again a little while, and ye shall see me, and, Because I go away unto the Father?'

18 they said then, `What is this he saith -- the little while? we have not known what he saith.'

19 Jesus, therefore, knew that they were wishing to ask him, and he said to them, `Concerning this do ye seek one with another, because I said, A little while, and you do not behold me, and again a little while, and ye shall see me?

20 verily, verily, I say to you, that ye shall weep and lament, and the world will rejoice; and ye shall be sorrowful, but your sorrow joy will become.

21 `The woman, when she may bear, hath sorrow, because her hour did come, and when she may bear the child, no more doth she remember the anguish, because of the joy that a man was born to the world.

22 `And ye, therefore, now, indeed, have sorrow; and again I will see you, and your heart shall rejoice, and your joy no one doth take from you,

23 and in that day ye will question me nothing; verily, verily, I say to you, as many things as ye may ask of the Father in my name, He will give you;

24 till now ye did ask nothing in my name; ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full.

25 `These things in similitudes I have spoken to you, but there cometh an hour when no more in similitudes will I speak to you, but freely of the Father, will tell you.

26 `In that day, in my name ye will make request, and I do not say to you that I will ask the Father for you,

27 for the Father himself doth love you, because me ye have loved, and ye have believed that I from God came forth;

28 I came forth from the Father, and have come to the world; again I leave the world, and go on unto the Father.'

29 His disciples say to him, `Lo, now freely thou dost speak, and no similitude speakest thou;

30 now we have known that thou hast known all things, and hast no need that any one do question thee; in this we believe that from God thou didst come forth.'

31 Jesus answered them, `Now do ye believe? lo, there doth come an hour,

32 and now it hath come, that ye may be scattered, each to his own things, and me ye may leave alone, and I am not alone, because the Father is with me;

33 these things I have spoken to you, that in me ye may have peace, in the world ye shall have tribulation, but take courage -- I have overcome the world.'

[_LittleNipper]

John 17:1-26

After Jesus proclaimed these things, he looked upward and said, “Father, the time's arrived. Glorify Your Son, so that the Son may glorify You.

Just as You gave Him authority over all mankind, so that He might provide eternal life to everyone You gave Him.

And eternal life is this: to know You, the only true God, and Him whom You sent, Jesus the Messiah.

I glorified You on earth by finishing the work You provided Me to accomplish.

Now, Father, glorify Me alongside Yourself. Give Me the same glory I had with You before the world existed.

I proclaimed Your name to the people You gave Me off the world. They were Yours, You gave them to Me, and they have kept Your word.

Now they realize everything You have provided Me comes from You,

because the words You gave Me I have given to them, and they have received them. They have really come to know that I emanate from You, and they have come to trust that You sent Me.

I am praying for them. I am not praying for the whole world, but for those You have given to Me, because they are Yours.

Actually, all I possess is Yours, and all You own is Mine, and in them I'm glorified.

Now I am no longer in the world. They are in the world, but I'm returning to You. Holy Father, protect them by the power of Your name, which you have given to Me, so that they may be united, as we are.

When I was among them, I protected them by the power of Your name, which you have given to Me; yes, I watched over them; and not one of them was destroyed other than the one destined for destruction, so that the prophetic word would be accomplished.

But now, I'm coming to You; and I say these things while I'm still present so that they may have My joy made complete in themselves.

I have given them Your word, and the world hated them, because they are not worldly — just as I Myself do not belong to the world.

I don’t request you to remove them from the world, but to protect them from that Evil One.

They're not worldly, just as I do not belong to the world.

Set them apart for holiness by way of truth — your word is truth.

Just as you sent Me into the world, I have committed them unto the world.

On their behalf I'm setting Myself apart for holiness, so that they too may be set apart for holiness by means of the truth.

I pray not only for these, but also for those who will trust Me because of what they reveal by Me,

that they may all be united. Just as you, Father, are connected with Me and I with You. I pray that they may be united with Us, so that the world may believe that You sent Me.

The glory which you have given to me, I have given to them; so that they may be one, just as we are one —

I joined with them and You with Me, so that they may be completely united, and the world then realize that You sent Me, and that You love them just as You love Me.

Father, I want those you have provided to Me to be with Me where I Am; so that they may witness My glory, which you have given Me because you love Me from before the creation of the world.

Righteous Father, the world has not known You, but I have known You, and these people have known that You sent Me.

I revealed Your name to them, and I will continue to declare it; so that the love with which You love Me may be in them, and I myself may be connected with them.”

Young's Literal Translation (YLT)

1 These things spake Jesus, and lifted up his eyes to the heaven, and said -- `Father, the hour hath come, glorify Thy Son, that Thy Son also may glorify Thee,

2 according as Thou didst give to him authority over all flesh, that -- all that Thou hast given to him -- he may give to them life age-during;

3 and this is the life age-during, that they may know Thee, the only true God, and him whom Thou didst send -- Jesus Christ;

4 I did glorify Thee on the earth, the work I did finish that Thou hast given me, that I may do [it].

5 `And now, glorify me, Thou Father, with Thyself, with the glory that I had before the world was, with Thee;

6 I did manifest Thy name to the men whom Thou hast given to me out of the world; Thine they were, and to me Thou hast given them, and Thy word they have kept;

7 now they have known that all things, as many as Thou hast given to me, are from Thee,

8 because the sayings that Thou hast given to me, I have given to them, and they themselves received, and have known truly, that from Thee I came forth, and they did believe that Thou didst send me.

9 `I ask in regard to them; not in regard to the world do I ask, but in regard to those whom Thou hast given to me, because Thine they are,

10 and all mine are Thine, and Thine [are] mine, and I have been glorified in them;

11 and no more am I in the world, and these are in the world, and I come unto Thee. Holy Father, keep them in Thy name, whom Thou hast given to me, that they may be one as we;

12 when I was with them in the world, I was keeping them in Thy name; those whom Thou hast given to me I did guard, and none of them was destroyed, except the son of the destruction, that the Writing may be fulfilled.

13 `And now unto Thee I come, and these things I speak in the world, that they may have my joy fulfilled in themselves;

14 I have given to them Thy word, and the world did hate them, because they are not of the world, as I am not of the world;

15 I do not ask that Thou mayest take them out of the world, but that Thou mayest keep them out of the evil.

16 `Of the world they are not, as I of the world am not;

17 sanctify them in Thy truth, Thy word is truth;

18 as Thou didst send me to the world, I also did send them to the world;

19 and for them do I sanctify myself, that they also themselves may be sanctified in truth.

20 `And not in regard to these alone do I ask, but also in regard to those who shall be believing, through their word, in me;

21 that they all may be one, as Thou Father [art] in me, and I in Thee; that they also in us may be one, that the world may believe that Thou didst send me.

22 `And I, the glory that thou hast given to me, have given to them, that they may be one as we are one;

23 I in them, and Thou in me, that they may be perfected into one, and that the world may know that Thou didst send me, and didst love them as Thou didst love me.

24 `Father, those whom Thou hast given to me, I will that where I am they also may be with me, that they may behold my glory that Thou didst give to me, because Thou didst love me before the foundation of the world.

25 `Righteous Father, also the world did not know Thee, and I knew Thee, and these have known that Thou didst send me,

26 and I made known to them Thy name, and will make known, that the love with which Thou lovedst me in them may be, and I in them.'

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John 18:1-40

Upon saying this Jesus, He went out with his disciples across the brook flowing through Kedron, to a spot where there was a grove, and they entered it.

Judas, who was betraying Jesus, also knew the spot; because Jesus had often met there with his disciples.

So Judas went there, taking with him a detachment of Roman soldiers and some Temple guards furnished by the head priest and Pharisees; they carried weapons, lanterns and torches.

Jesus, knowing everything that was going to happen to Him, went out and asked them, “Whom do you seek?”

“Jesus from Nazareth,” they replied. He said to them, “I AM.” Also standing with them was Judas who was betraying Him.

When Jesus stated, “I AM,” they went backward away from Him and fell to the ground.

So Jesus asked again, “Whom do you want?” and they said, “Jesus from Nazareth.”

“I told you, ‘I AM,’” answered Jesus, “so if I’m the one you want, let these others leave.”

This transpired so that what Jesus had prophesied might be accomplished, (I have not lost one of those You gave Me).

Then Simon Peter, who had a sword, drew it and struck the slave of the chief priest, severing his right ear; the slave’s name was Melekh/Malchus.

Jesus said to Peter, “Return your sword to its scabbard! This is the cup the Father has given Me; am I not to drink it?”

So the detachment of Roman soldiers and their captain, together with the Temple Guard of the Jews, arrested Jesus, bound Him,

and took him first to ‘Anan/Annas, the father-in-law of Kayafa/Caiaphas, who was the chief priest that fateful year.

It was Caiaphas who had advised the Jews that it would be good for one man to die for the sake of the people.

Simon Peter and another disciple followed Jesus. The second disciple was known to the chief priest, and went with Jesus into the courtyard of the chief priest.

However Peter stood outside at the gate. So the other disciple, the one known to the chief priest, went back out and spoke to the woman on duty at the gate, then brought Peter inside.

The woman at the gate asked Peter, “Aren’t you another of that Man’s disciples?” He said, “No, I’m not.”

Now the slaves and guards had lit a fire because it was cold, and they were standing around it warming themselves; Peter stood among them warming himself too.

The chief priest questioned Jesus concerning His disciples and what He taught.

Jesus answered, “I have spoken quite openly to everyone; I have always taught in a synagogue or in the Temple where all Jews gathered, and I have said nothing secretly;

so why are you questioning me? Question the ones who heard what I told them. Look, they know what I said.”

At these words, one of the guards standing by slapped Jesus' face and said, “This is how you speak to the chief priest?”

Jesus answered him, “If I said something wrong, state publicly what was wrong; but if I was right, why hit me?”

So ‘Annas sent Him, still bound, to Caiaphas the chief priest.

Meanwhile, Simon Peter was standing and warming himself. They asked him, “Aren’t you also one of His disciples?” He denied it, saying, “No, I am not.”

One of the slaves of the chief priest, a relative of the man whose ear peter had sliced off, said, “Didn’t I see you with Him in the grove?”

Again Peter denied it, and instantly a rooster crowed.

They led Jesus from Caiaphas to the governor’s headquarters. By now it was early morning. They did not enter the headquarters building because they didn’t want to become ritually defiled and thus unable to eat the Passover meal.

So Pilate came outside to them and said, “What charge are you bringing against this man?”

They answered, “If He hadn’t done something wrong, we wouldn’t have brought him to you.”

Pilate said to them, “You take Him and judge Him according to your own law.” The Jews replied, “We don’t have the legal authority to execute anyone.”

This was so that what Jesus prophesied, about how He was going to die, might be fulfilled.

So Pilate went back into the headquarters, called Jesus and said to Him, “Are you the king of the Jews?”

Jesus answered, “Are you asking this on Your own, or have other people told you about me?”

Pilate remarked, “Am I a Jew? Your own nation and chief priest have handed You over to me; what have you done?”

Jesus answered, “My kingship does not derive its authority from this world’s order of things. If it did, My men would have fought to keep Me from being arrested by the Jews. But my kingship does not come from here.”

“So now,” Pilate said to him, “You are a king, after all.” Jesus answered, “You call Me a king. The reason I have been born, and come into the world, is to bear witness to the truth. Every one who belongs to the truth listens to me.”

Pilate stated him, “What is truth?”

Having said this, Pilate went outside again to the Jews and told them, “I don’t find any case against him.

However, you have a custom that at Passover I set one prisoner free. Do you want me to free to you the ‘king of the Jews’?”

But they yelled back, “No, not this man but Bar-Abba/Barabbas!” (Bar-Abba was a revolutionary.)

Young's Literal Translation (YLT)

1 These things having said, Jesus went forth with his disciples beyond the brook of Kedron, where was a garden, into which he entered, himself and his disciples,

2 and Judas also, who delivered him up, had known the place, because many times did Jesus assemble there with his disciples.

3 Judas, therefore, having taken the band and officers out of the chief priests and Pharisees, doth come thither with torches and lamps, and weapons;

4 Jesus, therefore, knowing all things that are coming upon him, having gone forth, said to them, `Whom do ye seek?'

5 they answered him, `Jesus the Nazarene;' Jesus saith to them, `I am [he];' -- and Judas who delivered him up was standing with them; --

6 when, therefore, he said to them -- `I am [he],' they went away backward, and fell to the ground.

7 Again, therefore, he questioned them, `Whom do ye seek?' and they said, `Jesus the Nazarene;'

8 Jesus answered, `I said to you that I am [he]; if, then, me ye seek, suffer these to go away;'

9 that the word might be fulfilled that he said -- `Those whom Thou hast given to me, I did not lose of them even one.'

10 Simon Peter, therefore, having a sword, drew it, and struck the chief priest's servant, and cut off his right ear -- and the name of the servant was Malchus --

11 Jesus, therefore, said to Peter, `Put the sword into the sheath; the cup that the Father hath given to me, may I not drink it?'

12 The band, therefore, and the captain, and the officers of the Jews, took hold on Jesus, and bound him,

13 and they led him away to Annas first, for he was father-in-law of Caiaphas, who was chief priest of that year,

14 and Caiaphas was he who gave counsel to the Jews, that it is good for one man to perish for the people.

15 And following Jesus was Simon Peter, and the other disciple, and that disciple was known to the chief priest, and he entered with Jesus to the hall of the chief priest,

16 and Peter was standing at the door without, therefore went forth the other disciple who was known to the chief priest, and he spake to the female keeping the door, and he brought in Peter.

17 Then said the maid keeping the door to Peter, `Art thou also of the disciples of this man?' he saith, `I am not;'

18 and the servants and the officers were standing, having made a fire of coals, because it was cold, and they were warming themselves, and Peter was standing with them, and warming himself.

19 The chief priests, therefore, questioned Jesus concerning his disciples, and concerning his teaching;

20 Jesus answered him, `I spake freely to the world, I did always teach in a synagogue, and in the temple, where the Jews do always come together; and in secret I spake nothing;

21 why me dost thou question? question those having heard what I spake to them; lo, these have known what I said.'

22 And he having said these things, one of the officers standing by did give Jesus a slap, saying, `Thus dost thou answer the chief priest?'

23 Jesus answered him, `If I spake ill, testify concerning the ill; and if well, why me dost thou smite?'

24 Annas then sent him bound to Caiaphas the chief priest.

25 And Simon Peter was standing and warming himself, they said then to him, `Art thou also of his disciples?' he denied, and said, `I am not.'

26 One of the servants of the chief priest, being kinsman of him whose ear Peter cut off, saith, `Did not I see thee in the garden with him?'

27 again, therefore, Peter denied, and immediately a cock crew.

28 They led, therefore, Jesus from Caiaphas to the praetorium, and it was early, and they themselves did not enter into the praetorium, that they might not be defiled, but that they might eat the passover;

29 Pilate, therefore, went forth unto them, and said, `What accusation do ye bring against this man?'

30 they answered and said to him, `If he were not an evil doer, we had not delivered him to thee.'

31 Pilate, therefore, said to them, `Take ye him -- ye -- and according to your law judge him;' the Jews, therefore, said to him, `It is not lawful to us to put any one to death;'

32 that the word of Jesus might be fulfilled which he said, signifying by what death he was about to die.

33 Pilate, therefore, entered into the praetorium again, and called Jesus, and said to him, `Thou art the King of the Jews?'

34 Jesus answered him, `From thyself dost thou say this? or did others say it to thee about me?'

35 Pilate answered, `Am I a Jew? thy nation, and the chief priests did deliver thee up to me; what didst thou?'

36 Jesus answered, `My kingdom is not of this world; if my kingdom were of this world, my officers had struggled that I might not be delivered up to Jews; but now my kingdom is not from hence.'

37 Pilate, therefore, said to him, `Art thou then a king?' Jesus answered, `Thou dost say [it]; because a king I am, I for this have been born, and for this I have come to the world, that I may testify to the truth; every one who is of the truth, doth hear my voice.'

38 Pilate saith to him, `What is truth?' and this having said, again he went forth unto the Jews, and saith to them, `I do find no fault in him;

39 and ye have a custom that I shall release to you one in the passover; will ye, therefore, [that] I shall release to you the king of the Jews?'

40 therefore they all cried out again, saying, `Not this one -- but Barabbas;' and Barabbas was a robber.

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22 `And I, the glory that thou hast given to me, have given to them, that they may be one as we are one;

What does it really mean that we will be one just as the Father and the Son are one?? According to John Chapter 10, Jesus claimed to be one with the Father, and the Jews then picked up stones to stone Him and accused of making Himself God. Is John Chapter 17:20-23 really evidence of the LDS Doctrine that man potentially can attain godhood??



John 17 (NASB)

20 “I do not ask on behalf of these alone, but for those also who believe in Me through their word; 21 that they may all be one; even as You, Father, are in Me and I in You, that they also may be in Us, so that the world may [f]believe that You sent Me.

22 The glory which You have given Me I have given to them, that they may be one, just as We are one; 23 I in them and You in Me, that they may be perfected [g]in unity, so that the world may [h]know that You sent Me, and loved them, even as You have loved Me.

f. John 17:21 Gr tense indicates continually believe
g. John 17:23 Lit into one
h. John 17:23 Gr tense indicates continually know



John 10 (NASB)

30 I and the Father are [e]one.”

31 The Jews picked up stones again to stone Him. 32 Jesus answered them, “I showed you many good works from the Father; for which of them are you stoning Me?” 33 The Jews answered Him, “For a good work we do not stone You, but for blasphemy; and because You, being a man, make Yourself out to be God.”

e. John 10:30 Or a unity; or one essence

Logically and naturally, the ultimate desire of a loving Supreme Being is to help his children enjoy all that he enjoys. For Latter-day Saints, the term "godhood" denotes the attainment of such a state-one of having all divine attributes and doing as God does and being as God is.

http://eom.BYU.edu/index.php/Godhood