I Am the Way, and the Truth, and the Life

1“Let not your hearts be troubled. Believe in God; believe also in me.  2In my Father's house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you?  3And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself, that where I am you may be also.  4And you know the way to where I am going.”  5Thomas said to him, “Lord, we do not know where you are going. How can we know the way?”  6Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.  7If you had known me, you would have known my Father also. From now on you do know him and have seen him.”

8Philip said to him, “Lord, show us the Father, and it is enough for us.”  9Jesus said to him, “Have I been with you so long, and you still do not know me, Philip? Whoever has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’?  10Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me? The words that I say to you I do not speak on my own authority, but the Father who dwells in me does his works.  11Believe me that I am in the Father and the Father is in me, or else believe on account of the works themselves.

12“Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever believes in me will also do the works that I do; and greater works than these will he do, because I am going to the Father.  13Whatever you ask in my name, this I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.  14If you ask me anything in my name, I will do it.

Jesus Promises the Holy Spirit

15“If you love me, you will keep my commandments.  16And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Helper, to be with you forever,  17even the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor knows him. You know him, for he dwells with you and will be in you.

18“I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you.  19Yet a little while and the world will see me no more, but you will see me. Because I live, you also will live.  20In that day you will know that I am in my Father, and you in me, and I in you.  21Whoever has my commandments and keeps them, he it is who loves me. And he who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and manifest myself to him.”  22Judas (not Iscariot) said to him, “Lord, how is it that you will manifest yourself to us, and not to the world?”  23Jesus answered him, “If anyone loves me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him.  24Whoever does not love me does not keep my words. And the word that you hear is not mine but the Father's who sent me.

25“These things I have spoken to you while I am still with you.  26But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things and bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you.  27Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid.  28You heard me say to you, ‘I am going away, and I will come to you.’ If you loved me, you would have rejoiced, because I am going to the Father, for the Father is greater than I.  29And now I have told you before it takes place, so that when it does take place you may believe.  30I will no longer talk much with you, for the ruler of this world is coming. He has no claim on me,  31but I do as the Father has commanded me, so that the world may know that I love the Father. Rise, let us go from here.

Betrayal and Arrest of Jesus

1When Jesus had spoken these words, he went out with his disciples across the Kidron Valley, where there was a garden, which he and his disciples entered.  2Now Judas, who betrayed him, also knew the place, for Jesus often met there with his disciples.  3So Judas, having procured a band of soldiers and some officers from the chief priests and the Pharisees, went there with lanterns and torches and weapons.  4Then Jesus, knowing all that would happen to him, came forward and said to them, “Whom do you seek?”  5They answered him, “Jesus of Nazareth.” Jesus said to them, “I am he.” Judas, who betrayed him, was standing with them.  6When Jesus said to them, “I am he,” they drew back and fell to the ground.  7So he asked them again, “Whom do you seek?” And they said, “Jesus of Nazareth.”  8Jesus answered, “I told you that I am he. So, if you seek me, let these men go.”  9This was to fulfill the word that he had spoken: “Of those whom you gave me I have lost not one.”  10Then Simon Peter, having a sword, drew it and struck the high priest's servant and cut off his right ear. (The servant's name was Malchus.)  11So Jesus said to Peter, “Put your sword into its sheath; shall I not drink the cup that the Father has given me?”

Jesus Faces Annas and Caiaphas

12So the band of soldiers and their captain and the officers of the Jews arrested Jesus and bound him.  13First they led him to Annas, for he was the father-in-law of Caiaphas, who was high priest that year.  14It was Caiaphas who had advised the Jews that it would be expedient that one man should die for the people.

Peter Denies Jesus

15Simon Peter followed Jesus, and so did another disciple. Since that disciple was known to the high priest, he entered with Jesus into the court of the high priest,  16but Peter stood outside at the door. So the other disciple, who was known to the high priest, went out and spoke to the servant girl who kept watch at the door, and brought Peter in.  17The servant girl at the door said to Peter, “You also are not one of this man's disciples, are you?” He said, “I am not.”  18Now the servants and officers had made a charcoal fire, because it was cold, and they were standing and warming themselves. Peter also was with them, standing and warming himself.

The High Priest Questions Jesus

19The high priest then questioned Jesus about his disciples and his teaching.  20Jesus answered him, “I have spoken openly to the world. I have always taught in synagogues and in the temple, where all Jews come together. I have said nothing in secret.  21Why do you ask me? Ask those who have heard me what I said to them; they know what I said.”  22When he had said these things, one of the officers standing by struck Jesus with his hand, saying, “Is that how you answer the high priest?”  23Jesus answered him, “If what I said is wrong, bear witness about the wrong; but if what I said is right, why do you strike me?”  24Annas then sent him bound to Caiaphas the high priest.

Peter Denies Jesus Again

25Now Simon Peter was standing and warming himself. So they said to him, “You also are not one of his disciples, are you?” He denied it and said, “I am not.”  26One of the servants of the high priest, a relative of the man whose ear Peter had cut off, asked, “Did I not see you in the garden with him?”  27Peter again denied it, and at once a rooster crowed.

Jesus Before Pilate

28Then they led Jesus from the house of Caiaphas to the governor's headquarters. It was early morning. They themselves did not enter the governor's headquarters, so that they would not be defiled, but could eat the Passover.  29So Pilate went outside to them and said, “What accusation do you bring against this man?”  30They answered him, “If this man were not doing evil, we would not have delivered him over to you.”  31Pilate said to them, “Take him yourselves and judge him by your own law.” The Jews said to him, “It is not lawful for us to put anyone to death.”  32This was to fulfill the word that Jesus had spoken to show by what kind of death he was going to die.

My Kingdom Is Not of This World

33So Pilate entered his headquarters again and called Jesus and said to him, “Are you the King of the Jews?”  34Jesus answered, “Do you say this of your own accord, or did others say it to you about me?”  35Pilate answered, “Am I a Jew? Your own nation and the chief priests have delivered you over to me. What have you done?”  36Jesus answered, “My kingdom is not of this world. If my kingdom were of this world, my servants would have been fighting, that I might not be delivered over to the Jews. But my kingdom is not from the world.”  37Then Pilate said to him, “So you are a king?” Jesus answered, “You say that I am a king. For this purpose I was born and for this purpose I have come into the world—to bear witness to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth listens to my voice.”  38Pilate said to him, “What is truth?”

After he had said this, he went back outside to the Jews and told them, “I find no guilt in him.  39But you have a custom that I should release one man for you at the Passover. So do you want me to release to you the King of the Jews?”  40They cried out again, “Not this man, but Barabbas!” Now Barabbas was a robber.