Now before the Feast of the Passover, when Jesus knew that his hour had come to depart out of this world to the Father, having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end.
And Jesus answered them, “The hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified.
We love because he first loved us.
A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another.
I came from the Father and have come into the world, and now I am leaving the world and going to the Father.”
Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands, and that he had come from God and was going back to God,
Then Jesus, knowing all that would happen to him, came forward and said to them, “Whom do you seek?”
Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her, that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word,
who will sustain you to the end, guiltless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.
They are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.
When Jesus had spoken these words, he lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, “Father, the hour has come; glorify your Son that the Son may glorify you,
and from Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of kings on earth. To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood
For we have come to share in Christ, if indeed we hold our original confidence firm to the end.
And now, Father, glorify me in your own presence with the glory that I had with you before the world existed.
As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Abide in my love. If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father's commandments and abide in his love.
Then he came to the disciples and said to them, “Sleep and take your rest later on. See, the hour is at hand, and the Son of Man is betrayed into the hands of sinners.
Therefore, preparing your minds for action, and being sober-minded, set your hope fully on the grace that will be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ.
And we desire each one of you to show the same earnestness to have the full assurance of hope until the end,
but Christ is faithful over God's house as a son. And we are his house, if indeed we hold fast our confidence and our boasting in our hope.
No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.
I made known to them your name, and I will continue to make it known, that the love with which you have loved me may be in them, and I in them.”
But now I am coming to you, and these things I speak in the world, that they may have my joy fulfilled in themselves. I have given them your word, and the world has hated them because they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.
I am praying for them. I am not praying for the world but for those whom you have given me, for they are yours. All mine are yours, and yours are mine, and I am glorified in them. And I am no longer in the world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, keep them in your name, which you have given me, that they may be one, even as we are one.
But now I am going to him who sent me, and none of you asks me, ‘Where are you going?’ But because I have said these things to you, sorrow has filled your heart. Nevertheless, I tell you the truth: it is to your advantage that I go away, for if I do not go away, the Helper will not come to you. But if I go, I will send him to you.
Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends. You are my friends if you do what I command you.
You 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.
Now the Passover of the Jews was at hand, and many went up from the country to Jerusalem before the Passover to purify themselves.
Jesus answered, “Are there not twelve hours in the day? If anyone walks in the day, he does not stumble, because he sees the light of this world. But if anyone walks in the night, he stumbles, because the light is not in him.”
So they were seeking to arrest him, but no one laid a hand on him, because his hour had not yet come.
Jesus said to them, “My time has not yet come, but your time is always here.
Now the Passover, the feast of the Jews, was at hand.
When I was with you day after day in the temple, you did not lay hands on me. But this is your hour, and the power of darkness.”
Now the Feast of Unleavened Bread drew near, which is called the Passover. And the chief priests and the scribes were seeking how to put him to death, for they feared the people.
And he said to them, “Go and tell that fox, ‘Behold, I cast out demons and perform cures today and tomorrow, and the third day I finish my course. Nevertheless, I must go on my way today and tomorrow and the day following, for it cannot be that a prophet should perish away from Jerusalem.’
When the days drew near for him to be taken up, he set his face to go to Jerusalem.
It was now two days before the Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread. And the chief priests and the scribes were seeking how to arrest him by stealth and kill him, for they said, “Not during the feast, lest there be an uproar from the people.”
teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”
“You know that after two days the Passover is coming, and the Son of Man will be delivered up to be crucified.” Then the chief priests and the elders of the people gathered in the palace of the high priest, whose name was Caiaphas, and plotted together in order to arrest Jesus by stealth and kill him. But they said, “Not during the feast, lest there be an uproar among the people.”
the Lord appeared to him from far away. I have loved you with an everlasting love; therefore I have continued my faithfulness to you.
These words he spoke in the treasury, as he taught in the temple; but no one arrested him, because his hour had not yet come.
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