If the world hates you, you know that it has hated me before you. If you were of the world, the world would love its own, but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you. Remember the saying I gave you: The slave is not greater than his master. If they persecuted me, they will persecute you also. If they hold to my word, they will hold to yours also. But all this they will do to you because of my name, because they do not know him who sent me. If I had not come and spoken to them, they would have no guilt; but now they have no excuse for their guiltiness. He who hates me hates my father also. If I had not done among them things that no one else has done, they would have no guilt; but now they have seen, and they have conceived hate both for me and for my father. But, to fulfill the word that is written in their law: They hated me, gratuitously. When the comforter comes, whom I will send you from my father, the spirit of truth who comes from my father, he will bear witness concerning me. Do you also bear witness, since you have been with me from the beginning.
•1 I have told you this so that you may not be driven astray. They will put you out of the synagogue. But the time is coming when anyone who kills you will be thought to be doing a service to God. And they will do this because they know neither my father nor me. But I have told you these things so that when their time comes you may remember that I told you about them. I did not tell you these things from the beginning because I was with you. But now I ^ going to him who sent me, and not one of you asks me: Where are you going? But because I have told you these things grief has filled your hearts. But I ^ telling you the truth; it is to your advantage for me to go away. If I do not go, the comforter cannot come to you, but if I go, I will send him to you. And when he comes he will confute the world concerning error and righteousness and judgment: error, because they do not believe in me; righteousness, because I am going away to my father and you will see me no more; and judgment, because the ruler of this world has been judged. I have much else to tell you, but you cannot handle it now; but when he, the spirit of truth, comes, he will be your guide to the whole truth, for he will speak, not on his own authority, but will tell you what he hears, and will report to you of what is to come. He will glorify me, because he will take from what is mine and report it to you. All that the father has is mine; that is why I said that he takes from me and will report to you.
A little while and you will look on me no longer; and again a little while, and you will see me. So some of his disciples said to each other: What is this that he is telling us? A little while and you will not look on me, and again a little while and you will see me? And: Because I am going to my father? So they said: What is this little while he is talking about? We do not know what he means. Jesus perceived that they wished to question him, and said to them: Is this what you are seeking together to understand, what I meant by: A little while and you will not look upon me; and again a little while and you will see me? Truly truly I tell you that you will weep and mourn, but the world will rejoice. You will have pain, but your pain will turn to joy. A woman has pain when she is giving birth, when her time has come, but when she has borne her child she no longer remembers her affliction, through joy that a human being has been born into the world. So now you also feel pain; but I will see you again, and your hearts will rejoice, and no one will take that joy away from you. And on that day you will not ask me anything. Truly truly I tell you, if you ask the father for anything he will give it to you in my name. Until now you asked for nothing in my name. Ask and you will receive, so that your joy may be complete.
I have told you this in riddles; but the time is coming when I shall speak in riddles no longer but will tell you in plain language about the father. On that day you will ask in my name, and I say that I will not ask my father on your behalf, for the father himself loves you because you have loved me and believed that I came from the father. I came from my father and went into the world. I leave the world again and go back to my father. His disciples said: See, now you are talking in plain language and tell us no more riddles. Now we know that you know all and have no need for anyone to ask you. By this we believe that you came from God. Jesus answered them: Now you believe? The time is coming, and it has come, for you to be scattered each to his own place and leave me alone. And I ^ not alone, because my father is with me. These things I have told you so that you may have peace in me. In the world you will have affliction; but do not fear, I have defeated the world.
41 Jesus spoke thus, then lifted his eyes to heaven and said: Father, the hour has come. Glorify your son, so that your son may glorify you; as you gave him authority over all flesh, so that he will give life everlasting to all you have given him. And this is the life everlasting, that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you sent. I have glorified you on earth by completing the work you gave me to do; and now, father, glorify me, in your own presence, with the glory I had with you before the world began. I made your name known to the people you gave me from the world. They were yours and you gave them to me, and they have kept your word. Now they have recognized that all that you gave me was from you; because I gave them the sayings that you gave me, and they accepted them and recognized rightly that I came from you, and believed that you sent me. I ask for their sake; I ask not for the sake of the world but for the sake of those you gave me, because they are yours, and all that is mine is yours and all that is yours is mine, and I am glorified in them. And I ^ no longer in the world, but they are in the world, and I am going to you. Holy father, keep them by your name, which you gave me, so that they may be one as we are. When I was with them I kept them, by the name which you gave me, and I protected them, and not one of them was lost except the son of perdition, so that the scripture might be fulfilled. But now I am going to you, and I say this in the world so that they may have my joy fulfilled in themselves. I gave them your word, and the world hated them, because they are not of the world, as I am not of the world. I do not ask you to take them from the world, but to keep them from evil. They are not of the world, as I am not of the world. Consecrate them in the truth. Your word is truth. As you sent me into the world, so I sent them into the world; and for their sake I consecrate myself, so that they also may be consecrated in the truth.
I ask not for the sake of these only, but also for the sake of those who believe in me because of the word of these, so that all may be one, as you, father, are in me and I in you, so that they also may be in us, so that the world may believe that you sent me. And I have given them the glory that you gave me, so that they may be one as we are one, I in them and you in me, so that they may be made perfect as one, so that the world may learn that you sent me and loved them as you loved me. Father, I wish that wherever I am, those whom you gave me may be with me also, so that they may look upon my glory which you gave me, because you loved me before the establishment of the world. Righteous father, even the world did not recognize you, but I recognized you, and these realized that you sent me, and I made your name known to them and will make it known, so that the love you had for me may be in them, and I may be in them.
tl After this prayer Jesus went with his disciples out beyond the brook Cedron to where there was a garden, and he and his disciples went into it. And Judas, who had betrayed him, knew this place, since Jesus had often gone there with his disciples. So Judas got the guard, and the servingmen from the high priests and the Pharisees, and went there with lights and torches and weapons. Then Jesus, who knew everything that was in store for him, went out and said to them: Whom do you seek? They answered him: Jesus of Nazareth. He said to them: I am he. And Judas, who betrayed him, was standing with them. When he said to them: I am he, they drew back and fell to the ground. Again he asked them: Whom do you seek? And they said: Jesus of Nazareth. Jesus answered: I told you that I ^ he. So if you are looking for me, let these go. To fulfill wh
at he had said: I have not lost one of those whom you gave me. Now Simon Peter had a sword, and he drew it and struck the slave of the high priest and cut off his right ear. The slave's name was Malchus. But
Jesus said to Peter: Put away your sword in its sheath. Shall I not drink the cup which my father gave me?
The guard and its commander and the serving- men of the Jews seized Jesus and bound him and took him first to Annas; for he was the father-in-law of Caiaphas, who was the high priest that year. And it was Caiaphas who had advised the Jews that it was better for one man to die for the sake of the people. And Simon Peter and another disciple followed Jesus. And that disciple was an acquaintance of the high priest, and he went with Jesus into the high priest's court, but Peter stood outside by the door. Then the other disciple, the acquaintance of the high priest, went out and spoke to the doorkeeper and brought Peter inside. Then the girl who was at the door said to Peter: Are you not one also of that man's disciples? He said: I am not. The slaves and the servingmen had made a charcoal fire, because it was cold, and stood by it and warmed themselves; and Peter was standing with them and warming himself.
So then the high priest questioned Jesus about his disciples and about his teaching. Jesus answered him: I have spoken openly to the world. I have taught always in the synagogue and the temple, where all the Jews come together, and I have said nothing in secret. Why do you ask me? Ask my listeners what I said to them. See, they know what I said. When he said this, one of the servingmen standing there gave Jesus a slap, saying: Is this how you answer the high priest? Jesus answered him: If I spoke evil, specify what the evil was. But if I spoke well, why strike me? So then Annas sent him in in bonds to Caiaphas the high priest.
Simon Peter was standing and warming himself. So they said to him: Are you not also one of his disciples? He denied it and said: I am not. One of the high priest's slaves, who was related to the one whose ear Peter had cut off, said: Did I not see you with him in the garden? Once again Peter denied it; and immediately the cock crew.
Now they took Jesus from the house of Caiaphas to the residence. It was early morning. And they themselves did not enter the residence, so as to keep from defilement and be able to eat the Passover. So Pilate came out to them and said: What charge do you bring against this man? They answered and said to him: If he had not been doing evil, we should not have turned him over to you. Pilate said to them: You take him, and judge him according to your law. The Jews said to him: It is not lawful for us to put anyone to death. This was to fulfill the word of Jesus when he foretold the kind of death he was going to die.
Then Pilate went back into the residence and called Jesus in and said to him: Are you the King of the Jews? Jesus answered: Are you speaking for yourself, or did others tell you about me? Pilate answered: I ^ not a Jew, ^ I? Your own people and the high priests turned you over to me. What had you done? Jesus answered: My kingdom is not of this world. If my kingdom were of this world, my servingrnen would fight to keep me from being turned over to the Jews. But as it is, my kingdom is not here. So Pilate said to him: Then you are a king? Jesus answered: It is you who are saying that I ^ a king. For this I was born and for this I c^e into the world, to testify to the truth. For everyone who is on the side of truth listens to my voice. Pilate said to him: What is truth?
And so saying he went back out to the Jews and said to them: I find no fault in him. But you have this custom, that I should release one man for you at the Passover. Do you want me to release the King of the Jews? They shouted back saying: Not this man, but Barabbas. Barab- bas was a robber.
(l Then Pilate took Jesus and had him scourged. And the soldiers wove a crown of thorns and put it on his head, and they put a purple cloak about him, and came before him and said: Hail, King of the Jews. And they slapped him. And Pilate came out again and said to them: See, I am bringing him out to you, so that you may know that I find no fault in him. So Jesus came out, wearing the crown of thorns and the purple cloak. And Pilate said to them: Behold the man. When the high priests and their servingmen saw him they shouted: Crucify crucify. Pilate said to them: Take him yourselves and crucify him, since I find no fault in him. The Jews answered: We have a law, and by that law he must die, because he made himself out to be the son of God. When Pilate heard them say this, he was more frightened, and he went back into the residence and said to him: Where do you come from? But Jesus did not give him an answer. So Pilate said to him: Do you say nothing to me? Do you not know that I have authority to let you go, and authority to crucify you? Jesus answered him: You would not have had any authority whatever over me, if it had not been given you from above. Therefore, he who betrayed me to you has the greater guilt. Thereupon Pilate sought to release him; but the Jews cried aloud and said: If you let him go, you are no friend of Caesar's; anyone who makes himself out to be a king is challenging Caesar. When Pilate heard these words, he brought Jesus outside and sat down on the judgment seat at a place called the Stone Pavement, in Hebrew Gab- batha. It was the Day of Preparation for the Passover, at about the sixth hour. And he said to the Jews: Behold your king. They shouted: Off with him, off with him, crucify him. Pilate said to them: Shall I crucify your king? The high priests answered: We have no king except Caesar. So then he gave him to them to be crucified.
So they took Jesus. And carrying his own cross he went out to what was called the Place of the Skull, which is called in Hebrew Golgotha, where they crucified him, and with him two others, on this side and on that, with Jesus in the middle. And Pilate wrote a label and put it on the cross: and what was written was: Jesus of Nazareth, the King of the Jews. Many of the Jews read this inscription, because the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city; and it was written in Hebrew and Latin and Greek. So the high priests of the Jews said to Pilate: Do not write: the King of the Jews; but write that he said: I am the King of the Jews. Pilate answered: What I have written, I have written.
Then, when they had crucified Jesus, the soldiers took his clothes and divided them into four parts, one for each soldier; and took also his tunic. But the tunic was without a seam, woven in one piece from the top down; so they said to each other: Let us not split it, but draw lots for it, to see whose it shall be. So as to fulfill the scripture: They divided my clothes among themselves, and they threw lots for my apparel.
This is what the soldiers did. But by the cross of Jesus stood his mother; and his mother's sister, Mary the wife of Clopas; and Mary the Magdalene. So Jesus, seeing his mother with the disciple whom he loved standing beside her, said to his mother: Mother, here is your son. Then he said to the disciple: Here is your mother. And from that moment the disciple took her into his own household.
After this Jesus, knowing that all was completed for the fulfillment of the scripture, said: I am thirsty. A bowl full of vinegar was lying by; so they put a sponge soaked with the vinegar on hyssop and held it up to his mouth. So when he received the vinegar, Jesus said: It is ended; and bowing his head he gave up his life.
Now since it was the Day of Preparation the Jews asked Pilate to have the legs of the crucified men broken and the men taken off, so that the bodies would not still be on the cross on the sabbath, since that sabbath day was an important day. So the soldiers came and broke the legs of the first man, and then of the other man who had been crucified with him; but when they came to Jesus, and saw that he was already dead, they did not break his legs, but one of the soldiers stabbed him in the side with his spear, and at once blood and water came out. And he who saw it has testified to it, and his testimony is true, and he knows that he is speaking the truth, so that you also may believe. For all this took place to fulfill the scripture: They shall not break any bone in him. And again another scripture says: They shall look upon him whom they stabbed.
After that, Joseph of Arirnathaea, who was a disciple of Jesus, but secretly, for
fear of the Jews, asked Pilate if he could take off the body of Jesus. And Pilate gave permission. So he came and took off his body. And Nicodemus, who had gone to him first by night, also arrived, bringing a mixture of aloes and myrrh, about a hundred pounds weight. Then they took the body of Jesus and wrapped it in strips of linen along with the perfumes, as it is customary for the Jews to prepare bodies for burial. And in the region where he was crucified there was a garden, and in the garden a new tomb where no one had ever been buried. There they placed Jesus, because of the Day of Preparation of the Jews, since the tomb was nearby.
tl Early on the first day of the week, when it was still dark, Mary the Magdalene came to the tomb and saw that the stone had been removed from it. So she ran back until she came to Simon Peter and the other disciple, whom Jesus loved, and said to them: They have taken our Lord from the tomb, and we do not know where they have put him. So Peter and the other disciple came out, and went to the tomb. The two ran together, but the other disciple ran faster than Peter and reached the tomb first, and stooped and looked in and saw the wrappings lying there, but he did not go inside. Then Simon Peter came, following him, and he went into the tomb; and he saw the wrappings lying there, and the napkin, which had been on his head, lying not with the wrappings but away from them and rolled up in a ball. And then the other disciple, who had reached the tomb first, also entered it, and he saw, and believed; for they had never yet known of the scripture, that he was to rise from the dead. Then the disciples went back to where they were staying.
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