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about righteousness, because I am going to the Father and you will see me no longer;

about judgment, because the ruler of this world has been condemned.

He will glorify me, because he will take what is mine and declare it to you.

Then some of his disciples said to one another, "What does he mean by saying to us, ‘A little while, and you will no longer see me, and again a little while, and you will see me'; and ‘Because I am going to the Father'?"

When a woman is in labor, she has pain, because her hour has come. But when her child is born, she no longer remembers the anguish because of the joy of having brought a human being into the world.

for the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me and have believed that I came from God.

The hour is coming, indeed it has come, when you will be scattered, each one to his home, and you will leave me alone. Yet I am not alone because the Father is with me.

I am asking on their behalf; I am not asking on behalf of the world, but on behalf of those whom you gave me, because they are yours.

I have given them your word, and the world has hated them because they do not belong to the world, just as I do not belong to the world.

Father, I desire that those also, whom you have given me, may be with me where I am, to see my glory, which you have given me because you loved me before the foundation of the world.

Now Judas, who betrayed him, also knew the place, because Jesus often met there with his disciples.

Now the slaves and the police had made a charcoal fire because it was cold, and they were standing around it and warming themselves. Peter also was standing with them and warming himself.

The Jews answered him, "We have a law, and according to that law he ought to die because he has claimed to be the Son of God."

Many of the Jews read this inscription, because the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city; and it was written in Hebrew, in Latin, and in Greek.

Since it was the day of Preparation, the Jews did not want the bodies left on the cross during the sabbath, especially because that sabbath was a day of great solemnity. So they asked Pilate to have the legs of the crucified men broken and the bodies removed.

After these things, Joseph of Arimathea, who was a disciple of Jesus, though a secret one because of his fear of the Jews, asked Pilate to let him take away the body of Jesus. Pilate gave him permission; so he came and removed his body.

And so, because it was the Jewish day of Preparation, and the tomb was nearby, they laid Jesus there.

Jesus said to her, "Do not hold on to me, because I have not yet ascended to the Father. But go to my brothers and say to them, ‘I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.'"

Jesus said to him, "Have you believed because you have seen me? Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have come to believe."

He said to them, "Cast the net to the right side of the boat, and you will find some." So they cast it, and now they were not able to haul it in because there were so many fish.