Study Desk

So they took away the stone. Jesus looked upward and said, "Father, I thank you that you have listened to me.

Thus they were looking for Jesus, and saying to one another as they stood in the temple courts, "What do you think? That he won't come to the feast?"

(Now the chief priests and the Pharisees had given orders that anyone who knew where Jesus was should report it, so that they could arrest him.)

So they prepared a dinner for Jesus there. Martha was serving, and Lazarus was among those present at the table with him.

Now a large crowd of Judeans learned that Jesus was there, and so they came not only because of him but also to see Lazarus whom he had raised from the dead.

So they took branches of palm trees and went out to meet him. They began to shout, " Hosanna! Blessed is the one who comes in the name of the Lord! Blessed is the king of Israel!"

(His disciples did not understand these things when they first happened, but when Jesus was glorified, then they remembered that these things were written about him and that these things had happened to him.)

Philip went and told Andrew, and they both went and told Jesus.

" He has blinded their eyes and hardened their heart, so that they would not see with their eyes and understand with their heart, and turn to me, and I would heal them ."

If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not be guilty of sin. But they no longer have any excuse for their sin.

If I had not performed among them the miraculous deeds that no one else did, they would not be guilty of sin. But now they have seen the deeds and have hated both me and my Father.

Now this is eternal life—that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you sent.

"I have revealed your name to the men you gave me out of the world. They belonged to you, and you gave them to me, and they have obeyed your word.

because I have given them the words you have given me. They accepted them and really understand that I came from you, and they believed that you sent me.

I am no longer in the world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, keep them safe in your name that you have given me, so that they may be one just as we are one.

But now I am coming to you, and I am saying these things in the world, so they may experience my joy completed in themselves.

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.

And I set myself apart on their behalf, so that they too may be truly set apart.

that they will all be one, just as you, Father, are in me and I am in you. I pray that they will be in us, so that the world will believe that you sent me.

I in them and you in me—that they may be completely one, so that the world will know that you sent me, and you have loved them just as you have loved me.