The time for the Passover Festival was near.

"In two days, as you know, it will be the Passover Festival, and the Son of Man will be handed over to be crucified."

and made plans to arrest Jesus secretly and put him to death.

It was now two days before the Festival of Passover and Unleavened Bread. The chief priests and the teachers of the Law were looking for a way to arrest Jesus secretly and put him to death.

"We must not do it during the festival," they said, "or the people might riot."

The time was near for the Festival of Unleavened Bread, which is called the Passover.

The chief priests and the teachers of the Law were afraid of the people, and so they were trying to find a way of putting Jesus to death secretly.

Jesus said to them, "The right time for me has not yet come. Any time is right for you.

Then they tried to seize him, but no one laid a hand on him, because his hour had not yet come.

Jesus said all this as he taught in the Temple, in the room where the offering boxes were placed. And no one arrested him, because his hour had not come.

Jesus said, "A day has twelve hours, doesn't it? So those who walk in broad daylight do not stumble, for they see the light of this world.

But if they walk during the night they stumble, because they have no light."

Jesus answered them, "The hour has now come for the Son of Man to receive great glory.

After Jesus finished saying this, he looked up to heaven and said, "Father, the hour has come. Give glory to your Son, so that the Son may give glory to you.

And now I am coming to you; I am no longer in the world, but they are in the world. Holy Father! Keep them safe by the power of your name, the name you gave me, so that they may be one just as you and I are one.

Jesus knew everything that was going to happen to him, so he stepped forward and asked them, "Who is it you are looking for?"

Then he returned to the disciples and said, "Are you still sleeping and resting? Look! The hour has come for the Son of Man to be handed over to the power of sinners.

As the time drew near when Jesus would be taken up to heaven, he made up his mind and set out on his way to Jerusalem.

Jesus answered them, "Go and tell that fox: 'I am driving out demons and performing cures today and tomorrow, and on the third day I shall finish my work.'

Yet I must be on my way today, tomorrow, and the next day; it is not right for a prophet to be killed anywhere except in Jerusalem.

I was with you in the Temple every day, and you did not try to arrest me. But this is your hour to act, when the power of darkness rules."

Jesus knew that the Father had given him complete power; he knew that he had come from God and was going to God.

You heard me say to you, 'I am leaving, but I will come back to you.' If you loved me, you would be glad that I am going to the Father; for he is greater than I.

But now I am going to him who sent me, yet none of you asks me where I am going.

But I am telling you the truth: it is better for you that I go away, because if I do not go, the Helper will not come to you. But if I do go away, then I will send him to you.

Father! Give me glory in your presence now, the same glory I had with you before the world was made.

And now I am coming to you; I am no longer in the world, but they are in the world. Holy Father! Keep them safe by the power of your name, the name you gave me, so that they may be one just as you and I are one.

And now I am coming to you, and I say these things in the world so that they might have my joy in their hearts in all its fullness.

And now I give you a new commandment: love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.

I love you just as the Father loves me; remain in my love.

If you obey my commands, you will remain in my love, just as I have obeyed my Father's commands and remain in his love.

The greatest love you can have for your friends is to give your life for them.

And you are my friends if you do what I command you.

"I pray for them. I do not pray for the world but for those you gave me, for they belong to you.

All I have is yours, and all you have is mine; and my glory is shown through them.

I gave them your message, and the world hated them, because they do not belong to the world, just as I do not belong to the world.

Just as I do not belong to the world, they do not belong to the world.

I made you known to them, and I will continue to do so, in order that the love you have for me may be in them, and so that I also may be in them."

I appeared to them from far away. People of Israel, I have always loved you, so I continue to show you my constant love.

No, in all these things we have complete victory through him who loved us!

Husbands, love your wives just as Christ loved the church and gave his life for it.

He did this to dedicate the church to God by his word, after making it clean by washing it in water,

We love because God first loved us.

and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the first to be raised from death and who is also the ruler of the kings of the world. He loves us, and by his sacrificial death he has freed us from our sins

and teach them to obey everything I have commanded you. And I will be with you always, to the end of the age."

He will also keep you firm to the end, so that you will be faultless on the Day of our Lord Jesus Christ.

But Christ is faithful as the Son in charge of God's house. We are his house if we keep up our courage and our confidence in what we hope for.

For we are all partners with Christ if we hold firmly to the end the confidence we had at the beginning.

Our great desire is that each of you keep up your eagerness to the end, so that the things you hope for will come true.

So then, have your minds ready for action. Keep alert and set your hope completely on the blessing which will be given you when Jesus Christ is revealed.