The Third Prediction of His Death

³² They^(A) were on the road, going up to Jerusalem,^(B) and Jesus was walking ahead of them. The disciples were astonished, but those who followed him were afraid.^(C) Taking the Twelve aside again, he began to tell them the things that would happen to him.^(D)

⁴⁷ Then Jesus saw Nathanael coming toward him and said about him, “Here truly is an Israelite^(A) in whom there is no deceit.”

⁴⁸ “How do you know me?” Nathanael asked.

“Before Philip called you, when you were under the fig tree, I saw you,” Jesus answered.

²⁴ Jesus, however, would not entrust himself to them, since he knew them all ²⁵ and because he did not need anyone to testify about man; for he himself knew what was in man.^(A)

¹⁷ “I don’t have a husband,” she answered.

“You have correctly said, ‘I don’t have a husband,’” Jesus said. ¹⁸ “For you’ve had five husbands, and the man you now have is not your husband. What you have said is true.”

³ “Neither this man nor his parents sinned,” Jesus answered. “This came about so that God’s works^(A) might be displayed in him.

⁴ When Jesus heard it, he said, “This sickness will not end in death but is for the glory of God,^(A) so that the Son of God^(B) may be glorified through it.”

¹¹ He said this, and then he told them, “Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep,^(A) but I’m on my way to wake him up.”

¹⁰ “One who has bathed,” Jesus told him, “doesn’t need to wash anything except his feet, but he is completely clean. You are clean, but not all of you.” ¹¹ For he knew who would betray him. This is why he said, “Not all of you are clean.”

³⁸ Jesus replied, “Will you lay down your life for me? Truly I tell you, a rooster will not crow until you have denied me three times.