But Jesus said, “Leave her alone. Why are you bothering her? She has done a good service for me.

Jesus replied, ¹  “Woman, ²  why are you saying this to me? ³  My time ⁴  has not yet come.”

The one who eats ¹  my flesh and drinks my blood resides in me, and I in him. ² 

Everyone ¹  will know by this that you are my disciples – if you have love for one another.”

My Father is honored ¹  by this, that ²  you bear ³  much fruit and show that you are ⁴  my disciples.

When ¹  they had heard my case, ²  they wanted to release me, ³  because there was no basis for a death sentence ⁴  against me.

So for me, it is a minor matter that I am judged by you or by any human court. In fact, I do not even judge myself.

(for he who empowered ¹  Peter for his apostleship ²  to the circumcised ³  also empowered me for my apostleship to the Gentiles) ⁴ 

so that what you can be proud of may increase ¹  because of me in Christ Jesus, when I come back to you. ² 

But you know his qualifications, that like a son working with his father, he served with me in advancing the gospel.

Toward this goal ¹  I also labor, struggling according to his power that powerfully ²  works in me.

no longer as a slave, ¹  but more than a slave, as a dear brother. He is especially so to me, and even more so to you now, both humanly speaking ²  and in the Lord.

So we can say with confidence, “The Lord is my helper, and ¹  I will not be afraid. What can man do to me?” ² 

“Whoever, then, acknowledges ¹  me before people, I will acknowledge ²  before my Father in heaven.

And the king will answer them, ¹  ‘I tell you the truth, ²  just as you did it for one of the least of these brothers or sisters ³  of mine, you did it for me.’

Then he will answer them, ¹  ‘I tell you the truth, ²  just as you did not do it for one of the least of these, you did not do it for me.’

But if a male child ¹  is circumcised ²  on the Sabbath so that the law of Moses is not broken, ³  why are you angry with me because I made a man completely well ⁴  on the Sabbath?

Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father is in me, but if you do not believe me, ¹  believe because of the miraculous deeds ²  themselves.

You will know at that time ¹  that I am in my Father and you are in me and I am in you.

I will not speak with you much longer, ¹  for the ruler of this world is coming. ²  He has no power over me, ³