⁵ Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus.

⁹ “As the Father has loved me,^(A) so have I loved you. Now remain in my love. ¹⁰ If you keep my commands,^(B) you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commands and remain in his love. ¹¹ I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and that your joy may be complete.^{(C) 12} My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you.^{(D) 13} Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.^(E)

²⁷ No, the Father himself loves you because you have loved me^(A) and have believed that I came from God.^(B)

³⁶ Then the Jews said, “See how he loved him!”^(A)

⁸ “But Rabbi,”^(A) they said, “a short while ago the Jews there tried to stone you,^(B) and yet you are going back?”