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“How can someone be born when they are old?” Nicodemus asked. “Surely they cannot enter a second time into their mother’s womb to be born!”
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When this man heard that Jesus had arrived in Galilee from Judea, he went to him and begged him to come and heal his son, who was close to death.
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This was the second sign Jesus performed after coming from Judea to Galilee.
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“Very truly I tell you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life and will not be judged but has crossed over from death to life.
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Very truly I tell you, whoever obeys my word will never see death.”
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At this they exclaimed, “Now we know that you are demon-possessed! Abraham died and so did the prophets, yet you say that whoever obeys your word will never taste death.
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A second time they summoned the man who had been blind. “Give glory to God by telling the truth,” they said. “We know this man is a sinner.”
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The Death of Lazarus
Now a man named Lazarus was sick. He was from Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha.
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When he heard this, Jesus said, “This sickness will not end in death. No, it is for God’s glory so that God’s Son may be glorified through it.”
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Jesus had been speaking of his death, but his disciples thought he meant natural sleep.
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Jesus Predicts His Death
Now there were some Greeks among those who went up to worship at the festival.
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He said this to show the kind of death he was going to die.
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Peter’s Second and Third Denials
Meanwhile, Simon Peter was still standing there warming himself. So they asked him, “You aren’t one of his disciples too, are you?” He denied it, saying, “I am not.”
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This took place to fulfill what Jesus had said about the kind of death he was going to die.
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The Death of Jesus
Later, knowing that everything had now been finished, and so that Scripture would be fulfilled, Jesus said, “I am thirsty.”
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Jesus said this to indicate the kind of death by which Peter would glorify God. Then he said to him, “Follow me!”
