Quotes About Community

Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus.

“Rabbi,” they replied, “the Jews just tried to stone You, and You are going back there?”

and many of the Jews had come to Martha and Mary to console them in the loss of their brother.

When the Jews who were in the house consoling Mary saw how quickly she got up and went out, they followed her, supposing she was going to the tomb to mourn there.

When Jesus saw her weeping, and the Jews who had come with her also weeping, He was deeply moved in spirit and troubled.

I knew that You always hear Me, but I say this for the benefit of the people standing here, so they may believe that You sent Me.”

Then the chief priests and Pharisees convened the Sanhedrin and said, “What are we to do? This man is performing many signs.

and not only for the nation, but also for the scattered children of God, to gather them together into one.

Now the Jewish Passover was near, and many people went up from the country to Jerusalem to purify themselves before the Passover.

Philip relayed this appeal to Andrew, and both of them went and told Jesus.

So He got up from the supper, laid aside His outer garments, and wrapped a towel around His waist.

When Jesus had washed their feet and put on His outer garments, He reclined with them again and asked, “Do you know what I have done for you?

So if I, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also should wash one anotherís feet.

One of His disciples, the one whom Jesus loved, was reclining at His side.

A new commandment I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you also must love one another.

By this everyone will know that you are My disciples, if you love one another.”

I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you.

This is My commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.

This is My command to you: Love one another.

“Look, an hour is coming and has already come when you will be scattered, each to his own home, and you will leave Me all alone. Yet I am not alone, because the Father is with Me.

I ask on their behalf. I do not ask on behalf of the world, but on behalf of those You have given Me; for they are Yours.

But now I am coming to You; and I am saying these things while I am in the world, so that they may have My joy fulfilled within them.

They are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.

I am not asking on behalf of them alone, but also on behalf of those who will believe in Me through their message,