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"No longer do I call you slaves, for the slave does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, because all things that I have heard from My Father I have made known to you.

"If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, because of this the world hates you.

"But all these things they will do to you on account of My name, because they do not know the One who sent Me.

and you are testifying as well, because you have been with Me from the beginning.

"These things they will do because they have not known the Father nor Me.

"But these things I have spoken to you, so that when their hour comes, you may remember that I told you of them. However, I did not say these things to you at the beginning, because I was with you.

"But because I have said these things to you, grief has filled your heart.

regarding sin, because they do not believe in Me;

and regarding righteousness, because I am going to the Father and you no longer are going to see Me;

and regarding judgment, because the ruler of this world has been judged.

So some of His disciples said to one another, "What is this that He is telling us, 'A little while, and you are not going to see Me; and again a little while, and you will see Me'; and, 'because I am going to the Father'?"

"Whenever a woman is in labor she has pain, because her hour has come; but when she gives birth to the child, she no longer remembers the anguish because of the joy that a child has been born into the world.

for the Father Himself loves you, because you have loved Me and have believed that I came forth from the Father.

"Behold, an hour is coming, and has already come, for you to be scattered, each to his own home, and to leave Me alone; and 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 the behalf of those whom You have given Me, because they are Yours;

"I have given them Your word; and the world has hated them because they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.

Now Judas, who was betraying Him, also knew the place, because Jesus had often met there with His disciples.

The Jews answered him, "We have a law, and by that law He ought to die, because He made Himself out to be the Son of God!"

Therefore many of the Jews read this inscription, because the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city; and it was written in Hebrew, Latin, and in Greek.

Therefore because of the Jewish day of preparation, since the tomb was nearby, they laid Jesus there.