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And I know that you always hear me; but I say these things just because of this people who stand around, so that they may believe that you have sent me.

He did not say this of himself; but because he was the high priest for that year, he prophesied that Jesus had to die for the sake of the people;

He said this, not because he cared for the poor; but because he was a thief, and the purse was with him, and he carried whatever was put in it.

Because on his account a great many Jews were leaving and believing in Jesus.

For this reason, they could not believe, because Isaiah said again,

Many of the leading men also believed in him; but because of the Pharisees they did not confess it, so that they might not be cast out of the synagogue.

But Jesus, because he knew that the Father had given everything into his hands, and that he came from God, and was going to God,

The disciples then looked at each other, because they did not know concerning whom he spoke.

For some of them thought, because the purse was with Judas, that he ordered him to buy what was needed for the feast; or to give something to the poor.

Believe that I am with my Father, and my Father is with me; and if not, believe because of the works.

Truly, truly, I say to you, He who believes in me, the works which I do he shall do also; even greater than these things he shall do, because I am going to my Father.

Even the Spirit of the truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it has not seen him, and does not know him; but you know him because he abides with you, and is in you.

And the world will not see me, but you will see me; because I live, you also shall live.

You heard that I told you, I am going away, and I will come to you. If you loved me, you would rejoice because I am going to my Father; for my Father is greater than I.

You have already been pruned because of the word which I have spoken to you.

Henceforth I will not call you servants, because a servant does not know what his master does; but I have always called you my friends, because everything that I heard from my Father I made it known to you.

But they will do all these things to you for the sake of my name, because they do not know him who sent me.

And you also will testify because you have been with me from the beginning.

And these things they will do, because they have not known my Father, nor me.

I have spoken these things to you, that when their time does come, you may remember them, and that I told you. And these things I did not tell you before, because I was with you.