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"No one has taken it away from Me, but I lay it down on My own. I have authority to lay it down, and I have authority to take it back. This commandment I received from My Father."

Jesus answered them, "I told you, and you do not believe; the works that I do in My Father's name, these testify of Me.

"My sheep listen to My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me;

"My Father, who has given them to Me, is greater than all; and no one is able to snatch them out of the Father's hand.

Jesus replied to them, "I showed you many good works from the Father; for which of them are you stoning Me?"

"If I do not do the works of My Father, do not believe Me;

but if I do them, even though you do not believe Me, believe the works, so that you may know and understand that the Father is in Me, and I in the Father."

Jesus said to her, "I am the resurrection and the life; the one who believes in Me will live, even if he dies,

and everyone who lives and believes in Me will never die. Do you believe this?"

So they removed the stone. And Jesus raised His eyes, and said, "Father, I thank You that You have heard Me.

"But I knew that You always hear Me; nevertheless, because of the people standing around I said it, so that they may believe that You sent Me."

"For you always have the poor with you, but you do not always have Me."

"If anyone serves Me, he must follow Me; and where I am, there My servant will be also; if anyone serves Me, the Father will honor him.

"Now My soul has become troubled; and what am I to say? 'Father, save Me from this hour'? But for this purpose I came to this hour.

Now Jesus cried out and said, "The one who believes in Me, does not believe only in Me, but also in Him who sent Me.

"And the one who sees Me sees Him who sent Me.

"I have come as Light into the world, so that no one who believes in Me will remain in darkness.

"The one who rejects Me and does not accept My teachings has one who judges him: the word which I spoke. That will judge him on the last day.

"For I did not speak on My own, but the Father Himself who sent Me has given Me a commandment as to what to say and what to speak.

"And I know that His commandment is eternal life; therefore the things I speak, I speak just as the Father has told Me."