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And many came unto him; and they said, John indeed did no sign: but all things whatsoever John spake of this man were true.

But when Jesus heard it, he said, This sickness is not unto death, but for the glory of God, that the Son of God may be glorified thereby.

The disciples say unto him, Rabbi, the Jews were but now seeking to stone thee; and goest thou thither again?

But if a man walk in the night, he stumbleth, because the light is not in him.

These things spake he: and after this he saith unto them, Our friend Lazarus is fallen asleep; but I go, that I may awake him out of sleep.

Now Jesus had spoken of his death: but they thought that he spake of taking rest in sleep.

Martha therefore, when she heard that Jesus was coming, went and met him: but Mary still sat in the house.

(Now Jesus was not yet come into the village, but was still in the place where Martha met him.)

But some of them said, Could not this man, which opened the eyes of him that was blind, have caused that this man also should not die?

And I knew that thou hearest me always: but because of the multitude which standeth around I said it, that they may believe that thou didst send me.

But some of them went away to the Pharisees, and told them the things which Jesus had done.

But a certain one of them, Caiaphas, being high priest that year, said unto them, Ye know nothing at all,

Now this he said not of himself: but being high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus should die for the nation;

and not for the nation only, but that he might also gather together into one the children of God that are scattered abroad.

Jesus therefore walked no more openly among the Jews, but departed thence into the country near to the wilderness, into a city called Ephraim; and there he tarried with the disciples.

So they made him a supper there: and Martha served; but Lazarus was one of them that sat at meat with him.

But Judas Iscariot, one of his disciples, which should betray him, saith,

Now this he said, not because he cared for the poor; but because he was a thief, and having the bag took away what was put therein.

For the poor ye have always with you; but me ye have not always.

The common people therefore of the Jews learned that he was there: and they came, not for Jesus' sake only, but that they might see Lazarus also, whom he had raised from the dead.