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just as my Father knows me and I know the Father. So I sacrifice my life for the sheep.

"The Father loves me because I sacrifice my life so I may take it back again.

And you know that the Scriptures cannot be altered. So if those people who received God's message were called ‘gods,'

So the two sisters sent a message to Jesus telling him, "Lord, your dear friend is very sick."

But when Jesus heard about it he said, "Lazarus's sickness will not end in death. No, it happened for the glory of God so that the Son of God will receive glory from this."

So although Jesus loved Martha, Mary, and Lazarus,

So he told them plainly, "Lazarus is dead.

So Mary immediately went to him.

When the people who were at the house consoling Mary saw her leave so hastily, they assumed she was going to Lazarus's grave to weep. So they followed her there.

So they rolled the stone aside. Then Jesus looked up to heaven and said, "Father, thank you for hearing me.

You always hear me, but I said it out loud for the sake of all these people standing here, so that they will believe you sent me."

So from that time on, the Jewish leaders began to plot Jesus' death.

It was now almost time for the Jewish Passover celebration, and many people from all over the country arrived in Jerusalem several days early so they could go through the purification ceremony before Passover began.

Meanwhile, the leading priests and Pharisees had publicly ordered that anyone seeing Jesus must report it immediately so they could arrest him.

That was the reason so many went out to meet him—because they had heard about this miraculous sign.

Father, bring glory to your name." Then a voice spoke from heaven, saying, "I have already brought glory to my name, and I will do so again."

Jesus replied, "My light will shine for you just a little longer. Walk in the light while you can, so the darkness will not overtake you. Those who walk in the darkness cannot see where they are going.

"The Lord has blinded their eyes and hardened their hearts— so that their eyes cannot see, and their hearts cannot understand, and they cannot turn to me and have me heal them."

I have come as a light to shine in this dark world, so that all who put their trust in me will no longer remain in the dark.

And I know his commands lead to eternal life; so I say whatever the Father tells me to say."