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(Now Jesus had been speaking about his death, but they thought that he was speaking about real sleep.)

and I am glad for your sake that I was not there, so that you may believe. But let us go to him."

Now Martha, when she heard that Jesus was coming, went to meet him, but Mary was sitting in the house.

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

But some of them said, "Was not this man who opened the eyes of the blind able to do something so that this man also would not have died?"

And I know that you always hear me, but for the sake of the crowd standing around I said it, so that they may believe that you sent me."

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

But a certain one of them, Caiaphas (who was high priest in that year), said to them, "You do not know anything at all!

(Now he did not say this from himself, but being high priest in that year, he prophesied that Jesus was going to die for the nation,

and not for the nation only, but also that the children of God who are scattered would be gathered into one.)

So Jesus was no longer walking openly among the Jews, but went away from there to the region near the wilderness, to a city called Ephraim, and there he stayed with the disciples.

So they made him a dinner there, and Martha was serving, but Lazarus was one of the ones reclining at table with him.

But Judas Iscariot, one of his disciples (the one who was going to betray him) said,

(Now he said this not because he was concerned about the poor, but because he was a thief, and having the money box, he used to steal what was put into it.)

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

Now a large crowd of Jews found out that he was there, and they came, not only because of Jesus, but so that they could see Lazarus also, whom he raised from the dead.

(His disciples did not understand these things at first, but when Jesus was glorified, then they remembered that these things had been written about him and they did these things to him.)

Truly, truly I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains by itself alone. But if it dies, it bears much fruit.

"Now my soul is troubled, and what shall I say? ‘Father, deliver me from this hour'? But for this reason I have come to this hour!

Jesus answered and said, "This voice has not happened for my sake, but for your sake.