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They answered, "We are not stoning you because of any good thing you did. We are stoning you because you did a terrible thing. You are just a man, and here you are claiming to be God!"

Many people had come to comfort Mary, and when they saw her quickly leave the house, they thought she was going out to the tomb to cry. So they followed her.

and asked, "Where have you put his body?" They replied, "Lord, come and you will see."

Many of the people who had come to visit Mary saw the things that Jesus did, and they put their faith in him.

The chief priests and the Pharisees told the people to let them know if any of them saw Jesus. That is how they hoped to arrest him.

they took palm branches and went out to greet him. They shouted, "Hooray! God bless the one who comes in the name of the Lord! God bless the King of Israel!"

A crowd had come to meet Jesus because they had seen him call Lazarus out of the tomb. They kept talking about him and this miracle.

Philip from Bethsaida in Galilee was there too. So they went to him and said, "Sir, we would like to meet Jesus."

"The Lord has blinded the eyes of the people, and he has made the people stubborn. He did this so that they could not see or understand, and so that they would not turn to the Lord and be healed."

And besides, the leaders liked praise from others more than they liked praise from God.

I am not talking about all of you. I know the ones I have chosen. But what the Scriptures say must come true. And they say, "The man who ate with me has turned against me!"

They were confused about what he meant. And they just stared at each other.

The Spirit will show you what is true. The people of this world cannot accept the Spirit, because they don't see or know him. But you know the Spirit, who is with you and will keep on living in you.

Jesus replied: If anyone loves me, they will obey me. Then my Father will love them, and we will come to them and live in them.

People will do to you exactly what they did to me. They will do it because you belong to me, and they don't know the one who sent me.

If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not be guilty of sin. But now they have no excuse for their sin.

I have done things that no one else has ever done. If they had not seen me do these things, they would not be guilty. But they did see me do these things, and they still hate me and my Father too.

You will be chased out of the Jewish meeting places. And the time will come when people will kill you and think they are doing God a favor.

They are wrong about God's justice, because I am going to the Father, and you won't see me again.

And they are wrong about the judgment, because God has already judged the ruler of this world.