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Thus he spoke, and then he said to them, "Our friend Laz'arus has fallen asleep, but I go to awake him out of sleep."

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

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

Now Jesus had not yet come to the village, but was still in the place where Martha had met him.

But some of them said, "Could not he who opened the eyes of the blind man have kept this man from dying?"

I knew that thou hearest me always, but I have said this on account of the people standing by, that they may believe that thou didst send me."

but some of them went to the Pharisees and told them what Jesus had done.

But one of them, Ca'iaphas, who was high priest that year, said to them, "You know nothing at all;

He did not say this of his own accord, but being high priest that year he prophesied that Jesus should die for the nation,

and not for the nation only, but to gather into one the children of God who are scattered abroad.

Jesus therefore no longer went about openly among the Jews, but went from there to the country near the wilderness, to a town called E'phraim; and there he stayed with the disciples.

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

This he said, not that he cared for the poor but because he was a thief, and as he had the money box he used to take what was put into it.

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

When the great crowd of the Jews learned that he was there, they came, not only on account of Jesus but also to see Laz'arus, whom he had raised from the dead.

His disciples did not understand this at first; but when Jesus was glorified, then they remembered that this had been written of him and had been done to him.

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

Nevertheless many even of the authorities believed in him, but for fear of the Pharisees they did not confess it, lest they should be put out of the synagogue:

And Jesus cried out and said, "He who believes in me, believes not in me but in him who sent me.

If any one hears my sayings and does not keep them, I do not judge him; for I did not come to judge the world but to save the world.