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Jesus, however, had been speaking about his death, but they thought that he was referring merely to sleep.

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

But even now I know that God will give you whatever you ask of him."

Now Jesus had not yet come to the village, but was still at 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 you always hear me, but I have said this for the sake of the crowd standing here, so that they may believe that you sent me."

But some of them went to the Pharisees and told them what he had done.

But one of them, Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, said to them, "You know nothing at all!

He did not say this on his own, but being high priest that year he prophesied that Jesus was about to die for the nation,

and not for the nation only, but to gather into one the dispersed children of God.

Jesus therefore no longer walked about openly among the Jews, but went from there to a town called Ephraim in the region near the wilderness; and he remained there with the disciples.

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

(He said this not because he cared about the poor, but because he was a thief; he kept the common purse and used to steal what was put into it.)

You always have the poor 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 because of Jesus but also to see Lazarus, whom he had 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 of him and had been done to him.

Very truly, I tell you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains just a single grain; but if it dies, it bears much fruit.

Nevertheless many, even of the authorities, believed in him. But because of the Pharisees they did not confess it, for fear that they would be put out of the synagogue;

Then Jesus cried aloud: "Whoever believes in me believes not in me but in him who sent me.

I do not judge anyone who hears my words and does not keep them, for I came not to judge the world, but to save the world.