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But when Jesus heard it he said, "This illness does not lead to death. It is for the glory of God, so that the Son of God may be glorified through it."

But if anyone walks in the night, he stumbles, because the light is not in him."

After saying these things, he said to them, "Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep, but I go to awaken him."

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."

So when Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went and met him, but Mary remained seated in the house.

But even now I know that whatever you ask from God, God will give you."

Now Jesus had not yet come into 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 also have kept this man from dying?"

I knew that you always hear me, but I said this on account of the people standing around, that they may believe that you sent me."

but some of them went to the Pharisees and told them what Jesus 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 of his own accord, but being high priest that year he prophesied that Jesus would die for the nation,

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

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

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

He said this, not because he cared about the poor, but because he was a thief, and having charge of the moneybag he used to help himself to what was put into it.

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

When the large crowd of the Jews learned that Jesus was there, they came, not only on account of him 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 about him and had been done to him.