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

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

And I knew that You always hear Me; but because of the crowd standing around I said this, 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 one of them, Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, said to them, "You know nothing at all,

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

and not for the nation only, but in order that He might also gather together into one the children of God who are scattered abroad.

Therefore Jesus no longer continued to walk openly among the Jews, but went away from there to the region near the wilderness, into a city called Ephraim; and there He stayed with the disciples.

But Judas Iscariot, one of His disciples, 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 as he had the money box, he used to take from what was put into it.

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

Then the large crowd from the Jews learned that He was there. And they came, not because of Jesus only, but that they might also see Lazarus, whom He raised from the dead.

But the chief priests planned to put Lazarus to death also;

These things His disciples did not understand at the first; but when Jesus was glorified, then they remembered that these things were written about Him, and that they had done these things 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.

"Now My soul has become dismayed; and what shall I say, ‘Father, save Me from this hour'? But for this purpose I came to this hour.

Jesus answered and said, "This voice has not come for My sake, but for your sake.

But He was saying this to indicate the kind of death by which He was about to die.

But though He had done so many signs before them, they still were not believing in Him,

Nevertheless many even of the rulers believed in Him, but because of the Pharisees they were not confessing Him, for fear that they would be put out of the synagogue;