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No one takes it from Me, but I lay it down of Myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This command I have received from My Father."

But you do not believe, because you are not of My sheep, as I said to you. [fn]

The Jews answered Him, saying, "For a good work we do not stone You, but for blasphemy, and because You, being a Man, make Yourself God."

but if I do, though you do not believe Me, believe the works, that you may know and believe [fn] that the Father is in Me, and I in Him."

Therefore they sought again to seize Him, but He escaped out of their hand.

Then many came to Him and said, "John performed no sign, but all the things that John spoke about this Man were true."

When Jesus heard that, He said, "This sickness is not unto death, but for the glory of God, that the Son of God may be glorified through it."

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

These things He said, and after that He said to them, "Our friend Lazarus sleeps, but I go that I may wake him up."

However, Jesus spoke of his death, but they thought that He was speaking about taking rest in sleep.

Now Martha, as soon as she heard that Jesus was coming, went and met Him, but Mary was sitting in the house.

But even now I know that whatever You ask of God, God will give You."

Now Jesus had not yet come into the town, but was [fn] in the place where Martha met Him.

And I know that You always hear Me, but because of the people who are standing by I said this, that they may believe that You sent Me."

But some of them went away to the Pharisees and told them the things Jesus did.

Now this he did not say on his own authority; but being high priest that year he prophesied that Jesus would die for the nation,

and not for that nation only, but also that He would gather together in one the children of God who were scattered abroad.

Therefore Jesus no longer walked openly among the Jews, but went from there into the country near the wilderness, to a city called Ephraim, and there remained with His disciples.

There they made Him a supper; and Martha served, but Lazarus was one of those who sat at the table with Him.

But one of His disciples, Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, who would betray Him, said,