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and for your sake I am glad 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 out to meet Him; but Mary stayed at home.

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

Now Jesus had not yet entered the village, but was still at the place where Martha had met Him.

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

I knew that You always hear Me, but I say this for the benefit of the people standing here, so 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, named Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, said to them, "You know nothing at all!

and not only for the nation, but also for the scattered children of God, to gather them together into one.

As a result, Jesus no longer went about publicly among the Jews, but He withdrew to a town called Ephraim in an area near the wilderness. And He stayed there with the disciples.

But the chief priests and Pharisees had given orders that anyone who knew where He was must report it, so that they could arrest Him.

But one of His disciples, Judas Iscariot, who was going to betray Him, asked,

Judas did not say this because he cared about the poor, but because he was a thief. As keeper of the money bag, he used to take from what was put into it.

The poor you will always have with you, but you will not always have Me."

Meanwhile a large crowd of Jews learned that Jesus was there. And they came not only because of Him, but also to see Lazarus, whom He had raised from the dead.

At first His disciples did not understand these things, but after Jesus was glorified they remembered what had been done to Him, and they realized that these very things had also been written about Him.

But Jesus replied, "The hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified.

Truly, truly, I tell you, unless a kernel of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains only a seed; but if it dies, it bears much fruit.

Whoever loves his life will lose it, but whoever hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life.

In response, Jesus said, "This voice was not for My benefit, but yours.