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So from that day forward they planned and schemed in order to put Him to death.

Now the High Priests and the Pharisees had issued orders that if any one knew where He was, he should give information, so that they might arrest Him.

So they gave a dinner there in honour of Jesus, at which Martha waited at table, but Lazarus was one of the guests who were with Him.

Availing herself of the opportunity, Mary took a pound weight of pure spikenard, very costly, and poured it over His feet, and wiped His feet with her hair, so that the house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume.

In the degree that you have light, believe in the Light, so that you may become sons of Light." Jesus said this, and went away and hid Himself from them.

But Jesus cried aloud, "He who believes in me, believes not so much in me, as in Him who sent me;

So after He had washed their feet, put on His garments again, and returned to the table, He said to them, "Do you understand what I have done to you?

You call me `The Rabbi' and `The Master,' and rightly so, for such I am.

So he, having his head on Jesus's bosom, leaned back and asked, "Master, who is it?"

So Judas took the piece of bread and immediately went out. And it was night.

So when he was gone out, Jesus said, "Now is the Son of Man glorified, and God is glorified in Him.

Dear children, I am still with you a little longer. You will seek me, but, as I said to the Jews, `Where I am going you cannot come,' so for the present I say to you.

"Have I been so long among you," Jesus answered, "and yet you, Philip, do not know me? He who has seen me has seen the Father. How can *you* ask me, `Cause us to see the Father'?

Continue in me, and let me continue in you. Just as the branch cannot bear fruit of itself--that is, if it does not continue in the vine--so neither can you if you do not continue in me.

It is not you who chose me, but it is I who chose you and appointed you that you might go and be fruitful and that your fruit might remain; so that whatever petition you present to the Father in my name He may give you.

But this has been so, in order that the saying may be fulfilled which stands written in their Law, `They have hated me without any reason.'

So they asked one another repeatedly, "What can that `little while' mean which He speaks of? We do not understand His words."

So you also now have sorrow; but I shall see you again, and your hearts will be glad, and your gladness no one will take away from you.

even as Thou hast given Him authority over all mankind, so that on all whom Thou hast given Him He may bestow the Life of the Ages.

So Judas, followed by the battalion and by a detachment of the Temple police sent by the High Priests and Pharisees, came there with torches and lamps and weapons.